The first hurdle was technology. Back home in Canada, Weinstein had made a pile of money in the plumbing business. He could tell you everything about bushings and bidets—but he didn’t know the first thing about audiology. “I didn’t know a decibel from Tinkerbell,” he says. Even so, he didn’t need a degree in physiology to understand the scope of the problem. The World Health Organization says there are roughly 250 million hearing-impaired people around the globe, with two thirds of them living in developing nations....

An FBI investigation is focused on a group of four to five Cardinals employees who had access to a computer in a residence near the team’s complex in Jupiter, Fla., during spring training of 2014. MORE: Worst MLB All-Stars ever “They tried to mask themselves like an experienced hacker and failed,” said an unidentified person briefed on the investigation. “It’s clear they weren’t very good at what they were trying to do....

During a recent appearance on Fox Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Kingsview Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer Scott Martin invoked the famed fast food chain to paint a picture of how current inflation rates are affecting those in the United States. “You want to know how bad inflation is?” Martin asked, rhetorically. “Yesterday, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell. It cost me about $28,” Martin added. “People need to pay for those things, and they do that by getting jobs and getting in the economy....

Solomon’s decision to put himself into his book–unlike Burton, he’s never offstage long–may put off some readers. Me, I don’t get why it’s not OK for writers to open up about their own lives, and why reference to personal experience should undercut their credibility. (Hmm. Is this the place to say I pop 10mg of Paxil a day myself?) God knows Solomon’s done his homework, and then some. He’s traveled to Greenland, Thailand and Africa to check out indigenous styles of depression, visited mental hospitals, talked to the obligatory experts with the obligatory conflicting points of view, poked around in history and done extensive interviews with real people–“the men and women whose battles are the primary subject of this book”–who tell stories both more awful and more uplifting than his own....

The new update, called iOS 15, brings some new features for iPhone users, including: multiple FaceTime video call updates, such as voice isolation and portrait mode; a new Focus mode similar to Do Not Disturb; and more customization options for the Memoji avatar. The update is available for nearly 20 different versions of iPhone, from the newest iPhone 12 all the way to the iPhone 6s, released September 2015....

The “baby-face assassin” led Davidson to the Elite Eight in 2008. Since Iowa has to play his former school, it just wants to make sure he won’t be creating any more Cinderella magic. MORE: Iowa-Davidson preview | Davidson survives on buzzer-beater | Kentucky’s road to the Tournament Iowa tweeted to Davidson to make sure its famous alum wouldn’t be making a surprise appearance in Friday’s game. When it comes to a game like Curry’s, it never hurts to double-check....

Hospital resources in Iowa have been stretched thin as more coronavirus patients are admitted. On Monday, state officials reported 187,020 positive cases of COVID-19 and 1,991 fatalities attributable to the virus since the outbreak began earlier this year. On Saturday, the Polk County Health Department announced a record number of coronavirus patients. Reynolds, who has spoken out against large-scale mask-wearing orders in the past, said her proclamation was not about mandates or government....

Junior point guard Monte Morris led the way with 21 points, nine assists and four rebounds. Morris, who has led the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio the past three seasons, forced six turnovers from Kansas point guard Frank Mason III. MORE: Latest ield of 68: Iowa jumps over KU in our projections “We had to make runs tonight,” Morris told ESPN. “I wasn’t guarding well at first, but I took it upon myself to turn the defense up in the second half....

On April 5 at 1:03 p.m., Salmon drove her 2016 grey Chevy Silverado truck to the police station and showed “signs of impairment” like erratic behavior, paranoia and profuse sweating. She then asked police to examine her drugs for COVID-19. She consented to a search of her body and vehicle, and police found a 14.4-gram bag of meth, a bag of cannabis and “a large amount of paraphernalia” for ingesting drugs....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a clip Wednesday of White House national security adviser John Bolton at the conservative Young America’s Foundation, where he touted President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw last year from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Bolton argued the agreement “failed utterly in preventing the mullahs from obtaining a nuclear weapon” ⁠— using a term that refers to an educated holy man in Islam, but often used pejoratively among the right-wing in the West — and argued that “any country that chants ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons....

Speaking at an Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Major General Aharon Haliva said that the “only thing” stopping Iran from such a disruption was concern over how host country Qatar might respond, according to The Times of Israel. The 2022 World Cup kicked off Sunday and is set to last through December 18. Iran’s national team is one of 32 that secured a place in the World Cup, but turmoil at home has shifted additional attention to its participation in the event....

The exercise is part of an annual series known as Zolfaqar, which kicked off this year on Sunday in southern Iran near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Among the array of missiles fired as the exercise reached its second day on Monday were Qader, Qadir and Nasr anti-ship missiles, along with anti-aircraft systems such as the 15-Khordad and Mersad. Undersea, submarines IRIS Tariq and IRIS Qadir fired Valfajr torpedoes at mock targets....

There are two parallel paths out of Vienna. One is a return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, although it should be clear by now that this outcome is near impossible. The other is an interim arrangement in which Tehran agrees to a limited freeze on some of its nuclear activities in exchange for billions in sanctions relief. Israeli leaders have requested that Washington put a stop to the Iranian strategy of slowing down the negotiations....

The ayatollah met with new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Tehran on Tuesday and vowed to deliver a “counter blow” to the U.S. for the drone strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad in January. Khamenei also warned Kadhimi that U.S. presence in Iraq would only bring the country more destruction and corruption. The assassination of Soleimani—declared unlawful by a United Nations investigator last month—pushed Iran and the U.S. to the brink of war....

Rouhani made the comments during a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyipp Erdogan on Thursday, Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency reported. The president—whose term is ending next summer—also said Iran remains open to rejoining the beleaguered Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal if projected President-elect Joe Biden restores U.S. compliance. “The assassination of this scientist was a great crime and inhumane act,” Rouhani said of Fakhrizadeh’s assassination. The scientist was widely considered the father of Iran’s nuclear project, and his killing marks a serious escalation in Israeli-American efforts to undermine Tehran’s nuclear program and undermine a potential revival of dialogue under the incoming Biden administration....

Speaking in Tehran on Monday, Khamenei cast his regime as a “religious democracy” that is refusing to bow to an American-dominated world order, the state-controlled Press TV reported. “The resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against America and the Iranian nation’s refusal to undergo bullying is a fascinating fact for the world and this fascination should be used to spread the truth about Islam and the Iranian nation,” Khamenei said....

Asked during Thursday’s final presidential debate about what he would do to address the issue of foreign interference in the race, Biden said he has “made it clear that any country, no matter who it is, that interferes in American elections will pay a price.” The former vice president said it was “overwhelmingly clear” during this election “that Russia has been involved, China’s been involved to some degree, and now we learn that Iran is involved....

A United Nations embargo preventing Iran from purchasing foreign weapons, such as fighter jets and tanks, expired on Sunday, despite significant objections from the U.S. Although tensions have been high between the U.S. and Iran for decades, the administration of President Donald Trump has maintained a hardline stance against the Islamic Republic after a brief period of improving ties under former President Barack Obama. “Today the international community once again expressed support for multilateralism and openly opposed to the U....

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport to Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials told Newsweek....

The 9 p.m. broadcast was hacked for about 15 seconds just as footage of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was being shown. A mask with a beard appeared on screen, followed by an image of Khamenei surrounded by flames and photos of Mahsa Amini and three other women killed in recent protests. “The blood of our youth is dripping from your fingers,” a caption said, referring to Khamenei....