The head of the U.S. Department of Labor said the $600 a week in federally enhanced unemployment benefits was not created through “careful science” when Congress passed it in March. Scalia said the extra money in individual Americans’ hands was more necessary as part of the CARES Act, but now that the economy is reopening, he said it’s more about fulfilling Democrats’ plans to raise the minimum wage. The labor secretary said 70 percent of people who collected unemployment during the pandemic were earning more money than they did in their jobs....

In the video titled “Everyday is a spa day for Nutmeg!”, Nutmeg the yellow Labrador can be seen paddling in ankle-deep bath water, while the text reads “If I run the bath and forget to close the door:”. Diane Marker, owner of Nutmeg and her sister Paprika - also a Labrador, regularly posts videos of the duo, with nearly 2 million views across her posts. One user commented, “She looks like she’s enjoying herself,” to which Marker replied, “She loves the water!...

1950s Educated at a Jesuit boarding school 1962 Enters university to study physics 1966 Joins the Social Democratic Party (SPD) just as it abandons Marxism. Had not been politically active in college. 1970 Lafontaine wins a seat on Saarland’s state legislature 1974 Elected deputy mayor of Saarbrocken, capital of Saarland. Becomes mayor in 1976–at the time the youngest chief executive of a large West German city. Continues to advance within the SPD....

This is not a normal bear-market sob story. According to a swamp of constantly shifting federal regulations, Nagaraj and his colleagues must now either return to India or find another job in a tight labor market and hope that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) allows them to transfer their visa to the new company. And the law doesn’t allow them to earn a paycheck until all the paperwork winds its way through the INS bureacracy....

That’s according to player representatives who will have major free agents on the market this summer. MORE: Latest NBA mock draft | Kobe makes a potty joke “I think it is something that helps out their sales pitch in a big, big way,” one agent told Sporting News. “The past couple of years, their pitch has sort of been, ‘Come play for us because we’re the Lakers and the weather is nice....

Guard D’Angelo Russell, the No. 2 overall pick of the 2015 NBA Draft, exited Tuesday night’s exhibition after trying to stop a layup by Jazz center Rudy Gobert. MORE: Best all-time Lakers | Russell sees Kobe as mentor to young Lakers Russell was forced to go to the locker room after that hard landing. Fortunately for Lakers fans, it appears as if the injury wasn’t that bad, though he will not return to the game....

Lakers executive vice president of basketball operations Jim Buss told ESPN Friday that the team has already begun talks with the star guard's representative on a potential contract extension, and he expects a deal to be completed before Bryant becomes a free agent. MORE: Summer of 2014 overrated? | Top 15 names in NBA free agency | Lakers preview "I want to put an end to any speculation that we would allow Kobe to become a free agent," Buss told ESPNLosAngeles....

To welcome them to the NBA, Jordan Clarkson and Tarik Black have been ordered to bring baby dolls to every Lakers home game. The two have been spotted waltzing into the locker room, wheeling their dolls in front of them, and Clarkson has even given his a name: ‘Ri-ri.’ MORE: 7-foot-7 Bol bobblehead | Kobe blames passing for injury | Thompson’s wild scoring record According to NBC Sports, the brains behind the operation is none other than head coach Byron Scott....

With LeBron James and Anthony Davis running the show, the Lakers are a serious title contender. It won’t be an easy road ahead, though, as Western Conference teams like the Clippers, Jazz, Nuggets and Rockets are also hoping to earn a trip to the 2019 NBA Finals. NBA SCHEDULE RELEASE: Opening Night, Christmas Day, star return games for 2019-20 season The road to the playoffs begins in Los Angeles where the Lakers will be the “road” team against the Clippers at Staples Center on Opening Night (Oct....

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Jackson won the Heisman, awarded to the most outstanding player in college football, during his time at Louisville in 2016. LSU signal-caller Burrow is the favorite to take home the prize in 2019, having led the Tigers to a 13-0 record and a SEC title. They enter the College Football Playoff as the number one team in the country, Burrow racking up 4,715 passing yards and 48 touchdowns with just six interceptions in a remarkable year....

