With that being said, the road for Richmond is tough. The Spiders find themselves going up against the fourth-most efficient team offensively in college basketball. While Richmond averaged around 70 points per game this year, the Spiders scored mostly in the 60s during the Atlantic 10 tournament. Iowa averaged a staggering 85 points per game this season and put up 112 points on Northwestern during the Big 10 tournament. Iowa is a double-digit favorite heading into this game, but how do these teams stack up?...

Unlike the first two Democratic debates in June and July, the soapbox at The Des Moines Register’s stage will feature one candidate at a time, allowing them 20 minutes each to speak to fair goers in the state whose caucuses represent the first presidential votes. The first candidate is scheduled at 9 a.m. and the last at 4:30 p.m., local time. Here is a live stream courtesy CBS News:...

In fact, though, Iran’s activity in Iraq—and in Afghanistan—is quite nuanced, according to several U.S. officials familiar with the relevant intelligence assessments. These officials, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that while Iran certainly has been a “bad actor” in Iraq, not all of Tehran’s actions are negative. For instance, according to the officials, Iran used its ties with the rival Shia factions jockeying for power in Iraq to help broker the recent Basra ceasefire between the (Iranian-backed) Iraqi government’s forces and (Iranian-supplied) “special groups” of Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army....

In a statement issued by the country’s foreign ministry on Saturday, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian “emphasized that the Islamic republic of Iran has not and will not provide any weapon to be used in the war in Ukraine.” That statement comes as the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Facebook early on Saturday that the country’s air force destroyed six Iranian-made Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones overnight....

Khamenei issued an official message Wednesday to mark the Hajj season, expressing his support for protesters in the U.S. who are demanding reforms to address police brutality and systemic racism within the American system. “In the recent events in the U.S. and the anti-racism movement, our decisive stance is to support the people and condemn the cruel behavior of the racist government of that country,” Khamenei said according to the Tehran Times....

In an interview, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said “detailed and technical discussions” are needed to ascertain the location of Iran’s undeclared uranium and that this issue is “totally connected” to the future of the deal. He said there were a number of points that were “still unclear” relating to traces of uranium that were found but had not been declared in the past by Tehran....

The state-backed Press TV channel published a video of the third generation Zolfaqar-e Basir missile on Monday, following IRGC commander Major General Hossein Salami’s announcement of the weapon on Sunday. Press TV said the ballistic missile has a range of some 434 miles—more than double that of Iran’s previous generation Khalij-e Fars and Hormuz naval ballistic missiles. The strategically important Persian Gulf is around 210 miles wide at its widest point, meaning the Zolfaqar-e Basir will theoretically be able to hit enemy targets anywhere in the seaway....

Footage purportedly filmed in Javanrud, a Kurdish town in the west of the country shows bystanders accusing IRGC members on Monday of using Soviet-era machine guns to target demonstrators, leaving at least five people dead, activists said. Meanwhile, the Norway-based Hengaw rights group said that on Saturday, IRGC members fired on family members who were mourning a slain protester in Bukan whose body was seized and buried “secretly.” Hengaw said on Monday that at least 30 anti-government protesters have been killed by security forces in Kurdish-populated cities in western Iran in the past week, the BBC reported, as accusations of brutality against the IRGC mount....

Biden was vice president to President Barack Obama when he signed the landmark agreement in 2015, lifting international sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and vowed a tougher replacement, but his “maximum pressure” policy of sanctions, military posturing, assassination and strikes on Iranian allies has failed to produce a new accord. Iran has meanwhile moved further and further from JCPOA terms, expanding its stock of enriched uranium and moving closer to a nuclear weapon....

Elmi is just one of the dozens of Iranians on valid visas whose lives have been permanently turned upside down overnight—and their horrific experiences act as hallmarks of Trump’s ongoing, broader anti-Iran and anti-Muslim platform. Last month, while Trump was busy threatening war crimes against 52 Iranian cultural sites with less than 240 characters, the Los Angeles Police Department heightened surveillance of the Iranian-American community despite admitting “no credible threat[s]....

