British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that England’s current lockdown will end in England on December 2 as planned before the strict regional restrictions are implemented in the lead up to Christmas. Johnson said the tier system will last until the end of March. Johnson’s “Covid Winter Plan” was announced to Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons ahead of a virtual press conference from Downing Street. The prime minister is leading the country’s fight against COVID remotely after he was forced to self-isolate due to coming into contact with a positive case....

Tampa Bay entered the period with a 1-0 lead, but in a 39-second span about 4 1/2 minutes in, they trailed 2-1 thanks to goals by Teuvo Teravainen and Jesper Fast. OK, no biggie. But then the fun truly began midway through. Steven Stamkos scored a power-play goal at 9:54 to tie the game. Forty-one seconds later, Dougie Hamilton made it a 3-2 Carolina lead. Just over two minutes after that, fellow defenseman — and 2021 Lady Byng finalist — Jaccob Slavin made it 4-2....

As recently as three years ago Silicon Valley chronicler Po Bronson thought the same thing about the dramatic appeal of high tech. “The daily work was writing code,” he says. “It wasn’t time yet” for Hollywood to move in. But today entrepreneurship is more about people than bits and bytes. “That’s something you can dramatize,” Bronson says. So, the entertainment business is looking to cash in. Eager to find a replacement for law firms, TV networks hope the start-up will be the next plot factory....

Twenty-six years later Natalie, whose own career as a pop and soul diva has soared, dived and reascended like a phoenix, has found a way “to say thank you and goodbye” to her father. On “Unforgettable,” her lush, nostalgia-drenched new album, she has recorded 24 of the songs her father once sang in his inimitable crushed-velvet style, from the dreamy “Mona Lisa” to the finger-snapping “Route 66.” In the memorable title song–and the haunted video Steve Barron made to accompany it–the magic of digital technology lets Natalie perform a duet with her dad, and exchange a kind of vow....

The track “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” was released on Friday to much praise from fans, but it has also ignited a backlash from many conservatives as it features the singer giving the devil a lap dance. Another scandal has erupted as the singer collaborated with art collective MSCHF to launch a controversial pair of “Satan Shoes” that feature a drop of real human blood. Now rapper Joyner Lucas has joined the voices condemning Lil Nas X—real name Montero Lamar Hill—accusing the 21-year-old of pushing “left field” content on to children that love him for his breakout hit “Old Town Road....

MORE: Madden NFL 17 will focus on frachise mode That’s exactly what rappers Lil Wayne and Birdman did (back when they liked one another and weren’t suing each other), according to T-Pain. During T-Pain’s Twitch session Wednesday, he told a story about how the duo would bet insane amounts of money on games they didn’t even play. “They would bet $10,000 a game on Madden and they would just let the computer play each other....

Referencing last November’s failed election bid by Donald Trump, who he said was still “your president,” the controversial attorney told an audience at the Determined Patriotism Conference: “This is not about one presidential election. So if I were to stand up here and say ‘I am Q’, you wouldn’t believe me, and you shouldn’t because I’m not Q, but maybe I am.” To audible laughter from the crowd at the July 1 talk, he continued: “The audience is laughing at me, God is laughing at me....

“It’s been one month since the insurrection. Don’t be distracted. Keep your eyes on the truth,” the group tweeted. The dramatic video opens with footage of rioters heading toward the Capitol building, along with photos of Trump allies, including Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell. In the background, Trump can be heard encouraging his supporters to “walk down to the Capitol” and “take back our country,” during the speech he gave at the “Stop the Steal” rally before violent siege....

Lindsey Boylan, one of Cuomo’s accusers over alleged sexual harassment, called the decision to not continue the investigation an “unjust cop out.” “The public deserves to know the extent of the Governor’s misdeeds and possible crimes,” she said in a tweet Friday afternoon. “His victims deserve justice and to know he will not be able harm others.” She also said in a tweet Saturday morning: “I feel the deep disappointment so many have in the leaders of our state....

