ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Thursday morning the Falcons had taken the decision after four players returned positive COVID-19 tests. However, in a subsequent statement, the organization clarified Wednesday’s round of testing had returned just one positive test and that it came from a member of personnel and not a player. “Out of an abundance of caution follow one new positive test, we have made the decision to stop all in-person work at IBM Performance Field Thursday and will conduct operations virtually,” the statement read....

Having already set MLS attendance records for both single-game and single-season, the Five Stripes drew 41,012 fans for a U.S. Open Cup round of 16 clash against the Chicago Fire. That number tops the previous USOC record, held by the Seattle Sounders who pulled in 35,615 fans for the 2011 final at CenturyLink Field. Atlanta pulled in 48,200 fans on average in their first season in Major League Soccer, good for the top mark in league history....

Barca & the top 10 comebacks ever Atleti battled to a 1-1 draw against Premier League champions Leicester City on Tuesday, completing a 2-1 aggregate victory after Saul Niguez’s away goal stacked the odds heavily in their favour at the King Power Stadium. Diego Simeone’s side are through to the semi-finals for the third time in four seasons alongside city rivals Real Madrid, who beat them after extra-time and penalties respectively in the 2014 and 2016 finals and triumphed in a 2015 quarter-final....

The Slovenia international has a deal with Atleti until 2021 that includes a buyout option reportedly worth €100 million (£87m/$118m). Liverpool and Arsenal have been linked with the 25-year-old but Atleti are taking steps to try to keep him at the club. “We’re going to try to increase Oblak’s clause, but what we have to do is trust him,” Gil Marin told Cadena COPE. “We know he wants to stay and we want him to stay....

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … thought WWE did a great job of booking Roman Reigns on this episode? The Brooklyn crowd couldn’t wait to boo Reigns out of the building, but they couldn’t help but cheer when he announced that he wanted to put his newly won Universal Title on the line that night against crowd favorite and deserving challenger Finn Balor. The fans also cheered when Reigns put heel authority figure Baron Corbin in his place after he tried to call off the match....

Černušáková claimed the retailer was employing “sinister ‘Big Brother’” techniques to monitor employees’ attempts to form unions. As shown in the infographic below from Statista, Americans intend to spend even more this year via online purchases due to the restrictions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

The pair wrote to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Loren Sweatt, asking for this to be looked into and for further guidance to be issued. “We invite them to visit any one of our fulfillment centers so they can see firsthand rather than repeatedly asking the same questions.” It further defended its operations as allowing customers to receive “critical items” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic....

“@amazon Seeing a tee shirt that says Joe and the Hoe for sale,” Twitter user @OleanderNectar tweeted. “When did you start peddling racist filth like this? Expect to cancel my Prime membership shortly. “@amazon count your days! You can NOT allow your vendors to disrespect @KamalaHarris,” @QC_Bombchelle tweeted. “I’ve NEVER seen this done to any other female candidate!” Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump in February, used the offensive term on Friday to refer to Harris while repeating a disparaging report about her past, including an evidence-free claim that she had worked as an “escort....

Depp, aged 59, sued ex-wife Heard, 36, for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, in which she said that she was a domestic abuse survivor—a claim the jury found to be false and defamatory. 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, 36, announced Monday that she would settle the case after a Virginia court ruled in favor of Depp, 59 who had sued her for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post. She wrote in the op-ed that she was a domestic abuse survivor, but did not name her abuser. Heard countersued for $100 million, but Depp’s lawyers argued that it was obvious she was referring to the actor....

Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897 and served as a nurse’s aid in World War 1. After her time watching pilots, she went on to take flying lessons in 1921 and earned her license that year, according to History.com. And then she began breaking records. Earhart became the first woman to fly solo above 14,000 feet; the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; the first woman to fly solo, non-stop, across the U....

Pioneering aviatrix Earhart’s letter outlying her idea of what their marriage will be has resurfaced online after NBC’s resident presidential historian Michael Beschloss shared it on Twitter. After tweeting an image of Earhart’s trip to the White House in 1932, the same year she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Beschloss went on to share an image of the letter, gaining over 2,000 likes....

Ready for the list of teams that didn’t lose during the last three rounds of matches? Morelia. That’s it. Monterrey took its first loss of the season, Leon saw its six-match winning streak come to a close and Club America fell Saturday to Necaxa. Let’s start with Las Aguilas’ defeat, then take a look at the big stories as teams finally get a day or two of rest before preparing for the home stretch of the season:...

For half a decade, the easy answer has been–“Because America is the world’s sole remaining superpower.” But that obscures more than it illuminates. It doesn’t reveal why gnarled Arabs and Jews seek the blessing of a young American president, or why Bosnia’s warriors listen only to an American diplomat. “America is back,” The Washington Post reported the French foreign minister as saying last week. Nice phrase; but what does it mean?...

His team had just played three matches in two weeks, including last weekend’s Clasico Tapatio against Atlas and the Clasico Nacional against America following on Saturday. He did it. The Argentine boss guided Chivas to a draw against Santos and wins in the two Clasicos. His team is now undefeated in its last four league games (seven in all competitions) and sits behind only red-hot Toluca in the league table....

Rates of patients struggling with drug abuse being hospitalized due to infective endocarditis—which affects the innermost layers of the heart chambers, including the valves—doubled between 2002 and 2016, rising from 8 percent to 16.3 percent. During this period, the U.S. found itself in the grip of the opioid crisis, which, in 2017, led the U.S. Department of Health to declare the situation—where more than 130 fatally overdose per day—a public health emergency....

NEWSWEEK: Do you fear that international audiences won’t get your movie? JOEL: It’s a little hard to translate, but on the other hand everyone can get the music. Good music doesn’t need translation. Some people will get it, some won’t. At the Cannes premiere, the mostly French audience missed a lot of the humor. JOEL: It’s hard, because so much of it is about specific American things. All of our movies are American in a way....

In the video, Texas-based Dex the American Bully can be seen waiting patiently in front of the oven, with his nose pressed against the door, waiting for his cookies to be done. In the comments one user asked, “those look like oatmeal raisin? that’s what my wife makes for ours and they love them and yes they are way too spoiled,” to which @dex.the.bully replied “oat, banana and peanut butter....

A loss in the FA Cup fourth round to Oxford United last weekend was followed by a 2-2 league draw with QPR. The draw, which was gifted to QPR with a late Newcastle own goal, saw the club miss a chance to climb to the top of the table. Arena: Klisnmann grew U.S. soccer Add in the disappointment of the transfer window closing with Newcastle missing out on its top target, and it was a rough week indeed....