Florida, Arizona and Texas—all led by Republican governors—are grappling with an explosion of cases. “Arizona has lost control of the epidemic,” declared Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia disease monitors, warning it was “eclipsing the New York City boroughs even on their worst days.” In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott rolled back parts of the state’s reopening plan, shuttering bars again this past Friday after a 79 percent spike in its weekly average of infections....

Nearly 200 new cases have been confirmed in the U.S., with around 750 reported as of Tuesday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. New cases have been reported in several states including Virginia, Maryland and New York, which currently has the highest number of cases in the country. Around 80 of the total infections in the country have been travel-related and around 30 cases have resulted from person-to-person spread, while around 500 cases are “under investigation,” according to the latest figures from the CDC....

On Thursday morning, there were a total of 82,446 cases, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Along with an increased number of cases, the morning update included nine new countries, who reported their first cases, bringing the total number of infected countries to 47. Eight of the nine countries that were added to the list—Norway, Georgia, Denmark, North Macedonia, Brazil, Romania, Estonia and Greece—each had one confirmed case....

most people just call it the Facility. It is barely two acres, but it is the current resting place for 188 corpses. Some of them are buried; others lie on the grass or in the woods, decaying. Since 1981, the Facility has studied hundreds of corpses to determine what happens to the human body after it dies. The farm not only helps law-enforcement agencies close previously unsolvable murders, but it also provides testimony for the dead, telling their story when they are no longer able to tell it themselves....

title: “Corroded Values” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-17” author: “Chad Smith”

Even if you just frame things from one calendar year to the next, Sandhagen had an excellent first season in the big leagues and began his sophomore year in style as well. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year After finishing Austin Arnett with a nasty body shot last January to win his debut, the Elevation Fight Team member scored a second-round finish of Brazilian veteran Iuri Alcantara in his second Octagon appearance....

Surgeons harvest a fingertip-size patch of hair from the back of the scalp. Then they isolate individual follicles and implant anywhere from 10 to 50 lashes on the top lid using a curved needle. Patients are awake throughout the procedure (after taking a sedative) and receive a local anesthetic to minimize pain. Side effects may include temporarily puffy lids and scarring. There’s also regular upkeep: the new eyelashes continue to grow at the same rate as the hair on your head, so they must be continually trimmed....

The game has been over for more than an hour now, but he understands Larry Davis has been too busy to call in the interim — busy fulfilling all the responsibilities of a college basketball head coach following an important conference game, busy doing the things Cronin was handling himself until that alarming afternoon seven weeks ago. Cronin answers the phone with a sense of delight. The two speak for about seven minutes, their conversation far less a conference than a celebration....

Trump has weighed into the crucial contests, endorsing a slew of candidates including Herschel Walker in Georgia and Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania—two close races that could determine control of the Senate. The race for the Senate is now a dead heat, according to poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, but Republicans are favored to win the House of Representatives, which would allow them to stymie Biden’s agenda. Much will depend on whether Republicans can retake the Senate and whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will return as the upper chamber’s majority leader....

But the list of unsigned players remains long, and for guys like Jake Arrieta and Mike Moustakas, the end of a frustrating offseason might not be around the corner. Teams need starting pitching, but seem to be balking at the money and years Arrieta is asking for. There were a handful of teams looking for the type of third-base upgrade that Moustakas offers, but they’ve almost all gone in different (cheaper) directions....

Kyrie Irving, who led the team with 26 points, drained a clutch 3-pointer with just .44 seconds remaining to give Cleveland a 3-point lead. He also added six rebounds and six assists. MORE: NBA season predictions Neither team scored another basket after Irving’s 26-footer, which gave the Cavs yet another close win against their new Eastern Conference rivals. Toronto played the Cavs tough in the conference finals last season, and it appears the two teams are destined to meet in future postseason matchups....

The Broncos rewrote just about everything with Peyton Manning in 2013. His 5,477 passing yards and 55 passing touchdowns broke respective records by Drew Brees and Tom Brady. It added up to the Broncos scoring the most points in a season (606) in NFL history. While Manning is still stuck with one Super Bowl ring, his other stats keep shooting up. Peyton is a perfect place to start (and finish) for numbers you need to know to count down to 2014 NFL season kickoff Thursday night:...

Freeman told CNN after a briefing on Thursday that all four officers–Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng–invoked their Fifth Amendment rights. The Fifth Amendment, commonly referred to as the right to remain silent, allows a person to refuse to testify if their answer could incriminate themselves. However, Kelly told Newsweek that Chauvin did not. Newsweek reached out to the Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman’s office for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication....

Paul Szewc and his wife Sandy, both 61, met in 1982 when Sandy asked Paul to dance in a bar. The duo later posed beside a 12-foot sunflower Paul had grown in his mother’s garden back in September 1984. Thirty-eight years later, the gardening enthusiasts were delighted when they grew another whopper and recreated the photo they took when they first got together. Szewc, a furniture maker from Ontario, Canada, said: “One of our sunflowers just so happened to shoot up again....

According to their obituary, Thomas Fortenberry, 69, and Diane Fortenberry, 68, who passed away on January 13, had been infected with the disease since this past Christmas. In a blog post, a nurse at WakeMed hospital where the couple had received care wrote that before the couple passed away hospital staff moved them into the same ICU room. “After setting them up, side-by-side, hand-in-hand, we gave the family some time alone with their parents, one last time,” the nurse wrote....

In a clip of a Gwinnett County Public Schools meeting last week, Taylor complained that children were still unable to play with each other on the playground as they normally would, and said her six-year-old daughter did not like wearing her mask. A video of her speech was posted on social media on Thursday and has since gone viral, with one copy being viewed more than 1.7 million times....

Conte speaks in English to his team but still retains a thick Italian accent, and his No.1 has become an expert at mimicking the way his gaffer speaks. Chelsea offer Lewis Baker a new deal Courtois has launched a mini-documentary series called #ThibautRevealed and he told the story of the how he was encouraged to do the impression in front of Conte after winning the title away at West Bromwich Albion....

Chelsea fans fume over Cesc absence The Republic of Ireland international, making his full debut for the Clarets, bent the ball into the top corner to make it 1-1 at Turf Moor after Pedro had given the Blues the lead. And the goal was a significant one for Thibaut Courtois, with the Chelsea goalkeeper having now conceded his first goal direct from a free-kick in the Premier League. The last player to score a free-kick against the west London club in the league was Rickie Lambert back in 2013 during his Southampton days....

In a motion last week, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to block any public testimony about the circumstances of Padilla’s interrogations during the more than three years he was detained and interrogated in a military brig in South Carolina. For most of that time, Padilla, a 35-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen who was raised in Chicago, was held incommunicado, unable to meet with his lawyer or any other visitors....

Publicly available data released by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense since last September also shows an increased fighter aircraft presence in the island nation’s self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ). Analysis of the People’s Liberation Army’s incursions into Taiwan’s defensive airspace in 2020 showed China had dispatched an estimated total of 380 mostly slow-moving aircraft. The figure marked a serious escalation in cross-strait military tensions not seen since 1996, amid the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis....