Williams said all those things as he sparred in studio with Charlotte sports talk radio hosts Chris McClain and Travis Hancock. The hourlong segment on WFNZ-AM was an escalation of a social media flareup between the former Carolina running back and McClain earlier in the week over Williams’ lukewarm feelings for Panthers quarterback Cam Newton. It was stupendous radio, a forum for Williams to say why he is a petty, unapologetic troll five years after the Panthers cut him....

A Sunday afternoon on the barracks’ catwalk. Day four of the war. Nothing much else to do but bullsht and watch TV. There are an estimated 50 Marine casualties at this point. Mom said she watched a firefight on TV this morning. Some U.S. forces are less than 100 miles from Baghdad. Other than that don’t know what else to say…just waiting. A lot of us think that we’ll end up going no where, just end up staying stateside....

Mentality plays a critical role during the injury recovery process. The key is to be patient and persistent to get one’s game back. Otherwise, one might under- or over-adhere during their rehabilitation, and, as such, these behaviors further delay the recovery process. Athletes can look at recovery from an injury as just another physical challenge to defeat. In fact, the same mental skills and strategies that are helpful for winning on the field should also be used to excel in the training room....

But Mayor Weltin won’t be one of them. He is stepping down from his post in September and moving away. There reaches a point in the decline of a town, he explained apologetically, “where it just doesn’t work anymore.” Besides everything else, Weltin says he wants to move closer to a medical center. His 13-year-old boy, Brendan, has heart troubles. His 18-year-old son, Jordan, died of cerebral palsy in June....

“It’s something worse,” said Tsongas. “I want to run for president.” The answer was classic Tsongas. A wry, self-deprecating man, Tsongas, who died last week at 55, nonetheless saw himself on a mission. He called it “the obligation of my survival.” As a congressman and senator from 1975 to 1984, Tsongas had been one of the first Democrats to really question the Big Government credo of liberalism. Now, plunging into the 1992 Democratic primaries, he warned America that it had to face up to the crippling national debt....

Myawaddy TV, an army television station, reported Friday that Kyaw Min Yu, known as Ko Jimmy, and Phyo Zeyar Thaw, known as Maung Kyaw, were convicted under Myanmar’s Counterterrorism Law, according to the Associated Press, for alleged connections to bombings, explosives and financing of terrorism. Trial details were unavailable since the proceedings took place in a closed military court, the AP reported. The two activists have been detained since their arrests, with no ability to comment on the allegations....

Carlton Wilson says the decision was made after he received threats from parents who opposed the decision. “One of them said, ‘You know, situations like this brings out crazy people from both sides and sometimes people die,’” said Wilson. Vandalism and harassment also occurred, including threats on social media which brought about the arrest of a juvenile who was charged with disorderly conduct. “The District understands and acknowledges that it has the responsibility to protect its staff and students,” said a statement from Pickens County Schools....

Immediately after the election, moderate and progressive Democrats began trading recriminations. In the eyes of the moderates, Democrats’ rhetoric about “defunding” the police and “Green New Deal”-style massive government programs cost them many winnable races. But, progressives responded, there is little concrete evidence of this, and Clintonian-style centrism is, at this point, an outmoded dinosaur of a previous era. Who is right? This week, Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor of The Forward, debates Issac Bailey of Davidson College on whether the far Left exerts a positive or negative influence upon the Democratic Party....

That’s almost a one in two chance that motorists who don’t use E-ZPass driving through the highway system without paying. A July report obtained by the Associated Press through a Right-to-Know Law request detailed nearly 11 million out of 170 million turnpike rides did not produce revenue for the agency in the year that ended May 31. “We take this issue very seriously. It is a big number, there’s no question,” turnpike Chief Executive Mark Compton said....

