Few was cited for driving under the influence in Idaho when he blew breathalyzer samples of .119 and .12, well above the legal limit. MORE: Big Ten’s Cockburn and Dickinson show there’s still a place for big men “I’ll never allow such a lapse in judgment to occur again. Please know that I am committed to learning from this mistake and will work to earn back your trust in me,” Few said in a statement at the time....

Jeter's no slouch. He's been doing this for years. A young girl in a Jeter jersey caught his eye and he made the effort to get the ball to her. But between the man in the front row pleading for the ball and the woman in an Astros jersey trying to rip it out of his clutches, this was not an easy task. Your browser does not support iframes....

WEYMOUTH: Why did President Yeltsin fire Prime Minister Primakov? YAVLINSKY: Because he became very close to the communists. [And] because he had no economic program. What do you think about the choice of Sergei Stepashin to be prime minister? This is not a very good choice. He was very active in Chechnya. Will your party support him? This is an open question. It’s very hard for us to forget that he was the head of the KGB while the war in Chechnya [was going on]....

It is true that modernity has made it more possible for leaders’ reputations to be redeemed (and also newly trashed) by our wondrous technological advances and our enormously revised ideas about the sanctity, or lack of it, of private communication. So far as I know, there are no secret tapes of Richard III saying ““And, oh, by the way, be sure to finish off those little brats in the tower....

Peace Tower, Ottawa, Canada Rather than appear scary or intimidating, these four gargoyles jutting out from the Peace Tower in the middle of Parliament Hill are carved in the likeness of a man with his hands together. The tower serves as a memorial to the men and women who have given their lives fighting for Canada. National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Luke’s father has peered over the side of the otherwise classic cathedral since the 1980s....

Consumers have reported number of recent “bricking” incidents involving Google Home products, according to PCMag. Bricking is a term that indicates an electronic hardware device becoming useless, often after a software or firmware update. Google Home users claim their devices became unusable due to one or more of the constant firmware updates the products receive. Some say their devices were restored after unplugging and replugging or applying a factory reset, but many others report the products remain bricked despite their best efforts....

Roughly 82 percent of Democrats, 66 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of independents said they support holding parents legally responsible if their child commits a crime with a gun they got from their parents, according to a poll of 1,500 U.S. adults. The poll was conducted in early December, a few weeks after Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old student, allegedly killed four students and injured seven in a shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan....

Twitter users quickly took King to task for claiming the whistleblower was Alexander Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros and a board member of his philanthropic organization, the Open Society Foundations. King later deleted the tweet before reposting with new, low-resolution images of the alleged whistleblower. Newsweek has not confirmed the identity of the whistleblower. King’s tweet was aimed at Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump....

Katko endorsed Trump in January, but on Thursday he sought to distance himself from the president by insisting that he supports his policies but not his rhetoric. “Of course, Trump is a knucklehead,” Katko said during a virtual forum on Thursday night, according to local news. “I don’t like him as a person. I don’t like his rhetoric. I don’t like his lack of discipline.” “When I talk about supporting the president, it’s not a blanket endorsement,” the congressman explained....

The House and Senate are both set to vote on legislation introduced by Democrats that would force President Donald Trump to obtain prior consent from Congress before further escalating hostilities against Iran. The House will vote this Thursday, while the Senate measure is expected to reach the Senate floor before the end of next week. The resolutions come as Trump faces mounting criticism over his decision to strike Soleimani late last week without briefing congressional leaders, also known as the Gang of Eight, until after the fact....

Although President Donald Trump continues to contest the result, he has given the go-ahead for the General Services Administration to provide resources to the transition team of President-elect Joe Biden. Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois congressman who is a member of the foreign affairs committee, was asked on CNN for his opinion on the administration that Biden is assembling. Among the key nominations so far is Antony Blinken as secretary of state....

“We have the votes, once the impeachment trial has begun, to pass a resolution that is essentially the same… to the 100-0 vote in the Clinton trial,” McConnell told reporters following a weekly lunch with Senate Republicans. He said it would allow for debate over potential witnesses after House impeachment managers and the White House—or whomever the president wants to defend him—make their respective arguments. This comes despite the lawmaker leading the effort to dismiss the articles, Sen....

Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez, who serves a solidly Republican city in Miami-Dade County, has repeatedly criticized the governor for not allowing local leaders to make decisions on how to best protect their residents amid the pandemic. “He’s a dictator,” Hernandez said. “It’s a shame because we’re paying the price.” Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’ press secretary, disputed the criticism and defended the governor’s authority to use executive power to limit local officials who “overstep and infringe on individual rights....

Although Georgia already carried out a hand recount of ballots, which showed President-elect Joe Biden beating President Donald Trump in the state by a margin of just over 12,000 votes, the Trump campaign requested another recount which will be conducted by scanning machines as allowed by state law. Sterling explained that the president was within his legal right to request the second recount, but he said he did not expect it to change the results....

During a recent appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Hogan spoke about the COVID-19 vaccination rate in Maryland and how it is “one of the most vaccinated in the country,” but noted a rise in hospitalizations. “We have 92 percent of our state vaccinated here in Maryland, one of the most vaccinated in the country. But we have overflowing hospitals,” Hogan said. “And so that 8 percent of the population who has not been vaccinated is responsible for 75 percent of all the people that are filling up our COCID beds in the hospital....

“If you just need the relief, that’s not what Florida’s set up for,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Dania Beach, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Florida is helping to send resources to the Bahamas so the relief can be administered there,” he said. DeSantis’ comments came as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Florida unit continued to process the thousands of Bahamians making their way to the state in search of refuge....

The decision to fire the U.S. attorneys en masse was made late last year by two top aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales—chief of staff Kyle Sampson and deputy A.G. Paul McNulty—according to a senior department official who asked not to be identified talking about personnel. McNulty may have fueled the controversy when he told the Senate last month that most of the fired prosecutors were let go because of “performance-related issues....

In the aftermath, Trump’s actions surrounding the Capitol riot were widely condemned—from voices on both sides of the aisle—and his impeachment backed by 10 Republican votes in the House. However, a recent vote on the constitutionality of his Senate trial post-presidency signaled that is unlikely enough Republicans would vote against him to see him convicted. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spoke of Trump bearing responsibility for the attack on the Capitol in its wake, though spoke against his impeachment....

The Republican Party of Hampton, Virginia last week became aware of a February 2021 Facebook post by Hampton Electoral Board Chair David Dietrich. In the post, Dietrich attacked Austin—the first Black Defense Secretary in U.S. history—and other Democratic leaders. The controversy was first reported by local WAVY News 10. Dietrich said in the post that Austin’s efforts to root out white nationalists in the military was actually a ploy “to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the roles....

The lengthy U.S. House Committee on Financial Services hearing was entitled, “A $1.5 Trillion Crisis: Protecting Student Borrowers and Holding Student Loan Servicers Accountable.” The five-person panel included a diverse range of student loan debt experts and commentators such as writer and comedian Hasan Minhaj and Center for Responsible Lending Senior Counselor Ashley Harrington. Nearly all panel and congressional members agreed the U.S. is in “crisis” over rampant student loan debt, which affects approximately 45 million people, but Georgia Republican Rep....