Read on to find out more about what causes gum pain and what can be done to relieve it. What Causes Gum Pain? Gum pain can be caused by a number of issues. It’s important to know the underlying cause because then it can be appropriately treated. Canker Sores More than half of the population gets canker sores. These are painful sores that affect soft parts of the mouth, including the gums....

The ad posted online Thursday targets Kelly, a Democrat seeking to keep his Senate seat in a state President Joe Biden narrowly carried in 2020. It features Republican candidate Jim Lamon as a frontier-era lawman squaring off with the “D.C. Gang.” The trio of masked outlaws are thinly veiled references to Kelly, presented as “Shifty Kelly”; Biden, presented as “Old Joe”; and House Speaker Nancy, presented as “Crazyface Pelosi.”...

No kidding. And filled with the kind of viewers HBO would love to convert to the show’s smart, absurdist, raunchy sketch comedy. "" “Monty Python’ meets “Nash Bridges’ ’’ is how Cross describes the concept he and Odenkirk created in L.A. comedy clubs four years ago. He’s being ironic, of course. He usually is. Part of being"“alternative’’ means being ““meta,’’ one lev-el cooler than everybody else. (The two were introduced by the pinup girl of meta-comedy, Janeane Garofalo....

Johnson showed that infectious excitement again on Saturday as he called the Texas-Oklahoma game in the Red River Showdown. Except, he wasn’t excited about either of the football teams — no, he was hyped at how “jacked” head official Mike Defee is. MORE: The internet reacts to ripped referee Mike Defee Of course, this isn’t the first time Defee’s buff physique has made news. He exploded across Twitter during the 2017 College Football Playoff championship game between Alabama and Clemson, so he’s well-known in online college football media circles....

Berry, who also raised her first in a similar gesture during the 2018 Pan-Am Games, turned away from the flag while silver- and gold-medalist winners Brooke Andersen and DeAnna Price, respectively, stood forward and faced the flag. Berry eventually draped a black T-shirt with the words, “Activist Athlete” over her head before raising it up overhead. “I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose,’’ Berry said of the anthem....

The debate centers around whether girls and women should wipe their vaginas front-to-back or back-to-front after going to the toilet, as a matter of hygiene. TikTok users launched into discussion on the topic after a user posted a viral video asking: “I know we’re supposed to wipe front-to-back, but how the **** do you do it?” The video, watched more than a million times before it was made private, attracted comments from users who said they felt the same way....

Speaking on an episode of PBS’ Firing Line With Margaret Hoover that aired Friday, McMaster said that the suicide bombing that killed over 160 Afghans and 13 U.S. military service members outside of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport may have been a collaboration between Jihadist groups. “The victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan is a victory for all jihadist terrorists, including Al Qaeda, and including ISIS Khorasan (ISIS-K). These groups often overlap, right?...

Like urine tests, the drugs that can be detected will vary depending on the panel that is chosen. A standard five-panel test looks for: Cannabis Amphetamines Cocaine Opioids Phencyclidine (PCP) Read on for more information about hair follicle drug testing, how it’s done, and how accurate it is. Why Is a Hair Follicle Drug Test Necessary? Drug tests are used to show drug use or misuse. One of the benefits of follicle drug tests is that they can show whether someone used or abused drugs as far back as three months prior to the test....

At some point last week, a number-coded envelope bearing a number-coded ballot with my signature at the bottom began its journey. From a humble mailbox in Charlotte, N.C., via the good graces of the U.S. Postal Service, I like to imagine that envelope went straight into a briefcase handcuffed to the wrist of a clean-cut, sharp-eyed gentleman in a well-tailored suit at the offices of Ernst & Young in New York....

According to a new report from social analytics firm General Sentiment, the web sentiment for the four new inductees averaged a +70.5 on the day the balloting was announced. Web sentiment measures tonality of conversations across the web from sources like Twitter, Facebook, blogs and forum postings using adjective and modifier analysis to measure sentiment for any topic on a -100 to +100 scale. That’s very comparable to last year’s crew of Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, who pulled in a +71....

Timothy Beans, the chief acquisition officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in an interview that Halliburton is not one of the two finalists to be prime contractor for the reconstruction of Iraq, though the Houston-based firm could take part as a subcontractor. The contract is to be awarded next week. Halliburton was one of five large U.S. companies that the Bush administration asked in mid-February to bid on the 21-month contract, which involves the reconstruction of Iraq’s critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and hospitals, after the war....

Halo nevi are usually benign. No treatment is necessary if they have a typical appearance, other than reassuring the patient that they are not a concern for skin cancer. The white skin around a halo ​nevus may be more prone to sunburn, so the use of sunscreen is a good idea to protect the skin. Halo nevi often disappear on their own, but it can take ten years or more....

When officers detained Tenisha Rice after she became “irate” she allegedly swung her arms and legs. She was handcuffed and put in the backseat of a squad car, but somehow managed to shoot a gun at officers. Though this arrest did not go as planned, many departments have certain procedures when going through the process. A story published by FindLaw went through the typical procedure police follow when they make an arrest....

It’s been a great season full of terrific individual performances, from familiar quarterbacks to fast-rising young stars. Lucky for us, there’s a whole another half of it left to be played with a lot of the major awards up for grabs. Sporting News hands out some midseason hardware here, with eyes still focused on who we expect to stay ahead at the finish line: Sammy Watkins, WR, Bills He’s tied for second in receptions among rookies (38), he’s No....

Woods’ former swing coach Hank Haney recently noted flaws in Woods’ game, believing his issues go beyond technique flaws. Woods play suggested &ldquohe’s got a serious issue and he knows it,” Haney said on Sirius/XM PGA Tour Radio . “When you have the yips, you have issues, this isn’t just going to go away.” It is no secret that Tiger Woods is struggling . The short-game woes Woods experienced at January’s Hero World Challenge aren’t resolved....

In a recent study on this bizarre medical phenomenon, researchers at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts concluded that there are three contributing factors. The September study was published in Nature Communications. Happy hypoxia, also known as silent hypoxia, represents an early stage in COVID-19 infection. About one in five people who has to be hospitalized for COVID-19 will experience happy hypoxia. Manny Gonzalez-Brito, DO, a pediatrician who has seen many kids with happy hypoxia in his time, tells Verywell, this may occur for reasons both typical of respiratory illnesses and unique to the virus itself....

But Bertelli’s hand is hot, too. Following what some observers called an “epic” tantrum, his Prada Challenge team beat AmericaOne to win the Louis Vuitton Cup and the right to challenge New Zealand in the 30th edition of the America’s Cup race, a best of nine series that kicked off this weekend. Meanwhile, a similarly impassioned approach–combined with publicity from sailing victories–is producing similar success at Prada itself. Carlo Pambianco, a luxury analyst in Milan, predicts sales growth of 20 percent or more for the Milan-based ready-to-wear and leather goods company this year....

The Duke of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday for damages at the High Court in London over a February exclusive about his dispute with the U.K. government over the removal of his police protection. A court filing by his lawyers not only accused the newspaper of “distortion and misrepresentation of the facts,” but also commented on the number of pictures in the online version of the article, published by MailOnline....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have already filed eight lawsuits between them, while Meghan has been sued for libel by her half-sister Samantha Markle. And Harry’s lawyers recently indicated they have begun the early stages of a 10th, which they expect to lodge at the High Court in London soon. The spate of litigations began in September 2019, shortly before they quit the palace for a new life in North America....