The Cost The cost of orthodontics is generally considered to be very expensive. Invisalign treatment may cost more than traditional braces because the patient may require longer treatment time, compared to the time it takes for traditional braces to move the teeth into their correct position. Because Invisalign is not made directly in the dental office, losing or breaking an Invisalign retainer will add additional costs for the patient. When you lose a bracket, band, or break an archwire, there typically is not any additional charges necessary in order to repair the braces....

The storm hit the coast of Nicaragua on Monday as a Category 4 hurricane, flooding villages that had only recently been impacted by Eta. Iota weakened to a tropical storm on Tuesday as wind speeds decreased, though heavy rainfall continued and flooded areas as it moved inland. Reuters reported that six people had died in Nicaragua, two people had died in Colombia’s Providencia island, and one person had died in Panama....

Parker, 53, was a first team All-Big Ten safety at Michigan State for three consecutive seasons in the 1980s. But as he’s stayed in the college football ranks as a defensive backs coach, and now coordinator, he has seen the game he loves evolve — for the worse. ANGRY BENDER: Can we finally fix this targeting rule? “You know, it’s really hard, because the game of football has really changed....

Michael McKinney, 25, was charged last month with attempted murder after he fired his gun into a car carrying four Black teen girls outisde a Trump rally in Des Moines on December 6. Officers arrested McKinney later that evening after finding he “intentionally fired a handgun at a vehicle driving through the parking lot of the Lucas State Office Building which resulted in the victim suffering her injuries”, a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety reads....

Line: Kansas -9.5 Total: 159 MORE: College hoops live odds | ATS standings Trends: ISU 21-9 SU, 13-13 ATS, 12-14-1 O/U. Kansas 26-4 SU, 19-9 ATS, 9-18-1 O/U. KenPom efficiency ratings: ISU 20 (overall), 2 (offense), 111 (defense). Kansas 1, 6, 5 Effective FG percentage: ISU 57.0, Kansas 55.8 EFG% against: ISU 49.4, Kansas 45.1 Pick: Iowa State has covered four of the last five meetings in this series, including an 85-72 win as 1-point home favorites in late January....

On The Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox stage, candidates will have 20 minutes each to talk to fair goers ahead of the crucial February Iowa Democratic caucuses. Presidential candidates have campaigned at the Iowa State Fair since 1954, when Dwight D. Eisenhower set the tradition. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election, said “corporations are people” on the soapbox in 2011 and four years ago, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump did not attend but gave children helicopter rides close by....

Cheerleaders often get the worst of it. Especially this poor Iowa State cheerleader, who was on the baseline with the rest of her teammates when a Cyclones player accidentally booted an inbound pass directly into her noggin. PHOTOS: The most hilarious faces of the NCAA Tournament This seriously had to hurt. Hopefully she is OK.

Another four years of Trump would likely have been ruinous for Tehran. President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory could yet hand Iran much-needed sanctions relief and ease American efforts to isolate the country. But Biden’s victory alone will not fully thaw U.S.-Iranian relations, and there is no guarantee that the two nations will be able to step away from the brink of conflict and revive the beleaguered Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal....

Iran Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said a decision by Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice accusing Iran of committing terrorism was “shameful” and lacked evidence, according to Al Jazeera. “Everyone knows that the Canadian court is fundamentally not qualified to judge this aviation accident or potential negligence in an incident that is outside the territory and jurisdiction of Canada,” he said in a statement Friday. On Thursday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared that Iran intentionally shot down Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 in January 2020....

Shargh was one of four publications shut down on Sept. 11 by the Press Supervisory Board, a conservative government watchdog group that monitors Iran’s media. In addition to the cartoon, the board said the newspaper was also guilty of such misdemeanors as interviewing the British and German ambassadors to Tehran; citing the BBC as a reliable source of information; propagating Marxist ideas; publishing an interview with former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, and carrying reports about premarital sex and children born out of wedlock....

