Cuomo’s strategists are recommending that he name a vice presidential running mate soon. Two names mentioned are Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore and Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen. As for timing, some of Cuomo’s men are urging him to wait until after Dec. 15 to avoid a scheduled TV debate with the other candidates. Advisers to Cuomo’s potential rivals scoff at the notion he could run an “above it all” campaign. “Sooner or later, you have to actually get out and run,” said a strategist for one....

Rocky, whose birth name is Rakim Mayers, was facing a maximum sentence of two years behind bars. Prosecutors previously requested a six-month prison sentence to be served in Sweden. The “Testing” rapper spent a month in jail following his arrest in Stockholm on July 3. Rocky and two members of his entourage were charged with the assault of a 19-year-old man named Mustafa Jafari, who claimed the rapper and his friends attacked him on June 30....

The 21-year-old signed for the La Liga giants in 2014 for €3.9 million from Mallorca, and has agreed a new six-year-deal at Santiago Bernabeu. Asensio 21/20 to score v Espanyol After signing for Madrid, he returned to Mallorca on a loan deal, and also spent a season at Espanyol as he gained first-team experience. He broke into the Blancos first team in 2016-17, starting in the UEFA Super Cup win over Sevilla and then making his La Liga debut shortly after....

Cole, 35, agreed to terminate his contract with Italian club Roma earlier this month after making 16 appearances since July 2014. He has completed a switch to MLS, where he will link up with former England teammate Steven Gerrard. MORE: Five questions for U.S. men’s team | Benny Feilhaber peeved | Jurgen Klinsmann responds Cole will reportedly be paid about $300,000, meaning he did not need to be signed as a designated player — the method by which MLS clubs can offer contracts to certain players whose pay demands would see the franchise exceed the league’s salary cap....

Today, Wu is as likely to be bidding against a wealthy Chinese or Indonesian as a Western collector. Over the past few years, Asian buyers—often young entrepreneurs—have been flexing their muscles in the region’s art market, helping to push prices for Chinese contemporary works to unprecedented heights. Of the 35 most expensive contemporary paintings sold at auction worldwide last year, 15 were by Chinese artists, including a large gunpowder artwork by Cai Guo-Qiang that sold for $8....

Dr. Molina answered the following questions in this Health Divide on asthma: How does asthma impact daily life? What happens if asthma is not controlled properly? Farah Khan, MD Dr. Khan is a board-certified allergist/immunologist with a background in pediatrics. She has been enjoying treating pediatric and adult patients in private practice in Northern Virginia. Her specialties include treatment of chronic idiopathic urticaria, severe persistent asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, recurring infections, and allergic dermatologic conditions....

The paper, published in The Planetary Science Journal, indicates that the 140-mile-wide space rock, dubbed 16 Psyche, might not be as metallic or dense as previous research has suggested. According to the study, which was led by University of Arizona (UA) undergraduate student David Cantillo, the findings suggest that the asteroid’s formation may have played out differently to what scientists had previously thought. It was long thought that the asteroid was the exposed iron core of a small planet that failed to form during the earliest days of the solar system, stripped of its mantle and crust....

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Peter Dubrov were ordered to move to the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, while American astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as Germany’s Matthias Maurer, relocated to the Crew Dragon after a piece of space debris was projected to fly past the ISS. Space junk was expected to fly past the ISS at 10:06 a.m. Moscow time, and again from 11:38 to 11:44 a....

Astros owner Jim Crane snatched a bounding ball out of the air Tuesday night during the Astros-Rangers game in Arlington, drawing applause from fans around him. The 65-year-old former Division II pitcher then handed the ball to a nearby fan. What a philanthropist. MORE: Top 10 Astros of all time | Why the Astros will be plenty dangerous in October Your browser does not support iframes. Not all heroes wear capes....

