Because of new rules set in place by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), it may be even more difficult for Booker and other candidates to make it to the next Democratic debate. Booker has already received financial donations from at least 225,000 separate individuals but is only ranked at 2 percent in a recent poll from The New York Times. That places Booker in eighth place, setting him below entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar....

Blues 11/8 to be top London club Costa was Chelsea’s top scorer with 20 goals as they secured a second league title in three years last season but Conte has since informed the Spain international he does not feature in his first-team plans. The manner of this rejection provides a major flash point in the current stand-off, with Costa claiming Conte dumped him via text message when he was away on international duty in June....

The men’s tournament is set to get underway on March 17, with the women’s tournament to follow three days later and the governing body of collegiate sports insisted no changes were planned as yet. “The NCAA is committed to conducting its championships and events in a safe and responsible manner,” Donald Remy, the NCAA chief operating officer, said in a statement on Tuesday night. “Today we are planning to conduct our championships as planned, however, we are evaluating the COVID-19 situation daily and will make decisions accordingly....

That’s how a Massachusetts defense attorney who regularly works cases in the same courthouse in which Hernandez was arraigned believes Hernandez’s defense will interpret Friday’s indictment of Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace. “I think they were going to go with the theme that this was a rush to arrest (Hernandez). I think this enhances their argument that it was a rush to arrest, then investigate later,’’ said Michael DelSignore, a Bristol, Mass....

Does that 70-year-old stereotype still apply today? Saddam’s opponents say no. They are on their way to overcoming their differences, they claim, or at least to compromising about them. Kurds, Shiites, dissident members of Saddam’s Baath Party, communists and even old monarchists say - all of them - that they want a unified and free Iraq. Uniformly, if vaguely, they espouse democracy as the only path to enduring stability. But their reputations, and history, have caught them in a geopolitical Catch-22....

Western intelligence estimates that Russia has suffered huge losses in Ukraine, both in terms of military equipment and troops. Kyiv claims these numbers are even higher than the ones shared by Western observers, while Moscow has so far been very reserved about the number of actual losses suffered in Ukraine. Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Ministry of Defense for comment. Here’s a breakdown of everything we know so far about the military losses suffered by Moscow’s troops in Ukraine....

Raine, who goes by Sissyhankshaw online, shared a clip to TikTok revealing their bizarre layout. The video of the secret room has been watched more than eight million times. The 27-year-old gave followers a mini-house tour online, showing the inside and outside of their new 1,110 sq ft home, somewhere in the Midwest. She explained that she and her boyfriend didn’t want to unnecessarily travel from Philadelphia to look at the house amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and with Raine’s background in real estate they felt confident to make an offer....

Posting in Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole” (AITA) forum under a throwaway account, the man asked: “AITA for asking my girlfriend to pay for the wine glass she broke?” The post has garnered 8,400 upvotes and thousands of comments questioning the state of the couple’s relationship. Now, the couple may be on the verge of breaking up. Why Couples Fight According to New York City-based relationship expert and love coach Susan Winter, how a couple fights and what they fight about tends to change after moving in together....

The order came as part of a larger legal action between two divorced parents who disagreed over whether their 10- and 12-year-old children should receive coronavirus vaccines, CTV News reported. The parents were not named in the ruling, but share joint custody of the children. According to court documents, both parents have agreed that their kids would receive their routine childhood vaccines and flu immunization. However, when the mother said she wanted the children to also be vaccinated against COVID-19, an argument erupted between the adults, which ultimately landed them in court....

Knicks guard Courtney Lee cares not for your silly triangle; he showed Friday that by putting back a massive dunk off a Derrick Rose miss in the second quarter against the 76ers. MORE: Seven questions that highlight the end of the NBA regular season Lee doesn’t care for triangles, or even his own teammates, apparently: He dunked on Kyle O’Quinn! He’s a center! O’Quinn didn’t seem to care, as he casually skipped away from the dunk after it happened....

“As the channel fails to meet the requirements to broadcast in China as an overseas channel, BBC World News is not allowed to continue its service within Chinese territory,” read the NRTA’s statement, which appeared in a recent report published by Xinhua News Agency, the official state-operated press bureau affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). “The NRTA will not accept the channel’s broadcast application for the new year,” the statement continued....

The report was also released just days after the U.S., citing concerns over human rights abuses, announced it would not be sending diplomats to the Olympics, which are slated to begin in February. The report was published by New China Research, which is the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, the country’s official state-run media organization. The agency works as a major distributor of propaganda related to the Communist Party of China....

At a daily Foreign Ministry press briefing on Thursday, spokesperson Hua Chunying said Beijing “firmly opposes and strongly condemns this move by the U.S.,” in which a military C-40A transport aircraft entered Taiwanese airspace on Tuesday with permission, but did not land. Hua said the flight “gravely violates international law and basic norms governing international relations.” China does not consider Taiwan—officially called the Republic of China—to be an independent country, but rather a wayward province of a unified country....

The White House’s decision to announce its government-level boycott on Monday has led to a snowball effect of similar actions by Australia, the United Kingdom and, most recently, Canada. The four nations are understood to have been in close contact to coordinate the collective response. “The U.S., Australia, U.K. and Canada’s use of the Olympics for political manipulation is unpopular and self-isolating,” said the spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin....

Deng Xijun, the Chinese ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), shared a satellite image of Taiwan accompanied by photographs of People’s Liberation Army aircraft. He then referenced the 149 Chinese aircraft that flew near Taiwan in the first four days of the month, but omitted the additional spy plane that returned on October 5. “By dispatching 149 warplanes near #Taiwan island since Oct 1, the #PLA sent strong warning to the Taiwan secessionists & their foreign supporters,” tweeted Deng....

The advice appeared in a November 25 edition of a document titled Technical Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control for Airlines, which outlined 38 pages of guidelines for airlines to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On high-risk flights to and from countries where coronavirus infections exceed 500 in every one million people, the CAAC recommends that flight attendants avoid germy bathrooms by wearing diapers, Bloomberg reported. The section also advises that cabin crew wear “medical masks, double-layer disposable medical gloves, goggles, disposable hats, disposable protective clothing, and disposable shoe covers....

Towing a similar line, Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 are proving ineffective. No one thought that the inferior quality of Chinese vaccines would end people’s lives. Indonesian nurse Erny Kusuma Sukma Dewi died soon after she was given a dose of Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine. According to the National Union of Indonesian Nurses, 33-year-old Dewi contracted COVID-19 soon after she took a Chinese vaccine. Following fever, difficulty breathing and coughing she died....