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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Jan. 21.

Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections: Sports Edition No. 120 for Jan. 21

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, a process that requires a one-year notice period as set out in a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress. Trump initially tried to extract the US from the United Nations health agency in July 2020, but the process did not come to completion before he was voted out of office. At the time, Trump criticized the agency's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed it was protecting China, and asserted that it was overcharging the US in dues.

Marvel Rivals is a competitive game no matter which mode you are playing and while you’ll need to get kills to win, assisting teammates is almost just as important. However, with the gameplay being so fast, things aren’t as clear cut for what classes as an assist, which may be required to complete various missions. Here, we’ll be revealing exactly how to get assists in Marvel Rivals so you can check off any associated challenges and support your team to the best of your ability. Marvel Rivals assists: How to get Marvel Rivals assists are a little bit more complex than that of Call of Duty, for example, which simply require you to put some damage into an enemy, and another teammate finishing them off. Instead, due to the various abilities in the game, there are more opportunities to get an assist but there are caveats you need to be aware of. You need to contribute meaningfully to an ally’s kill, whether that’s by enhancing their abilities, disabling enemies, or providing support that directly impacts the outcome of a fight. For instance, you can assist your team by buffing an ally’s attacks, shielding them from damage, healing them mid-fight, or applying crowd control effects like freezes or debuffs to enemies. Because of this, Strategist heroes are the easiest characters to use if you’re chasing assists, with Mantis and Luna Snow being top picks. Something to note though is that for a crowd control effect to count toward an assist, the enemy must still be affected by that status when your ally lands the killing blow. Let’s say you’re playing as Luna Snow, and you put an enemy in a frozen state.

Back in the 1990s Accolade Sports games sold by the bucketloads. Spanning sports such as baseball, basketball and summer and winter events you could get them on pretty much every home computer and console of the day. And now you will be able to pick up five classic Accolade Sports games in a single collection courtesy of QUByte and Atari for your PC or modern-day console equivalent to relive those pixelated dreams of making the sporting bigtime. The first two games in the set are the classic baseball titles Hardball and Hardball II.

Stuttgart, Germany-based Sereact has secured €25mn to advance its embodied AI software that enables robots to carry out tasks they were never trained to do.  “With our technology, robots act situationally rather than following rigidly programmed sequences. They adapt to dynamic tasks in real-time, enabling an unprecedented level of autonomy,” said Ralf Gulde, CEO and co-founder of Sereact (short for “sense, reason, act”).