Robert Duboise, 55, was released from prison in August 2020 after being behind bars since 1985. However, Duboise had previously been to prison for non-violent offenses, and according to Florida state law, anyone applying for prison compensation is required to have a clean record. Since his release from prison, Duboise has been appealing to various Florida politicians to try and have this law waived. His story caught the attention of state Senator Jeff Brandes, who has filed legislation that would allow Duboise to bypass the law....

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who sued on behalf of fans who showed up for Super Bowl XLV with tickets that didn’t correspond to actual seats, told Pro Football Talk he will sue the NFL over Sunday’s canceled Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. “We plan on filing a class (action lawsuit) within days,” Avenatti said on an unverified Twitter account that he confirmed is his. “$0 for fan expenses is a disgrace....

With the disruption of daily routines, an increase in sedentary lifestyles, and heightened pandemic stress, widespread weight gain is no surprise. But fluctuations in weight throughout many periods of your life—not just the pandemic—are expected and normal. “It is normal to have some mild fluctuations of weight throughout your life," Andrea Westby, MD, a family medicine physician at the University of Minnesota Medical School and M Health Fairview, tells Verywell....

Coach Frank Reich told reporters Wentz with opting to have surgery to remove a bone and repair the foot instead of rest, the 2016 first-rounder could miss up to 12 weeks of action. Although there’s a chance Wentz could come back to action earlier, that rough three-month timetable means there’s a great possibility of Wentz missing 8 games, or almost half of the 2021 NFL season before an early November return....

Russian air defenses reportedly fended off an attack on a military airbase in the Voronezh region where two loud explosions were heard overnight in the Shilovo district, according to OSINT aggregator. The district is located near the Baltimor military airfield. Citing the regional governor, OSINT said a small reconnaissance drone had been shot down over the city which lies around 140 miles from the Ukrainian border, although it said “no video of photographic proof has been provided yet....

The duo met in a hotel in London as ambassadors for a Football for Peace initiative. After their meeting, the 25-year-old who has scored two goals in five Premier League games this season, took to social media to share a picture of him with the 2002 Fifa World Cup winner. A post shared by Wilfried Dazet Armel Zaha (@wilfriedzaha) on Nov 14, 2017 at 1:11pm PST

The real problem isn’t the exact number of skinheads in uniform. It’s the largely white warrior culture that thrives around elite bases. The army remains one of the country’s most integrated institutions. But some recruits in topflight units, often enlisted men, are increasingly prone to the raw attractions of the far right: guns and ideological certitude. And NEWSWEEK has learned that an extensive Pentagon task-force study of the phenomenon, due this month, is the subject of considerable internal debate....

The man taken into custody for driving his car into a Christmas parade and killing five people was a career criminal named Darrell Brooks. A perusal of his social media timelines shows a history of inflammatory and violent political rhetoric. He also has a long rap sheet, including active charges at the time of the Waukesha tragedy. And here’s the real tragedy of it all: Darrell Brooks should never have been out of jail in the first place....

The 22-year-old running back already has had his character second-guessed. Now LaDainian Tomlinson of NFL Network and Peter King of Sports Illustrated are questioning the young star’s effort on the field. IYER: Broncos’ Siemian deserves more credit Take one crucial play during Dallas’ 42-17 loss: With the Cowboys down 28-10, quarterback Dak Prescott was intercepted by Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. Elliott, who was close to the play, made no effort to tackle Harris....

Ezekiel Elliott is the latest athlete to shed his clothes and bare all for ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. The 2017 issue hits newsstands on July 7, but the Dallas Cowboys running back gave fans an early preview, posting this image to Twitter on Monday: MORE: Fan yells ‘Deport Roger Goodell’ during PGA tournament From ESPN: “The ninth annual Body Issue celebrates and showcases the athletic form. Its release will include photos, interviews and videos with some of the biggest names in sports....

