Held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, the awards show saw a slew of the industry’s best artists get recognition for their work over the past year. A number of artists, including Jennifer Lopez, BTS, and Olivia Rodrigo, also took to the stage to put on show-stopping performances for the crowd. Who Won at the AMAs 2021? BTS won big at the AMAs as the K-Pop group earned an impressive three awards at the event....
–CASEY STENGEL We all know those Mets turned out fine. In 1969, man walked on the moon and the Mets won the World Series and the latter fact was the more Amazin’. Seventeen years later, they triumphed again. Ah, but the great, mystical game of baseball has a way of bringing us back. Dads remember being sons, our youth is recaptured-and now, once again, the Mets are a laughingstock. Displaying all the management skills of a savings and loan, they have jettisoned most of the old stars, imported a busload of stiffs, and they’re on their fourth manager in less than two years....
“The baggie of pills dropped out of the box the art set was in,” Solanki told Newsweek. “If my niece has opened the box and thought I had put some candy in there and she digested them, it would be a whole other conversation.” “When I pulled the box out a small plastic baggie fell out of the package and to my utter shock and dismay, I picked it up and it’s a small bag of drugs!...
Ambition is not, of course, only a quest for riches. The impulse pervades every walk of life. Here is Al Gore straining to be president–campaigning earnestly without any apparent joy–to fulfill an ambition that must date to his diaper days. And does anyone really believe that the fierce rivalry among America’s immensely rich computer moguls (from Microsoft’s Bill Gates to America Online’s Stephen Case) is about money? What it concerns is the larger ambition, harbored by all, to control the nation’s cyberagenda....
In the 1940s and ’50s, when Americans still trusted their doctors and their government, researchers subjected hundreds of ill-informed people to doses of nuclear radiation, in order to study the effect on human beings. Later on, in two experiments on the West Coast, 131 prison inmates, many of them black, had their testicles irradiated. From 1963 on, the U.S. government conducted hundreds of unannounced nuclear tests. The Russians weren’t fooled, but Americans were....
A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published earlier this month forecast an 11 percent growth in electricity from renewables over 2020, while coal generation was predicted to fall by 25 percent. This follows the general movement away from coal and towards renewables over recent years, as the latter becomes cheaper and more reliable. More recently, the drop in demand for coal has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic....
The Israeli desire to prevent any regional state from approaching military parity with it holds for friends as well as foes. A heated discussion is currently underway regarding the acquisition by the United Arab Emirates of the F-35 stealth aircraft as part of its normalization deal with Israel. Egypt’s efforts to modernize its submarine fleet remain a matter of debate and concern in Israel. Cairo and Jerusalem have been at peace for 40 years....
American dropped more than one third of their schedule on Sunday - over 1,000 flights, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. Internal airline figures showed approximately two-thirds of Sunday’s cancellations were because of the lack of flight attendants, but the rest of the cancellations were due to pilot shortages, the Associated Press reported. Many flight attendants said they reached their maximum allowed hours for October in the last days of the month, leaving flights without adequate cabin crews....
Brittney Mohammadi, 23, became upset after the AA gate agent at the Miami International Airport refused to let her get on Flight 1061 to Los Angeles Sunday night. A bystander captured the altercation on video, which begins with Mohammadi shouting at the employee, telling them: “We’re not leaving.” She then launches herself up and over the ticket counter, getting one leg over before her partner, Maunel Arteaga, pulls her back....
The apparent defeat of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has prompted a jubilant response from conservatives in the U.S., with many pundits predicting that the election could foretell good news for President Donald Trump in 2020. Trump was elected in the second major global political upset of 2016, after the Brexit vote. Many Trump supporters see current efforts to impeach the president as an effort to overturn the result of that vote, just as the U....
“If I had a magic crystal ball, I would have gotten myself, my girlfriend and her family out of Wuhan,” Perez told Newsweek. “Then, we’d be free.” On January 23, Chinese officials began closing off travel into or out of Wuhan, where the virus originated, in an attempt to limit a massive outbreak. Since the virus was discovered in December, it’s breached the borders of more than 18 countries, infecting at least 7,818 people around the world and causing any range of illnesses from mild cold-like symptoms to death....
McLaughlin won the race in 51.46 seconds, shattering her world record that was 51.90 prior to Wednesday in Tokyo. Fellow American Dalilah Muhammed, who finished second, won the silver with a time of 51.58 seconds, which was under the previous world record as well. Femke Bol of The Netherlands won the bronze with a 52.03 time. Muhammed was leading the final 100 meters before McLaughlin found her final gear, edging her teammate who was the defending Olympic champion....
Weston McKennie, 18, made his professional debut for Schalke 04 at Ingolstadt on Saturday in the club’s final match of the Bundesliga season. McKennie entered the match in the 77th minute, replacing Donis Advijaj in the Royal Blues’ midfield. With Schalke down a man, the match ended in a 1-1 draw. It was the first appearance in Schalke’s gameday squad for McKennie and fellow American teenager Haji Wright, who didn’t see any game action....
Julian Green was the headliner of choice for the assembled media, and with so little known about the national team newcomer, there was a clear desire to get to know the Bayern Munich starlet. Jurgen Klinsmann chose to keep Green shielded from the growing buzz about his national team inclusion, so the 18-year-old was kept away from media availability on Monday, and won’t be speaking to the media until after Wednesday’s friendly, when he will presumably make his national team debut....
But that Cameron was able to get on, his first action since October, is big. Provided he doesn’t suffer any setbacks, it would seem as though Cameron should be fit and ready to go in three weeks’ time for the U.S. showdown against Honduras. That will be welcome news for Bruce Arena, given how much the U.S. backline struggled in Costa Rica without him. Porter explains why Timbers will improve...
It was a week that saw Pulisic get a pair of starts under new Dortmund manager Peter Stoger, win the United States Men’s Soccer Player of the Year award and, to cap it off, deliver the decisive finish to net his club three points against a man who might be his manager in the future. The goal Saturday against Hoffenheim was a moment of class from Pulisic as he burst into the area in the 89th minute to latch onto a Shinji Kagawa pass....
Germany’s nationwide tally of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed by 45,326 in the past 24 hours, the country’s disease control agency announced Tuesday. They also reported 309 new COVID-19 deaths, making the total death count 99,433 since the beginning of the pandemic. About 68 percent of Germany’s 83 million population has been fully vaccinated but the government is aiming for 75 percent in order to ease restrictions. Many civilians have resisted the vaccine, causing authorities such as the country’s health minister to lose patience with the situation....
If television brought war into America’s living rooms for the first time, then social media has brought the full range of human suffering into not only our living rooms but also our bedrooms, bathrooms, coffee shops, commutes and offices—really anywhere in the world with a cell signal. It is no wonder many of us feel we are living in extraordinary times. We are all witnessing a never-ending stream of global suffering every day on social media....
A recent poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy, commissioned by First Liberty Institute, reveals that almost two-thirds of Americans believe judicial nominees should not be questioned about their religious beliefs as part of the confirmation process. Instead, Americans seem to want senators to stick to a nominee’s qualifications and judicial philosophy. If the senators did that, confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court would be a no-brainer....
Published by the Pew Research Center on Thursday, the new poll asked people in the U.S. for their opinions on the country’s federal agencies. “Of the 16 agencies asked about in a national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 5-16 among 2,004 U.S. adults, 14 are viewed more favorably than unfavorably by the public,” Pew said in a summary of its findings. ICE, however, was not one of them....
