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The move comes hours after Trump appeared to contradict his own officials in a tweet where he called reports that the citizenship question had been thrown out “FAKE,” despite the DOJ and Trump administration officials pledging just one day earlier that the census would not include a citizenship question. “The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE!...

Rioting is never justified, and it cannot be lost on anyone that some of the very same voices currently outraged by mob violence ignored, downplayed or even supported it when it came from political causes they agreed with. That attitude helped create the environment that made the chaos at the Capitol possible. These voices are now rewriting history for political expediency. They could help bring this country together by finally acknowledging that all riots and armed insurrections—regardless of the politics driving them—are destructive, dangerous and must be stopped....

Tuanzebe was recalled by United at the start of January and has already secured another short-term move. The defender made five Premier League starts for Aston Villa before November, but lost his place as Esri Konza and Tyrone Mings established a solid partnership. The 24-year-old will line up for Napoli for the rest of the season on loan and hopes to find more playing time than under the ex-Liverpool legend....

Raiola, who has Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland on his books, has faced criticism for forcing the hand of reluctant sellers and providing unwelcome distractions for clients. He has no issue with his methods though, and claims to have only ever acted in the best interests of those that trust him to manage their playing careers. How does Raiola defend his methods? Raiola told Sport1: “I’m ready to go to war for my players....

It depicts a stone-faced Andrea Agnelli puncturing a football with a golden dagger. Street artist Laika has christened the piece ‘Il Golpe Fallito’ (‘The Failed Coup’), in reference to the doomed European Super League (ESL), which collapsed almost as rapidly as it had been founded. After decades of posturing and threats by Europe’s elite clubs, talk of a breakaway tournament had resurfaced on Saturday afternoon. UEFA had just finalised plans for a revamped Champions League but the governing body’s president, Aleksandar Ceferin, received calls from five of the 12 founders of the ESL to confirm that the rumours were true....

The Argentine striker was involved in a fracas with police and stewards while celebrating Manchester City’s late winning goal at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday. Man City 6/1 to win the EFL Cup A number of away fans spilled on to the pitch in the melee, resulting in Raheem Sterling receiving a second yellow card on the basis that his celebrations had instigated the scene. A steward later told police he had been hit by Aguero but footage from television cameras appeared to show the 29-year-old attempting to defuse a situation in which one City fan was being pinned to the ground by stadium staff....

The interim guidance was released on January 24, 2022, and advises healthcare providers to wear a respirator, like an N95 mask, along with other personal protective equipment (PPE) like a gown, gloves, and eye protection, when performing CPR on people with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19. The AHA stressed the importance of wearing the appropriate PPE before performing procedures that can produce aerosols like chest compression, defibrillation, bag-mask ventilation, and intubation....

Scientists from Duke University in North Carolina have unveiled research showing how a new algorithm can transform a “handful of pixels” into a realistic-looking face with up to 64 times the resolution—out-performing rival up-scaling techniques. According to the researchers, image outputs will have differences to real people as the tool “imagines” features like eyelashes, wrinkles or stubble. But from the blurred snaps, the AI produces super sharp results while remaining self-supervised....

Romney returned fire Friday morning. Just hours after landing in the northeast, the former Massachusetts governor lashed out at McCain. “There’s no way Senator McCain can come to New Hampshire and say he can be the candidate to change Washington. He is Washington,” Romney said. The McCain camp blasted back, calling Romney “desperate” and adding that “it’s not surprising to see that he has brought his angry, negative rhetoric to New Hampshire....

The Honourable High Court of Delhi, on Tuesday, passed the order to set aside the election of Praful Patel as the President of AIFF as it violated the National Sports Code. The court order also called for fresh elections within five months. “Every year, two three federations get suspended by FIFA. We also have the fear of suspension and we will discuss the issue with FIFA. It’s hard to balance between the AFC rule and the National Sports Code,” Subrata Dutta told Bengali news channel 24 ghanta....

Past studies have found associations between air pollution—including particulate matter as well as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide—and conditions such as lung cancer, acute lower respiratory infections, strokes, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. But less is known about the potential effects on bone health, according to the authors of the paper published in the journal JAMA Network Open. The study involved 3,717 people aged 35 on average, living in 28 villages near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad....

