But other key costs, including food and housing prices, continue to rise consistently, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. The average national gas price hit a historic high of $5.01 per gallon on June 14. Every day since then, the U.S. has seen a slight decrease in the average, marking 60 straight days of dropping gasoline prices. The annual rate of inflation in July dropped to 8....
Despite the receipt showing both an incorrect address and a misspelled version of the ExxonMobil company name, the manager of the East Point, Georgia, gas station said there was a brief period of time this past week in which the price was mistakenly raised to $7.99 per gallon. The Atlanta suburb gas station manager, M.D. Azim, told WXIA-TV Saturday that the price was an accident and it should have been $4....
Upon entering the synagogue wielding a gun and claiming he had a bomb in his backpack, Akram began ranting against the Jews and Jewish power and demanded the release of an al-Qaeda terrorist serving an 86-year prison term at a federal prison 20 miles from Beth Israel. To achieve his goal, he took the rabbi and three congregants hostage. He had the rabbi call another rabbi in New York. The rabbi in New York works at Central Synagogue....
An internal conflict in South Sudan has forced some from their homes and livelihoods, leading to hunger. In other parts of the country, it is drought or flooding that has limited food production. All of these tragedies are now being compounded by high food prices. The result is severe hunger for over 60 percent of South Sudan’s population. For infants the absence of food can lead to deadly malnutrition quickly, unless help arrives in time....
Just bad football. That was Florida somehow finding a way to navigate a triple overtime victory over Kentucky, celebrating on the field like they just won the SEC Championship. MORE: SEC East chaos | Best Week 3 performances | Week 3 photos Beating a Kentucky team that hasn’t beaten Florida since 1986. A Kentucky team that hasn’t won in Gainesville since 1979. A Kentucky team that hasn’t won an SEC game since November of 2011....
Despite no significant improvement for the state’s overwhelmed intensive care units (ICU), public health officials announced Monday that regional coronavirus stay-at-home orders across the state will be lifted, allowing restaurants to immediately resume outdoor dining. When the most recent round of stay-at-home orders were announced, Newsom divided the state into five regions—Northern California, the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California—and said that after a three-week lockdown period the regions would be reassessed....
On February 12, organizers for “Recall Gavin 2020” said they have surpassed the 1.5 million signatures required to place the proposal on this year’s ballot. Once the signatures are verified and approved, the recall election would happen sometime over the summer. Betfair has said the chances of Newsom being recalled stand at 2-1. A week ago, before the campaign hit its target, the odds were at 5-1. William Hill placed the odds at 5-2 for Newsom getting recalled....
In a tweet Thursday morning, Newsom—a rising star in the Democratic Party who is considered a leading contender to succeed President Joe Biden—said he would be donating a six-figure sum to DeSantis’ opponent Charlie Crist, who resoundingly won his primary against Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried last week to represent his party on the November ballot. “Time to make Ron DeSantis a one-term governor,” Newsom tweeted. “I’m pledging $100k right now to @CharlieCrist....
Channing Crowder, who played for the Dolphins from 2005-2010, was asked to reveal an obscure fact about himself on ESPN. That's when he chose to tell viewers that he urinated on himself during every NFL game throughout his career. "I never went to the bathroom in a toilet," Crowder said. He claims that no one in the stands would even know when he was doing it. Well, now they all do....
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Case, now 25, is an entrepreneur, a self-described “computer nerd” and one of the more prominent practitioners of a bustling little underground hip-hop scene called “nerdcore,” a subgenre created by geeks for geeks. His 2005 album “NerdRap Entertainment System,” with music sampled exclusively from Nintendo videogames, is a classic of the style. (Typical lyric: “I hated gym ‘cuz I never was athletic/I played a couple sports just to keep it copacetic/But I found more in computers than I ever could in hooping/Every time I wrote a goto, bitch, I had that baby looping....
