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His endorsements have been long sought after by Republican candidates all over the country in hopes it could boost their odds of winning GOP primaries, and are seen by many as a sign of his continued grip on the party. Since leaving the White House, the former president has endorsed dozens of candidates for all types of offices, ranging from state legislators to governors races. But a number of these endorsements have drawn the ire of some conservative, Trump-aligned Republicans over concerns the candidates may not be fully aligned with the former president’s political message....

On Thursday, a federal court overturned a previous ruling allowing an independent reviewer Trump’s attorney’s had hand-picked to review and potentially omit a number of classified documents from evidence in a case evaluating whether he illegally removed sensitive materials from the White House at the close of his presidency. That same day, yet another federal judge ordered former top Trump White House lawyers Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin to provide additional grand jury testimony in a Department of Justice-led investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting both men’s previous claims of executive and attorney-client privilege surrounding the events of Jan....

“[Joe Biden] roped himself into a certain group of people,” Trump told sports journalist Clay Travis during an interview on Travis’ Fox Sports Radio morning show, referencing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s commitment to picking a female running mate. Travis had asked Trump whom he believed Biden would pick and whom the president wanted Biden to pick. While Trump did not reveal any names, he did suggest that if it were him, he would’ve gone a “different route” from Biden, who said in March he would choose a woman as his vice president....

The Associated Press called Georgia on Thursday for Biden after election officials there released the results of the state’s hand ballot recount required by state law. The recount, which was not in response to any suspected problems with the results or an official recount request, showed most counties had reported no change in their tallies. There was only a small change in the overall margin between the candidates, which was around 12,000 votes in Biden’s favor out of nearly five million counted, handing him 16 Electoral College votes....

Olga Skabaeeva, who hosts the program 60 Minutes on the channel Russia-1 which pushes Kremlin propaganda, reacted to Trump’s comments at a rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday. “Trump said that America has been humiliated in front of the whole world and has never been in such a horrible situation,” she said on Monday’s program. “Trump has said that (Joe) Biden is the worst president in the history of the country and that he would never have allowed the conflict in Ukraine,” she added, “and that Washington should be dealing with its internal problems instead of teaching others how to live....

Walker became a household name in the early 1980s while running over the SEC as a college football player at the University of Georgia. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner has become known as a staunch conservative and friend of the former president. As a groundswell of support for him to run for Senate in his home state gains momentum, he got a nod of approval from Trump himself on Wednesday....

Tagovailoa, with Alabama up 35-7 and enough time remaining for one final drive in the half, was seen lobbying Nick Saban to reenter the game. He was injured on third play of the ensuing drive; he left the game on an injury cart, unable to put any weight on his right leg. He also seemed to have suffered a facial injury. MORE: SN Week 12 college football scores, updates...

Tagovailoa was assigned No. 1 by the team on Tuesday as the Dolphins announced numbers for all its newcomers. Judging from this illustration, the former Alabama star will look stylish in Miami’s nautical aqua and orange: That’s also a historic image, because Tagovailoa will become the first quarterback in franchise history to wear No. 1 whenever he takes the field. Miami’s lowest-numbered QBs to take a snap are Josh Rosen and Joey Harrington (3)....

PSG won Ligue 1 but have endured a dreadful end to the season, meaning they will finish the campaign with just one trophy. Tuchel’s men were stunned by Guingamp in the Coupe de la Ligue quarter-finals in January, before crashing out of the Champions League to Manchester United in the last 16. Matters went from bad to worse last week when PSG, struggling to pick up results in the league, threw away a two-goal lead to lose the Coupe de France final on penalties to Rennes....

New signing Paredes was making his first home Ligue 1 start on Saturday, while Verratti has been eased back into action following an ankle injury. Paredes has replaced Verratti on the two occasions where they have both featured in Tuchel’s matchday squad, the Argentine coming off the bench to swap places with his team-mate against Bordeaux and Manchester United. Tuchel named them both in his starting line-up for Saturday’s win and he was delighted to see a relationship building between his two stars....

Mbappe is yet to play for PSG in 2020-21 after testing positive for coronavirus while on France duty earlier this month. PSG lost their opening two games of the Ligue 1 season, but recorded a much-needed 1-0 win over Metz on Wednesday. Tuchel said he was hoping to have Mbappe, who scored 30 goals in 2019-20, available against Nice. “Kylian is feeling good. He doesn’t have any symptoms,” he told a news conference....

The host’s opening statement on Tucker Carlson Tonight began with a rebuke of Omar, who earlier on Wednesday had accused him publicly of levying “white supremacist rhetoric” and called him a “racist fool.” Rather than limit the segment to a response to her comments, Carlson dedicated more than 20 minutes of his hour-long show to taking down Omar, with three separate guests weighing in. “Our country rescued Ilhan Omar from the single worst place on earth, we didn’t do it to get rich, in fact it cost us money....

“What happened last night could not have been worse for this country for our children for our grandchildren for future,” Carlson said. “The outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voters where, of course, it rightly belongs and now resides in the control of lawyers and courts and highly partisan clearly corrupt big-city bureaucrats.” “So no matter what happens next,” he continued, that is a tragedy....

“It’s entirely possible now that some day soon, the news media will decide to shut this election down,” Carlson said during his Tucker Carlson Tonight monologue. “Believe it or not, effectively, they have the power to do that.” The conservative host discussed a possible scenario that could happen on Friday. “Let’s say tomorrow officials in Philadelphia produce a large number of newly counted votes. Pennsylvania Secretary of State hastily ratifies them, puts the seal of approval on them and then declares Joe Biden the winner....

The Quote In a Tuesday segment on The Tucker Carlson Show discussing possible adverse side effects caused by the COVID-19 vaccine, the show’s titular host said: “From the very first day, the way the authorities handled the COVID vaccine did not inspire confidence. If the vaccine was so great, why were all these people lying about it? Honest question. And they were lying. Clearly, they were lying. You know that for certain because from the moment that COVID vaccine arrived, the most powerful people in America work to make certain that no one could criticize it....

A Modern Plague of Biblical Proportions Africa Editor Tom Masland is an old hand at covering wars and natural disasters. But nothing prepared him for the devastation he’s writing about now. “It’s Hiroshima here every day,” says Masland of the AIDS epidemic that has infected 24.5 million sub-Saharan Africans. NEWSWEEK launched its coverage of this crisis with a January cover story on the 10 million African children orphaned by the AIDS plague....

Trump made the long-awaited announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and said that he was launching his third presidential campaign to take on “the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable.” “America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump told supporters. The phrase “#TrumpAnnouncement” became a trending topic on Twitter within an hour of his formal bid, with several users pointing out that Trump’s address lacked the same animation that the former president has shown in past events....

Fabien Levy, press secretary to New York Attorney General Letitia James, told CNN, “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature.” “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” he added. “We have no additional comment.” James had previously launched a civil investigation into the business dealings of the former president and the Trump Organization....

Administration officials would meet with Boeing executives during an upcoming meeting with airline industry officials, he said Friday while responding to reporters’ questions during the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s daily briefing. “We’re going to be meeting with Boeing, we’re going to be meeting with a lot of companies that are great companies and were great companies a short while ago,” Trump said. The president also said that the U....

Shortly after losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump began teasing the possibility of a 2024 bid—potentially setting up a rematch with President Joe Biden, with some political experts saying he could launch his campaign in the months leading up to the midterms, when Republicans are favored to win a majority in the House of Representatives. But Trump announcing a run before November could spoil Republicans’ hopes of winning majorities in Congress, as he remains unpopular with the swing voters who tilted the 2020 election in favor of Biden, said Luntz during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe....