The Times published an editors’ note in the Friday edition that led to another day of frenzied guessing games at the paper’s Times Square headquarters. (When asked directly whether Bragg had been suspended, a Times spokeswoman would say only that “we do not comment on personnel matters.” Bragg could not be reached at his home in New Orleans.) The editors’ note concerned an almost year-old story of the type in which Bragg has come to specialize: novelistic tales of downtrodden or hard-bitten locals struggling to make it in the modern world....

Wallen was captured using the racial slur in video shared by TMZ in early February. The fallout led to him being widely banned from country music airwaves and dropped from competing in this year’s CMT Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards. Although the CMA Awards decided to bar him from competing in solo categories, he remains eligible in categories where he would share an award with a collaborator....

Reports from Russian now indicates that Amrabat has already been discharged from hospital but will not play a part against the Cristiano Ronaldo led side after suffering concussion in the 1-0 loss to Iran. Amrabat was withdrawn after a 72nd minute clash of heads with Iran’s Vahid Amiri in St Petersburg on Friday as the North Africans were beaten in their opening game at the tournament. The pair were chasing a loose ball down the touchline when Amrabat sprinted into the back of Amiri, hitting his head against that of his opponent....

The ministry on Sunday said Russian forces had captured Lysychansk, the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s troops and members of a local separatist militia “have established full control over Lysychansk and some nearby settlements,” according to a post on the ministry’s Telegram channel. “The total area of ​​the territories liberated over the past day amounted to 182 square kilometers,” the post said....

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations’ Moscow office said a fire broke out in a two-story warehouse in Komsomolskaya Square on Sunday afternoon. The fire partially collapsed the ceiling between the first and second floors of the building, the agency said. It has also grown to cover a total area of about 2,000 square meters. “There is heavy smoke along the way,” the office said in a message posted on Telegram....

The wing-back gave the assist for Olivier Giroud’s match-winning effort in the first half, while his African counterparts; Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah lost with the Reds. In the 32nd minute, the Nigeria international beat left-back Andy Robertson to deliver a cross which was met by Giroud’s head to give Antonio Conte’s men the maximum points. The former Liverpool player would have finished the tie with two assists but was unlucky just as Marcos Alonso whose ferocious volley off his inch-perfect cross flashed past Loris Karius post....

KAT’s big night represents the sixth 50-point game in the NBA within the last 10 days, continuing a trend started by LeBron James back on March 5. It’s the most points scored in the NBA this season and he is now the 31st player in NBA history to score 60. He’s also just the 11th active player with a 60-point game. Here is everything you need to know about Towns’ record-setting performance....

In the new Newsy/Ipsos poll, which was published on Thursday and conducted between July 24 to 29, around three quarters (79 percent) of Americans said they were concerned about the impact of both the coronavirus outbreak and fake news (71 percent) on the upcoming 2020 elections. Meanwhile, 63 percent said they were concerned about foreign interference, while more than half expressed worries around a host of voting issues, including “mail-in ballot fraud,” which Trump has frequently raised concerns over....

After splurging on Brighton’s left wingback Marc Cucurella, the Blues’ new owners shelled out major cash for Leicester City’s Wesley Fofana who was signed on the eve of Transfer Deadline Day. Earlier in the summer, Matthijs de Ligt moved from Juventus to Bayern Munich for the seventh highest fee all-time. Those names don’t even include this summer’s Jules Kounde transfer from Sevilla to Barcelona (only €50m / £45m / $55m), and Lisandro Martinez joining his former Ajax boss Erik ten Hag at Manchester United thanks to a fee that clocks in at No....

According to the Discovery Channel program Mako Nation, which aired on Thursday night as part of Shark Week, the bite was also the second most powerful of any animal on Earth. Shark scientist Riley Elliott and underwater cameraman Andy Casagrande—the hosts of the show—recorded the record-breaking bite in the waters near Mayor Island (or Tuhua)—a dormant volcano around 20 miles off the country’s northern coast and a mako shark hotspot....

