Kluber, 28, beat out the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez and the White Sox’s Chris Sale for the award. SN AWARDS: Kershaw Player of the Year | AL rookie | NL rookie | Managers | AL All-Stars | NL All-Stars Kluber led the AL in wins (18), bWAR for pitchers (7.4), fielding-independent pitching (2.35) and games started (34) while finishing second in strikeouts (269). He maintained his low-key manner when his name was called on the MLB Network broadcast Wednesday night....

Biotechnology comes in colors–red for pharmaceuticals, green for agriculture and white for the use of plants to replace petroleum in everything from fuel to textiles and plastic. White biotech spells the end of petrochemicals as we know them, and is already big business. McKinsey consulting predicts that white biotech will account for 10 percent of sales, or $125 billion, within the chemical industry by 2010, up from 7 percent, or $77 billion, in 2005....

The Sentencing Project has called on public officials to release people in jail who do not pose a public safety risk, such as those housed in pre-trial detention or rehabilitated people. “Existing unsanitary and overcrowded prison and jail conditions will exacerbate the spread of the new coronavirus,” The Sentencing Project senior research analyst Nazgol Ghandnoosh said in a statement to Newsweek. “Elderly incarcerated people often pose little public safety risk but disproportionately suffer from chronic medical conditions and thus are at the highest risk of dying from COVID-19....

According to a new graph published by Dr. Maria Danilychev, who practices in San Diego, COVID-19 has moved past accidents, chronic lung disease, strokes, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and kidney disease as the third most likely cause of death in the U.S. The graph uses data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the daily average cause of death and compares this with COVID-19 statistics from Worldometers....

“We are mixing into this epidemic the most lethal means for suicide that has ever been invented,” Dr. Eric Fleegler, a professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric emergency physician, told Newsweek. The pandemic and the economic and social havoc it unleashed in the country can trigger or contribute to mental distress, Fleegler wrote with two other authors in an essay published earlier this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine....

Judges in Jefferson County are issuing court orders to hold COVID-19 patients who don’t stay at home liable for their actions, WHAS11 reported. According to the station, the Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness Department has the authority to issue an “order of isolation” under state law, which a circuit judge can approve or deny. If the order is served, officers from the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections then place a GPS monitoring device on the patient, who could be arrested or face charges if they break the terms of the order....

South Korea has had one of the largest outbreaks of the new coronavirus, and nearly 8,000 people have contracted the virus, which has killed 67 people in the country. The outbreak appears to be waning, though, and on Friday the KCDC reported that 177 additional people were pronounced recovered from the virus and that there were only 110 new cases. South Korea reported its first case on January 20, and in the two months since, 510 people have recovered and 7,402 remain in isolation....

The United States has become the epicenter of the outbreak and on Tuesday had more than 368,000 cases. This is more than double the number of cases in Spain, the country with the second-largest outbreak. President Donald Trump has warned that this week will be among the toughest America will face. Tuesday’s briefing is scheduled for 5 p.m. EST, the standard time for the daily update. On TV, C-SPAN will broadcast it live on C-SPAN 1, as well as on its website and C-SPAN Radio....

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued elevated travel warnings to some of these countries, which are the latest hot spots to see a rapid spread of the virus in recent days. The H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel in Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, was reported to be on lockdown on Tuesday after one of its guests, an Italian national had been diagnosed with the virus, Reuters reports....

Simeon Courtie, an author and former children’s TV presenter, is taking part in a trial being run by the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group. Starting Friday, phase one of the trial will test whether the vaccine is safe to use in healthy volunteers, and enable researcher to see if it generates an immune response. There are 500 people taking part in the trial, Courtie told Good Morning Britain....

Several pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms have joined the race to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, which has infected over 2.4 million people across at least 185 countries and regions, as of Tuesday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. The director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is also a member of the White House COVID-19 task force, stated: “It will take at least a year to a year in a half to have a vaccine we can use....

Scientists from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health used advanced computer simulations to mathematically model the spread of the novel coronavirus for a paper published in the journal Science. The novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, emerged in Wuhan, China, toward the end of 2019 and rapidly spread across the country and, subsequently, internationally. “Efforts to contain the virus are ongoing; however, given the many uncertainties regarding pathogen transmissibility and virulence, the effectiveness of these efforts is unknown,” the researchers wrote in the paper....

Booker, who has previously disavowed accepting PAC money, briefly appeared shocked after CNN host Jim Acosta played a campaign ad that compared the former mayor of Newark, New Jersey to fellow Democratic presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg. The ad is set to air in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, just days after a pro-Booker PAC shut down due to lack of fundraising and Acosta pressed Booker on the anti-Buttigieg attack ad....

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it is bracing for a surge in the abandonment of animals such as snakes and bearded dragons as higher electricity bills start landing on people’s doormats in the United Kingdom. But as owners struggle to afford keeping their costly ultraviolet (UV) and heat lamps on, reptile shop owner Charles Thompson has already seen a spike in dumped reptiles....

For much of the game the story went according to plan. Uruguay struck first on a penalty kick after a Costa Rican defender was booked for a tackle inside the goal box. But it all changed in the second half. WORLD CUP: Photos | Beats By Dre commercial | Colombia’s celebration Following a nice cross from the right side, Joel Cambell buried a shot in the back of Uruguay's net in the 53rd minute to even the game at 1-1....

This article explains why you may cough after exercise and why it’s more common when you run in the cold. It also covers remedies for these coughing attacks and tips on when to seek medical help for your cough. What Causes You to Cough After Running One of the most common causes of coughing after running is exercise-induced bronchoconstriction or EIB. This condition affects up to 20% of the general population and up to 90% of people with asthma....

Though incest was common in the real world during the time of the show’s medieval setting—especially in royal families—depictions of such relationships could be triggering for incest survivors. Newsweek reached out to three incest experts who have not seen House of the Dragon, but commented on how onscreen portrayals that normalize incest can be problematic. Dr. Judith L. Herman, a well-known trauma expert and part-time psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, told Newsweek that “certainly anything in pop culture that denies the harm of incest is hurtful to survivors....

But some Democratic strategists and former staffers of the independent senator’s unsuccessful 2016 White House bid suggest that such anxieties are perhaps oversimplified, and the passion that exists among Sanders supporters could be the key to uniting the party behind a nominee and unseating the president. “It’s a false choice,” Rich Pelletier, the national field director and deputy campaign manager for Sanders in 2016, told Newsweek. “Bernie has said that health care is a human right and that it should not be in the hands of profiteers....

Jon Meacham: Hello, I’m Jon Meacham and I’m looking forward to answering, or trying to answer, some of your questions about the Newsweek cover this week. Bellevue, WA: Are there any historical situations that are similar to the one that Bloomberg is in now? Any examples from history that would give us a clue as to what will happen from here? Jon Meacham: What really interests me about a possible Bloomberg presidential bid is that it has few, if any, historical precedents....

Musk finalized his purchase of the social media platform Thursday after months of negotiations with the company. Musk has rumored firing a large swath of Twitter’s staff and intends to abolish the lifelong bans the company previously initiated, allowing individuals such as former President Donald Trump to return to the social media platform. Some conservatives have criticized Twitter by alleging the platform censors right-wing views, and now that Musk has indicated plans to lessen the restrictions, it is unclear how candidates will use the platform to their benefit....