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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has set the bill on a course for a crucial Senate vote on Wednesday to proceed, but some Republicans who have taken part in the bipartisan negotiations expressed concern that the vote could come before a final deal is reached. Meanwhile, it also faces pushback from progressives in the House, who will have to sign off on the plan and who say it’s not big enough and doesn’t include parts of the Green New Deal climate initiative that they see as critical for their support....

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave a tough-talking readout of last week’s Zoom summit between the two presidents, saying Biden “looked President Putin in the eye” and informed him that the United States was “prepared to do now” the “things we did not do in 2014,” when Russia illegally annexed Crimea. Biden said that he was certain that Putin “got the message.” But what was the message? It was odd that Sullivan highlighted the weak American response to the 2014 incursion, since then-Vice President Biden was the one who led the U....

Fallon, while participating in the photo opportunity, at first tells Biden he’s going to support him “if he wins the nomination.” “But what are we going to do about climate change?” Fallon asks. Pointing out that Biden has said he’s “against pipelines,” he also points out that Biden’s declared he wanted to replace “these gas lines.” “That’s not going to work,” Fallon says. “We’ve got to stop building and replacing these pipelines....

It’s a little late for that. After last week’s hearing, consumers should have whiplash from all the confusing charges and countercharges between Ford and Firestone. Federal safety investigators now say they will review Firestone’s allegations against the Explorer’s stability. Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe testified that the SUV should “pull over, not roll over,” after its tires shred on the highway. Congressional sources say Ford might yank some of the tires off its list of acceptable replacements as early as this week....

"The timing part, I don't know that it's next year, but it's probably sometime in the next five years," Christopher said in a Xavier athletics video. Jump to the 5:20 mark to begin hearing his comments on expansion. And the candidates he suggests that are good fits all come from the Atlantic 10, and shouldn't surprise anyone, given these names were talked about by ESPN.com's Andy Katz earlier this year -- Saint Louis, Dayton, Richmond and VCU....

To treat it, we must first understand what caused it. We have been fed lies by the processed food industry about how calories affect our body, and about what foods we should and shouldn’t eat. Big Food is now as dangerous as Big Tobacco ever was—in fact Big Food is Big Tobacco. General Foods Corporation and Kraft Foods Inc. are owned by Philip Morris USA. Many of us believe that a combination of counting calories and following restrictive diets is the key to losing weight and getting healthy....

The signs of revival of Indian hockey are very much there for us to see, but there is a ‘bigger picture’ that we need to take note of and address rather get lulled into complacency just because we have beaten all top teams of the world in the last two years. Yes, beating teams like Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain and Belgium cannot be a flash in the pan nor it can be brushed aside as ‘one off stuff’....

Friday, Aug. 29 Jacksonville State at Michigan State, 7:30 p.m., BTN Saturday, Aug. 30 Penn State vs. UCF (Dublin, Ireland), 8:30 a.m., ESPN2 Youngstown State at Illinois, 12 p.m. Indiana State at Indiana, 12 p.m., ESPNEWS Northern Iowa at Iowa, 12 p.m., BTN Appalachian State at Michigan, 12 p.m., ESPN2 Ohio State at Navy, 12 p.m., CBS Sports Network Western Michigan at Purdue, 12 p.m., ESPNU California at Northwestern, 3:30 p....

That’s the powerhouse Ryan Day inherits in Columbus, and the bar remains the same. Can anybody dethrone the Buckeyes? Michigan is still looking for its first Big Ten championship since 2004, and first victory against the Buckeyes under fifth-year coach Jim Harbaugh. Michigan State and Penn State are in the mix in the Big Ten East. The West features six teams that think they can win the division, including Nebraska with second-year coach Scott Frost....

That’s not a perception. That’s all but fact. The conference entered the weekend with a 17-41 record against ranked nonconference opponents since 2007. It left with two more losses and irreplaceable damage to its already-flimsy reputation. Here’s another perception-turned-fact: This is the worst weekend in the history of the conference, and it comes at the worst possible time. Michigan State? Sorry, Sparty. Playoff teams don’t get side-swiped 28-3 in the second half against another playoff-caliber team....