The referees did not look kindly on the stunt, though, penalizing Elliott for excessive celebration and costing the Cowboys 15 yards on the ensuing kickoff. MORE: Updated NFL playoff picture The Salvation Army enjoyed added publicity from the celebration. According to Apex Marketing, Elliott’s leap into the Salvation Army kettle was worth $200,000 in TV ad exposure to the brand. Here are five viewpoints that pretty much sum up Elliott’s bell-ringer of a celebration:...

Ahead of the FUT Champions Cup being played in Manchester this weekend, DhTekKz talks to Goal about his tactics for the tournament and his rise in popularity in the eSports world. How did it feel competing in Barcelona against some really established names when you were so reasonably new to the scene? Yeah so before the event I played a few of the people online and I did well. So, I went to Barcelona playing these players expecting myself to do well but when I got there something else clicked in and I just played better than I ever have before....

The 30-year-old is Spain’s eighth most capped player of all time (110), having made his first World Cup appearance in 2006, at just 18 years of age. The former Arsenal captain was also a part of the Spain side that won the European Championship in 2008, La Roja’s first major title since 1964. He then followed up that success by assisting Andres Iniesta’s winning goal as his country lifted their first ever World Cup trophy, in South Africa, just two years later....

For small business owners, the outages at Facebook and Instagram led to hundreds or thousands of dollars in lost revenue. “Today’s outage brought our reliance on Facebook—and its properties like Whatsapp and Instagram—into sharp relief,” said Brooke Erin Duffy, professor of communications at Cornell University. She added that a vast array of workers’ livelihoods depend on the social media sites. One Seattle-based business owner, Sarah Murdoch, who owns the travel company Adventures with Sarah, said she needs Facebook Live videos to promote her tours....

Last Thursday, administrators for the Fallout 76 community confirmed their accounts had been banned from the social network without warning, and their long-running Facebook group was also removed—losing years of content. Fallout 76, developed by Bethesda Game Studios, is an open-world role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic land, where players team up and explore online. “So Facebook just banned our page and banned all admins from our gaming group. This is what censorship in the U....

While the investigation continues into the attack on Sunday at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which also saw 18 others injured, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich has been arrested and named a suspect in the case, although any motive has not yet been determined. Among the few verified reports around the tragedy was that the alleged shooter’s grandfather is California Republican Assemblyman Randy Voepel. According to posts on Twitter, Voepel was said to have sent condolences after the shooting—but was the message real?...

In a leaked recorded phone call made on Saturday, Trump can be heard attempting to convince Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to find enough votes to ensure that Georgia went to Trump. After three rounds of ballot counting, Biden won the state by an 11,779-vote margin. Trump has made unproven claims of voter fraud in other swing states that were key to Biden’s victory. According to The New York Times, Trump listed a number of reasons why votes in Georgia were invalid to try to convince Raffensperger to overturn the results....

According to a Newsweek report, one-third of Americans do not believe that 6 million Jews were killed. In the age of the internet, despite countless victim testimonies and ample amounts of physical historic evidence, denial continues to spread online. In time for Wednesday’s 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report critiquing the efforts of popular social media platforms to combat Holocaust denial on their sites....

Economists, investors and brokers already say that America is heading for, or may already be in, a recession. Despite early signs of recovery and optimistic forecasts in 2021, and an apparent determination to focus on the promising aspects of the country’s economic health, the Biden administration is now seeing warning flashes of further and prolonged pain. However, some have suggested that rather than a more critical outlook, the White House is instead “shifting the goalposts” in its economic analysis....

Social media users allege that Raskin made a false statement during his argument. The Claim Twitter users allege that Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, falsely said that Trump supporters burned a church during a Million MAGA March in December. On Twitter, British YouTuber and writer Paul Joseph Watson posted: “House impeachment manager Rep Jamie Raskin falsely claimed that Trump supporters took part in the ‘burning of a church’ and ‘impaled’ police officers during his speech in the Senate yesterday,” in a tweet that received more than 800 likes and 300 retweets....