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During his Justice Matters podcast on Saturday, Kirschner blasted what he views as an unequal treatment of Trump in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) probe into whether he illegally took classified documents when he vacated the White House last year. Trump has faced the DOJ investigation for months after FBI agents in August raided his Mar-a-Lago property and seized the documents, which may have included another country’s nuclear secrets. Trump has maintained his innocence, however, saying that he could declassify the documents without going through a former declassification process....

No wonder. In the past eight years, the nation’s second biggest fast-food chain has lurched through seven unsuccessful ad campaigns from the anemic “Herb” to the MTV-inflected “BK TeeVee.” That’s one reason why-in addition to ferocious competition from the likes of Wendy’s and McDonald’s-its share of the $90 billion fastfood market is down 2.6 percent from its high of nearly 9 percent in 1986, according to restaurant consultants Technomic Inc....

CAREER CAPSULE: In only two seasons as a starter, Howard approached or surpassed virtually every record held by former Michigan receiver Anthony Carter. Howard, a 5-foot-9, 175-pound junior from Cleveland, had more than 100 all-purpose yards in 19 of the Wolverines’ past 22 games, including the last 12. He averaged 17.6 yards every time he touched the ball and set an NCAA record with touchdown receptions in 10 consecutive games....

PHILADELPHIA — Mike Schmidt had already said his hellos and become a household name by 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies third baseman stepped over the boundaries of greatness to become the most prosperous — and possibly the most complete — baseball player of his generation. Four times a Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner and three times the National League home run leader, he was coming off a season in which he had hit 45 home runs when the Phils arrived in Clearwater, Fla....

An incensed Carlson hit out at the agency on Tuesday night branding its rebuke “an infuriating dishonest formal statement.” He continued: “An entire paragraph of lies written purely for the benefit of the intel community’s lackeys at CNN and MSNBC, people they hire with the titles on the screen.” The Fox News host doubled down on the comments he made on Monday that the NSA had spied on his emails and texts and accused it of not denying having done so....

Carlson called on his viewers to question whether the Russian leader should be considered dangerous. This comes after President Joe Biden announced in a speech yesterday that Putin’s military actions are “the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” Carlson shared a clip of this segment on his Twitter page, where it has already been viewed over 350,000 times. Shorter clips of this segment have also begun popping up on social media, with the snippet being viewed over 2 million times in another tweet....

States began receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday. Mass vaccination campaigns have eradicated or greatly reduced the incidence of diseases such as smallpox, polio and rinderpest and are widely considered the most effective response to COVID-19 which has claimed the lives of 300,000 Americans. While data from the clinical trials suggest the COVID vaccines are safe and extremely effective, a large minority of Americans remain wary of side effects and long term risks....

Check The Linemakers on Sporting News’ odds page for current NBA betting lines. AccuScore makes Cleveland (13-4 SU, 7-10 ATS) the 11-point favorite in this game, suggesting there’s value on the favorite. The Cavs covered the 9-point spread in nearly 57 percent of simulations done by AccuScore. Since LeBron James publicly questioned his teammates’ toughness, the Cavaliers are on a 5-1 SU and 4-2 ATS run. The Wizards (6-8 SU, ATS), meanwhile, have dropped four straight games, going 1-3 ATS during the losing streak....

Initially putting together this lineup, we weren’t sure Jackson would wind up the captain. But the grouping we have with Jackson in the captain slot seems good enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge hit to spend up for Lamar. Our big fade is the Baltimore running back group, which presents uncertainty with two of its options just returning from COVID-19 to a committee that was crowded and complicated to begin with....

It’s unclear why the Hawaii congresswoman, who’s so far only amassed two delegates and remains at the bottom of polls, remains in the race with virtually no chance to clench the nomination. But history suggests Gabbard may feel that while the delegate math would not allow her to become the nominee, she can still influence policy and the direction of the Democratic Party. Gabbard, a former combat veteran whose candidacy has been largely focused on advocating against “regime change wars” and U....

