Surprise: Web sports sites are just as competitive as the athletes they cover. Diehards flock to these sites for their fix of scores, news and fantasy leagues, making the field one of the fastest growing on the Internet. MSNBC, ABC, Prodigy and AOL all offer sports content on the Web, but the real heavyweights are ESPN SportsZone, the market leader, and CBS SportsLine, the 3-year-old upstart that wants to knock its block off....
The revelations, made public after National Security Agency documents were declassified Wednesday by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, fuel efforts by Republicans, the president and his allies to delegitimize the Russia investigation and accuse Trump’s predecessor of malfeasance with his former national security adviser. GOP Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Rand Paul of Kentucky requested the information from Grenell. “The records are one step forward in an important effort to get to the bottom of what the Obama administration did during the Russia investigation and to Lt....
The former vice president is on track to secure 306 electoral college votes, even as President Donald Trump continues to mount a campaign contesting the race and claim that he was actually the winner. Biden, who has received about 6 million more votes than Trump overall, already has set a record for the highest number of votes for a winning presidential candidate, with Trump at 74 million votes also setting a record for the most for a losing candidate and most votes for a sitting president....
Biden won plaudits from environmentalists for rejoining the Paris climate agreement and putting in place a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic. But his decision on the pipeline to pump oil from the tar sands of Canada through the U.S. has raised the ire of the energy industry, which has lamented job losses and questioned the environmental wisdom of shifting oil shipments onto roads and rail...
Some prominent conservatives opposed to President Donald Trump argued on Tuesday that there should be no more debates after last night’s event, calling it a “disgrace.” During the debate, Trump told the far-right group Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” Supporters of the group praised the comment on social media and shared a version of their logo with his words on it. The president also claimed that the election is rigged, repeating his criticism of mail-in ballots as susceptible to mass voter fraud....
The coronavirus crisis has seen a shift-change in their priorities, as well as those of American citizens. While the direct human tragedy of the pandemic is obvious, the outbreak has also compounded issues for the economy and international relations, which the electorate will be looking for the next president to tackle. COVID-19 is also highlighting inequalities domestically, with black Americans more likely to know someone who has suffered from a severe case of COVID-19....
GOP lawmakers likened the president to a “tyrant” in social media posts, saying the federal government couldn’t force Americans to wear face coverings. Yesterday the White House lifted the rule that all staff and visitors have to wear masks in the building. Those who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus no longer have to wear face coverings. Politico reported that congressional staff were also told restrictions on Capitol Hill would be rolled back for those had received their shots....
The order mandates that the Department of Justice (DOJ) not renew contracts with “privately operated criminal detention facilities.” Susan Rice, Biden’s domestic policy adviser, said that private prisons are used to “profiteer” off of federal prisoners while insisting that they are also “less safe for correctional officers and prisoners.” “President Biden is committed to reducing mass incarceration while making our communities safer,” Rice said during a press conference. “That starts with ending the federal government’s reliance on private prisons....
The Ukrainian leader tweeted the picture with Biden, taken on the sidelines of the COP26 environmental summit, on Tuesday. “While talking to @POTUS in Glasgow, we discussed the security situation in the Donbass,” Zelenskiy wrote in Ukrainian, according to a translation, referring to Kyiv’s concerns about a Russian troop buildup near its border. Zelenskiy added that the U.S. “continues to support territorial integrity and reforms” in Ukraine. But Alexei Pushkov, a senator from the Perm region who was formerly head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament, took to his Telegram channel to poke fun at the meeting and the expression on Zelenskiy’s face....
Biden was speaking in Arlington, Virginia in support of Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe, who is seeking a second term in November of this year. He directly referenced Ivey as part of his discussion of the pandemic. On Thursday, Ivey, who is a Republican, told reporters that it was time to start “blaming the unvaccinated folks” for the rise in COVID cases. Her state has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation at just 33....
