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Twelve weeks remain for him to heal more and play better. Not impossible, considering where he is now compared to the debacle of opening night. MORE: Week 6 picks | Power rankings | Snyder on ‘Redskins’ "When it comes to timing here, timing there, sometimes you might be a little bit off coming back from an injury like I had,'' Griffin told reporters after practice Wednesday. It was a rare admission that after four weeks, he was not the player he was at his peak last season....

Staying home only puts a stronger spotlight on our need to socialize and celebrate with each other. Virtual happy hours now connect us with our colleagues. Through FaceTime, we pop bottles with friends and family to celebrate birthdays, new babies, weddings and holidays. We’ve adapted, and while life doesn’t look like what we once knew, we continue to celebrate. A new year brings us fresh beginnings and opportunities to drink differently than we have before....

Oakland made a big splash in free agency with the signing of former Ravens offensive lineman Kelechi Osemele. Penn felt the team was moving forward without him. MORE: NFL New League Year resolutions | Raiders are slaying free agency “I’m not going to lie, I’m going to (tell) you the truth. I was pissed,” Penn told Sirius XM Wednesday about the signing of Osemele. “I called (Raiders coach) Jack Del Rio as soon as I saw that signing....

It takes a bit of history to see Trump has a past as a sports owner that is, shall we say, as interesting as his present, and that includes his treatment of women. MORE: Badly timed Trump ads | Badly timed endorsement Those who ignore history … Legions of sports fans have no idea that Trump was owner of a professional football team. Not in the NFL, a bastion of staid conservatives that smacks of a gentlemen’s club....

Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump and a strong critic of his, discussed the newly released affidavit on her YouTube show on Friday and said that “we just need this to end.” A heavily redacted FBI affidavit was released on Friday following an order from Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart and despite much of the document being blacked out, the affidavit contained new information about the investigation....

In her book Confidence Man, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman details a number of examples in which the former president made disparaging remarks about non-white people down the years, including thinking a diverse group of Democratic congressional staffers were waiters at a White House reception in 2017. While examining whether the former president is racist, the book, a copy of which was obtained by Rolling Stone magazine ahead of its October release, describes the relationship between Trump and model Young, whom the former president dated for two years in the late 1990s....

On Monday, Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran filed a letter in federal court claiming that the former president did assert executive privilege over the subpoena issued more than a year ago to former White House adviser Peter Navarro. It comes less than a week before Navarro is to go to trial for contempt of Congress. Addressed to Navarro, Corcoran contends that the information sought by the subpoena from the House panel includes discussions that the former official had with Trump about “trade and manufacturing policy and a wide variety of other subjects, including topics that are important to the security of this country....

Trump said “radical left Democrats” have threatened to boycott products for several years, and now the left is “going big time with WOKE CANCEL CULTURE.” He said it’s time for Republicans to reciprocate the sentiment. Trump said this through a statement from former senior legal advisor Jenna Ellis: “It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back—we have more people than they do—by far! Boycott Major League Baseball (MLB), Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck,” the statement read....

Trump’s been teasing a return to the campaign trail since he left office and while he hasn’t officially announced a campaign, he said his supporters would be “very happy” with his decision. The former president leads polls of hypothetical 2024 GOP nominees and his entering the race could convince other presidential hopefuls not to run. However, with Trump out of the race, it’s likely several prominent Republicans would battle for the nomination....

Trump Jr. shared a video on social media of Trump mocking Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Milley during an impromptu speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort, in Florida, on Saturday. The former President drew cheers from the crowd after he hit out at Gen. Milley and commented on the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August. In his speech, the senior Trump bemoaned the number of U.S. equipment that was left behind during the botched effort to leave the country....

He claimed West’s creative expression is a celebration of Republican views. “Kanye West is cracking the culture code,” Trump Jr. said. “@kanyewest’s new album #JesusIsKing is the epitome of fearless creativity and “dangerous, unapproved” ideas.” Trump Jr. went on to say liberals may not like what West has to say on the religious album. “Leftists always try to silence those who are speaking truth. They’re waging a war on our family and culture,” he wrote....

Trump quote tweeted conservative commentator and Breitbart editor-at-large Joel Pollak, sharing a Newsweek story about 50 Cent’s support for the president. “Does Joe Biden think 50 cent is not black?” Trump questioned. The president’s son was seemingly making a reference to Biden’s May appearance on popular syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club. As previously reported, Biden told host Charlamagne Tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black....

“Once the medical community gives a region the okay meaning the okay to get going, to get back, let’s go to work,” Trump said. “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.” “I’m not looking at months, I’ll tell you that,” Trump added later. “We can’t keep it closed for years, okay?...

Stacia Robitaille tweeted Monday that Trump propositioned her while the two were in an elevator at New York’s Madison Square Garden. She said the incident occurred when her husband, Luc, was playing for the Rangers; that would put the encounter somewhere between 1995 and 1997. Luc Robitaille, now president of the Los Angeles Kings, signed a six-year, $19 million contract with the Rangers in September 1995 (contract details via The New York Times)....

“A lot of people in my community feel as though he is a part of the problem,” Torres, who lost both his cousin and her husband in the attack, told the network Thursday. “Many of the victims … didn’t want to see him right now. They didn’t want to hear his condolences,” he added, saying this was something the nation needed to “grasp.” “It’s not that we don’t appreciate his visit,” Torres continued....

The commander-in-chief still enjoys the approval of most Republicans, but satisfaction with his performance in office among the GOP dropped from a “career-high” 87 percent in July to 74 percent at the end of October, the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll has found. The survey conducted by Langer Research Associates between October 27-30 also found that 67 percent of conservatives, a separate group to Republicans, approved of Trump’s performance, a fall from 77 percent in July....

The former president, who announced in November that he would run again for president, reiterated his baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election in posts on his Truth Social platform on Saturday. But he went further by suggesting that the U.S. abandon one of its founding documents. “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in response to Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files....

The state Department of Economic and Community Development has approved a $175,000 grant for the film titled “My Many Sons” to be shot in Nashville. Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history, died in May of cancer. He was 69. He led his teams into the playoffs 19 times and compiled a 923-324 record during his 38-year career, most of which he spent at Lipscomb in Nashville and at Northern State University in South Dakota....

Instead of an account number, users can securely use an email address, phone number, or unique identifier on the peer-to-peer payment platform. Cash App accounts can also be linked to existing bank accounts in order to send money to and from the Cash App account. As the number of users on the app continues to grow, so do concerns about the protection of its users from scams such as money flip scams....

For the fourth season, the Cavaliers superstar is shutting himself off from the outside world by turning off his phone and blocking out social media for the duration of the playoffs. MORE: Classic LeBron photos | Is LeBron the MVP? | LeBron concerned over Cavs’ experience It’s something James started doing in 2012 after his Heat lost to the Mavericks in six games in the NBA Finals. “I don’t have no phones, no social media, I don’t have anything,” James said during Tuesday’s shootaround....