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Ruzicka founded and headed CIVIC – the Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict, which tries to hold governments accountable for compensating the victims of wars. Though she’s often called an “aid” worker, she once corrected me on the label saying her group advocated for victims, bringing their suffering to the public, and did not provide direct aid. Much of her whole, short life had been as an advocate for various causes and her work in war showed how awareness, that overworked concept, can actually affect people lives....

Jennings took the brunt of a liner by the Pirates’ Jordy Mercer. The reliever momentarily stumbled before going to his knees after the play. The Marlins’ TV crew reported the ball came off Mercer’s bat at 101 mph. Your browser does not support iframes. The Marlins said Jennings was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion. He was kept in the hospital overnight for observation....

Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill on Tuesday tried to reassure star right fielder Giancarlo Stanton the club isn’t shopping him. A purported conversation about Stanton between Marlins GM Dan Jennings and Astros GM Jeff Luhnow was leaked to Deadspin.com and published Monday. MORE: Spector: Astros in position to sell, but inventory low “I told you guys in the beginning of the winter that he’s not available — and we’re not shopping him,” Hill told reporters, per The Miami Herald....

The Reds thought MLB got it just right. A long delay in the eighth inning resulted in what the Marlins thought was the third out turning into the tying run. Zack Cozart was initially ruled out by home plate umpire Mike Winters on the play at the plate. The review extended the inning and Ryan Ludwick delivered a two-run single to help give the Reds a 3-1 victory. “The fact of that matter is that everyone around baseball should be embarrassed by a call like that,” Marlins president David Samson said during an expletive-laced postgame tirade....

Intended to ward off any unwanted interest in a prized asset, what appeared to be a prohibitively expense release clause of €222 million did not prevent Paris Saint-Germain from sensationally luring Neymar away from Barca in August. Juventus 6/4 for Serie A title The Liga giants have responded by increasing Lionel Messi’s buyout clause to €700m in the latest deal signed by the star forward on Saturday. Dybala has been linked with a move to join Messi at Camp Nou and may also find himself the subject of interest from other heavyweight clubs across Europe....

Blackburn called out Fauci on Twitter for writing his book Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward, which was scheduled for publication on November 2. The book disappeared from online retailers’ websites following the release of his emails from the early days of the pandemic. On Monday evening, Blackburn tweeted: “While Americans suffered, Fauci wrote a book.” Her comment was liked more than 4,760 times and retweeted on more than 1,085 occasions as of Tuesday morning....

According to the report, the former Duke standout and NBA player was detained at the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, W.Va., at 4:15 a.m. and later released on a $1,000 bond. MORE: Coach K’s 10 best players of all time Duhon is in his second season with the Thundering Herd after joining Dan D’Antoni’s coaching staff in 2014. The team is 0-3 under the second-year coach after finishing 11-21 last year....

The suspects had complained about the jail’s conditions, and a federal judge asked the Justice Department to conduct an investigation after holding the D.C. corrections director and jail warden in contempt. The complex houses local and federal defendants who are set to go on trial. Though the Marshals determined that conditions in the facility where 30 January 6 suspects are being held are satisfactory, a secondary jail building was found to not meet the minimum standards....

Lynch, who underwent abdominal surgery Nov. 25 and has not played since Week 10, returned to practice Monday, with coach Pete Carroll saying he was “ready to rock.” His agent, Doug Hendrickson, tweeted a message that, “He’s baaaaaaa cckkkk!” MORE: SN’s official playoff predictions | Ranking Fantasy RBs for the playoffs Although Lynch had been listed as questionable, he had been a full participant in practice all week. Friday morning, Carroll had said on his radio show on Seattle’s KIRO 97....

Wide receiver Ricardo Lockette, who retired from the NFL after suffering a life-threatening neck injury in Seattle’s game at Dallas last Nov. 1, wrote in Monday’s The Players Tribune just how scary the experience was — and how he wouldn’t have gotten through it well without Lynch. “It was terrifying. I couldn’t hear the crowd. I couldn’t hear my teammates. That’s when I knew it was really bad,” Lockette said....

