Winners on home soil two years ago, the Seleção hit the ground running in this year’s tournament, which is again being played in Brazil after Argentina and Colombia were stripped of hosting rights due to a surge in COVID-19 cases and civil unrest respectively. Goals from Neymar, his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Marquinhos and Gabriel Barbosa gave the five-time world champion a comfortable 3-0 win against Venezuela in the tournament’s opener on Sunday....

Hart, 32, signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract with $2.5 million in incentives on Thursday, according to CBSSports.com . He was a free agent and can play right field or first base. He missed the 2013 season recovering from surgery on both knees. In 68 games last season for the Seattle Mariners, he hit .203/.271/.319 with six home runs and 21 RBIs. Before his surgery, Hart was on two All-Star teams in nine seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers....

Can COVID-19 Spread in Water? There isn’t any evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is spread through recreational water activities, according to the CDC. Good water sanitation is key, though, and disinfectants like chlorine are the primary way to prevent the spread of germs, including viruses, in water. It’s also important to maintain standard safe swimming practices, such as: Not swimming with an opening woundNot swimming with a contagious infection (pink eye, hepatitis A)Not sharing pool or beach towelsShowering before swimming...

Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), announced the updated numbers at a Thursday press conference. The wedding, which took place August 7 at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket, has caused known outbreaks at the York County Jail in Alfred and the Maplecrest Rehabilitation Center in Madison. The Maine CDC announced its investigation into the wedding August 17, reporting 24 positive COVID-19 cases among wedding guests....

What is known among experts as the case fatality rate—but commonly referred to as the mortality or fatality rate—is calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total number of people infected. For instance, if 100 people die out of 1,000 people infected by any given disease, the mortality rate would be 10 percent. As such, the mortality rate of a disease is changeable, and depends on a range of factors including the location of an outbreak, the health status of the infected person, and how much data has been accurately collected on the cases and deaths caused by the disease....

It has already spread throughout China and is now rampant in the UK, USA, Australia and much of Europe. With major sporting events and competitions already being canceled and postponed in efforts to prevent further spread of the virus, questions have been raised about the possibility of the cancellation of this season’s Premier League and how it could potentially affect title hopeful Liverpool. Would Liverpool miss out on the Premier League if the coronavirus situation worsens?...

The U.S. is now the epicenter of the outbreak, with more than 337,600 cases confirmed, and is expecting a surge in deaths over the coming week. Italy has reported new signs of the pace of the outbreak slowing down. Japan is expected to declare a state of emergency across the country as its capital Tokyo struggles to cope with a growing number of cases. Italy’s daily death rate decreases significantly Italy has reported its lowest daily death toll in over two weeks, reporting 525 new fatalities on Sunday, the smallest rise since mid-February, the country’s civil protection department confirmed....

Under the restrictions signed into law by Italy’s prime minister in the early hours of Sunday morning, people will not be able to enter or leave 15 central and northern provinces until April 3, Reuters reported. Lombardy and its capital Milan—the nation’s financial center—were included, as well as the popular tourist destination of Venice, and the cities of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Rimini. Some 16 million people will be affected, and those who flout the rules could face three months in jail....

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, a DeSantis ally, announced last week that the Sunshine Sate was pulling out $2 billion from asset manager BlackRock. That firm has morphed into one of the most pernicious institutional forces pushing a radical political agenda upon American businesses. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink acts as an enforcer for leftist ruling class schemes, such as extremist “sustainability” provisions and aggressive corporate intrusion into hot-button social issues that are unrelated to business....

The post was made Tuesday night on the shared Facebook account of Correction Captain La Shonda Stanley and her husband Rashid Stanley. Though their Facebook page is private, a screen capture of the post was widely shared. Though the post was signed “Mr. Stanley,” a caption misidentified the post as being from an NYC corrections officer. The post is in response to viral videos of people in Brooklyn and Harlem mocking and splashing police with water....

Despite topping the club’s goalscoring charts in 2016-17, with his 20 efforts helping the Blues to the Premier League title, the Spain international has been deemed surplus to requirements. The path has been cleared at the end of a campaign in which he generated plenty of transfer talk for a move to be made, with various landing spots mooted – from Atletico Madrid to China. Costa agent teases Milan move...

“The store has been clogged up with crowds,” Costco texted club members. “To provide you with better shopping experience, Costco will suspend business in the afternoon. Please don’t come.” Police were also forced to step in and monitor the “heavy traffic” both inside and outside of the store—issuing a statement about the three-hour wait time and snapping pictures of the packed parking lot. “Local police will assist in improving traffic in the area, in order to lessen the disturbance to our neighbors, and we have improved our internal guest flow system,” Costco said....

Say what you want about how it has unfolded at Florida State — the university has made an absolute mess of (take your pick) investigating, enabling and disciplining quarterback Jameis Winston — the bottom line on the field is nothing fazes this team. Not a botched and bungled investigation of Winston. Not the big, bad SEC in the biggest game of all. Not the hangover of winning it all or bored way they’ve played over the first month of the season....

Butler’s arrival served as both a win-now statement by Minnesota’s front office and a beacon of hope that Golden State’s stranglehold on the Western Conference will not last for what feels like forever. Silent up until moments before the trade, the Timberwolves’ pursuit of Jimmy Butler became the lone major deal on a draft night that felt poised for several blockbusters. TRADE TRACKER: Biggest rumors, reported deals ahead of free agency...

Both Miller and Bradley have taken similar paths to become the dominant bullpen arms they are and have more in common than it seems. Miller was taken in the first round of the MLB Draft in 2006 — No. 6 overall by the Tigers. Bradley was selected with the seventh overall pick in 2011 by the Diamondbacks. Both were selected as starting pitchers and were among the most highly touted arms of their draft class....

Many are coerced into shrouding their bodies. The veil is the visible symptom of their more comprehensive subjection. They are required to be obedient, to ask permission of their male guardians when they leave the house, often with a chaperone. These victims of force, whether they live in England or in Saudi Arabia, almost always have very limited education. They are married young, through arranged or forced marriages, and are groomed for docility....

A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene of the stabbing, and police said that counterterrorism officers were leading the investigation into the attack on Conservative lawmaker David Arness. The suspect was not identified but is being held on suspicion of murder. “The investigation is in its very early stages,” Essex Police Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington said. For more reporting from The Associated Press, see below. The slaying came five years after another MP, Jo Cox, was murdered by a far-right extremist in her small-town constituency, and it renewed concern about the risks politicians run as they go about their work representing voters....

Mary Chapin Carpenter, who releases her fifth album, Stones in the Road (Columbia), on Oct. 4, is the rare performer who is of her audience, not above it. Over the past few years, Carpenter has not only helped drag country music into the ’90s, but has become the Everywoman. She doesn’t dress ultrachic; she doesn’t have hair that looks as if it were twisted into shape by three sets of hands....

As of Tuesday, Maui County, the third-largest county in Hawaii, now requires residents or visitors to have a booster shot to be considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Adults over 18 that are eligible for boosters will have to show proof of vaccination in order to do things like dining at restaurants or bars or visiting gyms. Boosters will be required five months after getting the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two months after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine....