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In a video shared on her Twitter page Tuesday, the former U.S. secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate spoke about how the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling in a potentially monumental elections case that it will hear this term: Moore v. Harper. In Moore, Republicans are asking the Court whether state courts actually have the legal authority to throw out electoral maps and order districts to be redrawn....

In an interview with the British magazine the New Statesman, conducted while the former secretary of state and two-time presidential candidate was in northeast England under the invitation of British former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband, Clinton said the nation needs a president who can project “hope,” as she said her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did during their presidencies. “It’s hard enough making a living if you’re not encouraged to get up every day and try to find common ground with other people,” Clinton told the magazine....

While Clinton won the popular vote, she lost in the Electoral College with narrow defeats in states which had previously voted Democrat contributing to this defeat. In Michigan, she lost by little more than 10,000 votes, around 0.3 percent of those cast, while in Pennsylvania, Trump secured around 44,000 more votes than her, around 0.7 percent of the state’s total ballots, according to New York Times’ tracking of election data....

Seeing as the Upper East Side is more accessible than El Paso, Stumper attended. Was it worth the one mile trek across Central Park? Yes and no. The Clinton camp clearly sees today’s “major address” as the start of its March 4 messaging campaign–and plans, based on what the candidate said on stage, to focus obsessively on “the choice” between Hillary and Barack Obama. The question is whether those contrasts will catch on and convince Democrats to choose Clinton in time to save her fading bid....

Parker, to his credit, hasn’t abandoned his social conscience. In “Come See the Paradise” he’s constructed a drama about the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II. Though his heart, and his facts, are in the right place, he’s succeeded in reducing a powerful story of institutional racism into an unforgivably dull film. Whatever you think of Parker’s films, they’ve never been boring. Toning down his usual hysteria may be an act of contrition, but why then was it necessary to tell the story once again from the vantage point of a white hero?...

MORE: Get FantasyAlarm.com’s Draft Guide The reasons vary – small sample sizes, smaller ballparks, Arizona’s thin, dry air, players who wear No. 83 getting far too much playing time – but the bottom line is spring training stats are not necessarily indicators of future success or failure. And even though we know this, we still can’t help but get sucked in when a player is popping off a bunch of homers before the season starts....

The retina, choroid (the vascular layer of the eye), and optic nerve comprise much of the posterior segment, with a number of HIV-associated disorders presenting within these ocular layers, more often in late-stage HIV disease. Disorders of the posterior segment—primarily presenting with vascular changes to the retina—are seen in as many as 50% to 70% of patients with HIV, and may sometime result in persistent or acute damage to the retina (called retinopathy)....

In its press release, Hockey Canada said that there will be an interim management committee put in place for the time being until a newly constructed board is formed and they can appoint a new CEO. A new slate of directors will be selected at the upcoming election on Dec. 17. The past board members have agreed not to seek re-election. The decision stems from controversy that the organization has faced in its handling of sexual assault allegations, specifically the 2018 sexual assault investigation that allegedly involves members of Canada’s national junior team and players from the CHL....

A prolific scorer with Chicoutimi in the QMJHL and Nova Scotia in the AHL, Carbonneau carved out his niche in the NHL with a tenacious competitive streak that defined his career with Montreal, St. Louis and Dallas from 1980-2000. Known as “Carbo,” he followed linemate Bob Gainey’s lead in winning the Frank J. Selke Trophy three times with the Canadiens. He first won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1986, was the Canadiens’ captain when they won the Cup for the 24th time in 1993 and was a key member of the Stars’ first Stanley Cup win in 1999....

What to make, then, of McDonald’s recent warning to Wall Street, when it announced that it will post its first quarterly loss in 37 years as a public company? Or its plans, disclosed a month earlier, to slow the pace of expansion, closing 175 stores (after shutting 163 in 2001), including 35 in Turkey alone–the first significant closings in its history? For much of the past decade, McDonald’s has been the quintessential high-growth multinational, vaulting from success to success and building a uniquely American empire....

Increasingly I identify with Sisyphus trying to move that stone. There are more mornings than I would like to admit when many of my students sit with eyes glazed or heads slumped on their desks as I try to nurture a threatening-to-become-extinct interest in school. These are not lazy kids. Many are high-achieving 16- and 17-year-olds who find it tough to reconcile 7:30 a.m. classes with a job that winds down at 10:30 p....

The pledge case itself may turn out to be a minor distraction. California’s Ninth Circuit, one of the nation’s most liberal courts, is also one of the most overturned–and its pledge decision is almost certain to be reversed down the road. But lost in the tumult over the ruling was a simple fact that helps to illuminate the larger dissatisfaction with the courts: as much as the ruling overreached, the California court was clearly taking its cues from a higher authority–the U....

Operation Warp Speed is experiencing transmission difficulties. All COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. are ordered through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, creating a centralized system for distribution to the states and a nationwide protocol to administer the shots. “We are doing a lot of things right,” Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, a non-profit professional organization based in Rockville, Maryland, told Newsweek....

That’s right, Beyonce’s loyal fans will surely have some criticism for Holm after she had an awkward run-in with the songstress recently. Holm met Jay Z at a party he hosted recently and when standing face to face with his wife — you know, the biggest pop star ever — Holm asked Beyonce what her name was. Cue the record scratch . . . WHAT? MORE: What’s next for Ronda Rousey?...

What the studios aren’t saying is that in the second weekend, most of these “record-setters” dropped like ImClone stock. Traditionally, a movie’s falloff during the second weekend has been the measure of its staying power, or “legs.” Any movie that fell more than 50 percent the second weekend was deemed a flop. (“Titanic,” the highest-grossing film ever, actually rose 24 percent its second weekend.) Yet this summer’s “Austin Powers” collapsed 57 percent, “Men in Black II” 53 percent and “Scooby-Doo” 55 percent, and all are blockbuster hits....

The Hawaii Innocence Project filed a petition Monday night asking a judge to vacate the arrest and correct the records of Joshua Spriestersbach. Spriestersbach was arrested in 2017 after falling asleep on a sidewalk waiting for food at a Honolulu shelter, the Associated Press reported. When he woke up, Spriestersbach believed he was being arrested for the city’s ban on sitting or laying down on public sidewalks. But the officer mistook him for a man named Thomas Castleberry, who was wanted for violating probation in a 2006 drug case....

Homer’s 15-year finale and its effect on the next generation of American painters is the subject of The Cleveland Museum of Art’s superb exhibition “Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence,” continuing through Nov. 25 before traveling to Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. Its 15 Homer oils and 44 paintings by Homer devotees document the struggle between an American realism and the modernism wafting in from across the Atlantic....

Two hours north of Tokyo via bullet train in Tochigi, Japan, Honda’s Research and Development center has several long, thin tanks of a green goo positioned on top of one of its buildings, being fed carbon dioxide (CO2) through a bubbling tube, absorbing sun and producing oxygen. It’s a test bed for a genetically engineered microalgae that is Honda’s newest ally in the battle against climate change. Greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide, along with methane and nitrous oxide, are the bane of a controlled climate....