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Steven Cliff has been serving as the agency’s deputy administrator since February. However, he could be its first real leader since 2016. While speaking at his confirmation hearing for his official appointment, he reiterated his commitment to reducing the staggering amount of car crashes that have occurred over the past year. “I am committed to turning this around,” he said of the trend. Cliff added that the United States has to “change a culture that accepts the loss of tens of thousands of people in roadway crashes as inevitable....

He discussed a wide range of policy initiatives during a recent interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, focusing on international relations as well as revitalized domestic infrastructure. Responding to inquiries about his plans for trade deals with China—a topic generating significant public interest right now, in light of tariffs imposed earlier this year under Donald Trump—Biden said he intends to strengthen U.S. industries and education systems in efforts to better address global commerce issues....

All 10 games in the Challenge will be played Jan. 25, a Saturday, with game times announced Thursday. Iowa State at Auburn and Missouri at West Virginia get the action started, followed by another doubleheader at 1 p.m. and a tripleheader at 3 p.m. “The Big 12/SEC Challenge is a unique opportunity to showcase our basketball programs. Playing the event on a single date in January puts our programs in the college basketball spotlight,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement when matchups initially were announced....

Whether it was Alex Smith passing or Adrian Peterson and Chris Thompson running, the Redskins simply dominated Arizona up front and the 24-6 Washington victory on Sunday was even more dominant than that score would indicate. “Our O-line set the tone early,” Smith said, “especially with the way we were running the football. I mean, anytime you’re moving the chains like that, it’s easier to get into a rhythm and I thought we did that there in the first half....

This was the Scorchers’ fifth appearance in BBL finals out of which they have won 3 titles. 2015-16 was the one season when they did not make the final yet ended up as one of the semi-finalists, a formidable achievement that is likened to that of Chennai Super Kings’ appearances in the last four till 2015. Or to the Mumbai Ranji team with its frequent appearances in Ranji Trophy finals....

The stage is set for another high-voltage drama as we head into the business end of the Big Bash League 2019. Brisbane Heat are ready to lock horns with Melbourne Stars at the Gabba, Brisbane in their last home game. The race to the semi-finals has lightened up with only a games to handful of games to go. Both the teams would be hoping to emerge victorious in this crunch contest....

Part of a year-end feature via Famitsu, the developers at Square Enix discussed their various plans for 2021. The game studio’s year has been a bit of a mixed bag. Although Final Fantasy 7 Remake is seeing critical and commercial success, Square Enix has yet to recoup its losses from Marvel’s Avengers. RELATED: Final Fantasy 16’s Clive is Inheriting a Huge Legacy While the feature covers several of Square Enix’s developers, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida’s interview is arguably the most revealing....

The tweet states that the game’s “next big reveal is coming soon,” which it displays alongside an image of a countdown timer which is live on the Gears of War website. The timer, located here, currently displays around 3 days and 9 hours, meaning we’ll have to wait in suspense for a while before the announcement. By our calculations, the timer should finish on April 11th (this upcoming Monday), during the morning hours....

It’s been a long road to Neo: The World Ends With You. The original came out on the DS in Japan in 2007 followed by its Western release a year later. It eventually got mobile ports as well as a Switch version. While those ports reviewed just as well as the original, it wasn’t the same as getting a new game. RELATED: Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Neo: The World Ends With You...

In this week’s recap of gaming news, this year’s CES convention had several gaming-related reveals from various companies like Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and more. Ghost of Tsushima celebrated eight million units sold, though not without controversy surrounding another PS4 exclusive, Days Gone. A report detailing Ghost Story Games gives an insight to the development issues surrounding Ken Levine’s upcoming project. Riot Games recently revealed the latest agent coming to Valorant with the new Episode, this time adding a new duelist to the Agent pool....

A declaration of genocide is rarely convenient, not least when your relationship with the accused is as complex as the U.S.-China relationship. Among nations, there is no more grave an allegation, and the moral weight of the term necessarily limits states’ rapport and avenues for diplomacy. The outgoing administration further complicated the issue by formally breaking out the “g-word” the day before Biden took office, leaving his team no time to plan for the ramifications of such a consequential indictment....

Biden is willing to further target the checks to “ensure they hit the Americans who need that help the most,” Psaki said on Fox News Sunday, adding that the president will not negotiate the size of the direct payments. The House of Representatives passed the sprawling relief legislation on Friday evening, advancing it to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to offer several amendments to the bill. Any successful amendments will then be sent back to the House for a final vote....

Campaigning in Florida to promote the successes of his administration’s Inflation Reduction Act and potential Republican threats to repeal popular programs like Social Security, the 79-year-old Democrat made numerous questionable claims and missteps that quickly picked up steam on the internet and drowned out his closing arguments in the often-contentious state. Among the errors: misstating his son’s cause and place of death, mistakenly referring to Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as “Senator,” and a claim that he had spoken with the people who invented insulin that was quickly contested by conservative commentators....

The marijuana pardons are a part of the unraveling, bit-by-bit, law-by-law, of the “War on Drugs”—the 1980s political push that emphasized draconian punishments and broad criminalization of any interaction with drugs and contributed to America’s overincarceration crisis. In the late 1980s, inner cities experienced a complex wave of crime due in part to drug gangs, and fear gripped the public. The series of policies is now recognized as a failure, leading to decimated Black and poor communities, a system that treats addiction as a crime, and a zero-sum, impossible to win conflict that cost hundreds of billions of dollars and put politics before people....

The latest data from the Commerce Department revealed that GDP—which measures the total output of goods and services in the U.S.—declined again this year, at a 0.9 percent annualized pace for April through June. The first quarter’s decline was 1.6 percent. Not every recession follows two full quarters of negative growth (1947 saw the U.S. economy shrink on that basis but without going into a recession). Still, the consecutive-quarter contraction is a typical telltale sign that a recession is coming, and it is often used to define one....

The statistics speak for themselves. President Joe Biden ended the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, and America experienced a 379 percent increase in illegal migrant encounters during his first year in office. The number of encounters has surged even higher this year. Reports of disputes and meltdowns in the White House over the crisis reveal a president who has lost his grip on his own party and staff....

While fielding questions from reporters near the White House, Biden was asked if he has seen any movement after he said he was open to discussing it with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Not with Putin,” Biden said in response to the question. Biden’s comments come shortly after he spoke about a possible meeting with Putin to discuss the release of Griner, a Olympic gold medalist who was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison on drug charges....

President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pointed to lawsuits holding up student loan forgiveness as the impetus behind the decision. Instead of borrowers continuing payments on January 1, 2023, as intended, they will resume June 30, 2023. Payments will resume either 60 days after permitted, or if litigation is resolved at the Supreme Court. Under Biden’s one-time student loan debt forgiveness, borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year are eligible to receive $10,000 in relief, with borrowers who received Pell Grants eligible for up to $20,000....