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Nine months since the United States first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency, the country recorded nearly 100,000 new cases on Friday alone. Our hospitals are filling up again and deaths are rising. Models predict that approximately 170,000 additional Americans will die from COVID-19 over the next three months. Yet the Trump administration is still failing to provide a comprehensive, well-coordinated and scientifically driven federal response to the pandemic....

Pulisic will be in the starting XI from day one. Guaranteed. On the flip side, his starting role is also his to lose. Why Pulisic Will Start? #1 Massive Transfer Fee The most important reason the young American joins Chelsea as a starter come August is the number 73. $73 million is the fee to buy Pulisic, making him the third most expensive signing in club history, and no one outside of a padded room would pay that much for someone to sit on the bench both on principle and precedent....

Pulkkanen, yet to claim a win on the European Tour, shot a five-under 66 on the Firethorn Course to take a one-shot lead on 11 under for the tournament after two rounds in Johannesburg. Jaco Ahlers could have gone into moving day level with the Finn after birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th, but a costly bogey at the last saw him slip into a group of five players on 10 under....

Purpose There are many objectives of pulmonary rehabilitation when you have lung cancer, such as: Easing breathing Building tolerance for physical activity Reducing lung cancer pain Eating and drinking safely Nutritional management Emotional and psychological support Physical Strengthening Physical exercises to help you gain better control of muscles throughout your body, such as in your legs, trunk, core, and arms, can decrease the effort that you have to put into daily activities, reducing the demands on your lungs....

Bangalore, April 2014: With more than 3000 participants from some of the biggest Corporate Houses running at PUMA Urban Stampede last year – the popular race will now travel to 8 cities for the 2014-15 season. PUMA Urban Stampede powered By Flipkart is a relay race where 4 member teams vie for the title of the fastest team in the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed categories. Started in Bangalore in 2008, PUMA Urban Stampede Powered By Flipkart has enjoyed unprecedented growth – prompting Runners for Life and PUMA to take it to other cities....

Gold Coast, Apr 8 (PTI) Indian weightlifters remained a cut above the rest with Punam Yadav (69kg) adding a fifth gold medal and Vikas Thakur (94kg) picking up a bronze today in what has been a truly remarkable campaign so far at the Commonwealth Games here. Yadav, who hails from Dandupur village in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, was a 63kg category bronze-medallist in the 2014 Glasgow Games. Today, she pulled off a personal best of 222kg (110kg+122kg) to claim the top spot ahead of England’s Sarah Davies, who finished with 217kg (95kg+122kg)....

This is ONGC’s first loss in their own den since Santosh Kashyap took over the reins in November last year. While ONGC dropped to ninth position with 30 points from 24 matches, Pune FC reclaimed third with 40 points from 22 outings. The South Sudanese striker Moga volleyed home in added time of the first half after being fed by Douhou Pierre, who cut past two defenders to thread the pass....

Dogs may not be able to see in the way their human companions can—canine vision is dichromatic, meaning they only see in two primary colors, yellow and blue, as opposed to human vision which is trichromatic—still, they are very much able to watch and enjoy TV. A study published in the February 2013 edition of the journal Animal Cognition found dogs are capable of identifying images of other dogs among pictures of other animals and humans, using their visual sense alone....

Though the school hasn’t made any announcement on Hazell’s future, former coach Joe Tiller — the winningest coach in Boilermakers football history — said finances will play a big factor. MORE: SN’s Week 10 picks | CFP rankings | Race for the Heisman Hazell signed a six-year, $12 million contract when he was hired in December 2012, making him the highest-paid coach in Purdue history. “Purdue is pretty close to the buck, and they’re not going to pay him that kind of money to (buy him out),” Tiller told Yahoo Sports....

What Are Pustules? Pustules are a common skin lesion. They are blister-like sores filled with pus that can be red, with white or yellow centers, and tender or sore to the touch. Pustules almost always appear in patches, and inflammation causes the surrounding area to be red. Sometimes pustules are confused with papules. Papules are small bumps (less than 1 centimeter) resulting from pimples, while pustules are larger and filled with yellow pus....

Lukashenko made the comments during a meeting regarding issues of Belarusian and Russian cooperation, the BelTA news agency reported. The meeting precedes a summit between both nations scheduled to take place on Monday in Minsk, Belarus’ capital. “We will never be Russia’s enemy,” Lukashenko said. “And will never give Russia the cold shoulder. This is the closest country to us, our closest peoples. I think that while we are in power, we will adhere to this trend....

Medvedchuk, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarch who was released by Kyiv in a prisoner swap with Russia in September 2022, made the remarks in a wide-rangingarticle for Izvestia, a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. The 68-year-old has close ties with Putin, who is believed to be the godfather of his youngest daughter. Medvedchuk was the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party in Ukraine, and was detained in April by Ukraine’s state security service, or the SBU, after he fled house arrest while awaiting trial on treason charges....

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday jokingly compared the unveiled design of the official torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games to a Kalashnikov rifle. “No matter what they do in Russia, it turns out looking like a Kalashnikov,” Putin said at the Games’ medals and torch unveiling ceremony in Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg. The joke drew a chuckle and a big smile from visiting International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge....

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however, has underlined another critical fact about the Russian strongman: He can be a reckless gambler. If the first five days of the operation are any guide, Russia’s military operation in Ukraine could turn out to be one giant, very public, geopolitical catastrophe. Militarily, the Russians look downright incompetent. Despite holding lopsided superiority over Ukraine in every weapon system imaginable, Russian forces are taking a beating on the ground and have yet to establish supremacy in the air....

Explosive attacks at the Saki air base in Crimea were worse than described by the Kremlin, The New York Times reported, with Russia’s defense ministry initially stating that no equipment had been destroyed and no casualties occurred. Videos have purportedly showed more damage than Russian officials have acknowledged. In social media posts on Facebook and Telegram, the Ukrainian Air Force displayed wartime statistics since the conflict began February 24—adding that the “nine invader planes” are included....

“No one is excluding the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky,” the Kremlin press pool said on social media on Friday as it reported comments by Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. “As the Kremlin has announced, it is conceptually possible,” the post added without giving any further details. Zelensky told Vice News he thought Putin would want to negotiate and end the war he started in the face of strong Ukrainian resistance....

In Ukraine, tens of thousands remain trapped without access to food and water. Beyond its borders, millions more are teetering on the edge of famine. “We are on a countdown to catastrophe,” David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme said, “and we are running out of time to avoid it.” Ukraine has long been known as ’the breadbasket of Europe,’ and is one of the top three grain producers in the world, according to Farming Life....

On February 24 Putin ordered his army into Ukraine, triggering one of the biggest wars in Europe since the end of World War II. After the Russians initially made significant gains, Ukraine has recaptured some territory over the past couple of months, particularly around the northern city of Kharkiv and Kherson in the south. According to the Redfield and Wilton poll, conducted for Newsweek, 60 percent of U.S. voters think seeking to “remove Vladimir Putin from power would be a reasonable objective....

Philip Short, who penned the aptly named Putin, noted in a piece published by Time on Wednesday that Ukraine was able to gain independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Putin, who was appointed acting president in 1999 and has since maintained his grip on power in Russia via the presidential and prime minister offices, said mere days before he invaded Ukraine on February 24 that Russia’s western neighbor “actually never had stable traditions of real statehood....