This pandemic has rattled families across the United States and the world. At a time of such uncertainty, the public needs clear and consistent messaging about risk, testing, treatments and all aspects of COVID-19. But instead of letting respected experts directly address the American public, President Donald Trump has amplified his personal and political opinions about the virus. His incorrect statements have conflicted with those of experts, leading to confusion about who is in charge and who should be trusted....

Gerrard urges Liverpool to sign Van Dijk Rooney surpassed Bobby Charlton as United’s top scorer with his 250th goal in their 1-1 Premier League draw at Stoke City on Saturday. The 31-year-old came off the bench in that match and his future is far from certain, with the England skipper no longer an automatic starter under Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford. Mourinho said that he would not stand in Rooney’s way should he take up an offer in the lucrative Chinese Super League but the country’s record marksman is happy in Manchester....

The Germany international joined PSG for a reported €42million from Wolfsburg in January and scored 10 goals in 25 appearances in all competitions in the final few months of the 2016/17 season. PSG, though, added further reinforcements in the shape of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in the close-season - two players expected to compete with Draxler for a place in the team. The 24-year-old’s future subsequently became the subject of speculation, but he feels it is important for the Ligue 1 giants to sign players of such calibre and he has since adapted to a more central role....

Pochettino had the dubious honour of sharing a room with the veteran Maradona at Newell’s Old Boys in 1994, the mercurial forward having returned home following his glittering, if erratic, spell in Europe with Barcelona, Napoli and Sevilla. Chelsea 28/1 to beat Spurs 3-1 Speaking ahead of the clash against Chelsea at Wembley, the Spurs manager cast his mind back to the chaos of attempting to learn his trade alongside one of football’s most colourful characters....

The 35-year-old became the first United player to hit the 20-goal mark since Robin van Persie scored 30 in the 2013-14 season, while he simultaneously became the oldest player in history to score 15 in the Premier League. Premier League Team of the Week But the Swede insisted afterwards that he has a figure in mind for his debut campaign in the Premier League, and 20 is not enough for him even if he doesn’t expect to come close to the 50 he scored in his final season at Paris Saint-Germain....

Promes was hauled off with a suspected toe injury seconds after Damjan Bohar scored in the 85th minute to cancel out Aleksandr Samedov’s opener for the visitors. Spartak 13/2 group winner After his side played the final minutes of the game without their in-form frontman, Carrera revealed that the decision to substitute him was made in error. “Promes’ substitution was a mistake,” Carrera told reporters. “I wanted to replace another player, but he [Promes] pointed to his foot and I thought he had a problem....

I was arrested for spending a counterfeit $20 bill in 1994. It is not a secret. Many times I have told the story of unknowingly handing over a fake bill to a store clerk and ending up in the back of a police cruiser. What makes it an entertaining story is that it happened to an 18-year-old goodie two shoes: Eagle scout, former altar boy, and honor roll student. What terrible luck, to be out minding my own business, and then out of nowhere, thrown in jail for a night....

How will the folksy Buffett style mesh with Salomon’s culture of intensity? Certainly the new chairman has gone to great lengths to keep the lines of communication open. Buffett has held several meetings with Salomon employees to answer questions and restore confidence; many staffers who couldn’t attend watched the proceedings on closed-circuit-TV screens. He has also set up a hot line to allow deskbound workers to listen in via telephone....

The prolific and versatile actor had a decade-spanning career punctuated by iconic and memorable roles. From playing an evil android in Ridley Scott’s Alien all the way back in 1979, to voicing Chef Skinner in beloved Pixar animation, Ratatouille. It was The Lord of the Rings franchise however that introduced Holms’ talent to an entirely new generation as embodied by the beloved hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Holm went on to reprise the role of Baggins in 2003’s The Return Of The King, and played an elder Baggins in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies—in which the younger Baggins was played by Martin Freeman....

Ibrahimovic has taken the Premier League by storm since swapping French champions Paris Saint-Germain for United in the off-season, scoring 17 goals. The 35-year-old Swede has defied his age to sit second in the Premier League’s goalscoring standings with 12 but the evergreen marksman is not content heading into the New Year, with there a determination on his part to help share the goals around. Ibra: I’ve made critics eat their balls...

