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View a Google Maps list of some of the best places to get a burger in New York City. Bar Sardine The burger at this popular (and diminutive) West Village spot is very compact. But it packs in the flavor. The gooey melted American cheese spreads itself around the patty, hugging it with cheesy goodness. But what makes this burger so special is that it’s topped with shoestring fries, offering an amazing and unusual textural crunch to the whole eating affair....

On the iPhone X and later, Control Center can be opened by swiping down from the top-right corner of your device. [3] X Research source On older iPhones, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center. You can also turn the Change with Buttons toggle on or off to choose whether your ringer volume can be altered by the volume buttons on the side of the phone....

Between the kids back in school, a monumental election coming up, and, of course, a global pandemic, it’s safe to say that 2020 has been one incredibly stressful year. With lots of stress usually comes a lot less sleep—some sleep neurologists have dubbed 2020’s sleeplessness the year of “COVID-Somnia.” I’m someone who has always suffered from insomnia (thanks, Mom), but my sleepless nights have reached new heights since the pandemic began about eight months ago....

West Palm Beach’s Pizza Mambo was forced to shut down for a day, after an inspection by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation revealed numerous violations. According to the report, which was obtained by Newsweek, the iguana was found in a chest freezer per the report. The reptile was included in the “Stop Sale Order” section of the report. Don’t worry though, pepperoni-iguana pizza is not included on Pizza Mambo’s online menu....

The campaign seeks to reinforce New York’s idling prohibition, which has been in effect since 1972. In an effort to reduce pollution from exhaust, the campaign reminds New Yorkers that they cannot let their vehicles idle for more than three minutes. “If you’re not driving, shut your damn engine off,” the White Wedding singer commands in the ad. “Idling is polluting. I mean, bollocks! Are you trying to choke us all?...

A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they’d like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they’d like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area. Black Americans’ responses to the question were nearly on par with the national average, in which 67 percent of all U....

Researchers from Stony Brook University found that first responders who were at ground zero have to deal not only with post-traumatic stress disorder; they also may be at a “high risk” for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or dementia. Studies have also found that 9/11 first responders may face an increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s earlier than the average person. A study that was presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July showed first responders with cognitive impairment have a “brain age” that’s about 10 years older than that in the average person....

On Thursday, the trial date was set in a docket filing, with proceedings to be held in St. Paul. Juror summonses had been sent out for that date, according to court records in November, but the new filing officially confirmed it. The three men have been charged with federal civil rights violations in Floyd’s death. All three are charged with depriving Floyd of his right when they did not give him medical care, NBC News reported....

Focus on the Bedroom The house mites that share our homes are also known as dust mites, and two of the most common species are Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Dermatophagoides farinae. These parasitic creatures typically live in different kinds of fabric, especially bedding. House mites do not easily move about your home like other types of mites and have specific needs to grow. As a result, the following tips can help you decrease house mites in your home....

Just over half of U.S. adults, 52 percent, opposed legalization in 2010 but nine years later, that number has gone down considerably to 32 percent. The Pew poll is broken down into every generation including partisan divides between Republicans and Democrats, with a staggering 91 percent of Americans in favor of legal marijuana for medical or recreational use—59 percent want both uses legalized—while 32 percent support legalizing it for medical use only....

Across the Bible Belt, where virus rates are surging and many Southern and Midwestern worshippers cannot be persuaded by appeals from government leaders and health officials, vaccination rates remain low. Many Blacks and Latinos are also unvaccinated, but many white evangelical anti-vaccine adherents are posing a challenge for health officials. Another poll released in March by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed that 40 percent of white evangelical Protestants said they would likely not get vaccinated, compared with 25 percent of Americans overall, 28 percent of white mainline Protestants and 27 percent of nonwhite Protestants....

That’s because 2003 finds states facing mandatory smallpox preparations, stubbornly sluggish economies and their worst financial mess in six decades. Not in a celebrating mood anymore? Neither are most of the nation’s 36 newly elected or re-elected governors. Looming layoffs and budget cutbacks–coupled with citizen angst over continuing terrorism threats–mean neither the nation’s voters nor the voted-in are up for a redux of the lavish political galas of recent years....

But now that the tournament is over, how are all these new fans going to follow all their new favorite players? Fortunately for new soccer fans, every member of the USWNT championship squad plays stateside in the National Women’s Soccer League. The season runs from April to October and USWNT members are set to rejoin their teams July 20. If you’re new to the NWSL scene, here’s a complete guide to watching the league’s matches for the remainder of the 2019 season....

Paraguay had not seen a case of yellow fever since 1974, so it’s no surprise that the current outbreak caught health authorities there short-handed: with only 100,000 does of vaccine available, according to the Associated Press, Paraguay got 50,000 doses from Brazil and is expecting 250,000 from Peru. But there have already been protests, with thousands of worried people blocking highways to demand that vaccine be made widely available....

But this social flattening of Black life into millionaires and criminals not only simplifies the perception of Black life; it erases the fact that Black people are diverse not just economically but in many ways, including in their political world views and ideas. Sadly, it’s not only the white media that is committed to the fallacy of Black class stratification. There exists a university-pedigreed cadre of race leaders—the Black Political Class—who work as a “race management” elite that metaphorically corrals Black electoral choices into a politically contained vessel....

No one has been more outspoken than Eugene Rivers in arguing that they do. Indeed, the Boston-based minister and activist goes much further, accusing black American leaders of collectively turning their backs on those suffering in Africa. Prominent African-Americans, as might be expected, are not greeting Rivers’s words with a hale-and-hearty amen. They are more likely to argue that the fault lies not with them but elsewhere. Randall Robinson, head of TransAfrica, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes African causes, agrees that not enough is being done to fight AIDS in Africa....

WEYMOUTH: The U.S. government fears that Arafat will undermine you as he did Abu Mazen. Qurei: The real problem is Israel, not Arafat. Abu Mazen is a good man who tried his best. I was at his first meeting with Sharon. We came back with nothing. Then we went to Washington. We met with President Bush, who gave all his support to Abu Mazen. I said to President Bush, “Abu Mazen will go home with support from your administration but he needs the support of the Palestinian people....

The wonder, then, is not that estrogen is the most widely prescribed drug in the United States today but that 85 percent of the 37 million postmenopausal women want nothing to do with the stuff. A few rebel at taking a drug for a ““normal’’ condition. Some dislike feeling bloated, or having their periods return. Many reject estrogen out of simple, primal fear. ““Think of a balance scale,’’ says oncologist Melody Cobleigh of the University of Chicago....

What happened? About a year ago, as rumors he might run were ramping up, Thompson’s poll numbers rose, reaching the 20s in some surveys. Last May, he generated even more buzz by posting an online video challenging Michael Moore on Cuba and health-care policy. Impressed by the publicity the video generated, Thompson, his wife, Jeri, and a handful of aides drew up a game plan based less on retail campaigning than on a Web strategy....

KATTOULAS: Is Japan’s economy recovering? SON: Japan is experiencing difficulty switching from an industrial to an information society. The United States had a very good education system for [building] an information society. As a result, Americans were more creative and aggressive embracing [it] than the Japanese. However, when you have to have a paradigm shift you rewrite all of society’s systems from old to new, and Japan is doing that now....