Simon & Schuster decided to pull out from publishing a book named The Tyranny of Big Tech from Hawley following the recent violence in Washington, D.C., where supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building. Hawley has been criticized for supporting Trump’s baseless claims that widespread fraud cost him the election, facing a severe backlash and calls for him to resign from his post following the scenes of violence last week....

San Francisco’s fourth-stringer, Josh Johnson, who entered after Brock Purdy was injured in the first half, was forced to leave the contest with a head injury early in the third quarter. He was listed as questionable to return in the game. GAMING SURVEY: Complete short survey for chance to win international football shirt of your choice! The 49ers have been dealing injuries to quarterbacks since the start of the season....

Coach Mike Pettine maintained that McCown, who appeared to suffer an injury in Sunday’s 34-20 loss to Arizona, will get the start if he is able to go against Cincinnati. Cleveland should know more Monday. MORE: What we learned from Cardinals-Browns | NFL Sunday scoreboard “I said during the week, if our starter can go he will be the starter,” Pettine said. McCown threw three first-half touchdowns to help the Browns build a 20-10 lead, but he took a shot from Cardinals linebacker Kevin Minter in the third quarter....

According to the source, Norman contacted the Panthers last Wednesday after being told that the tag guaranteeing him $13.952 million for 2016 was rescinded, going so far as offering to fire his agent, Michael George, and sign the tag. MORE: Breaking down the top free agents still out there By that point, however, the Panthers had decided to move on. Suddenly a free agent, Norman — who claimed to be “sideswiped” by his release — on Friday signed a five-year, $75 million deal with the Redskins....

Joshua (22-0, 21 KO’s) meets Ruiz (31-1, 21 KO’s) after his initial opponent Jarrell Miller was removed from the card last month after failing several drug tests. Instead of traditional pay per view, the June-1 showdown will stream exclusively on DAZN. Sign up for DAZN to watch Joshua-Ruiz and 100+ fight nights a year DAZN is available to steam across a multidue of plaforms including desktop, mobile device and even Roku....

“We only had her for 20 weeks,” the couple wrote on their shared Instagram account. “Life is fragile and precious. So thankful the Lord gave her to us for that short time! She will be in our hearts forever!” The “Counting On” stars announced in May they were expecting another addition to their family, after their son Gideon was born last year. In their first social media post on Thursday, the Forsyths broke the tragic news that Joy-Anna had a miscarriage....

The Cure exaggerates this inertia until almost nothing exists beyond singer Robert Smith’s mostly gloomy raptures. Formed in Sussex in 1976, the band originally combined the rush of punk rock with the apocalyptic pretensions in the air at the time. But by “Wish,” the Cure’s 15th album, both propulsion and dread have given way to a benign, somewhat fuzzy stillness. Too static to outline real emotions, the music dwells on the gauzy cocoons of Smith’s moods....

The Good Juan Francisco Estrada’s scintillating performance. Estrada shouted to anyone within an earshot that the rematch with Srisaket Sor Rungvisai on Friday night would be different. He felt injuries hampered his performance in February 2018, when Sor Rungvisai won in one of the year’s best bouts. Fight fans have heard the injury excuse coming out of boxers’ mouths before. But on this night, Estrada’s reasoning proved to be accurate, as he set the tone from the opening bell to win an easy decision to capture the WBC super flyweight championship....

Know how the best part of any draft coverage, after the first six or seven picks, is the tracker they show at the bottom of the screen showing you the “best remaining players” on a scroll? Think of this list like that. MORE: MLB trade deadline tracker: Latest news, rumors We’ll try our best to keep it updated between now and when the deadline arrives. Shohei Ohtani, SP/DH Yep, he’s No....

The superstar Nationals outfielder may be in new threads come Aug. 3, if trade rumors come to trade reality. To that end, some franchises will be in for a shuffling of their own. Reports say that the Nationals are looking for four or five young players, including some who are young with service time at the major-league level. (That, by the way, shouldn’t scare off any team from wanting to make a move....

