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The committee on Wednesday subpoenaed Cipollone, who served as key legal advisor to former President Donald Trump and previously resisted the committee’s requests. However, the committee is now seeking to compel testimony from Cipollone in response to evidence that he allegedly sought to rein in Trump from taking potentially illegal actions in the final days of his presidency. Representative Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, said in a letter to Cipollone that the congressional inquiry has turned to Trump’s alleged plot to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election and also how Trump reportedly sought to appoint Jeffrey Clark, a then-obscure Justice Department official, as acting attorney general....

DeGale won his first world championship when he defeated Andre Dirrell in May 2015, before going on to defend it three times, including a majority draw against Badou Jack. The super middleweight southpaw lost and then won back his title against Caleb Truax over his next two fights. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year The former British, European and two-time world champion released a lengthy statement Thursday, announcing his retirement via Twitter....

Lane College president Logan Hampton confirmed that Brandon Banks, 21, has been admitted to the Division II school located in Jackson, Tenn. The school has an enrollment of about 2,000 and is affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. MORE: SN Preseason Top 25 | Sarkisian addresses behavior “If the church isn’t open to him, who is?” Hampton told the Sun, later adding, “The church has an opportunity and an obligation to try to do what it can....

Jose G. Martinez, who recently quit the fast food job, warned viewers never to dine at his former restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida. “A pigpen is better than that place,” he told Newsweek. “This is what y’all been eating off of, look at this sh*t,” Martinez said in a TikTok video with 1.2 million views. His camera panned across the Wendy’s cookstove covered with splotches of green and white mold....

Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz qualified 1-2 Saturday afternoon for Sunday’s inaugural Miami Grand Prix. It’s the first front-row lockout for Ferrari since Mexico in 2019: MORE: Watch Formula 1 races live with fuboTV (free trial) Confusion on Max Verstappen’s final qualifying lap played into the result. Verstappen took his foot off the pedal in Sector 1 on a potential final qualifying lap, while Leclerc sneaked in and took the fastest lap Leclerc and Verstappen will each be angling for their third win of the season Sunday: Leclerc, though, holds a 86-59 lead in the driver standings over his Red Bull rival....

According to F1, the resumption of its season has been handled in a safe manner relative to the global coronavirus pandemic. F1 on Friday announced that, of 4,500-plus COVID-19 tests performed over the past week, none came back positive. F1’s statement is below: MORE: NASCAR will use underglow lights on cars at All-Star race “The FIA and Formula 1 are providing this aggregated information for the purposes of competition integrity and transparency....

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters 790 boys and zero girls were at the facility as of Monday. All of the girls have been reunited with family or a sponsor in the U.S., or were sent to a licensed facility with a higher standard of care, the agency said. In his second visit to Fort Bliss since it opened in March, Becerra said there are more services and staff to get the children released more quickly....

The action begins Friday, July 26 with the Creative Finals and the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am. Big streamers like Ninja, Tfue, Dr. Lupo, CouRageJD, Nate Hill and others will be competing in the events in one way or another. Although Ninja missed out on qualifying for the World Cup, he’ll remain a part of the action in the Pro-Am as he teams up with Marshmello. Once the Pro-Am is over, though, the real events begin....

In a statement released on Wednesday, Fosa Juniors claimed that Amakhosi had never been in contact with them despite already announcing the 27-year-old attacking midfielder as their player. Dax, as he is affectionately known, impressed the Amakhosi scouts during the 2018 Cosafa Cup tournament which was held in Limpopo between May and June. And the Soweto giants moved swiftly to offer him a deal before making it public to their fans last week Friday....

For all its parallel-universe connotations, antimatter is a frequent visitor to physics labs. In 1928 theorist Paul Dirac proved that every fundamental particle (electrons, protons and the like) has a Through the Looking Glass partner. These “antiparticles” have exactly the same properties, including mass, as the regular particles, but with opposite charges. The antimatter partner of the negatively charged electron is the positively charged positron. In 1932 the positron was discovered in a device that captured cosmic rays from space; vapor in the “cloud chamber” records the characteristic track of any particle that enters....

The incident occurred between 12 and 1 p.m. at a farm in Arena Po, a town in the province of Pavia, approximately 28 miles from Milan. The victims, all of Indian nationality, have been identified as the two owners of the farm and two employees, Giornale di Pavia reported. The victims have been named as brothers Prem and Tarsem Singh, aged 48 and 45, Arminder Singh, 29, and Majinder Singh, 28....

Now Woods is a senior and made his college decision early Wednesday morning. While a number of high-level programs were involved in his recruitment over the years, it ultimately came down to UNC, Georgetown and South Carolina. In the end, while many believed he was a lock for South Carolina, it was North Carolina that won out for his services. MORE: DeCourcy’s Top 25 2016 player rankings With a commitment already in the fold from Top-100 forward Tony Bradley and Top-100 wing Brandon Robinson, the Tar Heels have a couple of nice pieces to build around moving forward....

MORE: Ranking college hoops’ best shooting guards this season | Grand jury summons issued in Louisville prostitution scandal The 6-4, 180-pound Norvell is ranked as the No. 96 overall player in 247’s 2016 composite rankings, and the No. 23 overall shooting guard. The Chicago native hails from Simeon Career Academy, which has also produced the likes of Derrick Rose and Jabari Parker.

A Broward County Public Schools board spokesperson declined to disclose when exactly they died or confirm if they were unvaccinated when asked by Newsweek, citing that their employees’ medical information is not public record. On Friday, local news outlet 4CBS Miami reported that all four teachers in the district died between Tuesday and Wednesday within a 24-hour span. Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco said that they included an elementary and a high school teacher, according to 4CBS Miami, and that three of the teachers who passed away were unvaccinated....

Charles Wardlow will serve 30 years in prison for participating in the burglary and murder of Taylor, who was 24 years old. Taylor, a Miami native who starred at the University of Miami, was the fifth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. He was a two-time Pro Bowl selection during his four-year NFL career. Wardlow, who was 18 at the time of the murder, admittted to being one of the five men who broke into Taylor’s Miami-area home in a burglary attempt....

During an evening Fox News segment, host Laura Ingraham and Scott Atlas—a radiologist who joined Fauci as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force over the summer—claimed the leading public health expert changed his estimates for a possible vaccine timeline because of allegiance to Joe Biden. The Democratic nominee was named the projected winner of last week’s election on Saturday. “[Fauci] became a political pundit for Joe Biden,” Ingraham said during Tuesday’s broadcast segment....

The child tax credits, first approved as part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan in March, provided families with monthly payments of hundreds of extra dollars for each dependent child. But the program expires this month as the Senate failed to pass the Build Back Better Act, which would have extended the child tax credits. “Senator, one of the casualties of the collapse of that bill is the child tax credit that expires at the end of the year....

The Quote Trump is expected to leave the White House on Wednesday after one term as president. Many observers have criticized Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, his repeated baseless claims of election fraud and his alleged incitement of a January riot at the U.S. Capitol. Despite his impending exit from the Oval Office, Trump still has a base of supporters and defenders within the GOP. During a Tuesday conversation with Fox News contributor Kristen Soltis Anderson, Earhardt touted Trump’s work methodology....

“That’s obviously the opposite of what he said the last time around and reasonable lawyers can disagree,” Napolitano told Fox & Friends co-hosts on Tuesday morning. On Monday, Dershowitz told senators in his opening arguments that even if Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, it didn’t constitute an impeachable offense. The defense attorney claimed without criminal conduct, the case to remove Trump from office fell flat....