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The 30-year-old didn’t invite his family, and he has shared his brutally honest reason why with TNT. NBA PLAYOFFS: Full bracket, dates, times, TV channels for every series “This is a business trip for me. I’m not messing around,” Butler said. “Everyone wants to have their family, without a doubt. But we’ve been doing this for this long, what’s another couple of months? It is an individual decision and I respect that decision that my teammates make, but I’m here for business....

Garoppolo’s display in a shock 43-17 blowout loss to the Miami Dolphins last Sunday raised concerns over a high ankle sprain he suffered in Week 2, which forced him to miss two NFL games. He completed just 7-of-17 passes for 77 yards and two interceptions in the first half before being benched for C.J. Beathard. It was a performance that raised doubts over whether Garoppolo would feature in the primetime clash with the Rams, but he appears on track to do so....

Per CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora, the 49ers are expected to move the incumbent quarterback at some point during the 2021 NFL Draft, with Garoppolo likely out of the Bay Area before the end of the weekend. Garoppolo, 30, has been the subject of trade rumors since the 49ers decided to trade two future first-round picks to the Dolphins for the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft. Reports suggest that the 49ers are high on one of two quarterbacks entering the draft: Alabama’s Mac Jones and North Dakota State’s Trey Lance....

The late-night host expressed his relief at the end of the Trump era in a scathing monologue that reflected on how he questioned how Americans could survive the last four years. “We have a new president of the United States,” Kimmel began on his Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. “It was inauguration day here in the U.S.A. Joseph ‘Rapunzel’ Biden is our 46th president. It feels like—I have to imagine this is what it feels like when the oncologist calls and tells you the tumor is benign,” he said....

“Latinos are almost completely missing at the @goldenglobes—it’s unsurprising and unacceptable,” Castro tweeted. “The film industry must address the pernicious lack of opportunity and representation of Latino Americans. The stories that Hollywood tells affect how entire communities are perceived.” Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony saw only three Latino honorees. American-Argentine-British actress Anya Taylor-Joy earned her first Golden Globe win for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for her starring role as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit....

We’ve just been reminded of that once again as Knik Arm Services regretfully decided to give up its lease in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), leaving the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority as the sole leaseholder in one of the most productive oil-producing regions in the world. Any time a company pulls away from responsibly developing Alaska, it’s sad because jobs are lost and people suffer. But this decision was also preventable....

Goldman Sachs economists forecast gross domestic product growth of 8 percent in 2021—up from 2.3 percent in 2019—while also predicting the unemployment rate could fall to around 4 percent, down from 6.2 percent recorded in February. In a note to clients, the investment bank said that pent-up savings, the reopening of economic activities, and a raft of federal COVID relief funding measures would coalesce as “powerful growth impulses” for the economy....

Biden’s closing statement was not the candidate’s strongest moment during the debate in Detroit. The Democratic front-runner confused viewers when he said: “Four more years of Donald Trump [would] go down as an aberration… eight more years of Donald Trump [would] change America in a fundamental way,” but it was his campaign plug at the end that drew the most ridicule. “If you agree with me, go to Joe3-0-3-3-0 and help me in this fight, thank you very much,” Biden said before ending his appearance....

The Democratic presidential candidate’s lead, with 48 percent of those asked backing Biden and 35 Trump, is his biggest yet recorded by Reuters/Ipsos. It coincided with the poll showing the lowest approval rating for Trump since November, with 57 percent disapproving of his performance as president and 38 approving. The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online with respondents throughout the U.S. between June 10 and 16. Responses were garnered from 4,426 American adults, with 2,047 Democrats and 1,593 Republicans among them, while the poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 2 percent....

The Abolitionist Action Committee is set to gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning to highlight a petition addressed to all three branches of the federal government. In a news release, organizers say some participants “may risk arrest to ensure their life-saving message is heard” during the rally, and later march to the U.S. Capitol and the Hart Senate Office Building. “We are calling for immediate passage of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act,” Rev....