PL flops who could be NFL kickers They may not have been at their best against Liverpool in midweek, but claiming a point while those around them proceeded to inexplicably drop them meant Antonio Conte’s side were able to sleep easily on their way back to west London. Fast-forward to Saturday’s visit of Arsene Wenger’s men, and it was again a display from the Blues that was far from perfect....

Of course, not everything at E3 2017 was a success. While the presentations themselves contained the same kind of awkward blunders viewers have become accustomed to over the years – with one in particular, when a presenter literally forgot how to pronounce their own name, being a particularly egregious offense – there were a number of disappointments in terms of the content each company failed to produce over the course of the week-long journey....

Biden called Superintendent Vickie Cartwright on Friday night to praise her “leadership and courage to do the right thing for the health and well-being of their students, teachers, and schools,” the Miami Herald reported. On Tuesday, the Broward County school board voted to make masks mandatory for all students and staff members ahead of its first day of classes on August 18. This came around the same time that four unvaccinated Broward County teachers died from COVID-19....

Biden’s handling of classified documents is under investigation after Obama-era files were discovered at his home in Wilmington as well as the Washington, D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center last year. News of the investigation broke this month, and Biden has faced scrutiny from Republicans, who have defended former President Donald Trump as he faces a similar investigation after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in August. However, criticism over how Biden handled the documents does not appear to be translating to a downtick in his approval rating....

After weeks of negotiation between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party, the White House released an outline of a $1.75 trillion social-spending and climate package aimed at winning over the entire caucus. The framework is significantly lower than the originally proposed, progressive-backed $3.5 trillion bill. It also cut many policies on the group’s wish list, including free community college, paid family leave and Medicare expansions. Instead, Biden’s plan focuses on expanding early childhood education and childcare; combating climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions; and expanding Affordable Care Act tax credits....

To build on this seismic shift in the Middle East’s politics, though, Biden will need to challenge the progressive wing of his Democratic Party that’s both critical of the Accords and seeks to push Washington away from its traditional regional allies, in particular, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel. In the wake of this month’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, anything associated with the Trump administration runs the risk of being tainted....

“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” Bush, a progressive representing Missouri’s 1st congressional district, wrote on Twitter after the speech ended. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings. Defund the police. Invest in our communities.” Calls to cut funding from police departments and invest in alternative social safety practices skyrocketed in 2020 amid nationwide protests against police brutality in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of law enforcement....

The secret advert was spotted by “The Jester,” an anonymous “hacktivist” who was listed by Time magazine as one of the most influential people on the internet in 2015. “NICE!!! In the rendered source code of president-elect @joebiden’s https://buildbackbetter.gov website,” the Jester wrote in a Twitter post highlighting the section of code that contains the advert. “This harkens back to the likes of the UK’s MI5 and MI6 who I believe used to recruit the type of people they were looking for by publishing obscure crossword and puzzle competitions in newspapers,” the hacktivist said....

“We have every reason to believe that Joe Biden, if he agrees to go forward with debates in the first place, will want to retreat to his remote video link and the Skype-call campaign he’s been running and do the debate from his basement,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told reporters Wednesday, “where he can rely on notes, a teleprompter or a handler off camera.” The Biden campaign didn’t immediately respond to Newsweek’s request for comment, but speculation about the debate schedule has run rampant as the campaigns have adjusted to efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus....

According to a report from TMGCollegeSports.com’s Mark Blaudschun, the conference has sent formal invitations to six to eight schools, including Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, UConn, South Florida, Central Florida and BYU. Blaudschun also said “two other AAC schools” are still candidates. MORE: Here’s how the Big 12 should rank expansion candidates Now this report is not confirmed, but we do know Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby has formally notified East Carolina that the conference is not interested in adding ECU....