The July survey is the first time that Biden’s approval rating has fallen below 40 percent in Gallup’s monthly polls since he took office in January 2021. A follow up question found that 45 percent of Americans “strongly” disapprove of Biden’s performance, compared to just 13 percent who strongly approve. Biden’s sixth quarter approval rating of 40 percent—covering April 20 through July 19—is also the lowest of any president in modern history dating back to Dwight Eisenhower....
The former vice president’s odds of winning the election have reached 91.7 percent, according to data compiled by The Action Network. This marks a high point for Biden as The Action Network previously reported between a 29.2 and 90 percent chance for the Democrat throughout Wednesday. The website, Election Betting Odds, which compiles data from bookmakers including FTX, Smarkets, Betfair and PredictIt, also has Biden sitting with an over 90 percent chance of winning the presidential race....
The New York Times first obtained documents about the budget request, reporting that Biden will call for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031 with deficits topping $1.3 billion throughout the decade. The growth would be driven by Biden’s two latest proposals to update the country’s infrastructure and social safety net: the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan. The Associated Press reported that the 2022 budget, the first of Biden’s presidency, would include his $2....
One week after Americans had gone to the polls, twice as many foreign leaders (eight) had called to congratulate Biden for becoming President-elect than Republican senators who publicly did so (four). It is beyond America’s borders where this Republican reluctance and GOP gripes without evidence over fraud claims, could most significantly play out. In a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) this week, more than 150 former national security officials warned that the government’s delay in recognizing Biden as president-elect poses a “serious risk to national security....
In September, Biden tapped Saule Omarova, a Cornell University law professor, to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees banking regulation. Her nomination sparked concern among Republicans, lenders and their lobbyists worried about her proposal to let the Federal Reserve take on the deposit accounts of all Americans. American Bankers Association President and CEO Rob Nichols said his organization had “serious concerns about her ideas for fundamentally restructuring the nation’s banking system....
Jimmy Dunne, who is a financial expert and trustee of the Indiana-based Catholic university, gave the commencement speech for graduating students on May 23. The announcement of Dunne came as a surprise as during the last three administrations, either the president or vice president has addressed graduating students in their first year in office. In 2017, then Vice President Mike Pence, who identifies as a Christian, delivered the speech to the graduating class, while the university would not say whether President Donald Trump was invited to speak....
“America is back at the table,” Biden declared at the close of the Group of Seven meetings in England on Sunday. It was the first of three agenda-setting summits in as many days to feature firm rebukes of the Chinese government’s domestic and foreign policies. The G7 communique pushed Beijing to cooperate in the next phase of the World Health Organization’s efforts to trace the origins of COVID-19 amid renewed interest in the Wuhan “lab leak” theory....
There should be no doubt in the organization’s mind about the QB who is coming off arguably the greatest college football team of all time, and his father Jimmy recently confirmed to FOX-19 Cincinnati that Burrow is not trying to talk his way out of being drafted by the Bengals. That Cincinnati isn’t the right place for Burrow, and that he will never win a Super Bowl there, are a couple more terrible narratives around the 23-year-old passer and the idea of him playing for the Bengals....
The concern hasn’t penetrated the Bengals’ locker room, though. At least that’s what Joe Burrow says. In fact, Cincinnati’s star signal-caller hasn’t seen any of the criticism on socials. He said Wednesday that he had previously deleted Twitter and Instagram off his phone. To borrow a phrase from fellow Ohio icon LeBron James, it’s “zero dark thirty” time for Joe Cool. Burrow said he hasn’t had socials on his phone for “a while....
“Let me tell you something about Joe,” begins Jones, as I anticipate something of a rehearsed soliloquy. “He’s far too nice and polite to call anyone out or disrespect anyone in the sport, but I believe he’s the most frightening heavyweight out there and that 2019 is going to be a massive year for him. He’s going to do a great job in Los Angeles on December 1st [against Joe Hanks ] and then we want Luis Ortiz in America....
