Following all of this drama, reporters were champing at the bit to talk to him Friday, but he curiously was not there. Miami brass began the press conference by saying Tunsil won’t be speaking because he had an allergic reaction. MORE: Strangest ever draft moments | Stepdad says he didn’t hack Tunsil’s accounts The excuse sure seemed to be convenient, and many people were skeptical of the Dolphins’ story. But the team remained adamant that they weren’t making it up....

Add Michael Jordan and a host of other talented players (Karl Malone, Dominique Wilkins, Hakeem Olajuwon, etc.) and it’s no wonder so many basketball insiders see the 1980s as the ultimate NBA generation. MORE: Best teams to never win a title Except, Bird himself isn’t so sure anymore. Watching Stephen Curry and some of today’s stars shoot lights out from long range is making him have second thought about his generation’s reputation....

The state of California on Saturday released a list of 41 candidates running in the recall election against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Sept. 14 and to his surprise, Elder wasn’t on it. That’s because California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber and her “candidate filing and election night reporting team” said Elder didn’t qualify due to “Incomplete redacted and/or unredacted income tax returns that were filed.” Outraged, Elder said no one has ever been disqualified for such a reason and declared he’s prepared to go to court over the matter....

The digital sign, saying “mash potatoes not your head buckle up,” reportedly appeared on the I-15, near the Las Vegas Boulevard, and caught the eye of one motorist. Danielle, posting to Twitter under @DHass85, shared a photo of the giant lettering, from the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), on Wednesday. She captioned the image, which amassed more than 1,800 likes: “#LasVegas this is highly disturbing.” Numerous people in the comments agreed, as @whiskyguyNJ wrote: “Scare tactics is ABSOLUTELY NOT the role of any state government....

In a press release, the Clark County Department of Environment and Sustainability (DES), said that the county, where Las Vegas is located, was extending its smoke advisory through Monday. The Clark County DES first issued the advisory on Saturday. “Smoke from South Central California wildfires continues to drift into the region, leading to elevated levels of particulate matter in the air,” the press release said. “DES Division of Air Quality officials say smoke is made of small particles and other pollutants that can aggravate respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and asthma or heart disease....

Caesars Race and Sports Book isn’t allowing bettors to play teaser’s on Sunday’s conference championship games, a casino rep confirmed Thursday. It was first reported by Todd Fuhrman of CBS. A teaser is a bet that combines two or more games at an adjusted point spread and lower payout. The most common example is a two-team, six-point teaser that pays the same as a straight-up bet (-110) at most books....

The sudden closure of every school district in the nation, including two-thirds of them in a three-day stretch, required a massive retooling effort to shift classes to remote learning. While a few districts were immediately up and running, the shift cost students days of instruction. Across the country, the average public school canceled more than 8 days, equivalent to about 16 percent of the school year remaining after closures were announced....

Guterl: What exactly did you accomplish? Venter: THE previous effort only did half the job. What was sequenced was basically half the genome. It was naively assumed you could infer the other half from the first half, and now it’s clear you cannot. At Celera, we used the same technique for decoding my own genome. When we’d assembled the five other people to make up a composite, what we got was not representative of what the human genome looks like....

Re-shared on Monday by Reddit user thepositivepandemic, the video from NASA intelligently presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880–2021. In the popular Reddit community r/interestingasf***, the video now has over 44,000 upvotes and thousands of comments. The graphic was originally developed and published in 2016, but an updated version was shared by NASA on March 7. The graphic presents temperatures based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GIGSTEMP v4)—an estimate of global surface temperature change....

Hawkins was on board an American Airlines Boeing 777-200 bound for Santiago, Chile, where he is set to go dove hunting, when a passenger needed to be restrained. American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller confirmed that the plane made an unscheduled landing in Lima, Peru, around 4 a.m. ET Monday. "They were noncompliant, unruly, which happens on occasion," Miller told ESPN New York's Adam Rubin about the passenger who was removed from the flight....

