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The true freshman quarterback on Thursday posted to Twitter calling out Hurts’ detractors, saying they don’t appreciate the fact he led the team to two national titles in as many years. MORE: What’s next for Hurts at Alabama? Tagovailoa, of course, came off the bench in the second half of Alabama’s 26-23 overtime win against Georgia in Monday’s College Football Playoff championship. He completed 14 of 24 passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns to only one interception; Hurts only completed 3 of 8 passes for 21 yards (adding 47 on the ground)....

Tua Tagovailoa suffered a head injury against Green Bay on Christmas Day, leaving his status uncertain ahead of a critical game against the Patriots. This has been a season of twists and turns for Tagovailoa, whose terrific start was halted by a concussion controversy. He bounced back and briefly reinserted himself into the MVP conversation, but the current string of losses has put intense pressure on the Dolphins and their third-year passer entering January....

Carlson made the remarks during the Friday night edition of his opinion show Tucker Carlson Tonight. The conservative pundit denounced President Joe Biden and others on “the left” who were speaking out against the Court’s ruling before taking aim at a number of American companies that have promised to provide travel expenses to workers seeking the procedure that is now or will soon become illegal in their home states....

Barron’s comments came after Carlson mocked Ocasio-Cortez for sponsoring the Green New Deal when her own district in northern Queens and the eastern Bronx is not “clean.” “We’re connoisseurs of irony on this show, but if you claim to care about the environment, you’d think that the little piece of America you’re responsible for, that you represent in the Congress, would be clean but hers isn’t. Why?” Carlson asked during the segment....

Carlson once again brought up critical race theory on Wednesday night following Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial victory in Virginia. The Fox News host suggested that one of the main reasons why Youngkin won in Virginia is because he listened to parents’ concerns about critical race theory being taught in schools, as opposed to his democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, who dismissed the debate as a “racist dog whistle.” McAuliffe was also heavily criticized for suggesting that parents should not “be telling schools what they should teach” while discussing the academic theory during a debate in September....

The clip was shared by Matt M. McKnight, a Seattle-based journalist with Crosscut, a nonprofit news site serving the Pacific northwest. McKnight explained he took the video while traveling along the Washington 240. He said he pulled over when he spotted the incoming tumbleweed on a spot of road near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Benton County, Washington. “Saw this approaching and pulled over along WA-240 a few minutes ago near Hanford Site,” he tweeted....

Both men, patients at a pioneering psychiatric hospital outside Tokyo, share a uniquely Japanese malady. Called hikikomori, or social withdrawal, the ill-defined but debilitating syndrome afflicts as many as 1.2 million young people–seven in 10 of them male. Symptoms include agoraphobia, paranoia, aversion to sunlight and severe anxiety; sufferers become antisocial in their teens or 20s and spend months or years holed up in their bedrooms. “They see themselves as ugly....

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Tunisia kept up an impressive recent record of African Nations Cup quarter-final appearances by thumping Zimbabwe 4-2 with a flurry of first-half goals to come second in Group B on Monday. Naim Sliti, Youssef Msakni, Yassine Khenessi and Wahbi Khazri, with a penalty, wrapped up the win before the break to send Tunisia through with six points, a point behind Senegal. The Tunisians now stay in the Gabonese capital to meet Burkina Faso on Saturday in the first of the quarter-finals....

The hosts return to competitive action following their narrow 1-0 victory over Mali in a friendly in June. Anis Slimane scored a last-minute winner to help the North Africans secure victory on home turf. Equatorial Guinea have not been in action since coincidentally suffering a 2-1 away defeat to Friday’s opponent in an AFCON 2021 qualifier in March. Seifeddine Jaziri’s first-half strike and Carlos Akapo’s second-half own goal gave Tunisia all three points en-route to finishing top of the group....

