In total, the lockdown has affected around a third of the world’s 7.8 billion people. That’s about the same as the global population at the end of WWII. According to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, there have been over 487,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. This includes more than 22,000 deaths and 117,700 recoveries. Cases in the U.S. have increased dramatically in the last week. At the time of writing, there were over 69,000 cases in the country....

The championship run has its roots in forgiveness, and it started with the prodigal-son player forgiving the hair-trigger owner, for getting into his feelings, letting his petty fly and raising the bar for all time on sour grapes. For a knee-jerk reaction that made a city of jersey-burners seem measured and reasonable. It only took three years for everything to return to normal in “Believeland,” though, that being a buffoonish owner doing buffoonish-owner things....

A CDC analysis released on Monday identified 5,293 excess deaths that could be related to the new coronavirus outbreak, according to the Associated Press. Researchers calculated the number by taking the number of deaths in the city between mid-March and early May and comparing it to what officials would normally expect to see during the time frame. The nearly 5,300 deaths were in addition to the confirmed and probably fatalities that New York officials have already reported....

According to results of a Kaiser Family Foundation survey conducted February 15 to 23, 73 percent of those asked feel Congress is not doing enough to support people who have lost a job or income due to the pandemic. This feeling is shared across the political spectrum, with 74 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of independents and 79 percent of Republicans feeling Congress is not doing enough in that regard....

Talks between Democratic figureheads and White House representatives to agree a package stalled in recent weeks, with each side accusing the other of failing to give sufficient compromise. Rep. Foster, speaking with Newsweek, said there is a desire among lawmakers across Congress to get more of them directly involved in shaping the next package. If something were to be passed by the Senate, this could then begin a “ping pong” between the upper chamber and the House—while the public and collaborative nature of this could perhaps garner a more beneficial deal for those struggling across the nation, Foster said....

News of the cuts brought some Owls student athletes to tears, a moment captured on YouTube. The affected sports were baseball, softball, men's crew, women's rowing, men's indoor and outdoor track and field, and men's gymnastics. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the move will save the department $3 million, which amounts to 6.8 percent of the school’s $44 million budget. In addressing a gathering of Owls student-athletes Temple A.D Kevin Clark said, “I totally understand your anger and disappointment....

Proposition 22, which is widely projected to pass, exempts ride-hailing and app-based delivery companies from complying with AB 5, a state law that would have forced them to classify drivers as employees—a radical shake-up of their business models. As independent contractors, drivers enjoy flexibility but are not entitled to benefits such as health care, unemployment insurance, minimum wage and overtime pay. The companies backing the measure—Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Postmates—said drivers were in favor of independence and warned that changing their models would result in fewer jobs, more expensive rides and limits on how many cities they could operate in....

England, bowled out for a dismal 67 in an appalling first innings, looked dead and buried at 286-9 in their pursuit of an unlikely 359 on Day 4 at Headingley as Australia had one hand firmly clasped on retaining the urn. But Stokes clubbed eight sixes and 11 fours in a memorable unbeaten 135 that will go down in the pantheon of great knocks in Test cricket, as England completed their record run-chase in five-day cricket....

In just his second five-day match, Archer ripped through Australia on a truncated first day in Leeds, taking five of the eight wickets to fall in the final session, including that of Warner (61) as the tourists were dismissed for 179 having been 136-2. Archer, who was born in Barbados but qualified to play for England in March, showed no sign of being overawed by international cricket when he starred in the World Cup triumph earlier this year and the Test stage does not appear too grand for the 24-year-old either....

Judd appeared on MSNBC to talk about other things, but that’s not what you’re here for. Skip to the 3:30 mark, the Kentucky fan talks about “the kiss that can’t be unseen.” The actress said it was taken out of context. MORE: Kyrie Irving gives custom shoes to Duke | Kentucky’s road to the title | 2015 Brand Bracket She went on to discuss a culture of misinterpretation and “shaming” on social media....

