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The best women’s hockey players in the world gather in Europe for the next 11 days to compete in the World Championship. Canada enters the tournament as reigning champs, previously defeating the United States 3-2 in overtime in 2021. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin added to her resume of heroics with the OT winner. This is the first time the tournament is being hosted in Denmark, as well as the first time the tournament is in an Olympic year....

Tight end Julius Thomas dove at defensive end Calais Campbell’s legs as Campbell engaged with the tackle — you can’t do that — and sprained the defensive end’s knee with a hit Cardinals coach Bruce Arians called the dirtiest play he’s seen in 37 years. MORE: Manning’s 500th TD leads Broncos past Cardinals, 41-20 | Week 5 scoreboard, highlights “I know (Broncos coach) John Fox,” Arians said. “Somebody has got to answer to that....

Joseph Krol, 36, a church youth pastor at the Rochester First Baptist Church in Rochester, Illinois, was arrested this past Friday by authorities and accused of grooming the girl by sending her sexual messages over Snapchat. The American Bar Association (ABA) defines grooming as “a preparatory process in which a perpetrator gradually gains a person’s or organization’s trust with the intent to be sexually abusive.” Krol, a resident of Macon County, Illinois, originally contacted the minor on October 7 and asked to play an “online true confessions game”, according to an affidavit obtained by the Herald & Review....

Assistant coach Allen Edwards will coach the Mountain West Conference game for the Cowboys (11-6, 3-3 Mountain West). The UW athletics department announced that Shyatt had become ill in Colorado Springs and decided it was in the best interest of the team for him to not attend. UW spokesman Amil Anderson says he has no information on the nature of Shyatt's illness. UW says Shyatt hopes to rejoin the team for Thursday's practice in Laramie....

Shumpert, who spent 12 years in the NBA with five different teams and won an NBA title with the Cavaliers in 2016, is now competing on ABC’s longtime reality show Dancing With the Stars. His performance on Monday night’s ‘Horror Night’ themed show is garnering loads of attention and near-universal acclaim. You can catch Shumpert in action at 8 p.m. ET. on Mondays or stream it live with fuboTV, which offers free seven-day trial....

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Boston had only done that six times in the last ten years. Playing without Jaylen Brown, who is out with a hamstring injury, Jayson Tatum stepped up, scoring 29 points to go with ten rebounds, but he also had six of the team’s 23 turnovers. Boston went on an 8-0 run to claw their way back from a 21-point deficit to draw within five with just 3:59 left in regulation, but ultimately it was their turnovers that cost them the game....

Senate Republicans steamrolled their Democratic colleagues’ attempts to seek new evidence, lawmakers made clear any witness exchange agreement was off the table and at every chance they could, impeachment managers used past remarks by Republicans, Trump’s defenders and Trump himself to further their case for why his act of withholding foreign aid while pushing for political probes is impeachable conduct. But the trial is far from over. Trump’s legal defense team will layout a brief preview of their case Saturday at 10 a....

While imposter syndrome is unwarranted, it’s extremely common—even among the most famous, talented, and successful people. It is also known as imposter phenomenon, fraud syndrome, and the imposter experience Meaning Imposter syndrome is the psychological pattern in which an individual believes that their own accomplishments came about as a result of having been lucky or having manipulated other people’s impressions—not through hard work or genuine ability. Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, who coined the term in 1978, recognized this phenomenon in high-achieving women....

A new academic study revealed today, titled “The Information Catastrophe,” suggests that if “bits” of information have very small quantities of physical mass, projections indicate digital content could be equal to roughly half of Earth’s mass by 2245. The objective of the research, published in AIP Advances, was to estimate what the total amount of digital content in the world will be in the future in terms of bits and the energy needed to store them, author Dr....

Hare explains: “The reason the play is called ‘Via Dolorosa’ is because I’m saying I come from a different Christian tradition as a total outsider.” Originally, the play was to consist of a trio of monologues by an Israeli, a Palestinian and Hare. But the Palestinian writer decided that his collaboration might seem like a conciliatory gesture toward Israel. What the London audience saw, and what the Broadway audience will see, is a passionate pilgrim evoking the human panorama behind the politics and violence....