Lawsuits have been filed against Scott and Live Nation alleging “negligence” for inciting a riot and violence and failing to establish proper safety measures and medical services at the concert. Some suits are seeking $1 million in damages. During the performances, concertgoers rushed the stage, pushing fans against each other and the stage barriers. All eight victims have been identified, with ages ranging from 14 to 27 years old. Three people remain hospitalized, including a 9-year-ols boy in a medically induced coma....

Pan Am 103 blew up in the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 189 Americans and 81 others in the plane and on the ground. After combing hundreds of square miles of Scottish countryside and following the evidence across Europe, investigators identified two Libyan suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhima, who worked for the Libyan airline–and reportedly for Libyan intelligence. The country’s strongman, Muammar Kaddafi, was persuaded to hand them over for trial after receiving assurances that his government’s alleged support for the bombing operation would not be mentioned in court....

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, Iraq’s military said the explosion occurred in the Wahailat market in Sadr City just a day before the Eid al-Adha holiday, a busy time for the market as shoppers search for gifts and groceries. Vendors’ wares were reduced to debris on the ground following the blast. They told security forces how the blast happened while salvaging what items they could. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for similar attacks in the area, but no such claim has emerged yet for the market bombing....

Currie said he is “heartened” by the teams that have reached out, including one team that has already played in a bowl game. Earlier Wednesday, Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher said in a news release that the combination of COVID issues the team is experiencing and injuries to several players meant they would not have enough scholarship players available to play in the bowl game. The team did not provide specific numbers for COVID-positives or injuries....

HIRSH: How did you see Assad as a man and a leader? KISSINGER: No great knowledge of the West. I think I was the first Westerner with whom he negotiated consistently. A man of extraordinary brilliance and a good sense of humor, he was also ruthless and passionately nationalistic. He used some of the early negotiations with me to educate himself about the West. And he was very careful to conduct the negotiations in such a way that the result did not appear as his own personal decision but as the result of a confluence of forces which he registered, rather than created....

When Atlanta wears its newest uniform during the 2020-21 NBA season, the team will be paying tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. King was born and raised in Atlanta before attending Morehouse College in the city and preaching at the city’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. It’s the first time in NBA history that the initials of an individual will be featured prominently on an official uniform. Proceeds from sales of the jersey will be donated into the Atlanta community, the team said, with the focus of economic empowerment for communities of color....

Since implementing their first set of pace of play initiatives shortly after the league’s 2014 All-Star break, the average game time has been trimmed by 20 full minutes, from an average of 3:01 in the first half of 2014 to 2:41 in the first 100 contests of 2015. MORE: Best bars around MLB stadiums | David Ortiz is no fan of pace-of-play rules Twenty minutes. That’s enough time to watch almost an entire DVR’d episode of “Brooklyn 99....

Linked with an off-season move to La Liga champions Barcelona, Griezmann was the hero for Atletico on Wednesday as his brace secured a 3-0 win over Marseille and the Europa League trophy . It may have been Griezmann’s parting gift amid Barca’s interest in the France international forward, who opted to remain in Madrid for the 2017-18 season despite Manchester United’s efforts to lure the 27-year-old to the Premier League....

Simeone was sent off by referee Clement Turpin during Atleti’s 1-1 semi-final first-leg draw against Arsenal last week having continued to harangue the official in the aftermath of Sime Vrsaljko’s 10th-minute red card. The Argentinian tactician was forced to watch Thursday’s 1-0 victory over the Gunners from the Wanda Metropolitano stands and that game will serve as the first of four under his suspension. Should Atleti beat Marseille in Lyon on May 16, Simeone will also be absent for the UEFA Super Cup clash against the Champions League winners and his club’s opener in Europe’s top competition in 2018-19....

The reductions in soot concentrations in the atmosphere occurred all over western and southern Europe, according to the research carried out in a comparison of two measurement campaigns by the German research aircraft HALO between 2017 and 2020. It found that about 40 percent of the reduction was due to reduced emissions from human activity. The team, from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the University of Bremen, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the German Center for Aerospace, reflected the strong impact of human activities on air quality and the importance of black carbon as a major air pollutant, and climate driver in the Anthropocene era dominated by human activity....