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As it turns out, the biggest storyline coming out of Monday night’s 26-10 Chiefs win over the Patriots has surfaced two days later, with New England cornerback Stephon Gilmore testing positive for the coronavirus. Per Pro Football Talk, Gilmore was a player who was in close contact with Patriots quarterback Cam Newton, who had tested positive just a day before the originally scheduled Sunday matchup between the Patriots and the Chiefs....

And yet, as Paul Elie shows in his brilliant new book, “The Soul You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage” (544 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $27), their lives and art were fused by what Percy called “a predicament shared in common”: how to find a God worthy of belief. And how to connect the demands of art with the demands of religious faith. It wasn’t easy. The genius of Elie’s book lies in the way he interweaves the writers’ lives....

Instead, she was met with an explosion. Bryce Werling, 72, looked up to see his wife with blood gushing down her face. “She was screaming that she couldn’t hear,” said the farmer in pin-striped coveralls. In the car rushing to the hospital, they asked each other, “Why us? We don’t have any enemies.” It was a small-town boy from Minnesota, Lucas Helder, 21, who is believed to have planted 18 pipe bombs in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas....

More features, however, means a more complicated user interface. Getting the most out of your Xbox One or Xbox Series X requires understanding the Xbox dashboard. So, here’s a tour of the Xbox dashboard and how to navigate it… How to Navigate Sections and Make Selections Your Xbox dashboard is the sea of colorful tiles that populate the screen when you first turn on your console. These thumbnails are navigated with either the directional pad or left joystick....

The case against Salinas has also put the government of the current president, Ernesto Zedillo, on trial. In his first months on the job, when prosecutors told him they had uncovered evidence linking Raul to the crime, Zedillo defied Mexico’s political tradition and ordered his arrest. It would be a symbol of the Mexico the reform-minded president planned to create, a modern, democratic and just country where the rich and powerful were no longer above the law....

This is what we were thinking at this same point in the election of 2016. And we all know how that turned out. Then as now, our (legitimate) grievances against Trump have blinded us to the reality that to regular people out there—who don’t read all of our hot takes on social media—the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to stand for much of anything else. We had four days of primetime coverage with the Democratic National Convention, and while it met every expectation in the age of Zoom and social distancing, beyond not being Trump, did we persuade anyone that we would help them if elected in November?...

USAir Flight 427 took more than the lives of 132 people aboard and the hopes of their grieving families. It cast a wide net of destruction, scarring the psyches of hundreds of others – close-call survivors like Pomrenke, rescue workers and eyewitnesses – who will never be able to forget the grisly calamity. And, according to trauma experts, many shouldn’t even try. The healing process, counselors say, begins when victims painfully confront the nightmarish particulars of a disaster....

Hernandez, the 25-year-old former New England Patriots tight end, faces weapons and murder charges in what is the first of two murder trials. MORE: NFL’s long rap sheet could hurt Hernandez | Hernandez timeline | PHOTOS: Hernandez investigation Bristol County Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh will preside over the proceedings. Prosecutors claim Hernandez “orchestrated” the murder of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd by luring Lloyd and his girlfriend, the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins....

Hernandez will serve his life sentence at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) — Cedar Junction at Warpole, a maximum-security prison just a 3.4-mile drive from Gillette Stadium — home of the Patriots. MORE: Double-murder trial next | Hernandez timeline | Lloyd family reacts Hernandez played three seasons for the Patriots after being selected in the fourth round of the 2010 draft. He finished his career with 175 receptions for 1,956 yards and 18 touchdowns....

The Yankees and Aaron Judge are at something of a standstill: The outfielder has made it clear that he would prefer to sign a contract extension prior to the start of the 2022 MLB season. MORE: MLB Opening Day Power Rankings — Where do Yankees stand? After the Opening Day deadline was pushed back 24 hours thanks to a rainout, Judge is still without a new deal heading into the start of the Yankees season, casting doubt onto whether or not a new contract will get done....

The Packers’ signal-caller has accrued over 55,000 passing yards and 449 passing touchdowns since taking the reins from fellow Packers legend Brett Favre in 2008. The four-time MVP is still is at the top of his game — Rodgers notched 4,115 passing yards and 37 passing touchdowns to just four interceptions in 2021, his age-38 season. As such, he’s been rewarded handsomely for his efforts. Rodgers’ on-field success has had its perks....

Charity organizations like AbleGamers are trying to fix this problem. By partnering with developers and pushing for additional game features like alternate color schemes, easily readable subtitles, and unrestricted keybinding, AbleGamers is helping to make the world of video games a more inclusive place. Gaming Charities Raise Awareness for Gamers With Disabilities Organizations like AbleGamers and SpecialEffect—both of whom are raising awareness and voicing concern for disabled gamers—certainly have their work cut out for them....

Kennedy has expressed nuanced views on abortion in the past, upholding Roe but disagreeing with a ruling that struck down a Nebraska “partial birth” ban. In last week’s opinion he didn’t reject the landmark abortion-rights decision, but his language pleased pro-lifers. “Kennedy is very much speaking in the code language of the anti-abortion activists,” says David Garrow, a legal historian at the University of Cambridge. The justice used “kill” or “killing” 11 times to refer to abortion and argued that “some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained....

In a recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, half of the respondents said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June has made them more motivated to vote in November, found. The figure is up from 43 percent in July, and 37 percent in May. About two-thirds of Democratic voters say the high court’s decision to strip away constitutional protections for abortion has motivated them to vote, compared to 49 percent of independents and 32 percent of Republicans....

Absence seizures are typically a childhood condition. For children who do not have other types of seizures, absence seizures tend to stop on their own after adolescence. Often, children who have epilepsy characterized by multiple seizure types also experience a significant decrease in the absence seizure type after adolescence. Symptoms Absence seizures can go unnoticed. They can occur several times a day and rarely cause disruption, noise, or clearly obvious manifestations....

After a stunning ceremony to introduce each of the teams, team owners took turns revealing their group selections from randomly chosen tokens. The proceedings briefly took a lighter turn when each of the first four teams drew themselves into the same group, adding to the drama but dimming none of the competitive atmosphere. Chairman of Abu Dhabi T10, Shaji Ul Mulk, stood on behalf of Team 8 but would not reveal the league’s final member, raising mystery around the future announcement....

Former Ajax boss Peter Bosz has replaced Thomas Tuchel in the Dortmund dugout and the Dutch coach will pit his wits against Vincenzo Montella as both sides prepare for the upcoming season. Your guide to the International Champions Cup Teams from across Europe’s top leagues will compete in the friendly tournament, with games taking place in the United States and Singapore as well as China during the remainder of July....

Put into bat first by Nepal, Hong Kong were all out for 181 runs in 41.5 overs, despite opener Irfan Ahmed’s 115-ball 106. Sompal Kami was the pick of the bowlers for Nepal grabbing 4 Hong Kong wickets, while Basanta Regmi took 3 wickets and youngster Aarif Sheikh took two wickets to restrict the opposition to a below-par total. The target was revised to 144 runs in 38 overs after the heavy downpour which interrupted the match....

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The reason? Call it the new season of sobriety. Farewell, a decade of riding high–runaway economic growth, dotcom and telecom booms, a Dow that wouldn’t quit. With war looming in Iraq and a crisis in North Korea, not to mention the new economic hard times, the world’s business and political leaders gathered in this snowy Swiss resort are understandably wary of being seen partying the night away and quaffing champagne in gaudy revelry....