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Ubisoft hasn’t said a whole lot about its Star Wars game, and for good reason. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells Star Wars fans that the open-world game is much too early in development for the studio to say anything definitive about it. That means that, for now, everything seems possible. Since Ubisoft is working with such an apparent blank slate, it should try to incorporate a fan wish that would set the Ubisoft Star Wars game apart from most others in the market....

Biden wrote in a letter to Congress saying Ethiopia was in “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” The U.S. and United Nations said Ethiopian troops have continually prevented the passage of trucks carrying aid and food, in which many in the area have been deprived. Scores of people have starved to death, according to AP. Biden signed an executive order in September threatening to levy sanctions against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed because of the conflict and fatal harm in the Tigray region if steps were not taken to stop the 11-month war....

“I think Hawi will definitely enable me to do what I do best, even better,” Pappas told Sporting News. “I’m excited because I have this big community and platform through Nike and Tracktown USA. I love the relationships I already have with my coach and my sponsors.” Pappas first met Keflezighi at the 2013 Beach to Beacon 10K road race in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The energy around Keflezighi that day caught the attention of Pappas and the two have crossed paths at several road races along the way....

MORE: Why athletes turn to social media in hard times | Union would take NFL to court over Tom Brady | Potential training camp holdouts The legislation would ensure that people with disabilities have more opportunities when they seek treatments, cures and independence. “This is a huge victory for ALS patients across the country," bill co-sponsor Sen. David Vitter (Rep., La.) said, via WDSU-TV. “Making this equipment more accessible and affordable will give them the ability to communicate with their family and friends – even literally giving them a voice when they lose their ability to speak....

The U.S. Department of Commerce measures will add the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and its 11 research institutes to its “entity list,” barring American companies from selling parts to them without a license. Officials said the blacklisting is due to the entities’ use of its technologies against the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority living in China’s Xinjiang province. Governments and human rights groups around the world have accused China of genocide and other crimes against the Uyghurs, including torture, forced labor and forced sterilization....

Than Saw Aung, lawyer for Danny Fenster, said his client was given a charged under the Unlawful Associations Act. Fenster, the managing editor of the Yangon-based online news and business magazine Frontier Myanmar, had previously been charged with incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Incitement is punishable by up to three years in prison in Myanmar. Unlawful associations has mostly been applied against ethnic revel groups fighting for autonomy, but sympathizers and journalists contacting these groups have also been prosecuted for the charge....

The security force arrested Homsi on drug possession charges on November 16 after allegedly finding a small amount of cannabis in her Beirut apartment. Homsi’s lawyer, Diala Chehade, called the public prosecutor, who issued a warrant for her release on November 25. However, Homsi continued to be held “for security reasons.” General Security refused to specify what that meant. The agency also issued a deportation order for her. The Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released a joint statement Wednesday calling her detainment “arbitrary....

A loss would have left the U.S. anchored equal bottom in the six-team group known as the Hexagonal, but the draw sends them home relieved and still in contention for one of the three automatic spots to Russia 2018. Mexico extended their lead to three points atop the group with a 1-0 away win over Trinidad and Tobago, a second-half goal by Diego Reyes in Port of Spain lifting El Tri to 10 points from four games....

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - U.S. shooter Kim Rhode has a chance to tie a record for the longest consecutive streak of medal-winning performances at this month’s Olympic Games, but the six-time competitor shows no surprise when the discussion turns from sports to gun laws. A new chapter in the long-running U.S. debate about gun rights opened this summer, when police departments in some major cities began to call for restrictions on laws permitting the open carrying of firearms after a former U....

New York (Reuters) - World number one Karolina Pliskova needed just 46 minutes to defeat American Jennifer Brady 6-1 6-0 at Arthur Ashe Stadium and punch her ticket to the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open on Monday. After facing a match point during her third-round battle against Zhang Shuai on Saturday, Pliskova was never pushed by Brady, who failed to find her groove on a sunny day that cast a severe shadow across center court....

A forgotten star for two years while building a complete game, Kaymer turned the toughest test of golf into a runaway at Pinehurst No. 2 on Sunday to become only the seventh wire-to-wire winner in 114 years of the U.S. Open. MORE: Kaymer’s record rounds | Leaderboard | Photos | Cart driver runs into cop | NBC says goodbye Kaymer closed with a 1-under 69 — the only player from the last eight groups to break par — for an eight-shot victory over Rickie Fowler and Erik Compton, the two-time heart transplant recipient and the only player who even remotely challenged the 29-year-old German....

Fowler, who finished tied for second in the 2014 U.S. Open when Martin Kaymer lapped the field, posted a video on his Snapchat account showcasing the extreme speed of Oakmont’s greens. MORE U.S. OPEN: Pairings, tee times The greens are expected to remain consistent with the speed seen the last time the Open was hosted by Oakmont. They ran 14 on the Stimpmeter then, when Angel Cabrera won the tournament at 5 over....

Williams went toe to toe with Simona Halep, the fifth seed, in an absorbing quarterfinal tussle at Flushing Meadows, a contest that ebbed and flowed into a third and deciding set. Williams, the 22-time grand slam champion, committed an uncharacteristically high number of unforced errors in the match, but she held her nerve when it mattered most and posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win. Williams’ 309th major victory earned her a semifinal showdown with No....

While all other major tournaments have had at least one golfer win five or more times, no golfer has won more than four times in the U.S. Open. And with Tiger Woods announcing that he will not be playing in the 2022 U.S. Open, no golfers will be joining the group that has won at least four times. In the current field, only Brooks Koepka has won the event multiple times....

Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the Pentagon was “in the process of bringing air defense systems, ballistic missile defense systems, into Iraq in particular, to protect ourselves against another potential Iranian attack.” The Islamic Republic fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops in response to the assassination days earlier of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport....

The Nevada Army Guard said that Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Hopper is the first guard soldier to receive a religious accommodation approval for a beard, according to a news release from the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. The U.S. Army prohibits facial hair and instructs all soldiers to remain clean-shaven, but Hopper, 34, has continued to sport a “full, reddish-brown beard” since his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer....

According to Army Times, it will not be happening. A non-commissioned officer (NCO), or first sergeant, had required that members of the unit take part in the competition. Participation was demanded regardless of whether they lived up to the U.S. Army’s weight standards. Additionally, teams that did have members who put on weight would have suffered consequences. The extra weight would have resulted in two hours’ duty for every added pound....

Documents obtained by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and reviewed by Newsweek suggest that Department of Commerce (DOC) officials told workers with its healthcare team, which is tasked with enhancing the global competitiveness of the U.S. health industry, to refer at least one buyer to a website promoting U.S. manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) as recently as March 13. In an excerpt from an internal Commerce Department email sent that morning, two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, a department official told the domestic healthcare team that “due to the ever increasing domestic demand and limited supplies, unfortunatly [sic], we are reluctant to promote export leads to our U....

Mike Mullen, one-time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is leading a delegation of former defense and national security officials on a 30-hour visit to Taipei. He told Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen that the group was there to reassure the public, as well as those in neighboring countries, about American commitment to the region. “We come to Taiwan at a very difficult and critical moment in world history. As President Biden has said, democracy is facing sustained and alarming challenges, most recently in Ukraine....

President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that Baghdadi had died during the Delta Team raid first reported by Newsweek the night before. The jihadi leader was detonated a suicide vest as U.S. forces sought to kill or capture one of the world’s most wanted men and, as the president announced it to the world, Hellfire missiles targeted Muhajir by Ayn al-Bayda, near Jarablus in Aleppo province. Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mazloum Abdi, also known as Mazloum Kobane, also reported on the news Sunday....