Andre Silva hit a hat-trick while Hakan Calhanoglu scored and stood out, with Suso also on the scoresheet as the Rossoneri kicked off their Europa League campaign in style. ACM 11/5 to beat Udinese BTTS Despite the fine display, Montella believes there is still room for improvement and wants to see the players strive for it. “We’re not perfect and we’ve still got to look for that,” he said, via UEFA....
Democratic members of the Senate and the House of Representatives sent separate letters to the Biden administration urging recurring payments. The letters differ on their specifics, but both argue a one-time payment is not enough for people struggling during the pandemic and knowing additional payments are coming would relieve the economic burden Americans face. Representative Ilhan Omar spearheaded a letter signed by 55 of her colleagues in January. While the letter didn’t mention an amount, Omar said in a statement that meeting the moment required the deliverance of monthly payments of $2,000....
Liverpool confirmed last March that Ayre will vacate his role at the end of his contract, which expires in May. Reds reach new level of embarrassing And Liverpool have turned to Moore, who is currently chief competition officer at Electronic Arts (EA). The 61-year-old will begin his new role in June, reporting directly to Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group. Moore’s appointment came after Liverpool’s forgettable 3-1 loss at struggling Premier League champions Leicester City....
After a grueling and punishing schedule of eight fixtures over the course of 26 days, Benjamin Mora welcomes the eight days break that his Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) side has had since their last match. A match every third day for an entire month is a very taxing schedule on the players and it showed in their last performance against Penang. The drop in pace especially in the second half of that Super League match was evident that it has taken its toll on the players....
The Spain international striker left Santiago Bernabeu for a second time in a £70 million switch to Stamford Bridge. While he has impressed during his short spell in England, Madrid have endured uncharacteristic struggles in front of goal. The decision to part with Morata has been questioned on a regular basis, but the 25-year-old hopes that the Blancos will soon enjoy an upturn in fortune and forget all about him....
Four Republicans in the upper chamber—Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and John Boozman (Ark.)—revealed they will oppose their party’s endeavor on Wednesday to challenge the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in what is expected to play out as a made-for-TV spectacle that, if successful, would amount to subverting the will of American voters. “Our Constitution is a magnificent document—and this is coming from a man who was not even fully counted as a man in the original version,” Scott, who is Black, said in a statement....
Pew reported on Friday that 31 percent of Republicans have confidence in Putin to do “the right thing” in global affairs, compared with just 10 percent of Democrats. Overall, however, the average of 20 percent of Americans who are inclined to trust Putin constitutes a lower share than in most any other country queried by Pew in the spring 2019 survey. In Canada, for instance, 29 percent of residents have confidence in the Russian president....
Nearly a year into the invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, the latest British intelligence update on the conflict suggests that Putin is likely eyeing a fresh mobilization drive. Putin announced a “partial” military mobilization on September 21, 2022, with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, saying that Russia would be targeting 300,000 reservists and ex-military personnel with “certain military specialties and relevant experience.” However, the figure in Putin’s decree wasn’t disclosed to the public, prompting many to speculate that the real number could be much higher....
According to an article published online Friday in Pediatrics, seven teenage boys in the U.S. experienced heart inflammation following the second dose of the Pfizer shot, but more research is required to prove the cases are linked to the vaccine. None of the boys, who ranged in age from 14 to 19, were critically ill, but imaging tests showed a type of heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis. They all received second Pfizer doses in April or May....
Hsia’s letter was not part of the record when a Senate committee investigated Gore’s dealings with Hsia and the Buddhist temple. The reason, says a Gore staffer, is that it was misfiled with documents pertaining to a presidential panel, chaired by Gore, on aviation security. Only when Victoria Cummock, a panel member whose husband died in the Pan Am 103 explosion over Lockerbie, sued for access to the aviation commission’s full records did Hsia’s letter reappear, along with other DNC-related papers....
While it is significantly less money than roads around the nation, it is still more than has ever been allocated for dams. According to David Griffin, the money could give “a good kick-start to some of these upgrades that need to be done to make the dams as safe as possible.” Griffin is the manager of Georgia’s Safe Dams Program and the president-elect of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials....
As of October 7, there have been at least 5,618,155 ballots cast, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project, which is run by Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida. The number of votes already cast is based on 25 states that have released early voting data, which means it does not indicate the entire U.S. “These states are those where I have recent data on mail ballot activity....
On Monday, this horrifying scene was first noticed by a local gatekeeper in Chausa village in the Buxar district of Bihar, in eastern India, and the country’s third-most populated state. “We were alerted by the local chowkidar [gatekeeper] that many bodies have been spotted floating from upstream. We have so far recovered 15 of these. None of the deceased happens to be a resident of the district,” Ashok Kumar, the Chausa block development officer, told Economic Times (ET)....
Biden appeared to announce the deployment of six medical teams across six states. The teams will consist of around 120 National Guard members and will be deployed by the federal government across Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these states are among the worst-hit states during this current surge. “We were joking earlier that if you want something done, call the military,” Biden said as he began his speech....
The petition, trending on Change.org, has collected more than 400,000 of its requested 500,000 signatures in less than five days. Created by New York City-based doula Jessica Pournaras, it asks the public to help “safeguard the right of all laboring people to have support during COVID-19 crisis” in the wake of new restrictions. The Change.org petition, addressed to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and state health commissioners Howard Zucker and Sally Dreslin, argued that withholding this support could incur serious consequences....
According to a Facebook post published by the Texas Rivers and Streams—a branch of Texas Parks and Wildlife—researchers from Texas A&M University and Texas State University removed 406 invasive suckermouth armored catfish from the San Marcos River at a dewatering event. These types of events help maintain the river’s infrastructure. Monica McGarrity, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s senior scientist for aquatic invasive species, told Newsweek the two universities are working on research as it relates to the suckermouth armored catfish and its population....
According to BBC, organizers said they were worried about the effects that building 166 apartments would have on the land in Bristol. The “brides” donned dresses from a variety of cultures as the ceremony took place. “To get married to a tree is an absolute privilege,” Suzan Hackett, a campaigner and “bride,” told BBC. “It’s not just a sentimental gesture, it is highly significant and symbolic. Trees are pure examples of unconditional love, which fits in so beautifully with the whole idea of marriage....
So have many others. Islamic banking, due to high levels of liquidity and a growing sophistication in investment products, is on the rise. Two hundred Islamic financial institutions–including banks, insurers and mutual funds–now dot Asia and the Middle East. Western banking heavyweights like HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and BNP-Paribas have launched a full line of products to serve moneyed Muslims from the middle class to the super affluent. And if the field continues on its impressive upward tick–it’s said to have been growing at 15 percent a year for nearly a decade–the pious will soon have many more investment vehicles at their disposal....
Miami Beach officials, including Mayor Dan Gelber and City Manager Raul J. Aguila, announced Sunday that the area’s 8 p.m. curfew and other restrictions will continue as four law enforcement agencies struggle to contain the public partying. Aguila noted during a Sunday press conference that of the more than 1,000 arrests made since Friday, more than half of those people were out-of-state visitors who came to South Florida “to engage in lawlessness and an ‘anything goes’ party attitude....
NEWSWEEK: Harvard always seems to be looking for a new president that’s different from its last one. Is that what led to the choice of Faust? Richard Bradley: It’s hard not to look at Faust in the context of the Summers presidency. Summers got in trouble for his remarks about women in science and mathematics; Faust is, of course, a woman. Summers was never considered a great booster of the humanities; Faust is a historian....
