The U.S. Navy is banking on the latter. The same branch of the armed services best known recently for 24 spy plane crew members sitting around a no-star Chinese hotel for 11 days has unveiled a new ad campaign that presents the Navy as an exhilarating career opportunity for people whose current lives are, how shall we put it?, lame-o. The new ads feature the typical scenes of buff guys and gals diving into churning surf, landing on hostile beaches, motoring in some expensive machinery (all to the pulsing beat of the heavy-metal band Godsmack)....

Howard Rubinsky says he’s been trying to collect money from Ahmed Zayat for more than 10 years and described the timeline of events to Sporting News. He’s tried different means of collection but says he has little recourse in the situation. MORE: Belmont time, TV schedule | All signs positive for Pharoah “You just beg him to please do the right thing. That’s pretty much all you can do,” Rubinsky said....

Hyndman bagged his fourth goal in eight league games for Rangers FC in a 4-0 victory over Hamilton Academical in Scottish Premiership action. That’s a fine return for a striker, but Hyndman is a midfielder. “Joining a massive club (with) high expectations, you have to go out every week and perform - there are no exceptions,” Hyndman told Rangers’ official website after the match. “I’m enjoying that challenge and I just hope to carry it on....

A recent Fox News poll found that a record high 51 percent of voters want Trump to be impeached and removed from office—a 9 percent increase from a similar survey conducted in July (two months before the House of Representatives launched an official impeachment inquiry against the president). “Whoever their Pollster is, they suck,” Trump fired back at the conservative cable news network on Twitter. The Fox poll also showed a noticeable bump in support for impeaching Trump since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on September 24 that Congress would begin their inquiry amid reports that the president had pressured a foreign leader to investigate political rival former Vice President Joe Biden....

This makes the movie the lowest-grossing feature of Allen’s six-decade Hollywood career. Starring Wallace Shawn and Gina Gershon, Rifkin’s Festival opened in only 26 movie theaters across the United States. The film—the 49th directed by Allen—previously had its premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2020. The largest single intake at a U.S. location was seen at Landmark Theaters in Los Angeles, which raked in $2,300 worth of tickets for the movie....

The COVID-19 Limited Immunity Act, according to National Public Radio, would allow Idaho schools, businesses and individuals to be subject to litigation if they don’t follow laws and ordinances issued by public health districts meant to prevent the spread of coronavirus, such as mask mandates. Some critics of the bill say it would provide some cover to groups and businesses that disregard policies meant to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. Others, like Bundy, say the bill is “government overreach” that would force citizens to comply with health mandates that violate their personal freedoms....

The origins of this campaign lie in the NGO forum of the UN World Conference against Racism held in Durban, South African in September 2001. The Conference is notorious for the racism that marred an event convened for the very purpose of combatting such conduct. Posters displayed Jewish caricatures, placards celebrated Hitler and participants circulated copies of the antisemitic fabrication The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion. U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos called it “the most sickening display of hate for Jews since the Nazi period....

That’s according to a new report released Thursday by the Brennan Center for Justice, a bipartisan law and public policy institute at New York University Law School. The center found that as of March 24, lawmakers in 47 states had introduced 361 bills that included provisions to limit voting access. The number of bills had increased 43 percent since the organization’s last tally on February 19, 2021. “Most restrictive bills take aim at absentee voting, while nearly a quarter seek stricter voter ID requirements,” the report read....

Despite earlier talks that Selangor’s move to sign their former golden boy Amri Yahyah from Melaka United have failed, on Wednesday the Mousedeers and the Red Giants announced that the Malaysia captain would be returning to his boyhood club after all, to the surprise of many. That news immediately hogged the sports headlines of many publications, and slightly overshadowed an earlier revelation by Selangor head coach Maniam Pachaiappan, that he would re-register Indonesia winger Andik Vermansyah in his squad for the remainder of the season, following the winger’s recovery from a lengthy injury....

The new rules on red-light district tours aim to curb overcrowding in these areas, which are a “nuisance” to residents and sex workers, and to “create more space on the street” and “ensure a more reliable working environment for sex workers,” the Municipality of Amsterdam announced. A ban barring tourists from the city’s famed cannabis cafes is also being considered. Local authorities are hoping both measures can help tackle the growing issue of “overtourism” in the city, which is said to welcome around 17....

