wrote one Twilight fan on Twitter. They had both immersed themselves in Stephenie Meyer's saga once again after Midnight Sun, the latest book in the Twilight series, was published. The last full book in the series, Breaking Dawn, was released in 2008, although Meyer also published a gender-swapped version of the original story in 2015."We already read a lot of the dialogue between Edward and Bella in [first book] Twilight so the better scenes are when we get to follow Edward without her."

JEFFERSON, Ga. — When Jennifer Fogle and her family moved from Indiana to Georgia 13 years ago, they settled in Jefferson, a small, handsome city an hour’s drive from Atlanta, because they had heard about the excellent schools. The teachers are passionate and committed, and the facilities rival those found at some private schools. But in recent days Ms. Fogle found herself uncharacteristically anxious, after learning that Jefferson City Schools planned to offer face-to-face instruction in the midst of a resurgent coronavirus pandemic that has seen thousands of new cases reported daily in Georgia. As other districts around the state delayed their back-to-school days or moved to all-remote learning, Jefferson school officials announced that they were sticking with their Friday start date, one of the earliest in the nation.

If Microsoft buys TikTok, make no mistake, it is buying a platform with a lot of politics on it. After all, Trump says he will ban TikTok if the company can't find a suitor by 15 September. To put it bluntly, if Microsoft is seen by Beijing as having cashed in on TikTok, China has the levers it can pull to hurt it. In fact, the more you think about it, the more it's the case that Microsoft, by acquiring TikTok, would be acquiring its geopolitical baggage, too.

Obesity should be defined by a person's health - not just their weight, says a new Canadian clinical guideline."The dominant cultural narrative regarding obesity fuels assumptions about personal irresponsibility and lack of willpower and casts blame and shame upon people living with obesity," the guideline, which is intended to be used by primary care physicians in diagnosing and treating obesity in their daily practice, states. Ximena Ramos-Salas, the director of research and policy at Obesity Canada and one of the guideline's authors, said research shows many doctors discriminate against obese patients, and that can lead to worse health outcomes irrespective of their weight. Small reductions in weight, of about 3-5%, can lead to health improvements and an obese person's "best weight" might not be their "ideal weight" according to BMI, the guideline says.

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have described the rumbles, heat and jolts of returning from space in the Crew Dragon spacecraft on Sunday. During the return from the International Space Station (ISS), the crew module has to separate from a section called the trunk, which has solar panels and heat-removal radiators."All the separation events, from the trunk separation through the parachute firings, were very much like getting hit in the back of the chair with a baseball bat," said Bob Behnken. During the last ever shuttle mission - STS-135 - in 2011, the crew left a US flag on the space station with the intention that the next crew to launch on a US vehicle return it to Earth.

Neil Young is suing Donald Trump's re-election campaign for continually using his music without his permission. Young said he had complained about Mr Trump's use of his music since 2015, but had been "wilfully" ignored. These include a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June, and the US president's visit to Mount Rushmore in July. Last month, The Rolling Stones warned President Trump that he could face legal action if he continued using their songs at his campaign rallies.

Eddie Shack, a colorful, pugnacious wing who became a fan favorite at Maple Leaf Gardens playing for Toronto’s four Stanley Cup championship teams of the 1960s, and who remained in the public eye as a pitchman on Canadian television sporting a cowboy hat and flowing mustache, died on Saturday in Toronto. Shack’s death, at a hospital, was announced by the Maple Leafs. He scored the winning goal for Toronto in Game 5 of the 1963 Stanley Cup finals against Detroit, though he took no credit, saying the puck had caromed into the Red Wings’ net off his backside.“He was a powerful skater,” Darryl Sittler, the captain of the Maple Leafs in Shack’s last season with them, told The Peterborough Examiner of Ontario.

This same post also suggests Dr Fauci has refused to endorse the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus because no "major study" has been done, presumably in an attempt to highlight the inconsistency of his position. Regarding the comments on hydroxychloroquine studies, the health body said: "Dr Fauci has said publicly that sound clinical research must be conducted to determine whether any particular drug is safe and effective for treating Covid-19."A post liked and shared 40,000 times on Twitter claims that 6,000 doctors surveyed around the world said hydroxychloroquine "works in Covid patients". Another widely shared tweet this week posted a 2005 laboratory study into the effectiveness of the drug chloroquine against the Sars coronavirus, followed by claims that "blocking access to a proven preventative treatment during a pandemic is a crime against humanity".