Singapore Airlines’ recent troubles show how turbulent the Asian market has become. In the past few years Western airlines have poured into the Asian market, adding flights and pricey new long-range jumbo jets-a combination that is helping to strain capacity at many of the region’s major airports. Local carriers have joined the fray, too. Despite the industry’s troubles, Malaysia Airlines recently trumpeted its new direct service from Kuala Lumpur to Mexico City....

One of the most perplexing issues surrounding COVID-19 is why it manifests itself so differently in different people. Why is the disease mild for so many and extremely deadly for others? While preexisting chronic diseases can make a person more vulnerable to COVID-19, they’re not enough to explain the wide discrepancy in symptoms. Dr. Robinson spoke with Verywell Health about how certain genetic factors and immune responses play a role in the severity of the disease....

At Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, it is our mission to see the end of the genocide that has ravaged Syria and to ensure accountability for these crimes. There must be a renewed focus on Assad’s crimes against humanity. Last week, former United States ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues Stephen Rapp did a tremendous service to the Syrian people when he went on the record on CBS 60 Minutes to note that there is even more evidence of war crimes against President Assad than was used to convict the Nazi regime at the Nuremberg trials....

The National Coalition Against Censorship and ten other groups including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal aid for cartoonists and publishers, signed a letter in defense of the cartoon on Wednesday, after the Wylie Independent School District removed the controversial cartoon from an eighth grade classroom assignment. Police groups and Texas Governor Greg Abbott had expressed outrage over the cartoon, which includes depictions of a Ku Klux Klan member and two police officers....

In a Wednesday media briefing, EMA Executive Director Emer Cooke said that after an in-depth analysis of the vaccine, the regulator had concluded “that the reported cases of unusual blood clotting following vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine should be listed as possible side effects of the vaccine.” Despite those possibilities, both the European regulator and the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks....

That isn’t all that is extraordinary about this world’s orbit, however. It passes around its parent star, TOI-2257, in an extremely flattened elliptical orbit. Yet because the exoplanet, designated TOI-2257b, is so close to its stars at just around 135 million miles away, it completes an orbit once roughly every 35 earth days. The team’s investigation of this star and its planet, which are around 188 light-years from Earth, has been pre-published on the arXiv pre-print server....

To prove their point they suggest looking at the top of the Mount Palomar Observatory near San Diego. This summer a team from both universities grafted their “Lucky imaging” system onto the observatory’s Hale Telescope and aimed it at M13, a star cluster that’s 25,000 light years away. The results were much better than they expected. “What we’ve done for the first time is produce the highest-resolution [images] ever taken—and we took them from the ground,” says Craig Mackay of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, who led the team....

AT&T apparently has been courting Armstrong for months. He was reportedly reluctant to accept for fear that he would at least initially play second fiddle to Allen, who hasn’t specified when he’d step down. Even if that issue has been resolved, Armstrong faces a challenging situation. Says Robert Rosenberg of Insight Research Corp. in New Jersey: ““He has to boost morale, which is in the tank. He has to articulate a strategy for the future....

But while the 79-year-old host of Love Connection may seem like a strange source for claiming society-scale lies about the coronavirus and the more than 135,000 people in the United States who have died from it, Woolery has a long history of conspiracist provocations, including a 2017 flap evoking an antisemitic staple. In May 2017, as reported by Newsweek at the time, Woolery claimed “most of the original Soviet Communists were Jewish,” further falsely describing the first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, as Jewish....

MORE: Sports world recognizing tragedy I don’t speak for all black people. Contrary to popular belief, we are not a monolith. I can’t stress that enough. My experiences are unique to me, but my encounters with law enforcement and security guards are all too common among my brothers and sisters according to the flesh. That’s why the spirits of average Joes such as myself and athletes such as Carmelo Anthony, Martellus Bennett and Bradley Beal seem kindred in the aftermath of the senseless deaths of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile, as well as the five Dallas officers who were mercilessly assassinated in the line of duty by a hate-filled sniper as a peaceful protest came to a close Thursday night....