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The poll, which was conducted by Third Way and David Binder Research, found Biden leading Trump by 11 points among suburban voters in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. According to the poll, 50 percent of respondents said they’d “definitely” vote for Biden, while 39 percent said the same for Trump. Among those remaining, 4 percent said Trump but still may change, 4 percent said Biden but still may change and 1 percent said someone else....

Congress is not sitting on its hands. On Tuesday, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took to the Senate floor to condemn the 2015 deal and the Biden administration’s rush to return to it. He argued that the deal allows the clerical regime to continue building its nuclear capacity: “This is exactly why I was so concerned over the JCPOA framework of leaving the vast majority of Iran’s nuclear program intact....

“At the outset of this matter, the President directed his personal attorneys to fully cooperate with the Department of Justice,” Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer said Saturday night. “Accordingly, having previously identified and reported to DOJ a small number of documents with classification markings at the President’s Wilmington home, and in the interest of moving the process forward as expeditiously as possible, we offered to provide prompt access to his home to allow DOJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material....

President Joe Biden inherited U.S. military interventions of varying scale in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and only in the latter has he taken limited steps to extricate the United States. This was the first strike Biden authorized in Syria, and it demonstrates the hypocrisy, lawlessness, perversion and futility of U.S. foreign policy in the greater Middle East. The hypocrisy is evident. In 2017, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki questioned by what legal authority then-President Donald Trump attacked Syria, a sovereign country not at war with the United States....

The cornerstone of this order is America’s strong relationship with Israel, the guarantor of indigenous Jewish sovereignty and security—and it’s important to repeat that loudly and often. American elites imagine themselves honest brokers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Mr. Biden will pay visits to the Jewish and Arab sides of Jerusalem to emphasize that point. But, of course, the idea that America is neutral is a delusion, as any Palestinian will tell you....

The bill, which was sponsored by New York Representative Jerry Nadler, would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act as the legislation is “long overdue legislation that would reverse decades of failed federal policies based on the criminalization of marijuana.” “It would also take steps to address the heavy toll these policies have taken across the country, particularly among communities of color,” Nadler added. Medical marijuana is legal in 38 states and Washington, D....

A reporter asked Psaki during a Wednesday news conference about H.R. 40 specifically, a bill that Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas reintroduced in the House earlier this year. The bill proposes creating “a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery,” as well as for the ongoing impact the nation’s history with slavery and discrimination has on Black Americans....

Last season, Baylor came out of nowhere to secure the Big 12 championship. While it came down to the last play and Baylor was inches away from losing the championship, Dave Aranda’s group stayed the course and got to 12 wins. Despite being pegged as the preseason favorites in the Big 12 media poll, oddsmakers aren’t quite so confident in the Bears, giving them the fourth-best odds to win the conference....

The conference revealed the criteria for it being permissible to flash the symbol, which mocks Texas’ “Hook ‘Em Horns”, saying that it’s to be flashed quickly and not be directed at the opposing team. If the “Horns Down” symbol is celebrated too long or directed at someone blatantly, that player will be called for a penalty. “Like any play, there is a degree — who it’s directed at,” Big 12 coordinator of football officials Greg Burks said Tuesday at Big 12 media days, via ESPN....

Instead, the beautiful figure of a cricket bat will decide who bats/bowls first in the pre-game ritual, replacing the ‘heads’ and ’tails’ with ‘hills’ and ‘flats’. For the upcoming edition of the Big Bash, a ‘specially designed’ bat will be flipped to decide the outcome of the toss, with the mount or the flat part of the bat acting as two sides of the coin. The exercise is fairly common in beach and backyard cricket, the exception being that the bat that will be flipped won’t be your average playing bat....

Now with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga set to be the next entry in the long running cash cow, fans of both Star Wars and LEGO have something to look forward to in the near future. Even so, there remains a good portion of other popular IPs which have yet to receive a proper LEGO video game treatment. With everything from Harry Potter to Indiana Jones having already been done, there are still a handful of other noteworthy series worthy of LEGO video games....

Unai Emery and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are in the spotlight following unconvincing starts to the season that have left their teams cut completely loose from conversations about which side might lift the title at the end of the season. But while performances have been inconsistent, both bosses have received backing in the transfer market and from powerful figures at their respesctive clubs. Patience has been requested and it could well be awarded if three important points are obtained....

The next Nintendo Direct event will take place on Thursday, September 23 at 3pm PT. Nintendo did not provide any specifics beyond that, but the fact that it’s 40 minutes long bodes well for it being a rather significant Direct. And with Nintendo noting that the Nintendo Direct will focus on games launching this winter, there are some pretty educated guesses that can be made about what titles will be at the show....

Hollywood high stakes player Rick Salomon, who also played in the One Drop when it was first presented in 2012, will start the day with the chip lead. No word yet on if Salomon’s wife, Hollywood star Pamela Anderson, will be at the final table. MORE: Selbst Begins Seconds Week at #1 | 888poker Terminates Association with Luis Suarez | Volpe Defeats Negreanu for bracelet A pair of Top 5 members of the GPI World Rankings will also be at the final table as Daniel Negreanu and Scott Seiver will each try and fight their way to the top, and add valuable GPI points to their totals....

On June 4, Facebook published its response to the Oversight Board: Trump is suspended for two years. Why two years? Because it is “the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols.” Facebook explained, “We regularly review our policies and processes in response to real-world events.” A few days beforehand, Facebook announced it would “no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is man-made.” The company will continue “to work with health experts to keep pace with the evolving nature of the pandemic and regularly update our policies as new facts and trends emerge....

The league also fined Penn State $10,000 for “violating the Big Ten’s Sportsmanship Policy,” it said in a release. MORE: 10 best dunkers | Vitale won’t call UNC - Duke this year | 13 teams who could miss the tourney Chambers said he was furious with many aspects of the officiating in Saturday’s game, but specifically pointed out an offensive foul called on Nittany Lions’ center Jordan Dickerson in the game’s final minutes that he felt changed the outcome of the game....

According to ESPN’s Football Power Index which measures team’s true strength on net points scale; expected point margin vs. average opponent on neutral field, all Big Ten teams have below a 50 percent chance of beating their opponents, with the highest probability being Penn State (46.8 percent) vs. Boston College in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. MORE: 2014-15 Bowl schedule | Why Ohio State? Just a moment | Big 12 needs to expand, like now...

Wisconsin, Michigan State and Maryland all finished the season 14-6 in Big Ten play, but the Badgers claimed the top overall seed of the Big Ten Tournament thanks to their 2-1 record against the Spartans and Terrapins. Michigan State was 2-2 against its fellow co-champions, while Maryland was 1-2. MORE: Get the latest March Madness odds from Sports Insider Wisconsin might be the top overall seed in the tournament, but that doesn’t mean the Badgers have an easy route to claiming the Big Ten’s automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament....

Wherever one turns in Iran, everything is broken. The regime has two plans to avoid the wrath of the people—repression and sanctions relief. And the Biden administration is giving the Iranian regime every reason to believe that it can pull off both. In the not-so-distant past, Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decision to elevate Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to serve as Iran’s next president beginning next month would have been greeted with stunned revulsion....

“We do not feel that it is necessary for a President-elect like Biden to speak with President Trump in order to get that information,” said Bedingfield, referring to details on issues such as national security, foreign policy and COVID-19 planning, among other things. “We believe that we’ve been getting the information that our teams need.” She continued: “You know certainly should President Trump want to speak with President-elect Biden, that’s something we would work out in the future....