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Richards announced on Friday that he was stepping down as the new permanent host following multiple controversies over his past offensive comments. Last week, The Ringer published a story that contained comments Richards made on the podcast he hosted in 2013 and 2014 called “The Randumb Show” mocking women’s weight, Jewish people and other groups. The remarks also prompted an investigation from the Anti-Defamation League. “As I mentioned last week, I was deeply honored to be asked to host the syndicated show and was thrilled by the opportunity to expand my role....

So, imagine how the WBA “Super” super middleweight champion’s ears perked up when he heard Saul “Canelo” Alvarez mention him earlier this month as a fighter he’d like to face. “I think every fighter from light middleweight to light heavyweight would like that fight [with Canelo]," Smith told Sporting News. “The fact he mentioned me out of all those fights obviously shows that I am at that level with the likes of them names....

The There’s Something About Mary star made the admission during a recent visit to the Drew Barrymore Show, where she answered pre-recorded questions sent in by her sister-in-law, Nicole Richie. When asked by Richie whether she had ever peed in a pool, Diaz laughed before telling her friend and Charlie’s Angels co-star Drew Barrymore: “Oh hell yeah I’ve peed in a swimming pool. It’s so funny that Nicole asked that question....

The Oversight Board, a Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers who deliberate on the company’s content decisions, upheld the company’s move to restrict the then-president’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The board said Facebook was “justified” in suspending Trump’s accounts but found it was not appropriate to impose an “indefinite suspension.” Therefore, the board recommended that Facebook apply a “defined penalty” and gave the company six months to complete its review of the matter and make its final decision on the status of Trump’s account....

The chance of rain ahead of and during Sunday’s Sprint Cup race is thinner than Martin Truex Jr.’s margin of victory in the Daytona 500. But as with everything in life, a touch of the bad accompanies the good. MORE: Stress multiplies at Talladega | Cup Chase field update | Schedule Talladega is under a burn ban, so forget about those popular campfires. Find another way to keep warm on the chilly nights ahead....

That’s what the Sixers are facing. Philadelphia stayed alive with a Game 4 win to bring its conference semifinal series against Boston to 3-1, and now the Sixers will attempt to navigate the rest of this series, with Game 5 on Wednesday night at TD Garden. But they’re still looking at what conventional wisdom calls an impossible task, something that’s never been done before in history: rallying to a win a playoff series after trailing, 3-0....

NEWSWEEK: How can you make a useful laptop for so little? NEGROPONTE: There are basically two ways to make a low-cost laptop. One is to take cheap components, cheap labor, cheap design and make a cheap machine. And that’s basically what’s been done in the world. If you go to China and India, you’ll see a lot of that. What we’ve tried to do is to use very large-scale integration [a method that uses fewer components], use really cool design and then of course make them in really large numbers, so that every kid gets one....

VERNON HOUK, Centers for Disease Control National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Two years ago dioxin seemed poised to clear its name. Scientists concluded that the chemical acts through a special mechanism: it attaches to a receptor–a lock for which dioxin is the key-in living cells. The dioxin-receptor pair goes to the cell nucleus, where it gloms onto DNA and helps trigger a cascade of nasty effects. Under this theory, industry claimed, there might be a safe level of dioxin: one that doesn’t fill enough receptors to change DNA....

Under Biden’s plan, the federal minimum wage would be gradually increased to $15 per hour by 2024. Lawmakers last increased the wage in 2009, raising it to its current level of $7.25 per hour. Notably, this is the longest period—nearly 12 years—that the U.S. has gone without raising the minimum wage since one was first implemented in 1938. Many states and municipalities have raised the wage at the local level, with some parts of the country already having a $15 per hour minimum....

Inside the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, Brunson and Cannonier will clash in an important middleweight bout. On a fight-fight win streak, Brunson has had to wait patiently for his time to shine. He faces a fighter in Cannonier who is 4-1 in his last five fights. After losing to Robert Whittaker at UFC 254, Cannonier rebounded against Kelvin Gastelum in August. Brunson respects Cannonier but believes he has an edge in the fight....

