In the Democratic field, that means Hillary Clinton. The New York senator and former first lady, her party’s front runner, had just launched a new, stepped-up assault on chief rival Barack Obama, criticizing the scope of his health-care reform plan and the breadth of his presidential ambitions in an effort to slow a burst of momentum that has propelled the Illinois senator into a narrow lead in Iowa, according to the latest poll....
The Clippers took another step towards the playoffs and struck another blow to the Lakers’ bid to prolong their season at Staples Center. Beverley declared at the start of the season that the Clippers would outperform their struggling city rivals and says they have more hunger than the Lakers. “I want it more,” Beverley told FOX Sports West. “We want it more. Like I said, everybody counted us out. Fine....
The frontcourt tandem bullied and bruised the Warriors inside to power the Clippers ahead by 18 points in the third quarter. And they did just enough late to silence a rocking, gold-shirt wearing sellout crowd of 19,596 to regain home-court advantage. Klay Thompson scored 26 points, and Stephen Curry had 16 points and 15 assists to rally the Warriors back. But Curry forced a contested, step-back 3-pointer over Chris Paul in the final seconds to seal the Clippers' victory....
Normally a manager’s vote of confidence is a death knell for a struggling closer, but Gibson was described as seeming “surprised” by the questions about a ninth-inning shuffle. MORE FANTASY BASEBALL:Closer Rankings | All-Star bullpensFantasy Source podcast “I think he’s been pretty good,” Gibson said to a reporter asking about Reed’s struggles. “He’s done a pretty good job for us. We’ve had no discussions about removing him. You might feel differently, but we don’t....
After the game Saturday, Giants manager Bruce Bochy wouldn’t confirm whether Romo is still his closer. “Oh, I don’t know,” Bochy said when asked if Romo was still the closer. “I won’t answer it now. It’s something I’m sure we’ll talk about here [Sunday]. He’s done such a good job for us. I know everybody has their moments. If we have to tweak it, we’ll tweak it. This is not the time to talk about it....
David Duffy, co-owner of Duffy’s Circus, told the BBC that many of Europe’s performers returned to their home countries amid the pandemic. Now that Ireland is reopening, and the circus is gearing up to hit the road, he’s scrambling to find clowns. “Because all the circuses in Europe and in England have been up and operational for the past six months, that huge pool of EU artists are already back at work and up until last week we haven’t been able to even get visas issued for non-EU artists and entertainers,” Duffy said....
Clubhouse Starts Beta Testing on Android During the company’s weekly announcements on the app, Clubhouse announced that it has started to beta test the Android version of Clubhouse with some selected individuals. The testers are external to the company, and will beta test the app before it’s released to the public. As we can see from the official release notes, this is a rough beta that was released to a select few users....
Why is the FBI reluctant to explain its relationship with Mrs. Lee? Perhaps because long after she stopped working for the FBI, agents for a time suspected that she had been working all along for the Chinese as a double agent. NEWSWEEK has learned that when FBI officials asked the Justice Department to approve their request to wiretap the Lees’ home in 1997, they laid out their case that both Wen Ho and Sylvia Lee might be Chinese agents....
Currently, All Elite Wrestling holds a handful of championships alongside the already established male and female World Championships. Wardlow and Jade Cargill both hold the much coveted TNT and TBS Championships, with the most recent addition being PAC’s All Atlantic Championship. In a recent Tweet, Colt Cabana took to Twitter to tease about going up against PAC and his title. For months, Colt Cabana’s absence in AEW has been rumored to be because of CM Punk prominence in the promotion....
Speaking with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard, CM Punk explained that he studied the character of Ricky Rabies and got a free hand to twist his role. The former WWE superstar urged fans to watch the series, especially die-hard wrestling fans, as they’ll see a different look compared to what fans saw last time he was in the ring: The series is a pro-wrestling drama and will feature CM Punk as Ricky Rabies with his partner Vicky Rabies....
Obvious, yes. But let’s stop for a minute, before we make the same mistake again in the Middle East with the same results, and before we continue down the military- and-security-speak rabbit hole that’ll make this threat appear different than the myriad previous ones. This modus operandi of preemptive strikes—always packaged within the prospects of looming violence unless the U.S. intervenes as soon as possible, and with the promised certainty of confidential, out-of-reach “intelligence”—appears to be America’s prevailing foreign policy protocol....
Buffett’s appearance before Congress was part of a careful strategy aimed at soothing furious clients-and breaking ties to the old regime. On Thursday, Salomon announced that Gutfreund and three other former executives tainted by the scandal would receive no severance pay, future legal expenses or compensation from the firm (chart). That decision followed Kansas Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery’s pronouncement during the hearings that “there should not be a dime spent by the firm to defend the wrongdoers … These men should be in striped suits, sweeping up Wall Street....
Kevin Kiley was not on the air for his show Friday morning on 92.3 The Fan after saying earlier in the day on local television that he had would resign at the end of February, Cleveland.com reported. MORE: 11 female pioneers | NFL teams to interview women for open executive jobs Kiley had established a pattern of criticizing women playing a role in anything related to the NFL. When the league hired Sarah Thomas last spring as its first full-time female official, Kiley criticized the move and called football “strictly a man’s world....
Unsurprisingly, fellow denier Myron Ebell hailed the appointment of David Legates, stating it would help get “real science into the assessment, instead of junk science, which NASA and NOAA have been doing for years.” Legates, a professor of geography at the University of Delaware, has a longstanding history of disputing the consensus science on climate breakdown. In a testimony at a subcommittee hearing on ocean health last year, he said: “Climate has always changed, and weather is always variable, due to complex, powerful natural forces....
Protesters from the organization Declare Emergency were yelling about “saving mother Earth” while holding banners in front of cars, according to the Washington Post. The demonstration lasted less than an hour and the road was reopened to traffic, a spokesperson with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) told Newsweek. The protest comes as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on Monday indicating that carbon emissions have never been higher in human history and the world is on a “fast track” to disaster....
This is the story of the CPI mess. By now, the basics of the controversy are well known. There’s broad (though not universal) agreement among economists that the CPI–the government’s main price indicator–overstates inflation. Last fall a commission of economists appointed by the Senate Finance Committee and headed by Michael Boskin of Stanford put the overstatement at 1.1 percent a year (with a range of 0.8 to 1.6 percent). What Congress and the president must decide is whether–and how much–to alter the automatic indexing of Social Security, other government benefits and the income tax to the CPI....
What can fans expect when Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin face off for the third time in their career? Who has the edge, and does one fighter have a unique disadvantage? The Sporting News’ Andreas Hale breaks down that matchup with Boxing Scene’s Keith Idec on episode five of “Clobberin’ Time.” This week’s episode features topics like: Predictions for the Canelo vs. GGG trilogy fight Debating whether Canelo vs. GGG 3 feels different because it’s happening too late in their respective careers Discussing which fighter has more to lose: Canelo or GGG Previewing a potential Tyson Fury vs....
A brilliant 100-run stand for the opening wicket between captain Gautam Gambhir (60) and Robin Uthappa (46) helped the Indian Premier League (IPL) side overhaul the Lions’ score of 151 for seven. The Knight Riders were coasting at 100 for no loss but made a meal of things towards the latter half by losing six wickets for under 50 runs. In the end, Suryakumar Yadav, 14 not out off five balls, kept his cool to steer KKR to victory with three balls to spare....
