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Speaking to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Jordan questioned if the congressional probe is reaching too far, considering it does not have the authority to pursue criminal charges. Jordan, who is refusing to cooperate with the inquiry after being asked to voluntarily detail the nature of his conversations with Donald Trump ahead of the Capitol riot, was responding to a New York Times article which stated that the inquiry is using techniques similar to aggressive tactics employed federal prosecutions while targeting mobsters and terrorists....

Jordan was speaking on Newsmax on Tuesday following Rep. Troy Nehls’ allegation that a police officer had “illegally” entered his office last November and taken photos of a whiteboard inside. Nehls, who represents Texas’ 22nd district, also alleged that three intelligence officers “dressed like construction workers” later questioned his staff about what was on the board. According to The Washington Post, there were mentions of “body armor” and a drawn map of the Rayburn House Office Building on the whiteboard....

MORE: Harbaugh says ‘people are against football’ Mora, 54, has a 37-16 overall record in four seasons at UCLA, including two bowl victories. Eight players from UCLA were selected in this year’s NFL Draft, the most of any Pac-12 school. And with quarterback Josh Rosen returning for his sophomore season, Mora and the Bruins could be poised to win the conference for the first time since 1998. MORE: Baylor tumbling in recruiting

Jockey Mike Smith eased Shared Belief after noticing something was wrong with the 4-year-old gelding when he stumbled at the start. “He seemed to slip in behind, wasn’t comfortable,” Smith told The Buffalo News. “The safe thing do at that point was to make sure we got back in one piece, you could just tell he was uncomfortable.” Smith led Shared Belief, the 1-5 favorite, to the equine ambulance after the race....

On Friday, Fisher told Tampa Bay radio station WDAE-AM 620 his former quarterback had been the victim of “character assassination” in the media. MORE: Latest NFL mock draft | McElwain calls UF roster ‘insufficient’ | CFP committee change During his time at Florida State, Winston was accused of sexual assault, cited for shoplifting and suspended for jumping on a table on campus and shouting an obscene phrase. Those incidents have led some NFL observers to question Winston’s character....

You can scratch that off his list. Johnson won the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan Sunday for his third win of the season and third in the past four races. MORE: Does Hendrick have advantage? | Harvick perturbed | Results | Quickens Loans 400 gallery Johnson had suffered blown engines, tire problems and all sorts of other setbacks to keep him from winning at Michigan. He had finished 27th, 28th and 40th in his last three races there, two of them caused by engine failure....

When Chase Elliott ran out of fuel on his victory lap on Sunday at Watkins Glen, seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson helped push him back to the finish line to celebrate with his team. Chase Elliott’s first NASCAR Cup win cheered by racing community “I just appreciate the support and the respect on the race track,” Elliott said. “Jimmie has been one of my heroes for a long, long time. I leaned on him a lot over this past offseason and I always lean on him, but certainly a lot throughout this off season just about the opportunities I‘ve had in the past and not closing them out....

Still, on the last lap, they raced each other into the front-stretch chicane that Truex Jr. on Friday cautioned could mangle careless cars. Sure enough, Johnson spun out, and Truex Jr. lost control trying to avoid the seven-time series champion, which let Ryan Blaney claim an unlikely victory. The crash knocked Johnson out of the playoffs via tiebreaker. Truex Jr., angry about the finish, rear-ended Johnson after the race was over....

Yet he still finds room for improvement — especially when it comes to road courses. In Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, he seeks his second win at the track — and second on any road course. MORE: 10 to watch at Sonoma | Expect frustration, carnage | Starting lineup Sunday’s race begins about 3:20 p.m. ET, covering 110 laps on a 1.99-mile road course. He won his Sonoma race in 2010 and admits that when he came into NASCAR, he thought these courses would allow him to showcase his unique skill set....

Johnson got out of his car after the 400-lap race on a humid night and laid down on pit road as his team gave him fluids and put towels around his neck. He got up and leaned against his car and then laid down again before being carried to a medical cart. MORE: Keselowski dominates, Chase field set | Fan climbs fence Johnson exited the infield medical center after 90 minutes and said he took five liters of intravenous fluids....

Delaney Buffett was 8 at the time while her brother, Cameron, was 10. The siblings offloaded the boat and then dad pulled away from the island. Delaney and Cameron began shouting as many curse words as they could, and they yelled so loud that perhaps the entire state of Florida could hear them. “We would scream every cuss word we knew, and he [Jimmy Buffett] just sat in the boat and would crack up,” Delaney said....

Example A: Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard. Howard has a track record of wearing uplifting masks. It’s also a lot more pleasant than Thomas Greiss'.

The late-night host’s comments come as Greene is being criticized for hanging an anti-trans sign amid the escalating Equality Act debate. “The frontrunner for worst human of 2021 is working to defeat the Equality Act right now,” Kimmel began. “This is an act that would ban discrimination against Americans based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” Kimmel then rolled a clip of Illinois Rep. Marie Newman hanging a transgender flag outside of her office in a response to Greene....

After coach Tom Thibodeau said he “ran out of minutes” for Noah in the Bulls loss against the Thunder on Sunday, some started to question keeping the limit in place at this point in the season. Noah is part of that group. MORE: Sources: Spurs may target Gasol | George set to attend USA camp | Celtics playoff push “It’s frustrating,” Noah said at Wednesday shootaround, according to Nick Friedell of ESPNChicago....

Scott Frank’s screenplay positions its lonely, brilliant worrywart hero (Adam Hann-Byrd) at the center of an emotional tug of war between two women. His working-class mother, Dede (Foster), a waitress, is there for him emotionally but can’t nurture his intellectual gifts, which range awesomely from physics and math to music and art. Child psychologist Jane Grierson (Dianne Wiest), a former prodigy herself, wants to pull him away from his mother and open new intellectual worlds to him....

The poll showed that 60 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters thought Biden could defeat Trump, while 59 percent thought Warren could beat him. Fewer than half of the voters who responded, or 48 percent, thought Sen. Bernie Sanders could win. In addition, 71 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters could identify two or more candidates who they could see triumphing over Trump, the Huffington Post/YouGov poll released Tuesday showed....

Trump broke many traditions as he left office, including not attending Biden’s inauguration. The former president also refused to call Biden by name in public remarks regarding his election victory. During a press conference in the Oval Office, Biden confirmed that Trump had left him a note, but declined to disclose the contents of the message. “The president wrote a very generous letter,” Biden said. “Because it was private, I won’t talk about it until I talk to him....

During the contest, the former vice president, in effect, made his closing argument to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—not that it needed reassurance, given Biden’s decades of invaluable support for communist China’s rise. Biden affirmed that if elected president, America would return to the untenable U.S. posture toward China of weakness, appeasement and managed decline—the position long-favored by the globalist political establishment that backs him—with the CCP’s helping hand....

Vote totals are not yet official and Trump has not yet conceded, but the AP called the election for Biden. He appears to have won more than 74 million votes—the most of any American candidate ever. (Turnout was so high that even in losing, Trump surpassed Barack Obama’s vote haul.) Biden is the oldest person elected to the White House, and he will be only the second Roman Catholic president in American history, the first since John F....

“No one got everything they wanted, not even me, but that’s what compromise is,” Biden said during a public address from the White House on Thursday after meeting with House Democrats at the Capitol for about an hour to outline his package that includes universal pre-kindergarten, clean energy and affordable housing incentives, expanded health care benefits and other priorities. “Let’s get this done.” Biden’s agenda, which had has two major two proposals—the social spending plan he’s dubbed Build Back Better and a separate $1....