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Playing alongside Kuchar in the final group, Villegas finished birdie-birdie-bogey-birdie for a 69 to join Kuchar at 19 under. The 45-year-old Kuchar won the tournament in 2018 at Mayakoba. A month after that, he won the Sony Open in Hawaii for the last of his nine PGA Tour titles. Political Cartoons View All 1234 ImagesVillegas, two strokes ahead after opening 64-64, is fighting to gain his full PGA Tour card. The 41-year-old Colombian split time between the Korn Ferry Tour and whatever PGA Tour events he could get in this year, and he stands at No.

Persons: Matt Kuchar, Camilo Villegas, Kuchar, Villegas, Nos, Erik van Rooyen, Mackenzie Hughes, Will Gordon, Justin Suh, ___ Organizations: Diamante, Kuchar, Sony, PGA, FedEx Locations: Mexico, Baja California, Mayakoba, Hawaii

☆ New York Times Writer Resigns After Signing Letter Protesting the Israel-Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Katie Robertson | More About Katie Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Jazmine Hughes, an award-winning New York Times Magazine staff writer, resigned from the publication on Friday after she violated the newsroom’s policies by signing a letter that voiced support for Palestinians and protested Israel’s siege in Gaza. Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine, announced Ms. Hughes’s resignation in an email to staff members on Friday evening. That letter, which was also signed by other contributors to The Times, protested the newspaper’s reporting on transgender issues. Ms. Hughes joined The Times in 2015 and worked as an editor and writer for the magazine. The petition Ms. Hughes signed about the Israel-Hamas war was published online last week by a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza.

Persons: Jazmine Hughes, Israel’s, Jake Silverstein, Hughes’s, ” Mr, Silverstein, Hughes, Ms, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, ”, Jamie Lauren Keiles Organizations: New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Times, Times, American Society of Magazine Locations: Gaza, Israel

By then, county officials were seeing the area’s fatal opioid overdose toll tick up. “We were grossly underprepared, like I think many places across the country were, for the opioid epidemic,” Stuby said. Like hundreds of U.S. communities, it's launched a drug court where people can avoid jail if they work on recovery. They can lead to an entry-level certificate for work in the field — a partial answer to a recovery workforce crunch. His research has shown that recovery support services — such as housing, community centers and peer coaching — can help.

Persons: ”, Precia Stuby, “, Stuby, Jesse Johnson, Johnson, Anonymous, ” Stuby, didn’t, —, ” Johnson, it's, Kerri Kostic, Kostic, God, Meelee Kim, “ It’s, John F, Kelly, ____, haven't, Misty Weaver, Weaver, ___ Christina McCarver, ‘ Let’s, who's, McCarver, William Mull, Cory Kinn, “ That’s, they’ve, ___, she’s, I’ve, ” ___ Johnson, Patrick Orsagos Organizations: —, Findlay, Technology, University of Findlay, Brandeis University, Harvard Medical School, Family Resource, AP, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group Locations: FINDLAY , Ohio, Findlay, Hancock, drugmakers, Hancock County, U.S, Toledo, Mull, COVID, Washington

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. The discovery was made during Wednesday’s flyby of Dinkinesh, 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. In data and images beamed back to Earth, the spacecraft confirmed that Dinkinesh is barely a half-mile (790 meters) across. NASA sent Lucy past Dinkinesh as a rehearsal for the bigger, more mysterious asteroids out near Jupiter.

Persons: NASA’s Lucy, —, Dinkinesh, Lucy, It's, “ Dinkinesh, Hal Levison Organizations: NASA, Research, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, Ethiopia

The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, with districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives. The problem is not a shortage of milk itself, but the cardboard cartons used to package and serve it, according to dairy industry suppliers and state officials. The shortage is affecting the company’s ability to “fully supply some school milk orders,” according to Matt Herrick, spokesperson for the International Dairy Foods Association. In Clarence, New York, local school district officials told parents they plan to provide “small bottles of water or cups of milk with lids” if the cartons run out. In Everett, Washington, school officials told parents to expect a disruption in cafeteria milk supply that could “range up to several months.”Herrick said U.S. milk processors are working with other package suppliers to resolve the shortage.

