No. 7 Michigan State (7-1) and No. 13 Ohio State (7-1) are looking to improve their College Football Playoff resume, and the winner will seize control of the Big Ten East division. MORE: SEC bias? More like FSU bias | 10 wild playoff scenarios | Week 11 Picks The Spartans have a chance to take three of four from the Buckeyes for the first time since 1971-74. Ohio State is looking to avenge last year’s 34-24 loss in the Big Ten championship game....

Instead, it’s the No. 9 TCU (4-0) and No. 5 Baylor (5-0) hook up, and the winner will have the inside track on the conference championship, and perhaps a spot in the College Football Playoff. MORE: Week 7 Picks | Heisman watch | Sizing up the 10 unbeatens Who has the edge? Let’s look at the Numbers that Matter: Series history This marks the 110th meeting between the two schools, but it’s the first time both are ranked in the AP Top 25....

I’ve heard it from my loved ones. Nurses have been overworked and understaffed for years. Then the pandemic came and exacerbated all those issues, adding burnout and safety risks to their list of woes. Now, two in five nurses say they’re planning on leaving healthcare. Yet in the face of these challenging conditions, some are forging a different path forward, with the help of smartphone technology. A growing cohort of nurses and healthcare professionals are turning to on-demand apps that put them in charge of their own workload, their own schedule, and their own career path....

The Black Stars were hoping to make it to a fourth consecutive World Cup following their debut campaign in 2006, however, they finished third in Group E of the qualifiers with seven points behind Egypt and Uganda. “Going to the World Cup has become part and parcel of our lives and so, for me, it is an anticlimax," Nyantakyi was quoted as saying by Citifmonline.com. “It is a big disappointment to me as a person and as the head of the football association, I think that it is not encouraging at all that we will not be able to respond to the roll call of the world’s biggest footballing nations in Russia,” he said....

We live neither in a world where all places have such good things nor in a world where it is widely believed that we should want such things. Instead, the world we live in entails investing in such things, but mostly in places that are already thriving economically. Much of the time, this comes at the grave expense of some locals who are not thriving. A good example of this can be seen in the effects of climate change: The vast majority of emissions are produced by developed countries, exceeding developing countries by leagues....

NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller stressed in a statement on Thursday that suspect Frank James had been identified within hours of the Tuesday morning rush hour shooting. While a “technical issue” rendered some cameras inoperable, Miller said the suspect was quickly identified due to eyewitnesses, rental truck evidence and other Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cameras in the subway system. “Statements that the lack of cameras on the station delayed the manhunt by many hours are unfair and misleading,” said Miller....

But these days, O.J. Simpson is just trying to escape the shadow of his past and live in the present. “Life is fine,” Simpson told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home. “We don’t need to go back and relive the worst day of our lives. The subject of the moment is the subject I will never revisit again. My family and I have moved on to what we call the ‘no negative zone....

Simpson shared a video accompanied by the caption “Coming soon!!!” as he declared with a smile that he’s “got a little getting even to do.” Take a look: “Hey Twitter world, this is yours truly,” Simpson said in the video. “Now, coming soon to Twitter, you’ll get to read all my thoughts and opinions on just about everything. Now, there’s a lot of fake OJ accounts out there. So this one, @TheRealOJ32 is the only official one....

Luzardo was playing a video game at a desk, and his left pinkie smashed hard against the desk. His finger felt a little sore, so he let the club know about it. Luzardo was monitored as he threw in the cage, and the team gave him the green light for his scheduled start. “Before the game he was playing a video game and accidentally bumped his hand on the desk as he was playing the game,” A’s coach Bob Melvin said....

A clip of Pearson Sharp’s monologue went viral on Wednesday as people expressed their outrage at him claiming the 2020 election was rigged—a falsehood frequently pushed by the OAN network—while noting the punishment for treason. “How many people were involved in these efforts to undermine the election? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? How many people does it take to carry out a coup against the presidency?” Sharp asks. He then goes on to ask viewers what could happen to those “responsible for overthrowing” the election....

The U.S. government was “constrained in its response to Russian meddling” for several reasons, including concerns among officials that public warnings would “undermine public confidence in the election” amid a “heavily politicized environment.” As a result, the 54-page bipartisan report said, the government was unintentionally “helping the Russian effort.” “Frozen by ‘paralysis of analysis,’ hamstrung by constraints both real and perceived, Obama officials debated courses of action without truly taking one,” Sen....

James L. Jones, a retired Marine Corps general who served as Obama’s national security adviser from 2009 to 2010, told an Atlantic Council event on Sunday that assassinating Soleimani was “the right thing to do.” Soleimani was the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, a clandestine element of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for the body’s foreign operations and covert activities. He was credited with shaping Tehran’s foreign military strategy for two decades, building and directing proxy forces across the Middle East to drive Iranian interests....

The Congressional Accountability Act attempts to make Congress live under the same laws it imposes on the public. The House approved the bill 429-0. On the first day, the anti-lawyer, anti-spending, anti-regulation Republican House created a new government office that will issue new regulations, hire high-priced lawyers and defend against expensive new lawsuits. It turns out that applying laws to Congress mostly means giving new rights to 27,000 congressional employees....

The former Everton and Manchester United manager took charge of the Hammers following the departure of Slaven Bilic and will oversee his first game on Sunday as they travel to Watford. Obiang is impressed with what he has seen from Moyes so far and believes that the 54-year-old’s approach to coaching will help build a new philosophy at London Stadium. “The energy the manager and his coaches have brought has been really positive and, in this situation, for the players, for the supporters and for everybody, we are experiencing new things,” Obiang told the club’s official website....

Physical Therapy The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) defines physical therapy as “movement experts who optimize quality of life through prescribed exercise, hands-on care, and patient education.” Physical therapists help people move better and feel better after injury, surgery, or illness. They use a variety of exercise techniques and physical modalities to decrease your pain, improve range of motion (ROM), strength, balance, and endurance. A physical therapist focuses on the patient’s total body....

Ocrevus works by targeting and destroying certain B cells, which are cells that play a role in the immune system. In MS, these B cells attack the body’s nerves and cause inflammation. By removing these cells, Ocrevus diminishes their autoimmune attack. What Is Ocrevus Used For? Ocrevus is used to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), including clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progressive disease....

A team of researchers from Spain and Australia studying the venom of the Australian southern sand octopus has identified a compound that may significantly slow cancer growth and help fight drug resistance in patients with BRAF-mutated melanoma, one of the most serious forms of skin cancer. The findings were published in the October issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology. “We and other groups have previously discovered that other animals–snakes, spiders, bees–have anticancer properties,” the study’s lead author, Dr....

And with Ohio State and Michigan State not exactly looking like world beaters, the Big Ten appears to be winnable for Jim Harbaugh’s men. On the Westgate’s Games of the Year lines, Michigan is now a pick ‘em at home vs. Michigan State on Oct. 17 (MSU was -4.5 before season), and is just a 4.5-point underdog at home to Ohio State on Nov. 28 (down from +13.5 before season)....

The Giants wide receiver indicated he was very frustrated with how he is being perceived for his blowups on the field and his overall situation with the Giants. “Football is my sanctuary,” Beckham told ESPN on Tuesday. “It’s where I go to escape. It’s where I’m most happy. I’m not having fun anymore.” MORE: Most hated players in the NFL Beckham’s comments come after the Giants’ 24-10 loss to the Vikings on Monday Night Football....