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The England international moved to Old Trafford in January 2010. He has won the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Europa League and Community Shield while with United, and the 27-year-old lies one appearance short of 250 for the club. Selecting a side made up of colleagues proved to be a tough task, with there a deep talent pool available from which to select. Eventually, Smalling was able to draw up a star-studded selection for United’s official website....

The Red Devils have once again faced accusations of being overly cautious in 2017-18 , with Jose Mourinho’s methods considered to stand in stark contrast to those deployed elsewhere. While the Portuguese has built his reputation on being difficult to break down and collecting wins by any means possible, the likes of Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have flourished while favouring a more attacking approach at Liverpool and Manchester City....

That busy schedule has not held him back from keeping up his style, though, as he returns with a cool new haircut. The Manchester United star showed off his new do on Instagram, complete with Chinese characters shaved into his head. With red streaks and another design around the side, the 24-year-old celebrated his China-inspired cut with a paper fan with “Pogboom” written on it and posted the image with the hashtag “#PogChina”....

Student government used to be a gentler world, home to clean-scrubbed kids engaged in harmless resume-building. They’d lobby on behalf of their classmates for more parking, lower tuition and better cafeteria food. At Harvard, the council was once so boring that even Al Gore couldn’t stand it, quitting after just a year. The issues haven’t changed, but lately the tactics have. On campuses from coast to coast, elections now look like the food fight in “Animal House....

“Some of those forces [are] within 200 miles of the Polish border,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said during a press conference Friday. The planned deal would include 250 Abrams main battle tanks, 250 short-range jamming systems, 26 combat recovery vehicles, almost 800 machine guns and more, a press release from the U.S. State Department said. While Ukraine is facing the most immediate threat, Poland is part of NATO and a top U....

“It appears Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random," Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said, via the Dallas Morning News. “Absolutely random. He just attacked him. … It’s just very unusual. It’s quite shocking.” MORE: Most heinous crimes connected to athletes Police said Johnson, 21, was angry about his life after being kicked out of his home. He used a “large-edged weapon” to hack the unidentified victim, police said, then called 911 after the attack and admitted to the crime....

The photo, posted to Facebook last week by the Thrall Police Department (TPD), has garnered 13,000 likes and hundreds of critical comments slamming the “disgusting” post. About Kyle Rittenhouse In August 2020, then 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse traveled from his home near Antioch, Illinois, to attend a protest that erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after a Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot and injured by a white police officer. While at the protest, Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz....

Court papers filed online Monday say agents with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force found 112 grams of marijuana and the money Oct. 7 in the room of reserve tight end Kurt Freitag. The filings indicate agents witnessed and recorded a drug transaction involving Freitag, who had been identified by a confidential informant. Tuscaloosa County District Attorney Lyn Head filed a request to have the $4,661 forfeited to the state....

A deputy from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a murder suspect on the top of a parking building, MPR News reported. The sheriff’s office is expected to release more information about the incident on Thursday evening. Area witnesses heard 10 to 15 gunshots possibly connected to the shooting, KARE reported. Police reportedly apprehended a woman at the scene after the shooting, but it’s unclear who she is, according to local crime site MN Crime....

The pig, named “Oinker,” was located by police in Bond Hill on Wednesday afternoon after they responded to a call about the animal wandering around. When they arrived at the scene, two officers found Oinker near an apartment block. Naturally, a chase ensued. Bodycam footage posted to the Cincinnati Police Department’s Twitter account showed how the officers attempt to corral the pig several times using some sort of lasso....

In congress and in Washington consultants’ offices, Democrats think that the Bush energy plan, which the administration will unveil Thursday, is a huge political winner-for them. They believe that its heavy emphasis on production and distribution makes the populist case most Democrats yearn to make: that Republicans in general, and the Bush family in particular, care only about doing the bidding of Big Business, particularly Big Oil. “The energy issue leads to the broader-values issue,” Democratic media consultant Tad Devine told me....

From leadership to openness. Is it any wonder that Connecticut, like so many states, is practically broke? Even the leadership doesn’t believe in leadership anymore. In “The United States of Ambition” (309 pages. Times. $23), Alan Ehrenhalt, executive editor of Governing magazine, provides a bracing and original explanation of how American politics has soured in the last 20 years. His focus is not on issues or voters but on the bright, ambitious men and women who replaced the part-timers and made polities their profession....

The video was posted to Twitter on Wednesday morning by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the bombing an “atrocity.” So far, it has amassed nearly 2 million views and over 80,000 likes. “Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity!” tweeted Zelensky. “How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings!...

NEWSWEEK: Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed want a moratorium in place. How surprising is that? Richard Dieter: It is counterintuitive, given that the majority of people support the death penalty nationally [65 percent according to a 2006 Gallup poll]. But even in the South, where most executions occur, there is a willingness to stop executions. If you’re concerned about killing innocent people, you want something done. [According to DPIC research], 62 percent support a death penalty [as long as it is administered fairly and the innocent are adequately protected]....

Meanwhile, the NEWSWEEK Poll found that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has emerged as the top choice among Iowa’s GOP voters—well ahead of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads in most national polls. But Romney’s religious beliefs could pose a problem; less than half of all Republicans in the state (45 percent) think the country is ready to elect a Mormon president (35 percent do not). With less than four months to go before the caucuses, both races still appear quite fluid....

From USA Today: “Only 32% think the NFL will have a season and just 24% think college football will be played, according to data released by The Harris Poll, which said it surveyed 1,970 U.S. adults last weekend.” MORE: Why NFL preseason games are being canceled in 2020 The poll shows Americans aren’t feeling optimistic about the ability of any sports leagues to play during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis....

Fifty-two percent of respondents said they’d vote for Tlaib, while 24 percent favored Jones. The remaining 23 percent said they were undecided. The poll, which was conducted by Target-Insyght, surveyed 500 registered voters across Michigan from July 20 to 22. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Tuesday’s primary marks the second time Jones and Tlaib have faced off against each other. During the 2018 midterm elections, Tlaib won a six-way primary race by less than 1,000 votes, and Jones finished second....

A poll conducted by Schoen-Cooperman Research from December 2 to 9 found the GOP leading Democrats in the midterms by 48 percent to 45 percent and this apparent trend is reflected in other recent surveys. The Schoen-Cooperman Research poll also found that 53 percent of voters said that Biden “hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems,” while just 38 percent said he had the right priorities....

However, if you have polycythemia vera, it is important that you understand that many serious complications can be exacerbated by certain foods. You need to consider dietary issues to make sure that you eat in a way that helps minimize your risk of polycythemia vera complications. Benefits If you have polycythemia vera, you are prone to having excess red blood cells circulating in your body throughout your life. This can cause low energy, tiredness, stomach ulcers, gout, and kidney stones....