Line: North Florida -3, Total: 138.5 (current NCAA Tournament point spreads and totals) North Florida Record: 23-11 ATS: 2-2 OVER/UNDER: 1-3 Overview: There’s not much to go off from a betting perspective with this first-time NCAA Tournament entrant, as just four of its games have been lined all season. We do know that the Ospreys can shoot the 3 – they’ve drained 308 from long range this season, which ranks fifth in the nation....

Doves in the Bush administration argue that the Foreign Ministry statement had been mistranslated–after all, U.S. intelligence has detected no signs that reprocessing has begun. Hawks argue that Kim wants a nuclear arsenal. “They certainly intend to reprocess, which is their first public acknowledgment of a nuclear-weapons program,” said one senior administration official. At the White House, officials suspect the North was trying to be purposely ambiguous about whether it has started reprocessing....

Coach Dan McCarney said Wednesday he decided to suspend both players after talking to them following their arrests. Denton police say suspects later identified as Ellis and Loving were seen taking TVs out of a Walmart store in separate shopping carts without paying for them. Police say Ellis and Loving admitted to the thefts and returned the TVs at a police station. Both players are facing misdemeanor theft charges....

The top 125 players on the FedEx Cup points list are eligible to compete this weekend at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey. The tournament, which became part of the FedEx Cup playoffs in 2007, has traditionally been held either in New York or New Jersey. All but four of the top 125 that qualified will compete over the weekend, with Paul Casey among the notable golfers sitting out of the tournament....

Coming in right behind Watson is Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, who finished second and tied for 12th in this event last year, respectively. Spieth is off to an excellent start this season, with a win and three top tens in five starts. He did miss the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open, however. Johnson has played in just two events this year, finishing fourth at Pebble Beach and missing the cut at Torrey Pines....

Harris has 25 tackles and three interceptions for a Wildcats defense ranked ninth in the nation. MORE: Week 7 Power Rankings | Most impactful suspensions Keith Watkins II, a 5-11, 180-pound sophomore from Cincinnati, is listed in Harris’ place on the depth chart released Monday. The Wildcats (5-1, 1-1 in the Big Ten) host Iowa (6-0, 2-0) Saturday in a key Big Ten West game. Fitzgerald said he couldn’t pinpoint a timeline for Harris’ return, but “a good time to ask me will probably be right after the bye week (Oct....

But not all blue chips are created equal. These days, the Nifty Fifty aren’t looking so swift. There can be painful consequences to the strategy of simply looking at companies’ 15- or 20-year histories and concluding that the future will resemble the past. Such companies as AT&T, Eastman Kodak and Xerox have let down their shareholders over the last five years. In a time when–even accounting for the recent drop–the market as a whole is up more than 60 percent, AT&T and Kodak are each down more than 30 percent....

A bag that used to weigh 9.75 ounces is now 9.25 ounces, containing about 5 fewer chips, according to a spokesperson from Frito-Lay—the parent company of Doritos—who confirmed the change to Quartz. It’s just one of the latest examples of “shrinkflation,” a cost-cutting strategy in which companies reduce the size of products while keeping prices the same. Manufacturers are seeing their bottom line squeezed by inflation, pandemic-related supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages, but customers tend to notice when price tags go up in stores....

PLEASE HOLD: Nigeria’s telecommunications giant, NITEL, cut off all police hot lines in Lagos. (But it was ever so nice of them to leave the extreme-emergency number 991 connected.) It appears the boys in blue–and a few other government departments–owe NITEL nearly $80 million in phone bills. DRUG BUST: The U.S. State Department delayed plans to expand its South American drug war, after Ayres Corp. (the manufacturer that supplies spraying planes used over Colombia) shut down its assembly lines....

