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The answer is: please, spare us a boom. All we’ve learned about government economic policy since the 1960s ought to reconcile us to a modest recovery-even one that’s called “sluggish.” Gradual recovery will bring enduring benefits. It will muffle inflation and force companies to become more productive. Artificial efforts to accelerate economic growth (through low interest rates, tax cuts or more government spending) have usually ended badly. They’ve ultimately raised inflation and spawned wasteful investment....

PnB Rock, real name Rakim Hasheem Allen, died aged 30 on September 12 after being shot “multiple times” while he and Sibounheuang visited a Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). “The victim was eating at a table when he was approached by one suspect,” said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman. The armed “suspect demanded items” from PnB Rock before firing multiple shots....

In adults, symptoms can be similar to a cold, progressing to a fever, chest pain, muscle aches, shortness of breath, chills, and a productive cough, though some people may first only experience fever and malaise. Frequent Symptoms In young children, pneumonia can be difficult to spot because the most common symptoms often differ from those in adults. Pneumonia may also be harder to spot in adults who are over the age of 65 because they tend to have fewer symptoms than younger adults....

Wenger: Arsenal don’t need Payet City formally announced their acquisition of the 19-year-old Brazil forward on Thursday, having signed him from Palmeiras last August before Jesus concluded a title-winning campaign in his homeland. On the back of last weekend’s chastening 4-0 loss at Everton, Jesus could provide a much-needed boost for Pep Guardiola’s men, who are fifth in the table and three points behind Pochettino’s in-form Spurs in second....

Man City target Mendy is world’s best crosser After winning the Community Shield at the start of the season, United lifted the EFL Cup and Europa League in Pogba’s first season back at United after signing from Juventus in a world-record transfer. It was not all positive for Mourinho’s men, as they struggled to a sixth-place Premier League finish and had to cope with major injury problems towards the end of the season....

Man Utd beat Arsenal & Chelsea to signing of Ajax wonderkid The 23-year-old moved back to Old Trafford for a world-record fee during the summer, four years after leaving for Juventus for a nominal fee after struggling to break into the first team under Sir Alex Ferguson. “I have United in my heart,” he told Sky Sports. “It’s my house. When I left I always knew that I would come back....

The Red Devils players brought presents to the children at hospitals across Manchester, with Pogba, Ibrahimovic and most of the senior squad visiting Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Man Utd set to sign €45m Lindelof Pogba revealed that he was glad to be able to make some children’s wishes come true as United spread Christmas cheer at RMCH. “Today we are just trying to make the kids smile and make them happy because they are having a hard time,” Pogba told the club’s official website....

Yes, to Lanier, subsuming one’s identity into an electronically aggregated mass (even by such innocent acts as tweaking a Wikipedia item or giving a rating to a comment on the Slashdot discussion board) is akin to the rabidly destructive mob fervor seen in China during the chairman’s rule. “If you look at the history of youth cultural movements, they tend to go one of two ways,” he explains. “One is in the direction of individual expression and creativity; the best example is the ’60s....

“We were more than a bit surprised by what we discovered,” IDFG conservation officer Charlie Justus said in a statement. Great Basin rattlesnakes, native to Idaho, and exotic species from southeast Asia, Africa and Central and South America were found to be in the possession of a 25-year-old man after police obtained a search warrant for his home on September 5, according to the IDFG, Boise’s KTVB reported. The dozens of snakes included an Indian cobra, Indochina spitting cobra, a flat-nosed pit viper, two Vogel’s pit vipers, two Cape Coral cobras, two hog-nosed pit vipers, a green bush viper, a zebra spitting cobra, two monocled cobras and a massasauga rattlesnake, the IDFG confirmed....

Manziel was not arrested, but the police are still looking into the matter, CBS News reported. MORE: 11 Johnny Manziel incidents | ‘I don’t know why anybody would want (Manziel)’ The Fort Worth Police Department issued a press release regarding the incident. At approximately 2 a.m. on January 30, 2016, patrol officers were dispatched to 2101 Park Hill Drive (The Berkley Apartments) in reference to a report of a possible assault....

