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Stone-Manning’s credibility was assailed by Republicans who linked her to a 1989 environmental sabotage case. Democrats, however, stood behind Biden’s pick. Machin said no evidence had emerged to indicate Stone-Manning commuted any sort of crime. Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington also stood by Stone-Manning, saying that Republicans opposed her for her potential to bring change to the agency. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. “This is over the top opposition,” Cantwell said....

“This is not going to happen anytime soon, guys,” Manchin told CNN’s Ted Barrett on Thursday. “They’re trying to get a meeting of the minds.” But the West Virginia lawmaker said he believed the party is making “good progress” as negotiations continue on the multi-trillion-dollar spending package. “There’s a lot of details,” Manchin said. “Until you see the text and the fine print, it’s pretty hard to make final decisions....

The West Virginia Democrat sat on the Republicans’ side of the chamber and was seen alongside GOP lawmakers Mitt Romney, Roger Wicker and John Barrasso during the speech. Manchin was responsible for blocking Biden’s Build Back Better domestic spending plan—something Biden hoped to change with his address, according to a report in The Atlantic. At the start of February, Manchin told reporters the president’s plan was dead, adding that he had not discussed the legislation since December....

Manchin signaled to CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju that he’s open to considering a price tag between $1.9 trillion and $2.2 trillion—a figure President Joe Biden reportedly floated to the Democratic caucus last week. “I’m not ruling anything out,” Manchin told the news organization. The West Virginia Democrat declined to give an exact amount when asked what would be the highest he would go for the spending package. Manchin told Raju, “The bottom line is I want to be strategic, to do the right job, and we don’t basically add more to the concerns we have right now....

Confirming Biden’s Cabinet picks requires a simple majority in the Senate, which Democrats have with the support of the two independents that caucus with them. However, there is no wiggle room, and Manchin opposing any of Biden’s nominees creates a need for Republican support, an uphill battle for some of his picks. Manchin’s spokesperson, Sam Runyon, told the National Review on Monday that the West Virginia senator hasn’t decided if he will support Becerra’s nomination....

Kaepernick, taken by the 49ers in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft, is now a free agent, a precipitous fall from grace for a quarterback once thought to be the future of the league. But Kaepernick’s decline in play and overt political stances over the past year have him sitting as an NFL pariah. All this, in the eyes of the Hall of Famer, means Kaepernick might not have an NFL future....

New York signed Joe Panik on Friday and added him to the active roster, days after he was released by the Giants. The Mets designated Adeiny Hechavarria for assignment to clear a roster spot for Panik. The 28-year-old infielder, a Yonkers, New York, native who played collegiately at St. John’s, won a World Series with the Giants in 2014 and made the All-Star team one year later. Panik, however, has regressed over the last two seasons and is slashing just ....

Speaking to comedian Neal Brennan on The Joe Rogan Experience, the host said he denied Carter’s requests to appear as a guest on the podcast. The 34-year-old brother of Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter was found dead in a bathtub at his home in Lancaster, California, on November 5. A cause of death has not been established yet as a toxicology report could take months, but Carter was known to have addiction issues....

In a clip shared on social media, which had been viewed more than 800,000 times as of Thursday morning, The Joe Rogan Experience host grilled Gupta over CNN reports that criticized his taking the drug ivermectin after being diagnosed with the disease. Rogan announced in September he had contracted the virus on Instagram and told his followers he “threw the kitchen sink” at it the disease, with the drug among treatments he used....

The Joe Rogan Experience host spoke at his studio Friday with Eric Weinstein, managing director of the Thiel Capital investment firm, where the two compared Trump’s behavior and “fake alpha” persona to that of a professional wrestler. The conversation veered into 2020 politics after Weinstein complained people “express themselves moronically” when they are given no choices in life. The podcast host, who last week described the former Vice President as “very old” and “stumbling,” claimed the Democratic Party “made us all morons” by promoting Biden’s campaign and potential nomination....

