On Monday, the Fulton County Registration and Elections Board approved the Hawks’ proposal to use State Farm Arena as a voting station during the Georgia’s runoff primary on August 11 as well as for early voting in the general election, which is scheduled on November 3. The Hawks first pitched the idea when protests exploded in Atlanta in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 and local voting authorities didn’t need much convincing....

It’s the final race of the regular season and, thus, the last chance for drivers to race their way into the Chase. But Sunday night’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway might be just as big and have even bigger Chase implications. The 500-mile race at Atlanta is the final regular-season race at a 1.5-mile track, where horsepower, downforce and speed are of equal importance. There are five 1.5-mile tracks in the 10-race Chase, and running well on them is critical in the playoffs....

Barcelona and Manchester United are again being linked with a bid for Griezmann, 26, who decided against leaving Atletico before the start of the season after the club were hit with a transfer ban by FIFA. Gil Marin has made it clear they will not negotiate the sale of the France international until at least the end of the season and the club have already reported Barca to world football’s governing body over what they consider to be an illegal approach for the player....

The defect in ASD is a hole in the atrial septum, which is the muscular wall that separates the right atrium and left atrium. In a normal heart, the right side pumps blood poor in oxygen and the left side pumps blood that has been oxygenated. The defect allows the two types of blood to mix, resulting in the blood that travels through the body carrying less oxygen. This type of defect, which is present in approximately 4 to 8 out of every 1,000 babies born, ranges in severity....

On Tuesday’s installment of his eponymous talk show, Cannon, 41, was seen fighting back tears as he revealed that the youngest of his seven children had passed away following a battle with brain cancer. The TV personality also praised Scott for her strength throughout the ordeal, saying: “Alyssa was like the strongest woman I’ve ever seen, because never had an argument, never was angry… was emotional when she needed to be but was always the best mom and continues to be the best mom possible....

Parler is a conservative-leaning social media site whose users mostly follow President Donald Trump, and it’s a landing spot for many conservatives who have been banned by other social media outlets. The move comes in the same five-day stretch that President Donald Trump was censored on social media giants Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and with Apple and Google already holding Parler’s feet to the fire. The recent bans, censors and suspensions follow last week’s storming of the U....

“With the announcement from the Washington team and the NFL, we are removing products with the team’s name and logo from our stores,” the notice to sellers stated, according to a CNBC report. “Failure to properly close or delete all restricted product listings from your inventory may result in deactivation.” It’s been a rather whirlwind week and a half for the NFL franchise that has been around since 1932. Last week, a group of 87 investors and shareholders wrote letters to three of the team’s top sponsors—FedEx, Nike and Pepsi—urging them to pull sponsorship dollars unless the team changed its name....

Several days after jurors delivered a verdict that was largely not in her favor, Heard sat down with Today’s Guthrie for a heavily promoted interview, which aired in full as a primetime special on Friday. However, while interest in all matters surrounding the trial has dominated headlines and social media for the past two months, viewers did not flock to watch the interview in significant numbers, new figures have revealed....

Heard made the admission during an argument surreptitiously captured by Depp while the couple was still married. The recording played Wednesday as the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s $50 million defamation trial against his ex-wife continued. Heard is accused of defaming Depp in a 2018 Washington Post opinion article that suggested she was a victim of domestic abuse without explicitly naming her ex-husband. In the recording, Depp can be heard asking his former wife whether she had “lost memory” about “kicking” in the door of a bathroom that he had retreated to, before allegedly hitting him “in the skull....

“Finally, the tides are shifting…Finally!” Henriquez wrote in a Thursday post on Instagram. This summer, a jury in a highly-publicized trial found that Heard defamed her ex-husband, Depp, by writing a 2018 opinion article in The Washington Post. Depp was awarded $10 million in damages as a result, though Heard won $2 million in a counterclaim. Both Depp and Heard are appealing the verdicts. The open letter of support for Heard was published online Wednesday, and it has been signed by prominent organizations such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), Equality Now and the Women’s March Foundation....

