NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The No.1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft got the extension and the elevation before throwing it down over Gabe Vincent’s charge attempt. Unluckily for Edwards, the officials called an offensive foul, meaning the dunk technically didn’t count, but the highlight lives on. “If I’m refereeing that game and you dunk on someone like that, I’m not calling a charge,” Edwards said, via The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski....

But it was much more than that, as we soon saw — and heard. Rizzo was wearing a mic for ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” allowing viewers to hear his playful taunting of Freeman as he chased him down on the base paths. MORE: SN’s first MLB Power Rankings of the 2021 season “FREDERICK!” Rizzo bellowed during the rundown, as if to say, “I’m coming for you!” Both players, we learned, had a good chuckle in the moment....

The 2012 Pro Bowl guard signed with the Bills from Buffalo, quite an anti-bullying city, last week. MORE: Incognito’s ’last chance’ | No middle ground on Bills’ signing “It does feel like a slap in the face, that this is happening right here in Buffalo,” Amanda Nickerson told the Buffalo News. Nickerson heads the University at Buffalo’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention. “Can people be redeemed? Should we give second chances?...

Eyeglass lens material has changed over the years, constantly improving the quality of our vision. However, one area that has not seen much advancement is the problem of lens fogging. Sudden climate or room air changes can turn a clear lens into an opaque obstruction in an instant. Certain professions deal with lens fogging on a daily basis such as restaurant workers who lift boiling pot lids or butchers who walk in and out of freezers....

“We didn’t identify with his vision for the party and the future,” said 19-year-old Garber, who chaired the TARS chapter in his home state last year. Recently, another teen leader from Georgia, who Garber described as a “hard-right, Tea Party,” joined the outcasts in voicing his opinion about Trump. “He said it. Similar guy from South Carolina then said it. And then a guy from Mississippi came out and said it,” Garber said....

The social media giant temporarily locked the Informed Consent Action Network’s account and said it was spreading “misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19,” according to a screenshot of the notice posted on Twitter by conservative journalist Michelle Malkin. The suspension came after ICAN tweeted that it would be publishing 3,000 pages of Fauci’s emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. The messages would provide “further insight into Anthony Fauci’s actions on COVID, vaccine safety and more,” ICAN wrote in the now-deleted post....

Pasquale Bacco is a doctor who was a prominent anti-vaccine activist in Italy, taking part in numerous rallies and speaking events. But now, Bacco, who has more than 7,000 followers on Facebook, said he was a believer in the effectiveness of vaccines in an interview with Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. When asked by the interviewer what changed his mind, Bacco talked about an incident in which he saw a 29-year-old man die from COVID....

Almost 200 coronavirus vaccines are currently under development around the world, including 33 that are in clinical trials according to the World Health Organization. This week, AstraZeneca’s joined Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech by launching Phase 3 trials in the U.S. Researchers hope to enroll 30,000 people for their respective studies. On Sunday, FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn told the Financial Times the body would issue an EUA, which has a lower threshold than an approval, for a coronavirus vaccine before Phase Three clinical trials were finished, if officials thought the benefits outweighed the risks....

None of this was lost on NBC play-by-plan man Al Michaels. More: NFL Week 1 lines | Historical bad beats “There are a couple of things that are going to be in play here right now,” Michaels said after Brown’s touchdown, “… There are a few people who are more than tangentially interested right now. And you know what I mean. “Here’s Scobee … (makes extra point) … and that created a few ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ around the country — maybe....

Blinken was addressing China’s decision to disqualify seven pro-democracy district councilors two days after a deadline had passed for them to provide information to determine whether their oaths of office were valid. State Department spokesperson Ned Price also copied and posted Blinken’s tweet on Thursday and his tweet was still available when accessed by Newsweek on Friday. The original tweet said: “Beijing should let the voices of all Hong Kongers be heard....

Most Americans (70 percent) say they think the media did a good job covering the attacks, though a quarter of those polled do not. Americans are split on whether the coverage helped or hurt investigators’ efforts, however. About one-third of respondents say the media’s coverage helped law enforcement officials solve the case, while slightly less–29 percent–say it hindered efforts. Forty-two percent of those polled remain either very (19 percent) or somewhat (23 percent) concerned that someone in their family will become a victim of sniper violence, down slightly from 47 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll taken two weeks ago....

Biden has come under significant criticism, particularly from fellow presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders and his supporters, for his vote on the resolution that allowed President George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion and Biden’s repeated efforts to curb Social Security funding while in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, has repeatedly criticized Biden, even suggesting earlier this month that they shouldn’t be in the same political party. “I don’t understand why some folks run as if the internet doesn’t exist....

The New York Democrat’s campaign has garnered support of around $17.3 million, while her Republican rival, John Cummings, has raised $9.6 million. Cummings, a former NYCPD officer who is now a teacher, continues to trail financially in the race for the city’s 14th Congressional District despite having raised around $1.5 million more than Ocasio-Cortez in the last quarter, bringing in roughly $5.5 to $4 million, The New York Times reports....

Greene attacked the Democratic congresswoman as she warmed up the crowd at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Ohio on Saturday. As the crowd started chanting “lock her up,” the Georgia Republican agreed. “Yeah, lock her up too,” Greene said. “That’s a good idea.” Greene continued her attack on the New York congresswoman by claiming she is not American. “She’s not an American,” Greene claimed. “She doesn’t embrace our American ways....

“If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions,” the progressive lawmaker tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “Dems don’t want you to die for a check. That’s what we’re fighting over.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made a “liability shield” for corporations a crucial demand in the stimulus negotiations that have been ongoing for five months with no deal in sight....

Second-ranked Villanova made it a 1-2 Wildcats punch, earning 20 first-place votes. MORE: Baylor is the sleeper team to watch Also receiving first-place votes: No. 3 North Carolina (7-0), coming off winning the Maui Invitational, got four, and No. 9 Baylor (6-0) got the remaining vote for No. 1 after winning the Battle 4 Atlantis, vaulting it from No. 20 into the Top 10. Indiana, ranked No. 3 last week, fell to No....

No. 1 Alabama managed to outlast No. 19 Ole Miss in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, No. 2 Florida State was throttled by No. 10 Louisville and No. 3 Ohio State looked like a true contender against No. 14 Oklahoma. MORE: Five Power 5 teams out of CFP Of course, seven ranked teams (FSU, Texas, Iowa, OU, Notre Dame, Ole Miss and Oregon) all lost on Saturday, leaving plenty of room for change in the AP Top 25 Poll....

Aphasia after a stroke is common but can also be caused by a traumatic brain injury, a brain tumor, or an infection of the brain. This article will focus on the three types of post-stroke aphasia. You will learn how each type of aphasia after a stroke is different and how post-stroke aphasia is diagnosed. What Is Aphasia? The most common cause of aphasia is a stroke because of how the blood vessels are arranged in the brain....

On Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said it stood by its ruling last week that the government’s Remain in Mexico policy defies American laws. The policy has forced tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their immigration cases are processed in the U.S. However, the court said that given the “active controversy” over recent nationwide injunctions barring a number of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, it would limit its ruling to just two border states, Arizona and California....