Persons: North America ”, “, Matt Herrick, —, Jayme Taylor, ”, ” Herrick Organizations: International Dairy Foods Association . School, U.S . Department of Agriculture, Nutrition Service, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Lake Forest , Illinois, North America, New York , Pennsylvania, California, Washington, U.S, Clarence , New York, Lake Stevens , Washington, Seattle, “, Everett , Washington

☆ House Passes GOP’s Israel Aid Package as Disputes Simmer Over Ukraine, Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Lindsay Wise | Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The House passed Republicans’ $14.3 billion Israel-aid bill on Thursday, although Senate Democrats have warned that the bill will be dead on arrival in their chamber. President Biden also said he would veto the measure. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Zuma PressWASHINGTON—The House passed Republicans’ $14.3 billion Israel-aid bill on Thursday, setting up a fight with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which is pursuing a much larger package that includes assistance to Ukraine. The measure was approved 226-196 in a largely party-line vote that masked broad underlying U.S. support for sending weapons and financing to Israel.

Persons: Biden, Michael Brochstein, Zuma Press WASHINGTON Organizations: Republicans ’, Zuma Press, Democratic Locations: Israel, Ukraine

☆ House to Vote on Israel Aid as Disputes Simmer Over Ukraine Funding, Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Lindsay Wise | Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli soldiers serviced a tank gun near Gaza on Thursday. Photo: abir sultan/ShutterstockWASHINGTON—The House is set to vote Thursday afternoon on Republicans’ $14.3 billion Israel aid proposal, kicking off a legislative fight complicated by growing disagreements about assistance for Ukraine and debates over how to better secure the U.S. border. Aid for Israel as it battles militant group Hamas in Gaza has overwhelming support in Congress, but the House bill is contentious because it also strips out money from the Internal Revenue Service and ignores the Biden administration’s request for funding for Ukraine. Senate Democrats warn that the House bill will be dead on arrival in their chamber, and President Biden has said he would veto the measure if it reaches his desk.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Shutterstock WASHINGTON, ’, Hamas, Internal Revenue Service, Ukraine, Democrats Locations: Gaza, Shutterstock, Israel, Ukraine, U.S

☆ Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky: The No. 1 green flag I look for before hiring anyone—especially a Gen Z candidate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Ece Yildirim | In Ecedyildirim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

At job interviews, he screens for self-reflection by asking about past failures and what you, the candidate, would do differently next time. A good answer walks the hiring manager through your thought process so they can see how you evaluate opportunities and solve problems. But if you don't have that skill set, it is much harder to," Lubetzky tells CNBC Make It. Particularly those in [Gen-Z] that develop self-reflection skills will outperform those who don't." Daniel Lubetzky , the billionaire founder of Kind Snacks and frequent guest judge on ABC's "Shark Tank," looks for a green flag when he's hiring: the ability to self-reflect.

Persons: Daniel Lubetzky, Lubetzky, Jerry Colonna, Claire Hughes Johnson, Juliette Han, Han, Warren Buffett Organizations: CNBC, Google, Columbia Business School

NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer high school students are vaping this year, the government reported Thursday. In a survey, 10% of high school students said they had used electronic cigarettes in the previous month, down from 14% last year. Use of any tobacco product— including cigarettes and cigars — also fell among high schoolers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. — About 1 in 10 middle and high school students said they recently had used a tobacco product. There was a slight increase in middle schools students who said they had used at least one tobacco product in the past month, while that rate fell among high school students.

Persons: —, ”, Kenneth Michael Cummings, vape, Kurt Ribisl, Cummings, ___ Perrone Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, University of South, Drug Administration, FDA, CDC, University of North, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: University of South Carolina, China, University of North Carolina, Washington

It’s time to pick health coverage for next year on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, and experts caution against focusing your choice on price alone. Here are some things to consider when assessing marketplace plans. Many people who haven't shopped on the marketplace don’t know that they can get this help, according to Jeremy Smith, who directs West Virginia’s health insurance navigator program. “They’re just used to having health coverage … and it covers everything.”Plans also can come with annual out-of-pocket maximums higher than $9,000 for individuals and $18,000 for families. “The good news is a lot of people who’ve been in Medicaid will likely qualify for these cost-sharing reductions,” said Sabrina Corlette, co-director of Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

Persons: haven't, Jeremy Smith, ”, ” Smith, “ They’re, who’ve, Sabrina Corlette, “, Cynthia Cox, HMOs, Kelly Fristoe, Smith Organizations: Medicaid, Shoppers, Georgetown University’s Center, Health, KFF, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Wichita Falls , Texas

Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the organization's president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely.”Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all such birds will be renamed, the organization announced. She said heated discussions over bird names have been happening within birdwatching communities for the past several years. And a group called Bird Names for Birds sent a petition to the ornithological society urging it to “outline a plan to change harmful common names” of birds.

