But modern owners appear increasingly adventurous when choosing a name for their feline. A new survey suggests pop culture and current affairs often play a role in the process. Announcing its ninth annual report of the year’s most popular pet names, Rover.com, a marketplace for pet care, said: With soaring pet adoption rates and extra time spent at home over the past year, a lot of dogs and cats were given new names in 2021 that showcase the personalities of both the pet and pet parent....

Effective August 16 this year, the IRA included cuts to the costs of certain services and items such as in the areas of prescription drugs, health care and energy. It was also described by the White House as “the most aggressive action on tackling the climate crisis in American history,” funneling $391 billion into that area. Among other things, the legislation will aim to expand tax credits for energy-efficient buildings and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and also establish provisions for American-made equipment for clean energy production....

Our first tendency of course is to blame other people for what’s happening, as though any part of our political system is blameless. One party perpetrated nonsense and the other side too often went along; that’s pretty much all we need to know about that. The wisdom we most need at this point will come not from looking at any portion of a corrupted political system to save us. It will come first from looking at ourselves....

FACED WITH A gaping budget hole, the city’s new mayor is asking residents of the nearby suburbs to each donate $3.32–“the approximate price of a McDonald’s Happy Meal,” he keeps emphasizing–to allow the cash-strapped city to avoid deep cuts to the police and fire departments. The logic, of course, is that suburbanites are a giant calf sucking at the teat of urban America. Suburbanites enjoy all of the benefits of city life–the museums, the symphony, the better movies, the exposed brick coffee bars, the greater access to pornography–yet contribute nothing in the way of taxes....

Jews like me always felt that America, not Israel, was the Promised Land, and that anyone still clinging to the notion of a Jewish homeland in Judea was merely a religious fanatic, a right-wing ideologue or a socialistic kibbutznik. My people know more about Pink Floyd’s “Wall” than the Wailing Wall. We are at home at Zabar’s, not Zion. But during a recent trip to Europe-where the omnipresence of anti-Semitism makes the Holocaust feel like a recent event-I found myself finally appreciating Zionism’s historical imperative....

Thanks to some diligent reporting, I have obtained a copy of Weinstein’s memo to Academy president Frank Pierson. When you read the memo, you’ll have to admit that Weinstein makes a great case for moving the Oscars to New York. After all, it’s hard to imagine anything that could better revive the flagging spirit of New Yorkers–who watched in horror as two of the world’s tallest buildings were brought down, then were wrenched by a seemingly endless series of funerals and memorial services for neighbors and friends and are now struggling with the controversial task of conceiving a fitting memorial–than a four-hour tribute to the vital American industry that made “Blade II,” “Hart’s War” and “The Mothman Prophesies....

The American Forces Network, which services troops and U.S. government employees in foreign nations, caused a furor when it announced Saturday on its Facebook page that it was not available due to the government shutdown. But on Sunday morning, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy tweeted the AFN would air the AFC and NFC championship games between the Patriots and Jaguars (CBS, 3:05 p.m. ET) and the Vikings and Eagles (Fox, 6:40 p....

“It is clear to the AMA that the conversion therapy needs to end in the United States given the risk of deliberate harm to LGBTQ people,” Dr. William Kobler, a member of the AMA board, said in a statement. “Conversion therapy has no foundation as scientifically valid medical care and lacks credible evidence to support its efficacy or safety.” Conversion therapy, according to the organization, is the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual identity from lesbian, gay or bisexual to heterosexual, or attempting to make a transgender person identify with the gender assigned at birth....

“We are motivated by what defines his legacy,” Zayat told Blood Horse earlier this week. “If it’s up to me, it would be the Travers. I have made my desires known to my trainer. He knows what I want.” MORE: How 11 other winners fared after Triple Crown | Pharoah’s future | Ride aboard Pharoah American Pharoah cruised to a 2 and 1/4-length victory in the Haskell Invitational Sunday at Monmouth Park....

Examples There are many ASL classifiers, involving handshapes that represent numbers and letters. Classifiers are referred to as “CL” followed by the classifier, such as, “CL:F.” One set of classifiers is the use of the numbers one to five. Another set of classifiers uses the letters and letter combinations A, B, C, F, G, ILY(Y), L, O, S, U, and V. As an example, the “1” ASL classifier can represent people walking....

