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“I wish they’d read a book, or study,” Homan said during a Monday interview with Fox News morning show Fox & Friends. “Go to the ICE website … to see what ICE does,” he said, arguing that the agency primarily targets undocumented individuals who have committed crimes, while also carrying out major drug busts and stopping child predators. Homan’s comments came after 76 anti-ICE demonstrators were arrested in New York on Saturday as they protested at a Microsoft store in the city, urging the company to end its collaboration with the agency....

Jeff Timmer, a political strategist and also a senior advisor to The Lincoln Project, issued the message to Trump, published by Michigan Advance, as he visited the state Thursday. Throughout, he focused on the impact of COVID-19, highlighting to Trump: “Hundreds of thousands of people have died. More than one hundred thousand more will yet die. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. Millions of businesses have closed and will never reopen....

In a three-and-a-half minute video posted to Instagram on Monday, Jocko Willink detailed how he would have handled the evacuation if he was the president of the United States. “If I were president, and I had put our country into the current situation in Afghanistan, I would tell America, our allies, our enemies, and the world, something like this…” reads a caption accompanying the clip. In the video, which sees Willink assume the role of commander-in-chief delivering an address to the nation, the ex-military man begins by accepting responsibility for the “critical errors” made during the withdrawal, in a pointed dig at President Joe Biden, before laying out his plans for extracting those still stranded in Afghanistan....

But David Meggyesy, former linebacker, activist author and players’ union executive, was alone among players back in 1968. Kaepernick has now been joined by a teammate, a fellow NFL player and, notably, U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe last weekend. MORE: NFL’s most hated players ever “That’s wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Good for those guys,” Meggyesy told Sporting News last weekend, upon hearing of the 49ers’ Eric Reid and the Seahawks’ Jeremy Lane also kneeling and sitting, respectively, before their games....

Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced Wednesday that Fryar and his mother, Allene McGhee, are charged with conspiring to steal more than $690,000. Prosecutors say the pair engaged in a "sophisticated mortgage fraud scam" by allegedly having McGhee obtain five loans on her home within a six-day period. The 51-year-old Fryar lives in Springfield, N.J., and is the pastor of a church he founded. He's also the head coach of the Robbinsville High School football team....

In a motion filed by Attorney General David Yost last week, Yost sought to add the regulator, Sam Randazzo, and two FirstEnergy executives who were terminated to the lawsuit. Yost sought the forfeiture of $4.3 million that the company admitted it paid to Randazzo in January of 2019 as insurance for Randazzo’s favor as the chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The motion claims that Randazzo, the target of an FBI investigation, transferred a home worth $500,000 to his son and sold four properties worth a combined $4....

Ike Taylor, former Steelers DB, won two Super Bowls with Ben Roethlisberger as his QB, but with Roethlisberger aging and a question mark at the QB position entering 2021, Taylor thinks it’s high time for Roethlisberger to file his retirement papers. Speaking with TMZ, Taylor offered some advice to Roethlisberger: Either hang ’em up or get to training. And if Roethlisberger decides to lace up the cleats for another season?...

Peter John Dalglish, 62, from Ontario, had helped children in poor countries for years with the organization he co-founded, Street Kids International, which ended up becoming part of the charity Save the Children. Convicted last month, on Monday he was jailed for nine years for abusing a 12-year-old boy and seven years for abusing a 14-year-old boy. He has also been told to pay compensation of 500,000 Nepalese rupees ($4,500) to each of his victims....

According to documents filed with the Federal Electoral Commission on Tuesday, George Papadopoulos will contest California’s 25th District as a Republican—the seat vacated by Democrat Katie Hill after allegations of improper relationships with staffers and illegal revenge porn photos were released. The photos that ultimately led to Hill’s resignation were published in the right-leaning Red State website and in the right-wing British tabloid, the Daily Mail. “California’s 25th congressional district looks like it’s for the taking,” Papadopoulos tweeted before allegations of impropriety surfaced and before the photos in question were released....

