More than 800 million people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Over half the U.S. population drinks from water with detectable lead levels, studies suggest. And even as the pandemic reminded us of the importance of frequent handwashing with soap and water, three in 10 people around the globe can’t do that in their own homes. The World Health Organization and UNICEF warn that these numbers are likely to get worse in the next decade unless societies create and improve water infrastructure—a vast and expensive proposition....

I’m sitting in a non-descript movie theater in the basement of a hotel called The Greenbrier in the Allegany mountains of West Virginia. This little cinema doesn’t look like much, of course. A few hundred hardwood seats. A screen. An American flag in the corner. But this is the room that would have served as the seat of government (whatever was left of it, that is) had the Russians ever dropped the Big One on Washington....

Thankfully, a rash of low-level criminality the likes of which this country hasn’t seen since the Wild West has been avoided, thanks to the judicious jurisprudence at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Here’s how. In a little-watched, but hugely significant ruling, the Court threw out a lower-court’s decision to sentence a low-level career criminal to 10 months of home detention without television. Imagine if the sentence had been allowed to stand....

He was moved to ask his president a question: “What,” he asked, hauling his 6-foot-5, 245-pound frame to the microphone, “are we doing with public diplomacy to change the hearts and minds of a billion and a half Muslims around the world?” What should he tell his friends and relatives in Pakistan about why he continues to live in the United States? “Great question,” answered the president. “I’m confident your answer is, ‘I love living in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, the country where you can come and ask the president a question and a country where—’ Are you a Muslim?...

The cereal is named “Together With Pride.” Its box features numerous characters who represent Kellogg’s other cereals. The cereal is made of berry-flavored rainbow hearts dusted with edible glitter. Its box contains a tear-out “Together Band” where people can declare their pronouns. Kellogg donates $3 of each box purchased to GLAAD, a media watchdog group that advocates for affirming representations of LGBTQ people in media. “Each box of Kellogg’s sold affirms to the company Kellogg’s support for homosexuality … [in an] effort to push homosexuality to children,” the AFA claims in an “Action Alert” on their website....

The Texas native has seen his playing time slide since the 2014 Apertura, culminating in a single league minute for Tigres this season. Still, he was ecstatic to celebrate his third title championship since joining Tigres from Pachuca in 2012. “Unfortunately, I didn’t play many games this season, but we’re a team,” Torres said. “Those on the field, those in the stands, those on the bench, everybody is a team....

That first display of celebration is Sunday in the $1.75 million William Hill Haskell Invitational, a Grade 1 stakes race for 3-year-olds. It’s a popular post-Triple Crown race for horses that age, and one that American Pharoah trainer Bob Baffert has won seven times. The colt drew the No. 4 post for Sunday’s race and was installed as a 1-5 favorite on the morning line. MORE: How 11 others fared after winning Triple Crown | What’s next for American Pharoah?...

Pharoah started his breeding career with Untouched Talent, a 12-year-old mare and mother to 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister, on Friday at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky. The mating session was bumped up from Monday to match her ovulation cycle. MORE: Triple Crown winners | Pharoah’s legendary Belmont ride Pharoah commands a stud fee of $200,000 — second-highest in the United States behind Tapit at $300,000 — and will be bred to about 175 mares this year....

According to a Thursday memo from American Chief Revenue Officer Vasu Raja to airline employees, the company was expecting 13 additional Boeing 787s, also called Dreamliners, by winter. However, due to production issues such as faulty parts, Boeing had to slow its production and failed to deliver the planes. American spokeswoman Andrea Koos said the airline had planned to operate at 89 percent of its 2019 schedule by the summer of 2022....

Gilchrist and teammate Paige Hauschild, along with other competitors were celebrating after the Americans’ 11-6 win over Spain in Gwangju when the balcony collapsed. “We were having the best night ever celebrating our win, and somehow, a freak accident happened,” Gilchrist told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Along with Hauschild, Gilchrist said she was with Johnny Hooper from the U.S. men’s team when the accident happened. “It was all pretty quick, I think,” Gilchrist said....

