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The affected cow—a black Brangus heifer—was exhibited at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo between February 11-14, 2020, when the animal was capable of spreading the virus. The Department says the cow was only outside the barn when it was being shown and when it was being loaded or unloaded for transport. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rabies is a “fatal but preventable” disease caused by the rabies virus and spread through direct contact with the saliva of an infected animal....

Rodriguez slugged his third home run of the night in the ninth inning, giving Perkins’ his second blown save of the season. MORE: Classic A-Rod photos | Hamels no-hits Cubs Trailing 5-4 in the ninth, Rodriguez homered to lead off the inning and tie the game. The Yankees would add three more runs on a John Ryan Murphy blast later in the inning, giving New York an 8-5 lead....

Major League Baseball would help the A's make the temporary move to AT&T Park, which likely would be the first step toward the team leaving the Bay Area, the newspaper reports. But A's owner Lew Wolff responded to the report Monday, saying the team will extend its Oakland Coliseum lease and "look(s) forward to another great season." The small-budget A's have won consecutive American League West titles, losing in five games of the division series to Detroit in each of the past Octobers....

Both clubs know this division race is far from over, with five meetings remaining before August ends and another three in late September. And with a margin of error so slim, one miscue might be the difference. Coco Crisp scored the go-ahead run on Joe Smith’s wild pitch with two outs in the eighth inning, and the A’s beat the Angels 2-1 on Saturday night to move into a share of the lead atop the AL West....

After purchasing the AirTag, there are a few steps you’ll need to follow before you can start using it. We’ll show you how to set up your AirTag and get it up and running. Getting Started With AirTag Setup Along with the AirTag, you’ll need a few other things to get started. Most importantly, you’ll need an iPhone or iPad with iOS or iPadOS 14.5 or later installed. You will also need two-factor authentication turned on for your Apple ID....

Scientific reaction was fast, and at times, furious. The evidence for life, said critics, was only circumstantial. As long as alternate explanations existed, a claim to have found the first indication of life anywhere but on Earth should require more definitive proof. After three years and dozens of scientific papers, researchers have been unable to resolve the issue. There is still no overwhelming evidence that the meteorite carries remnants of ancient Martian life....

Six years ago, when Matthiessen started work on “a big Florida novel,” he thought that the story of Watson’s murder in 1910 would be no more than a small thread in the narrative. But no sooner had he started to write than the Watson story began to grow. “This thing just took over like a strangler fig,” he says. Killing Mr. Watson (384 pages. Random House. $21.95), Matthiessen’s first novel since “Far Tortuga” in 1975, is a magnificent yarn fueled by a theme that has preoccupied this country’s best authors: the corruption of paradise....

As similar scenes in neighborhoods across the nation attest, soccer is no more foreign to America than immigration is. Soccer fanaticism and Cup mania crackle through scores of ethnic enclaves, both long-resident Irish and Italian neighborhoods and new ones touched by the great wave of immigration from the Caribbean and Latin America that has changed the face of America. The World Cup highlights just how profound those demographic changes have been....

Not to everyone, it turns out. Gen. Peter Pace, another Marine who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, caused a storm last week when he called homosexual acts “immoral” in response to a question from the Chicago Tribune. He explained later he was expressing a personal view, but NEWSWEEK has learned it wasn’t the first time he’d done so. At a 2005 Wharton School leadership seminar, Pace told grad students, also in response to a question: “The U....

3D printing uptake has gone mainstream now. Earlier, 3D printing was first only appropriate for prototype and one-off manufacturing. It is now fast evolving into production techniques. The predominance of current 3D printing demand is industrial for now. According to Acumen Research and Consulting, the worldwide 3D printing business would be worth $41 billion by 2026. Different research centres around the world are experimenting. And they are discovering unprecedented ways of using 3D printing in different sectors like industries, medicine and the likes....

On Oct. 9, I arrived in Bali and met up with a college friend who had flown in before me. We spent one night at Paddy’s Irish Club on the southern part of the island before heading for northern Bali–known for its calm waters and great diving–the next morning. Those first few days were idyllic; we explored rain forests, bargained with merchants and walked along the beach. Mostly, we spent our days taking in the beauty of the scenery....

Suffice it to say that Benedict’s ride between public appearances is not quite your father’s Mercedes. The popemobile is a custom-built two-door Mercedes ML 430 that was donated to the Vatican in 2002. The car has no markings, except for the Mercedes logo on the front, the Vatican coat of arms on each door and a specialized license plate that reads “SCV 1,” an acronym for the Vatican’s name in Italian and the number of the Holy Father’s place in the church hierarchy....

Researchers at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin developed a program facilitating regular phone calls between a trained caller and primarily older adults who depend on the Meals on Wheels Central Texas (MOWCTX) program. Their study found that short, daily phone calls from trained callers can help reduce loneliness, depression, and anxiety, lead study author Maninder K. Kahlon, PhD, vice dean for health ecosystems and associate professor in population health at Dell Medical School, tells Verywell....

One of the defining characteristics of A Plague Tale: Innocence was its swarm of rats. Throughout the game, players encounter massive rat swarms that are capable of stripping humans to the bone in a matter of seconds. Besides serving as an obstacle for players to get around, these rats are also incorporated in the game’s puzzle-solving elements, as players have to utilize them in various ways to take out enemy guards and progress through the story....

Above all, such a design must transcend the euphoria based on personal relationships that surrounded the summit. With all respect for the subtlety of President Bush’s conduct, it is important to recall that we have been there before. In 1956, the first postwar summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev was lauded by The New York Times as follows: “Other men might have played strength against strength. It was Mr. Eisenhower’s gift to draw others into the circle of his good will and to modify the attitudes if not the policies of the little band of visitors from the other side of the Elbe....

So in 2002, A-B began buying local brands. In May it made a play for Harbin, which was part-owned by archrival Miller, triggering one of the first hostile-takeover battles in China. Beijing had set the stage when it recently made brewing one of the first sectors in China open to full foreign ownership. A-B won the bidding for Harbin when Miller bowed out last week, and now owns the brewer 100 percent....

In the current issue of the journal Science, a team at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center reports that a protein called FasL triggers severely damaged skin cells to commit suicide. In the study, mice with normal FasL killed off UV-damaged cells more efficiently than did mice without FasL. They also piled up fewer mutations in a gene called p53–a gene that, when mutated, can cause skin cancer. Though skin cancer rarely kills, patients who get it are 20 to 30 percent more likely to perish from other cancers....

RELATED: Watch The Final Terrifying Trailer For ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Compared to the first film, the sequel keeps its jump scares and provides an intense survival-horror cinematic experience. The first film was very insular and confined, focused on the struggles of the Abbott family on their farm. The sequel expands upon this devastated world, giving viewers a glimpse into what exists beyond the Abbott farm. Spoilers ahead for the film A Quiet Place 2....