Schools had to be closed and flights canceled, while residents were told to avoid outdoor physical activities and advised to wear anti-pollution masks last week. Some ministers proffered their own solutions, from eating more carrots to listening to music. “You can feel the heaviness and the higher levels of pollution in the winter months,” Professor Lalit Dandona, director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, told Newsweek. Pollution measured on the Air Quality Index (AQI) has decreased since the start of the month when levels in some parts of the city approached 1,000—anything above 100 is considered unhealthy, and 300 is considered hazardous for human health....

““The ball game was a unifying and largely joyous event, a kind of event in which people come out of their houses in order to share their feelings,’’ he says. ““With the onset of the cold war, the communal sense started to become associated not with celebration but with danger and loss. The catastrophic events since then, events framed and defined by television, seem to have become predominant, events such as assassination, terrorist acts, even natural disasters....

Delirium is a state of altered and fluctuating mental functioning that occurs abruptly. It is typically acute—once diagnosed and treated, the patient will over time return to their normal mental state. Risk Factors While anyone can develop delirium, certain groups are much more likely to develop delirium in the hospital. Age plays a role, but the severity of the current illness, the patient’s normal level of day to day function and the overall health of the patient play a part as well....

Immunity and the Delta Variant COVID-19 infection rates were lower in May and June than at any time since the start of the pandemic, said David Dowdy, MD, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “This is largely attributable to vaccination, with nearly 60% of adults in the U.S. being fully vaccinated," Dowdy said at the briefing. “Of those who have not been [vaccinated], probably over a third have been infected and are also likely immune....

After losing, 101-78, to the Mavericks on Friday night, Cousins ripped his teammates and their effort. MORE: Knight looks at Coach Cal scouting report | Deconstructing the trading block “Just man up and play. Just play hard,” Cousins said. “If we play hard and get our brains beat in, I’m fine with that. But just to come out and lay down like we did tonight, it’s unacceptable.” Cousins is averaging 23....

Miller was franchise-tagged by Denver before free agency but has yet to sign his $14 million one-year tender, looking for a more lucrative long-term contract averaging more than $20 million a season. Ware thinks Miller deserves the kind of elite deal that would make him the highest-paid defensive player in the game. MORE: Breaking down the best free agents still available “Von’s one of those high-caliber players who’s going to demand a lot because of the havoc he creates on the field with his pass rush and big play-ability....

According to reports, the MRI revealed no structural damage in his knee. Some feared a serious injury, but that was not the case. Instead, he has a bone bruise and is listed as day to day. MORE: Carroll switched out of his usual shoes to guard LeBron Carroll injured his knee during Wednesday night’s game against the Cavs. He was driving the lane for a layup when his knee hyperextended....

Morning Consult asks about 6,400 U.S. adults each day how they feel about the course of the nation—posing the question: “Now, generally speaking, would you say that things in the country are going in the right direction, or have they pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track?” On November 3, Election Day, 62 percent of Republicans polled said they felt the nation was heading in the right direction. On that day, 12 percent of Democrats said the same....

Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee told the Russian president to “chill” amid concerns that Moscow’s buildup of military and equipment along its border with Ukraine could preclude an attack. “I want to make a direct appeal to Mr. Putin,” Cohen said during a meeting of the U.S. Helsinki Commission on Wednesday. “Please pour yourself a vodka, get a blini, have some caviar, enjoy the Winter Olympics, get your thrills vicariously, watch your athletes perform—hopefully they’ll win some gold medals, I’m sure they will they’re great athletes, Russia has great athletes and great people—chill....

The public is tuning in to official briefings, looking for leadership, and Democratic governors like Phil Murphy, Gretchen Whitmer, and Jay Inslee have clearly communicated the risks, public health guidelines and the path to economic stability. From red to purple to blue states, Democratic governors have made decisions based on science and the guidance of medical experts, while many Republican governors have waited on cues from the president to act—or listened to their donors rather than the advice of epidemiologists....