The right-back was forced off with Atletico drawing 1-1 at the break, as Sime Vrsaljko replaced him at full-back before what proved to be a frantic second period. Griezmann grabs dramatic winner Atletico confirmed soon after his withdrawal that Juanfran’s problem was localised to his right hamstring and is now likely to be touch-and-go for the trip to Leverkusen on February 21 in the Champions League. He could also miss Saturday’s La Liga match at Sporting Gijon, while Barcelona visit the Vicente Calderon five days after Atletico’s clash in Germany....

The Cowboys quarterback filed the lawsuit against the league earlier in February, claiming the NFL shut down his National Fantasy Football Convention by forcing players and NFL Media employees who had committed to the event to instead cancel. “This case is about the NFL’s blatant and premeditated sabotage of an event designed to bring together the very people who are the backbone of the NFL — the players and the fans,” the lawsuit stated....

Abbott issued his executive order on July 28, and a news release from his office said its purpose was to restrict “ground transportation of migrants who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19 into Texas communities.” Abbot’s order directed Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to “stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion” of transporting migrants who had been released by Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The troopers were instructed to “reroute such vehicles back to its point of origin or a port of entry,” though troopers were also given the authority to impound any vehicles thought to be in violation....

Planned Parenthood would have been booted out of Texas’ Medicaid program on Thursday, but state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking the move hours before it would have taken effect, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Another hearing in the case is set to take place on the day that the court order expires, February 17. The emergency lawsuit, filed by Planned Parenthood affiliates, made a technical argument that state officials had not issued notifications in accordance with state law....

In numerous videos of the 2019 protests, Mark Bartlett can be seen waving a gun at numerous protesters near Miami’s Brickell Avenue Bridge as well as yelling several racial slurs. “The use of racial comments shows he was simmering,” Judge Alberto Milian said late Thursday afternoon. “He was an angry man. He was inconvenienced. He wanted to go back to Broward County. There was no reasonable justification.” In 2019, Bartlett was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with prejudice, one count of carrying a concealed weapon and one count of improper exhibition of a firearm during Martin Luther King Jr....

U.S. District Judge David Carter attributed the ruling to evidence and said that the congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack could obtain emails by John Eastman, a lawyer for Trump, Reuters reported. Carter’s ruling is a sign of progress for the Jan. 6 Select Committee, which has been trying to gain access to emails that Eastman has so far withheld while citing attorney-client privilege. Carter wrote in his ruling that the illegality of Trump’s plan, described earlier in the document as a “plan to disrupt the electoral count,” was “obvious....

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. Allegedly, Epstein procured women to have sexual relations with high-profile individuals, such as Prince Andrew. Information about Epstein, culled from a 2015 civil suit filed against Epstein by Giuffre, allegedly contained the names of individuals with whom Epstein had conducted business. Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled Wednesday that Giuffre’s lawyers had come into possession of the documents improperly, noting that the protective order could only be enforced during the civil lawsuit proceedings which had already been settled....

Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson on Monday issued a temporary injunction against Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran’s July 6 mandate that classrooms reopen five days per week to in-person learning by August 31, finding that the order violated the state’s Constitution. “Our Florida Constitution requires the State to ensure our schools operate safely,” Dodson wrote in the decision. “Defendants, however, through the Order and its application, have essentially ignored the requirement of school safety by requiring the statewide opening of brick-and-mortar schools to receive already allocated funding....

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Karl Dresch, from Calumet to time served on Wednesday after he served the maximum sentence, six months, in prison for participating in the mob that stormed the Capitol. Dresch is to be released from jail after initially pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge following his arrest in January. Jackson said she believed the charge was fitting since his “actions didn’t match his rhetoric,” because he did not injure anyone or damage property on Jan....

The Biden administration filed a lawsuit seeking to chip away legally at Senate Bill 8, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. “Abortion care has almost completely stopped in our state,” Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, a Texas abortion provider, told the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee during a hearing over abortion access on Thursday. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. The law, signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortions in Texas once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks, which is before some women know they are pregnant....