We’ll continue to update this article with news on Cooks until the official active/inactive report comes out on Sunday around 11:35 a.m. ET. WEEK 10 INJURY UPDATES:QBs | RBs | Mitchell Is Brandin Cooks playing Week 10? UPDATE: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported late Saturday night that Cooks is expected to play on Sunday against the Giants. UPDATE 2: Cooks is officially ACTIVE. Cooks (personal) is officially listed as “questionable” on Houston’s final injury report ahead of Sunday’s matchup against the Giants....

However, though cancer itself is not contagious, some infections (which are contagious) can increase a person’s risk of developing cancer. Cancer may run in families, but instead of being transmitted, this risk is related to genetic traits (a genetic predisposition) or common exposures that increase risk. Contagiousness and Cancer Since cancer can be contagious in some animals, you may be wondering why it is not contagious in humans. This is because cancer cells cannot live outside the body, and the immune system recognizes cancer cells entering the body....

We’ll continue to update this article with news on Waller until the official active/inactive report comes out on Thursday around 6:50 p.m. ET. MORE TNF: Jacobs update Is Darren Waller playing Thursday night Week 14? UPDATE: ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez reported on Tuesday that Waller is “on track” to come off the IR in Week 15, so fantasy owners can forget about him for Thursday’s game against the Rams. Waller hasn’t played since Week 5 because of a nagging hamstring injury, and since being placed on the IR ahead of Week 10, there have been hardly any updates on his status....

The Suns have bounced back, though, winning their last four games to get back over .500. Their next challenge comes on Thursday night when they face the Mavericks, who eliminated Phoenix from the 2022 NBA Playoffs with a blowout win in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals. Can the Suns push their winning streak to five games? And what is Booker’s status? Here is everything you need to know about Suns vs....

Lim, 64, rose to power after a long career in Manila’s Western Police District (WPD), the city’s most macho precinct. When he was chief of the WPD in the 1980s, he says, something snapped after several officers were killed in action. In 1987 he led a police charge to retake a TV station and hotel captured by rebellious soldiers during a coup attempt. A grateful President Corazon Aquino named Lim chief of the National Bureau of Investigation-the equivalent of the FBI....

NEWSWEEK: What do you think of Don Imus’s calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”? Cora Daniels: Of course Imus’s comments are outrageous. But it’s also an illustration of the “ghetto” mindset that it was so easy for Imus to say that. That’s an indication of how deep [the ghetto mindset] is in all of our thinking. “Ho,” unfortunately, has become synonymous with black women and it slips into conversation....

So why is the American Jewish community so nervous? The answer is that the usual moral certainty about Israel and American Jewish identity has been replaced by a nagging moral confusion. “Are settlements right or wrong.? Is Bush a good guy or a bad guy? American Jews don’t know what to believe,” says Marc Klein, editor of the Northern California Jewish Bulletin. For Jewish readers who view The New York Times practically as a secular Talmud, the paper’s decision to back the president against Israel on the $10 billion in housing guarantees was a shock....

Jimmy Garoppolo is no stranger to injuries. The 49ers QB has missed both major and minor time with a bevy of injuries throughout his career, putting San Francisco behind the 8-ball at times. This weekend is no different: Garoppolo is dealing with injuries in his throwing arm that may cost him his ability to play. That couldn’t come at a worse time, with the Niners traveling to Lambeau Field to take on the Packers in the NFC divisional round....

As the 2015-16 Lakers press on with what has mostly become a Kobe Bryant farewell tour, their head coach is at least able to provide a unique bit of insight — and see the massive differences. “I think at that particular time, it was almost the norm; we kind of expected that everywhere we went” Scott said last week in Minneapolis. “We have so many young guys on this team, I don’t know if they expect that....

On top of this comes a book from World Bank insider William Easterly, challenging the notion that World Bank loans ever did much good**. Easterly says that bank efforts in Africa have demonstrably failed: income per person in the sub-Sahara is at about the same subsistence levels as in 1980. Wolfensohn has plenty of external critics, too. Free-market conservatives led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill claim bank lending has been counterproductive in Asia, Latin America and Africa....