“I hope so,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said when asked if he thought Biden made his last Cabinet pick from the House on Wednesday, according to Roll Call. “Two is too many, but three would be even more many,” Hoyer continued. Louisiana Democratic Representative Cedric Richmond is scheduled to leave Congress after Biden appointed him to be his director of the Office of Public Engagement. Richmond, who has been in the House since 2011, was Louisiana’s only Democratic member of Congress....

Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), the India Caucus vice chair, called on Biden to hand over the U.S.’s AstraZeneca stockpile to India as he said the vaccine was unlikely to be used at home. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) also urged the president to ship AstraZeneca shots to India and other allies wracked by a second wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Their interventions came after the White House announced that it would send raw materials needed for the production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to India, along with personal protective equipment, therapeutics and ventilators for Indian hospitals struggling to cope....

After months of negotiations and delay, Democratic leaders passed President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill through the House last week, with six progressive defectors and 13 Republicans breaking with their party to push the sweeping package over the finish line. With Congress reconvening Monday, Democrats are now turning their attention to advancing the larger, revised spending bill, which has been linked for months with the infrastructure bill. “We will have a vote this week on the Build Back Better Act,” Rep....

Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other groups issued a joint statement Tuesday urging lawmakers to negotiate a bill that can garner the support of 50 senators. “It’s not too late to meet this moment,” they wrote. “There is broad consensus on the most critical solutions Americans need to lower costs for families, tackle the climate crisis, and create opportunities and good-paying jobs....

Good for Dempster. Now, what about fantasy baseball owners? Dempster's absence isn't a crushing blow, but owners typically streamed the hit-or-miss righthander for years because of his high K/9 rate. Dempster ranks 15th in the majors with 1,068 Ks since 2008. Yet the least season-and-a-half in the AL didn't go as well. Between stops at Texas and Boston, Dempster went 15-12 with a 4.92 ERA. It still amounted to 227 Ks in 230....

In a letter to the president dated Thursday, the lawmakers–among them Reps. Ritchie Torres, Jerrold Nadler and Ted Lieu–believe such a requirement would reduce the chances of a potential coronavirus surge, which occurred in 2020 when cases skyrocketed around major winter holidays. They cited the Biden administration’s requirement for international travelers to be vaccinated before entering the United States, praising it as “critical to reducing COVID-19 transmission risk for passengers, crewmembers, and U....

One of those moments came last year during a meeting with Denmark’s then Justice Minister, Søren Pape Poulsen. I was there to discuss with him our Amnesty International’s Let’s Talk About Yes campaign to urge the government to change Denmark’s antiquated rape laws. These laws have left thousands of women unable to access justice—women like the two survivor activists who were with me at the meeting. I remember watching the Minister’s face as one of the survivors described in heart-rending detail how she was failed at every stage of the Danish justice system after she reported being raped by a friend in 2018....

When officers arrived on the scene of the accident after midnight Tuesday, the driver of a black BMW sedan told them he recognized Rodman as the person driving the other vehicle involved in the crash. MORE: Rare photos of Dennis Rodman off the court “Based on the driver’s statement, we have to investigate,” police spokesman Florentino Olivera said, per NBC affiliate in Los Angeles. No serious injuries occurred during the accident, but a passenger in the BMW complained of pain, according to the Orange County Register....

Riding the confidence from three months earlier when he won the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Hamlin won the Sprint Unlimited preseason race as well as his 150-mile Daytona 500 qualifying race. He followed that with a second-place finish in the Daytona 500. He was on a roll, ready to put that miserable 2013 behind him. MORE: Winners & Losers | Teardown: What was Keselowski thinking? | Talladega photos...

But when Lee and his board met for a routine meeting last week, four television crews, reporters from all the local papers and more than 100 community members joined them. The property to be considered: a shutdown Denny’s restaurant in the city’s Ballard neighborhood. “It was wild,” says Lee, who describes the Wednesday night meeting as “the most excitement” he has seen during his six years chairing the board....