Microsoft owns Bing, and naturally, Wilson — a TED Talk on branding that has assumed human form — is paid to push Microsoft stuff. Here’s an ad he was in for the Surface Pro tablet. MORE: Ranking every Super Bowl champion Great. At least that’s funny; WIlson isn’t out there saying using Bing instead of Google prevents concussions. Yet.
The Seahawks quarterback has pleaded for the three-time Pro Bowler to return to Seattle on more than one occasion, most recently on Thursday while answering fans’ questions on his Instagram page. One such question asked if he could “talk some sense” into Clowney. His response was equal parts endearing and hilarious: MORE: 10 best available free agents still unsigned in 2020 Clowney, a former No. 1 overall pick, surely has several options and suitors as he weighs his free agency options....
He does such wonderful things, yet sometimes almost too wonderful, if that is possible. MORE: Contender or pretender? | Week 3 power rankings | Did Rodgers take a jab at Wilson? | Graham not happy Take his Tuesday afternoon for example. Following the Seahawks’ second loss of the season, Wilson spent his downtime visiting some special people at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. At one point, a young girl asked Wilson to be her godfather, and the Seahawks’ quarterback happily obliged....
Wilson has completed 71 percent of his passes while throwing for 630 yards and five touchdowns with zero interceptions over the last two weeks. He’s led the Seahawks (6-2-1) to wins over the Bills and Patriots and even had his first rushing touchdown this season in the 31-25 win over Buffalo. Wilson and the Seahawks will look to stay hot Sunday against the visiting Eagles (5-4) and their sixth-ranked defense....
The missiles were destroyed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, comprising the air and space branches of its armed forces, in a strike on a Ukrainian ammunition depot on July 24, according to the Russian state-controlled news site RT, which cited a Wednesday report from Russia’s defense ministry. The ammo depot was located near a settlement called Lyubimovka in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region. In addition to the HIMARS rockets, Russia’s defense ministry purportedly said that up to 120 Ukrainian troops guarding the depot, technical specialists and what RT described as “foreign mercenaries” were killed in the attack....
The issue is set to be debated Tuesday at the United Nations, and, as rival arguments are prepared, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov addressed the people of the U.S. directly. “We urge the American public to reflect on this question,” Antonov said. “Is this price too high to settle political scores with us?” Russian officials have attributed such plans to Ukraine since the beginning of the war, with Konstantin Gavrilov, who leads Russia’s arms control delegation in Vienna, asserting in March that an alleged Ukrainian “dirty bomb” plot served as one of the reasons Moscow launched its “special military operation” against the neighboring nation less than a month earlier....
This is not to say that Europe is an enemy of the United States or a serious geopolitical competitor. While Europeans like to complain about the vulgarity of American culture, they consume it constantly, en-masse, and relations between the two continents are defined more by a sense of mutual friendship then animosity. Yet underneath the friendly banter, a real geopolitical problem has blossomed, one that is becoming ever more apparent, though Europeans are too proud and the U....
The mountains above the Black Sea resort city are full of weekend skiers, with nearly a million visitors making the trip each winter. That’s quite a change for a country used to thinking of skiing in terms of grueling cross-country marathons, not exhilarating Alpine speed. “People who aren’t interested in Alpine skiing come to see (the Olympic sites) and tick it off their list, then they see it and put some skis on,” Anastasia Popkova, the coach of the Russian women’s ski team, told The Associated Press....
The committee said in a statement the case was launched after a request for legal assistance by a court in Paris. According to the request from the French court, Russian athletics officials allowed violations of anti-doping rules, the statement said. Russian sport has been rocked in recent months by allegations of a state-sponsored doping scandal. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov) 0 votes
Speaking on the state-controlled television Channel 1 on Sunday, television host Vladimir Solovyov said that Russia was only using 18 percent of its army in Ukraine and its military was fighting at “a peacetime” size so it was ready for “a direct confrontation” with the international military alliance if necessary. Andrey Gurulyov, State Duma deputy and former deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district, who was also speaking on the show, boasted that Russia’s nuclear capability meant it can “liquidate all means of an attack that threaten the territory of Russia....
The governing body of world athletics has said it will uphold Russia’s ban from track and field events over mass doping until such a reinstatement takes place. “My forecast is negative,” RUSADA director-general Yury Ganus told a press conference in Moscow regarding the chances of readmission when the WADA executive committee meets on September 20. Ganus, who was appointed RUSADA chief last year, said WADA was under “huge pressure, including political pressure”....
The claims by the publication come on the heels of separate audio released by Ukraine’s Security Service, which although not independently verified, purportedly also shows Russian troops getting orders to kill civilians. The US and European Union have linked Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to the Wagner Group, which has been accused of committing war crimes and human-rights abuses in Syria in 2015. Global outrage greeted scenes of dead civilians discovered after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Bucha....
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a United States think tank, said in its daily update of the war on Sunday that Russian forces are placing dragon’s teeth anti-tank defenses in the city. The development was first announced by Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov on his Telegram channel. “[They] are placing concrete cones in the very center of Melitopol, which is still occupied, for the second day already,” Fedorov wrote, according to an English translation....
In an interview, Sergei Naryshkin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, suggested that Russia lacked the wherewithal to conduct the attack that infiltrated nine U.S. federal agencies. Microsoft President Brad Smith described the hack identified in December 2020, which the Biden administration has blamed on Moscow, as “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen”. When asked if his agency had carried out the hack, Naryshkin told the BBC, “I’d be flattered to hear such an assessment of the work of the foreign intelligence service which I run....
“Some ecstatic, bloody clowns, who pop up there with some statements now and then, are trying to threaten us, I mean attacks on Crimea and so on,” Medvedev told a group of WWII veterans in Volgograd. “Should anything of the kind happen, they will be faced with a doomsday, very quick and tough, immediately. There will be no avoiding it,” Medvedev continued. “But they keep on provoking the general situation by such statements....
The conflict, ordered in late February by Russian President Vladimir Putin, continues raging on in the Eastern European country. In light of the invasion, many world leaders have condemned Putin for lacking a justification for the conflict and violating Ukraine’s sovereignty—putting him at odds with international norms. Zelensky warned that these norms could be permanently threatened by the outcome of the war. He explained Saturday that the West’s support of Ukraine does more than just protect his country’s borders and independence, but that the future of global norms could hinge on their support....
Ukraine stated that Russia lost 650 soldiers in the previous day, bringing the total of Russian deaths to 91,150 as the war enters its 284th day and close to 10 full months of battle. In the contested Bakhmut region, the Russians are losing more than 50 soldiers a day, Ukraine stated. “It’s a very difficult situation” Eastern Military Command spokesman Serhiy Cherevaty said on TV, according to the Kyiv Independent....
Before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Irina Tsybaneva, a 60-year-old accountant, had never been particularly political, her son Maxim Tsybanev told independent Russian language news outlet Mediazona. Even after Russian troops went into Ukraine, she did not discuss the war with her family, which includes two children and three grandchildren. But on October 6, the day before Putin turned 70, she managed to evade security at Serafimovskoe cemetery where Putin’s parents’ gravestones lie, to leave a note that expressed her view of the president and the war he had started....
“We don’t want a war,” Lavrov said on Russia’s RT television network. “We don’t want to take the path of confrontation. But we will firmly ensure our security using the means we consider necessary.” The negotiations will center on demands made by both sides in recent months, as Russia wants the U.S. and other NATO allies to refuse Ukraine’s entry into the organization and scale back the military support they have sent to Ukraine....
