The viral clip, shared on TikTok on Thursday by the dog owner, under the username Happythebullterrier3, shows Happy climbing into his owner’s sweater after contemplating the thought for a moment. He then snuggles into it, giving his owner the biggest smile. According to VCA Animal Hospitals, dogs are social and emotional beings, who react with joy to our scent and respond to the tone of our voice, and most of all they actually do love their human companions!...

The Bulls and Boylen agreed to a multi-year contact extension on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Details of the extension have not officially been released. The two sides had previously agreed to a contract in January that raised Boylen’s salary for the remainder of the 2018-19 campaign and through the following season, a surefire indication that the Bulls intended to keep their coach, at least for the short term....

As of Tuesday morning, Cleveland is -6 for Game 5, making the point-spread swing from Game 4 seem mild considering the change of venue. Meanwhile, the betting market has made a significant adjustment on the total for Tuesday night’s game (7 p.m. TNT), as it opened 192 and was bet down to 191. It was between 194 and 195 for the first four games of the series, which has seen two OVERs and two UNDERs....

Timo Rosenthol, of the Clovis Police Department, sparked debate on Facebook after uploading an image showing the derogatory scribbling, which quickly went viral. “Well, while on lunch break (and in uniform) I ordered food at Burger King and received this. The patties were burnt and the burger was of very poor quality. Guess that was the last time I ate at Burger King in Clovis, NM,” Rosenthal wrote on his Facebook account last week....

The child was making her way home at about 3 p.m. on Monday when she was grabbed by a complete stranger and bundled into the back of an SUV in Providence, Rhode Island. The youngster was then driven to a remote area and sexually abused before she was driven to Burger King, where her attacker bought her food. She was dropped back at the bus stop in the area of Grover and Merino an hour later....

The image shows that the large sign outside the restaurant on July 10 read: “WE ALL QUIT. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” Rachael Flores, the former general manager at the branch, revealed to KLKN Channel 8, that the employees had put the sign up as they were disgruntled with the way they were treated, but were told to take it down by upper management. Flores, who had recently given notice in her role, told the news outlet: “They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know sorry there’s really not going to be anyone here....

The eight men, who belonged to two separate gangs, have been sentenced to between two and seven years in jail after committing a total of 39 burglaries in Prestbury, Wilmslow and Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. Greater Manchester Police said five of the men committed 13 burglaries and stole 15 vehicles at a value of £347,000 ($444,000) between September and November 2018. The second group committed 11 burglaries in Prestbury and Wilmslow, as well as 11 in Stockport....

206 Number of kilograms of rice per person per year consumed in Burma, the highest in the region 3.8 Number of tons per hectare of Burma’s rice yield—44 percent higher than that of neighboring Thailand 2,912 Average number of daily calories consumed by Burma’s citizens, the highest in Southeast Asia 6 Percent of Burma’s people who are malnourished, as opposed to 20 percent of Thais and 19 percent of Vietnamese

A street in South Salt Lake resembled something from a winter wonderland after the water formed magical structures blanketing a tree. The branches were dripping in icicles which wouldn’t look out of place in Disney’s Frozen, as passers-by snapped off crystals with a satisfying crunch. A clip of the captivating “ice tree” was shared to Reddit on Tuesday, by Zeek1016, who identified themselves as a local seventh grader. “A water pipe exploded next to my school,” they captioned the clip, which amassed more than 50,000 views after it was posted to the site’s Damn That’s Interesting forum, and can be seen here....

They bury the babies first thing every morning in the Kurdish refugee camp above the Turkish village of Isik Veren. The name means, “that which gives light.” The babies–about 20 last Wednesday, but the numbers vary with the weather–die each night of cold and starvation and disease. The tiny bodies are carefully dressed in their best clothes, and often swathed in traditional head scarves of black and white checks. Then they are laid to rest in shallow mass graves....