That inspiration and passion certainly lend Tunic a charming aesthetic. Its top-down perspective, bright colors, cartoony monsters, and green-clad hero mean that Tunic will probably make players feel some nostalgia for early Legend of Zelda games like Link’s Awakening and A Link to the Past. That nostalgia will drum up a lot of publicity for Tunic, too, as fans and critics draw comparisons. Although it’s great that Tunic is so inspired by such a strong franchise, it also needs to set itself apart somehow....

And the vice president’s appeal to evangelical Christians, which boosted Trump last time out, might explain his reluctance to cancel events in the run up to November 3. Pence has been described as an essential worker in statements, with this being the official line as to why his travel plans remain unchanged despite his chief of staff and others in his team testing positive for COVID-19. “As much as President Trump is loath to admit it, Mike Pence solidifies his support with evangelicals who currently support the president,” David Andersen, assistant professor in U....

In its sharply-worded response, former President Donald Trump’s company accused James of “misleading the public” and said that “she has no case.” On Tuesday evening, Letitia James’ office announced on Twitter that “we are taking legal action to force Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Ivanka Trump to comply with our investigation in the Trump Organization’s financial dealings. No one in this country can pick and choose if and how the law applies to them....

Reagan Escudé said: “Aunt Jemima was canceled. And if you didn’t know, Nancy Green, the original, first Aunt Jemima, she was the picture of the American dream. She was a freed slave who went on to be the face of the pancake syrup that we love and we have in our pantries today.” “She fought for equality and now the leftist mob is trying to erase her legacy. And might I mention how privileged we are as a nation if our biggest concern is a bottle of pancake syrup....

The president’s personal Twitter account retweeted a post from his 2020 campaign’s official “War Room” account Thursday evening that declared: “It’s pretty simple. The CIA ‘whistleblower’ is not a real whistleblower!” and included a link to a Washington Examiner report that named the alleged whistleblower in the headline. Trump’s move reportedly prompted concern from his advisers, including Ivanka Trump. Then, according to The Washington Post, the president retweeted a post that publicized the alleged whistleblower on Friday night....

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an assembly of such thinkers. Taking epidemiological data out of its hands—which the Trump administration essentially did this month when it instructed hospitals around the country to bypass the CDC and send COVID-19 hospital data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services’ “TeleTracking” portal in Washington, D.C., instead—amounts to one of two things: arrogance or malice. Understand: The CDC is probably the best group of counters on the planet....

Trump gave the keynote address at the America First Agenda Summit, where he spoke out against the inclusion of transgender women on women’s sports team. The issue has emerged as a rallying cry among many conservatives who argue trans women have an unfair advantage over their competitors. Advocates for the transgender community, however, argue that trans athletes are typically only able to compete after transitioning and that critics are using transphobic attacks against an already vulnerable community....

The key difference is that, as Trump prepares to ride off into the sunset, progress on the latter is likely at greater risk of a prompt post-inauguration reversal from his Democratic successor. The physical moving of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one of the Trump administration’s myriad displays of staunch friendship with the Jewish state, is unlikely to be undone. Nor would any sane politician seek to nix the Abraham Accords, the series of landmark peace deals between Israel and Islamic nations that the administration helped negotiate....

“Remember crooked Hilary? ‘He’s going to cause a war in his first week in office.’ Because they think that’s my personality type. But it’s actually the opposite,” Trump said while speaking to the crowd in Salem, New Hampshire. “My personality kept us out of war,” the former president continued. “And I told you before, [it] would have never happened with Russia. Putin would have never ever gone in. And even now I could solve that in 24 hours....

Tongass—located in the southeast of the state—is the largest national forest in the United States encompassing 16.7 million acres. In 2001, the Clinton administration introduced the so-called “Roadless Rule” which put limitations on logging and road construction across the country. But The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump has directed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to lift these restrictions at Tongass so that the forest is exempt from these rules, citing three sources who were briefed privately on the issue....