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The Public Policy Polling survey, which polled 734 registered voters in Georgia on June 25 and 26, found Biden leading Trump 49 to 45 percent. If the survey proves true, it would mark the first time since 1992 that Georgia has voted Democrat, and helped send former President Bill Clinton to the White House. The same poll also asked voters for favorability ratings of both candidates, with 41 percent of voters having a favorable view of Biden compared to 48 percent with an unfavorable view....

Omarova, born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union, immigrated to the United States in 1991 before becoming an attorney and law professor at Cornell University, along with serving as a special advisor to the Treasury in the George W. Bush administration. Criticism of Omarova centered around her birth in the Soviet Union, a paper she wrote while a student at Moscow State University on Karl Marx, and a paper published in 2020 suggesting a revamping of America’s banking system....

Novak Djokovic’s U.S. Open title moved him up three spots to No. 3 in the ATP rankings Monday, behind Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, making that trio the top three for the first time in 3½ years. Naomi Osaka jumped 12 places to a career-high No. 7 in the WTA standings thanks to her first Grand Slam title. The runner-up, Serena Williams, is back in the top 20 at No....

Unfortunately, many on the Left seem to think that the First Amendment’s establishment clause offers a blank check to impose secular values on any religious institution that interacts with the federal government in any way. Recently, the godless Left set its sights on Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The school has come under federal investigation by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for alleged discrimination over its ban on “homosexual behavior....

They’ve got the RPI top-25 wins that Villanova doesn’t have. They’ve got the healthy rotation Kansas doesn’t have. They’ve got the winning road record Duke doesn’t have. Anyone else have victories over the regular-season champions of three of the five big-money football leagues? MORE: Field of 68 projection | DraftStreet: Play bracket game, win $ The Badgers want it. They’ll tell you it is not at the top of their list of priorities and it is among the items least under their control....

MORE: Week 4 photos | Hayes: Pre-snap read | AP Top 25 HOW THEY RANK 1. Ohio State 2. Michigan 3. Northwestern 4. Wisconsin 5. Michigan State 6. Minnesota 7. Nebraska 8. Penn State 9. Iowa 10. Illinois 11. Indiana 12. Purdue MORE RANKINGS: ACC | Big 12 | Pac-12 | SECRISING: Northwestern. Props to the Wildcats for getting through their nonconference schedule without a loss. Northwestern isn’t that far off of the 1-2 punch of Ohio State and Michigan, and they have a bye week to get ready for the primetime showdown with the Buckeyes in Evanston on Oct....

RELATED: Far Cry 6 Du or Die: Fort Quito Locked Door and Yaran Contraband Chest Guide Reviews are all over the place with most aggregates hovering around the 70s on the major platforms. It’s mindless fun but not a lot new was brought to the table. That seems to be one of the running themes in these breakdowns. The bugs and glitches also seem to be dragging it down. Those should be fixed as soon as possible but there are some mechanics Ubisoft should tweak as well in order to make Far Cry 6 potentially better with its many hours of content....

For this week’s roundup of gaming news, the reformation of Lucasfilm Games finally opens up Star Wars and other Lucasfilm IPs to any and all game publishers. Among the lion’s share of CES hardware news, there was plenty of gaming-related announcements made as well. More evidence of the ambition of Game Pass has come out, also potentially hinting at more announcements coming in 2021. More potential “leaks” for Grand Theft Auto 6 have come out, though they’re not the most credible....

Officially, of course, nothing has changed. White House officials continue to insist that U.S. policy remains the same, that the Assad regime is still an international pariah and that there are no plans for engagement with Damascus. Behind the scenes, however, observers say there’s an unmistakable sense that a “creeping normalization” of Assad’s government is taking shape. This impression, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post has noted, is what propelled the recent overtures of Jordan’s king, Abdullah II, toward the Assad regime, with whom Amman resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened its border in recent days....

Biden was backed by 46 percent of respondents to the Georgia poll, which was conducted by SurveyUSA and Atlanta’s 11 Live News. Trump was supported by just 44 percent of respondents, while 6 percent said they remained undecided and 4 percent said they would vote for another candidate. Trump won Georgia by a significant margin of just over 5 percent during the 2016 presidential election. Republicans have carried the state in every presidential election going back to 1992, when the voters there chose former Democratic President Bill Clinton over former President George H....