Persons: Colleen Handel, Alexander Wilson, John James Audubon, John P, McCown, “ I'm, ”, Emily Williams, Susan Bell, Christian Cooper, Amy Cooper, Cooper, birdwatchers Organizations: American Ornithological Society, Confederate Army, Georgetown University, National Audubon Society, National Audubon Society's, Audubon, Birds, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: North America, U.S, Canada, ”, New

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft will swing past eight Trojans believed to be up to 10 to 100 times bigger than Dinkinesh. The spacecraft is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s. Lucy will next swing past an asteroid named after one of the fossil Lucy's discoverers: Donald Johanson. Then in October, it launched a spacecraft to a rare, metal-rich asteroid named Psyche.

Persons: —, Lucy, Donald Johanson, Hal Levison Organizations: NASA, Research, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, Dinkinesh, Ethiopia

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American infants, infant boys and babies born at 37 weeks or earlier had significant death rate increases. Because the number of babies born in the U.S. varies from year to year, researchers instead calculate rates to better compare infant mortality over time. The U.S. infant mortality rate has been worse than other high-income countries, which experts have attributed to poverty, inadequate prenatal care and other possibilities. The national rate rose to 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, up from from 5.44 per 1,000 the year before, the new report said.

Persons: “ It’s, ”, Marie Thoma, Eric Eichenwald, Eichenwald, Danielle Ely, —, ” Ely Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, University of Maryland, American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Philadelphia, U.S, Georgia, Iowa , Missouri, Texas

☆ Searching for Brian Friel, and His Mythical Ballybeg
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Then he moved a metal barricade away from the graveyard entrance — “It’s just a makeshift thing,” he said — and let me in. The bright green grass was so soft under my feet that I said so, and the man said it probably should have been farmland all those years ago. The graveyard has only a single marker, inscribed in Irish: a 20th-century monument to the dead buried there beginning in 1846. That’s the year after the failure of potato crops started the Great Famine, making poverty a scourge in rural Ireland. So much covered-over misery, such an alluringly pastoral setting: This felt like Friel to me.

Persons: “, ”, —, Friel Locations: Ireland, Inishkeel, Narin, Portnoo

☆ House, Senate Brace for Showdown on Israel Aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Siobhan Hughes | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken was interrupted several times on Tuesday after protesters shouted antiwar slogans during his opening remarks. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) is on a collision course with the Senate over a plan to immediately fund aid for Israel but not Ukraine, with a proposed House bill drawing rebukes from Democrats and a cool reception from some Republicans who favor a broader foreign-policy package. The newly elected leader is moving to hold a vote on a bill Thursday giving Israel $14.3 billion in aid and taking previously allocated funding for the Internal Revenue Service to offset the expense. The package would be far smaller than the $106 billion requested by the White House to fund not only Israel but also Ukraine, Taiwan and border security.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Saul Loeb, Mike Johnson Organizations: Getty, WASHINGTON —, Senate, Israel, Internal Revenue Service, White Locations: Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days. The Maryland team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man. David Bennett survived two months before that heart failed, for reasons that aren’t completely clear although signs of a pig virus later were found inside the organ.

Persons: Lawrence Faucette, Faucette, Faucette’s, Ann, “, David Bennett, Faucette's, ” Dr, Bartley Griffith, — Organizations: WASHINGTON, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland, Navy, Food and Drug Administration, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Maryland, Frederick , Maryland

Drugstore workers around the country started calling in sick Monday to highlight a lack of support from their employers, protest organizers said. She said organizers estimate that “at least hundreds” of pharmacists and technicians — mostly for Walgreens and other big retailers like CVS Health — were involved. Pharmacists say they have been dealing with difficult working conditions for years. Thibault said CVS Health is working to give its pharmacies room to schedule more staff. Ultimately, retail pharmacies need more staffing to avoid creating dangerous working conditions that lead to medication errors, Duong said.

Persons: drugstores, Lannie Duong, —, Fraser Engerman, Amy Thibault, walkouts, Duong, there’s, Shane Jerominski, ”, Jerominski, “ You’re, Thibault, Engerman, “ Organizations: Pharmacists, Walgreens, CVS, CVS Health, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: U.S, Kansas City, California

☆ In the Early Days of Lockdown, a Writer Considers a Perplexing Age
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Dwight Garner | More About Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Playing with Eureka makes her melancholy, because “animals having fun can be a poignant spectacle — I suppose partly because it narrows the gap between us and them.”I can do without animals, most of the time, in novels. “When men appear in fiction now,” she writes, “it’s usually to be criticized or denounced for something. I meet the same paragon in book after book: high I.Q., great personality, firm moral purpose, dazzling wit. And the trick is to get across that she’s also very attractive without ever appearing to be somehow disrespecting her. Every novel is about aging, in a way, but Nunez is especially attuned to old age’s tender humiliations.