They made their point on the first five plays of their first touchdown drive, off the first possession of the game after the opening kickoff in Foxboro. It took them that many plays to move from their 20-yard line to the Bengals’ 14 — and they did it with two Brady passes downfield, two Stevan Ridley carries and a Brady scramble from the pocket that even a 37-year-old fresh off of a nationally-televised beating couldn’t mess up....

One thing is certain, Dean Smith touched many lives, and in many different ways. Whether it was helping a player reach his full potential or contacting a friend during an emotional time, Smith was there when he was needed, even if it wasn’t expected. “Dean Smith taught me that one person truly can make a difference,” former North Carolina star Billy Cunningham said Sunday at a memorial service in the arena that bears the late Tar Heel coach’s name....

The newspaper said while it preferred “the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama,” it endorsed Trump for his handling of the economy before the coronavirus crisis; his Supreme Court nominee; and his work supporting the energy industry, a key concern of the Western Pennsylvania region. Additionally, the paper also stated that Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden is too old and fragile for the job....

Claire Bridges, 20, was born with a congenital heart condition. Although vaccinated, she tested positive for coronavirus and has since developed a life-threatening complication. Bridges was admitted to Tampa General Hospital on January 16 with severe leg pain, then diagnosed with COVID myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis, mild pneumonia, cyanotic and acidosis. A few hours after being admitted, her heart stopped. Doctors performed CPR and revived her. Within two hours Bridges twice more coded and was revived by hospital staff....

The Saints racked up 34 efforts on goal, but Tom Heaton put on a superb display in the Burnley goal and finished with 11 saves - a Premier League high this season. Heaton made one particularly brilliant stop from Austin in just the fifth minute, clawing the former Burnley striker’s header around the post. But Austin bundled home early in the second half and added a second from the penalty spot after Nathan Redmond had struck as Saints moved up to eighth in the table....

“We’re still in the middle of this thing,” the police chief in Grand Isle, Louisiana, Scooter Resweber, told the Donaldsonville Chief. “We’re losing the roof to the police station, the lower floor and all of the police cars are flooded,” he added. Other law enforcement officials and first responders in the state said Sunday that they were being strained by the hurricane. Officials with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Terrebone Parrish Office of Homeland Security warned they would have to suspend emergency services during the storm....

According to a recent Miami-Dade County Grant Report issued by Florida’s Department of Health, a summary of contact tracing for the county as of August 19 shows that out of the 43,202 cases assigned to the call center, 9,426 people refused an interview—a little more than 20 percent. Just 14,648 of the people, or 34 percent, had successfully completed a case interview, the report shows. The large majority of cases, 65 percent, were noted as having an “unsuccessful interview attempt,” which included six possible categories: no answer; no number; refused interview; voicemail; wrong number or expired....

In October, the chain’s only restaurant in the city was shut for several days after the company refused to adhere to rules requiring them to check that customers dining indoors had proof of vaccination against the coronavirus. DeSantis, who continues to wage battles against COVID mandates in his own state, made a pitch to the owner, Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, for the chain to set up its headquarters, or open a restaurant in Florida, Fox 13 reported....

According to the United States Elections Project, 1,461,135 Pennsylvanians have mailed in their ballots as of October 23. More than 1 million of those belong to registered Democrats, whereas just 295,430 were cast by a registered Republican. The remainder of ballots cast are from unaffiliated voters or those belonging to a different party, the data shows. The varying numbers between parties isn’t necessarily surprising, given that many Republican voters in the country plan to vote in-person on Election Day....

In the pediatric ward at Kosovo Hospital, a boy lies swathed in bandages-treatment for burns and lacerations suffered in a mortar attack; a woman says her last goodbye during a funeral at Lion Cemetery, once a popular park; young men make a run for it through ‘Sniper Alley,’ the most dangerous intersection in the city