Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club on Tuesday night, became the first candidate to formally launch a 2024 campaign, following a disappointing performance for the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections. Many Republicans blamed the former president after numerous Trump-endorsed candidates lost their races. It came as Trump is facing a series of criminal investigations, including one probing documents with classified markings that were seized from his Florida home and another into his attempt to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 election....

On Tuesday’s installment of the show, the piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee, walked away with $73,602 in earnings after becoming the first winner of more than three games since Amy Schneider’s January departure. After the episode aired, a video clip was posted on the official Jeopardy! Twitter account that showed Whelchel urging would-be contestants to chase their dreams. While speaking with Jeopardy! Clue Crew member Jimmy McGuire, Whelchel was asked what she wanted fans of the show to know about her....

The NASA Earth Observatory’s image of the day shows the frigid weather forecast across the country for December 23. Many states are colored nearly entirely in dark blue, indicating the temperatures there will be between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius (27-45 degrees Fahrenheit) lower than average for this time of year. Winter storm Elliott is set to unleash freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions across much of the U.S. in the next few days, causing travel disruption just as millions of Americans are setting out for the holidays....

During its close approach, the space rock—dubbed 501647 (2014 SD224)—will come within 0.02019 astronomical units, or nearly 1.9 million miles, of our planet at 8:20 p.m. UTC (3:20 p.m. ET) on December 25, data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Studies (CNEOS) shows. According to CNEOS, the asteroid is estimated to measure anywhere between 302 feet and 689 feet in diameter. At the lower end of this range, the space rock would be almost exactly the same height as the Statue of Liberty....

A Christmas Story, Elf, Bad Santa, Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone, and many others just wouldn’t make sense if it were not for Christmastime. However, many Christmas movie fans are divided about whether some movies whose plot happens around Christmas are technically Christmas movies or not. Most happen during Christmas and there is some festive cheer to them, but there is also a lot of doom and gloom, creepy characters, or crazy situations involving corpses....

The New York City appearance was part of Cross’ latest tour marking the 40th anniversary of his self-titled debut album. Originally released in 1979, the multiplatinum Christopher Cross catapulted the then-unknown Texas singer-songwriter to fame. Not only did it generate such popular soft rock singles as “Ride Like the Wind,” “Sailing,” and “Never Be the Same,” but the album alone netted Cross four major Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year (“Sailing”), Song of the Year (“Sailing”) and Best New Artist—an accomplishment later repeated by Billie Eilish in 2020....

For others, however, Christopher Nolan’s movies, including the newly-released Tenet, are cold, and prize complicated plots over human emotions and feature no human-feeling characters (with women particularly underserved.) With these two schools in mind, here is one writer’s totally subjective ranking of his best and worst of his eleven movies, from his first, 1998’s Following to Tenet. Mild spoilers ahead. Christopher Nolan’s movies ranked from worst to best The Prestige Nolan’s story of two competing magicians shows that he could be an interesting period director, and he does a good job of bringing to life a Houdini-era Victorian world....

In 1959, chromium was first identified as an element that enables the hormone insulin to function properly. Since then, chromium has been studied for diabetes and has become a popular dietary supplement. It is widely available in health food stores, drug stores and online. There are two types of chromium that are commonly studied. Trivalent chromium is found in food and is usually safe to consume in small amounts. This article is about chromium picolinate, a type of trivalent chromium....

One day after Trump tapped Vice President Mike Pence to lead the U.S. coronavirus response at a Wednesday news conference, several unnamed officials told the New York Times that the White House directed government health officials and scientists to coordinate all public statements about the virus with Pence’s office. In response, Schumer, a frequent critic of Trump, accused the president of attempting to hide the truth about coronavirus from Americans....

“Gunner is taking care of personal problems,” Bearcats coach Tommy Tuberville told Cincinnati.com. “He’s asked if we can kind of recognize his privacy. He’s not off the team. He’ll be back, but I don’t know when. That’s pretty much all I can say about it.” MORE: Complete bowl schedule | One reason to watch every bowl game Kiel transferred from Notre Dame to Cincinnati. The junior threw 31 touchdown passes in 2014 but struggled with injuries this past season....

