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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has been keeping his cards typically close to his chest during the January transfer window so far, insisting that the Gunners will be doing no business unless “something exceptional turns up.” However such remarks have done nothing to slow the rumours linking players to the club, the strongest of which have suggested that Schalke winger Julian Draxler could be a target for the club. Is he the “something exceptional” that Wenger talks of?...

The former AC Milan coach has been out of the game since leaving Bayern Munich last September, but he replaced Maurizio Sarri on Wednesday after Napoli were beaten to the Scudetto by Juventus. Ancelotti, who won the Serie A title once as Milan coach, is hopeful that his “knowledge and experience” can help Napoli topple seven-time defending champions Juve. “I’m very happy to return to my country and to one of the greatest teams in Italy,” he said in a statement on his official website....

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is confident that star player Cristiano Ronaldo will renew his contract with the club when the team returns to Spain. Madrid are currently in Miami, Florida to face Chelsea, now coached by former coach Jose Mourinho, while Ronaldo’s continuity, as well as the possible signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham, continue to occupy the Real Madrid agenda. A new deal for Ronaldo appears to be on the cards, despite the player himself playing down any rumours earlier in the week, reports Xinhua....

That’s according to a new report released Thursday by the Brennan Center for Justice, a bipartisan law and public policy institute at New York University Law School. The center found that as of March 24, lawmakers in 47 states had introduced 361 bills that included provisions to limit voting access. The number of bills had increased 43 percent since the organization’s last tally on February 19, 2021. “Most restrictive bills take aim at absentee voting, while nearly a quarter seek stricter voter ID requirements,” the report read....

What’s your cartoon about? It’s about a Girl Scout who wants to be a superhero. It’s airing the day after the “Baby Mama” premiere, so I’m going to get up early the next morning and eat cereal in my pajamas while watching my cartoon. Is the show autobiographical? No. Well, she’s kinda bossy and a motormouth, so it’s somewhat autobiographical. What cereal are you going to have? Right now I’m down with Honey Nut Cheerios because that’s what Omar eats on “The Wire....

The perfect accompaniment to the recent Oscar-nominated movie Being the Ricardos, Poehler directs the documentary that tells the story of how Ball and Arnaz met and formed one of the most powerful partnerships in television history. It’s available to watch from Friday, March 4. Ahead of its launch, Poehler spoke to Newsweek about how I Love Lucy shaped television today, why Desi was underappreciated and why she hopes the “robots are kind” when they direct her documentary in 50 years....

The plaques in Alzheimer’s brains consist mostly of an abnormal peptide, or protein fragment, called beta amyloid. This peptide is part of a longer protein called APP (amyloid precursor protein), which abounds in normal brain cells (chart). How does the harmless APP break apart to create the toxic fragment? Researchers deduced more than a decade ago that a pair of protease enzymes–think of them as molecular scissors–were clipping the APP molecule at two locations, which were dubbed the “beta” and “gamma” sites....

Now cottage industries have grown up around the impossibility of any of that: specialized learning centers to supplement schools, special loan programs at usurious rates to supplement college grants, companies that will throw up instant walls to turn a one-bedroom apartment into a place where three people can coexist. There’s an honorable tradition of starving students; it’s just that, between the outsourcing of jobs and a boom market in real estate, your generation envisions becoming starving adults....

Last summer, Kojima revealed that a big project he was working on fell apart. Though there wasn’t any concrete information on what this rumored project was, a recent report suggested that the project could have been an episodic horror game for Stadia. Earlier this year, Google announced that it’s closing its first-party game development studios, which had over 150 employees. Google’s sudden change of heart to not bring exclusive titles to its streaming platform might have affected Kojima’s project as well....

Bent is a 37-year-old striker who made 215 English Premier League appearances, including with Leicester City and Everton. His professional career ended in 2012. Last fall, he ran into some trouble; by his own account, he did “two or three lines” cocaine, became extremely paranoid, thought he heard someone in his home, called the police and then, naturally, freaked out on the police when they showed up. There was no intruder....

In the two decades that have passed since those dramatic events, lucidly chronicled in Benjamin Weiser’s new book, “A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country” (383 pages. Public Affairs), Kuklinski’s name has become, in Poland, a byword for the country’s continued confusion about its communist past. The former American national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski once tried to describe the uncertainty that Poles still feel about the years when their country, nominally independent, was in fact a part of the Soviet empire: “Was it an authentic Polish state or an imposed satellite?...

Et Tu, Stephanopoulos? It’s one thing for George Stephanopoulos to leave his job as a White House adviser because of stress and loss of trust in the president (“What I Saw,” National Affairs, March 15). It’s another for him then to make his living as a commentator, writing and speaking from a position of moral rectitude. The culmination is his new book, which you excerpted. Clinton’s repeated failings are apparently the result of personal weaknesses....

David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle graced our team in the late eighties and early nineties, winning two titles and a League Cup under George Graham. Whenever the ill-informed recall this side as ‘boring’ and functional, I always remind them that we lost one game in the whole 1991 season, scoring a hatful of goals in the process and had in the team one of the most graceful and skillful midfielders of his era in Rocky....

Desktop publishing is a term coined after the development of a specific type of software. It’s about using that software to combine and rearrange text and images and creating digital files for print, online viewing, or websites. Before the invention of desktop publishing software, the tasks involved in desktop publishing were done manually by people who specialized in graphic design, typesetting, and prepress tasks. Things You Can Do With Desktop Publishing With desktop publishing software and hardware you can:...

Iterators and generators are two different concepts, but they’re used in similar ways. They’re used to iterate through arrays and objects in JavaScript. Iterators Iterators are like advanced loops that can be paused. Iterators consist of the next() function, which returns the value and the done status. The value field is the value in the array at a given index. done is the boolean value that returns the status of completion for the iteration through the loop....

How long should we strive? Who is going to help us here at this critical stage, apart from God? It is too much. Iraqi security forces all over the country and specifically in Baghdad have done their best to crack down on violence. However, what they are doing is like a tug of war. They tighten their grip some of the time against the militias and Qaeda, but let it go or unleash it most of the time....

In 1946, when Nolan began these 27 Ned Kelly paintings, he was a journeyman painter who’d worked as a commercial artist in Melbourne in the 1930s. Nolan had always considered himself an avant-gardist, which, in those days in Australia, meant knowing who Picasso was. He was still searching for a way to make distinctly Australian modern art when he recalled the tales of Kelly he’d heard from his grandfather, one of the policemen who’d pursued the outlaw....

Since her semifinal appearance at the French Open, the world No. 7 has only won five matches on the WTA Tour, and Monday’s 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 defeat at the hands of Dominika Cibulkova is another major disappointment. MORE: Scenes from the 2015 U.S. Open | Serena Williams begins Grand Slam assault Her first-round major exit is the second of 2015 after suffering the same fate at the Australian Open. She was beaten in round two at Wimbledon....

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey doesn’t hold the player’s hand, which can lead to difficulty in learning the game’s systems, like combat. But with a few tips, players will find themselves evolving in no time. RELATED: Assassins Creed: 10 Wisest Altair Quotes The player character in Ancestors can dodge attacks, which comes in handy when going up against dangerous predators. But it doesn’t work as swiftly as most action games. To dodge, players must plan ahead, hold down the dodge button, and wait for an audio cue....

Among Us became so popular that the developers scrapped the idea of a sequel and are investing all their effort and skill into making the original better. There are many tweaks required here and there, given that the code is really old, but the team is working on them. Here are some features that we would like to see in Among Us #1: Friend/Account System The first feature we’re looking forward to is the friend/account system....