The big surprise: all five contestants remain. Sweet P, Chris, Jillian, Rami and Christian—part of a group that style guru Tim Gunn has said are the best designers the show has seen so far—all exhibited their collections, which yielded an unprecedented number of feathery dresses and ruffled skirts. Ramin Setoodeh and Jessica Bennett discuss the highs and lows of the show in Listening In, an occasional series of conversations between NEWSWEEK reporters....
But while there really is very little deliberate and widespread cheating in modern elections, the illusion that everyone cheats all the time may in fact help create a reality in which, well, everyone cheats all the time. The fiction that Democrats—especially black and Hispanic Democrats—steal elections has gained traction only since 2000. And that fervent belief has rapidly gone from a Bush administration side dish to its main course. This explains last year’s firing of at least two U....
Sumlin signed a six-year $30 million contract on Nov. 30. He also turned down a chance to interview for USC’s head coaching job. An NFL source told ESPN that Sumlin would consider coaching select NFL teams, but another source told Mortensen, “That’s 100 percent not true, and it has no chance of happening. Zero.” MORE: Fisher signs contract extension | Texas sets deadline for new coach | Top cadidates at Texas...
And the Ward family also is questioning the allegations that Ward was under the influence of marijuana during the accident, saying it does not believe Ward used marijuana in the hours before the race during which he died. MORE: Stewart says incident was ‘100 percent an accident’ | What’s next for Stewart | Stewart should settle civil suit Ward was killed on Aug. 9 when he walked out onto the track under caution at Canadaigua Motorsports Park and was struck by Stewart’s car....
The three-time All-Star has agreed to a one-year contract with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan's Pacific League. "They made it very apparent right from the start they were quite interested in Kevin being there," agent Joe Bick said Friday. A 34-year-old first baseman and third baseman, Youkilis will have a $4 million base salary and can earn $1 million in bonuses — including some based on walks, a provision not allowed in major league contracts....
Feb. 6-17: Pitchers and catchers report to spring training. Here’s a handy list of reporting dates for each MLB team’s pitchers/catchers and full squads Feb. 25: Yankees scrimmage Florida St. Univ.; Tigers scrimmage Florida Southern Univ. Feb. 26: First official Cactus League, Grapefruit League games March 22-23: Opening series (two games) in Sydney, Australia; Dodgers vs. Diamondbacks* *Keep in mind that these are official regular-season games, so if you want the stats to count in your league, you're going to have to draft earlier than usual this spring....
For the future of democracy, last night’s biggest victories were keeping Democratic governors in the Electoral College firewall states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. While Arizona’s gubernatorial race is too close to call, Democrat Katie Hobbs looks more likely than not to beat her MAGA opponent, Kari Lake. Republicans nominated weak, out-of-the-mainstream candidates in most of these races, and it appears to have cost them dearly. And because Democrats have probably kept the Senate, it is far likelier that at least 10 Republicans will be able to withstand the pressure from MAGA maniacs and join Democrats to pass a game-changing reform of the Electoral Count Act....
President Biden is currently the subject of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation after classified documents from his days as Vice President were found at a private office he used in Washington, D.C., prior to his return to the White House. The documents were initially turned up just before November’s midterm elections, according to reports released on Tuesday. Since then, further batches of top-secret documents were found at his residence in Delaware on three separate occasions, continuing to raise concerns about the situation....
Barca’s back-ups not good enough The Real Madrid goalkeeper appeared to be fortunate to stay on the field Sunday after committing a foul on Real Betis forward Darko Brasanac in the 22nd minute. The Costa Rican came off his line to try to stop a ball over the top, but when it fell short of his area, he had to make a play. As the Serbian forward approached, Navas looked to stick his legs out and bring him down, but referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz saw fit to whistle for a foul and didn’t put the shot-stopper in the book....
The spill, which led the pipeline to shut down on Tuesday, occurred in the state’s northeastern Walsh County. The pipeline, which is slated for a contentious expansion across the U.S., has a history of spills and in 2017 leaked 407,000 gallons into South Dakota. “I wish I could say I was shocked, but a major spill from the Keystone pipeline is exactly what multiple experts predicted would happen. In fact, this is the fourth significant spill from the Keystone pipeline in less than 10 years of operation,” Greenpeace USA Senior Research Specialist Tim Donaghy said in a statement about the spill....
The premiere of season 2 revealed that Kardashian, 38, and her ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson had begun the process of having a second baby via surrogacy prior to the family finding out that Thompson got another woman pregnant. In the episode, Kardashian was emotional about trying to move past Thompson’s affair and instead welcome their new baby boy. In footage taken on her sister Kim’s phone, the world got a look at the labor room, where Kardashian stood next to her surrogate as the baby was being born and then took him into her arms....
The 19-year-old, who was the juvenile national champion in his kickboxing category, was shot in Plaza de Armas, close to the town of Valdehornillos, on Sunday, the municipality mayor Víctor Menacho confirmed to Spanish news agency Efe. He reportedly said that Lozano was out hunting with four friends when one of their guns accidentally went off, hitting Pintado at close range. The teen died instantly from a wound in the abdomen....
Following the disastrous performance by many of the summer’s family films, kid-friendly fare has become one of show business’s biggest worries. Once among the easiest audiences to woo (even a shabby release like 1999’s “Pokemon” grossed a robust $85.7 million), young kids are now as elusive as healthy movie snacks. Faced with this massive desertion, studios are either reworking marketing campaigns for completed family films, as is the case with next week’s “Tuck Everlasting,” or reworking the casting for family films just going into production, which is happening with next Christmas’s “Peter Pan....
Footage of the tirade, obtained and published by TMZ Friday, showed the rocker standing on stage in his Nashville-based Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse while slurring about U.S. talk show hosts, also lashing out at Joy Behar and Kathy Lee Gifford. Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, was eventually helped off the stage by security after being labeled a racist by some witnesses in the crowd....
That would be new coach Jason Kidd, stopping the action and putting his players on the baseline to run sprints as a sort of punishment for a collective or individual mistake. Before he does, he will ask the offending party about the error, wait till he gets the answer, then send his players on their way, sprinting up and down. For those who played high school basketball, this arrangement probably sounds familiar....
Dr. Kate O’Brien said children should not be a focus when considering the administration of doses, even as rich countries are beginning to authorize the use of vaccines for children and teenagers. On May 14, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a digital conference, and urged wealthier countries to refrain from vaccinating children and adolescents, instead donating the unused vaccines to lower income countries, the BBC reported. “In low and lower-middle income countries, COVID-19 vaccine supply has not been enough to even immunize healthcare workers, and hospitals are being inundated with people that need lifesaving care urgently,” he said....
And in case you missed it, here's what Sherman had to say to 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree after the game.
The crew of three were in a boat around 19 miles off the coast of New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay region on Wednesday, when they spotted a group of orcas and noticed one had become tangled in a cray pot line and a buoy, according to a post by the Whale Watch Hawkes Bay Facebook page that shared a video of the encounter. A member of the group, who only wanted to be identified as Ben, told Stuff....
“We are no longer interested in such talks that bring nothing to us,” North Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan said Monday in a statement shared by the Korean Central News Agency, arguing that “the U.S. only seeks to earn time, pretending it has made progress in settling the issue of the Korean peninsula.” “As we have got nothing in return, we will no longer gift the U.S. president with something he can boast of, but get compensation for the successes that President Trump is proud of as his administrative achievements,” the adviser added....
