Posts

The next day, those same students would disguise themselves as Grim Reapers and raise a death cloud outside Boston’s downtown Park Plaza Hotel. The mission: to join thousands of other protesters demonstrating against President George W. Bush, who was inside the hotel, presiding over a $2,000-per-plate fundraising meal. The message: 40 Grim Reapers, shadowy harbingers of death wielding black PVC piping, were on strike, Bush’s AIDS policies having left them tired and overworked....

“He lies because he’s a sociopath, a con man—to deceive others,” Conway, one of the president’s most vocal critics, tweeted. “But he also lies because he’s a pathological narcissist—to deceive himself, to protect his fragile ego from narcissistic injury.” In the lengthy thread, Conway noted that lying by pathological narcissists “poses a greater danger” than sociopaths “because as a narcissist’s lies to himself become bigger, he drifts farther and farther away from the real world....

Conway, a conservative attorney, offered a legal reminder that Trump could be impeached a second time if more evidence is collected during the House impeachment inquiry over the next few months. There’s nothing in the Constitution, he said, that would prohibit such a situation. House Democrats have been moving full steam ahead with the impeachment investigation against Trump. Earlier this month, the House Intelligence Committee heard public testimony from a dozen witnesses about the president’s dealings with Ukraine....

Photos show the mural in Toledo, Ohio—which was painted following Floyd’s death last year—reduced to rubble. According to local ABC-affiliate WTVG, Toledo Police said witnesses reported lightning had hit the building at approximately 4:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday. 13abc reported that its Doppler radar, a device used in weather monitoring, detected a strike around the area at that time. A witness also told Toledo Fire and Rescue Department they had seen lightning hit the building before the collapse, according to WTOL11—which reported that the department confirmed this caused the wall to fall....

“Among the reforms requested were deescalating techniques, independent prosecutions and autopsies for every extrajudicial police killing in an effort to stop further human rights abuses including torture and extrajudicial killings of African Americans to protect their inherent and fundamental human right to life,” Crump said in a statement about the June 3 letter sent to the U.N. “The United States of America has a long pattern and practice of depriving Black citizens of the fundamental human right to life …The United States government has consistently failed to hold police accountable and did not bring Federal criminal charges even in cases with irrefutable video evidence....

Hill is the main dealer on the team plane rides — just as he’s been dealing everybody in on the floor as the Jazz’s new leader. MORE: Ranking the NBA’s top 15 point guards “Sometimes just playing cards gets to get the team binding,” Hill told Sporting News. “We laugh. We joke. We tell stories. So it makes us a little closer. We’ve even got Gordon to start playing cards....

Picking a tight end early isn’t always an easy choice. For one thing, it means passing on top-tier running backs and receivers, so having a team thin at those spots can become an issue. And if you are going to pull the trigger early on a tight end, you have to decide if you’re going to target Kittle or Kelce in the early rounds. DOMINATE YOUR DRAFT: Ultimate 2020 cheat sheet...

“I have now been enshrined in late night TV history with all these impersonations, but they are all TERRIBLE so far,” Santos wrote on Twitter on Monday. Last week alone, three different actors impersonated Santos on American television: first, it was the turn of actor Nelson Franklin to play Santos as the first openly gay Jewish Republican Latino to walk on the moon on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Then, it was up to Harvey Guillén on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to impersonate Santos, denying claims that he ever performed in drag....

Soros—long a bogeyman for the global right-wing and a lightning rod for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories due to his funding for progressive causes and Democratic politics—told Italy’s La Repubblica in an interview published Wednesday that Trump remains dangerous—even though the president is trailing challenger Joe Biden in national polls. Soros lauded the American democratic system and Constitution, which he said remain robust despite political polarization, economic crisis and social unrest. “The United States is one of the longest-lasting democracies in history,” he told La Repubblica....

Hull was the first woman to be elected governor in Arizona in 1997. As reported by AZ Central, Hull and her husband died peacefully of natural causes, according to Hull’s family. Former President George W. Bush mourned the governor and her husband in a statement. “Laura and I are saddened by the loss of Governor Jane Dee and Dr. Terry Hull. Both were dedicated leaders for the people of Arizona; Jane Dee as both a teacher and a public servant, and Terry as a physician,” he said in a statement....