It was Dr. Farrell, one of a very small number of women then working as research chemists in Canada, who figured out how to safely produce vast quantities of virus in Medium 199. Her next task was to get enough machines built and to hire enough qualified staff to make not only enough virus for the tests in the United States, Canada and Finland, but also to create enough vaccine to inoculate all of Canada’s children. Variations of the Toronto Method were used until the 1970s to make polio vaccines, Dr. Rutty told me. Dr. Rutty, who is the expert when it comes to Canada’s role in polio research and who serves as the historian for Connaught’s successor company, Sanofi Pasteur Canada, said that frustratingly little is known about Dr. Farrell’s personal life.

Yet many believe that Mr Biden should pick a black running mate instead - Senator Kamala Harris is frequently mentioned as a possibility. The choice of a running mate has added importance for Democrats because of Mr Biden's age and his own assessment of his role. Ideologically, Ms Duckworth is a good match for Mr Biden, a centrist Democrat. After retiring from the military, Ms Duckworth worked on veterans' issues at the state and national level and was elected to Congress in 2012.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday they were “extremely alarmed” by assertions that the American ambassador in Brazil had signaled to Brazilian officials they could help get President Trump re-elected by changing their trade policies. In a letter sent Friday afternoon, Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel demanded that the ambassador, Todd Chapman, produce “any and all documents referring or related to any discussions” he has held with Brazilian officials in recent weeks about their nation’s tariffs on ethanol, an important agricultural export for Iowa, a potential swing state in the American presidential election. The committee’s letter was sent in response to reports in the Brazilian news media this week saying that Mr. Chapman, a career diplomat, made it clear to Brazilian officials they could bolster Mr. Trump’s electoral chances in Iowa if Brazil lifted its ethanol tariffs. Eliminating tariffs would give the Trump administration a welcome trade victory to present to struggling ethanol producers in Iowa, where the president is in a close race with his Democratic rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Meanwhile, Virgin Australia's new owner Bain Capital is set to cut 3,000 jobs. In May, Virgin Atlantic, which is 51% owned by Virgin Group and 49% by US airline Delta, announced that it would cut more than 3,000 jobs in the UK and close its operation at Gatwick airport. Meanwhile, Virgin Australia's new owner, the US private equity group Bain Capital, said it will cut 3,000 jobs, which is about a third of the airline's employees. In April, Virgin Australia went into voluntary administration, making it Australia's first big corporate casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.

An ex-engineer for Google's self-driving car unit has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft shortly before he joined Uber. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said Anthony Levandowski had carried out the "biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen". Levandowski filed for bankruptcy in March this year because he owes $179m (£136m) to Google's parent company, Alphabet, for his actions. Levandowski - who was a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, Waymo - had been hoping for a sentence of 12 months' confinement at his home in the San Francisco suburbs.

When Albert Paul Cruz opened a letter from the Education Department last month, he saw the words he’d been waiting for: “We approved your claim.” The government finally agreed that he’d been defrauded by ITT Technical Institute, the defunct for-profit chain where he’d racked up almost $60,000 in student loans getting what he considers a worthless degree. The department, the letter said, had concluded he suffered no financial harm.“You’re acknowledging the school defrauded its students and claiming that didn’t hurt us?” said Mr. Cruz, who earned an associate degree in computer networking systems in 2010 but never worked in that field. The approval of claims without financial relief is the latest twist in longstanding efforts by defrauded borrowers to get help from the federal government through a program meant to assist former students whose schools offered sham degrees and empty promises.

In 2011, the Jamaican government awarded Mr. Dobson the Order of Distinction for his contributions to Jamaican culture. Mr. Dobson defied his mother, he told Mr. Watt, because he “had experienced a taste of the applause” while starring in a play at his primary school with the future actress Madge Sinclair. After attending the College of Arts, Science and Technology in Kingston, where he earned a degree in marketing, Mr. Dobson held a series of day jobs while pursuing music, including as a proofreader for the Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner and in sales at Colgate Palmolive.A versatile singer, Mr. Dobson broadened his repertoire in the ’70s to include pop covers like Tom Jones’s “That Wonderful Sound” and the Beatles’ “Carry That Weight.” He sang with the country artist Skeeter Davis and later turned to gospel music when he became a born-again Christian.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — President Iván Duque of Colombia attacked his own judicial system on Tuesday for pursuing his mentor, the former president Álvaro Uribe, who faces possible detention amid an investigation of fraud and bribery. Mr. Duque’s statements came after Mr. Uribe lamented being “deprived of my freedom” on Twitter, fueling widespread speculation in Colombia that the former president was about to be detained by the Supreme Court. Mr. Uribe would be the first Colombian president in modern history to be detained. Even as other nations in Latin America have tackled corruption aggressively in recent years, sometimes prosecuting presidents, Colombia has not followed suit.

