The criticism of Lambert ended with that incomplete toss. MORE: Week 3 photos | Top 25 fared | HAYES: Fournette has LSU thinking big(ger) He completed his final 20 passes (a Georgia record) — he hit his first our before the misfire — to finish 24 of 25 for 330 yards and three touchdowns. Didn’t see that coming, did you? Why would you, there was little in Lambert’s history to suggest anything other than mediocrity....
The spill, large enough to fill eight tanker trucks, occurred at Rodney Strong Vineyards in Healdsburg, California at 1:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday afternoon. According to The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the wine, on its final step to being bottled, ended up spilling out of the bottom of the tank when the vat was apparently unsealed. The spill overflowed from the building and into a storm drain attached to a sanitary sewer system, and from there, it flowed to a drainage ditch, to Reiman Creek, and ended up in the river....
Released on Tuesday, the study from Women for Refugee Women, a British-based organization supporting women asylum seekers and refugees, paints a stark picture of what life can be like for women seeking refuge in the U.K. after surviving sexual assault and harassment in their home countries. Of 106 women interviewed by Women for Refugee Women, 32 said they were raped or sexually abused not only in their country of origin, but also again while “destitute in the U....
A Quinnipiac University poll conducted from November 11 to 15 has found that 49 percent of U.S. adults are opposed to stricter laws on guns, while 45 percent support them and 5 percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion. There is a significant partisan divide on the issue of gun laws, with Republicans opposing stricter measures by a near 70-point margin and less than 10 percent of Democrats opposing tougher laws....
China is now viewed by 45 percent of Americans as the greatest threat to the U.S., with nearly two-thirds of respondents saying Chinese economic power is a critical threat to the country’s well-being. Just one year ago, during the same Gallup survey of U.S. adults, Russia and China were about even in regards to their perceived level of threat. But the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China, and a 2020 presidential campaign that largely focused on who will “get tough on China,” has placed China high above all other countries as Americans’ greatest global enemy....
The poll was conducted on December 9 as authorities continue responding to the retail thefts. In some videos authorities shared of specific robberies, dozens of thieves could be seen racing into stores and grabbing items off shelves. In one November incident in Walnut Creek, California, an estimated 80 people entered a Nordstrom store in what authorities said was “clearly a planned event.” Though many of the smash-and-grabs occurred in major cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, industry leaders told Newsweek the trend is a nationwide problem....
John Good, the owner of La Herradura, a Mexican restaurant in O’Neill, is accused of signing assets over to Juan Pablo Sanchez-Delgado and Magdalena Castro Benitez and allowing them to manage his business. From there, prosecutors allege, the pair conspired to shelter and employ numerous undocumented immigrants. According to filings, Sanchez-Delgado would also withhold money from workers’ paychecks, claiming it was for federal income taxes but keeping it for himself....
According to a Facebook post published by the department, pictures began circulating across social media of an officer wearing the aforementioned face mask at a Black Lives Matter protest. “The officer was wearing the donated mask which can clearly be seen in the second photo. While the mask is not the confederate flag, we have ordered all officers to discard masks with this pattern to avoid any confusion,” the department wrote on its Facebook page with a picture of the masks....
Game time is scheduled for 12 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised on FOX. Oklahoma (2-0) shook off a scare in Week 1 from Tulane to throttle Western Carolina 76-0 in Week 2. The Sooners rank second in the FBS with 58.0 points per game, and Heisman hopeful Spencer Rattler is working with a talented supporting cast that includes SN Preseason All-American receiver Marvin Mims. MORE: Sporting News reporting of 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma classic | Week 3 picks against the spread | Week 2 Takeaways...
Known for playing attorney Roger Kressler on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for more than a decade, Eisenberg passed away at his home in New York on Sunday, according to a representative. He was remembered by his wife Patricia, who released a statement confirming he died from cancer. “As Ned would say, he was attacked by two very rare assassins—cholangiocarcinoma and ocular melanoma,” she said. “Over the course of two years, he bravely fought the cancers in private while continuing to work in show business to ensure that his medical coverage paid for himself and his family....
The fact that St. Louis has rallied from as far back as 6.5 games in July is a testament to the reigning National League champions’ resiliency, but the fact remains that the Cardinals have been outscored for the season, 532-526. That means St. Louis’ Pythagorean record — where the Cardinals could expect to be, based on their runs scored and allowed — is 68-69, six games worse than their actual mark of 74-63....
Staff arriving for work at the museum in the morning found that the locks had been tampered with, and went in to discover the belt was missing from Mandela House in Orlando West, Soweto, South African news outlet TimesLIVE reported. The artifact is worth about R50,000 (just under $2,944), according to the website. Leonard and Mandela met in 2015, with the former prizefighter tweeting a picture of them together, captioning the image with the words, “such a memorable day....
What was known with any confidence was this: on Friday evening the crown prince had joined his parents and other close family for dinner inside the vast royal compound in central Katmandu. Large Friday dinners, often over banquets of rice, lentils, wild boar and Nepalese curry, were a royal tradition. On this evening, the family had planned to discuss the crown prince’s long-delayed wedding plans. Marriages are generally arranged in Nepal (in consultation with astrologers), and an argument apparently erupted between the queen and the crown prince over prospective brides....
The 76ers rookie decided to remake the Kids Foot Locker commercial that features Davis swatting a young boy’s buzzer-beater. For context. here's the Davis commercial. Now, the Noel remake. You show him, Nerlens.
At the age of 71, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still has the drive of the combat soldier and national hero who served for five years in the Israel Defense Forces’ Sayeret Matkal elite special forces unit, where he was shot in the shoulder releasing hostages on the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 and nearly lost his life during a special forces raid in the Suez Canal during the 1973 Yom Kippur War....
Last Thursday, Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held his second phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in just four days, and the two agreed on a “no surprises” policy, according to an Israeli Foreign Ministry statement. On Monday, Netanyahu issued a response to the arrangement via video remarks in which he assailed the new government’s apparent break with his own strategy of acting unilaterally....
More than 305 Palestinians and 21 police officers were injured during a confrontation where police fired tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians at the mosque, according to a photographer for The Associated Press. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Netanyahu, shared photos of the scene at the holy site, showing mounds of stones and wooden barricades. Gendelman said in a tweet that “extremist Palestinians planned well in advance to carry out riots” at the site....
Unbelievable is based on the experiences of Marie Adler, the Lynwood, Washington, teenager played with such poise by Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever. The Netflix drama is based primarily on a 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica and The Marshall Project article, which first gave voice to Marie’s ordeal. The series is almost an exact interpretation of the article with very few fictitious flourishes by its producers. The real Marie consulted on the Netflix series, however, she has retained a fair level of anonymity by choosing not to appear in the public eye....
“We’re not trying to do ’truth to power,’” Hastings said at The New York Times DealBook Conference. “We’re trying to entertain.” “We can accomplish a lot more by being entertainment and influencing a global conversation about how people live,” Hastings added, “than trying to be another news channel.” While Hastings conceded there were some topics Netflix would not bend on, such as the portrayal of LGBTQ issues, the censured episode of Patriot Act was not one of those cases....
Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings also hinted at the future growth of Squid Game as a franchise. On a fourth-quarter earnings interview on January 20, 2022, asked whether there will be a season two for Squid Game, Sarandos said: “Absolutely. The Squid Game universe has just begun.” He explained the company had been “betting that you could take films and series from anywhere in the world and entertain the entire world....
