This sense that we were a lesser form of family helped shape my life of education and research. If my town, my school and my own insecurities were telling me that being raised by a mother and two sisters isn’t normal, then what is? Over time, I found people who showed me the answer. I got to know them through my doctoral research in psychology and later as a gender scholar: more than 11 years of study and hundreds of hours of interviews with dozens of families outside the standard of Mom, Dad and the kids....

Don’t get me wrong: I like TV. Hanging out with Jack Bauer and Jon Stewart often beats spending time with almost anyone who isn’t related to me. But I am sick of stumbling across a television set every time I go out to run an errand. Whose groundbreaking customer-service idea was this? I’ve seen TVs at the supermarket, the bank, even at Nordstrom. It seems that almost every business I enter now boasts a screen bent on captivating me with its fascinating content so I’ll never have to suffer an entertainment-free moment....

Not that it has been easy. The stress of dealing with the dealers was enough to make a usually tranquil guy like me tighten up like a vise. I tried to relax using breathing techniques I had learned as a public school teacher working with special needs students. I am a patient man and in 20 years in the classroom, I have worked with some terrifically challenging kids—and their parents....

Wayne Rooney’s late penalty rescued a point for Koeman’s men at the Amex Stadium, but it did little to gloss over what was yet another poor performance. Everton 20/1 to finish top four Anthony Knockaert had given Brighton the lead only a few moments earlier, before a moment of madness from Bruno saw the hosts’ captain appear to elbow Mason Holgate in the face and concede the spot-kick. Although it will prove a welcome point, particularly given the dramatic circumstances, the goal is unlikely to mask fans’ concerns....

The army arrested Aung San Suu Kyi, along with most of the top officials in her party and many other citizens throughout the country. The U.S. response will be seen by many as an early indication of the new administration’s priorities: How will it balance the competing demands of support for democracy and practice of realpolitik? There are no easy solutions, and this first test will be widely seen as a template for other thorny situations in the future....

In many cases, mydriasis is benign and can be triggered by drops used during an eye exam or a health condition. Fixed mydriasis in one eye can also be a red flag for severe brain injuries. How Pupils Change Size A pupil is the round black circle in the center of the iris. It controls how much light enters the eye before it reaches the retina. The standard pupil size ranges between 2 millimeters (mm) and 8 mm, depending on the lighting....

MORE: SN’s new Mock Draft | Massive draft regrets Myles Jack’s knee injury has not been expected to knock him out of the top 10, if not the top 5. He’s that good. But each pre-draft report seems to paint an uglier picture for the former UCLA safety cornerback running back linebacker. A league source told the Philadelphia Daily News’ Les Bowen that Jack is “‘a time bomb’ whose knee could give him several good years, or not....

Lindell was awarded Worst Actor for his role in his own production, Absolute Proof. Billed as a “documentary,” the two-hour movie posits that a Chinese cyberattack flipped the election from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. There is no evidence to support the movie’s central claim and the film ran with a disclaimer on conservative news network OAN in February. It has also been banned from YouTube....

The peer-reviewed study is an updated version of a 2018 paper investigating if a stablecoin called Tether influenced the values of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin during its unprecedented boom back in 2017, when the price of a single coin spiked in price to almost $20,000. The fresh updates were first reported by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal and are likely to add fuel to the ongoing federal investigations into allegations of cryptocurrency market manipulation....

The skull, including a lower jaw, was discovered on Monday morning on Island Beach State Park in New Jersey, according to a Facebook post from the area’s police department. Although the department did not provide the measurements of the find, it posted two images of the skull and lower jaw alongside one of its officers, with the remains more than half the size of the man pictured. In a post on Monday, the police department, alongside the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, asked for help from the public to identify the skull, writing: “You never know what you are going to find on the beach after a storm!...

Southern Australia’s Nullarbor Plain, where the reef was found, is now a 76,000-square- mile desert consisting of limestone bedrock. But it was covered by a tropical ocean about 14 million years ago, during the Cenozoic period. Researchers from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group at Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Perth spotted the reef as a bull’s-eye shape on new high-resolution satellite imagery. The discovery challenged their previous assumptions that the Nullarbor Plain had always been featureless....

Myth: No trespassing! The countryside is barred to visitors. Reality: Most restrictions apply only to certain footpaths. And barely 20 percent of attractions are affected. About 1,500 farms have been hit by the disease out of 160,000. Please! The disease is rare indeed inhumans. At most, you get something like the flu. Sure, there’s the danger of flavorless British cuisine. But not FMD. Xenophobic Brits may wish. Straw soaked with disinfectant may be laid across the entrances to farms....

Lee, the incumbent Utah senator, is running against McMullin in November, the only Senate election where Democrats have not put forward a candidate in a bid to unseat the incumbent by appealing to as broad a demographic as possible. The race has an added subplot as Romney is the only GOP senator not to openly endorse Lee, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump who worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election....

On Wednesday, Politico updated its midterm forecast for California’s 49th District, moving the race from “Lean Democratic” to a “Toss Up” between Levin and Republican challenger Brian Maryott. In the June primary, Levin easily moved onto the general election after securing 49 percent of the vote to Maryott’s 19 percent. But now that the other four Republican candidates won’t be on the ballot, the Democrat is in a tight race as he seeks to win a third term and defeat Maryott for a second time....

After landing in Georgia this morning, the vice president will speak alongside Loeffler and Perdue at a “Defend the Majority” rally on the Canton campus of Chattahoochee Technical College at around midday. When the hour-long event draws to a close, Pence will then join the senators at the Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center in Gainesville, a city in the north east of the Peach State, for another one hour rally, according to an online invitation....

Pence, 62, accused President Joe Biden of “weakness” on Iran at an event on Thursday. “Peace follows strength,” Pence told attendees of the pro-intervention National Council of Resistance of Iran meeting. “With our current administration’s embrace of the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal], their hesitation to condemn rockets being fired at our cherished ally Israel, and the heart breaking and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, our adversaries may be sensing weakness in the current American administration....

Pettine acknowledged the hole in his backfield during a conference call on Sunday. Depending on the severity of Johnson’s injury, the Browns are open to looking into a veteran to take his roster spot. MORE: 50 years of Browns frustration | NFL’s top 10 running backs | Fantasy RB sleepers “We’ll wait and see how long Duke is potentially out,’’ Pettine said, via Cleveland.com. “We’ll have a whole series of meetings this afternoon....

So Tomlin really has no time to entertain the strange rumor that Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has him on a short wish list of candidates to replace the ousted Jay Gruden, as ESPN reported Monday. When asked about that report at a press conference Tuesday, Tomlin responded about as you’d expect. “I am not worried about that, to be quite honest with you. You’re the first person to mention it to me in a public setting,” Tomlin said....

The 24-year-old Nationals right fielder looks on his way to his second National League MVP award, hitting .349 with a 194 OPS+ entering Tuesday while putting himself on pace for 49 home runs and 139 RBIs. His Nationals have been similarly effective, jumping out to a 26-17 record. They might be the team to beat in the senior circuit. Quietly, Mike Trout has been almost as good or slightly better than Harper, depending on one’s view of sabermetrics....

He missed. A member of the Wild’s equipment staff scooped up the hat, and Parise apologized. He’d just, presumably, led a players-only meeting that lasted long enough to make you wonder if the Wild were actually escaping through the Consol Energy Center duct work. By the time the doors actually opened — after coach Mike Yeo used the word “unraveled” or its variants a couple times — there were actually several players still getting their stuff together....