The confirmed cholera death toll right now stands at only 11. The latest figures released Thursday, compiled by Iraqi health officials and the World Health Organization and recounted in an interview with a U.S. embassy official, put the total number of cases since mid-August at about 2,120. The first cases were found in the largely peaceful northern, Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, and well over half have occurred in Kirkuk, a northern city of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen....

Iraqi soccer is often called the only big national success story since the U.S. invasion and fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. Despite the country’s chaotic mayhem, dysfunctional government and decrepit utilities, Iraq came in fourth at the 2004 Olympics and won the Asian championship last year. The wins repeatedly sent Iraqis into the streets with dances and celebratory gunfire that sometimes alarmed U.S. troops. The team–a mix mainly of Arab Shiites and ethnic Kurds with one Sunni Arab star (see The Official Younis Mahmoud Website)–unites Iraqis in its success and diverts attention from bloodier matters....

The SNL cast is amped for RuPaul’s hosting debut, especially longtime cast member Cecily Strong. In an SNL promo video for the upcoming episode, a dressed-to-impress Strong gets to live out her dream and “sissy that walk” down the hallway alongside RuPaul, who made the over-the-top model walk famous during his earlier years when he brought drag into the mainstream. The pair stomp down the hall as though they’re hitting the RuPaul’s Drag Race runway, although Strong’s strut lags in comparison with the drag guru....

The expected collision has made headlines recently after astronomers came to the conclusion that the rocket booster probably belongs to China and was used during the Chang’e 5-T1 lunar mission back in 2014. Up until that point, the rocket booster was thought to have belonged to SpaceX following the launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite in 2015 atop one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. About a month after that launch astronomers found a near-Earth object in space that was initially thought to have been an asteroid until it was discovered to be orbiting the Earth rather than the sun, suggesting human origin....

The high court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 decision in a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, meaning the legal status of abortion will now be left up to individual states to decide. It comes after Republicans in the Senate in May blocked an effort to codify the right to abortion in federal law. What Does Overturning Roe v. Wade Mean? Researchers say that without Roe, abortion will probably become illegal in about half of the country, primarily in Southern and Midwestern states....

She won the first ever Ballon d’Or Feminin in 2018 and holds records including the all-time Women’s Champions League goalscoring mark. Now 26 years old, the striker has played most of her career in France for the mighty Lyon. Her international career, however, has been a rollercoaster — and after missing out on the last big tournament for Norway, much of the past few years has been spent wondering if she would be back in time to play in England this summer....

The largest issue reported on Down Detector were issues with the website, with 71 percent of reports citing that. Other issues involved logging in, which 22 percent of people reported issues, and checking out, which 5 percent reported. Users tweeted that they were getting error messages once they went to the website and the app, offering to take them back to the online retailer’s homepage. On the upside, those error messages also included adorable photos of dogs....

Analysts and critics from different backgrounds think that the new product applications carry big implications for the tech giant’s automotive ambitions. And for a driver’s ability to be distracted by the increasing attention commanded by in-car screens. Avi Greengart, a consumer tech analyst and president of Techsponential, told Newsweek that Apple may not have to build its own cars - a topic of longstanding rumor - if it can effectively take over the user experience cars from existing manufacturers....

We’ll continue to update this post with news on Roethlisberger up until the active/inactive report comes out on Monday at about 3:30 p.m. ET. For the latest on Terry McLaurin, click here; for news on James Conner, click here; for more on Lamar Jackson, go here. For all the latest fantasy updates, follow us on Twitter @SN_Fantasy. MNF DFS: WAS-PIT DK Lineup | BUF-SF DK Lineup | WAS-PIT FD Lineup | BUF-SF FD Lineup...

Best Buy announced yesterday that it would be releasing the highly coveted next-gen consoles sometime after 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday, though did not provide a specific time. Shortly after 9 a.m., however, the website seemed to crash. When trying to access the Best Buy website, customers were met with: “We’re sorry, something went wrong. You can use our search bar or pick a category below. If you typed in a URL, check it for errors....