The Redskins’ cornerback felt there was a lack of response by the U.S. government — and called out President Donald Trump. MORE: Josh Norman reminds us of America’s most effective form of protest “It’s truly bigger than football and everything else,” Norman said to the Washington Post. “This is not my job. This is my personal life. I don’t care what other people may think or say, like, ‘Just play football....
I was reminded of this sometimes difficult balancing act last Friday night when I saw the edited version of this week’s Newsweek cover story on John McCain. I wrote the story, with reporting from a half-dozen colleagues. Generally, Newsweek stories are collective efforts, and I usually share a byline at the top of the story with one or two reporters and several more in the tag line at the end of the story....
Exhibit A is the reported trade that will bring guard Jrue Holiday from New Orleans to Milwaukee. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Stadium’s Shams Charania reported that the Bucks will acquire Holiday for guards Eric Bledsoe and George Hill and multiple first-round draft picks. Wojnarowski reported that three 1s will head to the Pelicans and two pick swaps will also be included. MORE: NBA offseason dates; draft, free agency and season start...
USC transfer JT Daniels announced Monday on Twitter that he will be immediately eligible for the 2020 season, a move that could spice up the battle for the starting job if there is a college football season. Georgia is looking to replace Jake Fromm, who had a 36-7 record as a starter and led the Bulldogs to three straight SEC East Division championships. Daniels is one of two transfers who fits into that mix....
It’s the second Indy victory for Montoya and 16th for car owner Roger Penske. It also proves Montoya made the right decision in leaving NASCAR to return to IndyCar racing. NASCAR: Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte | Hamlin goes for sweep | Longest race, safety first Juan Pablo Montoya’s winning car (Getty Images) MORE: Must-see photos from Indy 500 | All 99 winners of the Indianapols 500 Montoya’s winning margin: 0....
On Thursday, Judge Aileen Cannon went against the demand from Raymond Dearie, the special master she appointed at the request of Trump, in the latest back-and-forth about the classified materials the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. Cannon ruled that Trump’s legal team does not need to comply with a demand from Dearie that they must formally state by October 7 if they believe the list of items the FBI say they removed from Mar-a-Lago is inaccurate....
Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter denied the motion to dismiss the lawsuit, stating that “there are genuine issues of material facts for trial,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Vanessa Bryant filed the lawsuit against the county for invasion of privacy and negligence in connection to the deadly 2020 crash, alleging sheriff’s deputies at the scene took photographs and shared them. In his ruling, Walter said that his role as a judge is not “to weigh the evidence and determine the truth of the matter but to determine whether there is a genuine issue for trial,” the Times reported....
To a certain extent, the politicization of judicial appointments has tracked political divisions nationally—and confirmation controversies are hardly unprecedented over the long sweep of American history. But the reasons for those controversies have shifted in the last few decades. While inter- and intra-party politics have always played a role, couching opposition in terms of judicial philosophy is a relatively new phenomenon. For most of the republic’s history, judicial controversies tended to revolve around either the president’s relationship with the Senate or deviations from shared understandings of the factors that go into nominations for particular seats—especially geography and patronage....
Seinfeld costar Julia Louis-Dreyfus Tweeted a blooper from the season 8 episode “The Little Kicks.” “The truth is that this happened all the time with Jerry Stiller,” she wrote. “He was so funny and such a dear human being. We loved him. RIP Jerry Stiller.” During the episode, Frank tries to pick a fight with Elaine (Louis-Dreyfus). However, she and George (Jason Alexander) are unable to control their laughter as cameras rolled....
Washingtonville, N.Y.: Your article on “Why we don’t get no respect” was very insightful and at the same time disturbing for me. Clearly (with the exception of Ms. Rice) we don’t seem to have the right players in place regarding our foreign policy. Besides Ms. Rice, who else, if anyone, is making positive progress regarding U.S. foreign policy? Fareed Zakaria: There are others. Our ambassador in Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, is a smart man in a very difficult job....
Boris Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care after falling ill with COVID-19, is believed to have strong views on obesity, having previously spoken of the need for a healthy diet and criticized unhealthy diets high in salt, fats and sugar. Obesity is widely considered to be a risk factor for severe illness and death from COVID-19. Although no concrete measures have been announced by the prime minister yet, he is expected to unveil the government’s new obesity strategy on Monday....
An international team of researchers came to this conclusion after running numerous 3D computer simulations—and they say the finding could help to explain some puzzling measurements collected by the Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting the planet. Data from the Juno mission has allowed scientists to create an accurate picture of Jupiter’s gravitational field, which has been used to infer information about the planet’s composition and internal structure. However, these observations indicate that Jupiter’s core is less dense and much larger than what scientists expected....
Wright, 20, was killed after being pulled over in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from this rearview mirror. Police tried to arrest him on a previous warrant for a weapons charge, but Wright pulled away from the officers and got back into his car when Potter, 49, shot him, but she said she meant to use a Taser....
Circuit Judge J. Hasbrouck will issue the final ruling on his sentence at a hearing in December, though Elledge cannot be given more than 28 years per the jury’s recommendation. Mengqi Ji married Elledge after moving from China to the U.S. to attend the University of Missouri. He reported Ji missing in October 2019, and her remains were ultimately discovered in a park near Columbia, Missouri, in March after months of extensive searching....
On Sunday evening, Black Entertainment Television (BET) held its annual BET Awards ceremony. Smollett, who was convicted in 2021 of paying two men to stage a homophobic and racist attack on him in 2019, made a surprise appearance at the awards show and used his time on the red carpet to promote B-Boy Blues, a BET+ movie Smollett directed. Smollett’s return to the public eye was not universally welcomed, as seen through reactions on social media posted after his appearance....
Former Empire star Smollett, 39, had alleged that he was attacked on the streets of Chicago on January 29, 2019, by two supporters of former President Donald Trump, who he alleged tied a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. His claims were challenged by brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who alleged that the actor and singer had paid them $3,500 to stage the attack. Smollett was subsequently arrested on charges of lying to police officers, before the charges were dropped in March 2019....
Smollett had originally stated that two men had attacked him in January 2019 near his home in Chicago, Illinois. The attack allegedly included the use of racial epithets and also tying a noose around Smollett’s neck. However, an investigation by the Chicago Police soon began to encounter numerous holes within Smollett’s story, and prosecutors accused him of paying the pair of men to attack him. He was eventually charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly staging the crime....
Hasselhoff is a major pop star in Germany. Think of him as a 41-year-old New Kid on der Block, selling millions of slickly produced kinderpop albums to prepubescent fans. Now he’s got his baby-blues set on the adult-contemporary market in the United States, i.e., the people rumored to buy Michael Bolton albums. Why? It’s not the money – he makes a mint off “Baywatch,” which airs in 116 countries. Says David: “I want to do music that’s more organically me....
The funds, awarded to 215 jurisdictions under the banner of the 2018 STOP School Violence Act, were designated for targeted programs that help develop threat assessment teams, school safety infrastructure, coordination with law enforcement and mental health training, among other initiatives. Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, a non-profit which helps schools devise security protocols, thought the areas of focus emphasized by the Justice Department were wholly appropriate for improving campus safety....
