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Week 4 of the NFL season is here, and we have an AFC North battle as the treat for "Thursday Night Football." This season has already seen some pretty impressive games to kick off weeks so far in the year.

I haven’t done great on them, as last week I lost my under bet after the teams decided to score 18 points in the final quarter. I need to get off to a good start, and I’m looking to do just that in this game between the Steelers and Browns.

The Steelers come into this game with a 2-1 record after winning both of their home games. They were able to take down the Falcons in the opening game, and then they beat the Bengals last week. Their offense at home has scored a total of 50 points in the two games. In Week 2, the Patriots held the Steelers to just three points. The Patriots do seem to have a better defense than the average team, but you also need to question if the Steelers offense is going to struggle on the road this season.

In Week 3, the Steelers hosted the Bengals. They looked great in the first quarter, putting the ball in the end zone twice. By halftime, the game was tied. The Bengals took an early lead in the fourth quarter before the Steelers kicked two field goals to win the game. The Steelers have been very good against the pass this season, holding opponents to just 192.7 passing yards. However, their rushing defense is about average, allowing 113 yards on the ground.

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The the Browns are off to a good start, which isn’t something that is normal to write. The Browns are 2-1 for the season and won their home opener last week. In Week 1, the team looked like they were more likely to finish 0-17 than they were to win two games. The Browns lost to the Jaguars 34-10 in the opener and turned the ball over twice, fumbling once and throwing an interception.

Week 2 saw them march into Tampa and defeat the Buccaneers. It was an impressive victory, even if it wasn’t overly dominant from the Browns. In Week 3, they defeated the Panthers with a final score of 21-18. Carolina and Cleveland were in a back-and-forth battle, with the Browns finding a way to score late and get the victory. Cleveland can be run on and has the 10th-worst rushing defense in football. The Browns are about average when it comes to defending the pass.

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Over the past few games, the teams have had very low-scoring games. The book seems to think this will be a low-scoring one as well, with a total of just 38.5. The weather for the game looks like it could be rainy. Neither of the teams can run the ball all that well, but that does seem to be the way to attack each other, so the under does make sense, and I think we'll see a lower-scoring game here as well. However, I’ve lost the under two weeks in a row on Thursday Night Football, so I’m not playing the total.

The side that appeals to me is actually Cleveland. I don’t love the Steelers, and I think Deshaun Watson has played well.I also think the points will matter here. I’ll take three points with the Browns. I also like Quinshon Judkins to go over 55.5 rushing yards as he has been handed the ball a good amount of times, and the Steelers don’t have a great rushing defense.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in the nation’s capital agreed on Thursday to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a move that could prevent federal prosecutors from reviving the case under political pressure from President Donald Trump.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman ordered the dismissal of David Hearn’s case with “prejudice,” which would block U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office from refiling the felony charge against him. The judge ruled nearly a month after hearing attorneys’ arguments.

Hearn’s lawyers say Trump administration officials have continued to falsely accuse the Maryland resident of vandalizing the reflecting pool despite Pirro’s decision to drop the case on July 31. Trump responded by saying Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella.”

Edelman said the case presents “exceptional circumstances” that warrant dismissing the case permanently. He agreed with defense attorneys that the government “shot first and asked questions later” by charging Hearn in a “a lightning-fast indictment process.”

“While the government wishes to hold open the possibility of the development of evidence that would support a future prosecution, its own representations make plain that such a possibility is theoretical at best, and more likely, is simply fanciful,” the judge wrote.

Permanently dismissing the case protects Hearn from prosecutors electing to revive the case under political pressure from Trump, the judge said.

“Although the prosecutors assigned to this case have deemed it meritless, the President of the United States has repeatedly disparaged them and pressured them to change course,” Edelman wrote.

In a court filing in July, Pirro said new evidence produced by the Interior Department showed Hearn wasn’t responsible for damage to the pool’s lining. Pirro’s office attributed the damage instead to a botched installation by a contractor as well as a rush to complete the project in time for this summer’s America 250 celebration in Washington.

Pirro’s admission was an embarrassing setback for the White House. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has backed Trump’s claims that vandals damaged the pool.

Hearn has said he was on a bike ride on June 19 when he reached in to examine the pool’s newly peeled coating and briefly touched a chunk attached to the side of the pool. But he said he obeyed a park worker’s command to let go of it.

Hearn was charged with one count of property destruction, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. His lawyers questioned whether prosecutors properly presented the grand jury with adequate evidence to support the charge and the amount of damage alleged by the government.

Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish, ninth, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says on its website.

Trump, a Republican, appointed Pirro, a former Fox News host, to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia. Edelman was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama.

Hearn’s attorneys said the ruling is “a victory for the rule of law and for an innocent American seeking justice” and allows Hearn to “move forward with his life as he deserves.”

“This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn. It should not get repeated chances to wield the power of criminal prosecution against someone who should never have been prosecuted,” the lawyers said in a statement.

This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/dc-judge-permanently-dismisses-case-150301433.html

I don’t flip a table every time this happens – but I actually do mind when it’s the default decision with no discussion

Being a lesbian in a heretofore heteronormative society means having to go along with lots of things that don’t make sense to your beautiful lesbian brain. One such thing for me is the ongoing expectation that women who marry men should change their surname to their husband’s.

