Toronto FC enters as the biggest favorite, taking on a feisty New York Red Bulls side riding high off its 4-0 thrashing of the Chicago Fire. The Supporters’ Shield winners will be hard to stop, but Jesse Marsch will do everything he can to trip up the Canadian powerhouse. The Columbus Crew enter the conference semis on an 11-match unbeaten run, but may feel the fatigue from a grueling knockout round elimination of Atlanta United when they begin their series with New York City FC on Tuesday....

Three of the four teams that competed in last year’s conference finals now find themselves at the bottom of their respective conference standings. The Montreal Impact are bringing up the rear in the East while 2016 West finalists Seattle and Colorado find themselves at the bottom of the West. There are still plenty of games to be played, but all three teams are enduring trends that are worrisome to say the least....

New York Red Bulls vs. Columbus Crew: The Red Bulls would love to lock up the first spot in the East and have an easier match this weekend than rival NYFC, which sits second in the conference based on a tiebreaker. The Crew have little to play for but pride after being eliminated from playoff contention by a draw Thursday with the Chicago Fire. It seems unlikely they’ll be able to snap the Red Bulls’ 14-match unbeaten streak on short rest....

The video, uploaded by @thewizardliz shows the model standing on set and confronting the photographer. “I was at my shoot today and the photographer told me to not eat until the next shoot so I would lose weight. My friend was secretly filming me,” read the on-screen text. The video currently has 4.5 million likes and 43,400 comments. In the caption of the video, the woman said the clients knew her measurements and “loved her look....

The announcement comes a week after American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech said their COVID vaccine candidate was 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, followed by similar reports from Russia and China. Moderna plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization for its vaccine “in the coming weeks.” The company said it is working with bodies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare to distribute the vaccine in the event it is authorized....

To Tottenham supporters, the poser put to them may well be: Who is the finest playmaker in the Premier League? For the rest of a global Premier League following, any query reaching that conclusion is unlikely to have been more taxing than: Who is that blond haired lad who plays in midfield for Spurs? Eriksen: Exciting times for Tottenham The lack of recognition shown to Eriksen by an audience outside of White Hart Lane can border on the criminal at times....

Get the latest odds with dabblebet James, who moved to Bundesliga champions Bayern on a two-year loan deal earlier this month, had held the shirt since his move to Real from Monaco in 2014. However, Real have now updated their website to reveal that Modric, 31, has inherited James’ shirt, leaving behind his number 19 jersey. The likes of Robinho and Mesut Ozil have donned the Real number 10 jersey in recent years with Modric the latest beneficiary of the lucrative number....

Surgery Follow-Up Your follow-up care after Mohs surgery will depend a lot on the amount of tissue that must be removed to clear the tumor margins completely. Your surgeon may want to see you after the procedure to check your wound healing if no additional reconstruction is required. If you need more in-depth reconstruction, you will visit a reconstructive surgeon—maybe the same one who performed your surgery, or perhaps a plastic surgeon....

If you find that your asthma is suddenly worsening and you can’t pinpoint why, mold may be to blame. And since reactions can be quite serious, it’s important to remedy the problem right away. Mold Exposure-Related Symptoms Asthma and allergy symptoms related to mold exposure are generally the same as symptoms caused by any other trigger: Runny nose and congestion Sneezing Itchy or dry skin Water eyes Chest tightness Chronic cough Shortness of breath Wheezing...

Transnistria’s Interior Ministry said the explosions at the radio-broadcast center took place at around 7 a.m. Tuesday, in the village of Mayak in the Grigoriopolsky district, about 30 miles north of the region’s capital Tiraspol. It did not specify a cause and said that no one was injured. Images of the antennae lying on the ground were shared on social media and added to speculation that the Russian-speaking enclave could become the next flashpoint in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine....

A large number protesters had gathered in the city on Saturday for the 100th straight night of protests since the killing of George Floyd. Videos posted on social media showed a massive crowd of people in the street shortly before Molotov cocktails were thrown into the air. In one clip posted on Twitter by Mike Baker, a correspondent for The New York Times, a crowd of protesters are seen dispersing quickly as a Molotov cocktail lands in the street and quickly ignites a large fire....

In a post on parenting forum Mumsnet on Wednesday, the woman explained that she is a stay-at-home mom while her sister is single parent to a 9-year-old boy, so she helps out with child care. She picks up her nephew from school every day and looks after him for two to three hours until his mom has finished work. Child care is a big expense for many American parents. A survey from Care....

However, some of these delicious natural snacks are laborious to eat. Yes, we are talking about pineapples. That golden goodness requires a fair amount of elbow grease before you can bite into a chunk. But this doesn’t have to be the case, as one mom on TikTok has revealed her easy-to-follow hack, claiming we have been doing it wrong our “whole life.” Shannon Doherty, a mother of four known on the video-sharing app as @athomewithshannon, posted her ingenious hack for eating pineapple on April 24, with the caption: “BEST PINEAPPLE HACK EVER Life changing!...

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/Icy_Office2441 (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) detailed numerous occasions on which her daughter has financially rescued their family, but pointed to her success as a business woman as justification for taking away her impending inheritance. Titled, “[Would I be the a**hole] IF I ASK MY DAUGHTER TO RETURN HER INHERITANCE?” the post has received more than 7,000 upvotes and 3,500 comments in the last five hours....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA******, Redditor u/AITA657995460 (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said her son was made to choose between spending the holidays with his father or with her, and detailed the heated aftermath of his final decision. Titled, “[Am I the a******] for telling my son that he ruined Christmas for me and his stepdad when he decided to spend it with his dad?...

According to the American Farm Bureau, the cost of the holiday meal has been on the rise for years. But with inflation, this year it’s up even more and Americans will be paying 20 percent more than last year. The bureau says the national average cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people this year is $64.05 compared to $53.31 in 2021. Newsweek spoke to Heather Bell, 51, to find out just how long it takes her to prepare for her Thanksgiving dinner, and just how much it costs to feed her eight kids and family members....

Caitlin Jensen, from Savannah, Georgia, was having a neck adjustment as part of chiropractic treatment for lower back pain when a blood vessel to her brain was severed. Moments later, she had a stroke, and was rushed to the hospital straight from the chiropractor’s office. “I’ve never seen anybody have a stroke; I did not know the signs and symptoms of a stroke,” Darlene Jensen, Caitlin’s mother, told The Independent....

If you’re simply not prepared to wait or your dinner guests are about to arrive, a woman on Instagram may have a life hack you’ll be interested in. An Australian identified only as Leanne has shared her trick for cooling down wine quickly on her account Home.with.Leanne. In a video posted on August 12, the self-described “Organizing & Cleaning Enthusiast” can be seen standing in her white kitchen wearing a chic Breton top and holding a glass of vino....

Vanessa Alfermann, a COVID-19 nurse at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, told KMOV-TV: “I have family, I have friends that think this is not real, it’s a hoax—even after knowing my story—that the vaccine is a political issue and it’s definitely like a slap in the face to hear them saying this to me. Alfermann got unwell with the virus in November 2020. Her husband also contracted the disease and she was 20 weeks pregnant at the time....

Satellite imagery collected by space technology firm Maxar on Thursday, October 7, showcased the ongoing eruptions of the volcano located on Spain’s La Palma island, just off the coast of northwest Africa. The Cumbre Vieja volcano first began erupting on September 19 with plumes of ash and lava seen spewing from a crack in the side of the mountain. Travelling at an estimated half a mile an hour, the Maxar pictures capture the moment the 1,100 degrees Celsius lava hits the Atlantic Ocean waters surrounding the Canary Island as well as the devastation left in its wake....