There’s no question, then, that the best tight end in the league will be on the field for Super Bowl 54. Because of that, neither will be playing in Pro Bowl 2020, but Kittle (NFC) and Kelce (AFC) would have also started for their respective conferences in that game. The Associated Press, the Pro Football Writers of America and Pro Football Focus all honored Kittle as first-team All-Pro for 2019, but Sporting News, based on voting by NFL head coaches, gave the nod to Kelce....

These opposing views are what make Soros such a fascinating character—at least that’s what filmmakers on both sides are hoping. Thus, beginning on Thanksgiving, two documentaries about the billionaire benefactor of the left and bogeyman of the right will be available to audiences seeking to reinforce their views, to challenge them or to simply understand what the controversy is all about. The sympathetic film, simply titled Soros, opened in 15 theaters across the nation on November 20, while the unsympathetic movie, Billionaire Radical: George Soros and the Scheme to Remake America, launches Thursday at SalemNow, the streaming service owned by conservative talk-radio firm, Salem Media Group....

Faced with A potential liberal rebellion in his party, Johnson declared a War on Poverty–and built his Great Society–while ramping up the war in Vietnam. By 1966, he was presiding over a vast expansion of federal power and spending on social problems-and over a war with 500,000 American troops. The long-term result was inflation, deficits and a country all too vulnerable to the Arab oil embargo of 1973. But the ’60s were a can-do-must-do-time, when anything seemed possible, and pieces were for picking up later....

Bush said he and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush, observed with “disbelief and dismay” the “scenes of mayhem” that broke out after members of Congress convened in the nation’s capital for a joint session to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. As television networks across the country broadcast video and images depicting the day’s events, Bush attributed the violence to individuals “whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes....

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill said Nicole Colleen Pitts has been terminated for excessive force during an incident that occurred on Tuesday evening. In a news release, Hill said Pitts had arrested a suspect, who was handcuffed behind his back, but the man had refused to get into a patrol car. To make the man comply, Hill said Pitts held her service weapon to the man’s head under his chin....

The move followed the medical center’s decision to vaccinate teachers who have to return to in-person learning, even though it went against state guidelines. Brooke McDowell, the medical center’s practice administrator, told local Georgia television station WSB-TV on Friday that they “plan to appeal.” However, the medical center’s appeal was denied and a six-month suspension from new vaccines will be enforced until July 27, according to the news outlet....

An internal committee created more than a year ago to study the naming issues recommended the university system should rename 75 buildings and colleges. However, the system’s regents voted not to make any name changes. “History can teach us important lessons, lessons that if understood and applied make Georgia and its people stronger,” the regents said in a statement unanimously adopted by the board at a meeting. “Going forward, the board is committed to naming actions that reflect the strength and energy of Georgia’s diversity,” the statement said....

He wasn’t a highly-regarded prospect heading into Saturday’s QB, RB and WR on-field drills, and some experts even have Conley unranked and projected to go undrafted. That may change after scouts watched him in Indy. MORE: Wide receiver 40 times | Best prospects at each position | Mock Draft | UAB’s speedy sleeper Conley’s broad jump of 11 feet, 7 inches is tied for the best since 2003 and is the third best in the history of the Combine....

On many occasions, the referees overturn the call on the field and allow the player to stay, but on Saturday during Georgia's game against Vanderbilt, the referees made arguably the worst targeting call of the season. MORE: Week 8 live scoreboard | Heisman Watch | Midseason All-Americans | Clowney strikes again Georgia defensive end Ray Drew was ejected from the game for this hit on Vanderbilt quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels. Do you see targeting?...

Fritz, who was 40-15 in four years with Sam Houston State, will succeed Jeff Monken, who was named Army's coach on Dec. 24. MORE: Petrino to Louisville | Strong to Texas | Brohm to WKU | Top coaching jobs Fritz, 53, led Sam Houston State to the Football Championship Subdivision championship game in 2011 and 2012, losing both years to North Dakota State. He moves to Georgia Southern, which has a rich tradition on the FCS level and now is moving up to the FBS as a new member of the Sun Belt Conference....

