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West Ham 500/1 to win Premier League The Mexico international signed a three-year deal at London Stadium after a deal worth £16 million was struck with Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. Bilic said he tried to bring Hernandez to West Ham two years ago when he left Manchester United and the Croatian is delighted to finally get his man. “Chicharito is very important in this project,” said Bilic. “When I came to West Ham two years ago and he was leaving United, I wanted him then....

The distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine began in the U.S. on Monday. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. has reported 16,420,309 positive cases of the coronavirus. Trump had expressed displeasure with some of Barr’s actions and statements which appeared to run in opposition to Trump’s state policies. In his resignation letter, Barr said that Trump’s actions on quickly creating a vaccine for COVID-19 were admirable. “With Operation Warp Speed,” Barr wrote, “you delivered a vaccine for coronavirus on a schedule no one thought conceivable—a feat that will undoubtedly save millions of lives....

The final New England connection for the future Hall of Famers was key to that victory. While Brady and Gronkowski have re-created that chemistry as Buccaneers, winning another ring together in Super Bowl 55, the middling Patriots continue to struggle without their offensive execution and veteran leadership. They finished 7-9 last season and are 1-2 going into the Week 4 game vs. the Bucs. Given the nature of coach Bill Belichick, he still might downplay how much he misses his long-time incomparable duo....

The dream of a great tablet-based computer predates the PC itself. In 1971–when Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were still taking high-school classes and “portable computer” meant “get the forklift” –Alan Kay of the fabled Xerox PARC research lab sketched out Dynabook. It would be a light, intimate, keyboardless device that ran software based on his innovative Smalltalk language (a precursor of our now ubiquitous mouse-and-point systems). It seemed far out, but in 1972 PARC engineers Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson asked Kay if they could take a stab at building his “little machine....

On his show Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher offered his “dark prediction” of a “slow-moving coup” that he believes Trump is currently preparing for in an attempt to take back the White House. This includes Trump trying to gain the Republican nomination and announcing his presidential candidacy. “I’ve been saying ever since he lost. He’s like a shark, that’s not gone, just gone out to sea. But actually, he’s been quietly eating people this whole time....

This week, the “Worldwide leader in sports entertainment” welcomed one of the most polarizing figures from the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” — Bill Simmons — to serve as a guest commentator on Monday night Raw. While Simmons fancies himself a professional basketball guru, he’s also a huge professional wrestling fan and frequently makes passing references to the sports entertainment industry on episodes of the B.S. Report podcast. But Simmons wasn’t the only ESPN employee to team up with WWE this week....

“The Sports Guy” released the first two episodes of his new podcast Thursday — simply titled “The Bill Simmons Podcast” — and he didn’t hesitate to go after ESPN about its coverage of the Deflategate controversy. MORE: Deflategate timeline | 7 projects Simmons should tackle at HBO “Granted I’m a little biased here from what my experiences at ESPN were the last two years, but the way everyone else was covering (NFL commissioner Roger) Goodell’s role in this whole story versus the way ESPN covered it, it was embarrassing,” Simmons said on the second episode....

Today’s proof: the Buffalo Bills, who are just being smart with their money by reportedly benching their starting quarterback for their final game. Not like those sellouts Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffrey … who are benching themselves for their final games. MORE: 7 best coaching candidates for Bills Everybody recognizes this, don’t they? All these decisions are being made with future financial considerations in mind. One decision gets a knowing nod and shrug....

The game will be held at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. — home of the Bills, which is right nearby Buffalo — and once again, it appears that both teams will be dealing with some interesting weather in this win-or-go-home game. The last time these two teams squared off in Buffalo, the weather was extreme. There were wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour during New England’s 14-10 win that saw the team attempt just three passes with rookie quarterback Mac Jones....

In her time at Newsweek, Carmichael has written three cover stories and contributed to many more. She also reported on-site from Ground Zero on September 11. She studied statistics with the Weidenbaum Center in 2006 and was a Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2003. She is also the co-author of the books “In the Beginning” and “Med School in a Box,” and writes regularly for the Boston Globe Sunday magazine and other publications....

Stress comes in a variety of forms, ranging from psychological stress (i.e., depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual trauma), performance anxiety and work-related stress, to life-altering events such as the death of a family member or friend, divorce, change in health, financial troubles, or relationship problems. The body copes remarkably well with occasional stress, a reminder of the body’s resilient nature, but there’s only so much the body can withstand. Over time, the negative impacts of stress compounding on itself manifest in mental and physical ways....

However, Biomutant is not without its good points, and it may be able to get a little better on next-gen consoles. If fans can trust a recent leak, the action RPG is finally about to get its next-gen upgrade for PlayStation 5. RELATED: Destroy All Humans 2 Gets New Trailer, Release Date Reddit user the_andshrew discovered the leak and shared it on the GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit. According to the Reddit user, developers have already published the PlayStation 5 version of Biomutant on the PlayStation Network backend....

A financial report by the game’s publisher THQ Nordic seemed to reveal that Biomutant could hit stores before the end of the publisher’s fiscal year. This meant the game would launch before March 31, 2021, which would have been a surprise considering there have been no definitive release date announcements. However, THQ Nordic has since clarified that the game’s launch is slated for the company’s next financial year, which begins in April 2021....

RELATED: Bioshock Creator Ken Levine’s Next Game Is Going To Be Weird However, proper usage of these abilities is paramount to the player’s success, particularly on higher difficulties. Here are 10 of the best plasmids available in Rapture across the Bioshock trilogy. 10 Security Bullseye (Bioshock) Underrated by many players, the Security Bullseye plasmid allows players to hijack Rapture’s network of security cameras and use them to their advantage. While standing in their sight for more than a second or two will alert an army of machine gun-wielding automatons, hitting the cameras with this plasmid turns the tables on Ryan’s so-called eyes and ears, causing them to target splicers rather than the player....

Biden is facing more COVID-19 deaths under his tenure than former President Donald Trump had, with coronavirus cases breaking records across the country. While Biden has defended his approach for being vastly different from Trump’s, he’s struggling to convince voters that he has a good grip on the situation, and losing with independents could hurt Democrats in this year’s midterm elections. As Biden marks one year in office, 48 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the pandemic, according to FiveThirtyEight....

Notably, “Bedlam” between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will be played Dec. 3, giving the teams a shot to impress the College Football Playoff committee during “Championship Week”, not a week earlier over Thanksgiving weekend like this season. MORE: Projecting where Big 12 teams are bowling | Baylor-TCU is battle of backups Texas won’t be playing a conference game on the final weekend of the regular season as the Longhorns will end their Big 12 season on Thanksgiving against TCU....

Chris Lynn scored 64 runs off 29 balls with six fours and four sixes and put on 124 runs for the second wicket along with Short. Adam Hose also chipped in with a 22-ball knock of 38 with one four and four sixes. Patrick Dooley picked up two wickets for 25 runs, but his efforts went in vain. Earlier, after being put in to bat first, the Hurricanes racked up a massive score of 229 for four....

All in all, not a bad description of the office’s lofty–and controversial–ambitions. Quietly created after the September 11 attacks, the office’s Total Information Awareness project aims to enable federal investigators to engage in a kind of super “data mining”–inventing software to trawl through commercial and government computer databases in search of suspicious patterns that might indicate terror plans. The 9-11 hijackers, for instance, enrolled in flight schools, rented apartments, used credit cards and bought airline tickets together....