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Gonzalez’s Pachuca side, the CONCACAF Champions League winners, eliminated their African counterparts Wydad Casablanca with a Victor Guzman goal in extra time to take their place opposite the Brazilians in the draw. Gonzalez was brought on late in the game to shore up the Pachuca back line and helped his side seal a date in the semis. The prize for winning that game could be a final showdown against Real Madrid at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City Stadium next Saturday....

Her comments came after early reports suggested that the new variant of concern appeared to be causing milder symptoms than some other forms of the virus. One such report from the South African Medical Research Council last weekend stated that, based on a snapshot of 42 patients in a hospital ward in Tshwane, South Africa, on December 2, 70 percent weren’t dependent on oxygen at that time. The report said it was “a picture that has not been seen in previous waves” in which “the COVID ward was recognizable by the majority of patients being on some form of oxygen supplementation....

Because Omicron contains multiple mutations, will it cause different symptoms than the Delta variant—the only other VOC in the U.S.? It may be too soon to tell. How Does Omicron Compare to Other Variants? Because the Omicron variant was discovered fairly recently, there are several questions that have yet to be answered, Mahdee Sobhanie, MD, infectious diseases physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, told Verywell. This includes the following:...

Hospitals are being stretched thin by the new wave of COVID-19 infections from the fast-spreading Omicron variant. They’re facing a shortage of beds, staff and medical equipment. Currently, there are only 42 adult intensive care unit beds available in the state. The adult non-ICU beds are at 95 percent capacity, the Oregon Health Authority said. Due to the critical shortages, OHA released guidelines designed to help health care workers choose between patients who need medical treatment if they’ve exhausted every other option to care for patients....

Recognizing China I really enjoyed your special report “Standing Up,” on China’s stand after 50 years of communism (Sept. 20). It showed China for what it is: a country that is gradually emerging and that, one day, will ultimately become an important power, with which the world can reckon. Nikhil Manna Quatre Bornes, Mauritius The Chinese Communist Party may govern China, but the truth is that capitalistic mechanisms make China stronger than it has ever been....

No, this is not Baghdad. Rather, this war is being waged just across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez. Some 30,000 soldiers and federal police have now been deployed to a dozen states throughout Mexico as part of President Felipe Calderon’s war on drug cartels and organized crime, and Juarez is just the latest front. On March 28, after the murder toll here rose to more than 200 in just three months–a more than tenfold increase compared to the same period in 2007–Calderon sent in 2,500 soldiers as part of Joint Operation Chihuahua, named for the state in which Juarez is located....

The Nadi hands, the Nadi body lines, the Nadi face, the Nadi haircut, the Nadi ribbons in the hair. Even Dominique, who has seen footage of 14-year-old Nadia’s gold-medal Olympic performance in 1976, was stunned by side-by-side pictures of herself and the young Comaneci in a magazine. ““I was like, “Wow, amazing.’ It looks like we’re the same person,’’ says Moceanu, the American-born daughter of Romanian migrs. And this summer, 20 years after Nadia, history, too, might repeat itself....

Sure enough, within hours of Lamm’s nervous announcement of his candidacy last week, Ross Perot told TV viewers that everything he had been saying all of these months about how ““it’s not about me’’ was – how did the Watergate folks once put it? – inoperative. Perot would run for the nomination of the party he built after all. The usual Washington wise guys immediately began figuring how the Texas billionaire’s latest gambit would affect the Clinton-Dole race....

They’ve combined for a 140-22 record since 2010. They’ve won the first two College Football Playoff championships. They have nine players projected to go in the first round in Sporting News’ final NFL Mock Draft. MORE: SN Preseason Top 25 for 2016 That’s why tonight might be a good time to turn toward one of your buddies and kick-start the following conversation. Who will win the national championship in 2016?...

Medical oncologists who treat cancer with chemotherapy and other medications. Surgical oncologists who treat cancer with surgery. Radiation oncologists who treat cancer with radiation. These specialists work as part of a multidisciplinary team which may include a pathologist, radiologist, primary care physician, geneticist, palliative care specialist, oncology nurse, and organ-specific oncologists. Medical oncologists are licensed to practice after completing a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in oncology. Surgical oncologists undergo a residency in general surgery before specializing in oncology....

The arrangements to fill this position were supposed to have been finalized a day earlier. Commander Aamer Latif Ibrahimi, an Uzbek leader who had negotiated the Konduz surrender deal with the Taliban over the weekend, believed he had been promised the position by top Alliance officials. But another commander, Mohammad Daoud Khan, an ethnic Tajik, felt differently. Red Cross workers, too, were among those waiting for news in front of the mosque....

To New Yorkers of a certain age, the name will forever evoke a time most of them would rather forget: a steamy summer in a crumbling city that paused in its everyday mayhem (1,553 murders in 1977, compared with 631 last year) only for an all-night riot touched off by a citywide power failure. But the era also saw the first stirrings of a vocation in a college student named Spike Lee, who spent the summer roaming the city with a Super 8 camera....

A pair of surveys released by The Washington Post and ABC News on Wednesday found Biden up by 7 points in Michigan and 17 points in Wisconsin among likely voters. Among registered voters, Biden had a five-point edge in Michigan and a 12-point lead in Wisconsin. The polls, which were conducted from October 20 to October 25, have a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points for likely voters and 4 percentage points for registered voters....

While we might have become more creative, whales migrated closer to shore due to the lack of ship noise interfering with their sound location, wildlife was free to roam—a puma sauntered through Chile’s deserted capital city, coyotes were spotted near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge—and in New York City, residents heard more birds than traffic. But as the world reopens and airplane engine roars increase, can we keep the last quiet places…well, quiet?...

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In a Yahoo/YouGov poll released Monday, only 17 percent of registered voters who intend to vote for Trump in the presidential election answered “no” when asked “do you believe that top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings,” the central claim of the evidence-free conspiracy theory. A full 50 percent of Trump supporters said they believed the false claim was true, while 33 percent said they were unsure....

Because the 2020 edition was canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this year marks the 150th playing of the Open Championship. The tournament will be held at the Old Course at St. Andrews — considered the oldest golf course in the world — for the first time since 2015. Also of note: Tiger Woods will be in the field after he sat out this year’s U.S. Open. Any event he plays in will command attention from the golfing world, considering he has said that he will never play a full PGA Tour schedule again....

Open Championship winner Cameron Smith is reportedly next to go to the breakout Saudi-backed league, despite getting testy when he was asked about his win at the Old Course. Asked during a recent interview with RSN Radio Australia about Smith and countryman Marc Leishman potentially making the jump to LIV, fellow Australian golfer Cameron Percy replied “Unfortunately, yeah, they’re gone,” according to Sports Illustrated. It is the latest reversal by a player who has either denied interest in joining LIV Golf or responded defensively to questions about a potential move....