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The California Democrat said Hawley was a “phony” and sarcastically called him a “genius” for touting the book’s status as a bestseller on the big tech platform. The congressman’s Twitter post was responding to a message from Hawley, in which the Missouri senator thanked his followers for making The Tyranny of Big Tech a bestseller. The title from Regnery Publishing was released on Tuesday. “Phony alert—this genius is railing against ‘big tech’ while selling his book on ‘big tech,’” Swalwell tweeted....

But will that be enough to win NFL Defensive Player of the Year honors? A reporter asked Norman that very question Thursday. Not surprisingly, the confident Norman said he deserves the award. MORE: Ranking the best Panthers of all time | Best defensive players of the 2000s “I’m not going to sit up here and say I don’t,” Norman told The Charlotte Observer. “It’s one of those things that I put on my goal list each and every year....

But as the clock ticked down in the closing minutes, Harden idled on the bench, Griffin’s touch deserted him and it was the castoff and the journeymen who kept the Rockets alive for one more game. Houston erased a huge LA lead in the fourth quarter on the way to a stunning 119-107 victory that forced a decisive Game 7 Sunday in Houston. MORE: Balanced Cavs top Bulls, advance | LINEMAKERS: Hawks-Wizards | PHOTOS: Top free agents...

The academics and journalists accused the network of violating “elementary canons of journalism,” and argued that the channel had “contributed to the spread of a grave pandemic” with its coverage of the novel coronavirus. Their letter also urged Fox News to protect its elderly viewers by basing its coronavirus coverage on scientific fact. CNN’s Reliable Sources reported that 74 academics and journalists had signed the open letter as of Wednesday evening....

In a post shared to TikTok on August 30, user Jo (@heythatsjo823) can be seen wearing a baby wrap containing her 18-year-old dog Mimi, who looks incredibly content with the situation. Users couldn’t get enough of the tiny canine and her happy face, with the cute clip receiving over 2.6 million views and 589,000 likes at the time of writing. They may be older, but exercise still has numerous benefits for senior dogs, such as maintaining balance and flexibility, improving stamina and endurance, and even supporting their attention span and focus....

The Defense of Liberty political action committee used WePay, a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, for ticketing on a December 3 event in St. Charles, Missouri. However, on November 9, WePay suspended its services to the Missouri political action committee, citing their Terms of Service which prohibit processing for “hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same....

After Soto declined a 15-year, $440 million extension from the Nationals, Washington has begun actively shopping the superstar outfielder with eyes set on a massive package of prospects as the team looks to rebuild its future. There is little to no precedent for trading a talent like Soto. Only 23 years old, Soto has received comparisons to Hall of Famer Ted Williams and is under contract not just for all of 2023, but for 2024, as well....

The ethical lessons of the Five Books of Moses, what Jews call the Torah, are today so commonly held that they are almost taken for granted. We forget that beliefs such as the inestimable value of every human life, the superiority of peace to warfare and a justice system that must treat all as equals were hardly common in the ancient world. We are fortunate to live in a country whose Founding Fathers looked to the Bible to guide them in the formation of a more perfect union....

The ruling does not affect the case the law has in the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion providers have urged the Supreme Court to block the measure, but it has yet to make a ruling. Peeples avoided the broader legality of the Texas law called Senate Bill 8. The law, enacted in September, has banned abortions once cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks, which is before some women have knowledge of their pregnancy....

The decision comes just under two weeks after Cohen was re-admitted to a medium-security federal correctional facility in Otisville, New York, and two months after his initial home confinement release due to concerns about COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered Cohen’s release, set for Friday at 2 p.m. Hellerstein argued the decision to take Cohen back into custody earlier this month was “retaliatory” during Thursday’s hearing, since it closely followed the former Trump lawyer resisting requirements that he refrain from writing a critical tell-all book about the president while at home on release....

