“That wasn’t a suspension from the organization,” Cousins told Yahoo Sports on Sunday after the Kings’ 108-99 loss to the Jazz — their fifth straight. “That was one from the head coach. There’s a difference.” MORE: Why LeBron shouldn’t leave Cleveland | What might be in store for the offseason Cousins was banned from Friday’s 107-100 loss to the Magic for what general manager Vlade Divac called “conduct detrimental to the team” after Cousins got into a verbal spat during a timeout last week in a loss to the Cavaliers....

According to a report from The Associated Press, LaTonya Bonseigneur, Thomas’ first cousin who was close enough to Thomas to consider one another siblings, said Thomas had been suffering from seizures for more than a year, and they believe he might have had one while he was showering. “We’re not sure when he died. We just spoke with him yesterday,” Bonseigneur said, per the report. “He was alone and a friend couldn’t get hold of him, so he called his driver, who has a key because of these seizures, and he went into his home and found him in the shower....

Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding told reporters that Democrats wanted to “burn that thing everyday” as he pointed to an American flag, and said he couldn’t tolerate their supposed opposition to the symbol. The Associated Press reported that the sheriff also said he was “tired of seeing fires set in our streets” as he revealed his switch to the Republican Party. Speaking alongside Indiana’s Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch (R), Wedding said: “It’s interesting that we see this glorious flag here… and the Democrats want to burn that thing every day....

With four days until Election Day, FiveThirtyEight shows Zeldin trailing Hochul by 7.2 points, meaning he has more than halved the 18.1-point lead Hochul held for much of the summer. One poll, conducted by conservative Trafalgar Group over the weekend, even found Zeldin with a one-point lead, though most other polls have him trailing by 6 to 12 points. The momentum of Zeldin’s campaign has galvanized national and state Democrats into action, as the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rush to New York to give Hochul a last-minute boost....

The two runoff races are set to be close and many factors, including the Republican administration’s COVID management and the state of the economy, could sway voters. Georgia was the state decided by the slimmest margin in the presidential election and no Senate candidate won a majority on November 3. Now Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will again face Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Two Democratic wins in Georgia would take away Republicans’ majority in the Senate....

The massive cash hauls in the last three months come as plummeting poll numbers for President Donald Trump and Republicans, as well as the political battle over confirming a new conservative Supreme Court justice before Election Day, have Democrats growing increasingly confident they can retake the upper chamber. Six seats currently held by Republicans are “toss-ups” by Cook Political Report—Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maine and Montana—all in states that went for Donald Trump in 2016....

Congress is headed for an impasse—once again. Senate Republicans on Thursday will try to advance their slimmest coronavirus stimulus to-date, a roughly $500 billion proposal that Democrats will be able to block because of the 60 votes needed to advance the bill to final passage. “[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] is not interested in passing a bill, not interested in helping the American people who are in pain. Just scoring political points,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday....

Miller said that he was “wasting away in mitigation-ville” and watching former Vice President Joe Biden’s “bloopers” amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. The podcast host was also critical of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, telling Hannity that he could not believe Biden was winning endorsements. “What did I do today? I’ve been lying around all day, wasting away in mitigation-ville,” Miller told Fox News last night. “I’ve got a couple steaks over here marinaded in some hydroxychloroquine....

More than a month after Thomas refuted Schroeder’s allegations that the Celtics’ point guard insulted Schroder’s mother on the court, the Hawks’ guard is calling baloney on Thomas’ denial. MORE: How the Celtics helped Isaiah Thomas become a fourth-quarter killer “Everybody heard it,” Schroder said Monday. “My family sat courtside too. Thabo [Sefalosha] heard some things. He wasn’t involved in it. It is what it is. We just try to compete....

Granted, they wanted the 2013 season to end. But they also had not accomplished any of their goals. They salvaged something out of the disappointing year Sunday as Hamlin won the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Hamlin had made the Chase and won a race in each of his first seven Sprint Cup seasons. He was battling for the win in March at Auto Club Speedway when an accident with rival Joey Logano resulted in a compression fracture in his lower back....

Hamlin knocked Joey Logano off the pole with a speed of 129.99 mph and kept Logano and Penske teammate Brad Keselowski from sweeping the front row for the second straight week. Keselowski, who won last week at Las Vegas, wound up second, followed by Matt Kenseth, Logano, Marcos Ambrose, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards. MORE: High speed, new rules lead to wrecks | Bump-and-run getting harder | Bristol crashes...

Anyone can develop lipomas, and people with fibromyalgia are no more likely to have them than others. Still, it’s important to take note of lipomas if you have this condition. Lumps under the skin in a person with fibromyalgia may be a sign of an extremely rare condition called Dercum’s disease. The right diagnosis can help you get treatment and symptom relief. This article describes the symptoms of Dercum’s disease....

Before a late June game against the Yankees, Holland pedaled into the Chicago clubhouse on a scooter wearing an Adam West-era Batman mask and a bright-red tanktop. With his arrival, the mood among his Chicago teammates lightened considerably. MORE: MLB trade rumors: Latest news, rumored deals The Holland Effect is partially due to his naturally gregarious and open personality, but some of it also comes from his love of a sport other than baseball: professional wrestling....

Kluber pitched four-hit ball for a superb six innings and Jose Ramirez hit his first career homer as the Cleveland Indians ended New York’s three-game winning streak with a 3-0 victory Saturday. “I know there was a lot of talk about what we faced this week with Detroit, but if you look at the top-five guys in the AL, he’s right there,” Girardi said. Derek Jeter had an infield single in the sixth inning to pass Honus Wagner for sixth on the career list with No....

Rose has been sidelined for a little over a month after undergoing a procedure to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. About a week ago, he participated in a full-contact practice, which was an encouraging sign for his recovery. MORE: George to return Sunday | Kerr makes coaching history | Durant tells Bill Simmons to ’let go’ of Harden trade If Rose does return, it will just be another step in his rehab....

There are many prongs to the remote learning problem: child attention spans, social growth impediments, working parents being pulled in every possible direction. But the foundational issue is still access. In 2017, 14 percent of children between ages 6 and 17 lived in homes with no internet service, according to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Whether it is access to reliable internet or access to computers and tablets, K-12 students cannot participate in remote learning without these fundamental tools....

It comes almost a year after the country started its vaccination campaign and amid the uncertainty of the new Omicron variant, which early studies have found can evade antibodies in double-vaccinated people. Information so far has led experts to speculate that this variant spreads more rapidly than Delta but symptoms are milder. These same experts are keen to emphasize that it is too early to draw any firm conclusions....

In order to prevent infections, the Marines have been accepting fewer recruits so that trainees can be spaced out. Trainees are tested for symptoms, given face masks, spaced out on busses and then are instituted a 14-day staging period at a separate facility with its own laundry, infirmary and mess facilities. While in staging, each new recruit is screened and observed by medical care providers twice a day every day during the two-week period....

At first glance, the guidance seemed to focus on many of the same groups who are at risk of severe illness from the flu—including the elderly and people with chronic lung disease—but, by the time a national emergency was declared on March 13, 2020, it became clear that this was not the flu. Babies, for example, were not included in the CDC’s list, even though they are considered to be at high risk of severe illness from the flu....

The findings suggest that there might be a greater risk of contact transmission for COVID-19 than the flu. Contact transmission is when an infection is spread through direct contact with an infected person or a contaminated surface (also known as a fomite). “If the COVID-19 virus lives longer on the skin than the flu, that does not mean we should be washing our hands longer than usual,” Silvia Gnass, MSc, CIC, Infection Prevention and Control Manager at Riverside University Health System, tells Verywell....