“The increase in the number of employees on sick report was anticipated and given the nature of the virus, it is expected that this number will grow,” the NYPD said in a Tuesday statement, which also said that the absence of the officers had “minimal impact” on the NYPD’s job effectiveness. Spokesperson Mary Frances O’Donnell of the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information for the NYPD told Newsweek that the department would be updating the numbers “and will likely do so every day for the foreseeable future....

The injury, announced Wednesday by coach Dabo Swinney, happened Saturday and stretches an already thin Clemson secondary that lost three starters who declared for the 2016 NFL Draft. Swinney didn’t say which knee was injured. MORE: How easy is it to repeat? | SN early Top 20 “Just like a lot of ACL injuries (it was) non-contact,” Swinney said (via TigerNet.com). “Just planted, doing one-on-ones. We already started that process of getting him back and we are all hopeful....

Or will we? The 2008 presidential campaign has featured rising expectations of real change, especially if Obama makes it all the way. It’s not too early to begin to think about what, exactly, this change would mean. How would we define it? How would Obama execute it? Two years from now, will we know if we’ve achieved it? Crisis makes change easier. With the U.S. financial system in meltdown, FDR’s bipartisan bank-rescue plan passed the House on a voice vote with its provisions scrawled on a napkin....

The city of Inzai, the location where the gymnasts have been training, confirmed only that the athlete was a teenager and that only one other member of the team is being quarantined at this time. According to a report from ESPN, the other member of the team was an alternate, and neither Simone Biles nor any other athletes with a shot to take home gold medals were impacted. “One of the replacement athletes for the women’s artistic gymnastics team received a positive COVID test on Sunday, July 18....

The PSG pair butted heads on a couple of occasions during the 2-0 Ligue 1 victory over Lyon on Sunday. Late on, Cavani won an argument with his Brazilian colleague after seeing Unai Emery’s side awarded a penalty – only to then see his effort saved. Prior to that, the duo had squabbled over the taking of a 48th-minute free-kick, with Alves also involved in the incident as he first grabbed the ball before appearing to surrender it to Neymar....

The Miliband and Alexander double act is not just for show. They are deeply worried by the warfare that has wracked their Labour Party in recent weeks. Three weeks ago a mutiny by once loyal M.P.s forced Blair to announce that he would give way to Brown by next summer. But the wrangling has continued as factions battle for control of the policy agenda between now and Blair’s exit. Last week, during a tense cabinet meeting, ministers warned that power struggles were turning off the public....

Mr. Serrano, who belongs to the Congressional Black and Hispanic caucuses, seems a curious figure to be proposing such an accolade for the ring-a-ding-ding singer. “I’ve never met Frank Sinatra,” said Serrano in a telephone interview: “He’s not a personal friend, nor a political contributor, but I owe him my life because he fills my soul with romance. The ideals of Martin Luther King inspire my politics and public service, but it’s Sinatra who is the center of my existence....

Medical Issues There will come a time when an adult child must make decisions regarding a parent’s health care. To ease the way, there are two legal documents that experts say are vital. The first is a health-care proxy. This document, also called a health-care power of attorney, appoints a specific person to make all decisions regarding health care and end-of-life care, including refusal of treatment. The health-care proxy goes into effect when the attending physician determines that an individual is no longer able to make decisions on his or her own....

For that reason, patients and surgeons go to great lengths to take whatever necessary steps possible to avoid complications. One step that you can take is to identify the right surgeon and the right hospital to perform your procedure. These are some criteria you can use to evaluate when choosing. Choosing a Surgeon There are many factors that people will use to identify a surgeon that they trust and have confidence in....

Romanoff was about to kick off a weekend sale–up to $50 off on Smith & Wessons–but he had to cancel it because his customers were furious over Smith’s surrender to the enemy. To them, the new recordkeeping alone sounded like a first step toward a police state, and Smith was the government stooge. Since then, sales of the company’s pistols have been so slow that Romanoff has slashed his inventory by a third....

Brian Cashman had only watched video of Masahiro Tanaka before the pitcher signed with the Yankees prior to the 2014 season. Instead of flying across the Pacific Ocean himself, the general manager relied on the eyes of his scouts, notably Trey Hillman, to get a feel for the Japanese superstar. Once the manager of the Nippon Ham Fighters, Hillman was working as a special assistant to the Yankees at the time....

I am in flight in Black River, Jamaica—giving my Jewish traveling companions the slip in search of a driver curiously named Dragon to make it to Mahogany Hill. I stand out in all whites like a cricketer, wearing a button-down and pressed slacks, but my footsteps are subtle enough not to draw attention. Here I am at 28 in Dezna’s native land, searching for my nanny’s essence, her origin. Language—as a writer, a human being—has best defined who I am, and Dezna is a part of me in that respect....

NEWSWEEK: How did you get the idea for the Cyberport? LI: It started with a casual chat. We have a couple of joint ventures, one with Intel, and we almost always lose our English and American engineers to our office in the States. They say on the [U.S.] West Coast they could find a reality check on any concept much quicker, much faster. If Hong Kong wants to develop anything of that sort, it’s got three problems....

By then the net was already closing. On Sunday, Feb. 14, Kenyan security forces quietly surrounded the compound–along with a scattering of grim-faced white men in plain clothes. The standoff continued until the next day, when a small convoy of passenger vehicles left the compound. One car carried the Greek ambassador. Another vehicle carried Ocalan’s comrades. A team of Kenyan police rode with Ocalan himself in a third vehicle. The rebel leader and his friends balked at being separated, but the Greeks and the Kenyans ignored their complaints....

Luis Eduardo Garzon, now 52, has lots more friends today, and one major political opponent. On Jan. 1, the former communist, whom everyone calls “Lucho,” hugged his white-haired mother in front of TV cameras and took power as Bogota’s mayor, the country’s second most important political post after the presidency. His win, over an opponent supported by President Alvaro Uribe, is the biggest political prize ever claimed by an openly left-wing politician in Colombia....

An Important Book I haven’t read: “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad. Conrad gets my prize for Least Seductive Great Writer. I did see the movie. Does that count? A book I hope parents will read to their children: “Harold and the Purple Crayon” by Crockett Johnson. With his crayon and his imagination, Harold is able to remake the world—a wonderful possibility for 2-year-olds (and their parents) to entertain.

I didn’t really know Smith personally. When he was leading Rhodesia to unilateral independence in 1965, I was a lawyer in the industrial town of Vereniging, near Johannesburg. Like most South Africans, though, I closely followed Smith’s decisions since they so often had implications for our own interests. Often we white South Africans applauded his courage and determination to stand fast against what we regarded as precipitate majority rule and communist aggression....

In what Carter calls “this difficult time of transition,” he would wake up in the middle of the night wondering how he could make himself useful. He would joke that he was too young to retire, and, besides, he needed the money. Out of those dark awakenings came the idea of a center that would be more than a memorial, that would give him and Rosalynn-always his partner–a way to build on the themes of his presidency....