What’s your cartoon about? It’s about a Girl Scout who wants to be a superhero. It’s airing the day after the “Baby Mama” premiere, so I’m going to get up early the next morning and eat cereal in my pajamas while watching my cartoon. Is the show autobiographical? No. Well, she’s kinda bossy and a motormouth, so it’s somewhat autobiographical. What cereal are you going to have? Right now I’m down with Honey Nut Cheerios because that’s what Omar eats on “The Wire....

The perfect accompaniment to the recent Oscar-nominated movie Being the Ricardos, Poehler directs the documentary that tells the story of how Ball and Arnaz met and formed one of the most powerful partnerships in television history. It’s available to watch from Friday, March 4. Ahead of its launch, Poehler spoke to Newsweek about how I Love Lucy shaped television today, why Desi was underappreciated and why she hopes the “robots are kind” when they direct her documentary in 50 years....

The plaques in Alzheimer’s brains consist mostly of an abnormal peptide, or protein fragment, called beta amyloid. This peptide is part of a longer protein called APP (amyloid precursor protein), which abounds in normal brain cells (chart). How does the harmless APP break apart to create the toxic fragment? Researchers deduced more than a decade ago that a pair of protease enzymes–think of them as molecular scissors–were clipping the APP molecule at two locations, which were dubbed the “beta” and “gamma” sites....

Now cottage industries have grown up around the impossibility of any of that: specialized learning centers to supplement schools, special loan programs at usurious rates to supplement college grants, companies that will throw up instant walls to turn a one-bedroom apartment into a place where three people can coexist. There’s an honorable tradition of starving students; it’s just that, between the outsourcing of jobs and a boom market in real estate, your generation envisions becoming starving adults....

The 26-year-old artist, installing state-of-the art speakers with the help of Klondike Sound Company, premiered “Habeas Corpus: A Musical Installation for Northampton State Hospital,” a piece that movingly memorialized the 2,700 patients it once housed and brought closure to the complex that has been abandoned since 1993 and will soon be demolished. Schuleit, the daughter of German installation artist Eleonore Scriba, was haunted by the hospital since 1991 when, as a high school student at the nearby the Northfield Mount Hernon School, she would take walks around its series of buildings....

At issue in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen is a 108-year-old state law requiring those who wish to carry a concealed weapon to show “proper cause” before receiving a license to do so. Gun advocacy group the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, along with Robert Nash and Brandon Koch, are taking the case and arguing that the state’s denial of licenses to the men violated the Second Amendment to the U....

Bent is a 37-year-old striker who made 215 English Premier League appearances, including with Leicester City and Everton. His professional career ended in 2012. Last fall, he ran into some trouble; by his own account, he did “two or three lines” cocaine, became extremely paranoid, thought he heard someone in his home, called the police and then, naturally, freaked out on the police when they showed up. There was no intruder....

“Fool’s Gold” argues that the use of computers have had no proven positive effect on children, and may even be physically and intellectually harmful, especially for those under the age of 11. “A heavy diet of ready-made computer images and programmed toys appears to stunt imaginative thinking,” says one passage. The report also says that computers expose kids to adult hazards like bad posture, repetitive-stress injury and social isolation. It’s a grim tally–long overdue, some say–but it doesn’t mean you should junk your PC....

In the two decades that have passed since those dramatic events, lucidly chronicled in Benjamin Weiser’s new book, “A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country” (383 pages. Public Affairs), Kuklinski’s name has become, in Poland, a byword for the country’s continued confusion about its communist past. The former American national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski once tried to describe the uncertainty that Poles still feel about the years when their country, nominally independent, was in fact a part of the Soviet empire: “Was it an authentic Polish state or an imposed satellite?...

Et Tu, Stephanopoulos? It’s one thing for George Stephanopoulos to leave his job as a White House adviser because of stress and loss of trust in the president (“What I Saw,” National Affairs, March 15). It’s another for him then to make his living as a commentator, writing and speaking from a position of moral rectitude. The culmination is his new book, which you excerpted. Clinton’s repeated failings are apparently the result of personal weaknesses....