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Abe, 67, was shot twice on Friday at around 11:30 a.m. local time while he was giving a stump speech for Kei Sato, a fellow member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a national election candidate. The Japanese Fire and Disaster Management agency confirmed that Abe sustained gunshot wounds to his neck and chest. He was rushed to hospital in a helicopter and died at 5:03 p.m. He had no vital signs when he was brought in and bled to death from two wounds on the right side of his neck, a doctor told a nationally televised news conference....

Surgery Follow-Up After your ablation surgery, your healthcare provider may choose to keep you in the hospital for a short time for observation. This happens most often with cardiac ablations or ablations done to the brain or spine. With cardiac ablations, your healthcare provider will usually have you placed on a cardiac monitor overnight for observation. You will be watched for complications like: Bleeding or damage to the blood vessels where the ablation tools were inserted Bleeding or damage in the heart New or continuing arrhythmias Irritation or infection around the heart Stroke Heart attack Damage to structures around the areas affected by the ablation (nerves, veins, other organs)...

Often abbreviated “H.O.,” heterotopic ossification can occur just about anywhere in the body. Heterotopic bone often forms after surgery, injury, or sometimes for unknown reasons. Symptoms The most common symptom of heterotopic ossification is stiffness of a joint. Most people who develop heterotopic ossification cannot feel the abnormal bone, but notice the bone growth getting in the way of normal movements. Heterotopic bone often forms around the hip or elbow joints, making bending of these joints difficult....

The conference on March 31 announced the ACC Council of Presidents voted to again consider the state for future championships, after having already pulled 10 such games from the state in September in response to the state’s controversial HB2 law. MORE: NCAA mulls response to N.C. lawmakers’ repeal of HB2 The state on March 30 apparently did enough to warrant that reconsideration, when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed a compromise bill — HB142 — to replace HB2....

MORE: Week 3 photos | AP Top 25 | Coaches’ Top 25HOW THEY RANK 1. Clemson 2. FSU 3. Miami 4. Georgia Tech 5. Maryland 6. North Carolina 7. Virginia Tech 8. N.C. State 9. Virginia 10. Duke 11. Syracuse 12. Boston College 13. Pitt 14. Wake ForestMORE RANKINGS: Big 12 | Big Ten | Pac-12 | SECRISING: Maryland. The Terps are 3-0 for the first time since 2001 and yes, the wins are against UConn, ODU and FIU, but it’s steps in the right direction....

MORE: Week 5 photos | Pre-snap readHow they rank 1. Clemson 2. FSU 3. Miami 4. Maryland 5. Virginia Tech 6. Georgia Tech 7. N.C. State 8. Pitt 9. Syracuse 10. Boston College 11.Duke 12. North Carolina 13. Virginia 14. Wake Forest MORE RANKINGS: Big 12 | Big Ten | Pac-12 | SECRISING: The Terps (again). Maryland didn’t even play last week and climbed into the Top 25. That’s what happens when you whip a team (West Virginia) 37-0 that knocks off the No....

Clinton, unlike rival Barack Obama, has not released her tax returns. But disclosure forms that Clinton filed with the Senate provide some clues to her family finances. They show Bill Clinton has earned tens of millions of dollars in recent years giving speeches at rates of up to $450,000 apiece. During one week in 2006, the former president collected $1.7 million for talks in Europe and South Africa. (He also collected speaking fees from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, the Mortgage Bankers Association and other big firms....

AccuScore has the Clippers as solid 76.9 percent favorites to win. That number warrants a -332 price which is in the same neighborhood as what bettors can find at the window. The better value may be the 55.7 percent chance the Clippers have to cover a -7.5 spread, a 4-star (out of 4) AccuScore hot trend. The Clippers are 4-1 ATS in its last five games at home. The average score after 10,000-plus simulations is 111-102....