Without knowledge of the mass possessed by these near-massless particles, physicists believe that humanity’s understanding of the universe and its so-called “particle zoo” cannot be complete. This is because these particles are so light that their mass seems to have a different origin to that of other fundamental particles. The determination of the neutrino mass would, thus, shed light on the fundamental open question of the origin of particle masses....

FOR THE PUBLIC: Dr. Alexander Spears, Lorillard Tobacco, 1994 In a first step toward regulating tobacco, FDA chairman David Kessler charged in late February that tobacco companies control the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. Cigarette makers replied that everyone knows some brands have more nicotine and tar than others. But when ABC reported that some cigarettes were “spiked” with extra nicotine to hook smokers, tobacco companies explained that nicotine was taken out during processing - for smoothness - and reinjected....

Officers arrived at the home of Kylie Wilt, 25, and Alan Hollis, 27, both of Charleroi, on Thursday in order to assist Child Youth Services, who were looking for the child, according to KDKA. Once there the officers searched the home and found the remains of a child had been put into a wall in the property. According to the network, Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh said: “We found the child was placed in a wall, inside a wall and was drywalled over from statements made by the mom [Wilt]....

Mary Roberts, 53, Henrietta Mitaiare, 23, and her three-year-old daughter were passengers on the flight from Zurich to London on May 2, 2019. Arlene De Silva, prosecuting, said that Mitaiare did not want the stroller to be stored in the hold because it was “too expensive” and argued with cabin crew before her mother stepped in to calm the situation ahead of take-off, the BBC reported. However, after landing at Heathrow airport, Mitaiare renewed the dispute and confronted cabin manager Ali Chkerdaa, asking for the name of staff involved so she could make a complaint about how she had been treated....

British mother-of-three Natalie Crichlow, 44, was visiting family on the Caribbean island when she was attacked by the unknown suspect on July 28 Crichlow, from North London, is reported to have suffered burns to 75 percent of her body before succumbing to her injuries on August 6. “The intruder broke into the house, then strangled her and then set her alight. I do not understand why it happened and we are all in a state of shock,” her niece Ashley Best told the Press Association....

Wonikalae “Niki” Copeland, 47, died after a 48-day battle with COVID-19 on January 7, with her death being reported by station WSB-TV in Georgia on Sunday. She died from the virus on the same day as Connie Reynolds, a cafeteria manager at Malcolm Bridge Elementary School in Oconee County, bringing the total number of school worker deaths to 61 since the start of Georgia’s 2021–2022 school year. Born in Pensacola, Florida, on August 26, 1974, Copeland lived in Griffin, Georgia, with her husband, Tim Copeland....

On October 22, just days after mother of three Katie Leeming, 22, tested positive for COVID-19, Ivy-Rose Court, who was born prematurely at 26 weeks,died. Leeming, a bakery assistant from Blackpool, Lancashire, said that she chose not to get vaccinated after hearing “horror stories about women having miscarriages.” She said the accounts scared her and she didn’t want to “take the risk.” “One lady said she had received the vaccination and that her baby was stillborn the week after,” Leeming told the Daily Mail....

Local television station KTNV reported that the lion had been scared into a tree by a pet pitbull when officials took the decision to euthanize it. Las Vegas Metropolitan police department were called to the neighborhood at 9 a.m. local time after a resident spotted an animal wandering around. Upon arrival, officers confirmed that the animal spotted was a mountain lion and requested assistance from the Nevada Division of Wildlife and Clark County Animal Control....

The animals are drawn down to the car park at Mount Evans by the presence of salt, which both mountain goats and bighorn sheep love to lick, 9News reported. Interaction with humans can be harmful to the animals as well as the visitors admiring them, so researchers from Denver Zoo have been treating the car park, which sits at the foot of a long winding road, with urine from mountain lions as a passive form of discouragement for the animals....

Wayne Rooney breaks Manchester United goals record The 31-year-old swept in a brilliant free-kick with seconds remaining at the bet365 Stadium to move onto 250 goals in 546 appearances - one more than former record-holder Bobby Charlton. And Mourinho praised his captain for claiming a place in the history of both the club and the global game. “The record is the record,” he told Sky Sports after the 1-1 draw....