But Cooper, who is off to a fantastic start to his NFL career, is similar to both players. The 6-1, 210-pound Cooper is similar in size to Rice, who was 6-2, 200 during his playing career, and the 6-0, 195-pound Brown. MORE: Week 8 power rankings | Best photos from Week 7 | Top 10 Oakland Raiders of all time All three players were first-round draft picks. Cooper was selected fourth overall from Alabama; Rice was the 16th overall pick out of Mississippi Valley State in 1985 and Brown was the sixth overall selection out of Notre Dame in 1988....

Original story: A company-wide email that was reviewed by The New York Times on Friday, July 10, cited certain “security risks” as the reason that TikTok is no longer permitted on its employees’ devices. The application, which is owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company, was criticized for being a potential spying threat. And on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the administration was “looking at” banning the application in the United States....

Heard, 36, was sued for $50 million by ex-husband Depp, 59, over a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, in which she said that she was a domestic abuse survivor. Following a six-week trial, the jury on June 1 awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The judge adjusted the punitive damages to $350,000, as Virginia law limits punitive damages. Heard, who had countersued for $100 million, was awarded $2 million by the jury, which found that Depp’s former attorney, Adam Waldman, had made defamatory comments about the Aquaman star....

BlackRock addressed the issue of rising costs in its 2022 Midyear Global Outlook report that was issued Monday. The company wrote that “major spending shifts” and “production constraints,” rather than excessive demand, have been driving inflation, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the “root” of those constraints and Russia’s war in Ukraine as a factor that worsened them. “Major central banks are jacking up policy rates in a rush to get back to neutral levels that neither stimulate nor restrain activity,” the report read....

Eggs are a staple that, for decades, have easily (and relatively cheaply) been purchased from grocery stores and stocked in kitchens, but they’ve become increasingly hard to come by or way more expensive in recent months. In some stores across the U.S., customers are limited in the amount of egg cartons they can buy. One of the reasons behind the sudden shortage is the outbreak of bird flu that, after starting last year, has killed millions of birds in a dozen countries around the world, including poultry and wild birds....

Members of America’s armed services have, since 2001, been allowed to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), a federal government-sponsored long-term retirement and investment program that is akin to a 401(k). Participants in TSP can invest in Chinese companies, including 22 China-only mutual funds. As a practical matter, China’s companies are uninvestable—or at least investors are not being rewarded for the risk they assume, and are not even in a position to know the risk they are assuming....

NEWSWEEK: TO me, the lead character in this movie is New York. Was it always set there? Foster: Originally, it was set in Anytown USA, meaning, wherever it would be cheaper to make—Toronto or something. But I just felt like you couldn’t do this movie without talking about New York and how that has changed. We all love New York, but sometimes you hate it, too. [Erica’s] somebody whose show is specifically about what she loves about New York and how that’s disappearing....

Sure, it sounded weird, but as unsolicited emails go, this one was certainly better than the usual letters I get from ex-Nigerian finance ministers offering me $70 million in unmarked bills in exchange for just a few thousand dollars upfront. And given that this apple-themed missive e-rrived during the week of Thanksgiving–the day when our country engages in an orgy of consumption so wanton that butter is considered a vegetable–I simply could not ignore it....

Madonna’s “The English Roses” was published earlier this month and, befitting a celebrity of her international renown, was released in 100 countries – the widest book release in history. What’s even more amazing is that the fiercely independent Madonna is now known (at least on the book jacket) as “Madonna Ritchie,” a heretofore unseen forename/surname amalgamation. Secondly, I’m amazed at Madonna’s prolificacy. Her next book will be out in November....

The whole thing sounds a little weasily to legal experts-the modern equivalent of nailing gangster Al Capone on tax evasion because the murder, bootlegging and gun-running charges couldn’t stick. “The case is, of course, preposterous,” David Meyer, a University of Illinois constitutional-law professor and “Sopranos” fan, said after consiglieres for both sides battled it out in a Chicago courtroom Thursday. The group-which is called the American-Italian Defense Association-says it is seeking neither to halt the production of “The Sopranos” nor any money in damages (Yeah, right!...

