Summer heroes run up the body count. Wallace and his no-tech medieval guys out-score McClane and the high-tech moderns. With spears, swords, lances, axes, arrows. burning pitch, the Scots and English hack. pierce, disembowel. decapitate, and torch one another in the biggest, bloodiest battle scenes in years. In “Die Hard WAV” there’s one measly guy sliced in half, but there are lots of sophisticated bombs planted all over New York: in a department store, a public school, the subway, the Federal Reserve Bank vaults, where the terrorists are after $140 billion in gold....

There’s the glimmer of a strategy here for Bill Clinton: there may be salvation for him in the states. The governors have been the most creative players in American politics for the past 20 years. They tend to be more moderate, pragmatic, frugal – and less ideological – than legislators (especially those who reside in Washington). The former governor of Arkansas understands this well; he is, one hears, nostalgic for the bipartisan collegiality of the National Governors’ Association....

Champions Chelsea, clearly thin on numbers and thick on transfer frustration, were beaten 3-2 by Burnley at Stamford Bridge on Saturday having been three goals down at half time. Liverpool, meanwhile, were held to a wildly entertaining but ultimately unfulfilling 3-3 draw by Watford at Vicarage Road. Get United at 14/1 to beat Swansea 4-0 Elsewhere, Arsenal scraped past Leicester City 4-3 thanks to two late goals, with only Manchester City and Tottenham looking competent at both ends of the pitch, albeit against newly-promoted opposition, as they defeated Brighton and Newcastle respectively 2-0....

James acknowledged the impact of the news on Prude’s family and the surrounding Rochester community but said the grand jury’s decision must be respected. “Daniel Prude was in the throes of a mental health crisis, and what he needed was compassion, care, and help from trained professionals. Tragically, he received none of those things,” James said in a statement. “We concluded that there was sufficient evidence surrounding Mr. Prude’s death to warrant presenting the case to a grand jury, and we presented the most comprehensive case possible....

Beirut’s peculiar traffic conditions are among the first things a visitor notices in this congested seaside metropolis, which is slowly reviving from a devastating 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Although the city now has hundreds of working traffic lights, Beirutis regard them with indifference or contempt. It’s not difficult to understand why. The lights didn’t work at all during the conflict; then, after the war ended, frequent bombing raids by the Israeli Air Force knocked out the city’s power grid for weeks, sometimes months....

Actually, France has been starving for just this over the past few years. High-level government corruption trials don’t cut it. They’re so common and tiresomely complicated, after all. So what if the president of the constitutional court who used to be the foreign minister allegedly put his mistress (or one of his mistresses) on the payroll of an oil company where she supposedly got kickbacks on defense contracts? The French shrug: “That’s politics....

The Bombing of Bali I was bemused to see Indonesia sandwiched between Iraq and North Korea over your Oct. 28 cover line (“Where Next for America’s War on Terror?”). Does this mean that we are now including the mysterious and fabled archipelago within the so-called Axis of Evil? I’m sure I speak for most expats living here (try asking those who live in either Iraq or North Korea!) that, while the present Indonesian government may be slow to react to a number of threats–economic, political or whatever–it will do the best it can in curbing further terrorism....

Reflections on a Tragic Day Thank you for the comprehensive, intense and very memorable September 11 issue “America: A Year After.” What struck me most was how your writers portrayed and honored the indomitable spirit and humanity of those closely affected by the September 11 tragedy. The twin beams of light reflected New York City’s lost souls, and our nation’s resilience. This issue, as with last year’s, will be placed under my mattress for a future date with history, to be shown to my soon-to-be-born grandson....

Parnas said he was participating in the interview because he felt he was safer getting his story into the public sphere because he was afraid of the Department of Justice, particularly Trump appointee Attorney General William Barr. “My only objective is to get the truth out,” Parnas said. “I never thought I was doing anything wrong. I regret certain things I did like hurting the Ambassador [former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch]....

LPGA Player President Vicki Goetze-Ackerman sent an email to LPGA Tour players on July 2, which Golf Digest shared on July 14: — Racerback with a mock or regular collar are allowed (no collar = no racerback) — Plunging necklines are NOT allowed. — Leggings, unless under a skort or shorts, are NOT allowed — Length of skirt, skort, and shorts MUST be long enough to not see your bottom area (even if covered by under shorts) at any time, standing or bent over....

