Stories Related to Data May Signal U.s. Recovery

MIAMI — The notion of dueling dual timelines is among the factors that made the Miami Heat’s approach to this season particularly intriguing. Now, amid the mediocrity that is .500, that intrigue has been tempered, as appealing as Friday’s Thanksgiving leftovers. For as much as there was the unknown about how much Erik Spoelstra’s 30-somethings had left in the tank, how much more could be mined from Jimmy Butler, Terry Rozier, Kevin Love, there also was the intrigue of the next wave, those who would pair going forward with Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro. Now, justifiably, there are doubts. Nikola Jovic as emerging starter?

GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Miami Dolphins fullback Alec Ingold, a Green Bay native, remembers being about 8 or 9 years old dreaming about one day playing at historic Lambeau Field. “My cousin is getting married, and they have wedding receptions there,” Ingold told the story this week at his locker in Miami Gardens.

By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences. “We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — Vaping is coming before the Supreme Court next week as federal regulators ask the high court to uphold its block on sweet, flavored products following a spike in youth e-cigarette use. The Food and Drug Administration has denied more than a million marketing applications for candy- or fruit-flavored products that appeal to kids, part of a wider crackdown that advocates say helped drive down teen vaping after an “epidemic level” surge in 2019. Vaping companies, though, said the agency unfairly disregarded arguments that their sweet e-liquid products would help adults quit smoking traditional cigarettes without putting kids at greater risk. Republican Donald Trump’s administration could take a different approach after he vowed in a September social-media post to “save” vaping. The Supreme Court on Monday is hearing arguments in the FDA’s appeal of a decision from the conservative 5th U.

WASHINGTON — Ivanka and Jared left the White House behind for a life in Miami. Eric is running the family business. Tiffany got married. Barron is a budding strategist at NYU. Of all the Trump children, no one has stuck closer to their father’s side than the president-elect’s eldest son. Donald Trump Jr., 46, has found political power and personal fortune in stoking the flame of the Make America Great Again movement his father started.