Last week my tolerance was tested again when it was revealed that after a decade of marriage, Margot Robbie has changed her surname to that of her husband, Tom Ackerley.

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This wry debut about a male model’s inner life, written in lowercase fragments, has tender insights but isn’t as profound as it aims to be

Should you care about a vape-loving, philandering male model who just goes with the flow because that’s life? Yes, says The Long Cloud, the wry debut novel of New Zealand artist and photographer Hector MacKenzie. Is it convincing? Well, sort of.

Xander, a 30-year-old former jock ageing out of the modelling industry and into an existential crisis, is a tabula rasa of sorts – a way for readers to glimpse reflections of themselves. And in an age dominated by how we’re perceived, what exactly is that “self”, anyway?

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Instead of asking her to step away from her distress, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, could you suggest she channel it into action?

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My wife is obsessed with everything that’s happening in the US. She literally spends all day sitting on the couch, watching videos and reading opinion pieces. She’s originally from America and has been living abroad for 25 years and she has family in the US, so I get that she needs to feel connected to what’s happening. But it’s constant. Whether we’re eating, watching a TV show or movie, when we’re talking about something completely unrelated – everything, every topic, either starts or ends with outrage.

I’ve told her she needs to take at least one day off all social media, but she won’t do that even for an hour. It stresses her out more and more every day, but she just keeps going back to it – and it has been really affecting me, more lately than ever. On weekends I stay up late playing games (my way of winding down after a week of work) and she’ll go to bed early. And during those times sometimes I just sit and cry. Everything that’s happening is so stressful, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I just wish I could rip away her phone and let her breathe! I don’t know what to say or do. Is there anything that could help?

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1. Province Expanding Services at Humberwood Treatment Centre in Corner Brook  VOCM
2. N.L. announces new addictions beds on the west coast  CBC
3. More long-term care spaces opening in Corner Brook  Yahoo News Canada
4. Provincial government expanding and improving access to addiction treatment and supports at Humberwood Treatment Centre  ntv.ca
5. 45 new long-term care beds in western N.L. 'certainly going to make a difference,' minister says  CBC

Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly ended talks and ordered the Iranian delegation to leave the U.S. after negotiations stalled, yet again, with no clear sign of a breakthrough more than seven months into the conflict.

And now, President Donald Trump is directly warning Iran it's "possible" he will go harder with strikes in the Middle East after the midterm elections in November and revealed the U.S. military has significantly rebuilt its arsenal in recent months.

The latest messaging from the White House and State Department signals an increasingly strained diplomatic track, after days of negotiations failed to close the gap between Washington and Tehran over the terms of ending the war.

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Asked in an interview with Time whether he would "ramp up bombing after the midterms," Trump replied: "Possible."

Further pressed on whether such an escalation was under consideration, the president declined to discuss potential targets but said the U.S. had spent months rebuilding its arsenal.

"We have a lot of weapons. You know, we’ve been stocking up for the last six months," Trump said.

Trump also used the word "possible" when asked whether he "might annihilate Iran."

After little progress in weekend meetings involving Iranian officials and Qatari mediators, Rubio told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation on Monday that they needed to leave New York, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News Digital after Axios first reported it.

Rubio concluded the Iranians had "overstayed their welcome" after the high-level U.N. meetings had ended. Araghchi had remained in New York for indirect talks seeking to end the blockade of oil and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, ending the conflict overall and restarting negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

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Trump said in his speech to the United Nation's General Assembly last week that he would continue to make sure Iran is not able to obtain nuclear weapons.

Araghchi and his team departed early Tuesday. Iran disputed the U.S. account, saying the delegation’s Monday night departure had already been scheduled and communicated to the State Department on Sept. 17.

The order to leave amounted to an unusually sharp diplomatic rebuke at a moment when mediators are still trying to keep negotiations alive.

The latest talks have centered on a seven-day confidence-building proposal aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and reviving the June framework that briefly halted the fighting. Qatar has been shuttling messages between Washington and Tehran, with the two sides still divided largely over the sequencing of concessions — including when Iran would reopen the strait, what nuclear steps Tehran would take and what economic relief the U.S. would provide in return.

Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal over the weekend, later saying Tehran’s offer to reopen the strait was "not good enough. Nearly." He also denied reports that he had offered sanctions relief or the release of frozen Iranian funds in exchange for movement on the nuclear issue.

Despite the diplomatic stalemate, oil flows through the region have been recovering. Estimates cited by major banks put recent Middle East exports close to pre-war levels, helping ease some of the supply fears that sent crude prices sharply higher earlier in the conflict.

But the lack of a deal is still putting pressure on energy markets. Brent crude settled above $103 a barrel Wednesday, while U.S. crude closed above $90, with oil posting steep September gains as traders weighed stalled U.S.-Iran talks against the recovery in regional supply.

Americans are still feeling that pressure at the pump. The national average for regular gasoline was about $4.43 a gallon Wednesday, compared with roughly $3.15 a year earlier, while diesel stood above $6.40 a gallon.

The Strait of Hormuz remains central to both the negotiations and the economic stakes. Before the war, roughly one-fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas supplies passed through the waterway, making even partial disruption a major driver of global energy prices.

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