Watts-Jackson initially requested a release from MSU in March after his redshirt junior season and looked to play his last year of college elsewhere as a graduate transfer. Instead, he’ll get a head start on his new career. MORE: Michigan State football schedule, roster, recruiting and what to watch in 2018 “With everything that is going on in the country, everyone has their different views of the people who lead this country,” Watts-Jackson told WJBK Fox 2 Detroit....

Laurent Rivard made a 3-pointer from the corner, flashed his 3-point goggles toward an unhinged group of Crimson fans and ran down the court. The Ivy Leaguers had overcome a 16-point deficit to take a two-point lead over a Michigan State team that always comes up big at March Madness. The next time down the court, Travis Trice came back with a 3 to put the Spartans back in the lead....

Jared Bridegan, 33, was a father of four who worked as a graphic design and user experience manager for Microsoft while based out of Jacksonville, Florida. On February 16, Bridegan was driving home after dropping off his two older children with their mother. At some point in that drive, police say that he noticed a tire on the road and stopped to inspect it. According to police, as he was getting out of his vehicle, Bridegan was gunned down by an unknown assailant....

Thoracic spine pain affects up to 35.5% of the population per year, according to a 2009 systematic review published ​in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. Thoracic Spine Pain Definition Let’s start with a reliable definition of thoracic spine pain which necessarily includes a reliable definition of the thoracic region. Your first thoracic vertebra represents the place where your neck ends and your rib cage area begins. It is located approximately at the level of your shoulders (or just a little above)....

Charles Evans Hall Jr., 49, a former teacher at Letcher County Middle School in Kentucky, was sentenced to 370 months in federal prison for the production of child pornography and cyberstalking a student. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) says 93 percent of juveniles who report sexual abuse to law enforcement know their perpetrator. Hall met the girl when he was her middle school teacher and began “grooming” her, according to court documents....

This round of U.S.-led talks, which Bush launched last November, has been sluggish since its glitzy kickoff summit almost six months ago in Annapolis, Md. The initial overture was seen largely as a legacy move by the administration in its final year, but the lack of progress signals little hope for any brokered deal, big or small. To discuss the current state of the negotiations and what it will take to jump-start the process, NEWSWEEK’s Daniel Stone spoke with Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center and author of the new book “The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace....

Clandestine arms makers like Abu Abdullah have made life in Israel more stressful than ever in recent months. His PFLP is merely one of a dozen or so armed groups that are operating in Gaza. Most, if not all, have rockets. According to the Israeli government, an estimated 640 rocket attacks have been launched from Gaza since July, with about 530 landing inside Israel. The months of bombardment have been the heaviest since militants in Gaza began learning to build and use rockets four years ago....

MICHIGAN STATE: No grand entrance, no outlandish outfit for Tom Izzo this year; he just gave a speech while wearing his Basketball Hall of Fame jacket. MORE: Top 16 programs since 2000 Izzo finished by changing into his coach’s jacket and telling the crowd he and his players would work hard to add banners to the Breslin Center. NORTH CAROLINA: DANCE-OFF! Theo Pinson vs. Joel Berry for the . ....

While some elections are still undetermined days later, and House and Senate control are still up for grabs, Republicans didn’t secure the massive wins they hoped for, despite an expected “red wave.” Outcomes proved lucrative for those betting on midterm races, with payouts as high as $2,500, a BetUS spokesperson told Newsweek. Payouts won’t be much higher, as bettors are restricted on political wagers. A PredictIt spokesperson told Newsweek that Tuesday night was the biggest trading night the betting market saw since 2020....

The biological link between migraines and depression is complex and may be related to genes, low serotonin production, or other factors. They are worth understanding more about, especially when working to manage both conditions effectively. The Link Scientific studies reveal that the relationship between migraine and depression is a two-way street: Having one puts you at a higher risk of the other. No one knows exactly what causes either migraines or depression, but there are a few theories about why the two are linked....