Republican candidate Boebert is facing the Democrats’ Adam Frisch to be a Colorado representative in a race that has proven to be closer than expected. Keith Edwards, who is a Democratic strategist according to his Instagram bio, shared the clips on his Twitter late on Tuesday. For live updates on the midterms, head over to Newsweek’s Live Blog: Who Won the Midterm Elections 2022?—Senate, House, Governor Results “These before and after photos at Lauren Boebert’s election party are giving me life,” he wrote as a caption....

C-SPAN cameras focused in on Boebert as she appeared to have an exchange with Greene during the 14th round of voting to see if Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, would be elected as House speaker. In the clip that was shared to Twitter on Saturday, Greene could be seen reaching out to Bobert before the Colorado Republican looked down and appeared to mouth something before redirecting her eyes back in front of her....

As of Thursday afternoon, Boebert has a razor-thin edge over Frisch, with under 400 more votes. The New York Times’ latest update showed the Republican with 50.06 percent of the vote to Frisch’s 49.94 percent. Colorado law requires a recount for any race where the gap between the final two candidates is 0.5 percent or less. Boebert, one of former President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, is unexpectedly facing a tight bid for reelection....

First reported by journalist David Gura on Twitter, the email had a subject line that read: “I told Beto ‘HELL NO’ to taking our guns. Now we need to tell Joe Biden.” The message goes on to name House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as leaders in “attacking our freedoms” with their eyes on the Second Amendment. The “radical liberals” in Congress, the campaign stated, “are trying to violate your due process and criminalize the private transfer of firearms....

Republican Representative Bobby Kaufmann, who represents Iowa’s 73rd District, attended a rally hosted by the Convention of States movement on January 25, 2022. While there, he delivered a message to his detractors that was met with thunderous applause. “When it comes to these gun-grabbing, freedom-hating, over-regulating, civil liberty-violating tyrants,” said Kaufmann, “here’s my message.” Kaufmann then proceeded to throw his hands up in the air and flipped the bird, leaving the stage after thanking the audience....

The request from members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform came after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the county by the family of Andres Guardado, who was killed by an LASD deputy in June. In the lawsuit, it was alleged that the deputies involved in Guardado’s shooting were potentially affiliated with rogue groups within the department. In the letter, the Department of Justice was asked to “investigate the actions of a violent contingent of deputies” within the LASD that “adhere to white supremacist ideologies, belong to ‘criminal gangs,’ and engage in an ‘aggressive style of policing’ motivated by racism....

A number of leading figures have been quick to ask whether the police were under-prepared for the breach, which began at around 2.15pm as the House and Senate debated the presidential election results. A violent mob of President Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers to crouch under desks and wear gas marks. Police attempts to barricade the Capitol building proved futile, and a woman was shot and killed inside....

A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco this week alleges the team’s official mobile app accesses microphones on fans’ smartphones to listen in on and potentially record private conversations, even while users are idle. MORE: Eight NBA players with most to prove Upon downloading the free app, which promises “the easiest way to stay current with schedules, scores and news,” fans are prompted to grant permission to use the microphone, but, according to the lawsuit, the team does not make clear a reason why the access is needed....

Ridge is one of the youngest defendants in the Capitol riot cases and his attorney Carina Laguzzi is hoping to keep him out of jail when he is sentenced on Tuesday. Ridge is accused of breaking down the doors to Senators Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi’s offices and bragging that he “made history” on January 6. The now 20-year-old was only 19 at the time of the insurrection and Laguzzi is asking Judge James Boasberg to factor his youth into his sentencing....

Employees at Jones Day, which has worked as outside counsel for the Trump campaign, have donated some $90,000 to Biden’s reelection bid, according to Reuters analysis of donations given January 1, 2019, to August 31, 2020. Records from the Federal Electoral Commission show donations of just $50 given to the Trump campaign from lawyers at the firm in the same timeframe. These figures come from individual giving from lawyers, which relies on donors self-identifying their occupation and who they work for....