While the letter acknowledges the “real and emotional impact of immigration enforcement,” it states that “casting aspersions about our officers’ intentions only spreads fear in a community” in a way that is “unfair and without merit.” “Across the country, a national debate about current and future U.S. immigration policy is growing louder by the day,” the letter published on ICE’s website begins. “As field office directors for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), we oversee the offices that enforce immigration laws within the interior of the United States, and we want to set the record straight....

In their latest video, you get to witness the strange sport of mud football up close and personal, without actually getting covered in filth. The game looks like soccer, but played in about a foot of sloppy, gross mud and with a few less rules. MORE: Mind-blowing GoPro ski video | Crazy NHL GoPro video | Photos of the week Apparently, pushing your opponent face-first into the mud is perfectly acceptable and that’s awesome....

More than five weeks after Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were found dead in an off-campus rental house in Moscow, police have yet to identify a suspect or make any arrests. With police keeping a tight grip on information to preserve the integrity of the case, several questions remain unanswered. Moscow Police Chief James Fry acknowledged on Friday that the mass exodus of students from the tiny college town—on edge since the November 13 slayings—for winter break presents a challenge for investigators....

Distraught owners Amy and Michael Nelson said their cat Mystic, who has been left permanently blind in that eye, came home on Monday, March 21, limping, meowing loudly, and covered in blood. Amy Nelson, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, told local news channel KHQ her pet’s eye was hanging out. “It was half out, and black,” she said. Her husband added: “I look down and see her face just full of blood....

The aircraft and airline industries, of course, have experienced an extreme decrease in demand as a result of COVID-19. Airlines are critical in terms of employment, exports and national security, as well as domestic and global transportation, and sought an emergency infusion of some $50 billion from the government. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that, according to three unidentified sources familiar with the matter, the deal will combine plans proposed by House Democrats and Senate Republicans and offer some $25 billion in loans or grants to the airline industry and potentially $17 billion to assist planemaker Boeing....

The Trump administration has been accused of pressuring the newly-elected Ukrainian president to open a probe into the business dealings of 2020 Democratic front-runner Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. An unidentified whistleblower, reportedly concerned about a phone call between the president and Ukraine, filed an official complaint. The alleged phone call coincided with the Trump administration’s decision to withhold $250 million in military aid. Following bipartisan pressure from Congress, the funds were eventually released, along with an additional $140 million....

The NCAA did not decline the settlement designed by the attorneys for O’Bannon and 19 other members of the class action, which included basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson. The NCAA declined to hear the offer. “The only thing we got from them was showing us the door,” attorney Michael Hausfeld, an expert in antitrust law, told Sporting News. “They were so deluded into believing they had an absolute immunity by reason of that off-the-cuff reference that students cannot be paid that they took a totally absolutist position that they had nothing to fear....

As we endeavor to understand how All-American sophomore guard Marcus Smart came to spend the last 24 hours as a talking point instead of a point guard, this is not a bad place to start. At a moment when Ford ought to have had the safety and well-being of his most important player foremost in his mind, Ford was focused on how to rescue the lost cause of defeating the Texas Tech Red Raiders....

Many of the respondents also reported that they have been having a harder time managing their migraine symptoms and feel that their overall health and well-being have suffered. Verywell spoke to several experts about the survey, as well as what people living with migraines can do to better manage their symptoms amid the added stress of the pandemic. The Survey The HMPF survey asked more than 1,000 people living with migraines in the United States how the pandemic has affected their health, including their ability to manage their symptoms and access care....

We’ve been over that a lot , so there’s no need to rehash everything. The most recent and highest-profile example is the Maple Leafs, who hired a stats-informed assistant general manager in Kyle Dubas. He, in turn, brought in two data-driven bloggers (Cam Charron and Rob Pettapiece) and the brains behind the best-yet way to access and interpret advanced stats (Extra Skater’s Daryl Metcalf). That’s a major move. It also seems to represent a huge organizational shift; the Maple Leafs, given their public refusal to acknowledge the efficacy of all that stuff, were last season’s test case for math — and math won....