The threat came one day after violent mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, where they broke windows and barricades, clashed with police, and occupied congressional offices. Lawmakers in Michigan were sent an alert at the Capitol in Lansing this morning telling them to stay away from the building after a threat was called in around 6:45 a.m. Michigan State Police then swept the area with investigators and bomb-sniffing dogs, ABC News 13 reported....

Michigan State and Texas Tech have allowed fewer than 70 points in all four of their NCAA Tournament games, and each has certainly earned its place in the Final Four after Elite Eight wins over No. 1 seeds Duke and Gonzaga, respectively. MORE: Watch the Final Four live and on-demand on fuboTV (7-day free trial) The Spartans. using tremendous play from Cassius Winston, fended off a Blue Devils team led by top NBA Draft prospects Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett....

The U.S. could also be considering deployment to the Gulf of Iron Dome batteries acquired from Israel. Among the threats these batteries defend against are drones, and Iran has used drones to attack Saudi Arabia and threaten Israel and other U.S. allies. Iran has also reportedly positioned new armed drones in Yemen that could reach Israel. On January 23, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that Israel intercepted a drone that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli airspace....

The video was posted to TikTok over the weekend by 7thGradeChronicles. So far, it has amassed more than 6 million views, over 830,000 likes and thousands of comments from viewers who said the video made them laugh. Many commenters claiming to be parents also joked that they felt “targeted” by the students’ answers and said they were shocked to learn that they were potentially embarrassing their teens. Of course, most teens are, at one point or another, embarrassed by the adults in their lives....

What happened in between was a chronology of diplomatic feints and compromises fit to fill a foreign-service textbook. But key to the process were the one-on-one relations Bush has built with other players in this savage confrontation, especially the Saudis. As the Bush administration now tries to move the process toward a preliminary peace conference in early summer (so preliminary, in fact, it doesn’t know what to call itself), the president’s personal take on the major players will be crucial to his own credibility, and to theirs....

Zibanejad missed Tuesday’s 4-1 win over the Lightning and is expected to miss Saturday’s contest in Nashville, according to the New York Post’s Larry Brooks. Late in the first period, Bergeron was going for the puck near the half boards, and as Zibanejad came toward him, Bergeron checked the 26-year-old up high with his shoulder that appeared to make contact with the neck/jaw area of the Ranger forward. Zibanejad would return to the ice for another shift before heading to the locker room....

In a piece for the Chicago Sun-Times, the former Bears coach criticized the tests and measurements that the combine requires, saying he was glad it wasn’t around when he was a coach in the 1980s. MORE: Classic photos of Mike Ditka | Ranking every Super Bowl winner He even used linebacker Mike Singletary and tackle Steve McMichael as examples of players who would have been overlooked. Singletary and McMichael were on Ditka’s Super Bowl-winning team....

The result was a fantastic combination of two successful, established franchises, one that both enthralled and challenged players. It was an application we’d never seen for the Mario gang, tempered by the silliness of the Rabbids for a fun yet surprisingly cohesive tale that gripped you from the opening moments of the game. Now, the Mario gang and the Rabbids have returned for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, the continuation of what will hopefully be a lengthy partnership between these two blockbuster brands....

The Mariupol City Council said in a Telegram post Monday that its residents are dying from a “shortage of drugs for cancer patients, people with diabetes, tuberculosis and problems with the thyroid gland.” It is the latest warning from Ukrainian officials of the desperate conditions that civilians are facing in the strategically vital city. Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said in the post that people who rely on drugs to treat illnesses “are at risk and cannot wait for the occupiers to deliver medicines....

Greene’s spokesperson said that the accusations were a lie and that Greene continued to be a strong supporter of Trump. Laura Loomer, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist who ran for Florida congress in 2020, posted a number of accusations against Greene on Telegram. She wrote that the Republican is “undermining” Trump with Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor and alt-right figurehead, whom the congresswoman hired as a congressional intern in June....

“The government can’t mandate a vaccine if there are treatments for covid, and early treatment of Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies is a CURE in most cases,” she wrote in a Telegram post. “Withholding these treatments is murder, and I believe the government is responsible.” Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that some believe can treat COVID, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health warned that it is unauthorized for use in COVID patients....

The so-called “Squad” of progressive Democrats—including Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Cori Bush of Missouri, and Jamaal Bowman of New York—voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill along with most Republicans. The progressive lawmakers had long maintained that they would not support the legislation unless it was approved in tandem with President Joe Biden’s larger partisan Build Back Better “human infrastructure” bill....

The day after the August 2020 shooting, Pressley posted on Twitter that Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist domestic terrorist.” She’s faced some criticism for the tweet, given that Rittenhouse and the victims are white, and some have accused her of defaming Rittenhouse and creating the potential for an unfair trial. After the verdict was rendered on Friday, Greene posted on Twitter that Pressley owes the 18-year-old an apology. “We will continue to maintain that in America, defendants are innocent until proven guilty....

Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday that aid from the United States would possibly go toward funding “Nazi militias” instead of everyday Ukrainians. Greene blasted her message worldwide Sunday through her Twitter account. She wrote that she was opposed to “Putin’s war” and the invasion that happened in late February. She also said Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky was using his own military to “torture his own people....

They drove around the places Dantonio liked to go as a kid. He visited former high school coach Ron Apperson. Dantonio knows where he came from. It’s familiar territory. Big Ten Media Days weren’t much different. The Spartans are the defending conference champions but are picked behind Ohio State and Michigan in most preseason publications. The first time Dantonio was told nobody voted for the Spartans, he quipped, “I didn’t vote for any of the reporters, either....

Emmett pledged $100,000 in scholarship money to UW while serving as the institution’s president from 2004 to 2010. Upon leaving UW to run the NCAA, Emmert fulfilled $51,000 of that pledge but hasn’t contributed since, USA Today reported. 2016 PREVIEW: Bama | Baylor | Clemson | LSU | Notre Dame | Ohio State The university is still after that $49,000. “The president of the university is the lead fundraiser,” said Jay M....

Harmon, the star of the television drama “NCIS,” will be honored alongside the Campbell Trophy recipient at the 62nd Annual NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 10 that will celebrate the 150th anniversary of college football. The NFF Gold Medal recognizes athletes with accomplishments and a reputation that reflects the values of college football. It is NFF’s most prestigious award and was first presented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958....

Sanchez said the team brought Tebow in because “we needed another guy to throw” while projected starter Sam Bradford recovered from a knee injury. It began to re-ignite rumors of tension between the two. MORE: Bank on Tebow making roster | Is Jameis Winston another Tebow? “I think that kind of came off the wrong way,” Sanchez told reporters last week. “At least it was not exactly what I intended to say....