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No town wants this kind of notoriety–and Jasper, where the schools were integrated 30 years ago and where the mayor and several other elected officials are black, has reason to resent the media circus that’s come to town. Aside from the Byrd family, which is sitting stony-eyed behind the prosecution table, few local residents are attending the trial day by day. Jasper–the real Jasper, according to locals–can be found just across the square from the courthouse, where the Kiwanis Club was meeting for its weekly lunch while the trial unfolded....

If the news is real—negotiations on Afghanistan have a habit of falling apart—this would be a huge step forward for the millions of Afghans who have experienced constant conflict over the past 40 years. Yet for the United States, a deal with the Taliban is a double-edged sword. Thousands of U.S. troops will likely remain in Afghanistan even after an agreement with the Taliban is reached. Polls show the American people don’t want a partial withdrawal, but a final end to a chapter that should have been closed long ago....

Maybe not. But strange and wonderful things are happening beneath the Yorkshire Moors, where scientists are chasing some of the great riddles of the universe. A brisk 10-minute walk from the mineshaft lies the cavernous extension of the Boulby Underground Laboratory for Dark Matter Research, which opened last summer at a cost of [Pound sterling]3.1 million. In brilliantly lit rooms hewn out of the rock, sheltered from the interference of cosmic rays that constantly rain down on the sunlit world aboveground, scientists tend supersensitive experiments....

That horror movie, thankfully, has arrived. It’s called “The Orphanage,” and it is seriously scary. This little Spanish ghost movie—made by a gifted young filmmaker named Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro, the man behind last year’s Oscar-winning “Pan’s Labyrinth”—remixes many familiar horror-movie tropes: a haunted house that was once an orphanage, a sickly child with imaginary friends, a spiritualist contacting the dead, a grieving mother (played to the hilt by Bel?...

Palmer Luckey gave inspiration details about the design. He said the device was influenced by the Japanese novel series-turned-anime Sword Art Online, an online role-playing game where death in the game means death in the real world because of the killer, in which players are trapped in “NerveGear” headset they wear. Luckey first launched Oculus in 2012, then sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. During Luckey’s tenure at the helm, he created an alternative world, where users can work, play and meet people without leaving their home....

The rush-hour bus bombing killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more. It was only the latest atrocity by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which had killed a kidnapped army corporal in a shoot-out with Israeli commandos the week before. A day after the bus explosion, Hamas released a videotape showing a man it said was the suicide bomber, a 27-year-old West Bank Palestinian named Saleh Abdel Rahim al-Souwi....

In the 1960s, Irving Kristol acidly remarked that “it takes a Ph.D. in economics to be able to avoid understanding the obvious.” Now comes Matthew Rabin, and a bunch of other Ph.D.s in economics, using advanced mathematical computer models to prove–get hold of yourself–that the obvious is in fact true. Rabin demonstrated, indeed, that the answer to each of the rhetorical questions asked in the first paragraph of this article is “yes....

Pamela Harriman was equally relentless in every other sphere of her life. She craved money, love and finally power, and she got all three. She was not exceptionally brilliant; she rose to the top, and stayed there, by dint of determination. She had more setbacks than were apparent in her seemingly effortless rise–““from riches to riches,’’ as one of her friends once put it. But Harriman overcame them. She revised her life as she lived it, creating a mystique that captivated nearly everyone who met her....

Green was carted off the field on Saturday after sustaining the injury in practice, with reports suggesting the wide receiver had torn ankle ligaments and will be out for six to eight weeks. However, Taylor insisted the Bengals have yet to be given a timeline and refused to make any prediction as to whether he will be available for Cincinnati’s regular season opener at the Seattle Seahawks on September 8....

Rahul is currently Rohit Sharma’s deputy across all three formats of the game. Questions have been raised about his captaincy credentials and quite a few experts believe that either Pant or Hardik Pandya should be given the reins of the Indian side in the future. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra first reflected on the captaincy styles of Rohit, Virat Kohli and Hardik. He had the following to say about some of the other Indian players who have led either internationally or in the Indian Premier League (IPL):...

The show, which premieres Jan. 15, promises in its preview to “discover the stories” and “discover the secrets” behind Hernandez’s downfall. But how much new information will be unearthed on a topic that has already been subject to intense investigative reporting? The Boston Globe produced a six-part digital feature story series and podcast about Hernandez last year. And other outlets, such as CBS and The New York Times, have delivered their own thorough coverage....

Slugger Aaron Judge has been placed on the 10-day injury list with a left oblique strain, the team announced Sunday. Manager Aaron Boone told reporters Sunday there is no timetable for Judge’s return, but called the strain “pretty significant.” MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Judge appeared to injure himself Saturday in the Yankees 9-2 win over the Royals when he was at-bat in the sixth inning....

But Bengals defensive end Carl Lawson did just that Monday on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football,” saying the seven-time Pro Bowl quarterback is “easier” to sack than other quarterbacks. “Honestly, I think it’s easier to sack Aaron Rodgers than most quarterbacks,” Lawson said (via NFL Media). “He sits there, and he pats the ball. At the same time, sacking him don’t mean nothing if you don’t do it for four quarters....

Question: Who is Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers? Now, he’s making more off-field news. But first, here’s the back story. Hours before the 2021 NFL Draft began on April 29, news broke that Rodgers was unhappy in Green Bay and wanted to play for another team. And minutes before the draft, it was reported that a deal between the Packers and Denver Broncos was “as close to a done deal as it can get....

Green Bay traded up to select Utah State quarterback Jordan Love with the 26th pick in the draft. Rodgers had wanted another skill-position weapon in what was considered a deep receiver class and wasn’t exactly happy with the selection of Love. “I think the general reaction at first was surprise, like many people,” Rodgers said of the Love selection. “Obviously I’m not going to say that I was, you know, thrilled by the pick necessarily, but the organization is thinking not only about the present but about the future....

“This off-season, the Packers offered Aaron Rodgers a two-year contract extension that would have tied him to Green Bay for five more seasons and made him the highest-paid QB and player in football,” ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. “Rodgers declined the offer, proof it’s not about the money.” Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes became the highest-paid NFL player in 2020 when he signed a 10-year extension worth $503 million....

Dr. Pat McKenzie has not yet medically cleared Rodgers to play Sunday against the Steelers. But with time running out on the regular season, Rodgers appears more inclined to force the issue—whether he wins or not. MORE: Power rankings | IYER: Fire Schwartz | Garvin hit illegal “I think there has to be on some level a risk-reward conversation,” Rodgers said on his weekly radio show on ESPNMilwaukee, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel....