Peterson arrived in Houston early Saturday for booking and was released around 1 a.m. CT after posting $15,000 bond. MORE: ‘Goodell Must Go’ banners will fly through the air Sunday | Report: Prosecutor took it easy on Ray Rice Peterson is charged with one count injury to a child. The maximum penalty carries two years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Montgomery County assistant district attorney Phil Grant addressed the media this afternoon to formally announce the charges: The Vikings have already deactivated Peterson for tomorrow’s game against the Patriots....

Peterson got his wish to get out of New Orleans after the Saints sent him to Arizona for a conditional draft pick. But after David Johnson was lost in Week 1 and Peterson’s fellow former 2K rusher Chris Johnson was running on empty, the Cardinals didn’t just magically solve their backfield problems. Sean Payton and the Saints’ committee approach weren’t to blame for Peterson’s poor play and little playing time in his four games with the team that signed the 32-year-old late in 2017 free agency....

Seoul Dairy Cooperative, South Korea’s leading milk producer, released the advert in late September on YouTube. Having been deleted by the company, an upload of the video has gone viral, sparking discussion on the objectification of women in commercials as well as the man’s behavior in the advert. In the video a man can be seen hiking in a woodland area with camera gear. A male voice in the advert then says: “We finally managed to capture them on camera in a place of pristine cleanliness....

Two pharmaceutical companies are seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to switch their oral contraceptive pills from prescription to over-the-counter status. The prospect that birth control pills could soon be available without prescriptions is “really exciting,” Victoria Nichols, the project director of the Free the Pill campaign, told Newsweek. But she said that any over-the-counter pill needs to be priced affordably, covered by insurance, and available to people of all ages....

The suspension means that Aeroflot tickets for passengers who are scheduled to fly out of Russia after March 6 and set to return after March 8 will be canceled, the Associated Press reported, with Aeroflot saying in a statement that the decision was made due to “circumstances that hinder operating flights.” Rosaviatsiya, the country’s aviation agency, recommended on Saturday that all Russian airlines with foreign-leased planes should suspend passenger and cargo flights traveling internationally....

Open Settings and then select Accessibility. Select Display & Text Size, then tap Color Filters. Switch on the toggle switch next to Color Filters, then select Greyscale from the list that appears. Your phone is now in greyscale! If you want a more stark appearance, change your wallpaper to a simple black or white background. You can also download a black and white icon pack or create your own, then use the icons to create custom shortcuts for your favorite apps....

Fischer’s remarks were not the first time the host has attempted to draw connections between homosexuality and Nazism. He last fleshed out the questionable claims on the New Year’s Eve edition of his show, Focal Point, during which he claimed he knew the specific gathering place that served as the birthplace of Hitler’s alleged gay party. “Let’s not forget that the Nazi Party started in a gay bar,” said Fischer....

It is not that he initiated the debate or is the only antagonist (Pete Wilson and Bob Dole being two others). But as challenges arose to government-mandated preferences, Clinton failed to mobilize the power of the presidency to subject them to a genuinely critical examination. As a result, affirmative action now involves political theater more than social policy. The shouting and hating have more to do with affirmative action’s symbolism- reverse discrimination to its critics, racial and gender justice to its friends-than its actual effects....

This week, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the eastern Afghan provinces of Khost and Paktika, destroying entire villages and killing entire families. The tremors could be felt as far away as India. At least 1,000 Afghans have died and tens of thousands will be rendered homeless in what has been described as the country’s most powerful earthquake in 20 years. The Taliban government, more concerned with restricting the rights of women and stamping out dissent than providing services, is now confronting the biggest crisis since it swept back into power in August 2021 after a two-decade insurgency....

Africa, however, cannot afford to park its climate concerns. The warming planet is destroying the continent’s development potential. Already, the lives of 600 million people who rely on rain-fed agriculture are at risk because of the growing severity and frequency of droughts. Vast swaths of the continent will become unlivable unless we act now to protect people and livelihoods from the worst impacts of global warming. We only have a tiny window to build resilience against climate change....