The 55-year-old headed back to the Halfway House Café, in Santa Clarita, California, in a revamped version of the Super Bowl ad. In the original, it sees the Vogue star pull up to the gas station in a red Lamborghini and chug down on a can of soda, as two boys watch agog from a nearby field. The look instantly became a classic, with her bouffant hair, silver hoop earrings, white tank top and daisy duke shorts spawning numerous recreations, and even Halloween outfits....

While no municipal government is worse off than Philadelphia. cities throughout the Northeast are in tough economic straits. Declining tax revenues spawned by a regional recession, coupled with a spiraling demand for services, are forcing city halls to make desperate moves. New York, facing its worst crisis since it nearly went bust in 1975, announced last week that it may lay off 10,000 workers next year to close a projected budget gap of $1....

The Demosisto organization—set up in 2016 by pro-democracy campaigners Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Agnes Chow and others—announced Tuesday it would cease operations following the approval of the national security law. Wong, Law and Chow all said they would continue their fight for full democracy in Hong Kong regardless of Chinese political encroachment. The national security law will criminalize secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces. Opponents have warned that it will effectively stifle free speech and protest in Hong Kong, which until 1997 was a British colony....

For him, the story that stands out was from a man named Oudie Brown. “He said he saw a man washing blood out of his truck. And he asked the man whose blood that was, and the man said, ‘Oh, it’s Emmett Till’s blood.’ Oudie says he drove to the court to try to volunteer to tell this story, but once he got to the court and saw all of the men standing around with guns, he turned around and drove home....

“Universities now know that there’s somebody in the official government world looking over their shoulders carefully,” Neal Scher, a lawyer representing the student, told Newsweek. “They’ll know when students make complaints, which they do all the time, on campuses all over, that the OCR will take them seriously.” Adela Cojab was a senior at NYU when she filed a complaint with the OCR in April, after the university honored Students for Justice in Palestine with the President’s Service Award that month....

But, crucially, so has Ukrainian disinformation and Ukrainian propaganda. Amidst Putin’s reckless revanchism, Ukraine’s defiant president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has seized the opportunity to play a naturally sympathetic Western audience like a fiddle. How else to characterize the Ukrainian government’s opportunistic analogizing of Russia’s damaging of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial with the actual World War II-era genocide committed at Babi Yar—a genocide committed by German Nazis, that is, with no shortage of complicity from all-too-eager local Ukrainians?...

How ironic, then, that Gleichheit has in recent years turned on itself. The very institutions meant to bring about equality are now doing precisely the opposite–creating new inequalities, killing opportunity and erecting fresh barriers to social advancement. Institutionalized mass unemployment, a direct result of the phasing out of low-wage jobs in the name of Gleichheit, has created families where two or three generations live off government handouts. Rigid labor laws protect well-off jobholders from having to compete with the jobless....

Structure The clavicle joins the scapula, or shoulder blade, and sternum to form two joints on either end of the bone, which are: Acromioclavicular (AC) joint: The acromioclavicular joint forms between the acromion of the scapula and clavicle at the top of the shoulder, held together by the acromioclavicular ligament. Sternoclavicular joint: The sternoclavicular joint forms between the sternum and clavicle at the front of the chest, and is supported by the costoclavicular ligament....

On Monday morning, singer Clay Aiken announced his intention to run for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, which has been newly redrawn, on Twitter because, as the singer put it, “We need powerful voices more than ever, so I’m running for Congress.” Following his announcement, former The View host and daughter of the late Senator John McCain, Meghan McCain, showed her support saying, “Congratulations on your campaign launch @clayaiken! We love you!...

The Iron Curtain has been drawn back, and the environmental devastation of Eastern Europe is proving even worse than feared. Uncontrolled heavy industry has blackened entire regions. By some accounts, seven of Czechoslovakia’s eight major rivers are dead or dying. Children in sooty sties like Bitterfeld, East Germany, suffer chronic bronchial infections. Companies that specialize in waste management and pollution control smell an opportunity to clean up; estimates put an East Germany fix-up alone at about $200 billion....