Gov. Asa Hutchinson has officially supported Sarah Sanders’ campaign for Arkansas governor. Although several Democrats are running for the spot, Sanders is now the only Republican campaigning after Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge dropped out of the race earlier this week. “Sarah has earned the Republican nomination and I’m delighted today to endorse her for governor,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “The state of Arkansas will be in good hands with Sarah as governor, and she has my full support....

The page was created on June 25 on behalf of the Gonzalez family, who were inside the Champlain Towers South condominium complex when it collapsed last month. Sixteen-year-old Deven Gonzalez and her mother, Angela Gonzalez fell from the ninth floor to the fifth floor. Deven and Angela were among the first victims pulled from the rubble. Edgar Gonzalez, Deven’s father and a local attorney, is among those still missing....

The Bank of America announced on Monday that the billions of dollars in unemployment benefits distributed under contract with the California Employment Development Department (EDD) have been stolen. In a letter written to state legislators, bank officials identified 640,000 accounts with suspicious activity in the state’s unemployment benefits system that should be investigated. “Our assessment is that there is activity consistent with fraud in those accounts on the order of approximately $2 billion,” the letter read....

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the number of migrants and refugees who died between January and June of this year more than doubled compared to the first six months of 2020. It also reported the number of people attempting to cross the Mediterranean into Europe had increased by 58 percent. As many shipwrecks are not reported and accidents at sea can be difficult to verify, the agency said the actual number of deaths may be far higher than stated in the report, the Associated Press reported....

Standby officers arrived at the scene around midnight on August 5 after receiving a call and found a further 143 birds in cages at the residence in the city of Jurupa Valley, located about 50 miles east of Lost Angeles. Two hundred people, who reportedly escaped before officers could apprehend them, were also at the residence along with an unidentified man who claimed ownership of the animals. According to local media, the man has been cited for a misdemeanor for possession of fighting blades used in cockfights while animal services are likely to pursue felony animal cruelty charges....

President Donald Trump broke a 130-year-old tradition of pausing executions during a presidential transition, and six people have been executed since the election. A contrast to his predecessor, Biden campaigned on abolishing the death penalty at the federal level and halting executions. Appreciative of Biden’s opposition to the death penalty, more than 35 Democrats in Congress are asking him to build on President Barack Obama’s stance by taking a step further....

Greene, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, has drawn substantial controversy since her GOP primary campaign until the present. The congresswoman has promoted a number of bizarre and baseless conspiracy theories, and previously voiced her belief in QAnon’s groundless claims. Even many top Republican lawmakers in Congress have condemned her. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in February that Greene is “not living in reality,” describing her beliefs as “a cancer for the Republican Party....

The library’s American Folklife Center, which houses oral histories dating back to World War I, will host the audio diaries. Elizabeth Peterson, the center’s director, said that the donation was a “remarkable gift.” “You hear the sounds of the workplace, the exhaustion in their voices, and the big and small ways they try to cope and contribute,” she said. One of the featured health care workers was Calvin Lambert, a fetal medicine fellow in a Bronx hospital....

No longer predominantly affecting China, that new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is rapidly spreading through Europe, the United States and Iran. On Monday, cases outside China surpassed those within China for the first time since the outbreak started. Of the 204,277 confirmed cases around the world, 8,246 people have died. COVID-19 is believed to present the biggest threat to those who are over 60 and have underlying health conditions or suppressed immune systems....

An analysis conducted by The Washington Post found that 45 out of 50 of the country’s biggest companies profited between April and September, but 27 of them still cut jobs for thousands of workers. The findings propose a dual reality for big companies this year, who at once touted corporate success and claimed they were leading the U.S. toward economic recovery while also discarding thousands of employees. Among those that turned a profit, 21 companies including Cisco Systems, Comcast and AT&T had some of the biggest layoffs, each surpassing 3,000....

Coronavirus cases in the U.S. have risen in November and some experts expect there to be a further surge following the Thanksgiving holiday. While a coronavirus vaccine is expected to begin distribution in December, recent data indicated more than 13 million positive U.S. cases of COVID-19 with 274,050 fatalities attributed to the virus. Monday’s poll shows that 34 percent of African Americans have known a person who died because of COVID-19....

It was then that Steve Spurrier’s wife Jerri, far and away the foundation of all things Spurrier, told me two things I have never forgotten – and in this very particular order: MORE: Spurrier, expert troller | 10 biggest wins | Classic Spurrier photos – If you don’t give it right back to him, he’ll eat you alive. – He never says anything he doesn’t mean. Fast-forward to 2000, and I had just begun working for Sporting News after covering Spurrier for five seasons for a newspaper in Florida....

Shared to the TikTok account @wat.k0, the video—which was viewed nearly 2 million times—showed a montage of Watson hugging and cuddling Kiko. The final shot showed Watson laying down with a jar that has a photo of Kiko on the front. The sweet homage to the duo’s bond prompted a wave of commenters to express their condolences. “The day will come when they get to be together again, this time will be forever,” @wat....

A cat and a dog have gone viral for their unusual sibling dynamics, after a video of them approaching each other in their sleep was shared on Reddit, leaving the internet amused. The video, which was shared by the pets’ owner, who goes by the username elphaba16, shows two different clips, the first one of how Joules (dog) joins Kelvin (cat) for a nap and the second of how Kelvin joins Joules....

The research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings involved 1,769 people aged between 25 to 64-year-old living in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. The participants had healthy hearts, and provided information including their BMI, diet, physical activity levels, whether they smoked, blood pressure, cholesterol and fasting blood sugar level. Of the total, around 42 percent owned a pet: 24 percent owned a dog, while 17.9 percent another type of animal....

The North London outfit smashed its transfer record to bring the World Cup winner to the Emirates Stadium in 2013 in a deal worth 42.5 million pounds (around $52.7M), just hours after Real Madrid paid £86 million to sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid. Ozil has hinted that Wenger showed an interest in Ozil before his deadline-day move three years ago, telling him that if he were ever to leave the Spanish giants it would be to join Arsenal....

Ozil tops Kroos to be named German Player of the Year for a fifth time The World Cup winner, along with Alexis Sanchez, is out of contract at the end of next season and recently insisted he would not recommit until he is given assurances over Arsene Wenger’s future at the club. Ozil and Alexis are reportedly demanding huge pay rises to bring their wages level with the Premier League’s top stars, with the former currently understood to be taking home £140,000 a week and the latter around £10,000 less....

However, Subban — who was removed from the ice on a stretcher late in the third period of the Habs’ 3-2 win over the Sabres — will not play Saturday against the Wild, coach Michel Therrien confirmed later. Subban was injured in a collision with teammate Alexei Emelin, who ran into Subban, hitting him on the side of the head. Subban had normal movement in all his extremities after being taken to the hospital....

Subban, a 28-year-old Ontario born superstar, has officially signed on with Adidas as one of its sponsored athletes. In true Subban style, the move was announced on Monday with a video tweeted by Adidas Hockey, featuring some of Subban’s personality on and off the ice: grooving and pulling off a Superman pose in a chic outfit, and cutting on his edges and showing off his stick-work in on-ice drills....

Wagner Moura portrayed the infamous drug lord for the first two seasons of the Netflix crime drama which charted Escobar’s rise and fall in the Colombian drug trade, while Season 3 focusing on his successors in the Cali cartel. Given Season 2 ended with Escobar’s death that seemed to be it for Moura’s future in the franchise, but he has returned for spin-off Narcos: Mexico twice, first in Season 1 and now once again in Season 3....