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The former first-round pick was arrested on Tuesday in Snohomish County, Wash., for allegedly attempting to rob a home, KIRO 7 learned from Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Shari Ireton. MORE: Speights escapes attempted robbery | Kirilenko suspended without pay | Mock draft Swift and 28-year-old Carlos Abraham Anderson placed masks over their faces and attempted to rob a home during daylight hours, according to the report. “I believe there were a couple of people who called in, they saw masked subjects on the property, reported that at least one of them was armed with a weapon, one possibly with a baseball bat,” Ireton told KIRO 7....

Stevens died of complications from a stroke he suffered a day before his death, according to the Supreme Court. He was the third longest-serving justice in the U.S., after William O. Douglas, who was replaced by Stevens in 1975, and Stephen J. Field, who served for a majority of the late 19th century after being nominated by former President Abraham Lincoln. “He passed away peacefully with his daughters by his side,” the Supreme court said, adding that Steven is survived by his children, Elizabeth Jane Sesemann (Craig) and Susan Roberta Mullen (Kevin), as well as his nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren....

MORE: Domestic violence pushback getting real | Hardy still not ready And if Hardy wants a roster spot in the NFL any time soon, Panthers defensive end Charles Johnson thinks his former teammate should stay away from cameras. “He’s a good guy,” Johnson told ESPN.com. “He just makes bad decisions. I just hope he gets out there and finds a place so he can really prove his talent and show what he’s really all about instead of giving interviews to people about the situation....

Despite limited skill, the toughman turned UFC fighter turned WCW wrestler was a popular figure during the late 90’s, and even appeared on an episode of “Friends.” MORE: Stunning photos of Ronda Rousey | Rousey’s defining moments Now, nearly a decade after he was even remotely relevant, he’s interjecting himself into the ever popular “I could beat Ronda Rousey” discussion. Abbott has never exactly been the brightest bulb in the box, and his comments directly reflect it....

The debate, held in Reno, was between eight Republican hopefuls vying for the party’s spot in the race against current Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak. Heller, a former ally of former President Donald Trump who gained scrutiny within the party after attempting to preserve the Affordable Care Act, was greeted with jeers despite his right-leaning statements. Despite the resulting tensions between him and Trump, he did his best on Thursday to persuade the audience that they were still close with each other, telling the booing audience that he had spoken to him a few hours earlier....

A USC spokesman told Omnisport that Haden was “alert and talkative” while undergoing evaluation at a Los Angles hospital following “an episode of lightheadedness, similar to previous episodes.” He experienced lightheadedness in February and in October 2015. MORE: Top 10 USC Trojans players of all time Paolo Uggetti, a journalism student at USC, was the first to report Haden’s condition Tuesday. Uggetti said Haden, who has a pacemaker and was also hospitalized twice in 2014, was sitting upright on a stretcher when placed into an ambulance....

Former ECW heavyweight champion and WWE star Tommy Dreamer took to his House of Hardcore podcast and revealed that when ECW officially went of business in March 2001, he battled through a severe bout of depression. “When ECW went out of business I was 29 years old," Dreamer said on his podcast. “I had a lot of my money, my parents’ money, trying to float the company. Paul Heyman, who I thought me and him were super tight, he screwed me over big time....

Following from the thrilling end to 2021, which saw Max Verstappen win his first world championship in controversial fashion on the final lap of the final race, the interest around the 2022 season is huge. Verstappen is once more vying for supremacy but, this time, it’s Ferrari rather than Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton who are proving his biggest challenge. The sport is set for another year of drama, with new cars and regulations in place to create more action and produce closer racing with a revolution in aerodynamics around the cars....

REPORT: Moreno’s header rescues point The game plan was to do what in many respects Mexico has done best under Juan Carlos Osorio. The team looked to move the ball among itself and generate chances after drawing defenders in one area. Mexico’s attacking players worked hard to win the ball back the moment after losing it, high up the field. Miguel Layun pushed up from the left as the midfield trio ran for 90 minutes looking to keep the ball....

