What is surprising, though, is PCRM’s new battle strategy. Last week, after years of conventional scientific warfare, the group went guerrilla, leaking to The Wall Street Journal a copy of a New York City medical examiner’s report on Dr. Robert Atkins’s death from a fall last April. The report said the 6-foot Atkins weighed 258 pounds and had congestive heart failure, hypertension and an “MI”: shorthand for a heart attack....

The National Hurricane Center’s latest model shows disorganized activity with “a sharp trough of low pressure” located about 500 miles east of Bermuda. The system is moving west-northwestward at 15-20 mph Sunday evening and expected to move past Bermuda on Monday evening and towards the U.S. mainland after that. “Later this week, the system will turn northward towards the cooler waters of the northwestern Atlantic, and further development is not anticipated by that time as upper-level winds increase,” the NHC stated on its website....

UEFA confirmed at their ExCo in Nyon on Wednesday that Atletico’s 67,000-seater stadium has been chosen to host the showpiece match for next season’s competition. Atleti 18/1 to win 17-18 CL The last Champions League final to be hosted in Spain was in 2010, when Inter beat Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu, host of the city rivals of Diego Simeone’s side, Real Madrid. Atletico have made the final in two of the last four seasons, losing to Madrid on both occasions....

The Pelicans star has been touted as one of the next greats, which naturally draws comparison to James, a future hall of famer. However, Gentry is trying to nip that in the bud as the NBA preseason gets underway. “They shouldn’t do that [comparing],” the Pelicans coach said, via ESPN. “We are not doing that. We are comparing Zion to Zion. We want Zion to be the best Zion Williamson that he can be....

Not all of her Twitter fans shared her feelings, though. One wrote, “the Karma Cafe serves everything.” Another wrote they “Couldn’t be happier that he has it. Call me whatever but he was long overdue…” In August, Milano revealed she had contracted COVID-19 and was still suffering from lingering symptoms, which for many include fatigue, muscle aches and problems with concentration. The Charmed actress gave an update on her health at that time with an Instagram post, in which she said she was feeling better than she was a few weeks before, but still had “occasional heart palpitations” and was having difficulty remembering words, which she characterized as the “absolute worst part....

The woman was part of a group of Colombian families likely to develop autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD), who researchers have been studying for the past two decades. These 1,200 individuals carry a mutation in their genes that can cause them to develop Alzheimer’s in their forties. Most people develop the disease above the age of 65. At the age of 70, the woman had developed what is known as mild cognitive impairment, where her thinking skills had waned—but not to a level warranting a dementia diagnosis....

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … wonders why Stephanie McMahon didn’t just overrule Kurt Angle or fire him rather than agree to participate in a the mixed tag match at WrestleMania against a woman who is likely to decimate her? This is one of those situations in which WWE has backed itself into a corner regarding logic and the McMahons as authority figures. It’s been established that Angle reports to Stephanie, so why would she have to comply with his decision that she and Triple H face Angle and Ronda Rousey?...

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … was surprised Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins didn’t save Roman Reigns from the three-on-one beatdown by The Miztourage that seemed to go on forever? I get that WWE wants to build to the big moment when The Shield inevitably reunites — much like it did for the reunion of Ambrose and Rollins — but it was absurd that they didn’t come out to help their brother in Kevlar....

Amanda Nunes pummeled Rousey from the beginning of the bantamweight title, defeating a bloodied Rousey via TKO just 48 seconds into the much-anticipated fight. It was the third fastest knockout in women’s UFC bantamweight history. MORE: Full UFC 207 results Rousey was unable to land a solid punch as she retreated after multiple blows from the Brazilian striker. “I knew I was gonna beat the s— out of Ronda Rousey....

That’s how wide receiver Amari Cooper became a Dallas Cowboy, at least according to McKenzie’s side of the story, via the Las Vegas Review-Journal. McKenzie confirmed reports that the Cowboys sent the Raiders a first-round pick in exchange for the 24-year-old wide receiver in Monday’s trade, which came eight days before the 2018 deadline. Rumors had suggested Cooper was available on the trade market, and Dallas’ weakness at wide receiver in its post-Dez Bryant era had been well-documented....

Data from INPE shows multiple fires burning inside the Araribóia reserve, although this number appears to be reducing. Local people have reported the fires there were started by heavily armed loggers who are now preventing responders from accessing the area. “To make it harder, they are stopping the indigenous fire department from combating the fires,” Tainaky Tenetehar, 34, a coordinator for a volunteer indigenous force that patrols the reserve—known as Guardians of the Forest—told The Guardian....

A lot has changed at the Statue of Liberty since September 11, 2001–and the demand that I remove my belt is just the surface manifestation of much of what we have lost since that day. Perhaps you’re not even aware that the statue at the Statue of Liberty isn’t open. You can still take the ferry to Liberty Island ($10, thank you very much), but the statue itself has been shut “indefinitely,” according to the National Park Service....

I know you and your ingenius plan have been mocked and some critics have even set up an Operation Tips Web site to encourage people to spy on the very people who would spy on other people. But I want to help. My problem is that in my current occupation–my job description refers to me as a “Guy Who Sits Around Commenting on Everything”–I really don’t come in contact with people, and if I did, they certainly wouldn’t be the really nasty people who are secret al Qaeda operatives....

So why does the United States Congress think otherwise? Over the summer, while the rest of us were debating Iraq, Homeland Security and James Traficant’s hair, Congress passed a resolution saying that thanks to “fraud and misrepresentation” on his part, Bell was “credited with inventing the telephone.” So who, according to the United States Congress, did invent the telephone? Why, Antonio Meucci, of course. According to the resolution–which passed by overwhelming voice vote on June 12, 2002–Meucci “demonstrated his invention in 1860” but was “unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his way through the patent application process and thus had to settle for a caveat, a one-year renewable notice of an impending patent....

Americans are rightfully annoyed. I mean, it’s one thing to put slave-owning Sudan on a human-rights commission, but how dare they kick us off that drug panel! We’re the world’s largest consumer of narcotics, for Pete’s sake! Shouldn’t we have the largest say in how they’re distributed? Of course, the U.N. does seem to want the U.S. represented on at least one commission, namely the High Commission to Soak Rich Countries....

I’m talking, of course, about The Burger War. Perhaps you don’t need more evidence that Manhattan Island is not merely literally cut off from the rest of America, but here’s another example anyway: The owner of a fancy restaurant in Midtown (how fancy? Well, he named it after himself – but only using his initials. And in small letters, too!) has just unveiled a hamburger that costs $50. The $50 hamburger at Daniel Boulud’s db Bistro Moderne is crafted from ground sirloin, stuffed with foie gras and braised short ribs and topped with shaved black truffles (because, let’s face it, an unshaven black truffle is so uncouth)....

And they were made in a bagel store by trained bagel professionals. But today, of course, you can get a “fresh” bagel almost anywhere: the global donut chain, the multi-national pizzeria, the corner gas station. If you’ve got the space for one of these new-fangled “steam” ovens between the undulating hot dog machine and the cans of Mobil 1, you’re a bagel store. These are trying times for lovers of real bagels....

Most Americans say the country’s culture and way of life have changed for the better over the past 70 years, but majorities of both GOP voters and white Christians see post-1950s society as weak, immoral and too diverse. A new survey released Monday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found 60 percent of Republicans saying U.S. society is too soft. About 63 percent of Republicans say American culture is “too feminine,” compared with twice the percentage of either Democrats (24 percent) or Independents (33 percent) who feel the same....