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The conference, which The Hill shared online via its YouTube channel on Sunday, saw Ocasio-Cortez address a handful of issues related to law enforcement and police reform. Her comments came amid a nationwide push for policies that increase transparency about law enforcement practices, hold officers accountable for conduct violations, and decrease funding to departments. Addressing a constituent’s question about elevated crime statistics, the New York congresswoman pointed to skyrocketing unemployment rates and consequent financial challenges....

SPOTLIGHT Christian Wilkins, DT, Clemson The senior passed on a chance to be a first-round pick in the last NFL draft and returned for one more season of fun in college. Fun for him, not opposing offenses. Wilkins is coming off one of his best games of the season, per Pro Football Focus , which included a 1-yard touchdown run from the nimble 315-pounder. Wilkins has 6½ tackles for loss, including two sacks, and eight quarterback pressures on the season for the second-ranked Tigers’ stingy defense....

Indian golfers Anirban Lahiri and S.S.P. Chawrasia scored identical even-par 70s to take tied 11th and joint 24th positions respectively after the third round of the 2.7 million euros European Masters here on Saturday. Lahiri got a three-day total of six-under 204, while Chawrasia took his total to four-under 206 – same as compatriot Jyoti Randhawa, who scored two-under 68 in the penultimate round of the only event on European soil to be jointly sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour since 2009....

There are four motions of your ankle: dorsiflexion, plantarflexion, inversion, and eversion. Several muscles attach near your ankle and help it move. Your ankle also has ligaments that attach one bone to another. These ligaments help prevent excessive motion around your ankle joint. If you sprain your ankle, one or more of these ligaments becomes overstretched, leading to ankle pain and limited functional mobility. Repeated ankle sprains can lead to an unstable ankle joint....

Environmental Causes Researchers speculate that there may be environmental contributors that increase one’s risk of AS. However, these are currently not well understood. Some of the environmental causes of AS may include: exposure to certain infections exposure to certain toxins mechanical stress/injury to the affected joints changes in the microbiome (the population of bacteria that inhabit your colon) inflammation of the bowel Genetic Causes People with variations of certain genes are more likely to get AS....

Kendrick, who plays the title role, opened up to People about how she felt when she first received the screenplay for Alice, Darling. She explained that her representative sent the script because he knew of Kendrick’s recent encounters with “emotional abuse and psychological abuse.” The role resonated with her. “It felt really distinct in that I had, frankly, seen a lot of movies about abusive or toxic relationships, and it didn’t really look like what was happening to me,” Kendrick said....

Beatty gave cautious, minimalist quotes in each case and has since gone silent. Privately, sources say, he is making and taking calls in a world of politics he actually knows very well; he’s been close to Democratic campaigns going back to Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. With no full-throated liberals in the race (and none with the star power of a Jesse Jackson), activists say they are telling Beatty to run....

The 20-year-old Yassim was heading out the gate of the headquarters building when he noticed a police officer gesturing to him, an old friend by the name of Isam. “He wanted to buy something,” said Yassim. But before Yassim could react, both he and his officer friend found their transaction cut short by Iraq’s savagely unpredictable guerrilla war. The car directly behind the policeman suddenly exploded into an immense fireball....

Defensive end Derek Wolfe became the latest member of the Broncos to take a verbal jab at the reigning Super Bowl champions, saying he hates everything about them. “They’re always in my way. They’re always in my way to get what I want,” Wolfe said, via the Denver Post. MORE: Brady vs. Manning is one of sport’s best rivalries “I’ve got a ton of respect for the whole organization,” he said....

A £100 million asking price has been slapped on Lukaku by Everton as the Belgium international refuses to sign a new deal. Chelsea are interested in signing him, after failing to do so last summer, as they aim to reduce their over-reliance on Diego Costa. They will likely face competition from Manchester United. Conte: I wouldn’t swap Costa for Lukaku United decided to do a similar deal to that which potentially lies in-store for Lukaku by bringing back their former player Pogba for £89 million in 2016....

In Tokyo, Bush delivered a paid speech on “family values” to an enthusiastic crowd of 20,000 women. Problem was, the Woman’s Federation for World Peace was set up by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and most of those who paid $120 to get in were members of Moon’s Unification Church, often called a cult. (A Bush spokesman said he had been unaware of the Moon connection.) Moon’s wife declared from the same podium: “It has to be Reverend Moon [who] saves the United States, which is in decline because of the destruction of the family and moral decay....

A loose adaptation of the book by Jake Adelstein of the same name, HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice follows Jake while he works as the first non-japanese reporter ever for the newspaper company Yomiuri Shinbun. With a desire to see what the neon city is truly like, he dives into the underground world of crime in an effort to expose police corruption. RELATED: Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe Descend Into Japan’s Crime World in First Tokyo Vice Trailer...

This past weekend in Anthem, players received a set of new challenges called The Oncoming Storm. The three tasks are immediately available inside of the game’s Freeplay mode and require 20 crystals to be destroyed, complete 8 crystal world events, and take out 60 crystallized enemies. For finishing the objectives, players earn 2,000 coins and the Arcanist’s Monument graphic. While the challenges themselves likely won’t take players too long to finish, there’s not much else to do until the actual event begins in full....

Bowens made his AEW debut on the October 6, 2020, edition of Dark, where he teamed up with Lee Johnson to take on Luther and Serpentico of “Chaos Project.” A few weeks after his debut, he was paired with Max Caster. The two would eventually form the popular tag team The Acclaimed, and were officially signed to AEW. Speaking on the “BBC LGBT Sports Podcast,” Bowens spoke openly about how WWE made him an offer, conveniently the day after his debut on Dark....

The health board was scheduled to discuss a revised public health order for four counties—Ada, Valley, Boise and Elmore—that would impose a mask mandate in public and private places where social distancing by at least 6 feet isn’t an option and prohibited gatherings of 10 or more people. Hundreds of protesters, the majority not wearing masks, gathered outside of the CDH building to oppose the measures put forth by the health order....

This article will explore how antibiotics work, what they are used to treat, and how quickly they can help end an infection. What Is An Antibiotic? Antibiotics are substances that get their start in nature, usually as fungi or other forms of bacteria that exist in soils. These substances are able to bind to the cell walls of harmful bacteria, penetrating the cell to either kill the bacteria or prevent it from reproducing....

Your doctor may prescribe one of many antibiotics for pneumonia. Review what pneumonia is, what treatment for pneumonia may entail, and why your doctor may pick one pneumonia medication over the other. Pneumonia is a lower respiratory infection. These are infections of the lungs or lung structures, like the bronchi. Pneumonia may make it harder to breathe because the air sacs in the lungs that exchange oxygen with carbon dioxide fill up with fluid....

He made his wrestling debut in the tag team division has 3 IWF Tag Team Championships to his name. In 2007, Deryabin won the Moscow Champion Cup and thus, the ‘People’s champ’ was born. He is also the only person to have won High Stakes twice. In December, Deryabin is set to face Lokomotiv in a Tag Team match at New Year Madness. Before getting busy with his training, he had a delightful conversation with me in which he revealed a lot of personal details concerning his profession, fans and pro-wrestling business in Russia....

The defensive end, Alabama’s highest-rated 2019 recruit according to 247Sports’ Composite Rankings, had been out of contact with the Crimson Tide program for weeks but returned Wednesday to make official his intent to transfer, The Tuscaloosa News reported. On Sept. 13, his father, Frankie Alfano, said in a thread of tweets that his son’s grandmother had fallen ill, confirming that Alfano hadn’t practiced or attended classes since but expressed the opinion that Alabama was the best place for his son....