Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the lead prosecutor in the case, charged former officer Derek Chauvin, who was seen in a video kneeling on Floyd’s neck, with second-degree felony murder on Wednesday. Three other officers–Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane–were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder; and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. All four officers face equal time behind bars for their involvement in Floyd’s death on May 25....

Stephen Michael Freeman, of Katy, Texas, pleaded guilty to the charge in U.S. District Court in Augusta, U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine said, and agreed in a plea deal to a sentence of 36 months in federal prison and has paid $157,493.70 in community restitution. At sentencing, the court may accept or reject Freeman’s plea agreement. Freeman’s parents, Steven Lee Freeman and Diane Freeman, have agreed to pay $59,000 each in community restitution....

Cambage, who spent parts of two seasons with the then-Tulsa Shock after being selected by the franchise No. 2 overall in the 2011 WNBA Draft, played in China and Australia the last five years before coming back to the WNBA this season. The 26-year-old continued her terrific return with a truly historic performance against the Liberty, but just how crazy was her scoring output? Glad you asked… Cambage set the franchise and league record for points in a single game....

Cooper, a Democrat, proposed this week that North Carolina’s government give out direct payments of up to $500 to numerous North Carolina residents. The governor has called the plan “Extra Credit Grants 2.0” and is pushing to continue a program that Republicans in North Carolina’s General Assembly approved last September to provide $335 to more than a million state households. “The recommendation invests $250 million in grants to low- and middle-income families with children to help alleviate widespread financial hardship across the state....

Even though they’re not universal payments for all eligible adults, Bonin sees the monthly Child Tax Credit payments as a victory because the money is going directly into millions of Americans’ pockets each month. President Joe Biden supports making the monthly payments to parents permanent, but without action from Congress, payments end in December. “This Halloween let’s spread the word that the scariest thing is Congress ghosting America by taking away the checks being sent directly to our families, the expanded Child Care Tax Credits,” Bonin wrote in a Sunday update on the Change....

The Change.org petition, launched by Denver restaurant owner Stephanie Bonin last year, urges the U.S. House and Senate to deliver legislation to support families with a “$2,000 payment for adults and a $1,000 payment for kids immediately, and continuing regular checks for the duration of the crisis.” The petition has gained more than 2,854,500 signatures as of Saturday, with about 127,700 new supporters over the past four weeks. It will become one of Change....

More than 15,000 people signed the popular stimulus check petition on Change.org in the past week, and it remains to be one of the most popular petitions on the website. But lawmakers in Congress appear unlikely to provide additional direct payments. Stephanie Bonin, a restaurant owner in Colorado, first launched the petition in 2020 as the pandemic led to lockdowns and businesses shuttering across the country. People from every state in the U....

Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth and Will Cain discussed the possibility that the U.S. could impose fresh lockdowns amid growing alarm about the Omicron variant that was recently identified by researchers in South Africa. “We’re toying around with the ideas of potential lockdowns once again,” Cain said. “We’re toying around with the idea of shutting down an economy which created this crisis… you cannot shut down an economy and expect it to come raring back....

Stone was arrested in January 2019 as a result of the investigation into Russian political meddling led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Stone was charged with attempting to obtain emails stolen from WikiLeaks in order to gain information about Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Members of Trump’s team were allegedly knowledgeable of Stone’s activities. Federal prosecutors recommended sending Stone to prison for up to nine years, a length of time President Trump said was “horrible” in a tweet....

Baier’s comments came during a segment of Fox News show America’s Newsroom on Thursday, as he discussed the fundraising results of the leading Democratic candidates in the fourth quarter of 2019, as well as President Donald Trump’s massive $46 million in contributions. While the Fox News political anchor highlighted Trump’s large political war chest, he emphasized Sanders’ growing momentum in the Democratic primary race. “You have to give Bernie Sanders credit,” Baier said....

