Friday’s play began in hot, humid Queens with defending champion Marin Cilic in action. Djokovic, top seed and No. 1 player in world rankings, awaits an afternoon match against Italy’s Andreas Seppi, seeded No. 23. MORE: Women’s matches | Open scenes | Roger Federer on heat | Celebrity sighting Also in action on Friday: Rafael Nadal, who gets a night match; No. 7 David Ferrer and No. 10 Milos Raonic....
Earlier this month, it was reported that a possible bout between Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew was being targeted. Well, that fight is one step closer to coming to fruition after weeks of negotiations. Usyk’s manager, Egis Klimas, told ESPN that the undisputed cruiserweight world champion is close to striking a deal with Tony Bellew for a title fight in November. Klimas added that the fight would take place on Bellew’s U....
The war in Afghanistan, the war on terror and the coming war in Iraq have given Rumsfeld a powerful ally: necessity. While Rumsfeld gains notice (and notoriety) for his brusque manner and off-the-cuff pronouncements about global affairs, his most important work has gone on behind the scenes, trying to improve the way the military prepares for war. Last week he spoke to NEWSWEEK about his efforts to change the Pentagon “culture” in order to make the military, as he put it, “more agile....
Nine decades on, the list of broken Western promises has grown longer. But Tony Blair means to leave all that behind. The British prime minister has long argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace is central to solving post-9-11 security worries. He angered Arabs, his own Labour Party and continental Europeans by supporting the war in Iraq. Going forward, he knows that pushing the Americans toward an Israeli-Palestinian solution could be a giant step in mending ties with all three of those camps....
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released an advisory saying that the attacks were linked to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency, which has also been tied to major international cyberattacks and attempts to compromise the 2016 and 2020 U.S. elections. The attacks involve automated “spraying” of sites with potential passwords until hackers get inside. The NSA advisory said companies should implement common-sense cyberhygiene methods like multifactor authentication and strong passwords....
A preliminary report released about the October 12 derailment singles out a flaw in the rail car’s wheel and axle assembly that was not able to be identified through a visual check. The affected car, the 7000 series, was found to have a problem that caused the wheels to spread too wide on the axles. As a result, the NTSB is urging systems across the country to inspect for any potential defects in their trains’ wheels....
Fusion scientists have told Newsweek that it now offers huge appeal across the political spectrum, adding impetus to solving the many problems that face this near-limitless, clean source of power. In April, the White House said the Biden-Harris was developing a strategy to push fusion energy forward, including $50 million to advance research in the area. Steven Cowley is the director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory that researches nuclear fusion science....
Reporting from The Washington Post Thursday shed light on why federal law enforcement took the extraordinary step of raiding the residence of a former president. The search carried out earlier this week has set off a political firestorm. The Post’s report, which relied on unnamed sources, points to worries government officials had about documents potentially being stored in Trump’s residence. Trump on Monday posted a lengthy statement to his Truth Social platform announcing the raid at his home in Florida, characterizing it as the latest in a pattern of politically motivated targeting by federal law enforcement....
New polling from Morning Consult/Politico shows that the Georgia Republican is quickly gaining voter recognition, as Ocasio-Cortez did after the progressive New Yorker was elected to the House during the blue wave in the 2018 midterms. The number of voters who have an opinion on Greene has more than doubled since she won her runoff primary election in August. The latest survey, conducted at the end of January, found 46 percent of registered voters have an opinion about her—up 21 percent since a poll conducted in August ahead of the Republican Convention....
The nine casinos reportedly won about $440 million in November, a 52 percent increase from November 2020, though the casinos are using 2019 as a more relevant comparison point since the pandemic forced months of closures and capacity limits when they were allowed to reopen. Even with in-person gambling down just over five percent from 2019 levels, the state’s casinos have won $4.3 billion through November, 34 percent higher than the same time frame in 2019 and a 69 percent increase from 2020....
But that’s what happens when you face a team that has won three of the last five national championships. No. 1 Mississippi State (9-0) travels to No. 4 Alabama (8-1) in a game that will shape both the SEC West and College Football Playoff picture. HAYES: This nonsense replaced the BCS? | BENDER: How Tide have fared vs. No. 1 teams Do the Bulldogs — the underdogs — have what it takes to take out the Tide?...
Police in Ancona, on Italy’s eastern coast, arrest the nurse who allegedly ditched vaccines in a bin and even put bandages on “patients” so they wouldn’t draw suspicion to the scam. Police also placed four alleged accomplices under house arrest. They are accused of looking for anti-vaccine customers who were willing to pay for a health pass instead of receiving the COVID vaccine. Altogether, the workers made a minimum of 18,000 euros, nearly $20,500, through the scam, according to police, Sky News reported....
Kristen Choi, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the University of California, enrolled in the vaccine trial in August after seeing an advertisement on Instagram, as she explained in a report published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “Volunteering for the trial felt like an honorable thing to do—and the 50 percent chance to be randomized to the vaccine early seemed equally compelling to me as a practicing nurse,” Choi wrote in her report, entitled “A Nursing Researcher’s Experience in a COVID-19 Vaccine Trail....
NPs are situated between registered nurses (RNs) and physicians when it comes to the type of education they have and the amount of responsibility for taking care of people that they assume. In this article, you’ll learn about nurse practitioners’ education, specialization, and level of autonomy they have as compared to RNs and MDs. Education and Training To become an NP, you first need to go to college to earn your BSN, which a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree....
Hadley Christine, 28, who has worked as a nurse manager in long-term care, became frustrated after seeing what she perceived as “loopholes.” After working in the industry for the last six years, she’s speaking out over flaws in the system and calling for change. She took to social media where she seemingly explained how some people make themselves eligible for Medicaid, despite having the funds to pay for care....
Amelia Cannon works in her hospital’s Emergency Department, but has also been working in COVID-19 rooms more frequently due to the latest Delta-fueled surge in cases, The Tulsa World reported. Oklahoma—like the rest of the country—has seen a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Oklahoma’s seven-day-average of new cases was 2,267 on Monday, compared to 1,159 one month earlier. Just under 43 percent of the population is fully vaccinated....
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Morawski said that she’d returned to work because she believed “action is better than inaction.” Despite being past retirement age, putting her at higher risk for serious complications if she becomes infected with coronavirus, the nurse said that she didn’t let “worry or fear rule” her life. At the same time, she warned that the situation facing her and other health care workers is dire....
Objectives develop annual operating and capital budgets to effectively forecast fiscal requirementsmanage annual operating and capital budgets to effectively use fiscal resourcesgenerate and collect revenue to ensure financial viability of the facilitynegotiate, interpret, and implement contractual agreements (e. g. , organized labor, managed care, vendors, consultative services)ensure the integrity of financial audit programs and reporting systemsensure protection of the facility’s financial assets (e. g. , insurance coverage, risk management)ensure that financial practices are planned, implemented, and audited to comply with federal and state standards and regulations....
A coalition of New York City Council members and non-profit advocates—including Chair of the Council Committee on Parks and Recreation Peter Koo, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks Adam Ganser and President of New York League of Conservation Voters Julie Tighe—released a statement objecting to the budgetary cuts: “We are extremely disappointed that the City has decided to slash the budget for NYC Parks by over 14 percent, including the loss of 193 critical parks staff....
On Sunday, tens of thousands of people will lace up their sneakers and put one foot in front of the other until they cover the 26.2 miles to the finish line of the annual New York City Marathon. As the runners make their way through all five boroughs, people will line the streets to cheer them on. Along with spectators who want to see the marathon in person, thousands of people will watch the runners race to the finish line from their televisions, phones and tablets....