During a recent episode of his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan, 55, extensively discussed the revelation 45-year-old social media star Brian “Liver King” Johnson had used steroids to enhance his muscular physique. Amid his discussion with fitness entrepreneur Derek, of the More Plates, More Dates YouTube channel, Rogan asked whether Dwayne Johnson, 50, had used steroids, before stating: “The Rock should come clean right now.” “He should make a video in response to the Liver King video like, ‘I need to talk to you because The Rock’s been lying,’” Rogan went on....

“There are a lot of people that are afraid of talking about it. But they’re not afraid of voting about it. Because there’s a lot of people that are afraid of a reprisal. They’re afraid of getting attacked and they’ll silently, when they’re amongst friends, go ‘What the f*** is going on? Like, what is going on?’ And those people, that’s what’s going to be responsible for the red wave,” Rogan said on the October 31 edition of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify....

Rogan responded to a question from an audience member Tuesday night during a stand-up comedy performance in Austin, Texas, about whether he would move the podcast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “No, Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably, let’s see what happens,” Rogan said, according to THR. Monday, the video hosting platform tweeted at Rogan, suggesting the podcaster leave Spotify and bring his show to Rumble, including the dozens of episodes that have been removed from Spotify in recent weeks....

The host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe called President Trump’s trade-war aid payments to farmers “the biggest Socialist farm payoff scheme ever” in a tweet Monday, responding to details from a Bloomberg article reporting on trade-war aid payments to farmers. He also dubbed the government under Trump as the most “bloated” and “expensive” ever and hit out at tariff hikes resulting from the U.S-China trade war. Early this moring, the MSNBC host tweeted: “Trump owns the biggest federal debt ever, the biggest pork-barreled budget ever, the most bloated, expensive government ever, the biggest tariff tax hike ever, and the biggest Socialist farm payoff scheme ever....

OK, well, Embiid actually borrowed WWE superstar Triple H’s tune and intro for his pregame introduction ahead of the Sixers-Hornets game on Friday. MORE: Heat’s Whiteside says ASG vote based on best Twitter jokes The Sixers big man, aka “The Process,” continues to show all-star personality. UPDATE: Triple H sees you, Joel: Embiid told CSN after the game that Triple H is his favorite wrestler and that he was expressing thanks for receiving an all-star shoutout from the legend the night before....

Following Brooklyn’s comeback win over Portland on Friday, Nets star forward Kevin Durant, and former MVP recipient, was asked who he thinks is going to win the award this season. “If I had to take a guess, I would go Joel Embiid, DeMar DeRozan, Ja Morant,” Durant said. “Those are my top three, and I’d probably go Joel [Embiid]. I mean, [Nikola] Jokic, you could throw Jokic in there, but I’d probably go Joel....

Embiid discussed what he thought was the turning point of Philadelphia’s 103-96 Game 7 defeat on Sunday night. In the center’s opinion, it was when Simmons passed up a wide-open attempt near the basket late in the fourth quarter. “I mean, I’ll be honest,” Embiid said, per Rich Hofmann of The Athletic. “I thought the turning point was when we — I don’t know how to say it — but I thought the turning point was just we had an open shot and we made one free throw and we missed the other and then they came down and scored....

Joel Greenberg also admitted to paying at least one underage girl to have sex with him and others as part of his plea agreement. Prosecutors said Greenberg connected with the girl on a website where she said she was an adult. Later, Greenberg met her on a boat and paid her $400 before inviting her a hotel in Florida, where he and others would perform commercial sex acts with her....

Instead of starting with a couple of Stanford geeks with a Web site, Joel Klein seeds his incubator with a famous $400 billion enterprise and splits it in two, giving one the world’s dominant operating system, the other the world’s most successful applications. What used to be Microsoft will be… Microsoft and Mini-Microsoft. Or, as Klein’s team puts it: “Ops Co” and “Apps Co.” (Somebody had better nail down the domain names....

When asked Friday about the possibility of his hypothetical future son continuing that tradition, Bosa’s response drew laughter from the roughly 100 media members listening. “I’ve gotta marry a tall, athletic girl and breed football players, I guess,” the 20-year-old said at the NFL Scouting Combine. MORE: Weird questions asked at the NFL Combine | Latest NFL Mock Draft Bosa was very jovial and comfortable in front of the media on Friday, saying, “After meeting with a bunch of NFL coaches, you guys are nothing....