The crotch-grabbing incident Sunday afternoon — and the resulting seven-game suspension — was almost certainly the final straw in what’s been an oft-contentious relationship between the Phillies and their highly paid closer. Papelbon still has one guaranteed year left on his contract (at $13 million) and a very reachable vesting option (also for $13 million) for 2016. And even though his numbers have been solid in Philadelphia (2.48 ERA, 9....

MS attacks are triggered by inflammation in the central nervous system. Inflammation damages the myelin (the protective coating surrounding your nerve fibers) and disrupts the transmission of nerve signals. The blocked signals do not reach their targets or allow the brain to interpret some signals, leading to MS symptoms. This article provides information about MS attacks and how to treat them. MS Attack Symptoms Though approximately 85% of people with MS experience attacks, no two people will experience them in the exact same way....

Debuting on PBS stations this month, “The Magic School Bus” is based on Scholastic Inc.’s best-selling book series of the same name. Like the books, it’s about a frizzy-haired science teacher who takes her students on wondrous field trips in a magically powered bus. Unlike the cheapo network stuff, this cartoon has star wattage: Lily Tomlin speaks for Ms. Frizzle; Carol Channing, Tyne Daly, Dom DeLuise and Malcolm Jamal-Warner do guest-voice gigs, and Little Richard sings the theme song....

A confidential White House probe has produced an array of documents that show officials had tried to reverse-engineer a viable and legal justification for the withholding of military aid to Ukraine, three people familiar with the review told The Washington Post in a report released on Sunday. The documents reportedly include emails sent by Mulvaney to White House budget officials, in which he sought to find a reasonable justification months after Trump’s decision to hold nearly $400 million in July....

Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who now identifies as an independent, made the remark during his MSNBC show Morning Joe on Monday. The host’s criticism arose due to Trump’s legal team members Ken Starr, who led the independent counsel investigation into former President Bill Clinton, and Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard law professor, both previously having worked for Epstein. “Let’s talk about the selection of a legal team, and talk about a president who has such trouble finding legal representation that he actually got the legal team that helped put together the plea deal, and helped represent Jeffrey Epstein,” Scarborough, who regularly criticizes Trump and his administration, said on Monday....

Are People With MS at Higher Risk for COVID-19? Julie Fiol, RN, the director of MS information and resources for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), tells Verywell that some of the indirect effects of MS and its treatment can increase a person’s risk for COVID-19. Although MS itself isn’t a risk factor for COVID-19, Fiol says that “certain factors associated with” it are. These include obesity, severe disability, heart conditions, and lung conditions....

The FBI is shifting its manhunt to the Gold Country around the found car, northwest of Yosemite–a windy three-hour drive from the Cedar Lodge in El Portal, where authorities believed the women disappeared. The FBI now also believes that the killer knows the area of abandoned gold mines well enough to hide the car off a spur road where locals dump old refrigerators, cars and washing machines. And well enough to know that the smell of a burning car would likely not attract attention because the air often reeks from people burning their garbage....

Murdoch’s short-term goal (and no one wished to discuss that, either) seems markedly more concrete–to needle rival media titan Ted Turner, boss of Turner Broadcasting. The baiting game is a favorite sport of the industry’s moguls. And, while these two have traded barbs periodically, Turner has lately made his sharper. The new round began this fall when Murdoch made noises about buying Turner Broadcasting (before the programming giant agreed to be swallowed by Time Warner)....

Murphy, a Democrat, is running for reelection in a state that hasn’t reelected a Democratic governor in decades. He is running against Ciattarelli, a former member of the New Jersey General Assembly, and third-party candidates Madelyn Hoffman (Green Party), Gregg Mele (Libertarian) and Joanne Kuniansky (Socialist Workers Party). Several polls conducted over the summer suggested Murphy was ahead of Ciattarelli by double digits. While his lead has narrowed from those summer margins with the approach of Election Day, most polls have still found Murphy retaining a strong lead....

