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He straddled the podium inside Crisler Arena and considered each question about the showdown between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan on Saturday and revealed nothing. One Columbus Dispatch columnist asked Harbaugh to describe himself after letting him know most Ohioans think he’s crazy. MORE: Is Michigan-Ohio State the best rivalry game this year? “Not crazy,” Harbaugh said. “I wouldn’t describe myself as that. I don’t know that my personality; how relevant that will be to the ballgame this week....

On the first day of the new Congress, the House GOP conference broke into disarray as members were unable to unite behind one leader—a troubling sign for Republicans, who are already facing a slim majority in the chamber. On Tuesday, McCarthy suffered a rare defeat, not just once but three times as he failed to gain the necessary 218 votes required to be elected the speaker of the House. His failure in whipping his caucus into line marked the first time in a century that a speaker was not elected on a first ballot....

“They’ve got a deep and talented roster, so don’t let that new guy tell you he ain’t got any players,” Muschamp said last November, according to 247Sports. “I can tell you that right now. There are some good football players in that locker room.” MORE: Play these rivalry games | Alabama safety arrested for second DUI | Herschel on Chubb Now, four months later, Muschamp’s successor is already refuting Muschamp’s analysis of what he left behind....

The Bruins typically host a bonfire before the game against their crosstown rivals, but a student protest put a stop to that. The protest – which was organized in the face of 5 percent tuition hikes over the next five years – made it impossible to light the bonfire. MORE: Winston attends vigil | Football might help heal at FSU Mora took it in stride, and got the crowd of UCLA fans amped up anyway....

MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 | Benson Henderson says WWE stars should consider jump to UFC The fake statement combined with a series of tweets indicated that the hacker was a fan of English soccer club Leeds United F.C. Ross responded Sunday afternoon by creating a new Twitter account and confirming that he is still very much alive. This situation calls for a little Monty Python.

Carter surpassed former President George H.W. Bush as the oldest former president in March 2019. Bush was born fewer than four months before Carter and had been the oldest former president at the time of his death in November 2018 at 94. Several weeks before Carter’s birthday, his wife Rosalynn sent a message through The Carter Center encouraging Americans to sign a virtual birthday card for her husband. “On his birthday, there is nothing that would make Jimmy happier than to receive greetings from his friends,” the former first lady’s message said....

Seeing fans bust out their best moves in front of thousands of people is hilarious. It’s even better when celebrities are willing to make a fool of themselves on the Jumbotron. MORE: NBA All-Stars on Jimmy Fallon | Charles Barkley on Jimmy Fallon | Athletes on SNL When the camera lands on them, Taylor Swift and Jimmy Fallon are two such celebrities who love to shake it. On the “Tonight Show,” Swift and Fallon took a trip down memory lane to relive their best moments on the Dance Cam at New York sporting events....

The late-night host weighed in on the end of Trump’s second impeachment trial on Tuesday night, with special attention given to the Senate minority leader. “Mitch McConnell tried to have it both ways this weekend,” Kimmel began. “After voting to acquit, McConnell gave a blistering speech condemning Trump’s actions and inaction. Basically saying, ‘Donald Trump is guilty of all the things I just found him not guilty of.’” However, instead of rolling footage of McConnell’s speech, Kimmel aired audio of his said speech while rolling a video of a turtle eating a leaf....

Q. Was there a point at which Apple stopped being fun? A. Well, Apple was about as pure of a Silicon Valley company as you could imagine. We started in a garage. Woz (co-founder Stephen Wozniak) and I both grew up in Silicon Valley. Our role model was Hewlett-Packard (the electronics company). And so I guess that’s what we went into it thinking. Hewlett-Packard, you know, Jobs and Wozniak. And, as you recall, it was a very small company for a long time....

The latest battleground survey by the Republican-founded firm Firehouse Strategies has revealed the commander-in-chief’s leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have slipped over the first quarter of 2020. According to the poll results, former Vice President Biden is within the margin of error of overtaking Trump in the states the latter narrowly won at the 2016 presidential election. The president’s leads over Sanders and Biden have taken the biggest hit in Wisconsin, with both primary frontrunners cutting the gaps between themselves and Trump by more than half....

