Under the direction of Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz, Focus on Your Family will bring you news and views on everything from early-childhood development to the difficult and often painful choices that face families with aging household members. A look at recent NEWSWEEK covers provides some idea of the range of concerns: “Does Your Child Need a Tutor?” “How to Build a Better Boy,” “Do Parents Matter?” “Home Schooling” and “Tomorrow’s Child....
There’s no doubt that you have to make some changes when you have a food allergy, but there are strategies that can help ease the way. Emotional It is not uncommon to experience a sense of loss after being diagnosed with a food allergy, especially if you or your child have to give up foods that have been diet staples (or personal favorites). It’s also common for people to experience sadness after a diagnosis because there is a loss of normalcy as well....
The official name of the race will be called the Food City 500 in Support of Steve Byrnes and Stand Up To Cancer. MORE: Anybody’s race at Texas | Weekend preview | PHOTOS: 2015 Cup winners Byrnes co-hosts NASCAR Race Hub and is a play-by-play NASCAR announcer for FOX Sports, but has been on medical leave receiving treatment. He has been covering the sport since 2001. “The support I have received from my teammates at FOX Sports, drivers, team members, track officials, NASCAR and the fans has been overwhelming,” Byrnes said....
The victim, William ‘Billy’ Wright, 31, was a football coach at College of the Sequoias and Reedley College in California, news station KFSN reported. The incident comes at a time when the nation’s gun laws are being questioned after an increase in violent crimes, including mass shootings. In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Fresno Police Department stated that it responded to a report of a shooting before 11 a....
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the man tasked with leading the investigation into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the Russians, testified Wednesday before two congressional committees. For the folks who’ve been advocating for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, things did not go as they hoped. Mueller did not hand them a smoking gun. He stuck to the report, let it stand as his testimony, and left Democrats to keep fishing for some nugget allegedly hidden by Attorney General William Barr....
Donahue, then 18 years removed from his Hall of Fame coaching career at UCLA, was looking for last-minute instruction from the 2013 Greater Houston Senior Football Showcase, a football clinic started by coaches Phil Camp and Coby Rhoden of Milby High School (Houston) that gave — and still gives — graduating high school seniors an opportunity to get noticed by college programs. He wanted to see how to run his own California Showcase, which would take place for the first time later that February....
Six in 10 U.S. adults have a chronic disease and 4 in 10 have two or more, many of them lifestyle related, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fortunately, for those looking to make positive lifestyle behavior changes, the growing field of lifestyle medicine can help them achieve their goals and improve their health. Research has established a relationship between lifestyle-related health conditions and severe illness from COVID-19....
For NHL defenseman Tyler Myers, the destruction of towns and cities along Texas’ Gulf Coast at the hands of Hurricane Harvey fill him with a particular fright. The hulking Winnipeg Jets blueliner is a native of Houston, a city that can be seen completely underwater on any news channel over the past week. His mother and half-brother are still residents in the city of nearly 2.5 million, which now needs to pick up the pieces and start rebuilding....
What’s behind the NCAA investigation into the Ole Miss football program? Freeze made analogies to baking a cake and said he can’t wait for the truth to come out. He said those things multiple times. MORE: Top 16 programs since 2000 | 20 contenders, 20 trap games “Our compliance is looking into a resolution in this case and to the events on NFL Draft night and we look forward to the conclusion of this entire process,” Freeze said in his opening statement....
Ohio State trolled the move on its social media account with the meme du jour of running back Trey Sermon. And why not? Nothing has changed. Harbaugh was hired on Dec. 29, 2014. Ohio State beat Oregon for the first CFP championship two weeks later. Six seasons later, the Buckeyes are playing for another national title and Harbaugh — who is 0-5 in “The Game” — is still trying to close that gap....