But George changed all that for me. I needed the vote. After two-plus decades, it started to seem a little bit coy to still be playing the Canadian card. I felt like the butt of that old joke about the very proper lady who, when asked if she would have sex with a strange man for a million dollars, allows that yes she would do it, for a million dollars....

These letters, which were linked to Hanssen through surveillance and fingerprints, constitute the strongest evidence in the government’s case against Hanssen. Some of the letters are expository, others are merely logistical. They reveal the day-to-day details of his espionage work and touch on personal aspects of his life, including his fear of the death penalty, his concern for his children and his inspiration for becoming a spy. OCTOBER 4, 1985...

After Malaysia were drawn in the same group with North Korea, Hong Kong and Lebanon in the third round of the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers draw held on Monday, Harimau Malaysia head coach Datuk Ong Kim Swee has laid out his plan to take his side to the final tournament. According to Kim Swee, qualification for his side will only be secured if they are able to collect 10 or 11 points from their six Group B matches....

She touts being an advocate for criminal justice reform, taking on the NRA, and fighting to protect the environment. But as of Friday, all of that was missing from her Spanish-language website. Asked about the discrepancy by Newsweek, Fried’s team quickly added the language in Spanish and fleshed out her biography on the page within two hours of the initial request for comment. According to a Newsweek archive of the website, the original Spanish-language page was only 95 words, and the only policy point it mentioned was Fried’s support for legalizing marijuana, while the updated page is 202 words and closely mirrors the English-language site on Fried protecting the environment, being a criminal justice reform advocate, and how she “expelled the NRA out of weapons license permitting....

These precautions are important in order to avoid a hip replacement dislocation. When this happens, the artificial ball of the upper leg (femur) slips out of the artificial hip socket. This article will explain the three precautions you need to take after your surgery and for how long. Precautions After Hip Replacement For at least the six weeks after surgery, and sometimes up to six months, you’ll need to take extra precautions as your mobility returns....

Alabama finds another way to win – by completely shutting down the Ole Miss offense. What do you make of the Crimson Tide? Anthony McFarland: Alabama is the best team in the country because they are the best-coached team in America and their best is better than anyone else’s best. Jared Zabransky: Alabama’s defense is improving week over week. The only time they’ve looked vulnerable was against A&M, but it’s hard to defend the A&M offense....

Postage stamp-sized adhesive patches have been developed that provide imaging of the heart, lungs, and other organs. They will be connected to your smartphone device - producing clear and continuous pictures for 48 hours. While women could see their own fetuses, it would also improve the monitoring of cancer patients’ tumors. They have a host of potential applications to speed up disease diagnosis and treatment. “We envision a few patches adhered to different locations on the body, and the patches would communicate with your cellphone, where AI algorithms would analyze the images on demand,” said the study’s senior author, Professor Xuanhe Zhao, a mechanical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology....

Every season, media members vote on the league’s best players and defenders. There are only 15 All-NBA spots up for grabs, made up of six guards, six forwards and three centers. There are even fewer All-Defensive spots available, with four guards, four forwards and two centers earning the honor. This season’s All-NBA debate is made all the more difficult by two of the three leading MVP candidates being centers. Both Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid are forward and center eligible on the All-NBA ballot despite the fact that they play center exclusively....

The public might be missing some important trends heading into Week 10, such as the extent of the Texans’ injuries, the Bears’ dominance at home against the spread, and the Chargers’ improvements. All of these factors should be considered before your finalize your picks NFL pick ’em advice, strategy You’re going to have to go against the crowd at some point to win your NFL pool. We all know that the only way to win a pick ’em pool is to get some picks right that your opponents get wrong....

Pandemic-induced disruptions to supply chains and labor shortages are driving up the prices of goods and leaving store shelves bare as deliveries are delayed. With experts anticipating the problem will worsen before it gets better, Americans are being advised to purchase holiday gifts before Halloween because it’s possible they won’t be available come Black Friday, the common start date for holiday shopping. Most items at Target have a 90-day return window, so consumers will have a few weeks after Christmas to decide if they want to keep or return an item even if it’s purchased in October....