That’s the question facing the artist after news broke Wednesday that he and the 14-year NBA veteran were inked to a celebrity boxing match. TMZ, which broke the news, reports that Odom, 41, and Carter, 33, will reportedly fight in a three-round exhibition scheduled for June 12 — and that both are already training for their bout. Damon Feldman, CEO of Celebrity Boxing, told TMZ he expects a great fight between the two....

Research by a team from the University of Tokyo, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that three mutations in Lambda’s spike protein help it resist neutralization by vaccine-induced antibodies. Meanwhile, two mutations in the Lambda variant—T76I and L452Q—make it more infectious than the COVID variant that swept through the world in 2020. The conclusions of the study posted on BiorXiv on July 28 matched findings—also not yet peer-reviewed—by a team in Chile that found the variant might also evade vaccine antibodies, Infection Control reported....

The hype and anticipation are gone. The questions about maturity have taken a back seat to questions about value. His 17.1 percent shooting on 3-pointers, the worst in NBA history (minimum 100 attempts), was bad enough. But Stephenson joined a team on the rise, coming off an unexpected playoff berth in 2014, and tore the chemistry apart. MORE: Stephenson draws foul by slapping himself | Embraced Brooklyn trade rumor...

In a viral Reddit post, which can be seen here, user Miserable-Hat-6390 explained that, for some time, they had rented out a bedroom in their house to a woman for $700 a month. Finding their job intolerable, the poster quit and rented out a second room in the house to help pay the mortgage while they looked for work. This didn’t go down well with the original roommate, who didn’t want to share the bathroom....

Alabama released a statement Saturday confirming that Kiffin would indeed remain in his current role as offensive coordinator for the 2015 season. MORE: SN’s early Top 10 for 2015 | How much has Kiffin learned from Saban? | Forgotten coach, QB make Iron Bowl memorable for Alabama “I made a comment at the Sugar Bowl that I would be back this fall at Alabama and that is definitely the plan,” Kiffin said....

It wasn’t. STEELE: Teams ‘just say no’ to Tunsil after bong video Not long after Tunsil was mercifully saved from the green room, again, his social media account was hacked. This time it was his Instagram account that showed text messages between Tunsil and one of his Ole Miss coaches an Ole Miss assistant athletic director discussing receiving payment for his mother’s bills — an NCAA violation, no doubt....

NSCLC accounts for around 85% of all lung cancers, of which roughly 10% are LCLC. Large cell lung carcinomas, also called large cell lung cancers, are so named because of the large size of the cancer cells that can be seen when the tumor is viewed with a microscope (as opposed to the tumor size, which also tends to be quite large). Large Cell Lung Cancer Symptoms Early symptoms of LCLC can easily be missed and attributed to other less serious conditions, including age....

The sighting happened just off the coast of Sandy Neck Beach and was confirmed by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy through photos, to be an 8-foot great white shark. The shark sighting wasn’t the first for 2020. Numerous sightings were reported July 5, and resulted in Truro Beach on Cape Cod being closed after a great white was spotted 20 yards off the coast, the Boston Herald reported. The Cape Cod region has seen a steady increase of great white shark sightings over the last decade, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s website....

“We’ve taken lots of action on West Virginia and just dropped Kentucky to -13,” Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Thursday. “We hardly have anything bet on Kentucky. They are the least popular wager tonight among the eight sides.” Sweet 16 lines: Current spreads and totals from Vegas On the Strip, Jay Rood has been seeing something similar at his 10 MGM Resorts sports books....

Maddox suggested the date when Trump asked when he thought casinos on the Las Vegas strip would reopen. The executive said that the casinos would only reopen after meeting benchmarks he has proposed. “Let’s start phase one,” Maddox said. “Golf course[s], tennis courts, small restaurants, small retails, nail salons etc., with social distancing in place. Judge the benchmarks that we’ve prepared. We’ve prepared three benchmarks based on disease growth, ICU capacity and testing positivity rate....