Last week in Wisconsin, a large group of “nonessential” businesses including bars and restaurants reopened after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a statewide “safer at home” order which had kept them closed since the start of coronavirus social distancing guidelines in mid-March. According to a Marquette Law School poll released Monday, a majority (54 percent) of Wisconsin residents disapprove of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, with 41 percent saying they “strongly disapprove....

The Afghanistan withdrawal—a bipartisan concept supported by Biden’s two predecessors—will stand as a black stain on the president’s legacy. The tragic scenes of Afghans falling from U.S. aircraft, American troops coordinating with Taliban fighters, and the victims of the Kabul airport attack will go down in history; a humiliating and bloody end to an unpopular and costly war. Biden’s repeated gaffes on Afghanistan have not helped his situation. The president has at times been unable to stick to his resolute messaging, undermining his own policies with factual errors and inaccurate predictions....

Biden’s approval rating was 39 percent as of June 30, according to analysis by poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, while 56.2 percent of Americans disapproved of the way the president is handling his job. Trump’s approval rating on July 1, 2018, was 41.8 percent, while 52.3 percent of Americans disapproved of him, figures from FiveThirtyEight show. In 2018, Republicans suffered a major defeat in the midterm elections and lost 40 seats in the House of Representatives, handing control to the Democrats and allowing Nancy Pelosi to return as speaker....

RAICES took responsibility for the action on Twitter. “BREAKING: We are interrupting @JoeBiden at the #DemDebate chanting #DontLookAway and #NoKidsInCages,” the group tweeted. “We need a Democratic candidate to adopt the #MigrantJusticePlatform and commit themselves to improve the lives of migrants and refugees!” Soon after their ejection from the debate, the protesters posted a video in which they explained their actions. “As you might have seen, we just interrupted the Democratic debate,” said one of the protesters, “and the biggest reason why we did that and we interrupted Biden is because for the last three debates, there has been absolutely no questions about immigration....

The State of the Union comes at a time of extreme international tension as Biden and his Western allies are embroiled in efforts to curtail the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while back home the Democrats are also keeping an eye on this year’s midterm elections. Biden’s address on Tuesday will be the latest time a president has delivered his State of the Union speech. The address was delayed due to the unusually busy legislative calendar, the U....

On Tuesday, the White House confirmed a CBS report saying that the Justice Department is currently reviewing an unidentified number of classified documents that Biden’s lawyers found on November 2 at the Penn Biden Center. The case has outraged Trump, who called for the FBI to raid Biden’s home as it did his Mar-a-Lago residence last August. Several conservative pundits and MAGA House Republicans joined the former president in his condemnation of the case, alleging that authorities won’t be persecuting Biden the same way they did Trump....

First, of course, is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden pulled out our troops before getting out our civilians, green card holders and allies, then had to send troops back in to help them get out. Yet even then, Biden failed to get everyone out, despite promising to do so. And in addition to stranding people, the evacuation left billions of dollars’ worth of arms, vehicles and equipment in the hands of the Taliban, abandoned a strategic base in the fight against terrorism and allowed the release of imprisoned hard-core terrorists....

But the trip may be defined by the president’s blunders and an image of him fist-bumping Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Ahead of the trip, White House aides had said that Biden would limit physical contact and avoid handshakes during the trip due to COVID-19 concerns. Those concerns appeared to fall by the wayside soon after Biden landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday when he shook hands with former Israeli Prime Ministers Naftali Bennet and Benjamin Netanyahu....

Trump’s path to victory in 2016 came not through how many ballots were cast in his favor overall, having lost the popular vote, but by winning the right states to get him to the absolute majority of 270 or more Electoral College votes needed. This time out, national polling favours Biden winning both in terms of popular vote share and the Electoral College. Biden is leading in two of the states with the most Electoral College seats, California with 55 and New York with 29, while Florida with 29 is tight but also leaning his way....

Biden called Chevron chief executive Michael Wirth a “little sensitive” this week when asked about a letter Wirth wrote which accused the president of seeking to “vilify” oil and gas producers. The president has made Vladimir Putin a scapegoat for high gas prices, which hit a national average of $4.94 per gallon on Thursday. But Biden also accused oil and gas companies of profiting off Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and not doing enough to lower fuel costs....