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So far, so good. MORE: Harden’s play among season’s biggest surprises Harden, one of the league’s most gifted — but sometimes lackadaisical — stars, is off to the best start of his career, in his eighth season in the league. He’s seen more opportunities at point guard with Patrick Beverley in and out of the lineup, and he has flourished in the role, averaging 11.8 assists per game. D’Antoni was made famous for his high-flying, quick-scoring Suns teams led by Steve Nash last decade....

As the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic deepens, jobless claims have spiked to unprecedented levels, with 6.6 million Americans applying for unemployment benefits during the week that ended April 4, following a record nearly 6.9 million who applied for benefits the week before. Over the past three weeks, about 10 percent of U.S. workers have applied for unemployment. The weekly number of jobless claims now far surpasses the levels seen during the worst of the financial crisis and Great Recession....

Trump has dropped several hints about making another run for the White House and surveys have reported that he would be the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2024. But Biden—who told reporters on Thursday: “My plan is to run for re-election. That’s my expectation”—remains more popular than his predecessor, according to a poll from YouGov/The Economist. The survey, which tracks the favorability of both men and other leading figures in the Democratic Party and the GOP, found that the president is more popular overall and has stronger favorability with Democrats than Trump has with Republicans....

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that from Saturday, most people under health insurance plans can get free over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic tests. Announced in December by President Joe Biden, the move followed criticism over long lines for scarce testing kits outside pharmacies and other outlets. Biden also said his administration had ordered 500 million testing kits, which he admitted he had wished he had ordered “two months ago,” although there are no further details on when they will be distributed....

Davis Love III, who is playing the Rocket Mortgage, expressed concern over what defectors from the tour are doing to the prestigious Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup international competitions. And he thinks he has a solution. Although the PGA Tour has indefinitely suspended LIV competitors, Love thinks other golf governing bodies — namely, the ones that operate the sport’s four major tournaments — may need extra urging to do the same....

While President Joe Biden’s administration has sought to continue to engage with Tehran diplomatically in order negotiate the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, that effort has yet again stalled, something the Iranian government’s opponents see as an opportunity to press for greater backing. Speaking virtually at an event hosted Thursday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Abdullah Mohtadi, Secretary General of the Komala Party for Iranian Kurdistan, expressed deep concern over a recent series of missile and drone attacks launched by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against his party and other Iranian Kurdish groups operating in exile out of Iraq’s semi-autonomous north, which is under the jurisdiction of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)....

The historic election has seen an incredibly tight race between former vice president Democratic nominee Biden and the incumbent Republican Donald Trump, with the latter alleging voter fraud took place as his team scrambles to come to terms with what appears inevitable defeat. A Biden win in Pennsylvania would give him 20 more electoral college votes to a total of 273, taking him over the line of the 270 needed to win the presidency....

Why Is Asacol Prescribed? Asacol is used as a maintenance drug, which means that it is helpful in retaining a remission (a period of little or no disease activity) but not in suppressing a flare-up (a period with signs and symptoms of active disease). It is typically, but not always, used for ulcerative colitis and ulcerative proctitis. The reason why Asacol helps to treat intestinal inflammation is still poorly understood, but it appears that has a topical effect, which means that the medicine must reach the colon to do its job....

Speaking at a news conference alongside attorney Tony Buzbee, Solis, a massage therapist, said that her decision to speak publicly was to “take back the power and take back control.” “I am a survivor of assault and harassment,” Solis said. “Deshaun Watson is my assaulter and harrasser. Deshaun Watson assaulted and harrassed me on March 30, 2020, in my own home, doing what I love most — massage therapy.”...

Brisbane looked set to continue an impressive few weeks on Saturday night when they entered half-time two goals to the good, but City fought back against their travel-weary visitors to claim a point at AAMI Park. The draw leaves Roar (29 points) in third in the A-League table with City (27) in fourth but fifth-placed Glory are only behind the latter on goal difference. Perth crushed reigning A-League champions Adelaide United 5-0 on Friday night to briefly move above City....

COUNTRY INTERNATIONAL OF ORIGIN STUDENTS, UNIVERSITY LEVEL, 1991-92 China 42,941 Japan 40,700 Taiwan 35,552 India 32,534 South Korea 25,719 Canada 19,194 Hong Kong 13,191 Malaysia 12,645 Indonesia 10,251 Pakistan 8,118

Ukrainian parliament members gathered on Thursday to vote on defense and security laws, as Russian troops gained ground. In a video posted on Twitter from the Ukrainian Parliament, Rudik called on the world to heed their pleas for a no-fly zone and that it’s the “only thing” Ukrainians are asking for because it’s a “key” piece of aid Ukraine needs from NATO. “[A] no-fly zone is the most important thing to win this war,” Rudik said....

Dr. Shepherd: Heart disease, like any other disease state, has both controllable and uncontrollable risk factors. The factors that we don’t have control over are our genetics and family history. People should be aware of these risk factors in order to mitigate their risk as much as they can. Then there are controllable risk factors. These are primarily lifestyle factors or how we operate in our daily lives. They include preventive behaviors like diet, exercise, and stress....

Dr. Velarde: It’s never too late. But the sooner you start, the better. Lifestyle habits are ingrained and hard to change. So, the longer you wait, the harder it is to change and adopt new habits. But it is never too late to start. Benefits of healthy lifestyle changes are seen even if adopted later in life. For example, there’s evidence that regardless of when you stop smoking, you will reap some benefits and have fewer negative health outcomes....

Dr. Shepherd: The biggest challenge is access to care. Once someone is diagnosed, the first question is: What do we do now? How do we get that person effective and efficient care? HIV has a lot of treatment therapies and medications now, but there are some communities that don’t have access to the same types of medications that we might see in other areas or neighborhoods. That creates a challenge of access....

While millions of people have recovered from COVID-19, they aren’t always left unscathed. Some can’t breathe the way they used to; others never regain their senses of taste and smell. And for many, there’s a certain scar inscribed by survival itself—the remorse of surviving when others did not. This is survivor’s guilt: a concept coined in the 1960s to capture the guilt that many Holocaust survivors grappled with, and one that still trails tragic events that take some lives and spare others....

And with the Supreme Court looking to turn the page on Roe v. Wade, there will doubtless be renewed talk about fertility and family life, and what sort of responsibility policymakers have to support pregnant women and parents. In these debates, it will be essential to have an accurate picture of the threats facing the American family. The conventional approach of both the neoliberal Left and the laissez-faire Right has certainly threatened families’ economic stability—but those threats can, at times, be overstated....

Maggie Goll, who previously worked with Halls, alleged that “he did not maintain a safe working environment.” She told Newsweek in a statement on Sunday that movie sets where Halls worked were “almost always allowed to become increasingly claustrophobic, no established fire lanes, exits blocked…safety meetings were nonexistent.” She also said that “the lack of proper gun safety knowledge and experience is endemic in the film industry.” Baldwin was on the set of his upcoming western movie Rust, which was being filmed near Santa Fe, New Mexico, when Halls handed him the prop gun and claimed it was a “cold” weapon....

The space rock, called 2015 DR215, is classed as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) according to NASA. However, it is not expected to collide with Earth any time in foreseeable future. 2015 DR215’s expected trajectory will take it on a path past our planet described as a “close approach” by NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). However, even at its closest point the asteroid will still be around 4....