Persons: Nunez, Bette Davis’s, Elizabeth Taylor, “, Virginia Woolf, Robert Hughes, ”, ” Nunez Organizations: Eureka

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning parents and caregivers not to buy or serve certain pureed fruit pouches marketed to toddlers and young children because the food might contain dangerous levels of lead. Children who have eaten WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches should be tested for possible lead poisoning, the agency said. Four children in North Carolina were found to have high levels of lead in their blood linked to the puree products, health officials said. Lead exposure can seriously harm children's health, causing damage to the brain and nervous system and slowed growth and development. There is no known safe level of lead exposure, the AAP said.

Organizations: . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Sam's, Amazon, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: North Carolina, Coral Gables , Florida

The Food and Drug Administration advisory applies to lubricating drops sold by six companies, including CVS Health, Target, Rite Aid and Cardinal Health. Consumers should stop using the products immediately and avoid purchasing any that remain on pharmacy and store shelves, the FDA said in a statement Friday. The agency asked the companies to recall their products last week, because FDA inspectors found unsanitary conditions and bacteria at the facility producing the drops. Earlier this year, federal officials linked an outbreak of drug-resistant bacteria to eyedrops from two companies, EzriCare and Delsam Pharma. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Drug, CVS Health, Target, Rite Aid, Cardinal Health, Consumers, FDA, Delsam Pharma, Centers for Disease Control, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: — U.S, U.S, India

☆ Selling a Haunted Home Isn’t as Scary as You Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Erika Mailman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Julia Park Tracey, 60, and her husband, Patrick Tracey, 63, bought a five-bedroom home in Grass Valley, Calif., in 2020 for $280,000 from Pennie Hughes, who was about 70 years old, she didn’t disclose on any paperwork that the house was haunted. But Julia says she told them it was haunted informally and jokingly, saying things like, “Of course it’s haunted; it’s an old house.”Then, Hughes died on the day she was moving out of the home.

Persons: Julia Park Tracey, Patrick Tracey, Pennie Hughes, Julia, Hughes Locations: Grass Valley, Calif

You can thank the cyclical weather pattern known as El Niño for that. Increased rainfall is likely in South America and severe drought in Australia, Indonesia and parts of southern Asia. El Niño may have played a role in that transformation over a scant 24 hours; the warmer sea surface temperatures associated with the weather pattern provide favorable conditions for hurricane development in the eastern Pacific. The human toll of these El Niño repercussions is immense. As we enter another year of El Niño, one that could be “historically strong,” the challenge is on for rich nations to coordinate and deepen their assistance to developing countries before they face these foreseeable consequences.

Persons: Hurricane Otis, El Locations: South America, Australia, Indonesia, Asia, Peru, India, Pacific Coast, Mexico, El

22 Tulane held on to defeat Rice 30-28 Saturday for its sixth straight win. Chris Brazzell II caught five catches for 75 yards, and Yulkeith Brown caught five catches for 57 yards and a touchdown. For Rice, JT Daniels was 18 of 29 for 189 yards and two touchdowns. However, Tulane ran out most the clock, and a last-second play by Rice was snuffed out to end the game. … Rice dropped to 2-2 in games decided by seven points or less this season.

Persons: — Michael Pratt, Rice, Pratt, Tulane's Makhi Hughes, Chris Brazzell, Yulkeith Brown, JT Daniels, Juma Otoviano, Luke McCafferty, Gabriel Taylor, Daniels, Boden, Valentino Ambrosio’s, McCafferty, … Hughes, …, … Rice, … Daniels Organizations: HOUSTON, Tulane, ACC, Owls, Otoviano, Green Wave, … Tulane, The Owls, NEXT Tulane, East Carolina, SMU Locations: East

☆ Selling a Haunted Home? That’s Between You and the Ghosts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Erika Mailman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Julia Park Tracey, Patrick Tracey, Pennie Hughes, Julia, Hughes Locations: Grass Valley, Calif

NEW YORK (AP) — A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot. The data also indicated that nearly 40% of adults said they probably or definitely will not get the shot. In the late summer, government health officials made the nation's COVID-19 vaccination campaign more like the annual flu campaign. Even so, health officials say about 18,000 hospitalization and 1,200 deaths are still being reported each week. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

Persons: didn't, hospitalizations, Camille Kotton, David Kimberlin, “ Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Harvard Medical School, University of Alabama, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: U.S, Birmingham

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