The U.S. Olympic figure skater said the writing process for his book One Jump at a Time: My Story was “really fun,” if occasionally difficult to tell his story in the span of a couple hundred pages. The book, which he wrote with Alice Park, is slated for release by HarperCollins on November 22. “It was definitely a really great process, especially looking at the Olympics and then being able to spend some time to look back on that whole experience, look back on my whole career and to see where things were great, where things were not so great,” Chen, 23, told Newsweek during an interview this week....

The stance on discontinuing medal ceremonies for events attended by Valieva was reaffirmed on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. The torches, according to two anonymous sources, were given as holdover gifts. The U.S. placed second behind the Russian Olympic Committee squad in the team competition involving Valieva last week. Nathan Chen won gold for the U.S. in men’s singles, while Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue took bronze in ice dancing....

Officials are still researching Omicron to determine its true transmissibility and identify how severe of disease it’s prone to cause. So far, cases in the United States have largely been mild but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cautioned people against drawing conclusions from early cases because the small number of infections wasn’t representative of how the variant could impact those most at risk. South Dakota became the last state to report an Omicron infection and said it involved a male in his 20s....

Doncic knows it. That’s why the Mavericks star is focused on one thing for the final part of the season: He needs to avoid picking up another technical foul. On the season, Doncic has racked up 16 technicals, tied for the league lead with 76ers center Dwight Howard. Normally, players are suspended after their 16th technical foul, but Doncic had one in-game call against him rescinded by the league office....

So when he came into the world — the rigidly, legally segregated world African-Americans functioned in at that time — seeing black players at the highest level of the national pastime was beyond a dream and bordered on reckless fantasy. Everybody knew it, whether they accepted it or not, and that included Robinson himself. “I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime. I began to wonder why I should dedicate my life to a career where the boundaries for progress were set by racial discrimination,’’ he wrote in his 1972 autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,’’ about his decision to play in the Negro leagues in 1944....

In one of the world’s most wretched corners, even the rescuers were at risk: three Zairean Red Cross volunteers died and a fourth fell ill simply because they had handled bodies. By the weekend 97 people in all had perished from massive hemorrhaging, including four Italian nuns, and an additional 31 were confirmed carriers. Experts say a “fourth wave” of deaths is inevitable, as those who were exposed as long as three weeks ago fall ill....

The Texas Republican took to Twitter on Monday to propose doing away with the main federal agency responsible for collecting taxes. Cruz’s tweet isn’t the first time he, or other Republicans, have floated the idea. He also wasn’t the only member of his party to use Tax Day to say it’s time to end the agency and abiding Republican target. “Abolish the IRS,” wrote Cruz in a terse tweet that used the #TaxDay hashtag and offered no further specifics for how his idea would play out....

title: “On The Prowl” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Cory May” Domestic pressures, however, are pushing Playboy to try again with a revived Mexico edition due out this fall. Returning to the biggest Spanish-speaking market in the world is part of the struggling company’s strategy to expand its global reach, at a time when its iconic status in the United States is waning. U.S. circulation of Playboy has fallen from 8 million in the 1970s to 3....

Hong Kong and Macau—the two semi-autonomous regions of China—are the only places in the country that have been allowed to mark an event the Party has tried to scrub from the national memory: the killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pro-democracy activists by Chinese soldiers. But this year, for the first time, Hong Kong authorities refused permission for the Victoria Park event. They cited concerns about the coronavirus. For pro-democracy activists, though, the cancellation is a portent of Hong Kong’s dark future, one in which Beijing extends ideological control over the former British colony despite mass protests and international condemnation....

They didn’t cough up a 25-point third-quarter lead Saturday night in Philadelphia, but in exiting the NFC playoffs 15-10, they left so many chances on the field, their players and coaches could hardly keep up with them all. For nearly the entire game, the home-standing, top-seeded Eagles were trying to give the Falcons a win, and the Falcons stubbornly refused to take it. They had spent 11 1/2 months trying to get back to where they were last February against the Patriots....

This road for myself and all those I have been fighting alongside has not been simple or easy, and for those in frontline communities, the decades-long fight for climate justice has meant continued exposure to toxic pollution and severe climate disasters. Despite the challenges, our commitment to a just transition has finally set us on course to deliver the largest climate bill in our history. Does it include all that we require?...

Why the turnaround? Rensi cited advances in packaging and cooking technologies that make new containers more feasible. But the strongest factor may have been pressure from customers and environmentalists. Since August the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) had been working with McDonald’s to find ways to cut the company’s waste. A few weeks ago Executive Director Fred Krupp told Rensi that EDF would publicly disagree with a McDonald’s decision to continue recycling polystyrene....

Whitehurst, a respected expert in the chemistry of bomb-blast residues, played no part whatsoever in the Simpson case, and prosecutors will argue he should not be allowed to testify. Still, Whitehurst has already appeared for the defense in another high-profile case-the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants in the alleged plot to blow up U.N. headquarters and other targets in New York. He has been waging an internal war of cranky principle against the FBI lab since 1989....

“Done,” Phelps said. “I am not going four more years and I’m standing by that.” What began in Sydney in 2000, when Phelps was just 15 years old, ended here in Rio at age 31, older by 16 years but exponentially wiser. It ended as it should have ended, with Phelps registering a decisive anchor leg of the men’s 4x100m medley relay, one lap in Lane 5 that stretched a tightening U....

So now, senators hovered at their desks. TV news channels were taking C-Span’s “feed” live. Galleries were jammed. As the “long bell” rang in the hallways to signal the start of the day, phones were ringing in the cloakrooms. Hustling through Capitol corridors or parking their cars, straggler senators were calling in. Their plea: wait for me! The chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, a distinguished Presbyterian who spent 20 years tending a flock in Hollywood, knew to speak slowly....

Turkmenistan’s government has reportedly banned the word coronavirus, while also arresting people wearing face masks or talking about the pandemic in public, according to Reporters Without Borders. The country’s state-controlled media are not allowed to say or publish the word, and information about coronavirus has also been removed from government health brochures distributed in workplaces, hospitals and schools. “The Turkmen authorities have lived up to their reputation by adopting this extreme method for eradicating all information about the coronavirus,” Jeanne Cavelier, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, said in a Tuesday statement....

According to a study published in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters, recent activity has destabilized the western flank of Tungurahua—whose name means “Throat of Fire” in the language of the indigenous Quechua peoples. The volcano—located around 85 miles south of Ecuador’s capital in the Andes mountains—has been frequently active since 1999, when eruptions forced the evacuation of around 25,000 people from the surrounding areas. Another ancient eruption around 3,000 years ago led to a partial collapse of Tungurahua’s western flank....

Who on earth could have predicted they would go 20-3-3 and climb to within a point of third place in their division? Playoffs? Playoffs? MORE: Six biggest losers on Thursday | West field is set | Bruins bumble, Sens win Elements of the story include the stunning performance on goalie Andrew Hammond, summoned to action when the Sens’ top two were injured. The Hamburglar now owns a place in NHL legend....

Online child sex abuse is when people use social media, web cameras, cell phones or live streams to groom, coerce and expose children into participating in or viewing illegal sex acts. The NCMEC says that many of last month’s reports came from social media platforms and other service providers who informed the nonprofit about explicit content and suspicious interactions on their platforms. The number of reports has dramatically increased as the number of children staying home and using computers has also significantly increased due to nationwide school closures in response to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic....