Gerald Pizzuto, 66, was scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 15. But the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) said in a post on Facebook on Wednesday that preparations for the execution have been suspended. IDOC director Josh Tewalt informed the state Board of Correction that he believes it is unlikely the state will be able to secure the drugs needed. In a memo, he said he believes the death warrant should be allowed to expire....

Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old graduate student at the Washington State University, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder over the killings, though he has denied responsibility and hopes to be “exonerated of these charges.” Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were killed at a shared student house in Moscow, Idaho, during the early hours of November 13. Two other female students who were in the house when the murders took place escaped unharmed....

The Coeur d’Alene School District, which is a 10-minute walk from Kootenai Health, the hospital at Idaho’s northern epicenter, has also decided to end its contact tracing efforts. School Spokesman Scott Maben said the agency previously supporting the school district, Panhandle Health District, is now providing help only to health care providers, long-term care facility residents and workers, and students and school staffers. “We don’t have the resources to do it this year,” Maben said....

“We see material upside to stocks across our sector if the ACA is upheld and Biden does not pursue an onerous/expansive public option,” J.P. Morgan’s Managed Care/Facilities research team said in a report on the 2020 election. And Biden saying, “I won’t take people’s commercial coverage away” during the televised presidential debate last month is “a strong clue that election risk has become increasingly asymmetric to the upside,” the report said....

As an emergency-room nurse, I’m constantly forced to shuffle the needs of the sick and injured. At that particular moment, half of my 12 patients were screaming for pain medication, most of the others needed to be rushed off to tests and one was desperately trying not to die on me. Was that blanket important in the grand scheme of things? Not really. She wasn’t going to die without it....

Excited for a likely postseason appearance, yes, but also for what that means: An epic tribute montage is probably on the way. MORE: 10 greatest Cubs of all time The tribute montage is the ultimate sports-TV celebration of success: the season’s best highlights, many in slow motion, played over a thematically appropriate though often syrupy song designed to fill you with nostalgia, excitement and hope. A stroll through YouTube shows that the Cubs have had some doozies....

The Obama Administration had an opportunity to combat this problem. A detailed 2016 report from the Department of Agriculture, which administers the food-stamp program, found that almost 10 percent of household food-stamp expenditures were on sweetened beverages and another 10 percent on desserts, salty snacks, candy and sugar. As a result, Maine, Minnesota, New York City, and others recommended excluding sweetened beverages from the list of foods you could buy with food-stamps....

According to Deadline, the streaming giant will continue production in those two countries, because of strict coronavirus testing and tracking. In a call following the earnings announcement Sarandos said that information from the Icelandic and South Korean markets can be used to learn more about other markets as the world slowly starts to open up once again. Sarandos laid out why the production could continue in Iceland and South Korea, rather than other countries....

Gauff has torn through the competition in the 2022 French Open, having won each set in which she has played, including a dominant 6-3, 6-1 performance against Martina Trevisan in her semifinal match on Thursday. But the road to her first Grand Slam singles title will face its biggest challenge on Saturday when she faces Iga Swiatek in the final. Swiatek, the world No. 1 WTA player, has won 34 straight matches, having not lost a match since Feb....

After the 2020 tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IIHF Men’s World Championship is back in 2021. Sixteen teams will compete in the 17-day tourney set to take place in Latvia. Normally a way for NHLers who don’t make the postseason to continue plying their trade, the 2021 tournament is jam-packed with youngsters aiming to prove their NHL worth, including a number of prospects set to be drafted in July....

The now-infamous IK Enemkpali, playing for the Bills these days, commemorated the occasion Thursday by taking a swing at teammate Cyrus Kouandjio during training camp practice drills — exactly one year to the day of the incident in Florham Park, N.J. MORE: Worst clubhouse cancers Thursday’s haymaker, which didn’t connect, occurred during a heated scuffle between Enemkpali and Kouandjio, according to The Buffalo News. Guard Ryan Groy came to fellow offensive lineman Kouandjio’s aid, creating a two-on-one situation, before the players were separated....

The Swedish retailer on Tuesday saw its final day of business in Russia after earlier announcing plans to close up shop in response to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. IKEA is the latest Western company to sever ties with Russia after a wave of businesses earlier fled the country over pressure to renounce Moscow. IKEA said on its Russian website that beginning July 5 its products could be purchased online “for a few weeks while stocks last....

The Minnesota Democrat t the Times of London in an interview published Sunday, “I do believe [Tara] Reade,” when asked about the 1993 ex-senate staffer’s sexual accusations against then-Delaware Senator Biden. Reade publicly accused Biden of sexually assaulting her earlier this year, telling news outlets she waited decades to reveal the story because she kept"chickening out" of any previous formal complaints. Omar said she wanted Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to have won the Democratic primary, but after he dropped out in April, Biden is her only choice for president in the general election....

The temporary initiatives are scheduled to begin on July 1. The grocery relief is due to last a year until June 2023, while the gas relief is scheduled to remain in place for six months until the end of this year. The scheme is part of Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker’s plan to tackle the soaring prices and record inflation hitting the U.S. as a result of global issues, such as the war in Ukraine and the effects of the pandemic....

Evermore Pleasant Grove, Utah The main attractions at this theme park aren’t rides—there aren’t any—but, instead, trained actors who play fantasy characters. A yearlong Renaissance fair, Evermore invites visitors to join a guild, learn characters’ backstories and role-play their own, while participating in various tasks and quests. Parque Xcaret Cancún, Mexico This park is named for the nearby archaeological site, Xcaret, formerly a Mayan settlement. Rather than man-made roller coasters, the theme park uses the natural environment to give visitors thrills....

Glenn Spencer, a Sherman Oaks grandfather, expresses his distress by hanging a California flag upside down on a wall inside his hillside home. Three years ago he launched a local citizens group to fight California’s illegal alien “invasion.” Proposition 187 passed, but Spencer is not appeased. Now he has a new target: after the L.A. school board approved a lawsuit helping to block Prop 187, he launched a recall election against its president....

Titled Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States, the study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), found that immigrants tend to play “relatively large roles as employers, rather than employees, compared to U.S.-born individuals.” “People want to think of immigrants as coming into the economy and maybe not having very many skills and not having a positive impact on the economy,” Benjamin Jones, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University involved in the study, told Newsweek on Tuesday....

In March 2021, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported it encountered more than 173,348 persons attempting entry along the Southwest border. The total represented a 71 percent increase over February 2021. April—the last month with official numbers available—saw an even higher figure when 178,622 individuals were detained after trying to enter the border. That makes April’s figures the highest level since April 2020, when more than 180,000 attempted crossing the Southwest border....

The symptoms resemble those of other common viruses and most people never even realize they are infected at all. There is currently no treatment to eradicate EBV from your body. There is also no vaccine currently available to prevent EBV infection. Background Based on evidence that EBV may contribute to the development of MS, researchers are working to find a treatment that targets the virus. It’s still not clear whether treating EBV could slow down a person’s MS disease course or perhaps even prevent MS from developing in the first place....

Not least from the president himself, who shared an image of himself to his 67.7 million followers on Twitter in the wake of yesterday’s vote with the caption: “In reality they’re not after me, they’re after you, I’m just in the way.” Today, #Trump2020 became a trending topic. Memes were not limited to one side of the political divide, with images shared with hashtags such as #ImpeachmentDay and #ImpeachmentVote....