“It is my best interest and my family’s best interest to resign as head coach of the DePaul basketball program,” Purnell said in a release . “We made progress here and improved with the talent and character of our student-athletes. DePaul provided complete support and is fully committed to its basketball program with its budget, the on-campus facilities and in the future with the new events center. I would like to personally thank the University community, fans and student body for their support and thank the student-athletes for their efforts over the last five years....

And it probably needs an overwhelming success in this venue, because it might be the best card the U.S. women have to play. MORE: Images of USWNT’s ticker-tape parade U.S. Soccer has filed a suit against the women’s players seeking to establish it has a bargaining agreement in place until the end of this year. Five members of the women’s team have sued U.S. Soccer claiming wage discrimination. The women could win both, lose both or split....

MORE: Team USA athlete portraits | Rio Olympics: Who, when, where The seven-time gold medal winner said he met with director Steven Spielberg, took acting lessons and screen-tested for a role in the popular shark thriller. Unfortunately for him, the part he tested for eventually went to Richard Dreyfuss. “Everything was great, but it was so close to the Olympics they couldn’t get over the idea that I was still going to be Mark Spitz, that the transcending of who I was as an athlete into the movies was too great,’’ he said....

Right now you’re probably trying to figure out how Sarah Hughes won the gold medal in women’s figure skating last night. You, that is, and the entire nation of Russia. The Russian Figure Skating Federation is protesting Hughes’s medal, saying that silver medalist Irina Slutskaya deserves gold because “the judging was biased.” But more on pesky, little Russia later. So here’s what I can tell you. Think of Sarah Hughes as your favorite football team come playoff time....

Serta site: Old Salt Lake City mattress factory serving as a temporary overflow shelter for the city’s homeless Mag-n-bag: To enter a venue, spectators have to walk through a magnetometer then pass their bags through an X-ray machine. “I would have been here sooner, but the line at the mag-n-bag took forever.” Bucket hog: Person who uses more than one of the clear plastic buckets–made by Garrett, the metal-detector manufacturer–for items that might set off the magnetometer, like change, cell phones, watches, keys, Discmans, etc....

Martin St. Louis didn’t make the team, said everyone. Pro: Team Russia's aren't much bigger ... ... and small or not, the rooms, are, um, finished. That's not the case with many Sochi hotels, as detailed by the New York Times and plenty of the journalists who've already arrived at the Games. And our personal favorite ... Hopefully this is the worst thing that happens.

Omicron was first detected in South Africa and has a number of mutations that raised concerns about its potential to render treatments and vaccines less effective. It could be weeks before data shows whether that’s the case, but if it is, vaccines will have to be adjusted to target the Omicron variant because even inoculated people could be at risk. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with researchers from around the world to identify if Omicron could evade vaccines, calling them “critical” to reducing deaths from COVID-19....

The WHO’s assurance comes as the new variant first detected in South Africa last week has now been recorded in 38 countries. In the United States, at least 29 cases of Omicron across 11 states have been reported. These are California, Nebraska, New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, Pennsylvania and Hawaii, CBS News reported. There was also an infection in New Jersey of a Georgia resident. The WHO said it could also take time to investigate the effectiveness of treatments and whether it causes more severe illness....

Thousands of people had their lives upended when the family members they kissed goodbye that morning never returned home. Those who perished that day came from 78 countries, which means more than a third of the nations on Earth mourned along with us for their own lost citizens. September 11, 2001, was a day that left millions of Americans terrified, confused and angry. But it also served as another test of this great nation’s resolve and its commitment to freedom and liberty....

Especially not this week. For extremist Muslims, Wednesday is the 27th night of Ramadan, the holy month on Islam’s lunar calendar. Called the “Night of Power,” it marks the date in 610 when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is a time of Allah’s maximum forgiveness–when, among other things, the sin of a suicide bomber is most likely to be washed away....

