During a Tuesday interview on the conservative talk radio program The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Trump suggested that Chinese President Xi Jinping would follow the example of his “twin sister” Russian President Vladimir Putin by staging an invasion of the disputed island. The former president insisted that Russia would have “never” moved to invade Ukraine under his presidency, while suggesting that both Putin and Xi sensed weakness in President Joe Biden....

On Friday night, Goodell released a video in which he condemned racism and acknowledged the league had not done enough to heed black players’ calls for justice. He also encouraged players to “protests peacefully.” “Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?...

A poll, conducted for CNN by SSRS from June 2 to 5 among 1,259 respondents, sees Trump’s approval rating at 38 percent and disapproval at 57, putting his net figure at -19. These figures, just less than five months from election day, mark the worst that CNN polling has recorded since January 2019. They also coincide with national polling giving Democratic hopeful Joe Biden a lead over the incumbent Trump....

The University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian will back a Democrat against Trump for the second time. In 2016, their opinion board endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton alongside her college newspaper, the Wellesley News. The paper’s editor-in-chief Max Cohen and opinion editor Grant Bianco spoke to Newsweek about the editorial board’s decision. “We feel that as the student paper at President Trump’s alma mater we have a unique perspective, especially given how frequently President Trump touts his Wharton education,” Bianco said....

Raskin, of the January 6 House committee, said during an MSNBC interview on Monday that in addition to being “clearly” guilty of “incitement to insurrection,” the former president “put the whole plan together.” He said the committee’s work had built on evidence presented during Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial and had shown that the former president was a “far more central” figure in last year’s siege on the Capitol....

Mar-a-Lago is at the center of an investigation into whether Trump illegally removed and kept documents when he left office in January 2021. FBI agents recovered numerous sets of classified documents—some marked “top secret”—after searching the estate on August 8. A heavily redacted affidavit released on Friday said the FBI had probable cause to believe more documents remained at Mar-a-Lago after reviewing the materials Trump returned in January this year....

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and rapper Kodak Black. On January 7, Reuters reported that Trump had suggested to aides that he wanted to pardon himself, citing anonymous sources, following a similar report earlier that day by The New York Times. On Sunday, Reuters reported that Trump has no plans to pardon himself or his immediate family members....

Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted, “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” The tweet quickly surpassed more than 1 million likes and had over 750,000 retweets, despite being sent out at around 1 a.m. Previously, the president’s most shared tweet was from August of last year, when he announced rapper A$AP Rocky’s release from detention in Sweden....

Tony Schwartz voiced his criticism on Twitter, saying that the president is “a lying, cheating felon.” The author also told Anderson Cooper on the presenter’s CNN show: “This is one of the great tax frauds in IRS history. He is running a criminal enterprise. This, no matter what the effect is on any given voters, is big, big news.” According to The Times, the president paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017....

Trump was booed by members of the crowd at his rally in Cullman, Alabama on Saturday when he encouraged them to get vaccinated against the virus and quickly moved to stress he believed “totally in your freedoms.” On Sunday, right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has previously expressed support for Trump, launched a scathing attack on the former president for his stance on vaccines. Jones said on The Alex Jones Show: “Shame on you, Trump....

In a Thursday phone interview with Fox Business show Mornings With Maria, Trump strongly criticized President Joe Biden following the commander in chief’s speech to Congress overviewing his achievements during his first 100 days in office, as well as his ambitions for further legislation and government action. Trump took aim at Biden over proposed tax increases for the wealthy, his policy toward China and the influx of undocumented migrants at the southern border....

The former President was in the state to support Tim Michels, who he hopes will be the Republican candidate for the Wisconsin Governor election in November. It has once again put him at odds with his former Vice-President Mike Pence, who is campaigning for Rebecca Kleefisch, Wisconsin’s former Lieutenant Governor, to get the Republican ticket. Trump addressed a packed rally in Waukesha, on the western outskirts of Milwaukee. To loud cheers he said: “This is the year we’re going to take back the House, we’re going to take back the Senate and we’re going to take back America....

“The light at the end of the tunnel is near. We are rounding the turn,” Trump told a group of fans Friday at an event in Fort Myers, Florida. “Don’t listen to the cynics and angry partisans and pessimists.” Trump’s messaging to the group of about 400 senior citizens has stayed consistent since the pandemic began earlier this year. In September, journalist Bob Woodward revealed the president intentionally downplayed the deadly virus’ threat so as not to incite more panic and fear in the public, a decision that has undoubtedly hurt his chance for re-election....

Earlier this week, Seattle police officers left their precinct in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, providing protesters with an area free of law enforcement in which they could gather. The president responded to the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, during an interview with Fox News host Harris Faulkner that aired Friday afternoon. “If they don’t straighten that situation out, we’re going to straighten it out,” Trump told Faulkner....

The Constitution explicitly states in the 20th Amendment, which was ratified in 1933, that “the terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.” It adds that “the terms of their successors shall then begin.” But Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro argued in an interview with Fox News on Saturday evening that this date could be disregarded. “Well it can be changed actually....

During the interview on Tucker Carlson Live, Trump discussed with the Fox News host a wide-range of topics, including his recent foray into North Korean territory, Iran geopolitics, homelessness, and alleged tech conspiracies against him. “Google, by some measures the most powerful country in the world, all information flows through it, they’re against you. They don’t want you re-elected. Can you get re-elected if Google is against you?” Carlson asked the president....

“You should say, ‘If you mention that word [nuclear] one more time, we’re gonna send [nuclear submarines and planes] over and we’ll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast,” Trump told Fox Business on Monday. “You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these, these thousands of people die.” The former president said he “listened to [Putin] constantly using the n-word,” referring to the world “nuclear,” during his dealings with the Russian president but that he hoped he never had to use nuclear weapons because “it would be the tragedy of all tragedies....

Unlike Simmons, it took Mitchell some time to find his footing in the NBA. He came off the bench for eight of the first 11 games of his career and surpassed the 30-minute mark only three times during that stretch. It wasn’t until the end of November that he began to find his stride, and he’s been on fire ever since. NBA DRAFT 2018: Who tops SN’s latest prospect rankings?...