Within a few days Bush visited Powell at his Virginia home. No one is confirming what they discussed, but Bush intimates are confident he told Powell that the Alibi Club scenario is ““reasonable.’’ The general’s reaction, like everything about his political future, remains a mystery. Dole, when asked by Newsweek about the scenario, said: ““What’s the gist of that again?''

Seeing his team in a new home must have seemed a bit surreal for Olsen, who has been with DCU as a player and coach since 1998. Olsen had a front-row seat as D.C. United thrived in the early days of MLS, and then stagnated as the club struggled for relevance during a long and fruitless search for a new stadium. “I wanted to look around because I knew once the game happened, I wasn’t going to be able to appreciate the moment,” Olsen said....

The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on October 4, was based on a meta-analysis of 42 previously conducted studies into the “social facilitation” of food consumption, according to a release from the University of Birmingham in England. The analysis found that a person’s meals could be 29 to 48 percent larger when they ate with friends as opposed to when they ate alone, according to the British Psychological Society....

These questions originally appeared on Quora. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Answers by Ramiro Ruiz, pro MMA fighter: Q: How many hours a week do serious amateur and professional MMA fighters train? Around 24 hrs a week. An example of the week can be:Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 2 or 3 sessions a day, 5 hrs total....

Albaisa is not your typical gearhead. He washed out of car-design school in Detroit in the ’80s when he was told his quirky look (Napoleon jackets, bleached white hair) didn’t fit Motown’s buttoned-down culture. He found refuge at New York’s Pratt Institute, where he indulged his passion for furniture and boat design. Albaisa also has architecture in his blood: his father, a Cuban refugee, designed Richard Nixon’s Miami home. But he’d given up on cars when Nissan’s American design chief at the time, Jerry Hirshberg, happened to catch an exhibition of his motorcycle sketches at Pratt in 1988....

Of the six, four representatives won their re-elections in Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The first two Native American women elected to Congress will be returning in the 117th Congress. Democratic Representative Sharice Davids, who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, and Democratic Representative Deb Haaland, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people, both won—in Kansas’ 3rd congressional district and New Mexico’s 1st congressional district, respectively....

GOP Governor Tate Reeves has just a 4-point lead over Democratic challenger and four-time Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup later this year, according to a Siena College/Mississippi Today poll released Thursday. That’s a sign that Mississippi, a long-standing conservative stronghold, could be in play for Democrats after years of political failure in the state. With a 4.6-point margin of error, the poll projects Presley’s worst-case scenario against Reeves from a roughly 9-point deficit all the way up to a statistical tie....

There’s been an outcry for those who might not be educated on racial injustice issues, particularly white Americans, to pick up a book, read an article or watch a film to begin to understand the history of oppression against black Americans in the United States. Though instances like the death of Floyd bring these issues to forefront, the history of this oppression and inequality is deep and there is much to be learned—beyond the headlines....

“I have nothing bad to say about Jorgie," Rodriguez said Wednesday. “I have nothing but good things to say about Jorgie. He was a great player and a good teammate and we won a championship in ’09 together.” MORE: Posada ‘hurt’ by Yankees’ actions | A-Rod’s act of kindness | Yanks’ World Series odds A-Rod’s response came after Posada, on “CBS This Morning” earlier in the day to promote his new book, was asked if he resented players who didn’t play clean and achieved records he didn’t....

Joe Dunand, Rodriguez's nephew, is a 6-2, 210 pound shortstop from Miami's Gulliver Prep who hit a home run in eight consecutive at-bats in a tournament this past weekend. (Photo via Perfect Game) He finished the tournament batting an astounding .833 (10-for-12), and was awarded the tournament's Offensive MVP award before the final game was even played. "It’s the most unbelievable thing,” Gulliver coach Javier Rodriguez said. “I’ve never seen anything like that....

Off the field, Hendriks is a different person, regularly trying to network with fellow ballplayers. During his All-Star appearance last week, his friendliness led him to chat with a number of Astros players. Oakland and Houston have been the top two teams in the AL West the past two seasons, so such camaraderie was somewhat unexpected MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN “(Astros infielder) Alex Bregman was like … ‘What do think about four-seamers over two-seamers?...

Once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, the Aral has shrunk to less than a third of its original size, leaving behind a string of port towns to fight off the encroaching desert on their own. The 35 million people in the region–a tenth of whom live in a disaster zone–face a steady rise in disease and a further drop into poverty. “They are learning to adapt,” says Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan desertification expert Kural Atanazarov, “by running away if they can....

That may be, although prosecutors maintained that the five convictions for voluntary manslaughter made the government s case “successful” and showed that the ATF agents “did not die in vain.” Still, the reaction in Washington, where the terrible finale of the showdown with David Koresh and his followers has shaken both the FBI and ATF, was somber. ATF’s new director, John Magaw, conceded his agency’s “mistakes” and said, “We pray [that the guns of Waco] are never heard again, anywhere....

But there’s another farm, less than 30 miles away, in New Hampton, whose owner, Tom Frantzen, thinks corporate farming is as deadening to the souls of animals as it is to farmers. Frantzen, who like Lynch took over a small family farm in the mid-1970s, raises organic pigs, unfettered pigs, variably mottled and plump, who loll indolently on the ground or on the straw beds of their canvas-walled tent shelters....

The film follows Dennis Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), nicknamed Spider by his mother for his fondness of webs, as he shuffles around his old stomping grounds, taking notes. While he struggles to reconstruct the details of a chilling murder that he may or may not have witnessed as a kid, memories of his mum become confused with those of a neighborhood harlot–both of whom are played by Miranda Richardson. The grim, psychological thriller, which opened in New York and Los Angeles on Feb 28, has garnered the director and his stars impressive reviews....