“The conservative movement is so lucky to have my good friend and colleague Senator Tim Scott as one of our leaders,” Graham tweeted. “Tim is one of the strongest voices in America for conservative solutions to help disadvantaged neighborhoods and people.” Graham’s statement came after Scott and Lemon, who are both Black, sparred earlier this week over race. Speaking on Fox News Monday, Scott railed against what he calls “woke supremacy,” after MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested that, as the only Black GOP lawmaker in the Senate, Republicans use him as a “prop....

Democrat Jaime Harrison has raised a record-breaking $1.3 million over the last three months for his fight against Graham for the Senate seat next year, a large sum of money considering he only announced his intent to run about a month ago. Harrison now has $1.5 million cash on hand, that’s more than any other Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina has ever made. The former chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party said in an email that his fundraising haul came from 60,000 contributions and that the average donation size was $26....

Graham is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which began hearings this week for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination. And although the longtime Republican senator has fallen behind Harrison in fundraising, he has managed to regain a polling lead after months of being neck-and-neck. A new Morning Consult Political Intelligence tracking poll shows Graham leading his opponent with 48 percent of support versus Harrison’s 42 percent. In recent months, Graham was either tied or slightly losing to Harrison in surveys of likely South Carolina voters....

Graham made the comment during what was initially going to be another head-to-head debate on Friday with Democratic contender, Jaime Harrison. The format for the televised event was changed after Graham had refused a request by Harrison to take a coronavirus test beforehand. Instead, both candidates were questioned for 30 minutes each on a range of issues, laying out their pitches for the state’s voters. After being asked about what legislation he proposed to end police brutality, he said he believed in law enforcement reform and that while the people behind the killing of George Floyd “was wrong and people should pay the price,” he went on to say that “what is happening in America… is a war on the police itself....

Dan Campbell has cemented his status as the most nutty head coach in the NFL and he hasn’t even had the opportunity to coach a regular-season game yet. But if his offseason soundbites are any indication, that’s not a title he’s going to relinquish anytime soon. On Monday, Campbell reminded Lions fans what they’re in for during his tenure. Speaking on the “Pardon My Take” podcast, Campbell said he has one odd, dangerously specific request for training camp: a real, live, pet lion....

Happy Thanksgiving, Detroit. Before your meal, thank your newly-demonstrative owner for not firing the head coach along with everybody else. MORE: Week 12 NFL picks | Herman Moore: Detroit needs to keep Thanksgiving tradition It’s early in the Post-Purge Era, but keeping Jim Caldwell was the right move. A whole lot of Lions employees have gotten tossed overboard lately, after the team lost its first six games in a season where Detroit was supposed to be a playoff contender....

Although we are not perfect, in regard to race and opinions about race, we are living in the best of times; our nation is not recognizable as the place where segregation ruled throughout the South as recently as the 1960s. And I should know, as a Black man who has lived his entire life in the South. And yet, at a time when Americans have never been more united about the evils of slavery, Democrats are working overtime to keep race ideology alive and well....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for frozen, fully cooked, diced chicken items that were packed on January 25-26, 2021, and March 23-24, 2021. The products were distributed by Big Daddy Foods, Inc., a Houston firm. They were distributed in individual food boxes to consumers at food banks in Florida through the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program, between February 25 through March 1, 2021, and from March 29 through April 8, 2021....

The barbed-wire fence will stretch for about 342 miles to block much of the 423-mile Lithuania-Belarus border. The number of migrants entering the nations has grown sharply, spurring Lithuanian capital Vilnius to declare a state of emergency last week to combat the entry rate. In the last two months, 1,500 migrants entered Lithuania, a number 20 times higher than all crossings in 2020. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

However, for one five-year-old in a viral TikTok video this lesson came a little early in life, when he popped the question to his young female friend. The footage, shared to the app by user Leah Sherriff, known online as leahsherriff, is captured on a Nest doorbell camera. The video begins with a young boy, identified only as Woods, getting down on one knee on the front porch and saying to his friend: “Will you marry me?...