Biden spoke at a CNN town hall event on Wednesday and warned that the leaders of other countries were “wondering” about whether the U.S. would “get it together” in the 21st century. The QAnon conspiracy theory posits, among other claims, that there is an international cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles which includes senior Democrats and possibly Biden himself. The president dismissed that conspiracy. Biden discussed the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared saddened that some people believed it....

Title 42 calls for the removal of individuals entering the country from nations where a contagious disease was present, and was first implemented by the Trump administration in March of 2020. Despite criticism from human rights groups and politicians on the left, the Biden administration continues to uphold the policy. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s deputy director of its Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead attorney on the case, told Newsweek the policy disproportionately affects the rights of Central American asylum seekers....

“The bottom line is: if we want lower gas prices, we need to have more oil supply right now,” Biden said on March 31 as he announced the withdrawal of 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Biden’s acknowledgment of basic economics departs sharply from everything he’s done since day one of his administration, when he set about fulfilling his campaign pledge to end oil and gas activity on public lands while weaving a basket of red tape around the entire industry....

During his ABC News town hall in Philadelphia on Thursday night, Biden said there should be “zero discrimination” against children who are transgender. His remarks came after Mieke Haeck—a mother of an eight-year-old child who identifies as transgender—asked the former vice president whether he would overturn President Donald Trump’s “dangerous and discriminatory agenda” against transgender rights. “I will flat-out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders,” the Democrat responded....

Taking to Twitter on Sunday evening, Biden wrote: “In one year, we will give Trump a nickname of his own: Former President Donald Trump.” Trump is well known for branding his opponents and detractors with unflattering nicknames, from his most recent description of “do-nothing Democrats,” “Shifty Adam Schiff” and “nervous Nancy Pelosi” to his historical “crooked Hillary Clinton” and “Lyin’ Ted Cruz.” The president has repeatedly dubbed Biden, who at 76 is the second oldest of the Democratic candidates, “sleepy Joe Biden” and made digs about Biden’s age—despite being just four years younger than the former VP....

Biden cracked a smile and appeared to be close to laughing outside the White House on Friday after a reporter pointed out that Trump “said that he declassified all those documents” that are currently the subject of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation. The president dismissed a question on whether Trump had the power to “just declassify them all” by mockingly stating that he had just “declassified everything in the world,” while also insisting that he was “not going to comment” on the matter....

The age and mental acuity of both septuagenarian presidential candidates became a campaign talking point almost immediately after Biden, who would be the oldest president to ever take office, joined the 2020 race against Trump, who is currently the oldest U.S. president to enter office. A new study published in September’s Journal on Active Aging draws on publicly available medical records, family disease history and confirmed personal information to determine how ageism and longevity have factored into the election....

However, he said his response will depend entirely on whether the Republican-led Senate rushes the confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett, Republican President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. “Pack the court” in this context means adding additional seats to the court in order to undo the court’s political slant. “You got a lot of people not able to pay their mortgage, not being put food on the table, not being able to keep your business open, not being able to do anything to deal with what’s going on in terms of the economy as a consequence of COVID, and they have no time to deal with that,” Biden said, referring to Senate Republicans who have failed to reach a negotiation for a COVID-19 stimulus bill to help Americans impacted by the ongoing pandemic....

Reza Pahlavi, who lives in exile in the U.S., told Newsweek that Biden should build on one of President Donald Trump’s landmark foreign policy achievements, framing the accords as the best chance for Middle East peace and prosperity. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all signed normalization deals with Israel in the final months of Trump’s term. The U.S. sweetened the deals with financial and diplomatic incentives, helping overcome the generations of enmity between Israel and its long-time adversaries....

The 96-year-old queen died at her home in Balmoral, Scotland on Thursday and close family members rushed to be with her, including her grandson Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. The late queen’s son, now King Charles III, has declared a period of royal mourning that will last until seven days after his mother’s funeral. Details of the funeral are expected to be announced soon. Biden and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, offered their condolences on the queen’s passing in a lengthy statement issued on Thursday....