Long-serving Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel completed a switch to Tianjin Teda on Friday, following Oscar’s departure to Shanghai SIPG. Mikel failed to make a single competitive appearance under Conte, while Oscar made his final Premier League start in September. WATCH: Mikel’s career in numbers The prospect of top scorer Costa leaving – he is rumoured to be the subject of £80million interest from Tianjin Quanjian – would be an entirely different proposition and not one Conte was willing to consider as he addressed a media conference to preview Sunday’s FA Cup third-round tie with Peterborough United....

And there is something un-American about mobs going into neighborhoods and restaurants to intimidate innocent citizens. President Donald Trump should respond to the vicious, destructive and lawless mob precisely as President Abraham Lincoln did. Consider how deeply Lincoln understood the importance of enforcing the law and providing safety and order—and the obligation of the government to use force when necessary. President Lincoln understood mob rule, and he hated it. Lincoln believed in the obligation of government to take action to protect people and property from mob violence....

I can’t find many examples of someone actually being canceled. So if we’re talking about canceling, I think most of the conversations I’ve seen and heard are focused on someone where the public, or a segment of the public, objected to something that was said said. And the public is vocalizing its disgust or being offended by it. And I think that’s okay, right? Because if you speak something into a microphone, you have to concede that you’re doing it for a reaction....

The very principle of reason as superior to superstition, the science of Galileo and the free speech of Voltaire–all is under threat from a totalitarian politics disguised as religion. Europe is not about to descend into a new war on belief. But there’s no mistaking the change in climate. In Britain, Jack Straw, leader of the House of Commons, touched off a storm by suggesting that Muslim women should not wear a full-length veil....

Areas that are used to colder weather aren’t in line to get it. According to the Weather Channel, the North Slope of Alaska, which is normally kept cold by Arctic ice, has more than a 50 percent chance of higher than normal temperatures. This warming trend seems to be a continuation of how things have been the entire year. In the Brazos Valley of Texas, meteorologists have logged the warmest September on record....

Vonleh, the team’s first-round draft pick, had surgery on Tuesday in Charlotte. The team says Vonleh was injured during a recent workout. Vonleh, the ninth overall pick, was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year last season at Indiana. He averaged 11.3 points, nine rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 26.5 minutes per game. Charlotte is covered at forward with free-agent acquisition Marvin Williams, fellow Indiana product Cody Zeller and third-year pros Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Jeffery Taylor....

Every year, the peace prize is awarded to a person or organization that has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Though the nominees are not disclosed until 50 years after the prize is bestowed, the predicted top candidates include 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, other environmental leaders, prime ministers and organizations....

In nmCRPC cases, the cancer has developed a resistance to this kind of treatment and continues to grow. This is in contrast to metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), where these cancer cells start to spread to lymph nodes, bones, and other organ systems. Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in men, and while early detection and treatment is highly successful, the development of nmCRPC is an area of significant concern....

Your respiratory rate is the number of breaths you take in a one-minute period while at rest. Normal respiratory rates vary slightly by age and generally increase during exercise. Since a change in your respiratory rate may signal a health problem, it’s important to know what the normal respiratory rate is for your age group along with how to measure yours correctly. This article covers the normal respiratory rates in adults and children....

The team had acquired Powell about 10 days earlier in a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers. That said, here’s all we know about the Powell injury situation: NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) What is Norman Powell’s injury? As per the team’s announcement, the 6-foot-3 guard has suffered a “fractured medial sesamoid bone in his left foot”. The injury is one that Powell most likely suffered on Thursday in Dallas (Feb....

After his team’s exhibition victory, Williams spoke for the first time in response to a report released Wednesday that outlined how fraud ran unchecked in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department for nearly two decades. It involved more than 3,100 students — about half were athletes — taking sham classes and earning artificially high grades, while poor oversight allowed the problem to worsen. MORE: UNC too eager to write off scandal | Scandal’s scope is unprecedented | School awaits ruling | Williams spoke with investigators...

Plaintiffs accuse the committee that drew the maps of gerrymandering that would affirm a Republican majority in the state’s Congressional representation, as well as state politics for the years the maps would be in use. Groups that analyzed the maps projected Republican candidates would be favored for 10 of the 14 U.S. House seats in the state in November, and that Republicans would be projected to maintain or increase the majorities they currently hold in the state House and Senate, according to The Associated Press....

The late ESPN anchor always had a little extra flair in his voice when he spoke about North Carolina. From Michael Jordan to Vince Carter, he made sure everyone knew the players that attended his beloved school. Now his school is showing its appreciation for him. UNC’s women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell gave an emotional pregame speech about Scott to her team before their game. Now the men’s basketball team is planning to wear “Stu” patches on their jerseys for their game against Notre Dame....

As of Thursday, North Carolina had rejected more than four times as many mail-in ballots from Black voters as it had from white residents, according to FiveThirtyEight. Citing state data, the website explained that 4.7 percent (or 642 out of 13,747) of Black voters’ mail-in ballots had been rejected. Meanwhile, just 1.1 percent (681 out of 60,954) white voters’ ballots had been discarded. Most of these rejections were the result of a voter failing to correctly fill out the witness information portion of the ballot or some other mistake, FiveThirtyEight reported....

Except that analogy involves football, and the Tar Heels never seem to be playing such a muscular game. MORE: What we learned from latest Duke-UNC classic Coach Roy Williams has questioned this team’s competitive toughness in the past, most recently after a fall-from-ahead loss at Notre Dame in early February. He said then, “We’ve got to decide that we want to compete when it’s tough, not just when it’s easy....

The office was opened in 2018 amid an inter-Korean push for closer dialogue and cooperation. But frustration has since grown in Pyongyang over a lack of progress in talks with Seoul and Washington, D.C., plus anger at propaganda balloons floated into the North by defector groups across the border in the South. Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, threatened last week to destroy the building, which has been empty since January due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic....

Dan Smith, the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said Monday that Kim Jong Un could have between 30 and 40 nuclear weapons by 2020. This represents a significant increase on the country’s 2019 estimated total of between 20 and 30 warheads, made in an SIPRI report in June 2018. Smith made his prediction while speaking with reporters at the residence of the Swedish ambassador to South Korea in Seoul, The Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported....

The move, which had been expected, was yet to be confirmed by the Vikings on Saturday as work spread through the media. If true, Turner will run the offense for new coach Mike Zimmer. http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_24942115/report-vikings-finalize-deal-turner-offensive-coordinator Turner had told the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Thursday there was a "good chance" he would get the job. He likely will bring his son, Scott with him, according to the Plain Dealer of Cleveland....