West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller tweeted a 27-second audio clip in which the woman can be heard sobbing as she shared her fears about being killed by the Taliban after the group’s speedy takeover of the country amid a pullout of U.S. troops. “Hour by hour, it’s getting more difficult,” she says in the clip. “Even when the cars pass by I feel like they’re gonna stop by the door out there and the Taliban are gonna come in and kill us....

The 24-year-old center back, who made a €17 million move to the club from Hertha Berlin in the summer, had yet to actually make his first appearance in the league for Wolfsburg, having been sidelined for three months after suffering a thigh injury in the DFB Pokal in August. Not only was Brooks kept from the Bundesliga, but also from World Cup qualifying for the United States. With the defensive woes the U....

But despite the current situation, Cameron will not be the only American in England’s top division next year, as one player’s team booked its ticket to the top flight this week and several others are still in contention for promotion. DeAndre Yedlin and Newcastle United clinched promotion thanks to a 4-1 win over Preston on Monday. Yedlin had cemented himself as an every-week starter for Rafa Benitez’s side before his injury, and now that he is back, the right back could use a strong finish to the campaign to make it clear he’s capable of playing at the higher level next season....

On Tuesday, the official White House Twitter account tweeted: “Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President [Joe] Biden’s leadership.” The tweet did not mention that the payments were increasing automatically due to the U.S. inflation rate reaching its highest level in decades. A Twitter feature called Birdwatch, which was introduced before Musk bought the platform and allows users to add “helpful” context to “potentially misleading” tweets, was activated after the White House issued the tweet....

David Andahl died on October 5, the Star Tribune reported. He was 55 years old. The “Trump Republican” was a rancher and developer who ran for the state’s House of Representatives in the Eighth District. He defeated Representative Jeff Delzer, a committee chairman, in a primary earlier this year. However, Andahl’s name will still be on the ballot in North Dakota, a spokeswoman for the North Dakota Secretary of State’s Office revealed....

Boston was also missing Dennis Schroder to a non-Covid related illness. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) In the 24 hours leading up to the game, five players — forwards Jabari Parker, Juancho Hernangomez, Grant Williams and Sam Hauser, and center Al Horford — all went into the protocols, leaving head coach Ime Udoka with a severely depleted roster to face the red-hot Warriors....

As the Associated Press reported Thursday, a collection of Winehouse’s iconic outfits never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, home videos and journal entries will be taken from her family’s estate for the exhibit titled “Beyond Black—The Style of Amy Winehouse.” Following its residency in Los Angeles, the exhibit will have similar tenures at museums in Chile, London and Ireland before those items end up on the auction block of Beverly Hills-based merchants Julien’s Auctions in November 2021, according to Rolling Stone....

“I was born a foreigner,” he once said, to account for why he was “an outsider in America.” Born in Tientsin of missionary parents, he spoke Chinese before English. Yet his prose was all-American-like his contrarian impulses. His Pulitzer Prizewinning first novel, “A Bell for Adano” (1944), with its megalomaniac American general, was startlingly subversive for a wartime work; “Hiroshima”’s account of innocent civilians in a nuclear firestorm undercut postwar moral complacency....

Clinicians diagnose rashes based on pattern recognition. If the type of rash is obvious, or the clinician is experienced, pattern recognition works well when diagnosing a rash. Before we look at an alphabetical list of different types of rashes, we need to define some common terms used to describe these lesions. We’ll use some of these terms in the alphabetical list of rashes, so you may want to refer back to the list as you peruse this article....

Sheik Omar does not speak for all Muslim fundamentalists; many of them recoil from his vulgar rhetoric and violent teachings. But he has caught the desperate mood of millions of Muslims, devoutly religious people with gigantic grievances against their own governments and the non-Muslim world. His brand of militant fundamentalism has shaken political and social life in the Islamic world as violently as the explosion in the World Trade Center....