The B1G rig ran out of gas. The SEC drained its fuel. The Big Ten waged an all-out pursuit to rig the College Football Playoff with a stacked deck of automatic bids. Its plan for playoff evolution stalled after facing resistance from rival conferences. The Big Ten lacked support from the SEC, a necessary ally, to advance a 16-team playoff ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Fashion and culture collided with basketball on Friday during the 2025 WNBA All-Star weekend. USA TODAY’s Studio IX was on site with Wasserman Basketball and Ally for The Collective’s WNBA All-Star VIP party. Throughout the night, several of the biggest names in women’s basketball stopped by to walk the red carpet, take photos and mix and mingle. While ...
Former Obama administration officials named in new revelations surrounding the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation have been silent amid allegations they ‘manufactured’ intelligence that led to the opening of the yearslong probe. On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing ‘overwhelming evidence’ that demonstrated how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama ...
Former special counsel David Weiss got little support from the Department of Justice (DOJ) when he sought lawyers to help prosecute President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, Weiss told Congress during a recent closed-door interview. Amid delicate plea deal negotiations between Hunter Biden and Weiss in 2023, Weiss said he asked the DOJ deputy attorney general’s office for a team of ...
Iran on Monday confirmed it will not give up its nuclear enrichment program in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, set to air at 6 pm on Monday’s ‘Special Report.’ Araghchi confirmed that the U.S.’s top ambition in preventing Tehran from further developing a nuclear weapon by blocking all enrichment capabilities is ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is blasting people within her own party for ‘lying’ about her position during a key round of government funding votes late last week. ‘Google is free. If you’re saying I voted for military funding, you are lying. Receipts attached,’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote alongside several screenshots showing her vote ‘no’ on Republicans’ military funding bill. ‘Drag me for ...
WASHINGTON — One hundred games into a season is typically long past time a ballclub has its identity firmly established. Yet the San Diego Padres know it’s not too late to show the world exactly how good they are. And more specifically, to prove to club president A.J. Preller that their squad is worthy of the aggressive moves for which ...
While the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians have held their current names for a few years now, the teams and their past mascots – the Redskins and Indians, respectively – were thrown back into national conversation by President Donald Trump over the weekend. Trump said in a social media post on July 20 that the Guardians and the Commanders, each playing ...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released declassified documents related to the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server when she served in the federal government, revealing the FBI reportedly ‘failed to fully investigate’ the matter. ‘This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s ...
Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration sparred in federal court in Boston on Monday over the administration’s decision to slash roughly $2.6 billion in federal research funding for the university – the latest in a series of high-stakes court clashes that have pitted the Trump administration against the nation’s oldest university. Harvard sued the Trump administration in April ...