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In this week’s gaming news, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire publisher Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, amid the publisher’s ongoing harassment lawsuits and controversy. E3’s in-person event is canceled for 2022, but additional reports seem to indicate an online-only show may not be in the cards either. During an Italian Senate meeting over Zoom, an unknown member screen-shared some NSFW Final Fantasy 7 content live as part of a prank....

Recapping this week’s gaming news, Nintendo announced a new variant for the Nintendo Switch with an improved screen, but not quite the Switch “Pro.” A leak by Tom Henderson provides some new hints about Grand Theft Auto 6, hints that were corroborated by several games industry personnel as well. Ubisoft confirms work beginning on a project known as Assassin’s Creed Infinity, turning its flagship franchise into a live service structure....

Tom Brady is returning to Foxborough on Sunday night as the former Patriots QB faces off against Belichick and the Pats for the first time since leaving New England. As you can imagine, Brady’s former coach is going to be grilled about it. Surprisingly, Belichick has opened up a bit regarding the Brady situation ahead of the matchup. Speaking on “The Greg Hill Show,” Belichick offered a bit of interesting insight into the Patriots’ decision to let Brady walk — though it wasn’t as much about that as about the situation that Tampa Bay offered....

The 62-year-old Elliott termed his drive “a good day” and “a heck of a lot of fun,” even after he was involved in an early-race entanglement at the 4.048-mile road course of Road America. “I feel like I hit everything but the lottery,” said Elliott. MORE: Elliott ponders what might have been in HOF career “I just felt like I needed more, like through (Turns) 9 and 10 and the carousel to carry any speed through there,” he added....

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder said in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday that green energy was not to blame for the blackouts that hit the state last week. Gates was on the show to promote his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, and explained how the power grid in Texas was caught lacking. He said: “The problem was they didn’t weatherize any of their power sources, so natural gas shut down and that was the biggest thing....

To me, a lawyer’s responsibility to do public service can be summarized quite simply: to whom much is given, much is expected. And much is given to us who have had the opportunity to get a good education, get a law-school education, work in a law firm, make an adequate or better living and enjoy the fruits of the great education. We owe something back to the society that made it possible....

Now the Clintonites say their own new silent majority is stirring. The consistency of the quiet public support for the president first enraged and now demoralizes the American right, which fears it may have lost the larger culture war. William Bennett last week called Clinton’s acquittal an ““ignoble moment for a great people.’’ Or maybe it was a common-sense moment for a contented people. Most Americans wouldn’t want a prosecutor asking them questions about consensual sex, so they didn’t want their president asked, even if they know he’s a moral reprobate who disgraced his office....

Ashamed, Clinton writes in “My Life,” his new memoir that officially goes on sale Tuesday, he resolved to keep the troubled reality of his home life secret from his friends and neighbors. As a boy, he was known for his good humor and his enthusiasm for everything–movies, books, music, sports, school, girls–bottomless appetites that would only grow as he matured. But unknown to anyone, Clinton writes, he learned to live “parallel” lives: outwardly sunny and confident, inwardly pained and insecure....

Gilchrist had breaks of 63, 68, 52, 180, 58, 106 and 82 while Shah responded with 133 and 62 Saturday, according to a Billiards and Snooker Federation of India press release here Monday. Earlier results Semifinals: Gilchrist bt Pankaj Advani 799-281; Rupesh Shah bt Balachandra Bhaskar 551-255. Quarterfinals: Gilchrist bt Sourav Kothari 875-214; Advani bt Devendra Josh 677-464; Shah bt Jonathan Marwood 704-228; Bhaskar bt Phil Mumford 718-194. Pre-quarterfinals: Gilchrist bt Dave Sneddon 671-349; Kothari bt Dhruv Sitwala 572-379; Advani bt Ashok Shandilya 669-417; Joshi bt Roy Bacon 578-225; Shah bt Alok Kumar 529-194; Marwood bt Phil Davis 318-230; Bhaskar bt Roy Smith 683-143; Mumford bt Akhilesh Mohan 546-219....

When I was in Boston around 1935, I came down to New York and I hired her. She couldn’t believe it. A colored girl in a white band? I said, “Come on, we’re gonna try it.” And so she sang with the band awhile. We went down South, and on the way she was scared. She said, “What am I gonna do?” I said, “We’re gonna try it. I’m scared, too....