But there are lies, and then there are lies. Hilfer assures me that Santa and the tooth fairy are not (necessarily) the stuff of future therapy sessions. Instead, they fuel kids’ imaginations and make holidays more magical. Children long to believe in these stories, and parents like me are only too happy to accommodate them. Coaxing children to lie in order to spare someone’s feelings—“tell Grandma you love the pair of socks she knitted for you even though they’re really scratchy”—is also perfectly acceptable, according to the pros....

“The two governing parties are presiding over a failed state. The coronavirus epidemic, the climate meltdown, inequality with declining working-class life expectancies and a nuclear arms race out of control with none of the candidates talking about it,” Hawkins, 67, who co-founded the U.S. Green Party in the 1990s, told Newsweek in an interview. “So, we need to go in another direction.” Jorgensen, 63, has voiced similar frustration. “There is an ugly two-headed monster ruling our country who is destroying our economy, invading our privacy, and eating away our rights,” a recent campaign email for the candidate said, taking aim at Republicans and Democrats....

I was in Khafji, about six miles from the Kuwaiti border, the day this fight began. It was a ghost town by the beach–many people had left on Aug. 2 when the Iraqi Army invaded Kuwait. It was also undefended, for good military reasons. If you’re a soldier and have a choice, you try to avoid the murderous street fighting you get in defending a town–you pull back, as the Marines did, to the open ground where your attackers have to expose themselves to come at you....

And just like that, Anthony Cirelli’s overtime tally sent the Lightning to the Stanley Cup Final. “Yeah, obviously it was a hell of a play by [Barclay Goodrow] to fake backhand and get that to me,” said Cirelli, who has been known to score overtime clinchers before — he clinched a Memorial Cup for Oshawa in 2015 and the J. Robertson Cup (OHL championship) for Erie in 2017 with them....

Early in Game 6 between the Lightning and Blackhawks, Stralman had a golden opportunity to open up the scoring off a great feed from Jonathan Drouin. MORE: Blackhawks establish dynasty | Must-see Stanley Cup Final photos | Get Blackhawks championship gear Unfortunately for Tampa Bay, Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane did not miss their shots, and the Blackhawks captured their third Stanley Cup in six years.

Both Florida and Tampa Bay generated plenty of chances in the period, but goalies Sergei Bobrovsky and Andrei Vasilevskiy were coming up with all the saves to keep the game knotted. But just when it was looking as if the game would go to overtime, the Lightning broke through. Nikita Kucherov found Ross Colton alone in front of the net, and Colton beat Bobrovsky for the eventual game-winner with just 3....

Lijnders began working as a coach at Anfield in 2014 and departed this January for NEC, where he was sacked after failing to guide the side to promotion to the Eredivisie. And on Tuesday the Reds confirmed that he would rejoin their staff ahead of the 2018-19 season. “Liverpool FC can confirm that Pepijn Lijnders has returned to take up a role in the club’s first-team coaching setup,” a statement released on the club’s official website revealed....

The 1985 season was the last time a true freshman quarterback (Oklahoma’s Jamelle Holieway) carried their team to a national title. Even then, he only came in for an injured Troy Aikman before leading the Sooners to an 11-1 record and an AP national title. MORE: Ranking the sport’s hottest rivalries The closest a team has come to replicating that feat was in 2013, when Florida State won the title with then-redshirt freshman Jameis Winston (plus nine future first- and second-round NFL Draft picks)....

Horn’s resignation comes following allegations that fellow co-founder John Weaver had sexually harassed young men online, according to a January 31 New York Times report. In a statement received by Newsweek explaining her departure, Horn cited the allegations against Weaver. “John Weaver’s grotesque and inappropriate behavior, coupled with his longstanding deceptions concerning that behavior, are sickening,” she said. “It is clear at this point that my views about how the Lincoln Project’s efforts are managed, and the best way to move the Lincoln Project forward into the future in the wake of these awful events, have diverged....

The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden would appear at the White House along with Jackson to deliver remarks about his decision to nominate the judge to serve as an associate justice on the nation’s highest court. While Graham was one of a few Republicans to vote for Jackson when she was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he is now expressing reservations,...