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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s seven-day moving average of cases has been declining since September 14, when the daily average of new cases was just under 150,000. On September 24, the most current date displayed by the health agency’s data tracker, the average had decreased to around 114,000. The country’s surge in infections over the summer came as the Delta variant of COVID became dominant, accounting for the vast majority—nearly 100 percent—of sequenced samples....

The actress drowned in July while on a boating trip with her four-year-old son on California’s Lake Piru. The suit was filed by Dorsey, who shares the son in question with Rivera, on behalf of her estate over the accident. It blames Ventura County and managers of Lake Piru, alleging that visitors were not adequately warned of the risks of swimming there. Lake Piru is located in Ventura County, California, in the Los Padres National Forest, over 50 miles north of Los Angeles....

An Omicron subvariant that’s starting to gain global attention is XBB, which comes from the BA.2 sublineage of the COVID virus. How did XBB come to be? Andy Pekosz, PhD, a virologist and the vice-chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Verywell that since XBB is a combination of the BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, it means the subvariant has parts of two different viruses that infected the same host and exchanged some of their genes in the process....

The flawed computer model from the Imperial College London, from which both WHO and U.S. officials took cues, assumed that COVID-19 would kill 3.4 percent of the people it infected. That’s a good thirty times more deadly than the flu in a severe season. We can now estimate the coronavirus’s actual infection-fatality rate between 0.15 to 0.26 percent. So, the risk was exaggerated by thirty times. At the same time, officials, the press, and much of the public acted as if lives were only at risk from the coronavirus....

Bandai Namco’s latest Dragon Ball project, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, has been the center of attention for Dragon Ball fans for some time now. With the resurfacing of the franchise through Dragon Ball Super, fans have never been so hungry for more Dragon Ball content. Of all the characters in the franchise, Gohan is by far the most nuanced of the bunch. A half-saiyan, half-human hybrid, Gohan has been trained by Namekians like Piccolo, and even Kaioshins like the Supreme Kai himself....

MORE: Openly gay athletes | Who’s the Clark Kent of sports? Wheaties’ decision comes after an online petition to get Louganis, 56, on the iconic orange box amassed more than 40,000 signatures. Julie Sondgerath, who created the petition, was inspired after after watching the HBO documentary “Back on Board: Greg Louganis.” “From the moment I hit send on the petition, I knew this was possible,” Sondgerath said, via the New York Times....

She is often known to try her hand at various games, and also interacts with her audience via Twitch’s Just Chatting feature. She plays with random fans online, who would literally give anything to play with the 24-year old Twitch star. However, there are also instances, when playing with Pokimane can get you into serious trouble, especially if it involves a jealous girlfriend. In a hilarious yet disturbing incident, recently, a throwback clip from one of Pokimane’s streams surfaced online, where the person who she’s playing with has to suddenly leave the game midway, due to his girlfriend, who starts hitting him, just for playing with Pokimane!...

When Are the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Semifinals? There are two semifinals in America’s Got Talent, spread across two weeks. The 21 acts will take to the Dolby Theatre stage in L.A. in a bid to impress the judges and audiences at home. The first acts will perform on the first semifinal results show on Tuesday, August 31 with the remaining acts performing on Tuesday, September 7. Both live semifinals will be followed by a live results show on Wednesday, September 1, and Wednesday, September 8 respectively, where the acts who made it through to the final will be revealed....

Two top-10 teams lost on Saturday, which will undoubtedly affect the selection committee’s latest top 25. Coincidentally, those losses also solved two of the committee’s most looming problems: Where to rank Michigan State, and where to rank Oregon. MORE: College Football Playoff picture for Week 13 The committee received considerable flack in recent weeks for ranking the Spartans at No. 7, one spot behind No. 6 Michigan, whom they had beaten head to head earlier in the year....

LIVE: Who are the top four teams in third CFP rankings? Each of the top four teams handled their business on Saturday, including No. 4 TCU, which manhandled No. 18 Texas en route to a 17-10 victory in Austin. The score was closer than it appears, as the Longhorns’ only score came in the fourth quarter on an unforced fumble recovery for a touchdown by the Horned Frogs’ Max Duggan....

They will be held in Tokyo, the Japanese capital, and will feature 539 events across 22 sports at 21 venues. The sporting events featured include swimming and athletics, both of which are scheduled to be held on 10 of the 12 days of the Games. Athletics will hold the largest number of individual events at the Paralympics, while badminton and taekwondo will make their debut this year, according to the Paralympics website....

The Neymar Jr Fortnite Skin will feature four styles, two normal edits, and two style edits sporting some colorful Primal Mech suits. It’s unclear how this fits into the theme of the current season, but it looks very detailed and dynamic. How to unlock the Neymar Jr Fortnite Skin? According to the official blog post from Epic Games, the Neymar Jr. Fortnite Skin can be unlocked by players who have bought the Battle Pass....

Each Ultra Reward event is sticking around for one full week and the time on Dragon Week expires on August 7 at 1pm PDT. This means that, as of writing this, players have just about a day and a half to continue enjoying the Dragon Week bonuses. Considering how hard it is to hatch Deino from a 7km egg, there are probably lots of Pokemon GO players who feel like they need a lot more time before moving on to the next phase of August events....

The power of that vision indeed seems weak when faced with the stench of charred flesh and spilt blood. Fear masters everything: when you walk down the street you inspect all those who pass you with, as we say in Hebrew, seven eyes. Any one of them could be your murderer (and to your surprise you discover that in almost all of them, even the familiar faces, you can discern some sort of sinister feature)....

However, the long-anticipated wait for Season 3 is bittersweet as the latest series marks the end of the Derry Girls story. Lucky fans in the U.K. and Ireland will have access to the new series before the rest of the world, with the third and final season premiering on Tuesday, April 12 at 9.15 p.m. on Channel 4 and episodes airing every Tuesday thereafter. So, when exactly will Season 3 of Derry Girls land on Netflix?...

However, unfortunately, fans of Gentleman Jack in the U.S. and HBO Max customers across the world will have to wait a little later for the highly-anticipated drama to debut. Newsweek has everything you need to know about the return of Gentleman Jack to HBO Max. When is Gentleman Jack Season 2 Coming to HBO Max? Just like Season 1 of Gentleman Jack, Season 2 will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer a little earlier than HBO Max, starting on Sunday, April 10 at 9 p....

Following on from Part One’s nail-biting cliffhanger, the first 3 episodes of Part 2 are available to stream on HBO Max now and, better yet, there are three more episodes to come after this initial drop. Teasing what’s in store for Part 2, showrunner Joshua Safran spoke to Newsweek about the “tragedy” and “comedy” that has yet to come. When is Gossip Girl Back? Before we get to the…uh, well, gossip, let’s first explain when and where you can watch the new installment....

Ariel Helwani reports Bellator officials are looking to schedule the fight in April. MMA Fighting is reporting that May is also a possibility. McKee, 26, made his pro debut in 2015. The son of Antonio McKee slowly moved up the ladder within Bellator. He competed in the Bellator Featherweight Grand Prix starting in 2019, beating Georgi Karakhanyan, Derek Campos and Darrion Caldwell to make it to the final. MORE: PFL CEO Peter Murray talks Challenger Series...