While Biden promised in the past to restore U.S. adherence to the agreement reached by former President Barack Obama alongside other nations in 2015 and unilaterally abandoned by former President Donald Trump in 2018, Blinken told reporters Wednesday that the new administration was “a long ways” from returning to the pact. In a statement sent to Newsweek, Iranian permanent mission to the United Nations spokesperson Alireza Miryousefi noted that the U....

Hossein Taeb, who serves as head of intelligence for the elite Revolutionary Guards, revealed what was described as a “Hebrew-Arab"⁠—a reference to Israel and neighboring Arab nations—plan several years in the making to assassinate Major General Qassim Soleimani, leader of the top Iranian forces’ expeditionary Quds Force. The conspiracy allegedly involved the hiring of a three-person team tasked with detonating over 1,100 pounds of explosives in an underground tunnel beneath a prayer hall dedicated to Soleimani’s late father in Kerman province....

The video came out on state-controlled Iranian television before the nation’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech on Sunday, according to The Washington Free Beacon. In his talk, Khamenei praised the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), who have carried out operations against the U.S. and whose leader, Qassem Soleimani, was killed by a drone strike by the Trump administration. The footage of the fake attack also came out the same day Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani declared the U....

Biden signaled during his presidential campaign that he aimed to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which granted Iran sanctions relief and international investment in exchange for curbing its nuclear program. President Donald Trump withdrew from the international accord in 2018 and reimplemented punitive sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation and its leaders. “What we say is that whatever has happened under Trump’s administration must go back to the pre-Trump era....

The Biden administration must maintain and even increase sanctions related to Iran’s support for terrorism, its ballistic missile program and ongoing human rights violations. Some in Washington are urging the Biden administration to lift U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic, saying they are hurting the people in Iran. However, many Iranians advocate taking the exact opposite course. Recently, Ahmad Obali, a Chicago-based talk show host who broadcasts to the Islamic Republic and is well-known in Iran, asked his viewers on live television: Should the U....

These are tense days in Baghdad, full of anticipation and fear, marked with the faces of men drawing burial wraps around their heads in preparation for an unspecified death. The sense of conflict is pervasive and entrenched, and it is coupled with widespread feelings of bitterness and frustration at the Iraqi government’s inability to establish security. Aided by a daylong curfew that helped keep the streets clear during the march, today’s rally in the impoverished Baghdad neighborhood was largely peaceful, interrupted only by a single rocket attack that went astray and caused no casualties....

The men and women of Seitz’s battalion, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2, based out of Little Creek, Va., probably don’t need that reminder. They’ve lived and worked seven days a week for months on end to rid northern Iraq of the weapon that is the biggest threat to U.S. troops. Several members of their battalion (officers won’t say exactly how many) have died doing this job—deaths that hit especially hard in the small, tightly knit EOD group....

The Irish government passed a bill in the last two days that will require proof of vaccination if customers want to dine in restaurants, pubs and cafes indoors. A “vaccine passport,” either paper documentation or an EU digital COVID-19 certificate, will very soon be required for people to enter all indoor establishments in Ireland, according to BBC. On Friday morning, McEvoy sent an email to his teammates and coaches of the Irish National Ice Hockey team to resign....

In this video, appropriately titled, “Irish People Watching American Football for the First Time,” they seem as confused as we all were when we watched it for the first time. These guys were forced to watch the Bears play the Lions on Thanksgiving (sorry guys) and gave us their interpretation of what’s happening. MORE: Ryan Leaf released | Bears sign Jay Feely | Cowboys vs. Bears “That guy, number six, is the saddest man I’ve ever seen playing a professional sport,” one guy said....

The Liverpool forward scored six Premier League goals during the month in consideration, including four against Watford at Anfield. Salah has now nicked the prize four times this season after scooping it in November, December and February. The former Roma player secured 80% of votes cast in an online poll to beat off competitions from Tottenham Hotspur trio Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son and Jan Vertonghen, including Manchester City pair Leroy Sane and David Silva....