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Doug Kiker was taken into custody in Mobile on Thursday after a woman called 911, TMZ reported. The 28-year-old was being held on a $1,000 bond for misdemeanor domestic violence (harassment), according to the website. Few details are known about what transpired, or what the woman’s relationship is to Kiker. Online records show Kiker is no longer in custody. The sheriff’s office and Kiker have been contacted for comment....

The five teams of baseball’s supposedly best division have combined to be outscored by 32 runs, the worst run differential of any division in baseball — the National League East is next worst at minus-16 (Note: All stats are through Tuesday's games) . The only AL East team with a positive differential is the Blue Jays, at plus-13, and Toronto is only 20-20 because its pitching staff has allowed 183 runs, tied for sixth most in baseball with the Rays, and one spot “behind” the Yankees....

Julian Green was the headliner of choice for the assembled media, and with so little known about the national team newcomer, there was a clear desire to get to know the Bayern Munich starlet. Jurgen Klinsmann chose to keep Green shielded from the growing buzz about his national team inclusion, so the 18-year-old was kept away from media availability on Monday, and won’t be speaking to the media until after Wednesday’s friendly, when he will presumably make his national team debut....

When asked about Omicron, 58 percent of those polled said they are very concerned, or somewhat concerned about the new variant, while 42 percent said they were not very, or at all concerned. In comparison, in July of 2021, a CBS News/YouGov poll found that 62 percent of Americans were concerned about the Delta variant, which had made up more than 80 percent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. by that month....

The day after President Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration in Washington D.C., the same poll found only 20 percent of Americans agreed that the U.S. was “headed in the right direction.” But that share improved to about 40 percent among 1,000 adults surveyed between April 17-20. But owing to lingering partisan divides, the president only had a very slight decrease of Americans who view him “very negatively.” Historically, the NBC News poll hadn’t recorded higher than 35 percent of Americans saying the country is going the right direction since March 20—data that was recorded just prior to the full coronavirus outbreak in the United States....

Of that $4.2 billion, $4.1 billion is expected to be illegally placed bets. MORE: Super Bowl 50 quiz | Odds updates Super Bowl betting will be up by 8 percent in the legal market, while the illegal market will balloon times 35. The total amount of money the AGA estimated people would bet on last year’s Super Bowl was $3.8 billion. “As Americans celebrate a milestone Super Bowl, they’ll also bet a record amount on the big game,” Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the AGA, said....

Chris Cuomo is on a week-long break from his CNN talk show, Cuomo Prime Time, on what he has described as a scheduled vacation coinciding with his birthday. He turned 51 on Monday. But the break also happened to come as his elder brother faced widespread calls to resign after a report released by the New York State attorney general concluded the governor had sexually harassed 11 women. Andrew Cuomo has denied wrongdoing, but announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying “given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing, and therefore, that’s what I’ll do....

“The first time I heard that was from Mr. Jones last season. He said there was a tape of me that might get out,” Bryant said, via the Dallas Morning News, which recieved an advance copy of the magazine. MORE: Jerry Jones’ best and worst moments as Cowboys owner | Concussion experts decry Russell Wilson’s ‘Recovery’ water claim The rumor was first brought up by Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio and then other media members said they heard rumblings as well....

The president has frequently tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, throughout his time in office. His latest comments about the health care reform law came as the country continues to struggle with a surge in coronavirus cases and with less than two weeks remaining until Election Day. In the clip from the interview, which was conducted earlier this week, 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl is starting to pose a question about the Supreme Court and Obamacare when Trump interrupts and says, “We’ll have to see what happens....

Left-arm quick Amir went off with what Mahmood said was a recurrence of a “chronic” left knee injury after a brief spell in Test debutants Ireland’s second innings after Pakistan enforced the follow-on on Sunday. It was a frustrating end to the day for Amir, with the 25-year-old having both Ed Joyce (39 not out) and captain William Porterfield (23 not out) dropped off his bowling in that 3.2 over burst before the openers took Ireland to 64 without loss at the close – still 116 runs behind Pakistan’s 310 for nine declared....

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Some examples of these changes can already be seen through various pieces of media. On the game’s website, players can check out Lost Ark’s class customization system. They’ll notice that the woman brandishing the example martial artist class is now Black, and many others now have varying skin tones as well, making Smilegate’s MMO less homogeneous. Additionally, the NPC Federico’s design has changed to feature a darker skin tone and a beard, shown in the Reddit post above....

No TV character could ever get away with talking like that in our politically correct times. In fact, when “All in the Family” debuted in 1971, CBS was nervous enough that it ran a viewers’ advisory. But in the hands of actor Carroll O’Connor, America not only accepted Archie, it adored him. O’Connor, who died of a heart attack last week at 76, took what could have been a monster of a man and somehow made him sympathetic and even lovable....

By 2050, the United Nations says, we’re going to need 70 percent more food to feed the nine billion people living on Earth. Global climate change threatens to upend their lives—worsening storms, droughts, heat waves and crop diseases. What kind of a world will we leave to our grandchildren? Sara Menker says the problem may be even more urgent than the U.N. suggests. In 2017, she gave a TED talk in which she said a “tipping point,” beyond which global food markets become too overwhelmed to function effectively, could come in just a few years....

The great debate over how ignorant we all are and who we can blame for it began in earnest in August, when three really fat teenage girls–how fat? Well, one of them stands a mere 5'9" and tips the scales of justice at 270 pounds–sued McDonald’s on the grounds that the fast-food giant’s high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium food made them obese. This lawsuit, which is still percolating in the New York City court system, followed another suit against McDonald’s, this time by a really, really fat 56-year-old man who blamed the burger maker–as well as co-defendants Wendy’s, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken–for making him obese, diabetic and possessed of a blood pressure that could levitate a small car....

American Girl has very recently released a brand new accessory for its dolls, which is a fully equipped and somewhat operational Xbox gaming set. According to the American Girl website, “dolls can [now] get ready to play—and win—in tournaments with friends” on their new Xbox gaming sets. The pretend gaming set includes a pretend Xbox One S game console that projects 10 different gaming scenes, an Xbox One S controller that dolls can really hold, and a comfy purple faux-leather game chair with a built in speaker on its side....

But what bothered me most about the finale was the inconsistency regarding the closeness of the race. First, host Ryan Seacrest said we were “a country divided,” and explained that of the 24 million votes that had been received the night before, only 13,000 separated the two finalists. As if that weren’t already a little far-fetched, later in the evening, Ryan corrected himself, blaming a “drunk” accountant, saying there were actually only 1,300 votes between the guys....

The number of people who told me today they turned off the debate after 15 or 20 minutes was sobering. This debate was so bad it justifies asking how we can approach the next three debates from a totally different perspective. The anecdotal unhappiness and dissatisfaction I have been picking up from a wide range of people was captured by Ben Domenech, who wrote in The Transom, “America got what it wanted and it was terrible....

Smart plugs exist to talk to your smart home devices like lights and thermostats. Without them, you can’t properly set up a home network of stuff. They let you link all your smart products together and in the case of the Echo Flex, even have Alexa built in. The tiny mic and speaker on the Flex will be no match for full fat Echo speakers, but if you have smart lights for instance in a room where there’s no Echo device then it’s a small expense to pay to get voice command functionality in that room....

JBL is an audio device manufacturer from Los Angeles, California, which was originally founded in 1946. The company is among the veterans of the field and has been at the forefront of audio design for decades. The Samsung-owned audio company develops, designs, and manufactures all sorts of audio devices. While the company is more known for its work on traditional and modern portable speakers, they also have various product lines in headphones and headsets....