Colorado won 87 games in 2017, earning the last wild card despite a deep NL West that saw the Dodgers win 104 games and the Diamondbacks 93. Arizona ultimately sent the Rockies home after one game in October, but Colorado was undoubtedly one of baseball’s best stories last season. RIVERA: New Year’s resolutions for all 30 MLB teams The Rockies will have higher expectations than that of a lovable underdog in 2018, though....

In October 1916, the Red Sox defeated the Dodgers (they were the Brooklyn Robins back then), in a five-game series. The U.S. was a much different place in 1916. Information courtesy of popculturemadness.com: America in 1916 Top 10 baby names of 1916: Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret, Ruth, John, William, James, Robert, Joseph U.S. life expectancy: Men: 49.6 years, Women: 54.3 years Shopping: The first Piggly Wiggly was founded in Memphis, Tenn....

That definitively rules out Joe Biden. China’s bid to displace the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower differs greatly from the attempt made by the Soviet Union. Unlike the USSR, China is not diplomatically and economically isolated—quite the opposite. Starting in the 1980s, establishment politicians from both parties have integrated China into the functioning of the American economy to such a degree that we have become virtually dependent on our foremost economic and geopolitical rival—as our inability to produce certain medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic poignantly demonstrated....

A dead mic leads to less obsession over Trump tantrums. Americans, including Republicans like Ducey, have internalized that he will be gone in a few weeks. Fear of Trump has gone poof. Nowhere was this more evident than in Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, ignored Trump’s attacks on them and how their state counted the votes. When Trump said he was “ashamed” to have endorsed Kemp, you could almost hear the shrug....

In many articles and in book after book American “declinists” nowadays tend to portray America’s reduced stature as a largely natural phenomenon. Never mind that on the eve of the Bush presidency we were still seen as the most powerful nation in the history of the world. Decadent powers always wane in influence, and it seems we’ve just been doing a lot of waning very quickly. As other countries around the world partook of the ideas we pressed on them in the post-cold war era—free markets, democracy—they started to prosper and catch up to us....

“The top 10 percent of American drinkers — 24 million adults over age 18 — consume, on average, 74 alcoholic drinks per week,” Washington Post reported. “That works out to a little more than four-and-a-half 750 ml bottles of Jack Daniels, 18 bottles of wine, or three 24-can cases of beer. In one week.” This averages out to roughly 10 drinks a day. However, 30 percent of American adults don’t drink at all....

They’re lumped in with all the whiz kids, the “miracle” immigrants with unlimited futures and unassailable family ties. But for many Southeast Asian teenagers, American life has not been the snap experts predicted. The first cracks appeared in the 1980s, in the stunning rise of Asian youth gangs. Now, in a widening rift between generations and cultures, a growing number of Southeast Asian children are running away, vanishing for days or months into a loose, nationwide network of “safe houses....

On July 23, the White House released its deep space exploration strategy, formally entitled “A New Era for Space Exploration and Development”—a high-level policy document that lays out both a strategy and a rationale for the development of a space-based industrial economy. On the heels of that report, earlier this week saw the release of “The Space Industrial Base 2020” (SIB2020), a study co-developed by the U.S. Space Force (USSF), the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which lays out a comprehensive series of steps designed to maintain America’s global leadership in space....

Predictably, Marion Barry, the city’s mayor, calls such assessments ““outrageous.’’ But there is no doubt Washington’s local government has finally, truly collapsed. The General Accounting Office recently declared it insolvent, and recently, Barry asked for hundreds of millions more in federal aid to help cover an expected $722 million budget deficit. Instead of dismissing the international, Third World parallel out of hand, Barry and other Washington leaders might find it useful to think about the city that way – both to understand the colossal mess and to plot a way out....

Kyetra Bryant said she and her partner booked the flight out of Charlotte Douglas Airport on Thanksgiving Day last year but didn’t notice the charge from a self-service baggage kiosk until she looked at her bank statement. “Over Thanksgiving Wes and I traveled to Denver from the Charlotte International Airport via American Airlines,” Bryant wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post on January 28. “We both used different cards to pay for our luggage and instead of it being noted as such, both of our bank statements read AFRICAN AMERICAN SERVICE CHARGE....