“I’m not thinking about it right now,” the longtime governor, fresh off reelection to his fourth two-year term, told Bash last week. “I’m really not….My focus right now is New Hampshire. It really is. Because it has to be. And I want it to be.” His political action committee, however, says otherwise. Overnight Tuesday, some observers noted a Sununu-aligned PAC had begun running social media ads in the early-voting states of Iowa and South Carolina, sparking speculation that Sununu—a moderate Republican—was, in fact, contemplating a run for the Oval Office in 2024....

Macri lost by a significant margin in the October election, which saw the victory of left-wing candidate Alberto Fernández, who selected former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as his running mate. Fernández de Kirchner, who served as president for eight years prior to Macri, also oversaw a period of economic crisis, which grew worse after her right-wing successor’s policies took hold. “The crisis has deep roots, but President Macri mismanaged the response, exacerbating poverty and hunger,” Dr....

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council (NSC), and Gordan Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, were fired from their posts Friday. Vindman, along with his twin brother, who also worked for the NSC but did not testify, were escorted from the White House and Sondland was recalled from his post abroad. Vindman, although ousted from his position at the White House, will still be working for the Pentagon....

Last week, the White House reached an agreement with House Democrats to replace the 25-year-old NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA.) It still has to pass through the countries’ legislatures but could be voted on in Congress as early as this week. Representatives from the three North American countries signed the pact in Mexico, prompting President Donald Trump to declare victory, and he tweeted that it would be “the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA....

Joyce Vance, a former Northern District of Alabama attorney now at the University of Alabama School of Law, told MSNBC “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday that Trump’s “pardon package” was a message for his associates and friends. On Tuesday, Trump commuted the sentence of ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of a range of crimes including trying to sell a Senate seat. Trump also pardoned former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik, who was convicted of tax fraud, New York financier Michael Milken, who was jailed for conspiracy to hide stocks and tax fraud, and former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr....

The HQ of Space Force is temporarily located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. But the U.S. Air Force announced in January that it would be relocated to Huntsville, Alabama. Leaders in Colorado have argued that the decision was politically motivated, and they viewed Trump’s Friday remarks as further evidence to support their claim. “Keeping U.S. Space Command in Colorado means protecting our national security but it’s clear that the former President—now through his own admission —made this misguided decision for political or personal purposes,” Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Lt....

A new book written by an anonymous White House insider published this week has shed further light on the president’s aversion to the Cold War-era alliance, alleging Trump claimed the U.S. is “getting raped” by its allies and pushed to ditch the accord. A Warning, by Anonymous, was published earlier this week. It is written by the same unnamed White House official who authored an op-ed for The New York Times last year, claiming to be part of “the resistance” against Trump within his own administration, working to frustrate much of the president’s policy agenda....

However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of women living in the suburbs disapprove of the president. “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood. Biden would reinstall it, in a bigger form, with Corey Booker in charge!” Trump tweeted. While it’s unclear exactly how women will vote in November, a recent poll conducted by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist showed that 66 percent of suburban women disapproved of the job Trump is doing, with 58 percent saying they “strongly disapproved....

Trump made the remarks during a Tuesday interview with Dobbs, one of the president’s most outspoken admirers. Dobbs invoked a popular right-wing conspiracy theory by praising Trump for being “transparent” despite the efforts of a supposed “deep state” working against him before asking him about whether he would release new information about UFOs. “A lot of my friends are very concerned about what the federal government is doing with regards to UFOs, so if I could just ask you… are you going to commit more resources to exploring UFOs and open the documents to the public?...

“If I would have said, ‘I don’t believe in it. It doesn’t work,’ it would be the hottest thing going right now,” he said Tuesday morning. In an interview on sports radio show Outkick, Trump told host Clay Travis that the drug “causes no problem,” citing his own use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against the virus in May. “As soon as I came out with it, they said ‘Oh, it doesn’t work....

Trump told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired Thursday morning that his administration is operating under the assumption the vaccine will be ready by the end of the year. Inoculation is key to resuming a fully normal life, according to multiple officials, and Trump said failing to make distribution plans could cause a delay in people receiving the vaccine. “It’s a massive job to give this vaccine,” Trump told Bartiromo....