The Bulldogs are off to a 3-0 start behind a punishing rushing attack that ranks eighth in the FBS at 286.7 yards per game. Quarterback Jake Fromm will try to beat the Irish for the second time in three years. Notre Dame, meanwhile, is 2-0 and will look to win its second road game in three games. Quarterback Ian Book will be the key for Notre Dame in its first visit to Sanford Stadium....

The news that the former president was ailing immediately brought back images of Ford’s central role in one of America’s darkest periods. It was the summer of 1974, and things could hardly have been worse. Richard Nixon had at last lost his struggle to cling to power amid the Watergate scandal. On a Friday in August, a maudlin Nixon–who had won an epic re-election just two years before–said farewell to his White House staff and boarded Marine One on the South Lawn, the first leg of his journey west to exile in California....

In a statement posted to Twitter, the Charité University Hospital in Berlin wrote “Alexei #Navalny is being treated in intensive care at #charitéberlin and remains in medically induced coma.” “Clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. The specific substance involved remains unknown, and a further series of comprehensive testing has been initiated,” the hospital added in a subsequent tweet. According to their tweets, the effect of the poison, “was confirmed by multiple tests in independent laboratories....

Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2011-2014) Sir Richard Shirreff said that the key issue at a United States-led meeting of Kyiv’s allies on Friday at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany will be on the provision of western tanks to fend off a Russian onslaught and launch counter-offensives. Poland and Finland are among the countries that have these German-made tanks and are willing to give them to Kyiv, which relies on far less advanced Soviet-era variants, primarily the T-72....

My first encounter with Genscher was shortly after he took office, in Bad Reichenhall at the southern tip of Bavaria. It was in June 1974, in the waning weeks of Richard Nixon’s presidency. And though in those early days Genscher’s grasp of foreign policy could be most charitably described as minimal, he conducted himself with extraordinary aplomb at a time of great unease in the Western Alliance. He announced a “gentleman’s agreement” to ease tensions between the United States and what was then the Common Market, and proved as good as his word....

Zegras’ four assists powered the Americans to their first victory, a 6-3 win over the Germans at the 2020 IIHF World Juniors just one day after the team fell to top rival Canada. Pinto (Ottawa Senators) netted his third goal of the tourney along with two assists and Wolf, a Calgary Flames prospect, made 17 saves including some big ones late in the game. Germany put up a fight in its first world juniors game at the top level since they were relegated to Division 1A 2015....

On Tuesday, German Energy Minister Robert Habeck said that although he didn’t want to speculate on the leaks in Nord Stream 1 and 2, which run from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, other infrastructure, like nuclear plants, could be subject to attacks. “Of course, critical infrastructure is a potential target. But we have known that not just since yesterday,” Habeck said at a press conference. “This has been the basis of the work for months....

Lynn may be a country-music legend and an American icon, but she’s still the scabby-kneed Appalachian girl who married at 14, played one of her first gigs on the lawn of a sanitarium and had six kids before scoring her first top 10 hit. The 5-foot-2 Grand Ole Opry star sang songs for overworked housewives, such as “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” and by 1971 became a household name with “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” a ballad about her poor but happy childhood....

British director Howard Davies has a grittier take than usual on this masterpiece, with its book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe. Davies had staged a successful London production of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” on which “My Fair Lady” is based. Shaw was a socialist, a despiser of the class system, and there’s a lot of this Shaw in Davies’s version. The relationship between Henry Higgins, the phonetics professor, and Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl he decides to make into a lady, is class warfare that mutates into romance....

Country: Brazil Date of birth: February 5, 1992 MORE: Top U.S. athletes to watch | How to watch the Rio Games Career highlights: Winner of Champions League, La Liga, Copa del Rey and Club World Cup with Barcelona, Copa Libertadores with Santos Olympic record: London 2012 – silver Having won the World Cup on five occasions and the Copa America eight times, Brazil is one of the most successful national soccer teams in the world....