Mr Biden says the president has ordered a slowdown in coronavirus testing, is failing to provide enough protective equipment for healthcare workers, and has attempted to block public-health funding. The US conducted an average of almost 744,000 tests a day in July, compared with around 508,000 a day in June, according to the Covid Tracking Project - so testing has increased since President Trump's comments. The president has called testing "a double-edged sword", and says the US looks like it is experiencing a rise in cases because of increased testing. However, although testing has increased, so has the rate of tests coming back positive - so testing alone doesn't account for the rise in the rate of coronavirus cases.

So-called sovereign citizens believe they are immune from government rules and in some cases - including recently in Australia and the US - have violently confronted police. It also differs from the QAnon conspiracy theory which believes President Donald Trump is saving the world from evil, because sovereign citizens view all government figures, including Mr Trump, as illegitimate. Followers resist all government laws and regulations, no matter how trivial, and in the US often file lengthy legal battles against the government, which critics refer to as "paper terrorism"."The sovereign citizen movement, through its pseudo-legal theories and tactics, tells them who to blame - it's the illegitimate government, it's the illegitimate banking system, it's this and that.

I was getting jobs - I got the chorus job (at the COC) and I spent last summer in Italy singing. Now I don't know whether I should be looking for another job or not. How's your job search going?How's your job search going?

"We know that the reduced tennis calendar is barbaric this year after four months stopped with no play," added Nadal, who will miss a Grand Slam for the first time since Wimbledon in 2016. Australian Ashleigh Barty, the women's world number one, said last week she did not want to play, meaning Romania's world number two Simona Halep leads the entry list. The entry list is not a guarantee that those on it will play the Grand Slam tournament, with many players likely to make a final decision over the next few weeks. Britain's three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray does plan to play at Flushing Meadows, although the world number 129 will need a wildcard if he is not promoted from the alternate list.

Police in Colorado have apologised for pulling guns on a black woman and four children they mistakenly arrested. The police department said the officers mistakenly believed Ms Gilliam's car had been stolen and had been trained to perform a "high-risk stop". Ms Wilson said when officers believe a vehicle is stolen, they are trained to draw their weapons and order all occupants to exit the car and lie prone on the ground. The Aurora police department has also faced criticism for the August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old black man who died in police custody.

Ms. McLaughlin came across as particularly distraught.“She was supposed to get Hopi talisman for health as gifts for us but she ran out,” Ms. McLaughlin tweeted. Ms. McLaughlin has prompted particular frustration and disgust by posing as a Hopi woman, right as the coronavirus has caused disproportionate harm to Indigenous communities in the United States. The first time Mr. Eisen heard from the account was in defense of Ms. McLaughlin.

Dr. Espinoza and his co-authors found that Liolaemus lizards have adapted abilities to deal with the cold through three mechanisms. Dr. Espinoza said that some Liolaemus species likely made use of more than one mechanism, depending on the conditions. The reason Liolaemus lizards can withstand such cold temperatures and high elevations may also explain why there are so many of the lizards. Dr. Espinoza and others have discovered a number of species, and his occasional co-author Fernando Lobo, a zoologist at the National University of Salta in Argentina, has discovered 30 or more species of Liolaemus and its close cousin, the genus Phymaturus.

Disability technology can be so quotidian that nondisabled users don’t even notice. Smartphones, where I find my GPS, may be the most powerful accessibility devices in history, especially now that voice control offers an alternative to touch screens for Blind and low-vision users, or people without the manual dexterity to operate them. Water parks are fun, but more important, the innovation will make it easier for wheelchair users to go out in the rain. Meanwhile, makers of self-driving cars are now consulting not just Blind users, who have long been involved, but people with myriad other disabilities, including those in wheelchairs, who would need to be able to roll into the vehicle.

Despite the success of pioneering black rider Myrtis Dightman, who became the first black man to compete in the National Finals in 1964, a 'colour barrier', whether overtly stated or implicit, kept black competitors out of some events as late as the 1980s."If we don't do it - if we don't ride those bulls or no black guys are seen on horseback - eventually that history will fade away so we have a responsibility as minorities and cowboys to uphold that legacy and make sure it lives on forever. ""The image of having a black cowboy skews some of the stereotypes that exist around the black community. As the most prominent black cowboy in the USA, Mitchell's mere existence is doing plenty of things.