Let’s see Calvin Klein do that. Last week the 83-year-old Harvard-educated upstart did something that seared even him–he showed his first collection for women at the New York ready-to-wear shows. It was a trial-by-flashbulbs even for someone whose boy-next-door good looks and intelligence have made him a fashion-press fare, and whose sexually charged body-conscious men’s clothes have garnered him a loyal coterie, particularly among gym-obsessed gay men. “I feel like I’m throwing myself to the sharks,” Bartlett said before the show....
Smith’s stats aren’t mind-boggling (at least compared to quarterbacks such as Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes) but have been more than enough to help Seattle win games: 181 of 249 passing (72.7 percent) for 1,924 yards and 13 touchdowns to three interceptions. He has six games throwing for multiple touchdowns, including a three-TD, zero-interception game in a 39-32 loss to the Saints in Week 5. Even if Smith isn’t exactly stat-padding, one ESPN commentator, former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky, thinks the veteran should be in the MVP race for his play....
Smith’s original contract with Seattle was disapproved by the NFL. The league announced this in its daily transaction wire release, which stated that the Seahawks had signed Smith but the NFL hadn’t approved the contract. NFL MOCK DRAFT: Madden predicts the 2022 NFL Draft The NFL has final say on all contracts, so no deal becomes official until the league approves it. This is rarely a problem, but evidently the league found something it didn’t like in Smith’s contract....
Wimmer’s Pentagon-sponsored work was intended to prove a chilling point: any virus with a decoded genome can theoretically be built from scratch. Policy planners have always relied on the fact that bioterror agents like smallpox are all but wiped out and therefore hard to obtain. For now, they still are–the smallpox virus is too complex to be synthesized in today’s labs. But as scientists learn how to make longer strings of DNA, building bigger viruses may become possible “years down the road,” Wimmer says....
Publicly, Clooney enjoys an image as a happily married woman’s just-once fantasy, an unfairly handsome man who rides motorcycles cross-country–the same swagger he shows off as natty ex-con Danny Ocean in the just-released “Ocean’s Eleven.” But during a recent visit with Clooney over a frigid weekend in Canada, where he is directing his first film, a more down-to-earth persona emerges: the working actor and budding filmmaker, more interested in activism than Hollywood gossip, willing to make professional and financial sacrifices to get his pet projects off the ground....
“I love how these people who work for a rapist have no compunction about making accusations of abuse by someone who criticizes the rapist,” Conway wrote on Twitter, re-tweeting a post by conservative political analyst Bill Kristol. Trump has been accused of sexual assault and rape by multiple women, but none of those allegations have been proven, and the president has never been indicted for any sexual crime. In Kristol’s original tweet, the analyst wrote: “Trump has the White House communications staff using Trump-compliant media organs to go after Scaramucci....
• Voting against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts, you said: Deciding “truly difficult cases” should involve “one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.” Is that not essentially how Chief Justice Roger Taney decided the Dred Scott case? Should other factors—say, the language of the constitutional or statutory provision at issue—matter? • You say, “The insurance companies, the drug companies, they’re not going to give up their profits easily when it comes to health care....
Once the ruling was announced, sports leagues and teams released statements regarding the case as well as systemic racism and social injustice in the country. Las Vegas was among that group, but criticism immediately began flooding in after the team shared a graphic with the phrase “I can breathe.” MORE: Sports world reacts as Derek Chauvin found guilty in death of George Floyd Floyd could be seen on video saying “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times as Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck....
The Toronto star was hit in the left hand by a Luis Castillo fastball in the eighth inning of Game 1. The pitch got away from Castillo, running in and hitting Springer. The outfielder appeared to be in significant pain but stayed in the game. It is a situation to monitor as the Blue Jays need all of the offense they can muster in Game 2. Springer had two of the team’s seven hits against Seattle on Friday, finishing 2 for 3 as he got on base three times in four plate appearances....
It’s a West Texas thing–and a symbol of his approach to diplomacy, politics and the war on terrorism. He’s the Texas Ranger of the world, and wants everyone to know it. He’s the guy with the silver badge, issuing warnings to the cattle rustlers. He will cut deals when necessary–his history shows that–but, as a matter of inclination and strategy, he’s the toughest talker on his team. So far, in the aftermath of September 11, that stance has served him, and the country, well....
