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These days, as the mother of a 13-year-old son, Russell no longer finds the cautionary huffing so funny. A self-employed business-woman in the San Francisco Bay Area, she avoids even the occasional puff of pot. “Now I just eat,” she laughs. And though she looks back on her experiments as mostly harmless and often fun, she doesn’t want her son Jett to follow her example. To that end, she says, she has been open with him about her past, admitting that she had tried not just marijuana but also cocaine and LSD....

Baltimore news station WBFF recently obtained a reimbursement form that was sent by Baltimore City Public Schools to parents offering a stipend of $250 for parents to drive their kids to school for the month of September. A spokesperson for Baltimore City Public Schools confirmed that 771 parents have already received the offer. The spokesperson said that the payment program is being funded by the school’s “yearly parent reimbursement budget....

“These cases must be brought to our attention so that investigations can be carried out,” Michel Delpuech said on Europe 1 radio. “Our services will obviously pursue any aggressors without fail if they are identified,” he said. Reports of forced kisses and groping began emerging after France won the final against Croatia on Sunday night, as hundreds of thousands of fans poured into the streets of Paris and other cities....

He wondered: “Should I continue to play soccer? Because in order to play professionally I’d have to go over to Europe. Is that something I want to do? It wasn’t like a deep thought I had for months and months, but I remember thinking about it. I’d had to have been about 11, because I was 12 when MLS started. It’s crazy to think how far everything has come since then....

“One of the first interviews that I had in the wake of the shooting…I was asked by the reporter, ‘What do you want to say to politicians?’ and I said ‘We’re the kids, you’re the adults. You need to do something.’ It’s four years late and I’m 21-years-old and I’m an adult,” Parkland survivor David Hogg told CNN’s New Day on Monday. “We need to do something and frankly, President Biden needs to do something because there are certain things that he’s leaving on the table that he can do right now,” he said....

Well, there's good news and there's bad news. MORE: Top 10 teams for 2014 | 73 college football icons | Signing day images The bad news is that this is another one. The good news is that it's a parody version about Lane Kiffin's coaching career and it's hilarious. [via CollegeSpun]

While the AR.Drone 2.0 is by no means the best drone you can buy, Parrot deserves some credit for helping kick-start the quadcopter industry. The second version of the drone was launched at CES in January 2012, so this is effectively a three-year old quadcopter. Indeed, there is a new model which has just launched: the BeBop Drone. We’ll review that soon. But price drops mean that the AR.Drone 2....

Parthiv Patel is known to have famously made his Test debut even before he played his first Ranji Trophy match. The southpaw came into the side as a promising youngster, but never really managed to cement his place in the national team owing to MS Dhoni’s emergence. In a career that spanned over 18 years, Parthiv Patel went on to represent India in 25 Tests and 38 ODIs. The stumper scored six half-centuries in the longest format of the game and four fifties in ODIs, but surprisingly, he does not have a century to his name in any format....

Cody Bellinger hit the 9.0 mark last year, when he won the NL MVP award. He’s joined by Mookie Betts, who produced a 9.7 bWAR in 2016, when he finished second in the AL MVP voting, and a 10.9 in 2018, when he won the award. RIVERA: Grading the Mookie Betts trade The 10.9 bWAR, by the way, is the best mark produced by any player other than Barry Bonds and Cal Ripken Jr....

The visitors wrapped up quickly this morning as Babar Azam’s side could only add one run to their overnight score before getting all-out for 408. Mir Hamza gave the hosts the perfect start in the third innings by dismissing first-innings centurion Devon Conway for a golden duck. Tom Latham (71) and Kane Williamson then stitched together a 109-run partnership for the second wicket. Just as the duo looked well set at the crease, the Pakistan bowlers picked up three wickets at quick intervals to get their side back in the contest....

It was a disappointing run in the previous edition of the league for Pakcelona. They won just two matches and finished sixth in their group. Pakcelona will be hoping to make a deep run this time. Their bowling has always been at its best but batting is something the side has struggled with. The onus will be on the bowlers to restrict their opponents to a below-par total. Pak I Care, on the other hand, were in red hot form in the 2020 edition of the league....

Fahim, 68, almost became prime minister in 2002. Only his loyalty to Bhutto kept him from running the government. Back then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was scrambling to find coalition partners to bolster his own jerry-built party. He offered the top job to Fahim, who then as now was vice chairman of the PPP, but only under the condition that Fahim would not take direction from Bhutto, who was in exile....

Bakary Sako shone in a rampant attacking performance during the opening half hour, when he scored the decisive goal, before an injury-ravaged Palace defence repelled a robust Burnley response in the closing stages. Defeat by the same scoreline at Turf Moor brought an end to Frank de Boer’s brief Palace tenure and the subsequent hangover meant a rocky start to Hodgson’s reign. But the Eagles have only lost once in their past 12 league games under the veteran former England boss who, given the predicament he inherited, still only has eyes for steering clear of a relegation zone his side are now five points above....

An MRI scan revealed damage to his right anterior cruciate ligament sustained during the 5-4 loss at Swansea City on Saturday. “He will now undergo surgery and his return to action will be confirmed once rehabilitation starts following surgery,” Palace said in a statement on their website without saying how long he would be out for. Wickham scored in the two games before the defeat by Swansea, a result that left Palace one place above the relegation zone after six consecutive defeats....

Jurassic Pork: Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown’s term for the $10 billion Super Collider. Jurassic Perk: Profits from dino merchandise (Orlando Sentinel). Jurassic Park Jurisprudence: Supreme Court assault on race-conscious voting districts (New York Times). Jurassic Rock: Music by geezer pop stars (NEWSWEEK). Jurassic Kitchen: Roach infestation (Gannett news wire). Jurassic White House: Ruminations on cloning dead leaders (Washington Post). Jurassic Bark: Dog digs up 6,000-year-old bone (Buffalo News).

Trump is set to announce the proposal alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. The blueprint—overseen by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner—is widely expected to validate right-wing Netanyahu’s nativist and security-first policies regarding Palestinians. It could be a welcome boon for Netanyahu, who is also facing indictment over fraud allegations. Few expect Trump’s plan to be neutral. Indeed, Palestinian officials cut ties with the White House early in Trump’s presidency in protest of his decision to defund Palestinian refugee organizations and government agencies....

It turned out not to be close. The accuser was credible on the stand, but no more so than the accused last Tuesday. Smith’s account of what happened on the lawn last Easter weekend at the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach was presented simply and efficiently, even if it lacked the emotive power of his accuser. And his performance on cross-examination was so strong that the defense chose to drop a major chunk of its case....