In little over a month, ““Cold Mountain’’ has stormed to No. 9 on The New York Times best-seller list, thanks largely to word of mouth. The success of a novel as unabashedly lovely as this one is a gift to a beleaguered publishing industry - particularly for independent booksellers who live, and more often die, on the sales of literary fiction. ““Cold Mountain’’ concerns a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman....
We’ve also received gorgeous pictures, stories and videos from our readers about their animal companions, and as always, we have been working to crown our Newsweek Pet of the Week. Remember, if you think your pet could be the Newsweek Pet of the Week scroll to the end of this article to find out how to get involved. Winner This week our Pet of the Week is golden retriever Riley, who lives on Long Island in West Islip....
In a new spirit of cooperation, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem and PGA of America President Ted Bishop announced the purse increases Wednesday. That marks a 25 percent increase for the PGA Championship, making its purse the largest of the four majors. It was $8 million this year. The Players Championship for years had the largest purse — $9.5 million this year. The announcement at Sea Island was part of a new collaboration between two groups that once were part of the same organization....
"I am so happy, as I struggled early and not managing to make my first birdie to the 10th hole. I was also watching the leaderboard and I could see all the good players coming back to me," Dubuisson said. MORE: Adam Scott wins Australian Open "But then my caddy said to me that if I make one or two birdies near the end I would be fine, so then to hole that 25-foot putt for birdie on 17 and to make the 8-footer on the last was very special....
Possibly, Philippe Coutinho was looking to get his excuses in early as he prepared to rejoin the ranks at Liverpool following an untimely injury. ‘Coutinho can be Iniesta successor’ Ahead of a meeting with Manchester United on January 15, with less than half-an-hour of football under his belt in two months, the Brazilian forward said: “The blow to my ankle was really hard and initially I thought I would be out for the rest of the season....
Indications of progress in the cocaine war couldn’t come at a better time for William Bennett, the embattled drug czar who has been criticized for focusing on interdiction efforts abroad in preference to education or treatment programs at home. “I think this vindicates the notion that counterpressure against the traffickers will work,” says Bennett. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, production of cocaine in Colombia has dropped 20 percent since the government, with U....
Karl-Heinz Weigang took his last breath on that fateful day and the sign of his influence in the nation’s most followed sport is marked by the one minute of silence that preceded the Malaysia versus Lebanon Asian Cup qualifying match on the same day. The German has stamped his mark in the annals of football history, especially in this tiny South-East Asian country. From guiding the national team to the Olympics albeit later not participating due to political reasons, to leading Perak to their sixth and seventh Malaysia Cup triumphs in 1998 and 2000, to helping the same team escape relegation from the Super League in 2016 at the ripe old age of 80 when extreme odds were stacked against the them doing so....
Google Doodles are the sometimes spontaneous changes to the Google logo on the search engine’s website, usually to commemorate a significant historical figure or mark a current or past event. The art style of each Doodle varies widely, but they tend to be designed to incorporate letters of the usual Google logo. Doodles may also be accompanied by a short animation. Now, from July 12 to July 13, Google users should find that a Webb-themed Google Doodle has been launched, with the space telescope’s mirror array and a cropped version of its now-famous First Deep Field image taking up both of the “O’s” in the search engine’s name....
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is concerned over the proposal to remove third-party cookies due to worries it would threaten digital ad competition. Google announced a set of commitments on Friday, including limits on the usage of user data as well as giving the CMA an oversight role. “The CMA is now asking others in the industry for feedback on these commitments as part of a public consultation, with a view to making them legally binding,” Google said in a company blog post on Friday....
At about 3 p.m. Wednesday, two planes consisting of about 50 men, women and children—most originally from Venezuela—arrived in Martha’s Vineyard. Officials from the Florida governor’s office confirmed the $12 million move facilitated by DeSantis involving migrants from a country that in the past have been at odds with Republicans. Volunteers and officials distributed food, clothing and COVID-19 tests to migrants upon arrival. “Republicans who call themselves Christians have been plotting for some time to use human lives - men, women, and children - as political pawns,” tweeted Dylan Fernandes, a Massachusetts state representative who represents Martha’s Vineyard....
Chuck Muth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he took advantage of the Nevada Democratic Party’s same-day voter registration policy to choose his ideal candidate. “I was in and out in 10 minutes. You can register, same day registration, change your party, vote in the caucus, and then the next day, you can switch back if you want,” he said. Muth was previously the campaign manager for Nevada pimp Dennis Hof’s bid for State Assembly....
Charles Edward Beckham III, who is running in Arkansas’ District 12, is alleged to have worn the KKK outfit during a Halloween event at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus in 2000. The claims were first reported by the Arkansas Times, who spoke to five of Beckham’s former classmates who saw him and two other friends in a white hood and robes while trick-or-treating. “I just remember being petrified to the point of tears,” Victoria Brown, a Black woman and former classmate of Beckham, told the Arkansas Times....
On Saturday, loyal supporters of President Donald Trump in the state threatened to dismantle the Republican Party and boycott the Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the Senate. In a video shared to Twitter, a protester speaking into a microphone called Kemp and Utah Senator Mitt Romney “traitors,” and promised to run the two Republicans out of office for allegedly being “complicit” in Trump’s failed efforts at reelection....
Jordan stressed he is willing to work with Democrats and is pushing ahead with bipartisan legislation against government overuse of facial recognition technology. But speaking with the editorial board of The Lima News Friday, the staunch GOP backer of Trump switched gears and re-focused his criticism on “the left” for deeply dividing Americans. Jordan said “they,” meaning Democrats and critics of the president, have ripped the country apart through acts such as the praising of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who knelt during the national anthem in protest of police violence against people of color....
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich was the prime mover behind the 1994 Contract with America, which laid out clear legislative priorities for the GOP. Congressional and welfare reform were key tenets of the contract. Democrats had no such unifying message, and the new class of GOP freshmen swept in, earning a net 54 House seats and 8 Senate seats. Just as in 1994, Democrats today have no clear objectives apart from radical promises by House progressives that are doomed to failure....
The WiFi passcode at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel for the 2019 House Republican Conference Member Retreat was “Socialism_Is_Very_Very_Bad,” a photo by Washington Post Congress reporter Rachael Bade showed on Thursday. “Literally LOLed at the hotel internet password for the GOP retreat,” tweeted Bade, who is also a political analyst on CNN. Another Twitter user replied, “A passcode that would definitely trigger AOC!” referring to progressive freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez....
The amendment reads, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” As of January 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA since it was first introduced in 1972, giving it the approval by two-thirds of all states needed to become a new amendment. However, the ERA’s original deadline, established by Congress, was March 22, 1979....
Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID and member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, both attended a Senate hearing Tuesday to discuss the nation’s ongoing battle against the pandemic and strategies for reopening. The hearing came as numbers of new cases were spiking in several states, causing a handful of governors to roll temporary restrictions initially put in place to halt the spread of the virus back into place....
Cruz, who represents Texas, made the remarks during an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. He first asserted that he doesn’t personally think any Republican senators will vote against the president, but then admitted that it could happen. “It is certainly possible,” the senator noted. “And there are a couple that could vote that way. But I think anyone voting on the facts, anyone voting on the law, this is a very easy vote,” Cruz said....
