Thirteen House Republicans voted with nearly all House Democrats to pass the major bipartisan piece of legislation late on Friday. In August, 19 Republican senators voted in favor of the infrastructure legislation along with all the senators of the Democratic Caucus. But even though the significant investment in the nation’s roads, bridges, public transportation and water systems is much needed, according to engineers, Greene views the bipartisan bill as communism....

In 2017, Watkins used a West Topeka address on one of his voter forms, but in August 2018, he used an address in Southeast Topeka. Then, on three different voter forms in 2019, Watkins listed a Topeka UPS store as his address. It was a location where he had his mail sent. The problem, according to KSNT News, is that the UPS store resides within Topeka’s 8th city council district, where Watkins voted in a November 2019 election, but Watkins himself lives in the Overlook Apartment, an apartment complex in the city’s 9th city council district....

“Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late ’70s and early ’80s when runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing our cities and the Soviet Army was trying to redraw the world map,” Reynolds said. Throughout her speech, Reynolds accused Biden and Democrats of “ignoring the issues facing Americans or making them worse....

Romney was one of seven Republicans who joined all 50 Democrats who voted in favor of convicting the former president during his second Senate impeachment trial. In the lengthy statement, Lee wrote about how breaking from the majority or entirety of the GOP can be both “liberating” and “terrifying,” usually at the same time. Even though the differing votes are “rare,” Lee said that they do occur “from time to time....

Senators are expected to decide Wednesday whether or not to acquit the president on two articles of impeachment. “I cannot vote to convict,” Murkowski told the Senate floor. “The Constitution provides for impeachment but does not demand it in all instances.” “The president’s name is on ballots that have already been cast,” Murkowski continued. “The voters will produce a verdict in nine months and we must trust their judgment.”...

In an op-ed published in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Portman wrote, “there is no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state.” Portman noted that he had supported the president’s campaign’s legal efforts targeting election fraud and requests for recount, but that following the completion of ballot tabulation in most battleground states, there is no proof that President-elect Joe Biden’s won as a result of voter fraud....

State Senator Doug Mastriano, a Republican, made the remarks January 4 on conservative talk radio program The Eric Metaxas Radio Show. Two days later, he headed to the Capitol to join thousands of other Trump supporters demanding that Congress disregard President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The crowd rioted and violently breached the building, resulting in five deaths, although Mastriano did not directly take part in the violence himself. “Basically, we’re in this death match with the Democrat Party where we’re playing by all these, you know, Chatham House Rules and what have you,” Mastriano said on the radio show, in a clip first surfaced by Media Matters for America....

The GOP proposal as it stands in its tentative form is expected to include $400 billion for a second round of economic impact payments to individuals, The New York Times reported on Monday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters at an event in Kentucky in July that stimulus checks could make their way into the next package, but they may be limited to those earning under $40,000 a year....

Prominent Kremlin critic and journalist Alexei Venidiktov told Forbes Russia that he was still in touch with the 91-year-old former leader who served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. During Gorbachev’s tenure, the Russian words “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (rebuilding) entered the English lexicon, as policies that allowed for greater freedom of speech and economic reform as well as an easing of tensions between Moscow and the West....

Beckham finished the White Sox’s Father’s Day game in style, with a walk-off home run that gave Chicago the 3-2 win over the Rangers. That’s a gift — albeit cheap and rather last-second — Daddy Beckham will remember forever. MORE: Dexter Fowler’s daughter celebrates dad’s HR | The day mom got arrested at the ballpark And if Beckham being a great son sounds familiar, it should. As @MLBGIFs pointed out, he’s played the hero for his parents before....

That’s when Celtics forward Gordon Hayward crumpled to the floor on an alley-oop attempt with a fractured left ankle, a gruesome injury that undercut the atmosphere at Quicken Loans Arena and took any real meaning away from the season opener between the heavy favorites to meet again in the Eastern Conference finals in 2018. This was no longer about Irving — even if the Cleveland fans booed him non-stop through four quarters in the Cavaliers’ 102-99 victory....