Biden’s presidency began with a clear desire to move forward from Trump, swiftly rolling back via executive action many of his predecessor’s policies. As he unraveled parts of Trump’s legacy, Biden expressed a desire to also cut him from the political narrative. “For four years, all that’s been in the news is Trump,” Biden said in a CNN town hall in February, when asked about Trump’s second impeachment. “The next four years, I want to make sure all the news is the American people....

“NOAA’s outlook for the 2020 hurricane season indicates that an above-normal season is most likely with a possibility of that season being extremely active,” said NOAA administrator Neil Jacobs during a recent media teleconference. “Specifically, there is a 60 percent chance of above-normal season 30 percent chance of near-normal season, and just a 10 percent chance of below-normal season.” Forecasters from NOAA said that several different climate factors, such as ocean surface temperatures being higher than normal, are producing a strong likelihood for an “above-normal” season....

Arsenal produced a battling display to beat Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley on Saturday, with Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey getting the goals, the latter coming just after Diego Costa’s equaliser. It’s time to show Wenger respect Wenger’s future dominated the build-up and was again a hot topic at full-time, with the Frenchman’s current deal expiring at the end of the season and many supporters calling for him to end his 21-year tenure....

The argument, made in his new book “Across the Sabbath River” (Houghton Mifflin), is not just academic. Some Israeli rabbis believe descendants of the lost tribes number more than 35 million around the world and could help offset the sharply increasing Palestinian population. As founder of the organization Amishav (My People Return), Eliyahu Avichail trots the globe in search of lost Jews, in order to bring them back to their religion through conversation and direct them to Israel....

In the footage shared to TikTok by Inland Valley Humane Society a German Shepherd with only one front leg can be seen lying on the floor as the overlaid text reads: “This dog came in with a fractured right leg our vet staff had to amputate the leg.” The writing then continues: “After a month here…you won’t believe who adopted him. He was so excited to meet his adopter.”...

The Southern Africa nation, one of the two guest countries alongside Libya, are expected in the country later this week ahead of the official kick-off on December 3. The Warriors head coach, Sunday Chidzambwa named an all –local based players, save for Tanzanian based, Donald Ngoma who is attached to Young Africa (Yanga). Zimbabwe is in Group B together with defending champions, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Burundi while hosts Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Libya and Zanzibar are in Group A....

Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, biologists have cloned at least 16 other species, from mice and goats to pigs, cats, dogs and ferrets. For a couple of years starting in 2004, it looked like scientists in South Korea had followed the same basic recipe in humans: take an ovum, remove its DNA, replace that DNA with DNA from an adult cell, and grow it in the laboratory until a days-old embryo develops, from which (they said) they derived stem cells, but did not allow development to continue....

According to Politico, a “Trump Victory Team” email, sent internally on Thursday, said the gun show taking place this weekend is a “great opportunity to make sure people are up to date on their voter registration and know more about the efforts of the Trump administration to address public safety and Second Amendment rights.” After the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings last weekend, which left 31 dead and dozens more injured, Republicans and Democrats have aggressively sparred over gun control and whether President Donald Trump’s inflammatory racial rhetoric encouraged the hate and violence in the massacres....

Tesla already reached its previous tax credit allotment in 2018 by selling more than 200,000 vehicles. Since then, Tesla buyers haven’t qualified for a tax credit. The Inflation Reduction Act removes the manufacturing cap but establishes other stipulations. “Americans looking to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s electric vehicle tax credit will have multiple cars to choose from right away. And they’ll be cars made in America by America’s workers,” White House Assistant Press Secretary Abdullah Hasan told Newsweek....

How does Wenger solve Arsenal’s problems? Nobody could have been in any doubt as to City owner Sheikh Mansour’s intentions when CEO Ferran Soriano and director of football Txiki Begiristain came into the club in 2012. The foundations were being put in place for Guardiola. No matter if the manager was Roberto Mancini or Manuel Pellegrini, these were Guardiola’s men with whom he’d enjoyed productive relationships at Barcelona. And in the back room he’s got all his own men too....