AccuScore has the Kings as 67.3 percent favorites to win, a prediction that translates into money-line odds of -205. MGM Resorts offers Sacramento at -160, and while the price looks like a bargain based on AccuScore’s projections, some bettors are averse to laying a number this big. Live odds: Current NBA point spreads and totals With an average score after 10,000-plus simulations of 106-101, there’s a 52.3 percent chance the total combined score goes OVER 205....

The lawsuit was issued on behalf of ICE detainees facing transfer to facilities across the U.S. from the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) in Newark, New Jersey, amid its closing, according to the ACLU. It was filed alongside ACLU-NJ and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. “True to form, we will sue any administration — Democrat or Republican — and hold them accountable when they take positions that violate civil liberties and civil rights,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D....

Although The Maroons went silent on when the setback occurred, it is believed that the injury happened during Sunday’s league fixture against Fiorentina. The 26-year-old lasted for the entire duration of the 2-1 defeat at Stadio Olimpico. “Acquah reported a sprained trauma to his left knee,” Torino reported via their official website. “The instrumental investigations carried out at the Fornaca clinic have excluded important meniscal or ligament injuries. “For the purposes of recovery, the clinical evolution will be evaluated....

King’s name was the number two trending topic on the social media platform Saturday with more than 23,000 tweets about him, after Twitter account @VeryWhiteGuy surfaced screenshots of King’s email. “I hope you are hanging in there. Yesterday I sent an email checking in on everybody - and just a few hours later we learned of the death of Chadwick Boseman. Life is so very fragile. Tomorrow is not promised,” King wrote....

“Will you continue to carry MyPillow after their CEO called for the insurrection and played a role in supporting it last week?” the tweet read. The group attached a video of Lindell pushing the false narrative that the presidential election was stolen due to voter fraud, and assuring voters that “Donald Trump is going to be your president for the next four years.” In the video, which was reportedly taken after the deadly riot at the U....

Right Wing Watch posted a video clip in which Weldon made her comments. In the clip, she said that China’s weather warfare weapons included “bunker fuel in the ocean and pulling down the polar vortex.” “They pulled it down, and they hit all of Texas, as you know it had a huge freeze so yeah that’s what happened,” Weldon said. She was referring to unprecedented snowfall and record-breaking cold temperatures that Texas experienced in February....

Acute Renal Failure Symptoms The kidney monitors the amount of fluid, electrolytes, and waste in the body and sends the excess materials to be eliminated in the urine. The symptoms of acute renal failure occur because these substances accumulate in the body when the kidney does not work the way it should. Symptoms of acute renal failure develop quickly, over several hours or days. The most common symptoms of are:...

What did Yandex do right? Serve local users’ needs, says cofounder and CEO Arkady Volozh. That means providing local-specific content like real-time graphics showing Moscow’s chronic traffic jams and search technologies better suited for specific tasks, like trawling blog content or newsfeeds. Yandex’s encyclopedia, news and dictionary searches combine Web-site searches with news archives and reference. Yandex, taking a leaf out of Google’s book, has cultivated young talent and funded research to keep its technological edge....

Macdonald died on Tuesday, aged 61, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer. Known for his dry delivery and a comedic outlook that pulled no punches, Macdonald rose to fame during a five-year stay on SNL from 1993 to 1998. That spell included a three-year stint as the host of the popular “Weekend Update” segment. Sandler spent two years working alongside Macdonald on SNL before embarking on a successful film career, but the pair remained firm friends....

McCarthy spoke in opposition to the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act for more than eight-and-a-half hours, ending just after 5 a.m. on Friday and setting a new record for the longest speech on the House floor. Schiff, a Democrat who represents California’s 28th congressional district, posted on Twitter late on Thursday—a couple of hours into McCarthy’s speech—to criticize the minority leader. “If you took the worst orator in the world,” Schiff wrote....

The chairman of the house intelligence committee told MSNBC that despite its claims, the White House administration had not yet shared any evidence with Congress that the virus had “escaped the lab” in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak of the virus began. Trump said on April 30 he had seen convincing evidence that the coronavirus originated from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a sentiment repeated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo....