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The Spaniard’s reign on the clay of Roland Garros has been unprecedented and has been one of the surest things in tennis history. It continued on Sunday with Nadal’s straight sets victory over Dominic Thiem that gave him his 11th French Open title, good for the most at a single major in the Open Era and tying Margaret Court for the most in tennis history. MORE: Nadal dominates Thiem in 2018 French Open...

Said Dustin Gouker, lead sports betting analyst for PlayNJ.com: “After seeing September, it is a very real possibility that New Jersey [home of the NFL’s New York Giants and New York Jets and the MLS’ New York Red Bulls] could surpass Nevada as the country’s largest sports betting market by the end of the year. Gouker continued: “With New Jersey’s population base, it is hard to see where the ceiling is right now....

Cronenberg happily obliges. This cool, hallucinatory meditation on addiction, writing, sexual ambivalence, mind control and bugs is designed to test the tolerance, and sometimes the stomach, of the toughest audience. But “Naked Lunch” is also, in the darkest sense, a comedy. It’s important to remember that Burroughs’s nightmare vision was delivered in the droll, tough-guy parlance of a stand-up comedian working a room in Club Hell. A word to the wise guy: if this movie doesn’t make you chuckle, you’re in for a very long night....

On Tuesday, the state reported 1,096 new confirmed cases of coronavirus. With the exception of 966 new cases on Monday, Florida has seen new daily cases surpass 1,000 cases six times in the past seven days. The state saw a one-day high last Thursday of 1,419 new daily cases. Over the course of the pandemic, Florida has recorded 66,000 total COVID-19 cases and 2,765 coronavirus related deaths. Newsweek reached out to Florida’s Department of Health’s Division of Disease Control and Health Protection for comment but did not hear back before publication....

But now that the tournament is over, how are all these new fans going to follow all their new favorite players? Fortunately for new soccer fans, every member of the USWNT championship squad plays stateside in the National Women’s Soccer League. The season runs from April to October and USWNT members are set to rejoin their teams July 20. If you’re new to the NWSL scene, here’s a complete guide to watching the league’s matches for the remainder of the 2019 season....

But this social flattening of Black life into millionaires and criminals not only simplifies the perception of Black life; it erases the fact that Black people are diverse not just economically but in many ways, including in their political world views and ideas. Sadly, it’s not only the white media that is committed to the fallacy of Black class stratification. There exists a university-pedigreed cadre of race leaders—the Black Political Class—who work as a “race management” elite that metaphorically corrals Black electoral choices into a politically contained vessel....

No one has been more outspoken than Eugene Rivers in arguing that they do. Indeed, the Boston-based minister and activist goes much further, accusing black American leaders of collectively turning their backs on those suffering in Africa. Prominent African-Americans, as might be expected, are not greeting Rivers’s words with a hale-and-hearty amen. They are more likely to argue that the fault lies not with them but elsewhere. Randall Robinson, head of TransAfrica, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes African causes, agrees that not enough is being done to fight AIDS in Africa....

WEYMOUTH: The U.S. government fears that Arafat will undermine you as he did Abu Mazen. Qurei: The real problem is Israel, not Arafat. Abu Mazen is a good man who tried his best. I was at his first meeting with Sharon. We came back with nothing. Then we went to Washington. We met with President Bush, who gave all his support to Abu Mazen. I said to President Bush, “Abu Mazen will go home with support from your administration but he needs the support of the Palestinian people....

The wonder, then, is not that estrogen is the most widely prescribed drug in the United States today but that 85 percent of the 37 million postmenopausal women want nothing to do with the stuff. A few rebel at taking a drug for a ““normal’’ condition. Some dislike feeling bloated, or having their periods return. Many reject estrogen out of simple, primal fear. ““Think of a balance scale,’’ says oncologist Melody Cobleigh of the University of Chicago....

What happened? About a year ago, as rumors he might run were ramping up, Thompson’s poll numbers rose, reaching the 20s in some surveys. Last May, he generated even more buzz by posting an online video challenging Michael Moore on Cuba and health-care policy. Impressed by the publicity the video generated, Thompson, his wife, Jeri, and a handful of aides drew up a game plan based less on retail campaigning than on a Web strategy....

In the tech world, viruses and malware are often associated with desktops & laptops, but arguably one of the most susceptible operating systems is Android Smartphones. There have been numerous exploits over the past few months. Researchers have found that 87 percent of all Android phones are exposed to at least one critical vulnerability & 95% of devices could be hacked with a simple text message. So, what would you do if you get a virus on your phone?...

Delta money had been on the table since July when the carrier offered a paltry $260 million for Pan Am’s prized remains. But just as that agreement was nearing completion, a flurry of competing offers emerged from Trans World Airlines and United. Not known for its aggressiveness, Delta responded with uncharacteristic tenacity. Company officials scrambled to revise their offer at least five times before clinching the agreement. It calls for the airline to pay $621 million in cash, assume $668 million in debt and provide an $80 million loan to help Pan Am stay aloft until the deal is finalized....

COTE D’IVOIRE In one study here, income in families with AIDS patients dropped 50 percent KENYA In one city, Kisumu, 23 percent of female teenagers tested positive for HIV BOTSWANA The epidemic rages. One of four adults here is HIV-positive. SOUTH AFRICA Fewer than 50 percent of South Africans alive now are expected to reach the age of 60 By Gender Forecasts

The France midfielder marked his Premier League debut with a goal to help Mauricio Pochettino’s side defeat Aston Villa on Saturday. With Spurs struggling to break down Villa after going behind to John McGinn’s goal, Ndombele levelled matters with an expertly taken strike from 20 yards out that left the excellent Tom Heaton with little chance. The goal proved to be the catalyst for Spurs, who went on to win 3-1 thanks to two late finishes from captain Harry Kane....

We’ve been talking a lot about Super Bowl props here at The Linemakers on Sporting News in the run up to Sunday’s showdown between the Patriots and Seahawks, listing the hundreds of betting options available at several Las Vegas casinos and enlisting our friends at SN Fantasy for their help in handicapping some of the player-based props. And in the scrollable document below, you can see the most popular props at the 105 sports books operated by William Hill U....

The consensus was that we over-40 folks needed something that connects us to people going through the same life changes. Starting and growing media companies are what I do. Back in the ’80s, I founded Parenting magazine for a new generation of moms and dads. In the late ’90s, I worked for five years as executive vice president of CNET Networks—one of the original, and biggest, online media companies. Connecting my generation online seemed the perfect next step....

But the Kingstons’ tangled family ties are threatening to unravel, thanks largely to the efforts of Lu Ann and another former Kingston wife, her niece Mary Ann. In 2000, Lu Ann and her two children fled the 1,000-person society that members call The Order, and she later cooperated with state prosecutors cracking down on sexual abuse of teen girls by polygamists. Last week Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to felony incest....

Trinidad and Tobago were playing Barbados in the Red Stripe Cup. The Barbados bowling lineup at that time included Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall. For Trinidad and Tobago, with their score reading 14 for 2, a certain Brian Charles Lara walked out to bat. It was the first time Lara was up against quicks of that quality, but the left-hander did not budge. He went on to score his maiden first-class half-century before he was eventually dismissed for 92....