Now Cape Town’s art establishment can’t take its eyes off them. Impressed by the enormous murals brightening large swaths of the city–many supporting causes like anti-retroviral drugs for AIDS patients or quitting smoking–gallery owners have begun inviting the graffiti artists to exhibit their work on canvases. The shows have become so popular that some of the artists can now make a living solely off their graffiti. Advertisers, corporations, political candidates–even private art collectors–are commissioning their work, sometimes for as much as 10,000 rand (about $900)....

The Catalans reached an agreement over a purchase option for the player in March this year, allowing them to sign him for a fee that could reach €39 million. It was expected Barca would wait until January 2019 to bring the midfielder to Camp Nou but there are claims they will speed up his move due to the departure of Andres Iniesta to Vissel Kobe. “He’s a footballer for whom we have a purchase option and, when the coaches believe he should come, we will execute this option,” president Josep Maria Bartomeu said this week....

Here are some of the major facts presented by the Times: -Three quarters of the 121 cases studied by the Times involved the veterans committing murder while still in the military. -More than half of the killings involved guns. -About one third of the victims were “spouses, girlfriends, children or other relatives.” -About one quarter of the victims were fellow service members. -Murders committed by active-duty military personnel rose 89 percent from the pre-war period to present day (184 cases to 349) - three quarters of these cases involved Iraq and Afghanistan veterans....

On Monday, July 12, surgeons Jacob Schroder, MD, and Carmelo Milano, MD, successfully implanted the device in Moore, who had been living with complications of serious heart failure for about a month. The artificial heart will keep Moore healthy as he awaits a true heart transplant within the next three to four months. The 8-hour surgery took place as part of a clinical trial at Duke University Hospital. The trial is investigating the use of the Aeson device, created by a French medical technology company called Carmat....

Johan Karlgren created a giant-sized Toblerone bar—albeit not edible—from a parking lot’s cement barrier in 2017, and it has recently gained traction online once more. His work focuses on the unconventional use of Perler beads—small plastic beads that children use to make, often misshapen, designs. Karlgren’s designs convert often drab-looking public places into far more interesting sights. “It’s something that makes me happy, and hopefully other people [when] seeing it as well,” he told Newsweek via email on Tuesday....

This included a lot of stuff the reputable theaters wouldn’t touch–preporn smut like “The Immoral Mr. Teas” and biker flicks and wretched low-budget movie musicals out of Nashville with titles like “The Chartreuse Caboose.” Elvis movies looked like O’Neill dramas compared to this stuff. And it was in this context that I first saw Mitchum, wild-eyed and out of control, leaning forward and leering at me in an ad for “Thunder Road....

The senior running back had just finished commenting how most observations of Alabama’s offense this spring have centered around the quarterback battle between Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa. Then, he faced this question from a reporter: “Let’s talk about Jalen and Tua.” MORE: Breaking down Hurts vs. Tagovailoa “What? We just talked about that,” Harris said, laughing. His exasperation is understandable: There were several talking points from Alabama’s A-Day game Saturday, which saw the Crimson Team (first-team defense, second-team offense) claim a 24-12 win over the White Team (first-team offense, second-team defense)....

The latest survey from ABC News and The Washington Post found that 52 percent of registered voters wanted the SCOTUS seat to be filled after the presidential election winner had been decided and the composition of the next Senate was formed. Forty-four percent said the current Senate should hold a vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before election day on November 3. The remaining five percent told pollsters they had no opinion....

The Catholic Church, with over 1 billion followers worldwide, might have received up to $3.5 billion in coronavirus aid relief, which the church used to pay salaries and to help diocese pay financial settlements of church sexual abuse victims, according to the report. The loans were paid by the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program created with the passage of the CARES Act in March, which gave nonprofit groups access to the funding, and was also designed to keep businesses afloat....

Trudeau’s government spent hundreds of billions of dollars to keep the economy afloat during quarantines. The conservative approach, he said, is a danger to Canadians, whom he argues need a government that follows science. O’Toole did not require his party’s candidates to get vaccinated and has declined to say how many are. The conservative challenger has said vaccination is a personal health decision despite a growing wing of vaccinated Canadians who are fed up with those who refuse the vaccine....

