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The 49ers quarterback failed to impress in his first game back from his season-ending ACL injury last September as he went 1-for-6 for zero yards and an interception for a lousy 0.0 passer rating in Monday’s 24-15 win over the Broncos. “Yeah, obviously a lot of excitement,” Garoppolo said, via NBC Sports Bay Area. “Anxious to get out there and everything but nothing too crazy. It’s something I haven’t done in a year obviously, so got to knock the rust off and everything and thankfully we have a short week this week so we can bounce back quickly but it’s the first step of getting back into it....

Jimmy Kimmel did not hold back on the Thursday night installment of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and unleashed a scathing monologue on the Republican. “On behalf of all of us we want to send our best wishes from L.A. to those of you who have been hammered by the cold weather,” Kimmel began. “Hundreds of thousands of Texans are still without power. And on a day when the most newsworthy landing should have been the NASA Rover successfully touching down on Mars, instead, it was a senator from Texas touching down on Cancun....

“We’re more than eight months into this crisis and the president still doesn’t have a plan,” Biden said during a speech in Delaware on Friday. “He’s given up. He’s quit on you. He’s quit on your family. He’s quit on America.” “He just wants us to grow numb and resigned to the horrors of this death toll and the pain it’s causing so many Americans,” Biden added. Nearly 220,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University....

In a clip shared on Twitter, the Infowars owner spoke to protesters at the second Million MAGA March, where supporters of President Donald Trump fought against the results of the election, which show that he lost to Biden. Jones, who has shared a number of disproven conspiracy theories in his online show and podcast, seemingly referenced the far-right QAnon conspiracy, which alleges that Trump is secretly fighting against a cult of Democratic Satanic pedophiles....

The county, parts of which are a 20-minute drive to Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, swung from victories for Obama of 8.41 percent in 2008 and 4.81 percent in 2012 to a Trump victory by 19.31 percent in 2016. That margin helped him carry this key battleground state by less than 1 percent. Now, just three weeks before Election Day 2020, Biden leads Trump in Pennsylvania by 7.3 percent in a Five Thirty Eight average of recent public opinion polls....

According to Public Policy Polling, Biden is leading Sanders in two of the senator’s strongest 2016 states: Kansas and Wisconsin. Both surveys, which were conducted earlier this week, showed the former vice president with double-digit leads. In Wisconsin, Biden has 55 percent support from likely primary voters compared with Sanders’ 39 percent support. Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the only other remaining candidate in the Democratic primary, was polling at just 3 percent in the Midwest state....

In an interview with Axios on HBO, set to be broadcast on Sunday, the former vice president blamed the media for portraying the Democrats as being more liberal than they actually were and this was down to the influence of politicians like Ocasio-Cortez. When asked about whether sweeping health care reform policy would be “party suicide” in 2020, Biden replied that “the party’s not there.” Medicare for All, is being touted on the primary campaign trail as a key policy for Sens....

Biden gifted Putin with a crystal sculpture of an American bison—considered one of the United States’ most majestic mammals and a symbol of strength, unity and resilience, a White House official told reporters. The sculpture, made by Steuben, was presented on a cherry wood base in homage to President George Washington, with a custom engraved plaque commemorating the Biden-Putin meeting. Biden also gave Putin a pair of custom aviators from Randolph USA, which has produced the HGU-4/P Aviator designed for fighter pilots in the U....

Before Biden made his way towards Marine One on the South Lawn en route to Pennsylvania to promote his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, he was asked about the situation at the U.S. border with Mexico. Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday that the U.S. is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern frontier for two decades. When one of the journalists asked, “Do you have any plans to travel to the southern border?...

Appearing as part of a panel discussion on CNN’s New Day on Tuesday, ex-Clinton aide Jess McIntosh shared her perspective on the former vice president’s healthcare pitch. Biden has criticized the proposal of several 2020 Democratic candidates to create universal healthcare for all Americans by expanding Medicare. Biden, who served under former President Barack Obama, prefers instead to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare. “The risk he [Biden] has here though, is he comes dangerously close to using Republican talking points when talking about Medicare-for-all,” McIntosh said....