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade was speaking about the next presidential debate between Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump—taking place Thursday in Tennessee—when he began criticizing the moderator. “It’s unbelievable, if those debates come up, I’m looking at these topics,” Kilmeade said. “Where’s foreign policy, where’s the economy? We’re talking about American families, race in America, climate change—who wrote this up, Barack Obama?” In response, co-host Ainsley Earhardt told him the topics where chosen by the moderator, prompting Kilmeade to criticize Welker, who is NBC News’ White House correspondent and co-host of the network’s Weekend Today....

Bream confronted Roy, pressing him on Democrat criticism—saying that Republicans may actually be the problem by reiterating that the southern border is open, attracting more people to come. “Biden campaigned on it. There were people showing up to our border wearing Biden T-shirts,” the GOP lawmaker said. “There’s nothing hidden around the world about what this administration is doing and what Democrats on Capitol Hill are doing to say that our borders are wide open....

The tense exchange happened on the latest episode of the Fox panel discussion show Outnumbered. Democrat Tarlov defended the state of Biden’s mental health after the conservative Montgomery suggested the former vice president’s campaign speeches had been shortened to 15 minutes because he can no longer handle speaking for a longer amount of time. “It is so reckless and irresponsible for people to be speculating that this man, who very well might be the next president of the United States, has dementia when there is no doctor backing [the claim],” said Tarlov....

Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria has left former Kurdish allies exposed to a Turkish offensive, which began last week. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled from the Turkish advance, which Ankara claims will help establish a “safe zone” for millions of Syrian refugees. But the Turkish attack, focused on Kurds it has long regarded as a terrorist threat, has elicited warnings from humanitarian organizations and has reportedly been accompanied by summary executions....

Asked during a Thursday segment of Fox News morning program Fox & Friends whether he found Mueller’s reluctance and hesitation to answer questions asked by lawmakers frustrating, Levin placed his glasses on his face and let out a loud breath. “Look, I’ve seen people with onset dementia,” the right-wing commentator said. “I’m not going to mock this man. He obviously shouldn’t have been there. He should never have headed this investigation....

The former first lady used her 18-minute pre-recorded speech on Monday night to issue a stark warning—that Trump is “in over his head” and that the country’s mounting woes will only worsen if he is re-elected in November. Despite not airing the first hour of the convention, held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News commentators were unable to find a single criticism to direct at Obama. Dana Perino said Obama had “stuck the landing” with her speech, which was the last and longest one on Monday night....

Laura Ingraham and Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo attacked State Department official George Kent for bringing a large water bottle to a testimony scheduled for several hours in a committee room near the Capitol yesterday. The host of The Ingraham Angle said she thought Kent’s bottle was an oxygen chamber while Arroyo called it a “water tower.” Their comments came during a show attacking the impeachment inquiry, with Ingraham using her opening monologue to call the first public hearings a “complete and utter disaster” for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and other Democrats seeking to remove President Donald Trump from office....

Fox Sports has not provided a reason behind the split, but the decision comes amid a sexual harassment investigation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Horowitz has hired litigator Patty Glaser to represent him, according to The Hollywood Reporter. MORE: FS1 vs. ESPN pits four friends-turned-rivals against each other Below is the memo Fox Sports COO Eric Shanks sent to his staff Monday morning. The language in Shanks’ memo — “Everyone at Fox Sports, no matter what role we play, or what business, function or show we contribute to — should act with respect and adhere to professional conduct at all times” — suggests Horowitz and Fox Sports have split for reasons beyond performance....

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said justice officials and staff from the finance and foreign affairs ministries will join the agency to bolster it, giving it “more muscle, not to say revolutionize it.” The office currently has 123 members, according to the Associated Press. Darmanin said the French government is willing to discuss with British authorities about stopping the channel crossings. “What we want is a balanced agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union that offers real solutions to all the problems,” Darmanin said....

During ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown,” the football funnyman debuted two new impersonations and revamped several of his old hats. MORE: Caliendo as Freeman on LeBron | Caliendo as Freeman on Iverson