Delray Beach Police Chief Javaro Sims said in a video on Facebook that an ice cream truck was something he’d been “contemplating for quite some time.” “The goal is to look for creative and innovative ways to engage our community,” said Sims. “We must continue to find ways to break down those invisible barriers that we deal with on a daily basis within our communities.” Sims believes that ice cream truck music is something that excites both children and adults alike, making the vehicle a great source for connection....

Social justice demonstrators gathered with placards and banners along the streets in University Circle ahead of the presidential debate on Tuesday. Footage from the event captured two vehicles driving past, marked as belonging to the city of Shaker Heights and carrying up to a dozen armed officers. The officers are accompanied by a darkened police van where the driver can allegedly be seen holding his middle finger out the window in footage and still images obtained by Cleveland....

Police were on “high alert” regarding protesters’ apparent plan to march from a local park to the stadium. Citing a “source,” ESPN’s Steve Eaves said police were aware of the situation and gearing up for the protestors. MORE: Why NFL couldn’t move game “Police were notified last night there may be an attempt by protesters to disrupt today’s event … They will come down to stadium and try to block entrances on all angles for players, officials and some of the fans....

Pictures posted on social media show a man and a woman stood in front of the Council Overhang cavern in Starved Rock Park over the Labor Day holiday. The pair are stood next to a black “B+K” in a love heart which has been scrawled onto the ancient rocks. The image was posted onto Facebook by Starved Rock and Mathiessen State Parks in a bid to help find the culprits....

Lindsey Beshai Torres recently filed the lawsuit against the city of Worcester and the two officers involved in the incident on September 2017, news website MassLive reported. The lawsuit alleges the officers, identified as John Alers and Paul McCarthy, used excessive force and lied in their reports about what occurred. According to MassLive, the lawsuit says that Beshai Torres had been driving her children to school when her son, identified only as JT, got angry and threw a plastic drink bottle at the dashboard....

Body camera footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows several officers running to the car as fire breaks out around it and the driver flees the scene. Police broke the rear window, and pulled a duffle bag from the back of the car and opened it to reveal a woman inside. “A duffle bag was removed from inside the vehicle containing a female immigrant concealed inside a duffle bag,” police said in a second tweet....

The National Fraternal Order of Police, one of the country’s largest law enforcement unions, recently wrote a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell requesting that the league lift a 2013 policy that prevents concealed carry at games, citing an imminent threat of terrorism in light of recent attacks in Paris. MORE: Best photos from Week 12 in the NFL | Kirk Cousins’ rise comes at RGIII’s expense “Today, I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to urge you to rescind this policy, which weakens the safety and security of NFL players, personnel and fans,” union president Chuck Canterbury wrote in the letter dated Nov....

Baker’s executive order, which was issued in August, required all state employees not claiming a medical or religious exemption to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 17. It prompted backlash from several unions, and the one representing troopers from the Massachusetts State Police has argued the governor has to negotiate terms with the union that should include the option for troopers to wear a mask and undergo weekly testing....

When the radio alarm clock buzzes every morning at 6:55 a.m., and the news snaps on, my wife, kids and I have two only questions as we surface from sleep. Did they catch the sniper? Did he shoot anybody else? I know that any family in any poverty-stricken neighborhood of any American inner city is in greater danger–and always has been–than we are in these tense days. Still, it’s a shame that any kid has to lose what little is left of his or her carefree innocence in a culture that robs them of all too much of it to begin with....

She’s in good company. Last year Global Exchange alone took about 2,500 travelers on two-week jaunts to global political hot spots. Other advocacy, educational and religious organizations stage similar politically oriented trips. Over the past year and a half, such groups report a huge rise in interest. Global Exchange leads small groups of about 15 through troubled regions in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Haiti, Cuba, Ireland, Iran and South Africa....