Where they’re heading Perhaps to the fulfillment of the five-year plan that was laid out by owner Mikhail Prokhorov when he bought the team four years ago—he wanted an NBA champion after five years, he said. He might have one. Of course, to get that, he had to bring in a pair of tested veterans, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce (along with Jason Terry), in a trade with the Celtics over the summer, also adding versatile forward Andrei Kirilenko as a free agent to come off the bench....

As someone who uses their laptop for professional purposes but doesn’t ever push it like a music producer or video editor would, I have long been stuck in a middle, gray zone—do I get a MacBook Pro for power or a MacBook Air for portability? When Apple released the MacBook Air M1 in 2020, that choice became much easier. That machine had all the power I needed but with a lighter weight and without the fans and heat....

On August 13, President Donald Trump announced that he had succeeded in brokering a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Under the new agreement, the first of its kind since the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace treaty, the two countries have committed to fully normalizing diplomatic relations in exchange for an Israeli freeze on plans to apply Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley....

On Monday morning, the caravan had reached the town of Huehuetan, 15 miles north of Tapachula, according to Reuters. Most of the people in the group are reported to be fleeing “violence, poverty and growing hunger crises” in their home nations. Some said they could no longer face the “prison-like” conditions in Tapachula. “In Tapachula, there’s no life for migrants. We don’t have work, we don’t have money to pay for housing,” Atis, a migrant from Haiti, told Reuters while waiting in an hours-long line at a Mexican immigration processing center....

Newly retired wide receiver Steve Smith took to Twitter to reveal some NFL news: that 49ers wideout and Smith’s former Raven teammate Torrey Smith’s career in San francisco is over. NFL COMBINE 2017: Live updates, workout results for all position groups Smith, now with NFL Network, always attacked football with an intensity and passion unrivaled across the league, so it makes sense that he is now trying to be first on major scoops in his newest profession....

The child—who has not been identified—was detained by officers from the New Orleans Police Department following the early-morning shooting, which took place in the 1400 block of South Roman Street. Officials had responded to a medical call about an “unconscious adult female” at approximately 7:22 a.m. Emergency medical personnel arrived on the scene and found the woman had suffered a gunshot wound to the head. She was rushed to a local hospital where she remains in a critical condition, police said....

Ida’s winds hit New Orleans with monster force during the night, leading to an electrical transmission tower falling into the Mississippi River. Next thing, the city went into a blackout. This happened as winds of 120 mph whipped through the Crescent City during one of the most powerful storms the area has ever seen in recorded history. And that includes Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall this day 16 years ago....

The band is getting back together to perform that 1998 seminal hit at the virtual parade for the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on January 20. The pleasant yet unexpected surprise has caused a stir online as Twitter users react to the news—with plenty of Marilyn Manson jokes. “If there’s one thing on Earth that would possibly make us get the band together, if only for a day, it is the hope that our song could be even the tiniest beacon of light in such a dark time,” frontman Gregg Alexander said in a statement....

NEWSWEEK: Precisely what did your study find? Rachel Jones: Contrary to popular perception, large numbers of teens are not substituting oral sex [or anal sex] for vaginal sex [in order to] maintain their technical virginity. What was the impetus to do this study? There seemed to be all these media reports sensationalizing rapidly rising rates of oral sex among adolescents … so we wanted to look at the numbers to see if it was actually true....

On Tuesday, New York recorded 1,367 hospitalizations, 288 of whom are in ICU. The last time the figure reached more than 1,300 was on May 23. The number of hospitalizations in the state has been steadily rising over the past few days, rising from 788 on August 1 to 1,162 on August 7. In fact, the hospitalization figures from Tuesday are almost quadruple what was recorded exactly a month ago on July 10, where they were 339 people in hospital with COVID....

Fetterman, the state’s Democratic lieutenant governor, was asked about calls from multiple congressional Democrats to add justices to the Supreme Court to counter its current conservative orientation. “I don’t believe in that,” said Fetterman, who added that he still disagreed with the court ideologically. “I would never touch the makeup of the Supreme Court,” said Oz. The moment of agreement was short-lived. Oz called out Fetterman for his support of abolishing the Senate filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation to advance....

John, who lives in Troy, New York, rents a two-bedroom apartment for $700 a month—and when unwanted visitors started appearing from the ceiling, he was appalled. “The maggots were falling both from the ceiling and from a light fixture in my bedroom—onto my bed,” John told Newsweek. “We only learned of this when maggots started falling onto me while I was asleep.” Looking further, John discovered that maggots had been spreading out in other directions, and he started to investigate....

NYCFC are looking to branch out with representatives in FIFA tournaments and championships worldwide. They are following the lead of sister club Manchester City, with the Premier League side having landed FIFA star Kieran ‘Kez’ Brown in 2016. WATCH: The latest episode of Studs Up Leading clubs across Europe have also moved into the eSports arena, with the first professional FIFA league launched in France. New York City have joined the ranks after teaming up with Players’ Lounge in October 2016 to host an online tournament which included a live final event at Yankee Stadium....

“If we have to pivot and shift and come back here in a week and say we’re going to do something different, we’re going to do that,” Adams said in the Tuesday announcement where he also said mask mandates for schools could be lifted if the city’s COVID rates remain low. “I’m not going to hesitate to say this is where the numbers are taking us, this is where the science is....

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that there are now 10,350 people infected with the novel coronavirus in New York hospitals across the state–the lowest number of hospitalizations since 9,517 people were hospitalized on March 29. New York saw a peak in hospitalizations on April 12 with 18,825, a number that has been declining ever since. Hospital bed capacity in the state is over 90,000, after Cuomo instructed hospitals to increase the previous 53,000-bed capacity....

The 46-year-old man had allegedly raped his 18-year-old niece since she was a child, a senior police source told NBC New York. The firefighter, whose name Newsweek has withheld to protect the alleged victim, was arrested in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, at around 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a spokesman for the New York Police Department told Newsweek. The firefighter was off-duty at the time of the arrest, the NYPD spokesman added....

Speaking to reporters on Sunday regarding the blaze which left 19 people dead, including nine children, Mayor Eric Adams thanked firefighters for their efforts responding to the fire at the apartment building on 333 E 181st Street. “Their oxygen tanks were empty, and they still pushed through the smoke,” Adams said. “You can’t do this if you don’t feel attached to the city and this community, and I really want to thank them for putting their lives in the line to save lives,” he added....

Such confusion is standard in the world of “standardized” testing. The seemingly statistical impossibility occurs because “national average” in the widely used tests does not mean the average of all students who took the exam this year. Instead, scores are measured against a sample of students who took the test at a set point in time, sometimes years before. Math scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) used by New York City were compared with a sample from 1985; the “norming group” for the reading test, from a different publisher, was from 1988....