The SmartCuts establishment alerted clients to new entry protocols in a written notice posted to its Wilkesboro storefront, which was photographed and shared to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. “To our clients who currently work at Tyson — we appreciate and care for you very much and we hope the current Covid 19 outbreak you are dealing with subsides quickly!” the salon’s message began, referring to Tyson Foods’ announcement last week confirming that more than 25 percent of its Wilkesboro staff had contracted the respiratory illness....

Judges said the law intentionally discriminated against Black voters, violating their equal protections. The law “was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters,” Superior Court Judges Michael O’Foghludha and Vince Rozier wrote in their 100-page majority opinion. “Other, less restrictive voter ID laws would have sufficed to achieve the legitimate nonracial purposes of implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence....

We’re starting to believe that’s more of the team North Carolina is, compared to the two ugly losses it suffered at the hands of Belmont and UAB. Marcus Paige scored 23 points—21 in the second half—and James Michael McAdoo added 20 points as the Tar Heels beat the Wildcats 82-77 on Saturday. MORE: Dean Smith’s family, former players honor the coach at halftime ceremony Playing its second game since taking down No....

East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson tweeted the image with himself and two other MPs Ian Paisley and Paul Girvan, all part of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), with “Keep America Great” and a handshake emoji between the U.S. and U.K. flags. The fourth person is unknown. The DUP was formerly in an agreement with the ruling Conservative government before the last election. Ulster Unionist Party MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) Doug Beattie said he “cringed” when he saw the image for the first time....

Starting Thursday, public events without assigned seating will be limited to 50 people. Private home gatherings will be limited to 10 but with an expansion to 20 for Christmas and New Year’s eves. The limits are scheduled to last four weeks. The Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony is set to take place at Oslo City Hall on Friday. The Nobel Committee said the event will go forward as planned but with fewer attendees and mask requirements....

Not if Simpson can help it. He was so angered by the infighting that he felt compelled to put a stop to it, Newsweek learned. In a move that underscored the very active role that he is playing in his case, Simpson told his multimillion-dollar defenders that they had better set aside their differences and keep their focus on the game – just as he had when he and some of his football teammates didn’t get along....

The same thing just might be beginning to happen with the GOP’s legendary “law and order” theme, which has worked as a way of bashing Democrats since the 1960s. After proving useful–even decisive-in five elections, the idea of exploiting fear of black crime to win white votes is looking a little tattered. It’s not that there’s less fear; there’s more. And any national Democrat who looks squishy on crime is still politically dead....

Marko had good reason to rush. Described by Serb businessmen as a vicious thug with a hair-trigger temper, the young Milosevic has many enemies. Business partners and opposition leaders say Marko was perhaps the greediest of five dozen regime insiders who raked in huge profits through a network of shady enterprises, including cigarette and oil trading, drug dealing and money laundering. Marko owned Serbia’s cigarette-import business and a chain of duty-free shops that brought in tens of millions of dollars a year....

Ambitious and farsighted ideas, but meanwhile the Army continues work on the Crusader, its latest “big gun”–a self-propelled, computer-aimed 155mm howitzer cannon built to rapid-fire while careering about the battlefield at 60 mph. The Army wants to buy 1,100 Crusaders at a cost of about $11 billion. The problem: the Crusader’s firing-control system is about as complex as that of a fighter plane and difficult to maintain under combat conditions....

Apologize to Andy Reid. MORE: Worse disaster: Eagles or Dolphins? | Sam Bradford still looks lost | Kelly: Blame the GM in the mirror Kelly should, Jeffrey Lurie should and so should the Eagles’ fans. Not all of them, just the ones who really bought the idea that anything Kelly did was perfect and above questioning. Because all of these people swallowed the notion that Reid’s players, his roster, his choices, had to be purged before Kelly could fulfill his destiny....

Think again. With NATO mired in an ugly war against Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia, celebration is hardly the order of the day. As their limousines grind through gridlock from one scaled-down event to another, NATO’s leaders will have ample time to reflect on their new circumstances. Kosovo has changed everything; if some good is to come out of the meeting this week, all those in Washington–American hosts and European guests–need to reflect on where their spring adventure has taken them....

Kelly said after the Fighting Irish's 29-16 victory over Rutgers in the Pinstripe Bowl that contract details were still being worked out and the new defensive coordinator would be "an outside" hire, though he declined to identify his choice. The NFL Network, citing unidentified sources, was first to report VanGorder was headed to Notre Dame. Kelly and VanGorder worked together at Grand Valley State from 1989-91. VanGorder is in his first season with the Jets....

Holtz on Wednesday criticized the Catholic faith of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying he was “Catholic in name only.” Holtz, who also accused Biden of being “radically pro-abortion,” led into his statement by mentioning he was the former Fighting Irish football coach and that the university has a statue of him on campus. “One of the important reasons (President Donald Trump) has my trust is because nobody is but a stronger advocate for the unborn than President Trump,” Holtz said....

Kelly was right. No. 4 Notre Dame’s 47-40 double-overtime victory against the Tigers doesn’t ensure an ACC championship, a College Football Playoff berth or the program’s first national championship since 1988. Notre Dame students rushed the field despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. That will temporarily distort the lasting memory of what the Irish (7-0, 6-0 ACC) pulled off at Notre Dame Stadium against the Tigers (7-1, 6-1 ACC), a game Sporting News thought would be the game of the year before the season started....

The Irish began the night at the Campbell Center in Houston, playing Louisiana-Lafayette in a neutral-site game, but a power failure halted play in the second quarter. Not wanting to suspend or cancel the game, the teams wound up going to Rice University, about a half-hour away. The Owls had played earlier in the evening, so their arena was already open. MORE: 2016 national championship in photos “I think both teams wanted to play the game....

The declaration comes as a bit of a surprise, considering Fuller has 44 receptions for 900 yards and 12 touchdowns this season and projects as a first-round prospect in next year’s NFL Draft. MORE: Notre Dame joins playoff four | Seven ways Irish don’t make playoffs Notre Dame (8-1), led by Fuller, moved to No. 4 in the College Football Playoff rankings this week and could be even better next year if Fuller does indeed stay in school....

For all we know, “Memories of the Ford Administration” was spliced together entirely out of recyclables: Alf’s half of the story is classic pre-AIDS Updike. “Gerald Ford, in his two years and five months of Presidency,” writes Alf, “presided over a multitude… of one-night stands”-and Alf gets his share. It’s part of the fun that Alf’s remembered ’70s are so Updikean; but the writing here is up to the ’90s standard set by “Rabbit at Rest....