The chaotic August days before the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan will no doubt be cited for what not to do, but that crisis also provides a positive lesson. Seventy thousand at-risk Afghans were brought to the U.S. from Afghanistan. They have been met by a bipartisan, innovative, effective welcome. We need to learn from that. Operation Allies Welcome is a genuine whole-of-government effort. Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services all contributed....

That’s the advice the Biden administration has gotten from psychologist Peter Coleman. In a series of memos, Coleman, a mediator with experience in conflicts as far-flung as the Middle East, Haiti and Africa, has advised the new administration that the best way to repair and reverse the extremism in U.S. politics is to focus Americans on the virulence of the nation’s divisions and mobilize them to attack the problem....

The proposed model—technically put forward by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation—affects Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit, which relies on private insurers to administer seniors’ drug coverage. CMS heavily regulates these insurers’ plans. One such regulation requires insurers to cover “all or substantially all” drugs in six protected classes: antiretrovirals, antineoplastics, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antipsychotics and immunosuppressants. It’s no mystery why these drug classes are “protected.” These medicines treat illnesses like HIV/AIDS, cancer, bipolar disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia—all of which often require multiple treatments specifically tailored to individual patients....

Biden should learn the right lessons from the Johnson presidency. A bold domestic agenda can easily be overshadowed by foreign policy disaster. To avoid such a fate, Biden will need to manage his foreign policy challenges with shrewd diplomacy, and take bold action to mitigate risks of war. He will need to quickly rejoin the fraying nuclear deal with Iran. Failing to seize the narrow opportunity available right now to defuse the looming crisis with Iran will only heighten the risk that a spiraling conflict subsumes Biden’s presidency....

Exit polls from Tuesday’s midterms show that Biden isn’t only struggling to win voters today—as his approval rating remains underwater, as 54 percent say they disapprove of the job he’s doing as president—but is headed toward what is shaping up to be a difficult reelection campaign. Asked about the two-thirds of voters who said they don’t want Biden to run again, the president told NBC’s Kristen Welker that those opinions won’t factor into his 2024 decision....

Biden said he’s consulted with constitutional scholars about whether executive action would “pass muster.” “I told the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] to go back and consider what options may be available,” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “The CDC will announce that and any details of how it works.” Biden said he’s hoping that it will be a new moratorium that will cover about 90 percent of renters. Biden’s administration spent days arguing that it didn’t have the authority to extend the moratorium and that Congress would need to act....

During Psaki’s daily press briefing at the White House on Tuesday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked if Biden was planning on apologizing to Rittenhouse, who was acquitted Friday on charges of first-degree intentional homicide and more after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during protests in Wisconsin last summer. “Would the president ever apologize to the acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse for suggesting online and on TV that he is a white supremacist?...

That pressure may produce an inherent temptation to win now, at all costs, rather than to just color in the lines and patiently build a foundation and an enduring winning culture. “You hit the nail on the head right there,” new Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells said at Big 12 Media Days. “I know what I signed up for. I know exactly what I signed up for. You have to balance that....

A spectator turnout of 12,285 at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the launch of the Big Bash League (BBL) may not have pleased Cricket Australia (CA) which has pumped in big money, especially since Sydney Sixers have given it a huge publicity. The BBL launch paled in comparison to the Indian Premier League (IPL), though the trappings were all there. The old and the new Australian players mixed well to usher in a new era in Australian cricket, though some cricketers did not like the Twenty20 league timing when they were preparing for the Boxing Day Test against India....

Show, whose return has received quite the reception, has now taken to Twitter in order to address his comeback, as the veteran also commented on Joe and Owens by giving them a big shoutout in his own way. The Big Show’s last hiatus in WWE Prior to his big return on this week’s episode of RAW, The Big Show was last seen on WWE TV back in 2018 when he formed a temporary alliance with the duo of Cesaro and Sheamus- collectively known as The Bar- but eventually turned his back on the former SmackDown Live Tag Team Champions as Show performed his KO punch on Cesaro backstage....