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Here’s the latest news so you can update your handcuff list and prioritize your waiver wire pickups for the week, plus get an early jump on figuring out who to start and who to sit. MORE: Full Week 6 waiver wire list | RB handcuff chart Jonathan Stewart injury update For the past couple weeks, all signs have pointed to Stewart (hamstring) being ready for Week 6, and that’s what Panthers coach Ron Rivera implied last week when he said he was “pretty comfortable” with the idea of Stewart being ready for Sunday’s game against the Saints....

No byes this week — shout it from the rooftops! While that gives us more options by expanding our player pools, it also gives us more potential landmines. Of course, the top-20 backs are basically must-starts. There are varying levels, with Derrick Henry (@ Chargers in Week 15) and Christian McCaffrey (@ Seahawks) clearly the cream of the crop, but no workhorse studs in the top 20 should be benched....

So, imagine what it's like around the Fantasy Source office, where nine of the most competitive fantasy owners you can find sit within a cat's fart of each other. Whether it's creating undeserved mythologies around marginal players who may or not have helped our fantasy teams, or giving each other crap over failed sleepers we wouldn't shut up about in the past, casual fans would be surprised by how little we talk about the Mike Trout's of the world and how much we talk about guys who hit ninth for the Astros....

Softening the blow a tiny bit is that Ertz (knee) wouldn’t have been available this week even if he was healthy, as the Cardinals and Panthers are on bye. That only slightly thins out the TE pool, but not because of the players who are off. Rather, it hurts because the Cardinals were one of the two best TE matchups in the entire league, so now at least one player will have to work a little harder for his points....

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Prospect: Byron Buxton, TwinsHeight: 6-2; Weight: 190; Hits: Right; Throws: Right2014 Stats (A): .234/.307/.395, 4 HR, 16 RBI, 19 Runs, 6 SB Scouting Report There are no sure things in life. Well, death and taxes but even that latter you can get away with from time to time. Byron Buxton was the next “can’t miss” prospect a year ago at this time, and despite plenty of reasons (mostly injury related), his 2014 campaign simply wasn’t good enough....

Robinhood and other platforms stepped in after GameStop shares jumped 135 percent, driven by private investors led by Reddit users on the popular subreddit r/wallstreetbets. These investors noticed that hedge funds were short-selling GameStop stock—i.e. betting the struggling company’s value would fall further. Small buyers then began investing in large numbers, sending the stock price soaring, making enormous potential profits, and leaving hedge funds facing crippling losses. Robinhood said its intervention was a “risk management decision,” made in fear that instability could spread....

The rally is being promoted online by the group’s leader Joey Gibson and is scheduled to take place on May 1 at Riverfront Park. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” an image promoting the event reads. Oregon state Rep. Mike Nearman and Jo Rae Perkins, a prominent QAnon supporter who was the Republican Senate nominee in Oregon before losing to Democratic incumbent Jeff Merkley in November, are among those listed as attendees at the May 1 event....

Doctors have been prescribing “menstrual suppression” off-label for years to treat endometriosis (an overgrowth of uterine tissue), menstrual migraines and PMS. And plenty of women have altered the pill’s regimen to enjoy period-free vacations. Now, in addition to the new version of the pill, which manufacturer Barr Laboratories has submitted for FDA approval, makers of the birth-control patch and vaginal ring are also testing their products for continuous use. If the pill, called Seasonale, passes muster, women could reprogram their monthly cycles by the end of the year with government approval....

You set your book in the ’70s. The ’70s for me were a fascinating time. You could have a suburban development, and across the road there would be a Revolutionary War graveyard. So there was this weird dissonance between the founding of the country and the futuristic evolution. [Also] I was fulfilling some fantasies. I was never allowed to wear Huk-a-Poo shirts. My mother thought they were too clingy....

In a post shared on Mumsnet earlier in January, under the username Relevancyiskey, the woman explained that recently her father-in-law has started making comments about how her husband needs to find more time for himself and she should “let him.” She said: “Keep in mind I’m a [stay-at-home-mom] and also rarely get time for myself as we have a baby and toddler.” According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, about 7 percent of dads and 28 percent of moms stay at home full time....

That has included a viral video of one man saying goodbye to his wife and daughter, seemingly sacrificing his own life and well-being to save those closest to him. The video, filmed by an unidentified source, showed an emotional father putting a winter hat on his daughter’s head. He bends down and begins crying profusely, leaning his head into his daughter’s pink jacket. She cries in unison. The solemn father then embraced both his daughter and wife, seemingly as a final embrace until the next time he sees them again....

According to the station, the man, 30-year-old Michael Raymond-Ulrich Simmons, was turned in by his own father, who called Michigan State Police about the alleged illegal activity in October 2020. “The father told troopers that Simmons may have sent inappropriate photos to a minor,” WDIV said. After a “lengthy” investigation, the Missaukee County Prosecutor’s Office authorized a warrant on February 24 “charging Simmons with accosting a child for immoral purposes, intentional dissemination of sexually explicit material and using a computer to commit a crime,” said WDIV....

Dietary changes inducing weight loss and adding nutrient-dense, antioxidant-packed foods, such as fruits and vegetables, can reverse or prevent the progression of the disease. Limiting refined carbohydrates, simple sugars, fried foods, processed foods, and foods high in saturated fat is also important. Weight loss, particularly in the abdominal or adipose tissue, can help reduce fat in the liver. Because fatty liver disease is often associated with obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, weight loss is one of the primary goals—and diet can help with this....

However, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House’s coronavirus task force said he believes a safe and effective vaccine could be available in 2021 that will allow the U.S. and the rest of the world to bring the virus under control. Addressing a question on the virus vaccine timeline posed by Reuters interviewer Jeff Mason, Fauci said, “I don’t think we’re going to eradicate this from the planet, Jeff, because it’s such a highly transmissible virus that that seems unlikely....

Lucy Studey had alleged for 45 years that her father was a murderer, abducting and killing the women and at least two men. Few had paid her much attention. But last week, cadaver dogs sniffed out suspected human remains at the site she had long identified as a burial ground in Thurman, Iowa, about 40 miles south of Omaha. At least one agent from the Omaha field office of the FBI is in direct communication with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, which has overseen investigations so far, the local sheriff said....

Ryan T. Young, FBI executive assistant director of intelligence, told Politico reporter Bianca Quilantan that the bureau believes it has “the majority” of the threats “slotted down to one person and a small group.” The FBI has investigated 59 bomb threats since the beginning of this year, Quilantan added on Twitter. A wave of bomb threats against HBCUs began at the end of January and continued into February, which is Black History Month....

The images join the hundreds already posted by the federal agency, amid a nationwide effort to find the people who stormed the Capitol. The bureau has called on the public to help identify individuals “who made unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations” on January 6 in Washington, D.C. Analysis of footage from inside the building, together with tips from members of the public and other witnesses, has led to charges against roughly 226 people, according to a database maintained by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University....

Is this phenomenon cyclical or a legitimate problem for college football? Sporting News polled FBS coaches with that question, and more than 80 percent of the responses said the sport has a major issue. “This is a legitimate problem for college football,” one FBS coach said. “There is a huge gap between four-to-five schools and everyone else. Having more parity would increase excitement and interest across the country.” RELATED: Sporting News Coaches Survey for 2021...

If the FDA agrees to authorize the shot—and it gets an official recommendation from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—around 28 million children would become eligible, closing a major gap in the efforts to vaccinate the U.S. population. Pediatric shots could be distributed as early as the beginning of November. More than 1.9 million children between 5 and 11 have been infected with COVID-19, according to FDA data presented at the panel....