In the days since Goya CEO Robert Unanue praised Trump during the unveiling of the president’s Hispanic Prosperity Initiative last week, there have been widespread calls for a boycott of Goya Foods’ products. “We are all truly blessed… to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder,” Unanue said on Thursday. Recalling the story of his grandfather, who was a Spanish immigrant with no more than a dollar to his name when he founded Goya in 1936, according to the company, Unanue said: “That’s what my grandfather did: He came to this country to build, to grow, to prosper....

While the 0.66% increase shows an overall consistent number from month to month, the makeup of the migrants has changed. Encounters with unaccompanied children dropped to 14,158 from the previous month’s total of 17,148. a 17% decrease. Meanwhile, the number of single adults encountered climbed from 111,478 in April to 121,082 in May, a 9% increase. Of these single adults, 53% were Mexican citizens. The number of Mexican single adults crossing has jumped each month since last December....

The U.S. Department of Labor released its weekly claims report on May 7, indicating that nearly 33 percent of Kentucky’s workforce has filed for unemployment benefits in April. “Today’s report reflects the massive impact that measures to contain the coronavirus has had on the American workforce. This employment situation is exceptionally fluid,” U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a statement after the report on April’s numbers was released....

Supporters of the radical movement, listed as an domestic terrorist threat by the FBI, believe that Donald Trump will once again be inaugurated as president next month. There is no suggestion that the QAnon supporters are planning anything in particular, but both Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department are keen not to have a repeat of the deadly January 6 attack, which conspiracy theorists took part in. QAnon followers first mentioned the supposed significance of March 4 following Joe Biden’s inauguration....

Asensio has made an impressive start to the season , scoring four goals in six matches for Madrid. Asensio 17/4 for score goal Wednesday The 21-year-old Spain international has been lauded for his performances, and Zidane has clearly been impressed. Asensio says the Frenchman has compared him to Barcelona maestro Messi, who is arguably the best player in the world. “Zidane told me that since Messi, he had never seen a left foot like mine,” he told COPE ....

The former member of O-Town spoke candidly about his career from Making The Band, to the early days and height of his group’s success and his subsequent solo career, revealing the “immense” pressure of that time. “It was really again the stress of that, the pressure of trying to make something of myself outside of O-Town and launch this solo career,” the 41-year-old said during an appearance on the Behind The Velvet Rope podcast this week....

That flux might ebb and flow depending on surges of the virus in your area. Still, it’s not clear when this back and forth will end. Constantly changing guidelines and uncertainty have brought about “pandemic flux syndrome,” according to Amy Cuddy, PhD, and writer JillEllyn Riley. Although it’s not an official clinical term, the duo coined it in a Washington Post report. Philadelphia-based therapist Amanda E. White, LPC, founder of Therapy for Women, posted about the “syndrome” in late September....

But hopefully this third entry of Ask Jason will take your mind off any impatience that’s dogging you. On to the questions. MORE: Cody Bellinger discusses Dodgers’ mindset, pace of play and more Q: “Do you think the Phillies are out of their mind giving Arrieta (and I do love the guy) THAT MUCH money even though he’s on the ‘wrong side of 30?’” — @SeeWillTweet The short answer is no....

Scientists say they have measured, for the first time, how a phenomenon known as “Yarkovsky acceleration” is affecting the orbit of the space rock—dubbed “99942 Apophis” after an ancient Egyptian “god of chaos”—as it circles the sun, according to research presented at the 2020 virtual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Astronomers first spotted Apophis in June 2004 in observations conducted by the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona....

The good news is that, with the right strategies, you can control your asthma and lead an active, healthy life. With time, patience, and the right tools for success, managing your asthma effectively will become second nature. This article will help provide those tools to cope with the emotional, physical, social, and practical challenges of asthma. Emotional Whether it is you or your child who has asthma, you may feel anger, frustration, or sadness if asthma prevents you from doing things you’d like to do....