Farrakhan reflected on his international image–and on national politics–in an interview with NEWSWEEK’S Vern E. Smith at Farrakhan’s Chicago house. Highlights: ON HIS “WORLD TOUR' I’m deeply concerned that the trip, instead of being shown to the American people for what it really was, was characterized by the media as a ““thug fest,’’ or the minister cavorting with terrorists, or grubbing for money. This is 180 degrees away from the truth....

Well here we are, two transfer windows later, and the Chinese League’s spending isn’t slowing down. In fact, the recent acquisition of Brazilian star Oscar and reported bid for Carlos Tevez have pushed the Chinese League into even higher levels of spending. Julian Green leaves Bayern Munich for Stuttgart Of greater concern to Garber should be the fact that China’s big bucks have just hijacked a high-profile transfer by an MLS team....

Jamie McMurray is 16th in the Cup standings and is ninth among the winless drivers. He has little chance of being among the possible four who could get into the Chase field on points. McMurray will start 15th in Sunday’s Oral-B 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. (Green flag: 7:46 p.m. ET.) He must win Sunday or next Saturday night at Richmond to make the Chase. A chance at a win slipped away last week at Bristol, where McMurray led 148 laps but finished eighth....

Such sniping may seem far removed from the high politics of Brussels and EU expansion. But these subtle tensions in Riga’s public squares and markets represent the front lines in the battle for the hearts and minds of the Baltic people–many of whom are asking just why they should drop their hard-earned independence from the Soviets to join yet another “union.” Late last week France and Germany hammered out a deal on farm subsidies that brought the EU much closer to expanding its ranks, just days after Ireland passed a referendum approving the body’s plans for new members....

Clinton and his wife, Hillary, start the day over coffee. Because Bush is the president, he flies on Air Force One, a special jet that helps him keep in touch with the White House. Some of his speeches are written on cards. He and his wife, Barbara, get to meet interesting people, like country singer Moe Bandy in Missouri. The candidates are guarded by the Secret Service.

Aoki made the MMA world remember who he is by choking out Folayang by first-round submission (arm-triangle choke) to regain the lightweight belt at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. “Being 35 (years old) doing what I love with all the troubles, aren’t you guys jealous?” Aoki said through an interpreter in his post-fight interview. “I will still go on every day.” Aoki (43-8, one no-contest) set the tone from the outset, going right at Folayang and throwing a couple of kicks to the body and the head....

There is a strange calm, coolness in the air amongst the crew. For the first time, we can see the flames. It’s licking, it’s rolling, it’s alive, it’s screaming at us! There’s a spot fire in the rock scree, just above us. And now it’s gray, here comes the flame again. It’s snowing If I could finish off those moments, it would go something like this: It’s snowing fire. A snowstorm of burning red embers is falling on us....

The American Association's Kansas City Blues played the Columbus Senators on April 11, 1912, and neither team batted a ball into the stands or over the fence. MORE: Ranking the top Minor League teams on Twitter It is believed to be the only time in professional baseball history the same baseball was employed for every pitch of a game. Surprisingly, it was an offensive game. The ball was whacked all over the diamond, accounting for a combined 28 hits and 15 runs, yet the ball stayed in the field of play for all nine innings....

In 1978 Italian authorities closed the doors on the masterpiece and let restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon begin what would become a 21-year, $7.7 million, centimeter-by-centimeter rehabilitation involving electronic microscopes, water-base paint and a neutral beige to fill in totally unretrievable areas. Last Friday the doors reopened, and the public rushed in to see whether the result was the Renaissance reborn–or the Old Master equivalent of Pamela Anderson. The experts’ verdict: split down the middle, with the now embattled Culture Minister Giovanna Melandri and Brambilla celebrating the brighter, fresher Leonardo, and a bevy of foreign critics saying that any connection to da Vinci’s handiwork had been forfeited to “an original Brambilla....

Luka Doncic falls firmly into this category. At 20 years old, the Mavericks star is already reading the game like a veteran. On Wednesday night, Doncic dominated the Kings with a 25-point, 17-assist, 15-rebound triple-double, the first such stat line in franchise history. One of those 17 assists perfectly illustrates the genius that has quickly pushed him into the MVP conversation. LUKA VS. LAMAR: Who will own the next decade?...

The global race to find a vaccine is moving forward the development of an inoculation at a record pace, and three candidates are in Phase 3 clinical trials in the United States. It’ll likely be the end of September before the trials have full enrollment, and with a month needed between the initial dose and the booster, Fauci said at a “Science on the Front Lines” virtual event, it’s likely to be the end of the year before officials can determine if it should be administered to the public....

Part of the problem is a matter of resources, and another part is due to policies the law requires. Those are appropriately matters for Congress to address. Yet many noteworthy obstacles to progress are entirely within the authority of VA officials to remove right now. Identifying and acting on them should be Job One at the VA. Case in point: certain surgical and pain-management treatments have been subject to scheduling delays that can be debilitating or even life-threatening to veterans....

Last summer, acknowledging that new games with live action are more frightening than older games’ cartoons, Sega of America began rating its product. (Mortal Kombat, in which aggressors rip off heads and brandish the bloody trophies, got an MA-13: not for young children.) While the predatory Night Trap (which features underclad teenage girls) may be fine for post-pubescents, a Sega spokesperson said, “it’s very scary for 6-year-olds who don’t like the idea of getting the blood sucked out of them....

“I feel like our government betrayed us,” the Tampa, Florida, resident told Newsweek. “Everybody that operated in Afghanistan. The people that have died. The parents, brothers and sisters of our combat vets that have died in Afghanistan. They all feel betrayed. How can you not feel betrayed? To leave that country the way we did? That wasn’t a withdrawal. It was a retreat.” Blackburn was one of the “Horse Soldiers,” the first U....

The Internet Revolution I read your Special Report about e-life and how the Internet is changing the way we live–but will life really change for everyone (“The Dawn of E-Life,” Oct. 11)? The world’s poor people do not have the knowledge and money to use the new Internet technology. This unfortunate situation will widen the gap between our social classes, or may even create a huge wall that the offline people can’t possibly cross....

Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy conducted the poll among 625 registered voters in Kentucky between February 1 and 4, just days before Trump’s trial began. According to the results, 51 percent of respondents told pollsters they oppose convicting Trump, while 41 percent said they support conviction. The remaining 8 percent of respondents said they were undecided on how they want the trial to conclude, the poll said. The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent....

OnStar plans run from $24.99 to $49.99 a month based on the features. The lowest tier option includes the built-in Alexa feature. The OnStar system was initially founded in 1995 and has remained a leader in driving automotive innovation through digital communication. OnStar is a collaboration between GM, Electronic Data Systems, and Hughes Electronics Corporation. The service has over 6 million customers.

Before setting his sights on the White House, Jackson had been a major presence on the national stage for nearly two decades. He was “bloodied up from the civil-rights battle,” as he told me last week, and already had won the allegiance of many blacks and the enmity of many whites. Obama, in contrast, “did not come up through the ranks in our community,” says Jackson. Instead he “fell out of the sky in Boston,” a reference to how Obama was thrust onto the national stage after an electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention....

In a paper published in The Lancet on Wednesday, Stanford researchers estimated that if no new action is taken to address the opioid epidemic, there will be 1.22 million opioid deaths between 2020 and 2029—a figure nearly doubling the total number of deaths that have occurred in the last two decades. This works out to, on average, 336 people dying every day between 2020 and 2029. “The deaths are going up over a third in the U....