And it’s not who you think. Denny Hamlin believes he corrupted the communication with Darian Grubb by typically seeking out longtime engineer Mike Wheeler to talk about problems with the car. Kyle Busch, meanwhile, believes there was no issue in the communication between him and crew chief David Rogers, despite some heated exchanges on the radio. Rogers will be the crew chief for Hamlin in 2015, while Grubb will work with JGR newcomer Carl Edwards....

Busch battled for the lead with boss and teammate Tony Stewart after the green-white-checkered restart but neither could hold on for the win as Busch’s younger brother, Kyle, got by both of them for the win at Auto Club Speedway. MORE: Winners & Losers | Is Donovan McNabb a NASCAR friend or foe? | Danica has solid finish | Hamlin released It’s been a tough season for Kurt Busch, who seemed poised for a top-10 finish in four of the first five races before a spin or mechanical problem got in the way....

Busch’s fall from grace and the NASCAR elite has been well documented. After being released by Team Penske in 2011, he has spent the past two seasons driving for smaller teams and trying to repair his image and resurrect his career. He did a fantastic job with Furniture Row Racing last year, leading the single-car team to the Chase. But he still didn’t win a race — extending a two-year winless streak — and finished 10th in the final standings....

“What we’re actually seeing, if you take a step back, this is the end of 70 years of the American era in the world,” Richard Haass, who previously served as the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland, said during a segment of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “We are voluntarily abdicating our role, and it’s the Russians, Iranians and others who are benefitting or countries will simply take matters into their own hands,” the former diplomat, who is now the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued....

Sure, President Bush avoided the words Democrat and Republican. And there were no exhortations for legislation. But if that’s the definition of political, then there’s little that qualifies outside a 30-second TV ad and a State of the Union speech. Instead, the 9-11 anniversary speech carried all the hallmarks of politics as honed and polished by President Bush in the 12 years he has held public office. The most important hallmark is a passive-aggressive strategy—to land a punch without looking like you’re in a fight....

For a self-styled straight-shootin’ Texan, this was more than a little confusing. Just a few days ago, senior military officials told reporters in Baghdad they were certain that a new type of deadly roadside bomb was reaching Iraqi fighters with the approval of top leaders in Tehran. President Bush wasn’t so sure about the Tehran part. But he also wasn’t so sure that he cared. “What we do know is that the Quds force was instrumental in providing these deadly IEDs to networks inside of Iraq....

This time, this President Bush is determined to play both roles to the hilt. The evidence is in his State of the Union address (watched by 63 million people) and in the political flowcharts of Karl Rove’s jokingly named but deadly serious “Office of Strategery.” Simply put, the Bush-Rove strategy is this: leverage popularity from what they hope will be a successful strike against Saddam Hussein to propel a series of sweeping proposals through a Republican-controlled Congress by year-end....

AS IT WAS though, by the time I arrived as a freshman at the University of Michigan, Gratz and Hamacher, along with another woman who was denied admission by Michigan’s law school, had turned their rejections into lawsuits. The three claimed they lost their spots at Ann Arbor to minority applicants who weren’t as qualified. Their lawyers said the system needed to be changed-and in the years since, plenty of plans like it have been....

Following an order by Governor Gavin Newsom to curb the spread COVID-19, 41 counties will fall under the most-restrictive “purple tier” status affecting over 90 percent of the Golden State’s population. It means that from Saturday, all non-essential gatherings between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. will be prohibited. However a number of police departments have said they do not plan to arrest people or issue fines to those who do not comply and will rely on asking people to voluntarily follow the order....

Heavily armed agents arrested Yahweh early last Wednesday at a New Orleans hotel. Simultaneously, law-enforcement officers fanned out in four other Southern cities, pulling in 12 cult members. Another surrendered on Thursday, two days after a federal grand jury handed up an indictment charging the cult members with racketeering, what the FBI calls “a pattern of terrorism.” Sixteen of the 17 indicted were charged with ordering or committing a total of 14 murders....