A few days after his St. Louis Blues teammate stole the show, Backes scored a backbreaking goal with less than two seconds left in the first period and helped the United States beat the Czech Republic 5-2. With the win, Team USA advances to the semifinals of the Winter Olympics. PHOTOS: Exciting images from the Americans’ victory | Must-see images from Day 14 RUSSIA LOSES: Disastrous defeat for Ovechkin, Malkin...
According to Summit County Sheriff’s officials, Street called the police and was arrested on Dec. 23 at her Park City area home following a dispute with her 76-year-old father, Roland Street. She is charged with one count of assault and three counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, all class B misdemeanors that are each punishable by a maximum of six months in jail. MORE: Athletes’ most heinous crimes | Six fans arrested at Steelers-Bengals...
Getting there was half the adventure. They’d been forecasting snow in Salt Lake for a few days, but only a flake or two had fallen. Snow obviously wasn’t a big factor in our thinking when my husband, David, and I rented a small white Daewoo. As we headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon, snow-covered cliffs bracketed one side of the winding, two-lane road. The other side dropped off precipitously into a creek....
“The judges from Russia, China, Poland and Ukraine represent an axis of cheaters,” Mr. Bush said to a standing ovation in a special joint session of Congress. “And don’t even get me started on the judges from France.” Mr. Bush did not set a timetable for a military campaign to remove the sneaky judges, but left little doubt as to his resolve. “Make no mistake: dead or alive, not over my dead body,” Mr....
Polish Swimming Federation (PZP) president Pawel Slominski has apologized after the body sent 23 swimmers to Japan to take part in the Olympics, which start on Friday, July 23, despite International Swimming Federation (FINA) rules meaning they could only send 17. Among the six swimmers sent home just days before the start of the Games was Alicja Tchorz, who represented Poland at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. The other five were Bartosz Piszczorowicz, Aleksandra Polanska, Mateusz Chowaniec, Dominika Kossakowska and Jan Holub, reported Reuters....
The Department of Labor reported on Thursday that unemployment claims fell by 8,000 this week, with 198,000 being filed. This number is also significantly lower than the 206,000 claims the department was expecting to be filed. “Fortunately, there’s no evidence in this data of a new wave of fresh job losses,” Bankrate’s senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick told Yahoo Finance. “New claims are only slightly above the lowest point in decades notched a couple of weeks ago....
“Omicron will push us over a million deaths,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine, to the Associated Press. “That will cause a lot of soul searching. There will be a lot of discussion about what we could have done differently, how many of the deaths were preventable.” The New York Times previously reported that the country’s first known COVID-19 death occurred in Santa Clara County, California, on February 6, 2020....
On Wednesday morning, the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) cautioned people from walking out into receding water in Tampa Bay or Charlotte Harbor. “The water WILL return through storm surge and poses a life-threatening risk,” the state agency tweeted. Storm surges are primarily caused by strong hurricane winds that collect water and push it forward, resulting in coastal flooding or rising tides like those seen in tsunamis. According to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center, “storm surge is often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane....
The University of Illinois’ season opener against Kent State on Friday was postponed until Saturday because severe weather in the area. MORE: College Football: Welcome to Week 1 The game was scheduled to kick off at 9:12 p.m. ET Friday, but lightning caused nearly a three-hour delay and forced fans to evacuate Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill. The game has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. ET Saturday, school officials announced, but the game will not be televised....
Pai was asked by Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday to explain net neutrality in layman’s terms and provide background on the Trump administration’s challenge to the rules imposed during the Obama administration. “So back in 2015, the Obama FCC imposed these heavy-handed utility-style regulations on the internet, treating the internet like slow-moving utility, a water company or Amtrak in the like,” Pai said. The FCC chairman continued, “In 2017, we decided no, we want the internet to move fast and we have infrastructure development, and we want the market to determine how this technology develops....
Based on Alex Garland’s best-selling novel, and produced by the unsurpassingly hip “Trainspotting” team (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald, screenwriter John Hodge), “The Beach” follows a Gen-X backpacker named Richard (DiCaprio) on his search for a secret island paradise he’s only heard about. On the way, he falls for a woman named Francoise (Ledoyen), and she and her boyfriend join the quest. They finally reach the perfect beach after a series of cinematic adventures, including a jump off a 120-foot waterfall....
While Coca-Cola is known for its genius marketing, and its unstoppable word of mouth press, the company tripped up big time in 1985. They completely botched an attempt at a rebrand that most people remember, even today. On April 23, 1985, Coca-Cola announced they’d changed the formula of their ultra-popular drink. You may be asking why: why would such an iconic, widely praised soft drink change the formula that made it so famous?...
Unlike some other former Trump administration officials, Bannon has proven himself to be a staunch defender of the president even though he is no longer a member of his cabinet. CBS reported that the former Breitbart News Network executive “has fallen in and out of favor” with Trump throughout the impeachment inquiry, which is based on allegations that Trump abused his executive power by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter....
There are many checks and balances in place, and the development of cancer most often requires mutations or other genetic changes in both oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes (genes that produce proteins that either repair or eliminate damaged cells). How Oncogenes Cause Cancer Cancer arises most often when a series of mutations in proto-oncogenes (causing them to become oncogenes) and tumor suppressor genes results in a cell growing uncontrollably and unchecked....
“One of the things about air travel that people need to know…over a billion people have traveled by air this year, over 1 billion,” said Ed Bastian, CEO at Delta Air Lines, during an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street Tuesday morning. “There’s only been 44 documented cases of suspected COVID transmission amongst those billion, and virtually all of those happened in the early weeks of the pandemic.”...
A survey of 2,000 adults found, of those who know a former partner’s passwords, that 35 percent still have access to their ex’s Facebook account. Others can still access video services like Netflix (34 percent) and even work emails (33 percent). And almost one in 10 (9 percent) admitted they had their ex’s details on location apps such as ‘Find My Friends’—meaning they could potentially be found through GPS tracking on their phone....
High-profile sexual assault cases involving men like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Brett Kavanaugh, and viral social media campaigns from #TIMESUP to #MeToo, have highlighted just how widespread sexual violence still is. More than 40 percent of women experience some variation of sexual violence in their lifetime—that, according to the National Institute of Justice, can involve crimes as diverse as sexual harassment, non-penetrative sexual assault and rape. The same study found that an estimated 19 percent of women have been, or will be, raped....
This centuries-old argument for the existence of God basically goes like this. There is no way to explain (fill in the blank: lightning . . . volcanoes . . . the creation of the sun and planets . . . the origin of species . . . ) without invoking a supernatural hand; science alone falls short. Hence there must be a God. The trouble, of course, is that science has this annoying habit of eventually accounting for such mysteries through natural, not supernatural, processes....
Petito’s partner Brian Laundrie is missing and has been named as a person of interest in her death. She was declared missing on September 11, 10 days after not returning from a cross-country tour of national parks with Laundrie. She was found dead in a national park in Wyoming on September 19. Petito was last seen alive in Grand Teto, Wyoming, on a cross-country road trip with Laundrie, on August 25....