Perot Museum of Nature and Science paleontologists unearthed the fossil of a mosasaur last month near a river in northern Texas, according to The Dallas Morning News. Mosasaurs lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period but were not dinosaurs themselves, with their extinct group instead being closely related to still-living snakes and monitor lizards that include the 10-foot Komodo dragon. Excavations of the mosasaur’s fossilized oversized skull, lower jawbones and vertebrae reportedly began in mid-July after amateur enthusiast Stephen Kruse discovered part of the spine near the North Sulphur River....

Around 540 million years ago, animals began appearing on Earth and have since been identified through their fossilized remains. However, many of these early animals consisted of simple tubes that the animals lived inside. Scientists struggled to know much about the animals because soft parts of the body have long decomposed. But a 2017 discovery of the tube-like fossils, called Gangtoucunia aspera, in eastern Yunnan Province, China, equipped with the well-preserved soft parts of the animal, answers the evolutionary questions....

Whether truly a new species or just a subspecies, the find should shed light on how species form. Primatologist Russell Mittermeier of Conservation International, in Washington, D.C., believes the monkey “squeaked through the mountains separating the narrow coastal strip from the inland and speciated there” untold millennia ago. Now biologists can investigate what conditions shaped the little sadeyed primate, which seems to represent a separate evolutionary line from the usual South American spider and organ grinders’ monkeys....

HILLARY KNOWS BEST. The First Lady and Ira Magaziner thought they could figure out every possible permutation of health-care reform. As a result, they produced a 1,364-page bill that only succeeded in stirring opposition. BUSINESS BLITZ. The White House was unable to rebut the small-business charge that the Clinton plan would cost jobs. Using aggressive grass-roots lobbying, the business groups turned legislators against his approach. DISSIN’ MOYNIHAN. Clinton failed to court the egotistical chairman of the Senate Finance Committee....

Normally, championship belts are considered to be the property of the wrestling promotion, as they have traditionally traveled with the champions. But when the people in charge have issues with the people that are supposed to be representing the promotion as champion, that can lead to a pretty awkward situation. So here are four times that wrestlers actually held their belts hostage to settle a dispute with a promoter. Case No....

The Lightning came out of the first period dictating play with a 1-0 lead. The Blackhawks pushed back, taking control of shot attempts (45-35) and scoring chances (20-17, via war-on-ice.com), and scoring late to secure a 2-1 win. MORE: Winner by Teravainen | Bitten? So what? | Highlights here | Best action images Neither team played a complete game. The Blackhawks got away with it. “Coming out of that first period (Wednesday), I don’t want to overstate it or anything, but we knew going down 1-0 was a good situation for us concerning the fact it could have been worse,” Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said....

Republicans and Democrats fought hard over the issue of stimulus checks after passing the first round in 2020, so most Americans have already received all the money they’re likely to get. However, some Americans will be able to claim additional payments when they file their taxes and they could be eligible for the full $1,400 payment. One way Americans could be eligible for a full $1,400 payment is if they had a child in 2021....

“The great Lou Dobbs,” as Trump once referred to the cable news host at a Missouri campaign rally, lashed out at Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale Sunday for making the bizarre claim the Trump family is setting themselves up to run the country “for decades to come!” The former digital media director for the successful 2016 Trump campaign was quoted telling the Associated Press over the weekend he believes Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr....

Some Republicans are coming forward to support Trump’s removal from office following the fatal violence in Washington, D.C. last week, and Rivera—who has been a constant supporter of Trump—has criticized his recent actions. Rivera tweeted that Trump was a “loyal friend” who had been “hounded without mercy by Democrats intent on destroying him from Day 1.” “Then he lost the election. It made him crazy or revealed a dysfunction I had refused to see....

Collins, as well as fellow Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, voted with their Democratic colleagues to call for additional witnesses in a vote that failed 49 to 51 on Friday. Democrats would have needed to convince at least four GOP lawmakers to vote with them in order for the motion to have passed by a simple majority. Following the vote, Collins and Romney have faced significant criticism from fellow Republicans....

Mollie Hemingway revealed the whistleblower’s alleged identity during an appearance on MediaBuzz, a Fox News program that analyzes media coverage and ethics. Hemingway is a senior editor for The Federalist. Hemingway argued that the name has been leaked by other outlets (most of which are conservative sites) and that she felt “a little bit confused why we’re pretending it hasn’t already been reported.” She then went on to reveal the name that was reported by other news organizations....