You might think every company would want a seat on the military gravy train. Far from it. As the budget squeeze increases pressure to seek cheaper commercial products, procurement officers accustomed to issuing voluminous specifications for everything from screws to solder are finding that civilian industry doesn’t work that way. As a result, the latest in optics and electronics often isn’t for sale to the armed forces. “I don’t know anybody who’s anxious to do business with the Department of Defense other than people who are in effect captive,” says Thomas Murrin, dean of Duquesne University’s business school....

Both Sanchez and Costa missed their respective sides’ first Premier League games of the season at the weekend, but while the Chelsea forward seemingly has no future at Stamford Bridge, Wenger is determined not to let his own player leave. Alexis Sanchez 20/1 to be Premier League top scorer With the Chile international’s contract up next year, Arsenal would lose Sanchez for free at the end of the season if they cannot agree a new contract - but Wenger remains hopeful....

There are many rumors surrounding the supposedly impending deal. One source predicts Saudi Arabia will end its years-long blockade in return for Qatar dropping its related lawsuits against it. Another source predicts a deal honing coexistence, rather than reconciliation. Speculation abounds after Doha received 13 demands, including ultimatums to shed its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and to close its Al Jazeera Network. The U.S. also has a stake, hoping to resolve a feud that has compromised efforts to counter the Iranian regime....

Tony Romo has had plenty of luck when it comes to clavicles, but it’s all been bad. He broke his left clavicle in 2010, and the injury turned out to be a season-ender. He did it again Sunday in the Cowboys’ Week 2 win over the Eagles after landing awkwardly following a fumble. The Cowboys are anticipating an eight-week recovery. MORE: Seasons derailed by QB injury | All-time best injured QB replacements...

Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody told the among the 7.2 percent still without war deployments are soldiers in the health and training fields: Of the 7.2 percent of soldiers (37,000 of them) without combat deployments: –27.2 percent work in health services. –7.1 percent work in career management fields and operations support (i.e. systems engineering, information systems management, and telecommunications). –4.1 percent work in logistics, transportation, and human resources....

The death tolls from the coordinated attacks on Washington and New York will surely rise into the hundreds and probably thousands. The psychic injury will be equally vast. Officials have long warned that America’s borders are porous and its people mobile and free-wheeling-ideal conditions for terrorists who want to penetrate and kill. But despite the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City bombing, and despite all the talk about Osama bin Laden’s worldwide terror network, the message never really sunk in to ordinary Americans that they were vulnerable to attacks on a truly massive scale....

Finney-Smith scored 15 points, Michael Frazier II added 14 and No. 7 Florida opened the season with a 68-45 victory over William & Mary on Friday night. Michigan transfer Jon Horford chipped in 11 points for the Gators, who extended their season-opener winning streak to 24 games and improved to 19-0 on opening night under coach Billy Donovan. “We’re a well-balanced team,” Frazier said. “On any given night, it can be anybody....

Noah Syndergaard recently signed a one-year deal to head west and join the Angels, this after seemingly spurning the Mets’ qualifying offer in the process. That decision seemed to anger New York’s (retired) sports pope and former WFAN radio host Mike Francesa, who took to Twitter to deliver some unsolicited, unrequested opinions on Syndergaard and the Mets: “The Mets are better off without Syndergaard. In case you haven’t noticed, they have been without him for years,” Francesa tweeted....

Arenado needed little time to extend his string Wednesday night. He hit a two-run double in the first inning against the Texas Rangers to equal teammate Michael Cuddyer's 27-game streak from last season. Arenado's streak is the longest for anyone 23 years or younger since Albert Pujols had a 30-gamer in 2003 when he was 23. The streak for Arenado began April 9, a week before his 23rd birthday. According to Elias, his streak is the longest that began when a player was 22 or younger since Benito Santiago's 34-game hitting streak in 1987, which is still a major league rookie record....

‘Are you crazy?’ - Ronaldo angers Buddhists City trailed Barca by one goal when Bravo was sent off for handling outside the box after presenting Luis Suarez with a clear sight of goal. Messi, who had scored the first, went on to bag a hat trick as Neymar added the fourth late on after he had already seen a penalty saved by Willy Caballero. Nolito believes that the score line was harsh, however, and insists that City had been executing its gameplan well up until Bravo’s red card....

Leo Hoffman and their friends were enjoying the picnic when a male student grabbed the rainbow flag and threw it into a trash can last Friday, Leo’s father Benjamin Hoffman told Bay News Nine. When Leo retrieved the flag and draped it across their back like a cape, they were allegedly pushed to the ground, stomped on, doused with water and dragged across the ground while wrestling for control of the flag with the same student and other assailants....

Sherwood Pope, 82, and his wife Doris, 78, died on December 14 at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, North Carolina, “side by side and holding hands”, the family said in an obituary posted online. It comes as cases in the state continue to soar with 6,729 new infections and 57 deaths reported on Wednesday alone, according to data from The New York Times. In total, North Carolina has now reported 6,342 deaths and more than 491,000 cases since the pandemic broke out....

Fred Hermann initially called 911 to report that two pit bulls were in his yard attacking him and his dog, NBC affiliate WCNC reported. Pit bulls are the breed most often involved in the small number of dog attacks against humans that cause severe injuries or deaths in the U.S., according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. However, the organization says the breed isn’t inherently more dangerous than other dogs, and there may be a number of reasons for the attacks, including how they are treated by their owners....

More than 2,000 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) have been reported in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). MIS-C is a condition in which different parts of the body can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. The causes of MIS-C remain a mystery, but the vast majority of young people who have suffered the condition have tested positive for COVID-19, or have been in contact with someone with the disease....

Line: Wisconsin -6, Total: 144.5 (current Sweet 16 spreads and totals) Line movement: Wisconsin opened between 5 and 5.5-point favorites, with the number being bet up to the -6, -6.5 range. The total opened 142, before early action came in on the OVER. History and trends: Wisconsin made it to the Final Four last year, playing very well in its Sweet 16 win over Baylor (69-52 as 4-point favorites). North Carolina is making its first Sweet 16 appearance since 2012....

Last week, the National Farmers Union said that Trump was making things “worse, not better” by escalating tariffs on China, adding in a statement that, ″instead of looking to solve existing problems in our agricultural sector, this administration has just created new ones." Bob Kuylen, a wheat and sunflower farmer from South Heart, North Dakota, says he has endured a tough time since Trump came into office, including losses of up to $400,000....

“A possible ballistic missile was launched from North Korea,” the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said Wednesday, Thursday local time, on Twitter. An earlier tweet that has since been deleted suggested the missile had “likely” flown over Japan, as Monday’s launch did, though this appears to have been corrected. The premier’s office also released a three-point set of instructions in the wake of the launch’s detection that read: “1....

The NIS also revealed that North Korea doesn’t seem to have acquired any foreign COVID-19 vaccines, according to Ha Tae-keung, one of the lawmakers present at the briefing. There is also no indication that the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has been vaccinated himself, Tae-keung said. The U.N.-supported program to distribute vaccines globally, COVAX, said in February that North Korea was eligible to receive 1.9 million vaccine doses in the first half of 2021, but no shipments were requested....

Ruling Korean Workers’ Party Central Committee Vice Department Director Kim Yo Jong, sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, issued the statement Monday on the eve of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s planned trip to the Korean Peninsula to hold their meetings with their South Korean counterparts since President Joe Biden took office in January. The two sides have just begun to wrap up their nine-day drills, which were conducted in a downsized, virtual format rather than through field maneuvers....