The new steakhouse, located inside Harrah’s Hotel and Casino in North Kansas City, is his first restaurant in the Midwest, according to the official Gordon Ramsay Restaurants website. The “evolving menu aims to provide returning guests a new culinary experience with each seasonal visit” and showcase the British chef’s “flare for a traditional American steakhouse with a few dishes paying a nod to classic Kansas City barbecue favourites,” the website notes....

As part of his noncampaign, the former VP is returning this week to Capitol Hill for the first time since he left the White House to testify before the House and Senate about global warming. Gore will warn that the problem is accelerating so fast that any solution must be more than incremental. “The danger is they’ll do some small fix that allows them to claim credit without facing up to the problem,” says an adviser who did not want to be on the record seeming to disparage Congress....

Last December the elder Connick was indicted for returning betting sheets to bookmaker Walton Aucoin following Aucoin’s arrest a year earlier. By so doing, the government argues, Connick allowed Aucoin to continue collecting debts and running his gambling business. Connick says Aucoin had a legal right to copies of his accounting records. He maintains that his accuser, local U.S. Attorney John Volz, has a vendetta against him. The feud goes back to 1974, when Connick became D....

“Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love,” published this week, inevitably makes you think that Love is trying to keep pace with her husband, whose journals were published (by her) in 2002. There are certainly similarities. They’re both full of scribbles, scraps and secrets–Love includes her 1976 rejection letter from the Mickey Mouse Club. But with Love, there’s always more than meets the eye. Yes, she’s been a loud, brash, drunk-and-drugged punk-rock princess, but she’s also intelligent and fearless, with a lacerating wit....

With Gotham Knights’ release date finally here, it’s time for players to step into the shoes of Nightwing, Red Hood, Bat Girl and Robin to take down the criminal underworld in Gotham City. Following a tragedy involving the Caped Crusader, players need to step up and overcome various challenges and foes lurking in the shadows. There are two main ways for players to unlock new suits in Gotham Knights. One of the easiest methods is just to play through the game....

Gotze scored Dortmund’s third goal as they raced into 4-0 lead after just 25 minutes of the Bundesliga clash at Signal Iduna Park. Dortmund 9/5 to win at Leverkusen But the Germany international had to be replaced by Gonzalo Castro in the 78th minute as Schalke came roaring back to earn a point away to their bitter local rivals. Dortmund announced on Twitter that Gotze will be sidelined “due to a ligament tear in the upper and lower right ankle for six weeks”....

The first chilling possibility, which you probably haven’t even dared think about, is this: What if they are telling the truth? No, I mean, really. I know it is about 99 percent unlikely, but what if we actually are being governed at each end of Pennsylvania Avenue by a bipartisan complex of incompetents who have not the vaguest idea of what they are doing, who actively engage in crass and crooked things and then seem always to have no recollection, sleepwalker-like, of having engaged in them?...

Another week, another huge push in the rankings for Massachusetts pro Nicholas Petrangelo (GPI No. 5) who moves up to a career-best #5 ranking this week, moving past four others just one week after cracking the World Top 10 for the very first time of his career on the live tournament circuit. Petrangelo, who began 2015 ranked in the 900’s, has enjoyed immense success this season thanks to nine Top 10 finishes, including his first gold bracelet victory in a preliminary event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in June....

As Thomas Mann wrote, ““A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.’’ Since Tupac was murdered last September, his multimillion-dollar legacy has become the contentious affair of kin, colleagues and alleged opportunists from L.A. to Australia. In his lifetime, Tupac’s profane rap lyrics and violent encounters made him controversial, helping to swell by tens of millions of dollars the coffers of Death Row and its corporate benefactors, Interscope Records, Time Warner and Seagram’s Universal (formerly MCA)....