The new survey by Franklin & Marshall College published Thursday showed Biden still in the lead at 22 percent compared with Sanders in second place at 15 percent. But support for Biden in Pennsylvania, according to the poll, had dropped a full eight points while support for Sanders had risen by 3 points since the survey was last conducted in October. Senator Elizabeth Warren came in third, with 14 percent....

The latest news from the Biden administration has left many perplexed about the legal threats being wielded in both Biden and former President Donald Trump’s directions and raised questions about whether one indictment should trigger the other. August’s bombshell FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago had drawn widespread criticism of Trump, and now that Biden is in the hot seat, his team is making every effort to distinguish the differences between the two cases....

Conservatives have responded to reports of Zients’ appointment by resurfacing the sobering warnings the government official—then White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator—gave to unvaccinated Americans in December 2021, when the Delta variant was ravaging the country. Zients said during a White House briefing that the unvaccinated were “looking at a winter of severe illness and death” for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they “may soon overwhelm.” Steve Guest, a communications advisor for Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, shared a clip of the news conference containing Zients’ remarks on Twitter on Sunday, introducing “Joe Biden’s new Chief of Staff” with a quote from his warnings to the unvaccinated....

And Joe Biden—a frequent target of his political rivals for his alleged weakness on the world stage—was likely the one most responsible for defusing it. On social media, users quickly made the subject of “World War 3” a trending topic. News organizations quickly filed explainer pieces outlining what it would take for NATO to invoke Article 5 of its charter, drawing Poland and its allies into the war. And around the world, the public fixated on prior statements made by President Joe Biden that the United States would fight to defend “every inch” of NATO soil....

There is usually a surge of migrants in spring and this year there have been boosted numbers. The U.S. is on course to see a 20-year high of people arriving at the southern border. Republicans have branded the situation a crisis, a term the administration has avoided, and attributed it to Biden’s stances on immigration. “This entire border crisis has been created simply by Joe Biden’s actions and words,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted on Sunday....

On Thursday, White House deputy chief of staff Jennifer O’Malley Dillon questioned the findings of a Quinnipiac University survey which gave Biden a 33 percent approval rating, which was three percentage points less than ex-President Donald Trump at the one-year mark. In a memo to Axios, O’Malley Dillon said that the average of all public polls on the website FiveThirtyEight gave Biden a 43 percent approval rating and that Quinnipiac’s findings were “drastically different from all other recent polls....

Biden’s overall support in the country’s next primary state, which he has staked as his struggling campaign’s turnaround, has fallen to just a single-digit lead over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders versus his massive 28 percent lead over all candidates just three months ago. A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday also identifies another problem with Biden’s potential wooing of black voters - Tom Steyer. The billionaire Democratic presidential candidate has skyrocketed from just 2 percent support among black South Carolina voters in November to 24 percent today....

Trump supporters rioting over the president’s election loss to Biden were met with relatively mild resistance from law enforcement when breaching the Capitol building. Many in the largely white mob were allowed to simply leave the area after taking part in the violent insurrection. Biden said “we all know” that law enforcement would have taken a different tact with protesters supporting the movement for racial justice. “Not only did we see the failure to protect one of the three branches of our government, we also saw a clear failure to carry out equal justice,” Biden said from Wilmington, Delaware....

“I’m very confident in Dr. Fauci,” Biden told reporters on Friday, his first public defense of his chief medical adviser, who has come under renewed scrutiny this past week over his response to the coronavirus pandemic and its origins. Questioned later in the day during a briefing with reporters, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said there is no circumstance in which she could see Biden firing Fauci. “Dr. Fauci is a renowned career civil servant....

Biden and Putin met in Geneva this week to discuss topics ranging from ransomware to human rights concerns at what leaders have agreed to be a “low point” in the U.S.-Russia relationship. While the two did not hold a joint press conference after their meeting as Trump and Putin did when they met in Helsinki three years ago, Biden made his own remarks to reporters on the “productive” meeting....