The answer is college football wins. The four-team playoff wins. The 54-48 double-overtime thriller between No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 3 Georgia at the Rose Bowl Game on Monday wins. It gave the four-team format the semifinal it had been looking for since the 2015 Sugar Bowl between Ohio State and Alabama. MORE: Three things we learned from Georgia win Only, this one was better. Much better, and it didn’t stop delivering until Georgia running back Sony Michel burned around the corner for a game-winning 27-yard touchdown that sent the Bulldogs back to Atlanta for a shot at the College Football Playoff championship against SEC rival Alabama on Jan....

Yet many Georgia fans — and one media outlet — were left frustrated with SEC officiating coordinator John McDaid and the crew who called Saturday’s game. As has often been the case in big contests involving the Crimson Tide, Bulldogs fans felt officials’ calls unfairly favored Nick Saban’s team. The biggest grievances among Bulldogs fans were a defensive holding and pass interference penalty against Eric Stokes in the second and third quarters, respectively; those extended Alabama drives, which resulted in a 33-yard Will Reichard field goal and 2-yard Najee Harris touchdown run....

A 6-3, 235-pounder from St. Johns College High School in Washington, D.C., Sherman is rated 2020’s No. 2 outside linebacker and the No. 11 prospect in the nation regardless of position, according to the 247Sports’ Composite Rankings. He did, however, miss most of his junior season with a torn ACL and will have to show he hasn’t lost any agility because of the injury, 247Sports noted. He’ll eventually join early enrollee linebackers from the 2019 class Nakobe Dean (No....

Rashawn Smith was arrested in Midway, Georgia on Sunday and charged with the Dissemination of Information Relating to Terroristic Acts. Smith has been booked into the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. The arrest came after the GBI were made aware of a Facebook post that “contained a threat to future protests related to Ahmaud Arbery,” the GBI said in a news release. Nelly Miles, GBI’s public affairs director, told Newsweek that Smith had allegedly “created a Facebook User ID of an unwitting individual to post a hoax threat....

Georgia Republican state Representative Robert Dickey said the party “feels good” about the state’s new voting law, amid criticisms from Democrats and voting rights activists who view the bill as restrictive. “We spent a lot of time looking at lots of areas. It really started more than two years ago, after the governor election. We just feel really strongly in the state that you’ve got to have integrity in the election process,” Dickey said in a recent interview with the civic media organization, A Starting Point (ASP)...

The Georgia Republican Party’s official social media accounts on Tuesday highlighted a video that purports to show a Los Angeles resident calling people in a Southern accent and promoting Democratic candidates. “Whatever it f**king takes,” the man can be heard saying after dropping his feigned accent. On January 5, Georgia is set to hold two runoff elections that will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are up against Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively....

In an interview with ABC News’ This Week, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said state officials “don’t see anything that would overturn the will of the people,” who voted in favor of President-elect Joe Biden last month. Recently, the president called Raffensperger an “enemy of the people.” The Georgia secretary of state said Trump’s voter fraud claims are promoting “disunity” among Republicans, and the president’s supporters must cease their “irrational, angry behavior” toward poll workers who simply counted the votes....

During a statewide “Wear a Mask” tour the Republican governor launched Wednesday, Kemp encouraged Georgians to wear face coverings to reduce the spread of the virus, a recommendation U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams echoed when he joined Kemp in Georgia on Thursday. “We really have not got time to deal in politics right now,” Kemp said at a news conference in Dalton, Georgia. “We are working on saving lives and the livelihoods of all of our citizens....

“This thing” is what is commonly known as the Third Way, although hardly anyone uses the term in polite conversation anymore. The catch phrase has fallen into such disfavor that it was pointedly dropped from the official title of the informal summit in Florence two weekends ago. The Third Way has launched a thousand conferences, books, think tanks and, yes, magazine articles. But nobody agrees on what, if anything, it means....

We are more accustomed in this world to observing greatness in silence than we may realize, and it is true even in the world of sports. It’s just so rarely been the case in the world of soccer, but that’s what the atmosphere will be when German’s Bundesliga returns Saturday morning to complete the 2019-20 season. “Of course it won’t be the same without fans,” Gio Reyna, the American teenager rapidly becoming a presence at Borussia Dortmund, said on the Fox Indoor Soccer program Monday....