Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which publishes the study every other year, uses a nationally representative survey that tracks the giving patterns of more than 9,000 U.S. households. The study shows that 66 percent of U.S. households donated to a charitable organization in 2000, the study’s first year, but by 2018 that number had dropped to 49.6 percent. The study measures donations to charitable organizations and does not track donations through other means....

The confirmed cases in New York shows a stark increase in cases from just a day prior, when there were a reported 105 confirmed cases of the virus. Previously, Washington state had been the area with the most cases – according to the Washington state Department of Health, there are 136 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. During his press conference on Monday, Cuomo identified New Rochelle, a city in Westchester County, New York, as a “significant hot spot....

Now is the time for the Tigers to make a statement, but which one will it be? Kickoff is at 7:45 p.m. ET. For Auburn, it's a chance to prove last week's last-minute win against Mississippi State wasn't fluky. Picking up the program's first win at Tiger Stadium since 1999 provides a perfect opportunity. MORE: First-and-10 | Week 4 picks | Schedule SCOUTING REPORT: Auburn commit QB Sean White...

No. 4 Ohio State (5-0), riding a 17-game win streak, travels to face No. 16 Northwestern (4-0). The Wildcats haven't won a Big Ten championship and beaten the Buckeyes in the same season since 1936, so labeling this the biggest game since the Roosevelt administration isn't a stretch. Let's go inside the numbers to see who has the advantage: WEEK 6: Picks | Photos | Top 25 schedule Series Ohio State owns this series 59-14-1....

Amy Hamm is being investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) following complaints that her view that identifying as trans does not equate to changing biological sex would threaten “trans and gender-diverse communities,” according to Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) lawyers representing the nurse. JCCF said that the matter was referred to the regulator’s Inquiry Committee in a 322-page report which is mainly “comprised of tweets and articles” from Hamm but it is unclear what the BCCNM probe will involve....

The videos feature nurses greeting the camera before and after their shifts. Most of the transformations betray varying degrees of exhaustion, disheveledness and dejection when 12 hours are done, although a select few workers seem as chirpy as when they walked in. A video posted on October 14 has racked up 9.3 million views. Though it shows five nurses, one of them attracted more attention when she strayed from the script....

Well, not anymore. Gargano submitted Adam Cole in the third and final fall to win the vacant gold in a two-out-of-three-falls match in the main event of NXT TakeOver: New York at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night. It was a well-paced affair that had the crowd at a fever pitch for the last 15 minutes. The win makes Gargano the first male in NXT to win all three titles....

Newsome made the comments following a meeting with Adams that was live-streamed on Instagram. Though the two agreed on several points, they clashed over bringing back plainclothes cops in order to combat the city’s rising violent crime rates. “If they think they are going back to the old ways of policing then we’re going to take to the streets again,” Newsome said to reporters outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall after the meeting....

Mayor de Blasio said he governs the “safest big city in America” with the “finest police force in America.” He said crime has gone down the previous six years. Hannity asked the mayor if someone who had no criminal background—or any other characteristics that would throw up a flag during a background check—should be denied the right to own a gun to defend themselves. The mayor seemed to dance around the question....

An estimated 56,000 employees of the city’s 938 nonpublic schools will have to show proof of at least one dose by Dec. 20. Rabbi David Zwiebel, chairman of the Committee of NYC Religious and Independent School Officials, wrote a letter to de Blasio stating the committee “firmly opposes” the decision. “While we support and generally encourage COVID vaccination in our schools, and while in fact the large majority of our schools’ employees are so vaccinated, most of our schools do not insist upon such vaccination as a condition of employment....

An emergency petition filed on Thursday asks Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is the circuit justice for New York, to block the mandate, claiming it violates their equal protection rights. The petition states that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order “will force thousands of unvaccinated public-school employees to lose their jobs—while other municipal employees, including those who have significant contact with children, are allowed to opt-out of the vaccine mandate through weekly COVID-19 testing....

The deal is a straight player swap with no money or draft picks exchanged. “Khiry is a player whose intangibles always stood out to us, even as we had followed him from early in his college years," Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes said in a statement. “We look forward to bringing him to Kansas City and are enthusiastic to see him on the field during preseason, which is just over a month away....

But with the Golden Grizzlies trailing by two to the Flames of Illinois-Chicago with under four seconds left, it was fellow senior Duke Mondy who pulled the trigger from deep. MIDSEASON AWARDS: Best buzzer-beaters | Best dunks Mondy finished with 11 points, six steals, five assists and the biggest basket of the game. The fans stormed the court as the Golden Grizzlies prevailed on Homecoming Day, 76-75.

John Zimmerman, who is from North Carolina, appeared as a Department of Justice (DOJ) witness in federal court during the trial of five other members. During his testimony, Zimmerman said he witnessed a call that Rhodes received in September 2020. While listening to Rhodes’ end of the call, Zimmerman was under the impression that the leader was in contact with a Secret Service agent, he testified. It is unclear if federal prosecutors know the identity of the Secret Service agent who was allegedly in contact with Rhodes....

Judge Amit Mehta has called a meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday for those involved in the case of the far-right Oath Keepers members Thomas Caldwell, Jessica Watkins and Donovan Crowl, according to a court docket. While it does not specify what the meeting could be about, there have recently been media reports around the suspects, who already face charges including obstructing an official proceeding and unlawful entry of a restricted building or grounds in connection to the January 6 riots....

By the time the rally began at noon, the raucous crowd of around 18,000 inside was in a party mood. As Sam and Dave’s signature song played over the sound system, a large group of supporters changed the lyrics to “Hold On, Obama’s Coming.” One wore a T-shirt saying “I’m Barack Obama.” Another one showed three pictures: JFK, MLK and Barack Obama. Obama’s warm-up acts were just as exuberant. Dallas mayor Ron Kirk told the crowd that the candidate was suffering from the flu and recounted a conversation about Obama’s similarly huge rally in Houston the night before....

UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr. said that the Obama Presidential Library notified him that it has potentially tens of thousands of documents concerning past government programs studying extraterrestrial encounters. While the federal government has become less tight-lipped about UFOs in recent years, Greenewald’s request shows challenges remain in shaking loose new information. Greenewald heads The Black Vault, which uses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain declassified government documents that he posts online....

When the political game gets this complex, you hit reset. That’s what Sen. Barack Obama appeared to be doing Tuesday night, when he decided to spend the evening in Iowa—the place where he launched what he once called the Bataan Death March of the primary season and the place where he registered his first 2008 win. Iowa is also a state Obama’s team believes will be competitive in the fall, so it offered a fitting backdrop from which to blast away at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain and encourage the idea that this campaign has become a two-man contest—never mind that feisty woman from New York, who keeps rolling up dramatic margins in working-class white territory....

Holly McCray Blair was born on September 1, 1948, and died on August 17, 2020. Her one-of-a-kind obituary was posted on the Wood River Chapel website, from where it has been shared to Facebook more than 2,000 times, as well as being shared widely on Twitter. The obituary that caught the internet’s attention described Blair’s special personality and love for the occult, with the opening line: “Holly Blair exploded into glitter and bats on August 17, 2020....