The teenager moved from Wolfsburg to Darmstadt during the summer on a permanent move, likely looking for a better chance to crack the game-day lineup. That did not happen right away, but circumstances have changed in the past few weeks. Injury to wingers Sandro Sirigu and Tobias Kempe offered a chance for Gaines, who got his first 2.Bundesliga appearance last Monday for Darmstadt in a 4-3 loss to Nurnberg in which he received 30 minutes....

It is not primarily President Trump whose rights have been trampled and whose liberty is being threatened. It is the American people’s. Our constitutional system requires the rule of law to survive. When the Founding Fathers wrote that all people are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” they understood that the rule of law was at the heart of protecting those rights....

Commissioner Dave Chokshi voiced his concern on Twitter, noting that the variant had not been detected in the city as of Monday morning. “Update on the omicron variant: There are currently NO confirmed cases of the omicron variant in NYC. Delta remains the dominant strain – about 98% of sequenced specimens. We do anticipate detecting omicron in the coming days, based on what we know about its global spread,” he wrote....

In a statewide survey conducted between July 14 and 22 by Portland-based pollster DHM Research and the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center, more than two-thirds (66 percent) of the 603 Oregonians said they supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The share of supporters marks a significant increase from 2018, when a poll conducted by the same company found support for BLM among just over half (54 percent) of Oregonians....

Stand Up America told Newsweek that it will spend $1.5 million through virtual efforts, such as a digital ad campaign and volunteers using remote get-out-the-vote efforts in key battleground states for Democrats. The liberal organization hopes the move will create a surge in absentee ballots and voter participation. The endeavor comes amid a fierce partisan debate over mail-in voting and the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service’s ability to handle an influx of mail-in ballots during the pandemic....

Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) last fought in May 2016, moving up two weight classes to face then-WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. For the first four rounds, the two-time welterweight champion used his speed to overwhelm Alvarez but Canelo’s power was too much for Khan. He was brutally knocked out in the sixth round. The 31-year-old decided to take some time off and focused on outside ventures including being an owner of an Indian-based MMA promotion, Super Fight League and co-founding Super Boxing League....

Emerson College Polling director Spencer Kimball told Newsweek that the Minnesota Democrat had a better chance of performing well in South Carolina than Buttigieg and is winning support from older voters “looking for a candidate with experience.” Kimball also predicted that Klobuchar could benefit from a “negative campaign fight” between Biden and Buttigieg by pitching herself as “the alternative moderate voice in the room.” Although Klobuchar has not seen a significant boost to her national polling average since 2020 Democratic nominating contests began, she has surged in New Hampshire primary polls over the last few days....

We observed Hakeem Jeffries’ pathetic, partisan baloney. His grandstanding minimized the dignity and collegiality which should characterize the transfer of power in the House. By contrast, I thought back to the dignity and warmth with which Democratic leader Dick Gephardt acknowledged that Republicans had won a majority for the first time in 40 years and passed the gavel in fitting, reverent gesture. Then, we listened with growing admiration as Speaker Kevin McCarthy delivered a historic address....

It became evident very early on, however, that Blinken didn’t succeed in those goals. There was no joint communique issued after the event, and the war in Ukraine took the form of the big, fat elephant in the room. Washington left Bali disappointed. For the U.S. and the European Union, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a clear-cut case of right versus wrong. Russia, the aggressor state, launched a preventive, unjustified assault against an innocent neighbor merely trying to exert its independence and sovereignty....

Why not? My goodness, he hadn’t taken a shot in an actual game for the Memphis Tigers since Jan. 27. He hadn’t suited up or dressed out, whatever you prefer to call it. As some Tigers’ games passed, he wasn’t even in the arena. And now he’s in the NCAA Tournament and he’s launching? TSN’s MARCH MADNESS HQLive NCAA bracket | TV schedule | Predictor tool There were lots of reasons not to launch that jumper, but the biggest reason to do it was: He is Emoni Bates, and Emoni Bates – Emoni Bates at his best – gets buckets....