Having channeled his passion into magazine articles, books, television shows and CD-ROMs, Gates is now trying to conquer the Net with Africana.com, an educational portal aimed at providing authoritative information about and for the African diaspora. Launched in January 1999 to promote Encarta Africana and host corrections and revisions to the encyclopedia, the site became so popular that Gates brought in an editor in chief to beef it up with original and occasionally provocative content: feature stories on black gays and lesbians, columnists like Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka on his visit with Mumia Abu-Jamal, multimedia galleries of long-hidden African-American art works, radio streamed by stations from Martinique to Morocco....

In a viral tweet, a woman named Anna Brose (username @alcesanna) shared her story on social media that has racked up over 681,000 likes, 40,000 retweets and over 9,000 replies. Brose’s tweet got many others talking about their positive interactions with the pet company. When her dog, Gus, passed away, she wanted to return an unopened bag of dog food since she wouldn’t be needing it. She explained that not only did she get a full refund, they asked her to donate the food to a local shelter and had a floral delivery signed by the customer service employee that helped her....

There have been questions about how to police it. There have been discussions about how to eliminate it. But the main questions now are this: Can you be consistent? Can you make it hurt enough to remove the temptation? The Astros aren’t the first team to have gotten caught cheating, and they certainly won’t be the last. There will, some day, be another team that tests the limits of the rules, like yoga pants after a night at the China Buffet....

Gray has been a vocal critic of Biden’s moderate policies and has called allegations of sexual misconduct against Biden “credible.” “With the utmost respect for Bernie Sanders, who is an incredible human being & a genuine inspiration, I don’t endorse Joe Biden,” Gray tweeted Monday. “I supported Bernie Sanders because he backed ideas like #MedicareForAll, cancelling ALL student debt, & a wealth tax,” Gray continued. “Biden supports none of those....

America’s Founding Fathers gave control over the timing of elections to Congress, not the executive branch, so the decision lies with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It would require a change to federal law, and with Republicans and Democrats greatly at odds with each other right now, it’s hard to imagine they’d agree on moving the election. Congress’ power to set the date of the presidential election falls within Article II of the Constitution....

In the 11th hour of the biggest gamble in franchise history, the group including Jon Ledecky, a co-owner of the Islanders, secured its proposal to develop a hockey-fitted arena near the Belmont Park racetrack, as confirmed Wednesday with a blessing from Empire State Development and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It was a banner day in the franchise’s history in more ways than one. But most importantly, the Islanders are guaranteed a return to Long Island, ditching the untenable Barclays Center situation — a poor fit for all parties — in favor of a more suitable and permanent home for a team named the Islanders....

Answer: Depends on which story you’re reading Sunday morning. Week 6: How the Top 25 fared | Top performers A headline on ESPN.com reads, “Brian Kelly takes blame for Notre Dame’s loss at NC State.” But according to a Kansas City Star headline, “Notre Dame coach catches heat for blaming center for snap woes during hurricane.” Really, when a team that had national championship aspirations to start the season falls to 2-4, there’s plenty of blame to go around....

Israel: Haaretz rates them from one to nine on friendliness to Israel—McCain (7.75), Clinton (7.5), Obama (5.12) Cuba: Granma zings McCain as anti-Cuba; Havana hasn’t forgotten he served in the U.S. Navy during Cuban missile crisis. Germany: Der Spiegel doesn’t like McCain either; denounces Democrat infighting as a boon to McCain in November. Britain: The Guardian predicts that Huckabee, with appeal limited to the south, will become McCain’s running mate....

Despite the glow of his approval ratings, this will prove a tough challenge. The old conservative coalition has frayed. The issues that kept conservatives in power around the Western world over the past few decades–Soviet communism, sky-high taxes, student radicalism–have largely disappeared. (This is the downside of winning political battles.) That’s why in every European country except Spain the right has imploded and a left-of-center party is in power....

Originally filed in August 2017, the suit claims that Disney violated its contract by failing to pay Nye and the co-creators of children’s science show Bill Nye the Science Guy the 50 percent of profits they were owed, per the terms of their distribution deal with Disney subsidiary Buena Vista Television. Nye’s attorneys have claimed that Disney shortchanged Nye and his partners and “conspired to prevent [Nye] from receiving full, accurate and reasonable accounting of the revenues and expenses of the BNSG series and its derivative works,” according to the suit....