Could this be true? Might practices thought to improve personal health and hygiene unwittingly increase the risk of HIV without us even knowing it? Early Studies Spur Debate and Confusion As far back as the late 1990s, a number of studies had indirectly linked douching to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Many of these studies were conducted in Africa, where it was suggested that vaginal douching not only increased the risk of bacterial vaginosis by 60% but did so most commonly in women with HIV....

Woo, of course, has been the king of Hong Kong cinema for decades (“The Killer,” “Hard-Boiled”). It’s only more recently, with the success of “Face/Off” and the $90 million “Mission: Impossible” sequel, “M: I-2,” kicking off Memorial Day weekend on May 24, that Woo is making a real bid to rule the American box office as well. Hollywood has shamelessly cribbed from the 54-year-old director, from the “Mexican standoff” at the end of “Reservoir Dogs” (with the gangsters all pointing guns at one another’s head) to much of what seemed original in “The Matrix”–the torrential cascades of bullets, the slow-motion airborne acrobatics, the balletically choreographed violence....

That stat alone should make desperate racing legends Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon more confident for Sunday’s Cheez-It 355. Stewart will start third, Gordon fifth. Sprint Cup’s second and final road race of the season is scheduled for a 2:18 p.m. ET green flag in upstate New York. NBC Sports Network television coverage begins at 2 ET. Stewart and Gordon have combined to win nine races at the Glen over their careers, but neither has won anywhere on the Sprint Cup circuit this season....

The stakes could hardly be higher: One out of every thousand Americans has died from a lethal pandemic, with no end yet in sight. The economy is officially still humming along, but millions face eviction, bankruptcy and hunger. Even U.S. democracy is under unprecedented siege by an insurrectionist movement encouraged by the outgoing president and his loyalists in Congress. The path forward is difficult to envision amid the fog of culture war, political war and the threat of actual, real-life civil war....

Following the Israeli elections on Nov. 1, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog held warm meetings (at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh), and a follow-up pact was agreed upon to promote the implementation of the electricity-water project (in which Israel sends the parched Hashemite Kingdom desalinated water, and Jordan sends Israel electricity from its solar panels). Later, the two parties signed a letter of intent as part of a collaborative endeavor to restore and improve the Jordan River’s ecology....

If you search “vagus nerve” on Instagram and Google, you’ll find even more people asserting how you can live a better life by “releasing or resetting” this part of your body. New studies also suggest that some long COVID-19 symptoms, including persistent voice problems, difficulty swallowing, dizziness, low blood pressure, and high heart rates may be linked to the effect of the virus on the vagus nerve. But how true are these social media claims?...

Seattle has been trying to bring back pass-rusher Jadeveon Clowney all offseason. The Seahawks traded for Clowney last year, and he played in 13 games for the franchise. He became a free agent after the season and still hasn’t decided on a new team. The Seahawks wanted to bring him back, but the move for Adams might have ended their pursuit. ESPN reporter Jeremy Fowler appeared on “SportsCenter” Sunday morning and explained why Clowney to Seattle is unlikely to happen....

“One rule,” he said: “no sacred cows, no taboos, no constraints.” In the land of half measures and endless compromise, Ghosn’s blunt appraisal stunned his audience. According to sources close to Nissan, he kept his plans from all but a handful of people (only one of them Japanese: CEO Yoshikazu Hanawa), forestalling pre-emptive resistance from Nissan’s board, suppliers and labor unions. Few observers therefore anticipated his frontal assault on the company–and, by extension, on Japan Inc....

Henderson is suspended for the Champions League quarter-final second leg at the Etihad Stadium after picking up his third caution of the competition proper in last week’s rousing 3-0 victory at Anfield. Wijnaldum - usually deployed further forward by Jurgen Klopp - was selected at the base of the midfield in Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Everton to give him a taste of things to come against Pep Guardiola’s side....