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Arluan Van Hook, an 18-year-old sophomore engineering student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, told KSDK, a local television news station, that the targeted harassment against him began as far back as March. “I’ve been told all African Americans live on welfare and just off government assistance. I’ve been called the n-word,” he said. “I was pulled on, pushed around in the dark woods.” He explained to the news station the toll the alleged bullying has taken on him....

Champaign police Sgt. Bruce Ramseyer said on News-Gazette.com that the 19-year-old victim, also a University of Illinois athlete, confirmed to police she had been hit once in the face by Tate. MORE: NCAA basketball live scoreboard | UConn clock controversy Ramseyer said the responding officers could see she was spitting blood and had a swollen face. She went to a local hospital’s emergency room to be evaluated. Police arrested Tate without incident and he was booked in Champaign County Jail at 6:15 a....

The asteroid, known as 2021 GW4, was travelling at 18,700 miles per hour when it passed our planet—nine times faster than a rifle bullet. At its closest point, 2021 GW4 passed by us at just 7 percent of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. It was also much closer to us than some man-made geostationary satellites, which typically orbit at around 22,000 miles. The asteroid’s closest pass occurred at 9:01 a....

Cardiff’s Principality Stadium will host the June showpiece and Barca will need to turn around a 4-0 last-16 first-leg deficit to Paris Saint-Germain to keep their hopes of playing in the final alive. If Luis Enrique’s men were to complete that remarkable comeback and progress to the final then it is possible there could be issues with Messi and Neymar – who both have proceedings surrounding tax evasion ongoing – gaining entry to the country....

A report released by the Home Office, which looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the immigration system, shows how passengers arriving by air, sea and rail fell sharply, along with visa and asylum applications. The number of passengers arriving by air into the U.K. fell by 99% in April 2020, compared to April 2019, with the number of arrivals by air decreasing from 7.1 million in January 2020 to 3....

The decision comes as BA.2 becomes the dominant variant in the United States, accounting for around 55% of all new cases, according to data from the CDC. Pfizer had requested an FDA authorization for people 65 and older while Moderna requested for people 18 and older. But the FDA opted to set age 50 as the benchmark for the fourth dose. “Current evidence suggests some waning of protection over time against serious outcomes from COVID-19 in older and immunocompromised individuals,” said Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research....

To accomodate off-road excursions, the panel features altimeter and inclinometer gauges The instrument panel’s chrome gauges glow green like a radar at night A voice-activated stereo comes with a six-CD changer, plus 10 speakers throughout the vehicle The transmission shifter is designed to resemble the throttle in a fighter jet In lieu of a keyhole, the dash has a red button marked ‘fire.’ Press it, and the H2 starts....

But in every other way, Ballard already has earned an A-plus. The selection process provided another glimpse of the newfound unity inside Indianapolis Colts headquarters — something that was sorely missing when Ballard’s predecessor Ryan Grigson was paired with coach Chuck Pagano. MORE: Real winners, losers of NFL Draft Like he did throughout the free-agent signing period, Ballard relied heavily on input from Colts coordinators in evaluating prospects and how well they would fit into the systems being run....

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The Celtics brass wasted no time responding with a burst of vituperation – ““shameful,’’ ““disgusting,’’ ““gutless,’’ ““yellow journalism,’’ ““racist’’ – and threatened to file a $100 million libel lawsuit. ““Any allegation or insinuation that economic or monetary concerns could have conceivably played a role in any care Reggie Lewis got are absolutely ludicrous,’’ said Paul Gaston, the team’s chief executive officer. The Journal stood by its story. While Gaston offered little defense to the accusations beyond his outrage and the legal posturing, the most poignant response came from Lewis’s widow....

TSN’s Bob McKenzie was answering questions about this subject Wednesday afternoon and suggested that hockey analytics inside most NHL organizations were so beyond the debate of Corsi% merit that it wasn’t even worth discussing. I found this interesting — not for the fact that teams with nearly limitless resources could pull more data than part-time guys doing it for fun on the internet (this seems obvious), but for the fact that there still seems to be a very real interpretation issue as to what matters and what does not....

Not that Reagan has not made mistakes in retirement. He seems not to have acclimated to being an ex-president nearly so well as he acclimated to the presidency. Like actors, ex-leaders should avoid stepping on their successors’ lines. Once the spotlight is turned to another, politicians are best served when their public does not see them, hear them or think about them for a year or two. Both Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter have proven the value of emerging only after a fallow period....

This is what the Abu Omar from Baghdad whom I met in Amman had done. He fled to Jordan after his relative named Omar was murdered, and after his son (the little Omar, 9) was first beaten and then, in a separate incident, kidnapped along with his sister Nabaa, 11. The ransom demanded was $10,000. Abu Omar did not ask the name of the group that wanted the money; he sold his shop and house and paid....

As the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA Draft, Parker comes from a big-time Duke program steeped in winning tradition. The Bucks lost 67 games last season. So it might be too much for the 19-year-old holding up a No. 12 jersey to rekindle memories of Oscar Robinson, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and an NBA title. MORE: All 60 draft picks | Expect trades | Isaiah Austin’s moment | Draft grades...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated an exemption to the state’s mask mandate issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday, allowing voters and poll workers to skip wearing face masks at the polls. Abbott’s mask mandate requires Texans to cover their mouth and nose in public settings, but face coverings aren’t required in polling locations or churches based on “constitutional purposes,“Abbott told KBTX-TV in July when the mandate was instated....

TRY DRAFTKINGS: Join, deposit, play, win cash! Here’s a few who could set you apart this week: Pat Perez ($6,100 on DraftKings) We’re going to take a shot on a hometown favorite this weekend. He has all of the #narrativestreet working for him coming into this weekend. Born in Phoenix, went to Arizona State and finished top-11 at last year’s Waste Management tourney. Has finished top-22 in three of the last four Waste Management showings and has made the cut in the last four tournaments this season....

See You All…Next Year? Sometime in March 2020, people all around the world said farewell to their coworkers and work as they knew it. According to IBM, 54% of organizations were required to implement a remote work plan after stay-at-home orders were announced in response to the global pandemic. Seemingly overnight, nearly every business was scrambling to find a way to maintain productivity without having employees present in the office. Companies in every nation were faced with never-before-faced challenges implicit to the sudden shift to digital....

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island first erupted on Sunday—the first eruption in the Canary Islands for 50 years—sending volcanic ash, toxic gases and acid droplets raining down. Scientists have measured the plume emanating from the mouth of “Old Summit” at two miles high, with up to 11,500 tons of Sulphur dioxide spewing in the air per day, according to the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute (INVOLCAN). Thousands of residents and tourists have been forced to evacuate as a wall of lava six foot high spilled from the volcano at a searing 1,075 degrees Celsius (more than 1,800 F), INVOLCAN stated....