“The people who work on the Mustang team are enthusiasts. So, we have people who are passionate about the Mustang itself, that have their own Mustang stories, because everybody has a Mustang story,” Jim Owens, Ford Mustang marketing manager said at a press event before the Detroit auto show. “But it’s not just the team that works on the Mustang. It’s the leadership. It’s the Ford family. You know, Bill Ford has had almost every single Mustang out there, he’s a graduate of the Ford Performance Racing School....
While the Emory University researchers behind the letter aren’t the first to suggest forehead thermometers are imperfect tools, they’re raising new concerns about the health disparities that temperature checks can create. Hospitals often use defined temperature measurements for specific interventions, such a collecting a culture (say, a throat swab if you have a sore throat), administering antibiotics, and administering anti-fever medications. Patients with active infections and missed fevers may receive delayed treatment....
Whitaker reflected on how the gangster will begin “questioning his own morals” as he takes on the Cuban mafia and is forced to face the consequences in the MGM+ show’s third season. The new episodes will also examine key moments in the civil rights movement involving Malcolm X (Jason Alan Carvell), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Giancarlo Esposito), and even Bumpy’s wife Mayme (Ilfenesh Hadera). The actor spoke alongside co-star Giancarlo Esposito and creators Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein about what’s to come....
Turnbull signed off with the French on a $90 billion (Australian) deal in 2016 to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines. Wary of the country’s new deal with the U.S., he said a nuclear-powered fleet maintained by another country was not an option. “If you can’t maintain your own ships, you are not in full control of them,” Turnbull said. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who replaced Turnbull in a power struggle within Australia’s conservative government in 2018, canceled the deal this month as part of an alliance with the United States and Britain that will deliver an Australian fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines....
Drew, who was brought on as Bucks coach last year, had remained been silent on his unceremonious firing until issuing a statement on Wednesday. MORE: NBA coach: ‘That’s a lot of back-stabbing’ | Bucks owner admits mistakes in Kidd hire | Drew fired “I would like to thank Senator Herb Kohl and John Hammond for giving me the opportunity to coach the Milwaukee Bucks this past season," Drew said in a statement....
“You can’t have a #MeToo movement standing up for women and righting the wrongs of the past but say nothing about a female journalist who was gang-raped and almost died,” Logan told Newsweek before describing the ordeal. “People were celebrating. It seemed a pro-American crowd. Suddenly, our translator turned to me with a look of sheer terror and said, ‘Run, run!’ I felt people grabbing between my legs. I was quite stunned....
And he made the best of his situation. Last Saturday, he led EMCC to the NJCAA national title by completing 40 of 53 passes for 434 yards and five touchdowns. HAYES: Playoff selection worked, don’t change it | MORE: Nike’s playoff uniforms | Reasons to watch bowl games Now, he’s headed to Ole Miss to try and replace outgoing quarterback Bo Wallace. Kelly, the nephew of former Bills great Jim Kelly, had an opportunity to replace Tajh Boyd at Clemson, but was dismissed for “conduct detrimental to our program,” Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said in April....
“Our ability to keep the public safe and move the country forward economically rests, in large part, on government science and research. That foundational work is endangered by manipulation for political ends, and the ramifications are vast and should concern all Americans,” Hagel wrote. Hagel explained that insufficient climate change data is “a real and present threat to our national security,” citing the danger abnormal storms pose to the military....
“The tradition in this country is for the 4th of July to be Independence Day,” said Cohen, who led the Defense Department under former President Bill Clinton and also previously served as a Republican senator, in a Wednesday evening interview with CNN. “I think what the president has done in trying to promote this as a spectacular event, he’s sort of the ringmaster of the Greatest Show on Earth,” he continued....
The 51-year-old, who previously played for Leeds United in the Premier League in the 1990’s, claims people who are behind such hoax must put a stop to it to avoid causing fear and panic. “People behind those stories must stop it. It is not just me that they have done this to," Yeboah told Kasapa FM. “Recently they did the same thing to Abedi Pele which was not nice. You don’t have to use social media for such vices....
