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On Wednesday, it was announced that Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards will step in to host the daily syndicated show, while actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik will present the Jeopardy! prime-time and spin-off series, including the upcoming Jeopardy! National College Championship. The appointments came after months of several stars—including Ken Jennings, Anderson Cooper, Aaron Rodgers, Katie Couric, Bill Whitaker, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta—serving as guest hosts, as a permanent presenter to replace the late Alex Trebek was sought....

The days leading up to the race saw an upbeat Rosberg talking openly about how he fully intended to make Hamilton crack under pressure. MORE: Final NASCAR Power Rankings | Ranking NASCAR’s best crew chiefs | NASCAR Wives & Girlfriends (UPDATED) That resulted in the onus to deliver falling on Rosberg — Hamilton’s childhood friend and teenage go-karting rival — and match his prerace fighting talk with equally aggressive driving....

No. 4-seeded Li won the first give games to set up a 6-2, 6-4 win over 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the first semifinal Thursday before No. 20-seeded Cibulkova trounced 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 6-2. Li, the 2011 French Open champion, was the only major winner in the semis after the fourth-round upsets of Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova and defending champion Victoria Azarenka's quarterfinal loss to Radwanska....

The 26-year-old Aussie has been given the opportunity to fight for a maiden world title after former world champion Oscar Valdez was forced to withdraw due to injury. Promoter Top Rank confirmed the news on Wednesday. MORE: Aussie fighters left out of pocket and angry a week before Christmas as Dubai event falls apart Taking place at the Diamond Desert Arena in Glendale, Arizona, the bout comes less than a week after countryman Tim Tszyu takes on Jermell Charlo for the undisputed super-welterweight title in Las Vegas on January 29....

As the investigators’ probe unfolds over the next few months, Stand Up America told Newsweek it will spend north of $100,000 in an attempt to change the minds of at least a dozen House Republicans. Some of them have left the door open to supporting the Democrats’ inquiry or represent districts that the progressive organization believes are vulnerable in next year’s election. The campaign will launch this week and will feature digital ads, in addition to peer-to-peer text messages, emails and social media posts, to drive constituents in Republican districts to pressure members into backing the inquiry....

After recording a 0-0 draw in their Group C opener against Rwanda on Monday, Sunday Faleye’s strike in the 79th minute ensured that the Eagles claimed their first maximum points of the competiton. Despite their inability to get past the Amavubi in their opening game, Salisu Yusuf kept faith in the same lineup that featured in Tangier on Monday. The first 45 minutes at Grand Stage de Tanger was a drab affair....

Like most irresistible courtroom dramas, tile McVeigh penalty phase has had almost nothing to do with ho criminal justice usually plays out. For starters, it’s been in federal court, where virtually no capital trials take place–murder is typically a state crime. Capital defendants also rarely get topflight lawyers (who have racked up millions in fees, to be paid out of public coffers) or judges; McVeigh’s had both. Racial issues, too, often pollute trials; not so in Denver....

Some Chicago Cubs fans lived their entire lives without seeing a World Series title. In my lifetime, pro teams from Pittsburgh have won 14: three by the Pirates, five by the Penguins, six by the Steelers. I grew up in Pittsburgh and began my career there, but it since has taken me to Memphis, Cincinnati and now Indianapolis. The one thing that hasn’t changed, as we saw Sunday with the Penguins defeating the Nashville Predators to claim the 2017 Stanley Cup, is that teams from Pittsburgh win titles....

Anibal “Mano” Ruiz dies of heart attack The referee union threatened to strike earlier this week after two separate incidents of violent conduct against officials. Club America defender Pablo Aguilar made contact with referee Fernando Hernandez after America’s 1-0 defeat to Tijuana on Wednesday. In the other game, ref Miguel Angel Flores sent off three Toluca players, including Enrique Triverio. The Argentine forward shoved the ref after his initial decision, earning a red card....

Don’t, under any circumstances, lose back-to-back games. You do that and boom – you have a couple of Stanley Cup rings on your fingers and you’re still alive for a chance at a third. Tampa Bay has yet to lose two consecutive games dating back to the start of the 2022 playoffs. It’s been able to respond every time it’s taken a loss, which is a big factor in why the Lightning are in the conference finals this year and going for a three-peat....

On Thursday night, Zacariah Ahmad posted a video on Instagram of the rapper walking through a department store in Philadelphia. When Raheel Ahmad, who was in the department store, saw the rapper, he asked if he could spot him $90,000 for his college tuition. The rapper agreed, but put several conditions on the donation, including that the student had to graduate. At a time when an estimated 45 million people collectively hold around $1....

Despite that fact, Lillard's approach on Sunday matched his reputation. He's known as a silent assassin of sorts, and he was just that in the most critical moments of the Trail Blazers' 122-120 overtime win over the Rockets, which gave them both Game 1 and homecourt advantage in the series. Lillard became the first rookie in Trail Blazers history to post 30-plus points in his first playoff appearance, totaling 31 points, nine rebounds and five assists — and his wasn't even the most impressive Portland stat line of the night....

In a series of posts and photos on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, where he has more than 844,000 followers, Wood claimed he went looking for Biden, whom he dubbed “Joey ‘Bribes’ Bandito,” at the White House. “Wow. I thought I might find Joey in the China room making an illegal deal for himself. But nope. No Joey,” Wood wrote on Wednesday. “Got a bit lonely waiting in this room for Joey so my Executive Assistant stopped by to keep me company....

The Lincoln Project, an anti–President Donald Trump super PAC, featured several rallies in Georgia which included former Trump lawyer, Lin Wood, discouraging voters from casting ballots in the state’s Senate runoff. In an email sent to Newsweek, a spokesperson for Facebook wrote, “We don’t allow ads that delegitimize the outcome of the election so we’re rejecting these ads for violating this policy.” According to Facebook’s Ad Library, the ad was taken down because it violates the social media’s advertising policy....

The conservative political action committee (PAC) has produced a large number of ads attacking Trump and his allies. Its approach attracted Trump opponents from across the political spectrum, but sexual harassment allegations against co-founder John Weaver and emerging questions about its spending have tarnished the group’s reputation. More than 20 men have said Weaver sent them unsolicited sexually explicit messages—allegations that became public at the end of last month....

The conservative group, which opposes Trump’s re-election, posted the video on Twitter on Thursday. It uses footage from the president’s own recent video and editing that makes the footage look like a VHS tape recording from the 1980s or 1990s. “REGENERON!” the Lincoln Project tweeted. The video is a parody infomercial that uses jaunty music and garish graphics to suggest Trump is advertising a miracle cure for COVID-19. The video opens with an old fashioned screen and the word ‘Play’ in a font that will be familiar to anyone who used VHS....

“I have found it wise to realize the source of these stories is the liberal media with an agenda,” Graham said in a tweet on Saturday. Following media reports, Graham switched his vote he had made just a few minutes earlier. He re-cast his opinion to join Democrats and moderate Republicans in calling witnesses for questioning. A report released Friday by CNN detailed a call between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump on Jan....

The group said in a statement to Newsweek Saturday that the vote was not against “realistic achievable and necessary infrastructure projects” and that it understands the importance of strong infrastructure—including roads, bridges and rural broadband internet access. “Senator Graham failed to live up to the conservative Republican principles that we elected him to follow by supporting a bill that does not put strong limits on ambiguous Green focused studies and pork barrel projects that don’t really address the true needs in rural America,” according to the statement....