Muscle twitches commonly occur in people with healthy neuromuscular systems—up to 70% of healthy people get them—but they can also be a sign of a more serious condition. Causes Nerve cells, called neurons, generate and conduct electrical signals through the transfer of ions in and out of cell walls. Cell walls contain pumps that transfer sodium ions into cells while transporting potassium ions out of cells. This transfer of ions causes a change in the neuron’s electrical charge, allowing an electrical signal to travel through the nerve....

Around 600 personnel are involved in fighting the fire and a perimeter has been set up around it to protect Flagstaff proper. Firefighters have been working to reduce the size of the blaze—efforts that were assisted yesterday by the arrival of rain in the area. “Firefighters made progress building fireline by hand and tying in with dozer lines on the south and west perimeters of the fire today,” read a statement issued by the U....

White’s works have rarely been seen in recent times. They are exceedingly fragile, and were almost lost in a 19th-century fire. But they are currently making a rare and enthralling appearance at the British Museum, which owns them, in “A New World: England’s First View of America” (through June 17, then traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina). Though exhibition curator Kim Sloan calls it “serendipity” that the exhibition coincides with the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown—England’s first successful settlement in the New World—“A New World” helps to explore the history of the “special relationship” between the two nations....

But the freshest sounds now arriving in music stores from that small Caribbean island are 20, 30 and in some cases 40 years old. Rivals in a reggae arms race that dates to at least 1959, both Studio One and Trojan Records have reached deep into their formidable vaults and emerged with stacks of beautifully remastered recordings that should make any fan of Jamaican music feel plenty irie . Even, heck, especially , if everything you know about reggae is limited to your college roommate’s overplayed copy of Bob Marley’s “Legends,” there’s never been a lesson that sounded this good....

Although I have casually checked this clock countless times during my high-school career, this year looking at it has made me think about how significant 60 seconds can be. Last spring, the Commonwealth of Virginia passed a law that requires every public school in the state to set aside one minute at the beginning of each day during which students must remain seated while they “meditate, pray, or engage in any other silent activity....

For years, most of them after he died, he also served as the family’s representative in the local telephone book. He was picked for the role quite haphazardly one day when I tried to keep my number out of the book to avoid getting business calls at home. When I balked at the $60-a-year fee, the cheery telephone company representative suggested I list the number in one of my children’s names....

I was 37 years old and had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes—the insulin-dependent kind, not the diet-and-pills-treated kind, which is known as type 2 and is 90 percent more commonly diagnosed among adults. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that typically strikes children but is becoming increasingly common in people 20 and older. Why it shows up at certain ages is unclear, but a diagnosis often follows an illness that weakens the immune system....

NEWSWEEK: Did you believe in this project from the beginning? CORRIN: I definitely wanted to get involved with it. The issue was always if I would have the guts to do it. What were you afraid of? I was afraid of being out of control, of being perceived as a sex object. I was afraid of what my friends and family and people whom I might work with in the future might think....

I have a dilemma about the role of drugs in our lives, and specifically about the role of heroin in the lives of my son’s generation. A lot of the same drugs were around when I was his age. The challenge to drop out, tear down the walls and live as never before was there in the music, the fashion and fabric of the time. Every generation hears its own call to change the existing order....

Fight: Mike Tyson Date/ Location: November 9, 1996/ MGM Grand, Las Vegas Distance: 12 rounds World Titles: WBA heavyweight (held by Tyson) Records: Holyfield (32-3, 23 KOs), Tyson (45-1, 39 KOs) Odds: Tyson opened as a 1/25 favourite and dropped to 1/9 by fight time Result: Holyfield TKO 11 Storyline: The Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield bout was almost a decade in the making. When Holyfield was in the process of chewing up Carlos De Leon for the undisputed cruiserweight championship, on April 9, 1988, Tyson, then the undisputed heavyweight king, was asked if the naturally smaller man was ready for him....