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The Venice Carnival was canceled from Sunday and all major sporting events, including marquee top-flight soccer matches, have been suspended since the outbreak. Events around Milan Fashion Week are also affected. According to the latest report on February 23 by the World Health Organization, the deadly virus has infected more than 78,800 people globally, with 77,042 cases confirmed in China, where the virus was first identified in Wuhan city of the Hubei province....

It didn’t take. Last week Sammy the Bull was back in jail. After a seven-month undercover investigation, local and federal authorities charged Gravano with helping to run a multimillion-dollar drug ring in Arizona and New Mexico. Police say the 54-year-old Gravano and several associates dominated the regional market in ecstasy, a hallucinogen popular among teens and college students. Each week their network of distributors and dealers allegedly sold as many as 25,000 pills, mostly in dance clubs....

Eats: For French food, nothing beats the recently reopened Les Amis (lesamis.com.sg), although the soon to be opened Les Saveurs at the St Regis hotel, where I recently ate at a “preview lunch”, will be a strong competitor. I highly recommend the duck-leg-confit wrap and grebiche sauce and the wild mushroom veloutee with baby scallops and green apple. These two dishes had an entire table of journalists raving about them!...

Join Zac Landry and Aaron Leach every week for the same Game Rant-flavored awesome-sauce that you’ve grown accustomed to… only now with pictures! While it may be a little unclear where Ben Affleck is supposed to sit and weep his little heart out, at least this video game rendition of space transportation doesn’t look like a giant insect. Yes, Mass Effect, we’re looking right at you. Everyone knows that all good spacecraft come from shapes....

Booker tweeted his support of the Stanford women’s team, who squared off against Pac-12 foe Arizona in the national championship game Sunday night in San Antonio. “I celebrate the hard work of every athlete who participated in #MarchMadness, especially @StanfordWBB. But we can’t lose sight of the greater struggle for justice for these athletes—the NCAA must change and allow these athletes to share in the profits they helped create,” Booker wrote....

This afternoon in New York, Lidle was doing just that, but at 2:42 p.m. something went terribly wrong. He crashed his four-seat Cirrus SR20 aircraft into a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood, killing him and one other passenger. Lidle’s passport was found at the crash scene. Authorities say that all indications point to an unfortunate accident. Lidle is survived by his wife, Melanie, and a son, Christopher....

A recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that there is slightly more than a 50-50 chance that the climatological phenomenon known as La Niña will linger into the summer months. But will that have any implications on the coming Atlantic hurricane season — and if so, how? Forecasters actively monitor the sea surface temperature trends near the equator in the central and eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, as these water temperatures have a significant bearing on the weather patterns across the globe....

So deep that it might need someone like Connor Shaw, the winningest quarterback in school history, to dig it out. MORE: SN Week 4 picks | Ranking the conferences Maybe that someone has arrived. Freshman Lorenzo Nunez will take over at quarterback Saturday when the Gamecocks (1-2) play host to UCF. Nunez will be the first true freshman to start for South Carolina since 1999 (Mikal Goodman) and the first to start for Spurrier since Jesse Palmer at Florida in 1997....

The condition is called text neck, Smartphone neck, and iPhone neck. Note: These are not official medical diagnoses. All refer to posture problems in the cervical spine that are created by prolonged use of a cell phone, tablet, or similar handheld electronic device. Using small electronic devices generally means you spend a lot of time with your head bent forward. The problem is—this head action actually takes place in your neck....

Last season saw a breakout for Furniture Row Racing’s one-car team and driver Martin Truex Jr. Not only did the Truex make the Chase for the Sprint Cup final four race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, finishing fourth in the standings, but he had multiple impressive feats to get to that point. Truex’s 22 top-10 finishes in 2015 set a team record and were more than multi-car teams of Chip Ganassi Racing (20), Michael Waltrip Racing (13) and Roush Fenway Racing (9)....

Yet the amateur competitive play of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has continued its climb in popularity on the PC platform, posting consistent records for most concurrent players throughout the pandemic, while the professional North American region seems to destabilize with each passing week. This exponential growth that Valve’s title continues to exhibit made the sudden events of last night all the more curious. RELATED: Counter-Strike Is More Nerve Racking Than Soccer, Says Real Madrid Player...

In Brazil, both sports are readily admired by a gargantuan fanbase. Organizations such as MIBR and FURIA participating in an online event can bring tens of thousands of additional fans to watch professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It bears a similarity to the way tens of thousands of residents visit the Spanish stadium of Bernabéu to watch Real Madrid take the pitch behind the notorious head coach of Zinedine Zidane. Yet the two are rarely combined in a meaningful form, at least until Casemiro himself took an interview with Marca Gaming about his dabbling in one of the world’s largest competitive first-person shooters....

No matter what’s happening elsewhere, that’s why nobody should fade Seattle as a Super Bowl contender. Seattle is 1-1 — actually a game better than it started last season season, a year in which it still finished 10-6 and got to the NFC divisional playoffs. Yet, because everyone tends to look at everything offense-first in the NFL, there’s a major freak-out over a team that’s scored only 15 points over two weeks — the same that averaged more than 26 per game last season....

In particular, nations where the U.S. has pushed democracy or offered election advice have weighed in, while many have pointed to the history of American involvement in regime change abroad. Governments that have been criticized in the past took the opportunity to chide the U.S. “Who’s the banana republic now?” asked Colombia’s Publimetro daily newspaper on its front page, according to the Associated Press. The headline was accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a mask printed with a U....

The blast took place at a service station in Creeslough that destroyed the gas station and part of a nearby apartment block on the outskirts of the village in the country’s northernmost county. An Garda Síochana - the Irish police force - reported that three deaths had been confirmed on Friday, with a further four overnight. Seven people had been formally confirmed dead as of Saturday morning, but a further two deaths were announced by police, according to the Press Association....

At a congressional hearing on gun violence on Tuesday, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said she would soon reintroduce red flag legislation—also known as extreme risk protection orders—to permit courts and family members to intervene to restrict a seemingly dangerous person’s access to guns. Amy Swearer, a legal fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, told Feinstein during the hearing that her proposal is one area where there is “at least room for bipartisan support,” according to Roll Call....

“You also described in your report that the then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared with a Russian operative, Kilimnik, the campaign strategy for winning Democratic votes in mid-Western states and internal polling data. Isn’t that correct?” Lofgren asked during the hearing. “Correct,” Mueller responded. “They also discussed the status of the Trump campaign and Manafort’s strategy for winning votes in mid-Western states. Months before that meeting, Manafort had caused internal data to be shared with Kilimnik and the sharing continued for some period of time after their August meeting....

“Mr. Chairman I cannot unsee what I have seen, I cannot unfeel what I experienced. I refuse to, although admittedly it robs me of sleep and peace of mind,” Pressley said during a congressional hearing on Friday. “But that pales in comparison to the pain felt by families that have been robbed of their liberty, their legal rights, their dignity and some even the lives of their babies.” Pressley then went on to describe her visit to a migrant detention facility at the southern border....

Charles Yarbrough, 30, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested after officers from the Milford Police Department were called to the Mary Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church in Connecticut on July 1 to reports of a possible burglary. According to police, officers were able to locate and arrest Yarboroguh following a “fast acting and in-depth investigation.” During police interviews, Yarbrough said he entered the building and damaged one of its doors because the church and its pastor were “supporting and pushing the LGBT agenda....