I’m willing to make exceptions for people whose families have coats of arms that go back to the Magna Carta. But, seriously, if your neighbor called you up and said, “Hey, come on over and see my new coat of arms,” you’d think he was pretentious. And if you actually went over and found that he had redecorated the family room in a Scottish motif and was wearing a kilt as he hung the coat of arms on the wall, you’d think he was not only pretentious, but weird too....

When Sheridan's signing with Honduran club Platense was announced in late December 2013, nearly everyone took to Google, with some media outlets reporting on the exploits of his namesakes rather than his own. More dedicated searchers found, after some digging, that Sheridan played college soccer at Division II Eastern New Mexico and later caught on with the Houston Dutch Lions of the USL PDL. His peculiar journey to Honduras started there when a restaurant owner looking to break into the talent business spotted Sheridan in a July scrimmage against the Houston Dynamo....

In the video shared to TikTok, content creator Xiaomanyc, real name Arieh Smith, visited a traditional Nigerian clothing store, and began by speaking only English. “Where are all these clothes from?” he asked in English. “Nigeria,” responded the lady. The English speaking didn’t last long, and he soon busted out his growing Yoruba speaking skills. “Do you speak Yoruba?” he asked, causing everyone in the store to instantly look over....

Hill set the world youth record, the American junior record and the U.S. high school record in the process, IAAF.org reported. A 16-year-old from Atlanta, Hill took advantage of perfect conditions at the Brooks PR Invitational in Seattle. Aided by an allowable 2.0m/s tailwind, she took almost a quarter of a second off her personal best of 11.21 seconds. She did that last week running into a headwind during the invitational high school race at the IAAF Diamond League meet in New York....

A new YouGov poll found that 54 percent of U.S. adults thought Trump shouldn’t receive intelligence briefings, despite former presidents traditionally being extended the courtesy by past administrations. Thirty-three percent told pollsters that the ex-commander-in-chief deserved to receive national security intel reports, while 13 percent said they were unsure whether he should be privy to the classified information. Unsurprisingly, Democrats and Republicans were heavily split on the matter, with three-quarters of GOP voters saying Trump should receive the briefings, while 78 percent of Democrats opposed the idea....

Honoring Those Helping Others I just finished reading your July 10 “The Giving Back Awards” issue from cover to cover in one sitting, and all I can say is: Bravo ! Reading about all the “People Who Make America Great” made me once again feel hopeful and optimistic about our country. For so long all the news has been frightening, and I have totally given up reading newspapers. It is important for there to be investigative journalism, and I want to know that government abuses are being acknowledged in the press....

We’re there because of oil. We import more than 50 percent of our oil. We’re there to secure the supply. Otherwise, it would be just another Arab fight in the desert. Let’s call a spade a spade. The reason we’re there is oil. As far as going any farther, no. Let the embargo work. I’m not too keen about starting wars. You just sweat ’em. Worldwide, we’re perceived as the most powerful nation in the world, but we can’t even get our deficit under control....

Sixty-seven percent of adults in the survey indicated that they believe the federal government is doing too little to reduce the effects of global climate change, though attitudes towards this question broke down starkly along party lines. An overwhelming census among Democrats—at 90 percent of those surveyed—formed around the inadequacy of current government action. On the other hand, just 39 percent of Republicans similarly felt the government was insufficiently addressing climate change....

Between 2015 and 2019, the estimated percentage of the U.S. population who strongly agreed vaccines are safe went up from just over half (51.03 percent) to 61.13 percent. The percentage who thought they were important rose from 63.09 to 74.72 percent, while those agreed they were effective climbed from 56.13 to 65.05 percent. The findings were among those published in the biggest ever global survey on vaccine confidence, featuring 149 countries and published in the journal The Lancet....