The Pokémon Company International has posted the results of a popularity poll that it ran this past week ahead of the franchise’s 25th anniversary and Dedenne, the Electric and Fairy-type Pokémon from the Kalos region, has won. Unlike last year’s poll, this year’s was only held on the official Japanese site, although some savvy trainers from around the world could vote on Twitter using a special hashtag. To the surprise of many, Dedenne beat out stalwarts like Pikachu, Greninja and Charizard to be crowned the most popular Pokémon of 2021, according to Japanese fans....

What Is Deep Brain Stimulation? Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure used as a form of therapy for symptoms associated with certain neurological movement disorders. This procedure involves the placement of electrodes at specific sites in the brain and the implantation of a pacer in the chest, which is responsible for controlling the electrical stimulus of the electrodes. While the mechanism of DBS is not fully understood, the general consensus is that the released electrical signals affect certain cells (and associated chemical messengers) in the brain and aid in modulating communication between certain regions of the brain....

To get a clear representation of a bowel movement, a thick barium paste will be inserted into the rectum of the man or woman with a device similar to a caulking gun. The barium ensures high contrast on the X-ray images as the paste is gradually expelled from the bowel. Defecography can also be performed using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine instead of an X-ray to avoid radiation. When the procedure involves the use of real-time X-ray video, it is often referred to as cinedefecography....

“It’s different because I run into people inside the sport and outside the sport who have really fond memories of that race at some point in their life or their career,” he said. “It’s just a special event. It’s one of the big ones. For me, it’s still kind of sinking in … there’s just something special about it.” As he attempts to defend his title, he’ll also be honoring a fallen hero as part of the Memorial Day weekend, and sponsor Subway will be working to aid the military as well....

Attorneys for Gregory McMichael were the first to publicly declare they would appeal the decision. Later, an attorney for Travis McMichael also announced he would do the same. Franklin and Laura Hogue, who defended Gregory McMichael, announced they would seek an appeal soon after the verdicts were announced, but they can only begin the process once sentencing is done. Laura Hogue said she was “very disappointed” in the outcome of the trial....

What he painted during his five-month visit is the subject of a superb little exhibition, “Degas and New Orleans,” at the New Orleans Museum of Art. His sister-in-law Estelle Musson, who was going blind, became his favorite subject. Troubled by his own weakened eyesight, he painted her again and again, twice brilliantly: in the breathtakingly austere and somber “Estelle Musson Balfour” and in the poignantly colorful “Portrait of Estelle,” where she is captured sightlessly arranging flowers....

Wilson was the star attraction at Texas Rangers camp on Monday, suiting up and taking ground balls with the team that selected him from the Colorado Rockies in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft in December. Wilson, who was Colorado's fourth-round pick out of N.C. State in 2010 and hit .228 in 193 at-bats as a second baseman for Single-A Asheville in 2011, has not given up his major league dream, but it's the gridiron that is his present and his foreseeable future....

That is what Richard Painter, a former top ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, and David Fineman, former chairman of the U.S.P.S. Board of Governors under the Bill Clinton and Bush administrations, said before the House Overisight Committee. DeJoy’s $30 million stake in his former logistics company, XPO Logistics, which is a major contractor for the Postal Service and has received $14 million from the agency since DeJoy was appointed in June, should have posed far too great a risk for a criminal financial conflict of interest, the men testified to the House Oversight Committee....

Real Madrid coach Zidane masterminded a 3-0 victory away at former club Juventus in the Champions League quarter-final first leg last week which leaves the 12-time champions with one foot in the semi-finals ahead of the return leg at Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice at the Juventus Stadium, including a brilliant overhead volley, and Zidane’s decision to pair the Portugal captain with Karim Benzema up front with Isco in behind paid dividends....

Michy Batshuayi and Willian started ahead of Diego Costa and Hazard at Wembley but if that appeared a risky move at kick-off, by full-time it looked like another stroke of Antonio Conte genius. Chelsea beat Spurs in FA Cup epic Hazard’s 75th-minute goal was yet another example of the Belgian’s ability to conjure up something out of nothing. Found free at the edge of the box from a corner, his shot to beat Hugo Lloris was laser-guided....