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Omicron’s highly transmissible nature, but potential to cause less severe disease had some hoping that the world could be headed toward a SARS-COV-2 endemic, enabling people to largely return to normal life. While the WHO believes the virus will eventually become endemic, officials don’t believe we’re at that point and that COVID-19 still has “quite a few tricks up its sleeve.” When Newsweek asked WHO officials at Wednesday’s briefing if the Omicron outbreak could be the start of the COVID-19 endemic, Dr....

Although Tribal Nations control just 2 percent of all land in the U.S., these lands hold about $1.5 trillion in untapped fossil fuels—around a third of the country’s coal, methane gas, and oil. Fossil fuel companies are impatient to extract, transport, and sell all of it before the renewable energy transition puts them out of business, and tribes like mine are getting in their way. The treaties we signed with the U....

Doubtless, in another thousand years, historians will look back at our own time and find some similar epochal developments. Don’t ask us what they might be; we’ve frankly no idea. But it’s a little easier-and a lot safer-to predict what will happen in the next few decades. So, just five years before the parties that will celebrate the century’s turn, we asked NEwswEEK writers to have a go. Their brief was to choose something (or someone) specific and use their choice to illuminate a broader theme of tomorrow’s world....

The last time the Malaysian fighter stepped inside the cage was in December 2020 at ONE Championship: Big Bang 2. He lost to Tyler McGuire via unanimous decision. It has been an up-and-down ride for Thani in his last six fights in ONE Championship, with losses already outweighing the wins 4-2. Nonetheless, ‘The Alligator’ still sees a silver lining. Tetsuka will also look to return to winning ways after losing his most recent matchup in ONE Championship....

The action-packed card will be headlined by No. 1 ranked bantamweight Muay Thai contender Saemapetch Fairtex and the piping hot Rittewada. The winner could be next in line to face the living legend himself, ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai champion Nong-O. ONE Championship: NEXTGEN II start time and details ONE: NEXTGEN II will be broadcast to more than 150 countries. Fans can watch via television, computer, tablet, or their mobile devices....

And finally, he made what he called the hardest decision of his life. One more year. Retirement needs to wait a little bit longer for Wade, who announced Sunday night in a video taped earlier in the day that he’s returning for a 16th and final NBA season. He basically spent the entirety of the last four months weighing his options, and retirement — even just a few days ago — was an extremely real possibility in his mind....

The jackpot grew to $1.28 billion this week as Americans from across the country joined in on the lottery, hoping to score the billion-dollar winnings, which was one of the largest winnings in Mega Millions history. But one lucky player purchased the winning ticket at a Speedway in Des Plaines, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, which came with an immediate cash value of $747.2 million. The jackpot will leave the winner, who has not been publicly identified, with more wealth than some of the richest celebrities, including Bono, who is widely estimated to be worth about $700 million, and Dolly Parton, who has an estimated net worth of anywhere between $350 and $650 million....

And while his first Premier League adventure has not gone entirely to plan thus far, with United sitting in sixth place in the table a full nine points adrift of leaders Chelsea and Zlatan having recently endured a six-game goalless streak, the club are looking forward to seeing 18 more months of Ibrahimovic in the famous red shirt. “Zlatan’s situation is simple, he has a one year plus another year [contract] in the club, we are happy with him, we are going to execute the option of a second season,” manager Jose Mourinho confirmed at a press conference on Wednesday ahead of the Europa League clash with Feyenoord at Old Trafford....

Dreamworks often tries to imitate films from Pixar: look at A Bug’s Life compared to Antz and Finding Nemo versus Shark Tale. But no one of them works as well as Pixar’s The Incredibles Dreamworks counterpart. Megamind is an exploration of what it means to be a good guy or a bad guy in a superhero film and what happens when one is missing the other. Comic books have a long-standing trope of having the hero be a noble strong man at the helm while the bad guy is an immensely smart alien or mutant that finds other ways of challenging the hero....

The most obvious and famous cartoon spinoff is The Simpsons, going from small sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show to the longest-running animated series ever (with no plans of stopping anytime soon), but around the same time that The Simpsons was skyrocketing in the 1990s, another cartoon spinoff series was getting its footing and would soon be labeled as one of the best spinoffs of all time — Pinky and the Brain....

One Piece: Burning Blood is a 3D arena fighter in which players battle by using a variety of characters from the anime/manga series One Piece. And if one has to be told what One Piece: Burning Blood is based on, chances are the game isn’t for them, as it would make almost no sense to anyone unfamiliar with the franchise. This approach means that those that watch One Piece may have fun controlling some of their favorite characters from the anime, but fighting game fans that don’t know a Devil Fruit from the Going Merry will be lost....

The chapter ended on a cliffhanger, which only enticed the fans even further., and in a very short time, multiple theories have surfaced pertaining to what will happen in the “Final Saga” of One Piece. One Piece Chapter 1053 was filled with a great deal of information and surprises. With so many new revelations, it is tough to decide, which was the biggest surprise in the chapter. RELATED: One Piece 1053: Admiral Green Bull Makes His Move...

RELATED: Scariest One Piece Characters Most of these characters rely on their physical and devil fruit abilities to get the better of their opponents. Such characters never fail to capture the attention of the fans, but sometimes physical strength alone isn’t enough to win a fight or get out of a tricky situation. In such cases, the smartness of a character comes into play. Needless to say, there are many knowledgeable characters in One Piece, but not all of them are smart....

The video shared by Kirsty Hendey on TikTok has received over 25,000 likes. The senior woman using a Zimmer frame has melted the hearts of the internet after asking what a barbell is. The heart-warming video has been viewed over 217,000 times, making it the most watched video on the fitness account. The online fitness coach can be seen setting up for an outdoor workout to share with her followers....

Unless you have been living in exile, you know all about “The Great Resignation,” a term coined by organizational psychologist and Texas A&M professor Anthony Klotz. It’s the period beginning in 2021 when pandemic-shocked employees went into revolt: The number of Americans quitting their jobs exceeded pre-pandemic highs for a majority of the year, despite employers struggling to fill millions of open positions. For example, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), roughly 3 percent of all workers, or 4....

The NCAA has formally charged the school with roughly 30 violations across football, women’s basketball and track and field, Yahoo Sports reported. MORE: Reasons to be excited, worried for SEC in 2016 | Best images from bowl season The conditions and circumstances of the violations were not made clear, though according to ESPN, the most of violations predate Hugh Freeze’s tenure. Freeze was hired in 2012. The violations concering Freeze are linked to the Laremy Tunsil case....

Olympiacos made the questionable decision to sack head coach Paulo Bento on Monday despite the club leading the Greek Superleague by seven points. The home side - who have lost three straight home league games - did not appear to be lifted by Bento’s dismissal and it was somewhat undeserved when veteran midfielder Esteban Cambiasso headed Olympiacos into an undeserved lead nine minutes before the end of a forgettable first half at a rain-lashed Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis....

“On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound told USA Today. “The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.” MORE: What about tickets for 2020 Olympics? Many anticipated such a move on the part of the IOC, especially after countries like Canada and Australia claimed they would not participate if the Olympics are held as scheduled this summer....

The province of Tirol said in a statement on Sunday that 53.56 percent of the 312,237 valid votes cast across the region were against a bid to host the Games and 46.65 percent were in favour. A total of 33,771 postal voting slips have been distributed and will be counted on Monday. Austrian media treated the result as definitive. Innsbruck previously hosted the Games in 1964 and 1976. The result, if confirmed, will be a blow to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which has seen interest in hosting the summer and winter Olympics fall away in the last few years, scared off by the size, cost and complexity of the events....