Despite suffering his own election loss in November, Trump’s remained the head of the Republican Party and has vowed to primary Republicans who aren’t backers of his America First agenda. With a winning track record of endorsements, the former president has wielded considerable influence in past elections and Tuesday’s election shows a recent loss in Texas may have been a fluke. Carey, the vice president of government affairs at a coal mining company, sought to take a seat vacated by Representative Steve Stivers and had Trump’s full support....

Dunleavy, 34, has agreed to a three-year, $14.4 million deal to say in Chicago, according to Yahoo! Sports. MORE: What the top 27 free agents should do | Max contracts never meant less | How free agency affects NBA2K ESPN.com reported Tuesday that the Cavaliers planned on pursuing Dunleavy because James coveted the 13-year veteran who averaged 9.4 points and 3.9 rebounds in 2014-15. But it appears Dunleavy is comfortable with the franchise he’s spent the last two seasons with....

With the news that Van Wagenen shipped top Mets prospects Anthony Kay and Simeon Woods-Richardson to Toronto for Marcus Stroman, some are left scratching their heads and asking one question: Why? Hindsight is 20/20, so it’s unfair to to really rag on BVW for the moves he made this offseason. But after trading top prospects to acquire Edwin Díaz and Robinson Canó, fans’ faith in BVW is going to be put to the test....

In “Betrayal” by ABC White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Barr reportedly said Bartiromo “called me up and was screaming,” complaining that the Department of Justice had not done anything to stop Democrats from stealing the election from Trump. Through a spokesperson, Bartiromo told The Associated Press she never made any demands or screamed at Barr. To her, she was simply making a call to ask follow-up questions after Barr made an appearance on her show in June 2020 and made the claim that potential increased mail-in voting due to the pandemic “opens the floodgates to fraud....

In order to stop the chaos—to pave a way out of our current craziness and to build a path to a better future—America will need more than superficial fixes. We will not be able to change effects unless we deal with root causes. We need to understand how we got here. We need to understand our past. Just as individuals unaware of their family’s past can be unknowingly affected by unconscious forces built up over generations, so is a nation....

“Ms. Williamson, many of your opponents support a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery, but you are calling for up to $500 billion in financial assistance. What makes you qualified to determine how much is owed in reparations?” CNN host Don Lemon, one of the three moderators, asked Williamson after former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke mentioned the issue. “First of all, it’s not $500 billion dollars in ‘financial assistance,’ it’s $200 to $500 billion dollars payment of a debt that is owed....

Mariners slugger Franklin Gutierrez and about everyone else at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati on Saturday knew Gutierrez’s homer off Reds starter John Lamb was one for the ages as the ball landed well into the left-field upper-deck bleachers after what seemed to be an eternity in the atmosphere. Check out the moonshot. Your browser does not support iframes. According to MLB.com’s Statcast, Gutierrez’s fourth-inning, three-run blast measured 473 feet, the second-longest homer of the MLB season behind only Stanton’s 475-foot blast on May 6 off Hector Neris....

The A-League’s Match Review Panel announced on Monday that O’Donovan, who was shown a red card against City last week, would serve the minimum penalty of a one-match ban. While Central Coast coach Paul Okon had labelled the dismissal as “madness” after Thursday’s match and called for the red card to be rescinded as had occurred with Melbourne Victory striker Besart Berisha just a week earlier, the Mariners accepted O’Donovan’s penalty on Monday....

It turned out to be last September, when Nyquist won the FrontRunner Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. MORE: Must-see photos from the Kentucky Derby The race horse was fine. The jockey — Mario Gutierrez — inspired just as much confidence that day. He rode with a loose saddle the entire race. He didn’t complain. He didn’t say a word about it to the media afterward. He just rode Nyquist to a win....

Now, seven years later, comes the disappointment. According to the Washington Post Jones has written to friends admitting to using steroids in the two-year run-up to the 2000 Games. “I want to apologize for all this,” she wrote, according to the Post, quoting from one letter. “I am sorry for disappointing you in so many ways.” Jones, who through recent years has steadfastly denied using any performance-enhancing drugs, pled guilty in federal court today to lying to federal agents about her drug use as well as to a second charge related to financial wrongdoing by a former boyfriend, sprinter Tim Montgomery....