A jury found Isaak guilty of killing Bill Cobb, 50; his wife Lois Cobb, 45; Robert Fakler, 52; and Adam Fuehrer, 42, who were found shot and stabbed inside the RJR Maintenance and Management building on April 1, 2019. South Central District Judge David Reich handed down Isaak’s sentence to serve the rest of his life in prison, but before hearing the judge read the verdicts, Isaak addressed the court, saying, “I can honestly tell you that I’m not a murderer, and that’s all I have to say....

Kim presided Tuesday over his second consecutive session of the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, which held its 8th Party Congress last month just ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The young ruler, recently named general secretary of the party after nearly a decade in power, followed up on some of his decisions made at the grandiose event, including a push for more powerful nuclear weapons and more robust foreign relations....

The Japanese government had pledged to gather more information about the launch and suggested North Korea fired two missiles near its territory, including a new powerful weapon unveiled in a military parade earlier this year. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) warned that the North wants to launch a long-range missile in the coming year - a move that would represent a major security risk to South Korea, Japan, and other U....

According to research recently published in the Geophysical Journal International, the North Korean blast released energy equivalent to 245 and 271 kilotons of TNT. In contrast, the “Little Boy” bomb that the U.S. deployed over Hiroshima contained a blast yield of 15 kilotons. North Korea kick-started its nuclear program after withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. The first of a series of nuclear tests took place three years later, in 2006, and culminated in the testing of what experts suspect was a hydrogen bomb on September 3, 2017....

Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon applauded North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister’s comments made a day earlier on how U.S. expectations of communication would “plunge them into a greater disappointment,” the Associated Press reported. Ri said Kim Yo Jong’s statement dismissed the U.S.’ “hasty judgment, conjecture and expectation.” He also said contact with the U.S. “would get us nowhere, only taking up precious time.” Experts say that North Korea may resume nuclear talks if the U....

Everyone has heard that North Korea is a country that can’t feed itself—as underlined earlier this year by the United Nations World Food Program, which warned once again of the danger of impending famine in the Hermit Kingdom. Less well known, though, is that some people in North Korea are actually getting rich. Reliable statistics are hard to come by, of course, given the obsessive secrecy of the North Korean state....

Paul Jesperson, the fellow who made the 45-foot bank shot as the buzzer sounded, was eagerly sharing credit with the player who’d found him with a perfect inbound pass, guard Matt Bohannon. PHOTOS: Fantastic first-round scenes | March Sadness: Losers react “Bo made a great read,” Jesperson told Sporting News. “I think he was just looking for someone that was open. I felt there was a little bit of pressure in front of me, so I took a dribble or two to my left, let it go....

The top 125 players on the FedEx Cup points list are eligible to compete at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. That includes Tiger Woods, who last played at the British Open in July, missing the cut at 6-over par. Woods, ranked fifth in the world, is 28th in points (1,003) and enters the weekend dealing with a stiff back. New rules for the Tour Championship in 2019 make positioning ever important, so the next two weeks are make-or-break for Woods and others trying to climb the standings from the fringes....

Northwestern says Mark wants to play closer to his family. Mark, who is from near Houston, missed most of last season with a broken ankle and was granted another year of eligibility. “Northwestern has been an indescribable experience for me,” Mark said in a statement. “It has been my home for four years, and has molded me into the man I am. I’m one class shy of the Northwestern degree I’ve worked so hard for, and I will graduate....

Sanders — once a frontrunner in the election, polling behind only former Vice President Biden — has slipped in the polls since the first Democratic primary debate in late June. He’s now tied with Senator Kamala Harris in third place with 13 percent of the vote. The Independent senator has also had trouble raising money, bringing in $18 million in Q2 and pacing behind fellow candidates Pete Buttigieg, Biden and Elizabeth Warren....

Now if you’re looking for someone to fix the one thing that has gutted Florida’s football program since Tim Tebow left Gainesville after the 2009 season, then McElwain might be the sexiest, splashiest move the Gators could have made. This isn’t about the right fit or the right man for the job or the right time to take a chance on a guy with three years’ head coaching experience....

Patients may assume their doctors are intimately familiar with the drugs they prescribe. But doctors are busy people, and scanning the ads in medical journals is a quicker way to keep abreast of new treatments than poring over data from clinical trials. Various studies have found that ad campaigns help determine how doctors treat their patients. The new findings are enough to make you wish it weren’t true. Starting from the debatable assumption that prescription-drug ads should be more trustworthy than, say, toothpaste promotions, the UCLA researchers asked experts from appropriate fields to rate 109 ads in terms of educational value, scientific rigor and compliance with FDA standards....

When I first read a shorter, less avuncular version of King’s essay in The New York Times Book Review, I took it for pure provocation, the last-ditch effort of a revivalist preacher throwing down the fire and brimstone, anything to get a rise out of his tent full of apathetic backsliders. Because I write short stories and have only published in literary magazines, I took him seriously. I was pretty sure that, by King’s reckoning, I was one of the reasons short fiction is circling the drain....

Two centenaries, Duke Ellington’s and Francis Poulenc’s, are getting plenty of attention, in some spectacular spaces. Movements from Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts” are on the opening-night program at Britain’s Three Choirs Festival (Aug. 21-27; www.3choirs.org) in Worcester Cathedral; Poulenc’s shattering “Dialogues of the Carmelites” will be staged in Olavinlinna Castle at Finland’s Savonlinna Festival (July 3-Aug. 1; www.operafestival.fi). A festival note warns: “Castle passages and floors are uneven, so wear stout shoes....

TIDE VS. IRISH: 5 predictions ahead of 2028-29 series Alabama also confirmed the news in a release. Said coach Nick Saban of the series: “We are excited to be able to add a home-and-home series with a team like Notre Dame,” he said in a statement. “Alabama and Notre Dame represent two of the most storied programs in college football history. What a great opportunity for our team and our fans to be able to witness these teams play in two of the sport’s most iconic venues in Tuscaloosa and South Bend....

For the first time in history, two schools are set to wear the same baselayers, Navy announced. MORE: This week’s SN Top 20 | Which team has best argument for No. 1? The Irish and the Midshipmen — both outfitted by Under Armour with similar color schemes — will wear the same baselayers, gloves and cleats during Saturday’s game. Coaches and sideline personnel also will wear matching gear. “The baselayer features both of our alma maters on the sleeves and glove palms with the words “Respect, Honor, Tradition” as a reminder of their connection to each other,” Navy said in a release....

Swarbrick said he would like to see two different college athletic systems: one that chooses to pay players, and one that doesn’t. HAYES: Paying players will cost more than you think | Bielema on Chris Boreland “There’s going to be Congressional intervention [in college athletics], or there’s going to be more than one intercollegiate athletic association,” Swarbrick told CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. “… You don’t like these set of rules?...

The Irish in 2018 finished 12-0 in the regular season for the second time under Kelly before suffering a 30-3 loss to Clemson in the CFP semifinal at the Cotton Bowl Classic. Notre Dame will take the next step with quarterback Ian Book, who stayed on the fringe of the Heisman Trophy conversation throughout that banner regular season. MORE: SN’s pre-preseason rankings for 2019 Kelly is just the fifth coach to last a decade or more in South Bend....

Since Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was nominated and confirmed as the first woman to the bench in 1981, all 13 justices who followed O’Connor graduated from Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. O’Connor graduated from Stanford Law School. However, if Barrett is confirmed, it would open a new path for law students who are not studying at one of the prestigious 12 and students at the University of Notre Dame are particularly enthused about her nomination....