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Dr. Michael Brady, Medical Director at U.K. charity Terrence Higgins Trust, offered up a few tips in a blog post published on Friday, about how to practice safe sex in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. While phone sex and solo sessions are considered the safest options nowadays, Brady noted a few precautions that lovers should take if they just have to go all the way, like sticking with a regular partner and limiting the number of new people you invite to bed....

However, if you’re in the market for some storage options, Ikea is ready to help with some helpful, and amusing, mockups that will give gamers the information they need to fit their “meme-ishly” oversized consoles. Over on the gaming subreddit, one user posted an image of two cardboard mockups—one of a PS5 and the other of the Xbox Series X—under the caption, “Which IKEA media storage unit will be able to fit my new, meme-ishly oversized, game console?...

Morales, who has been in power for almost 14 years, said Sunday he would leave his post after losing the support of the military and the police. Morales has been accused of rigging last month’s presidential vote, and before being forced to resign has said he would organize a new election. Announcing his decision to step down for “the good of the country,” Morales also claimed, “Dark forces have destroyed democracy” and said right-wing protesters had attacked his home, the The Guardian reported....

Omar, a representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, had joined Sanders at a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday night in a bid to help him secure victory in the state’s primary contest. But after Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden, Omar’s home state went to for vice president who secured more than 38 percent of the vote. Sanders came second with around 30 percent of the vote, followed by Sen....

The 83-year-old Henson, who guided the Fighting Illini to a 423-224 mark over 21 seasons, was hospitalized earlier this month in a hospital isolation unit in the university area. He flew last Sunday to Houston for tests regarding an issue with his immune system. MORE: Hopkins to replace Boeheim | Mason lifts USA over Canada | New Dean Smith Award Henson’s wife, Mary, told the News-Gazette.com Friday that her husband will begin chemotherapy in Houston, where he is staying with family members....

Illinois, one of the few states in which Democrats control the redistricting process, lost a congressional seat due to population loss reported by Census Bureau, giving an ambitious state Democratic party an opportunity to redraw boundaries that will favor their success for years to come. The redistricting will also benefit Democrats’ hopes to retain a majority in the U.S. House next year. Democrats’ GOP opposition and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund have said the aggressive approach was rushed and carried out behind closed doors....

Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz says Sinclair was arraigned Monday on two felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon. He was arrested Saturday after Illinois played Purdue. Rietz says someone called police to report a driver pointing a gun out of a truck on Interstate 74. Police say Sinclair said he pointed the gun as a joke. A phone listed for Sinclair is disconnected. He does not have a lawyer....

In today’s NBA, a starting frontcourt of two bruising bigs isn’t exactly the norm, which makes the pairing of Valanciunas and Williamson slightly difficult to envision ahead of time. As both players operate largely in the paint, how will they coexist in the era of pace and space? Look no further than Valanciunas’ performance with the Lithuanian national team at EuroBasket 2022 for some semblance of an idea, as he shares the floor with two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis....

According to TMZ, Shumpert was in possession of 6.12 ounces of a “green leafy substance” which tested positive for marijuana using a mobile test. Shumpert, 32, was then cuffed and transported to the airport jail. Here is the latest on Shumpert’s arrest. Iman Shumpert arrest news, updates TMZ reported that police responded to a potential drug violation call after TSA screeners found a plastic bag filled with a “green leafy substance....

The first MCU movie released after 2012’s Avengers, Iron Man 3 picks up with Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark as he’s struggling with PTSD following the events of that first Avengers film. He’s having panic attacks, unsure of how to best protect those closest to him and trying to track down a terrorist known as the Mandarin—who, in the comic books, is one of Iron Man’s greatest foes. It’s that last plot detail—the stuff about the Mandarin, who’s played by Sir Ben Kingsley on the big screen—that seemed to be drawing the most hate from MCU fans on Twitter, per Heroic Hollywood....

Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the nonpartisan interpreter of Senate rules, declined to allow Democrats a chance to unilaterally enact legislation that would provide a pathway to permanent residence and potentially citizenship for millions of immigrants. As Republicans cheered the ruling, House progressive called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Biden to overrule the parliamentarian’s decision. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Masschuettes tweeted, “It’s time to stop honoring archaic procedures and honor the promises we made to immigrant families....

German biotechnology firm BioNTech and American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced in a press release on Monday that their COVID vaccine is 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, marking an important milestone in the pandemic that has killed over 1.2 million people worldwide, and seen over 52.8 million infected. The companies did not release data on the vaccine, and their findings have not been peer-reviewed. If the vaccine meets certain safety criteria, they plan to submit a request for an emergency use authorization to the U....

What Does It Mean to Be Immunocompromised? The immune system is how the body fights off diseases and protects itself against new infections. Therefore, someone who is immunocompromised will usually get sick more often, stay sick longer, and be more vulnerable to different types of infections. People who are immunocompromised are also at higher risk for severe disease or death from viruses like COVID-19 and influenza. They may also be less likely to respond well to vaccination....

In an op-ed for The Hill, Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law scholar at George Washington University, wrote that advancing such an argument could have a “damaging impact” on the impeachment process. “For my testimony before Congress during the impeachment hearings of both President Clinton and Trump, I took the opposing view that a president can be impeached for a noncriminal act,” he said. Dershowitz, who is part of the president’s defense team in the Senate, has indicated multiple times that he believes impeachment requires the commission of a crime or an act analogous to a crime....

McCarthy made the remarks in an open letter addressed to his Republican House colleagues, which he shared on Twitter Wednesday night, saying that “Democrats appear to be suffering from selective hearing” by recently embracing Trump’s call for stimulus relief checks to be increased from $600 to $2,000. McCarthy insisted the Pelosi and others agree to Trump’s demand to “reexamine tax dollars wasted overseas” before vowing to alter foreign aid provisions included in the large spending bill....

As political activists we both know something about trying to bridge the divisions in politics. In 1998, Joan Blades, watched our nation polarize over the impeachment of the President. She co-founded MoveOn.org as a bipartisan effort to move the nation toward healing and away from division. Earlier that same decade, Rich Tafel, a minister living in Massachusetts saw the increasing brutality of a culture war between the far left and religious right....

Although there are no statistics on how many gifted students are turning to home schooling, educators who work with such kids say they believe the number is increasing. Financially beleaguered public schools across the country have cut gifted programs in recent years, figuring that bright kids will do fine in a regular classroom. But they don’t. A recent Department of Education study found that smart kids desperately need work geared to their abilities....

Remke sees the consequences of unfulfilled dreams every day at the 4th Gesamtschule Hellersdorf, where she teaches English and Russian (although there’s less interest in Russian these days). At first glance, the modern, well-maintained building in the far reaches of what used to be East Berlin looks like a typical American high school, with posters of stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna on the walls. There are 530 students, ages 12 to 17....

Given the tech giant’s “size and scope,” Rubio and Brown write that the company should receive “particular scrutiny by federal regulators” as it faces a number of “widespread and credible” allegations of labor and employment law violations. In their letter, the two senators draw on reports that the company has subjected employees to “grueling hours” and exhibited a “general lack of responsiveness” to the concerns voiced by employees over the company’s “highly automated management practices....

While taking the stand in the murder trial against Chauvin, a former Santa Rosa, California, police officer, Barry Brodd said, “That isn’t an incident of deadly force. That’s an incident of an accidental death.” “It’s easy to sit and judge…an officer’s conduct. It’s more of a challenge to, again, put yourself in the officer’s shoes to try to make an evaluation through what they’re feeling, what they’re sensing, the fear they have, and then make a determination,” Brodd added....