On Thursday, former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade shared a USA Today article on Twitter, questioning the wisdom of the CDC’s decision to change its stance on the re-opening of schools after pressure from President Donald Trump. “If the CDC changes its expert guidance on COVID at the order of the President, is it still expert guidance? Sounds more like authoritarian propaganda,” McQuade, currently a legal analyst for NBC News, tweeted....

“I don’t see any other way to get the facts,” Hogan told PBS’ Firing Line on Friday evening. His statement echoed his father, former Maryland Congressman Larry Hogan Sr., who in 1974 was the only Republican member of the House to vote in favor of all three articles of impeachment against then-President Richard Nixon. The senior Hogan was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, who spent hours in hearings and at home poring over evidence as the Watergate scandal unfolded....

In a new intro video released by the school, a brand new version of their terrapin – complete with rippling trapezius muscles and an Under Armour uniform – jumps out of the darkness as highlights flash across the screen. It’s clearly some kind of capitalization on the most recent Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles release and it’s terrific. There’s not many ways to make a giant, screaming turtle cool to a generation of football fans looking for branding and flash, but Maryland has done it here....

Rudolph Jericho Smith, 37, was sentenced to 30 years in Frederick County Circuit Court in Maryland on Friday, the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release. But Judge Julia A. Martz-Fisher suspended all but nine years of Smith’s sentence. Upon his release, Smith will also have to serve five years of probation. Smith was convicted in September after he entered an Alford plea to three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of knowingly attempting to transfer HIV....

Hogan has criticized Trump before, particularly when it comes to the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The governor raised his concerns about the pending Supreme Court battle in the Senate when he was asked about the nomination issue in an interview aired by the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival on Wednesday morning. “I think it would be a mistake for the Senate to ram through a nominee before the election on a partisan line vote—just as I think it would also be a mistake for the Democrats to question the integrity of the court or any of the nominees or try to pack the court,” Hogan said....

Approximately 306,000 people ended up traveling to the city to view and place wagers on 2019’s game, according to the Seattle Times. Similar throngs of people are likely to be expected in the city this year as the U.S. sees its first post-COVID vaccine Super Bowl. Despite this, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced Thursday that he was removing the state’s indoor mask mandate. Sisolak cited what he called “a rapid decline in case numbers, coupled with declining hospitalizations, a drop in COVID 19 detected in wastewater, a broader availability of testing, and an increase in available treatments....

Breivik legally changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen in 2017, according to Euronews. Newsweek previously reported that Breivik killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, after setting off a bomb in Oslo, which killed 8 and injured more, then going to a summer camp in Ut­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­øya and killing 69 more, mostly teenagers. He was convicted in 2012 and is serving Norway’s maximum sentence of 21 years, which can be extended; however, he is eligible for his first parole hearing after 10 years....

The authors of the study, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, stressed there is little scientific evidence to show violent video games lead to real-world acts of violence, and therefore argue racial stereotypes about who is more likely to commit violent crime likely underlies this attitude. The 1999 Columbine High School massacre, for instance, was partly blamed on violent video games, the researchers highlighted. However, evidence shows 42 percent of school shootings, not related to gangs or drugs, are committed by members of racial minority groups—yet video games are rarely cited as a cause by the media or public figures in these cases, the authors said....

The bill, passed in the house following a 93 to 66 vote, would require officers to intervene if they saw their colleagues use excessive force and would also curb qualified immunity, which can protect officers from civil lawsuits in cases of misconduct. Among other wide-ranging measures in the bill, officers would be required to be licensed, face restrictions on firing a weapon at a fleeing vehicle and there would be curbs on the use of tear gas, rubber pellets or dogs to control behavior unless there was no other option....