In their final scheduled game of the 2016-17 season, the Zags had the chance to become the third team in four years to finish the regular season undefeated. Many figured that was a given, since Gonzaga had won easily on the road at BYU earlier this month. The Cougars insisted they earn it, though, and the Zags were not up to the job. MORE: Final Four records that will never be broken...
Elon Musk isn’t terrible, but he is this cult of personality and people love him. I don’t think he’s going to destroy Tesla. He’s done great things, like helping to make electric vehicles (EVs) more accepted by the public. But then people associate EVs with Elon Musk when he says things on Twitter that you’re not supposed to say, and now the SEC is really mad at him. He does these crazy things, but in between is really good stuff....
The box includes everything from the 1953 acetate of “My Happiness” he supposedly cut for his mother to the last songs he cut before being shipped overseas in October 1958. It contains two Elvis songs never released before. The early sides, recorded for the Sun label in Memphis, are still shocking. Presley’s snarling bravado on “Good Rockin’ Tonight” or his gleeful whoop at the end of “Mystery Train” are charges of pure volatility, glimpses of a man running roughshod over his own songs in restless pursuit of a bigger truth....
Thanks to quarterback Tom Brady and the Patriots’ winning performance in a thrilling Super Bowl XLIX that may go down as the best ever, Goodell and the league can go back to living happily ever after. “It was one for the ages, as they say, the two best teams all season playing one of those classic Super Bowls,” Goodell said while introducing Brady during Monday’s Super Bowl XLIX MVP press conference....
You might think that actors that pull down millions of dollars per film would be the last ones to get excited about a few freebies. You’d be wrong. Even superstars are human, and who doesn’t like getting presents every now and then? The fact is, killer gift bags have become the sine qua non of any successful Hollywood event. And during awards season, the giving is practically endless. Expensive watches....
“Today, we’d like to say: To all the public health workers and to researchers in the scientific community, thank you,” Google notes. “As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever. Over the coming weeks, we’re launching a Doodle series to recognize and honor many of those on the front lines,” it adds. Several countries have been paying collective public tributes such as in Spain, Italy and the U....
This is many times hotter than the core of the sun, which is a relatively balmy 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA. The temperature was achieved by scientists at TAE Technologies who operate Norman, which was unveiled in 2017 and initially designed to keep plasma stable at 54 million degrees Fahrenheit—though improvements have since been made. Nuclear fusion is the process of fusing two atomic nuclei together, creating one single heavier nucleus plus energy as a byproduct....
The vaccine site information is now available in Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia. The company also said it has expanded access to information panels with accurate information about vaccines to more than 40 countries, translated in dozens of languages so far. “The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected every community all over the world,” Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, wrote in the announcement....
Coupled with other recent news that the partially wireless Stadia controller requires a USB-C connection when used it on phones or computers, the “games anywhere” mantra starts to get exceptionally murky. You won’t need a hardwired connection if you have the latest Chromecast Ultra device, but everyone else who wants to play the triple-A titles on their own devices will need a wire. These objections might seem small on paper, but, as the Stadia launch date nears, every bit of doubt in the service’s capability starts to add up....
Judge Reggie Walton, the senior U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, was first appointed as an associate judge on the D.C. Superior Court in the 1980s by President Ronald Reagan. He was later appointed to the D.C. District Court by President George W. Bush in 2001. The longtime federal judge oversaw the trial of capitol rioter Dustin Thompson, 38, of Ohio. Thompson was found guilty of all charges by a grand jury on Thursday after he was captured by surveillance cameras during the riot carrying a coat rack and a bottle of bourbon that he stole from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office....
Martin Hyde, a candidate in the Republican Primary for Florida’s 16th Congressional District, was pulled over on Valentine’s Day for speeding, texting while driving and for refusal to provide his registration. However, a video released this week of the incident showed Hyde continually threatening the officer’s job, telling Officer Julie Beskin that she was “making career decisions,” asking her if she knew who he was and that he was a congressional candidate....
The Quote While appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Hutchinson was asked about Trump’s speech in which he reportedly called McConnell a “dumb son of a bitch” and a “stone cold loser” while speaking to Republican National Committee (RNC) gathering at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. In response, Hutchinson said: “Well anything that’s divisive is a concern and it is not helpful for us fighting the battles in Washington and at the state level....
The FBI, with the approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland, carried out the raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home, searching for top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents. Trump and his allies have condemned the raid, with the ex-president calling it part of a “hoax” and an ongoing “witch hunt” targeting him. According to court papers released on Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant authorizing the search, federal agents seized classified documents at the property....
Republican Chris Sununu confirmed he will not be with those gathered at Portsmouth International Airport on Saturday, though stated he will go to greet the president. He said: “I will not be in the crowd of thousands of people, I’m not going to put myself in the middle of a crowd of thousands of people, if that’s your question specifically.” Sununu stated this was because he tries to be “extra cautious as the governor,” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic....
“All this talk about Jan 6th from@realDonaldTrump and other congressional grifters is simply explained: they will raise money and gain followers by blaming everyone else knowing full well they can’t do anything. It’s sad, and an utter scam,” Kinzinger tweeted Saturday. The GOP lawmaker’s statement comes amid reports that Representative Mo Brooks and Senator Tommy Tuberville will challenge the Electoral College vote when Congress convenes in January. The two lawmakers have previously suggested they would use the Electoral Count Act of 1877 in a last-ditch effort to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election....
New rules in Utah, Iowa and Kansas have either limited access to the legislative floors or required them to stay in the chambers’ galleries, the Associated Press reported. The rules have received backlash from journalists, who said they are making it easier for the lawmakers to avoid their questions, potentially decreasing the amount of accountability for their actions. The Utah rule implemented this week allows journalists covering a legislative committee to enter the area behind the dais only if they get permission from a committee chairperson....
The suit, filed by attorney Harmeet Dhillon in the U.S. District Court of Sacramento, requests that the two state agencies work together to develop an improved system to verify the citizenship of persons registering to vote. It claims that an audit has revealed California DMV’s “motor voter” program, which registers DMV visitors to vote, is ‘‘riddled with technical problems" and these problems led to discrepancies in voter registrations, according to the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle....
Chesterfield Mayor Bob Nation said he had asked the event host to change the age requirements for “A Drag Queen Christmas,” a popular show that features contestants from the reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race. “We had law enforcement intelligence that indicated that the content of the performance would be, you know, maybe in violation of our ordinances, as well as state and federal guidelines,” Nation told Newsweek. “It was not meant to be a slight against the LGBTQ community, nor is it a slight on those who put on drag shows....
Speaking on C-Span for its January 6 Views From the House show, ahead of its Sunday release, Rep. Mullin firmly defended the officer’s actions in the Capitol as rioters stormed the building. Mullin broke from Trump’s condemnation of the officer and said: “He was the last person in the world whoever wanted to use force like that and he wasn’t prone to do that. “I know for a fact because after it happened, he came over....