Carlson announced on Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight that Kelly, 48, will make her return to Fox News after nearly three years away. It will also be her first television appearance since NBC pulled Megyn Kelly Today off the air last October over Kelly’s controversial blackface comments. News of Kelly’s guest spot on Carlson’s show has prompted speculation that Kelly, who finalized her exit from NBC in January and is now a free agent, could return to Fox full-time—especially following the exit of Shepard Smith....

The Michigan State Police submitted the “Three-Year Statewide Domestic Preparedness Strategy” report to the U.S. Justice Department earlier this month, to help support a request for federal funds to fight terrorism in Michigan. A police spokesman says the report “was not intended for public distribution.” Almost every major terrorist organization has operatives in Michigan, according to the report. Citing information received from the Detroit office of the FBI, the report says “most of the 28 international terrorist groups recently identified by the State Department… are represented in Michigan....

It’s possible — at least according to former Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron. On his weekly appearance on Tide 99.1-FM radio show in Tuscaloosa, McCarron talked about Alabama’s first loss of the season last week to Ole Miss and answered some questions from callers, according to AL.com. MORE: Tarkenton blasts McCarron | Angry Tide fan | Security guard slam Among the highlights: McCarron thinks the Crimson Tide should be spreading the ball around more than focusing so much on WR Amari Cooper and he questioned the offense’s leadership....

Mexico’s Blanco: I’m afraid for my life That appears to be the case as the youngest son of President Donald Trump, 11-year-old Barron, was photographed during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll wearing a Gunners shirt. In addition, the Washington Post reports Barron met with three players from the local MLS side, D.C. United, in addition to the club mascot during the event Monday. There’s no telling if the visit by D....

Clashes have intensified over the last few weeks in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the scene of hostilities between Kyiv-backed troops and Russian-backed separatists. Kyiv has said Russia had put more than 40,000 troops on Ukraine’s eastern border, and more than 40,000 troops in Crimea. The increased presence spurred U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to warn Russia there would be “consequences” if Moscow acted “recklessly or aggressively.”...

The latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the sub-variant accounts for around a quarter of all new sequenced cases in the United States—and the proportion appears to be increasing. In fact, if current trends continue, BA.2—informally dubbed “stealth Omicron”—looks set to overtake other types of Omicron in the United States, including the original BA.1 variant. On Sunday, Anthony Fauci—chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden—told ABC’s This Week that BA....

The FDA issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in December, followed by Moderna a week later and Johnson & Johnson in February. An EUA allows the vaccines to be used despite not having approval because of the public health crisis, but on Monday, the FDA granted Pfizer full approval, meaning it can now market its product for use in people who are 16 or older. It will also now be referred to as Comirnaty in its marketing....

The NFL’s regular season is officially over. Week 18 has come to an end and the playoff field is set. While fans have enjoyed 17 weeks of “Monday Night Football”, they’ll have to wait a week for the 18th. There is no “Monday Night Football” in Week 18. The NFL never schedules a Monday game in the final week of the season so all of its action can wrap up by the end of “Sunday Night Football....

Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, has become a popular drink in the U.S. in recent years. Market Watch reported that a national survey following the lockdown last May found that bubble tea was the most popular delivery item in California, Hawaii, and Michigan. Bubble tea is made up of black tea, milk, ice, and chewy tapioca pearls, and can come in a wide variety of flavors, from sweet and fruity to chocolate and even coffee....

The Ravens and Steelers were meant to play Thursday night to cap off a three-game Thanksgiving slate. Instead, Baltimore had a COVID-19 outbreak on its team, and the NFL announced Wednesday afternoon it has postponed the game until Sunday afternoon. On short notice, the league chose to keep the first two Thanksgiving games at their originally scheduled start times. Every year since 2006, the NFL has had a third Thanksgiving game to serve as a nightcap....