MORE: Stars learn French Open paths | Federer pulls out Rain in southwest Paris affected proceedings on the first day of play in the French capital Sunday, and inclement weather delayed matters further Monday. Play was postponed until 1 p.m. (local time), and the Wimbledon Roof account’s criticism of the deficiencies at Roland Garros prompted a jovial Twitter spat with the French Open’s official account. Both the Australian Open and Wimbledon have at least one court with a roof, while the Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows, N....

Rumor had it that the 10-member jury, which included Gerard Depardieu, Jamie Lee Curtis and directors Pedro Almodovar and John Boorman, all favored different films. So they spread the kudos around promiscuously, satisfying no one. “Howards End” and “The Player” were the clear critical favorites among the competition films, but director James Ivory had to be content with a newly invented consolation prize-the 45th Anniversary Festival Prize-for “Howards End” (he didn’t look too happy about it)....

The hosts have not reached this stage of either domestic Cup competition since before the turn of the millennium, and this tournament could provide a much-needed confidence boost with the club in the midst of a relegation scrap. Forest have been much better of late, with Steve Cooper engineering a revival that has seen the club up to 13th in the table, and a spot at Wembley would add to the upward trend in a massive way....

There was a time when it would have shocked me that such words would even need to be uttered. After all, religious liberty is foundational to a free society. It is an inalienable right from God, which means it doesn’t come from the government. America’s founders recognized the fundamental importance of religious freedom and enshrined its protection in the First Amendment. Since this nation’s founding, the free exercise of faith has formed the bedrock of our country....

The industry has chanted this mantra for years with little to show for it. But just as China appeared to be opening up a little to American popular culture, the Walt Disney Co. last week got a sharp reminder of what a Long March still lies ahead when Chinese officials threatened Disney with unspecified business reprisals if it went forward with an upcoming film on the Dalai Lama. The Magic Kingdom had quietly known for months it was running afoul of the Middle Kingdom, and last month, news reports began to appear....

But what do pencil-necks like us know about the real America? “Don’t think we ought to give college degrees to anyone who can’t run a table saw . . . or overhaul a truck engine out in the backyard,” says the hero of of Waller’s new novel, B_Border Music_b (256 pages. Warner. $17.95). Texas Jack Carmine is Waller’s idea of the genuine article: pickup, Merle Haggard tapes, the devil-may-careness that leads him to spirit exotic dancer Linda Lobo away to Texas from a Minnesota gin mill....

Unable to speak over the chants, I left the podium and went into the crowd to listen to the protestors, who were fighting for lifts to be added to over-the-road buses—a change that would make transportation more accessible to millions of Americans with disabilities. Since my time as secretary of transportation, I’ve been committed to fighting to make public transit accessible to all riders—to put people first by helping them not only to meet their transportation goals, but also to achieve the American Dream....

This explanation would be unremarkable except that Taro happens to be a dachshund. When the burglar broke in, Taro did what any watchdog would do: he barked. What happened next is the brainchild of Matsumi Suzuki, president of Japan Acoustic Lab in Tokyo. He invented a wireless gadget that hangs around the dog’s neck. It analyzes the bark and determines whether the dog is experiencing “frustration, insistence, happiness, sorrow, desire, or menace....

The complaint, filed Tuesday by the gun control advocacy group Giffords, accused the NRA of engaging in a broad pattern of activity in violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act dating back seven years. “The NRA has long acted like it is above the law, and it has done so flagrantly in the last several election cycles. This lawsuit demonstrates that the NRA broke the law by illegally coordinating with federal campaigns and funneling millions of dollars to candidates who supported their extremist, deadly agenda,” David Pucino, a senior staff attorney at Giffords Law Center, said in a statement....

A video shared by the Belarusian media outlet Nexta on Twitter on Saturday shows dozens of cars lined up on a road reportedly located near the plant. The cars can be seen at a standstill, with many people waiting and standing outside their vehicles. “People are leaving #Energodar and other nearby towns en masse amid constant shelling of the area,” Nexta wrote on Twitter. Other Twitter users, including Maria Avdeeva, the research director at the European Expert Association in Ukraine, also shared the footage on Saturday....