Fox, 32, who dated West, 44, for several weeks at the start of the year, said in an interview last week that she didn’t believe her ex “would hurt a fly” when asked about his stream of controversial Instagram posts. Specifically, Fox was addressing West’s recently-unveiled “Eazy” music video, which showed a claymation depiction of his Pete Davidson, who is dating his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, getting kidnapped and buried alive....

During his career, Jones has averaged 9.8 targets per game and 95.5 receiving yards per game, and the latter mark is good for the highest average in NFL history. But when discussing his expectations in Tennessee, the former Falcons receiver was only focused on one thing. “At the end of the day, you want to create a winning culture. However you need to do it, you have to get the job done,” Jones said on his first Zoom press conference with the media....

In an interview with Justin Felder of FOX 5 in Atlanta, Fontenot addressed the speculation surrounding the seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver. Multiple reports have indicated that interested teams are calling the Falcons, and Fontenot told Felder that Atlanta would at least listen to offers for Jones in part because of the team’s cap situation. MORE: Falcons “laying framework” for Jones trade “That’s one of those things that, when you’re doing things the right way in an organization, you have to listen if people call, on any player,” Fontenot said....

Seau’s daughter, Sydney, will be allowed to speak at his induction on Aug. 8, according to Fox Sports. She will join her three brothers in unveiling their father’s Hall of Fame bust. She will then be given the opportunity to participate in an on-stage interview following the unveiling. MORE: Junior Seau through the years | Derrick Thomas’ son on meaning of HOF speech The hall will continue its tradition of allowing only a video presentation for posthumous enshrinees....

Gina Seau, Junior’s widow, told the New York Times she was “very surprised” to find out the Hall would show a video to introduce him, rather than a video followed by a speech from a chosen presenter. MORE: Rookies visit Hall of Fame | Helmets doing more harm than good? Sydney, his daughter, was to introduce him. But Gina said she did not “think Sydney or any of us were going to use the Hall of Fame as a platform....

Yet for many reasons, when it comes to the life of the psyche, we arrogantly cling to the delusion that nobody understood much until the 19th or 20th centuries. Modern psychology was devised in the 1880s; we seem to think no one paid much attention to the inner workings of the mind until then. In truth, we understand less today about the mysteries of the mind than ever. And we live in a less enlightened, rather than a more enlightened, age when it comes to humanity’s understanding of our place in the cosmos....

This means that the Great Red Spot, which is the solar system’s largest storm, is wide and deep enough to swallow Earth from sea level out to the orbit of the International Space Station, at an altitude of around 250 miles. Yet, because of its tremendous width of over 10,000 miles, and the fact that the gas giant’s atmosphere reaches its center, the team behind the findings still describes the storm as flat like a pancake....

Things were no happier for Netanyahu on the international front. On Wednesday he riled governments around the globe by approving plans for a big new Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. In public the prime minister defended the move as good for both Arabs and Jews. Privately, he told Washington that right-wingers would have brought down his government had he failed to push the plan. The appointments scandal and the settlements showdown both paint an unflattering picture of a politician hostage to expediency....

MCI launched the battle in May with 1-800-COLLECT, promising low-cost collect calls from any telephone. Last week AT&T countered with its 1-800-OPERATOR. While the giants roar at each other, their real targets lie elsewhere. Many pay phones now route long-distance calls to alternative carriers charging far higher rates. If AT&T and MCI can get customers to memorize the new 800 numbers, they may recapture a good part of that business....

The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) sent a letter to James McHenry, director of the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), on Thursday alerting him to a recent “EOIR Morning Briefing” email that contained a “pseudo-anonymous source whose values and statements are in contradiction” with the department’s standards and legal principles. “The August 19, 2019 morning news briefing contained ’news’ from a website known for publishing white nationalist ideology and Anti-Semitic tropes,” Ashley Tabaddor, NAIJ’s president wrote, adding that numerous judges across the country have since complained about the “offensive” blog....