The air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area ranges between very unhealthy and hazardous, while Los Angeles and the surrounding areas are also facing unhealthy air quality. The smoke can be seen as far away as Ohio and Hawaii and is now producing grey skies over northern California. San Francisco Air Quality The air quality in San Francisco, Oakland, San Rafael Santa Rosa and the surrounding areas is hazardous, while the air quality in Vacaville, Elk Grove, Antioch, Livermore, San Jose, Woodland and the surrounding areas is very unhealthy....

Among the names that have emerged from the recent SEA Games men’s football tournament is hosts Malaysia’s own Akhyar Abdul Rashid. The 18-year old forward was not quite a key player in Datuk Ong Kim Swee’s squad, but everytime he was fielded he proved himself a threat to their opponents’ defence with his nippy runs and unpredictable dribbling. And the Kedah youth player’s stock is rising. While his Malaysia U22 teammates got to return home following the conclusion of the SEA Games with the hosts winning the silver medal, Akhyar is far from finished....

Here’s what I think it was: For the past eight years, Democrats have believed in the political science of innoculation. The Clinton-Gore strategy for taking power in 1992 and holding it in 1996 was to systematically take away all of the issues Republicans had used for years against Democrats–that they were soft on crime, coddled welfare recipients, squishy on defense, spendthrifts with the budget. The Democrats were very successsful at that, and they put the GOP in a pickle....

The reporter, Tayssir Alouni, a native of Syria, gained brief fame two years ago when, as Al-Jazeera’s Kabul bureau chief, he got the first interview of bin Laden taking responsibility for 9/11. (Alouni says he scored the interview after being led, blindfolded, to a bin Laden hideaway.) But internal Spanish police documents obtained by NEWSWEEK show that Alouni, 48, has been under scrutiny since at least early 2000, when phone wiretaps revealed he was in “frequent and continuous” contact with Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, the suspected leader of Al Qaeda’s Spanish cell....

He finished the year with a .293 batting average, 13 homers, 53 RBI, 23 doubles and an .831 OPS in just 88 games and 373 plate appearances. MORE: NL winner "It's a huge honor to win this, I'm very excited," Myers said. Myers received 23 of 30 first-place votes cast by members of the BBWAA to beat out teammate Chris Archer, who got one first place vote and Detroit Tigers SS Jose Iglesias, who received five first-place votes....

The 20-year-old sophomore defensive back was pronounced dead at the scene after the vehicle in which he was riding collided head-on with a truck outside Scottsboro, Ala; Johnson was not wearing his seatbelt. Johnson’s girlfriend was also in the vehicle and was transported to a nearby hospital, according to Huntsville, Ala., television station WAAY. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 | Kentucky recruit stabbed six times “It is with great sadness that we share the tragic news of Danny’s passing....

The winner will win the SEC West and remain in national-title contention. The loser has to listen to its arch-rival for 365 days, gets denied a trip to the SEC Championship Game and is eliminated from a shot at going to Pasadena for the BCS title game. The LVH SuperBook currently has top-ranked ‘Bama installed as a 15.5-point favorite at Auburn. I made the number 13.5. As for what’s looking like the most likely BCS Championship Game, the Golden Nugget has Alabama a 5-point favorite over Florida State....

No. 1 Alabama (14-0) is angry, and you won’t like them when they’re angry. Nobody does, because you can’t beat them. No. 4 Oklahoma (12-2) simply became the next team to find that out in a 45-34 victory that puts the Crimson Tide in a fourth straight College Football Playoff installment with No. 2 Clemson (14-0). MORE: How Alabama outpaced Oklahoma in Orange Bowl Alabama is favored to clear that hurdle, too....

Auctioneer Ray Martin DeMonia, 73, of Cullman, was able to find an intensive care unit bed some 200 miles away in Meridian, Mississippi, after emergency staff called 43 hospitals searching for space. While a bed was found for DeMonia at the Rush Foundation Hospital, he died after suffering complications due to his cardiac arrest on September 1. According to his family, DeMonia struggled to find an empty bed due to ICUs being overrun with unvaccinated patients who had been struck down with COVID-19....