Sporting News has learned that Phoebe Schecter will be working as a training camp intern focused on defense. The Bills later Wednesday announced the addition of Schecter as part of the Bill Walsh Coaching Fellowship, a program designed to expose talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of summer NFL training camps. Buffalo’s participants also include Kade Rannings, Lonnie Teasley and Byron Thomas. Schecter’s entrée into the NFL came when she met Bills co-owner Kim Pegula at the league-sponsored Women’s Careers in Football Forum last January in Orlando....

The Bills are having an “internal debate” about cutting ties with the veteran quarterback, according to WGR 550 Sports Radio. MORE: Putting Buffalo’s QB misery in perspective | Rex Ryan’s place among coaches The Bills recently named Tyrod Taylor the starting quarterback for the season opener against the Colts on Sept. 13, leaving the status of Cassel and EJ Manuel undetermined. As a whole, the three quarterbacks completed 30 of 33 passes for 395 yards and four touchdowns in the Bills’ preseason win over the Steelers on Saturday, though Cassel didn’t leave a lasting impression....

NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported Saturday morning the Bills have placed Harvin on injured reserve after his knee injury “flared up.” The 27-year-old receiver had been fighting a hip injury. MORE: 2015’s season-ending injuries | Week 9 Fantasy WR rankings Rumors surfaced late last month that Harvin was considering retirement, but Rapoport countered those reports by saying he would play this year if he were healthy. Harvin has 19 catches for 218 yards and a touchdown in five games this season....

Harry Crosby said people associate his father with Christmas, but in the 1940s and ’50s, they didn’t. “They associated dad tons of things, and that’s what I want to bring back,” Crosby said. “There were things that became absolutely top hits in the ’30s and ’40s, for a sustained period of time, and they just went away.” Catalog right sales has become quite a booming business, but most involving rock artists who write their own music, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Stevie Nicks....

In more advanced cases of AS, inflammation can spur the formation of new bone. This can cause portions of the spine to become set in a fixed position. The upshot can be debilitating pain and stiffness. There is as yet no cure for ankylosing spondylitis. Biologic agents, however, can make a difference by tamping down the body’s inflammatory response. Unlike many drugs, biologics are not compounds that can be manufactured from chemicals....

RELATED: Biomutant: Best Builds For Ranged Combat While being awesome for the above-mentioned qualities, Guns have a couple of drawbacks as a whole: they initially are not capable of doing critical hits and they have next to no armor-piercing power. For this reason, most Guns in their base forms won’t be the most useful weapon against thickly skinned, scaled, or metal-plated enemies. With that being said, Guns are ideal for clearing out most small and medium-sized enemies outside melee range....

RELATED: Mechanics In Biomutant You Didn’t Even Know Were There With RPG titles such as Biomutant, the player can customize their character to adhere to a specific build. If the player is ever planning on creating a ranged build character, there is more than one path that they can take. This game is very generous with its weapons and abilities that there are various builds the player can craft that are associated with ranged combat alone....

The Ankati tribe is one of six in Biomutant, and leans towards the lighter side of things. Allying with this tribe will see players working towards the good ending by default, and it will also give them access to the Ankati tribe’s unique weapon, the bow. RELATED: Biomutant: How to Farm Bio Points The Ankati tribe call the Ankati Fortress their home, so players wanting to join up with them will need to make the trek to this location....

If the federal government and Federal Reserve were to ultimately issue a CBDC, it would be the first time in a century that America has released an entirely new currency. Although the executive order’s language leaves the door open for federal agencies to recommend against the creation of a digital dollar, the evidence strongly suggests this will not occur, and that the White House will formally propose a plan for a digital currency by the end of the year....

After Omicron, a new coronavirus variant of concern, was identified, Biden instituted a ban on travelers entering the United States from South Africa and six other African countries. Amid a decline in Americans’ approval of how Biden’s been handling the pandemic, the travel restrictions appear to be a winning issue with voters, and a recent poll found a majority of Americans agree with the measure. A Hill-Harris X poll released Tuesday found that 71 percent of all voters backed Biden’s imposition of travel restrictions on several Southern Africa countries....