An omphalocele can be small and involve only a portion of the intestine, or it can be very large, with several of the organs of the abdomen (including the intestines, liver and spleen) protruding through the opening. The exact cause of an omphalocele is not completely understood, but some cases are believed to be linked to an underlying genetic disorder. Symptoms The primary symptom of an omphalocele is the protrusion of the abdominal organs through the abdominal muscle wall....

Stay calm in uncomfortable situations. MORE: Harbaugh’s ‘A-plus’ playmaker at Michigan | Freeze: Not a fan of spring games Only these words this time were nothing like Arizona’s star quarterback had heard before. “He walked over to me, gave me a big hug and said, ‘Son, I’m proud of you. I love you,’” Solomon said. “It kind of shocked me.” This is what happens after years of pushing, prodding, teaching — yes, parenting — stares directly in the face of the single moment of adversity that left Jarrett Solomon without an answer....

I’m sure you’ve seen the Hollywood version. Probably you’ve been to an air show and been dazzled by the death-defying maneuvers and simulated military strikes. A few of us have actually gone through the gantlet in which the few became even fewer and were christened Fighter Pilots. Where we work is a vicious place. I’ll attempt to describe it, but real comprehension comes only in a sky full of hot metal and smart missiles that all seem to be looking right at you....

In today’s column, I want to sound a warning about how things could go wrong, particularly when it comes to the president’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices. Until a few days ago, I would have argued confidently that the president and Republicans were well situated to win on the issue of drug prices in 2020. A record number of generic drugs were approved by the FDA in 2017, saving consumers nearly $16 billion with lower-priced alternatives over the course of one full year....

Just to emphasize: even as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, other influences will keep the world from continuing on the upward temperature path it’s been on since the 1990s. No one ever said that the greenhouse effect is the only thing driving our climate, and from time to time other factors will outweigh it. We are moving into one of those times, say the British climatologists. So when 2008, say, turns out not to set any temperature records even though 11 of the last 12 years have done so, can we please not have press conferences and headlines and op-eds and Senate floor speeches saying, “see?...

Of roughly 50,000 people incarcerated in Ohio, at least 2,450 have tested positive for the disease so far, as have 282 employees. Those cases account for a substantial portion of the state’s total, which was 11,602 as of Monday morning. Recent reports from Ohio’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) as well as the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed 12 inmate deaths and one probable death as a result of coronavirus infection....

Make no mistake, however. This wasn’t the truly frigid Lambeau Field of the original Ice Bowl, where the biggest thing we’ll always remember is Bart Starr rumbling into the end zone in a game with no such thing as replay review. Welcome to the modern NFL, where the only thing more dramatic than a gritty comeback performance by a superstar is a controversial call that goes against another one....

Today, the highly contagious Delta variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has caused a growing surge in cases that have fueled a return to mask mandates and other restrictions meant to curb the pandemic in areas where cases are spiking. A Newsweek analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data found that on July 4—the day of Biden’s public address—12,813 people tested positive for COVID-19 across the country....

By doing so, the Democrats were not necessarily voting for who they wanted, but rather for the best candidate that the Republican Party had to offer for an office they knew Republicans would eventually win. It’s a phenomenon that’s becoming more and more common. While we’re taught in grade school that our leaders are elected on the second Tuesday in November, in this gerrymandered and divided country, 80 percent to 90 percent of races are decided in the primary....

Oyama is a beautiful village of 5,000 people nestled in the mountains of Kyushu. Below city hall lies a state-of-the-art TV studio with several cable networks that bring everything from “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” to local school events into townspeople’s homes. The town is so wealthy, even by Japanese standards, that half of its residents hold passports. Its cheerful slogan is: “Plant plums and chestnuts-then go to Hawaii.” But inside the town government there’s another, lesser-known slogan: “Septic tanks by the end of the century....

This is no theoretical debate. A new federal law, slipped unobtrusively into a spending bill in September, says that anyone convicted of even a misdemeanor in a domestic-violence incident–ever–is prohibited from owning, carrying or transporting a gun. The law was widely praised then as a quick and easy way to curb an escalation of violent acts against wives and children–and if a cop got caught up, so be it. It also plugged a legal loophole; while felons were already barred from owning guns, most domestic-abuse cases are prosecuted as misdemeanors....

Police received a call around 8 p.m. about an assault with a deadly weapon and responded to an apartment building, according to local news station WSOC. When local law enforcement arrived at the scene, they found a 1-year-old and a 7-year-old child suffering from gunshot wounds. After being taken to the hospital, the 1-year-old was pronounced dead, WSOC reported. Meanwhile, the other child was reported to have suffered non-life-threatening injuries....

On August 21, Maine’s Democratic Governor Janet Mills announced that all health care workers in the state would have to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in order to continue working. Mills’ order will start being enforced on October 29. In opposition to Mills’ mandate, 45 staff members from Maine Health, the state’s largest health care provider, have quit, The Maine Beacon reported. The 45 individuals represent roughly 0.19 percent of the provider’s 23,000-person staff....

Maine’s puffins reside across four small islands located off the coast of the state, the AP reported. The approximately 1,500 breeding pairs of the seabirds in Maine depend on small fish like herring and sand lance to feed their young offspring. A steep decline in the herring population caused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to place new restrictions on the U.S. herring fishery early in 2021, including rules that take into account the fish’s role in the ecosystem....

UnCruise was the only company expected to offer cruises from Alaskan ports in 2020. In total, the company had announced five planned trips with proper coronavirus mitigation protocols in place including the initial voyage of the season on the boat Wilderness Adventurer. The infected passenger had taken two COVID-19 tests. Although the first test returned negative results, a coronavirus test administered at Juneau International Airport came back positive. The crew were informed by the passenger of the positive test, resulting in the boat’s return to port....

Note: Automatic bids for conferences that haven’t finished their tournaments are given to the league’s highest remaining seed. RPI numbers are from CBSSports.com. *Clinched an automatic bid No. 1 seeds: Florida (SEC), Arizona (Pac-12), *Wichita State (Missouri Valley), Villanova (Big East) Florida. 29-2, 18-0 SEC. Rankings: RPI 2, Pomeroy 3. Last week: 1 seed. Record vs. RPI top 50: 6-2. Need to know: Like Arizona and Wichita State, the Gators are locked into the top seed line....

Baghdad’s worsening security has crippled efforts to reconstruct fixed-line telephone networks–only about a third of the million or so lines have been restored–to say nothing of complicated fiber and cable systems. Cell phones and to a lesser extent Wi-Fi have become indispensable tools for thousands of Iraqis, journalists and U.S. officials. Although Baghdad doesn’t have the Wi-Fi hotspots of San Francisco or Seoul, it is arguably the most wireless-dependent city on the planet....

As the Omicron COVID-19 variant has continued to rage, it’s been a pretty scary time to be an immunocompromised person here in England, where I live. Although it’s encouraging that daily COVID-19 cases are continuing to decrease, progress is still slow. At a the beginning of February 2022, with the seven day rolling average of 153 cases per 100,000 people, U.K. case counts are still higher than before the last peak in December 2021....

Without an international opener in 2015, the Major League Baseball season will get started in a more traditional fashion with opening day slated for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball on Sunday, April 5. The Cardinals and the Cubs will kick things off on ESPN2, with first pitch scheduled for 8 p.m ET. All of the 28 remaining teams will open the season on April 6, with four games scheduled to appear on the ESPN family of networks....