The president’s chances of clinching a victory in the Keystone State fell from +188 to +200 overnight, taking his implied chance of winning from 34.72 percent to 33.33 percent. Oddschecker, which aggregates betting data from dozens of bookmakers, told Newsweek that odds within the state are remarkably similar to those forecast across the country. The bookmaker gave Biden odds of -190 and Trump odds of +188 to win the presidency, a spokesman said....

Trump launched Truth Social on February 21 in an effort to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech,” after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for his comments related to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. capitol. Since then, the app, which ironically has an interface that closely resembles Twitter, has been beset with problems. For the past six weeks, users have complained about bots and errors on the platform or being put onto waitlists with hundreds of thousands of other people....

However, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also ahead of Trump at this point in the 2016 race but went on to lose the electoral college vote as Trump won narrow victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. On October 28, 2016 then FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee about the discovery of emails that may have been of importance to the agency’s closed investigation of Clinton....

In a 36-page Department of Justice filing released Tuesday evening, officials claimed that evidence has been developed showing that government records “were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room and “that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.” A photo showing documents spread out on a carpet also drew widespread attention. The filing also cast doubt on Trump’s legal cooperation. The filing said that Trump’s legal counsel prohibited storage room and document access to the FBI on June 3, with the FBI eventually locating twice as many classified documents during the August 8 raid as previously thought....

Trump insisted Kelly did not know he had intended to fire ex-defense secretary Mattis, after Kelly said he thought the president had forgotten or was confused about how Mattis left his role near the end of 2018. During his tenure under Trump, Mattis had wanted the president to keep troops in Syria. When Trump refused, Mattis handed in his resignation, in the aftermath of which the president said he was fired....

Trump’s first message of 2020 that was not a retweet saw him share a Fox News article about Iranian-backed militia withdrawing from a siege of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Trump tweeted at 8.32 p.m. ET on January 1 2020: “Best equipment & finest military in the World. On site quickly!” In a year which started with a trial for impeachment for which he was acquitted and ended with an election defeat that he has refused to acknowledge, Trump’s final message for the year gave props to the stock market and expressed optimism about the state of Americans’ pensions....

The former president was widely mocked for announcing he would be making a “major announcement” on Thursday, which was later revealed to be an NFT collection portraying him in guises such as a superhero, cowboy and astronaut, which could be bought for $99. Despite this, the entire collection of 45,000 NFTs featuring Trump has been minted in around 12 hours, according to OpenSea data, with nearly 14,000 people purchasing one or more of the online tokens....

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that if Republicans are going to fight, “we ought to be fighting” McConnell and his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The former President has repeatedly referred to Chao with a nickname that has been decried as racially insensitive and racist, and did so again in the new post. “The harm they have done to the Republican Party is incalculable,” Trump said of the two....

Trump made the announcement in a statement issued on his website on Wednesday, saying he would instead be endorsing another candidate for the May 24 primary. Republican candidates Trump sees as loyal, and who have enjoyed the former president’s backing, have often been successful in local elections. In both the 2018 and 2020 elections, Trump-endorsed candidates—such as former football coach Tommy Tuberville, now a junior senator from Alabama, and Jason Lewis, a Massachusetts state senator—won nearly every primary they competed in, according to political data website FiveThirtyEight....

That should change in Albertville. Weinbrecht skis moguls, which is a medal event for the first time. It combings downhill speed with flashy aerial maneuvers as skiers propel themselves over a succession of bumps. Weinbrecht knows that winning the gold could put freestyle on the U.S. ski map. “Someday,” she says, “they may look back at me as the grandma of freestyle.” Weinbrecht is an unlikely candidate to become the sport’s first star....

He was a double-figure scorer on average in just one of those seasons. He never averaged 10 shots per game. He never averaged 30 minutes. All he ever did was play the most important role in Villanova’s third NCAA Championship, win the Final Four Most Outstanding Player award and position himself to become a first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. MORE: UNC’s Luke Maye withdraws from NBA Draft...

The number of terrorist groups driven by religious rather than political zealotry is on the rise. Virtually unknown before the 1970s, such groups now number at least a dozen-from Christian white supremacists and messianic Jews to Islamic fundamentalists and radical Sikhs -says Bruce Hoffman, director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and political Violence at the University of St. Andrews. Religious zealots, he adds, are not out to score political blows but to wipe out entire classes of enemies....

Students returned to the university’s Storrs campus on Friday, the Hartford Courant reported. Administration officials went on to confirm four cases of the novel coronavirus, and identify a fifth possible infection, among members of its student body on Monday. As the university issued quarantine orders and released details about its approach to reducing future transmission risks, a video of Monday night’s crowded dormitory party began to circulate online. The video showed students enjoying what looked like a typical pre-pandemic social gathering....

Egemo’s condition is called sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), and it’s one of two night eating problems that doctors are just beginning to take seriously. The other is night eating syndrome (NES), in which patients wake multiple times during the night and are unable to fall asleep again unless they eat something. Although the two differ in some important ways–most notably, whether the person is conscious or not–they share many similarities....

As Brown takes office today, his spouse will take over from Cherie Blair as the new First Lady of 10 Downing Street. And while it’s too soon to know what her style will be, it’s clear that she will be the antithesis of her flamboyant predecessor. The chances of her adorning No. 10 with “magic pendants” or engaging in New Age rebirthing procedures à la Mrs. Blair are slim. She also seems unlikely to partake in aggressive lecture tours, and if she does it’s doubtful she’ll charge more for her services at a charity event than the actual funds raised, as Cherie did at a cancer-research charity dinner in Australia in 2005....

After breaking into the top 50 of FIFA’s world rankings in 2016, DR Congo appear to be getting somewhere close to their former glory days of the 1960s and 70s, when they won AFCON in ‘68 and ‘74, as Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire, respectively. Two years ago they managed to finish third in Equatorial Guinea and they possess a squad with a significant amount of experience in European football, making them an interesting proposition in terms of progression to the knockout phase after getting past their pre-tournament row over unpaid bonuses....

Speaking to Newsweek Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated the pharmaceutical company’s move to expand on its COVID-19 vaccine production is to help combat any loss in the efficacy of the shot due to the mutant strains. “We are being prudently cautious by already making moves toward developing booster shots that would specifically cover the mutants,” Fauci said, confirming that both Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID vaccines, the two currently authorized for distribution in the U....

On Monday, legendary hip-hop producer Dr. Dre successfully forced Twitter to pull down a Marjorie Taylor Greene “hype video” after the Georgia congresswoman used one of his most famous songs without permission. The video, which was online for several hours Monday, depicted Greene preparing for last week’s grueling series of votes on the speaker of the house with Dr. Dre’s famous song “Still D.R.E.” playing in the background. After attracting 4....

Appearing on CNN on Monday night, Dr. Fauci said COVID-19 had “enormous capabilities of spreading like wildfire” as he urged states to approach reopening with care. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director also said he was “very sensitive” to the pain being caused by the novel coronavirus’ impact on the U.S. economy and employment. Speaking about the infectiousness of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci said: “One thing this virus has that’s really different from so many other viruses that we have experience with, it has phenomenal capability and efficiency in spreading from person to person....

The Drew Brees-Michael Thomas pairing is remarkably high floor and high ceiling on Sunday in the NFC, while we snag Derrick Henry and DeAndre Hopkins out of the AFC to have three of the slate’s best players in our lineup. Add in a very underpriced Sony Michel, and this lineup should work out nicely. FANDUEL PLAYOFF LINEUPS: Saturday | Sunday | Single games NFL DFS Wild Card Weekend: DraftKings Cash Lineup Picks QB Drew Brees, Saints vs....