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You can’t say that about a program that has put together five seasons with double-digit victories since 2010. That stat sneaks up on you, but the Cowboys won’t do that this season. It’s time for something more heading into Mike Gundy’s 13th season in Stillwater. Oklahoma State has two Heisman Trophy candidates in quarterback Mason Rudolph and receiver James Washington. Bob Stoops is out at Oklahoma. Everything appears to be in the right direction for that playoff dream to finally come true....

"Maria has pushed her team to do fun, out-of-the-box-type things to get the word out about Sugarpova," agent Max Eisenbud told ESPN's Darren Rovell. "In Miami, we're going to fill a glass truck full of candy and drive it around town. This was an idea that fell along those lines. But, at the end of the day, we would have to change all her identification, she has to travel to Japan and China right after the tournament and it was going to be very difficult....

Because of these experiences—and having lived my own life, of course—I know the emotional terrain of desperation fairly well. Such ground is no longer shocking to me. It has a strange familiarity. Since groups of people are simply a collection of individuals, the same psychological principles apply to a collective as to one person. The desperate group in question now is the people of the United States. To put it simply, America is having a nervous breakdown....

Firms such as Oakland-based Hound Labs and Canadian company SannTek are hoping to have working products ready in the latter half of 2020, the Sacramento Bee reported. Co-founder of Hound Labs Mike Lynn, said that his company’s test will show if someone has used marijuana within a three-hour window—which is when the strongest effects of the drug can be felt and driving is most impaired. Earlier this year, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety published the results of a survey which indicated that nearly 15 million Americans had driven a vehicle within an hour of smoking marijuana or using cannabis products in the 30 days prior to the survey....

Some 18,000 Afghans who worked for the U.S. military as translators, interpreters and in other roles have thus far applied for visas to relocate to the U.S. While the White House and the Department of Defense have taken significant steps to evacuate many of these individuals and their families, many of their fates’ remain in limbo—as the Taliban’s dominance within the country steadily increases. “They saved lives,” Travis Horr, a Marine residing in Washington D....

It’s a move with a big backstory. Morales played for Seattle in 2013, hitting 23 homers with a .277 average and .785 OPS. The Mariners extended a qualifying offer after the season, but Morales didn’t accept and instead became a free agent. With the draft-pick compensation attached, though, no team signed him, and he stayed on the market until after June’s draft and teams no longer had to give up a pick to sign the slugger....

The tanker called RAVA was carrying 249 meters of crude oil when a mechanical failure caused it to get dragged as it made its way back to the Yenikoy district of Istanbul, according to the Directorate General. KEGM sent two tugboats and successfully intervened. “Our rescue 8 tugboat and KEGM 5 fast rescue boat were also urgently directed to the tanker, which was stopped 300 meters before the beach. Istanbul Strait traffic has been suspended,” KEGM tweeted Friday afternoon....

Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, has become the subject of huge criticism this week following a series of media reports showing her previous support for conspiracy theories. HRC is the largest LGBTQ advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the U.S. The group issued a statement on Friday saying Greene had supported “sedition and domestic terrorism.” “The news that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene openly endorsed executing public officials and harassed a teenage victim of gun violence, is deeply disturbing,” HRC president Alphonso David said in a statement....

She specifically named Republican Reps. John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming as several of the “traitors” who should be ousted. In a series of tweets posted Friday afternoon, Greene said that she “waited a week to see if action would be taken, after 13 Republican traitors voted to pass Biden’s agenda before speaking publicly.” “Without 19 (Republican senators) & 13 (Republican) House Members, there would be no Infrastructure or (Build Back Better) bill right now,” she continued, in reference to the House Republicans who voted in support of the $1....

Josh Holmes, a former McConnell aide who stopped working for the senator in 2015, posted a link to an article published by the Associated Press. The article outlined allegations against Walker, a Trump-backed potential candidate to run for the Senate in Georgia. Citing public records, the article alleged that Walker repeatedly threatened to kill his ex-wife and “exaggerated his success.” “This is about as comprehensive a takedown as I’ve ever read....

Loomer filed to run for Congress on Wednesday and is looking to unseat Democratic Representative Lois Frankel, to whom she lost in 2020 by 20 points. A controversial face in the Republican Party, Loomer’s described Islam as a “cancer on humanity” and has been banned from various social media platforms, as well as ride-share apps, for her comments about Muslims. In a tweet Thursday morning, Greene called Loomer a “friend” who is “exactly the type of America First Patriot that I need standing beside me on the House floor....

Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, said the freshman congresswoman’s dedication to promoting a number of conspiracy theories, including that space lasers caused California wildfires, are holding the GOP back. “If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party. She is weighing us down,” Sterling told Politico on Monday. Greene and Sterling have previously butted heads. During the November election, Sterling became a vocal critic of the unsubstantiated claims of election fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies, like Greene, bolstered....

Although Greene did not name which country she suspects of attacking the pipelines—which were created to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany and were damaged last week, with some officials suggesting Russia was to blame—many viewers took her comments to mean that she was saying the U.S. was responsible for the attack. Newsweek has reached out to Greene, representative for Georgia, for clarification and comment. The politician wrote a string of tweets outlining her views about the incident and made further claims on the One America News network (OAN) over the weekend....

In the episode’s cold open, Kate McKinnon hosts a show—“What Still Works?"— that explores which aspects of American society still work. “It’s a new year and we have a new president so some things should work, but do they?” McKinnon says. “Our first topic is government and already I have my doubts,” she added. McKinnon then brought out Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is facing a backlash after past social media posts revealed that she had liked and engaged with conspiracy theories and calls for violence against Democrats....

Gab is an alternative social media network that champions free speech, and has attracted neo-Nazis, white supremacists and QAnon conspiracy theorists. QAnon is a disproven and discredited American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles was running a global child sex-trafficking ring. The conspiracy theory alleges the secret cabal looked to remove former President Donald Trump from office. In a report released on Tuesday, the association of American jews said followers of Greene post content involving white supremacist rhetoric, symbols, and grievance on Gab....

The speech by Greene, which went viral after it was shared on social media, was made at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday, when Greene spoke about the possibility of Republicans winning both the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. “The only border that [Democrats] care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border,” Greene said. “Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine, our country comes first....

Greene is a regular guest on Bannon’s right-wing podcast, The War Room, and has criticized the investigation by the congressional House committee into the circumstances of the U.S. Capitol riots carried out by supporters of former President Donald Trump. The freshman Georgia Republican told conservative outlet Newsmax how she backed Bannon, 67, who surrendered to the authorities on Monday following his federal grand jury indictment. Outside the D.C. courthouse only a few hundred feet from where Trump supporters stormed the U....

In a series of tweets shared on Saturday, the GOP lawmaker slammed left-wing protesters who carried out a brief riot in downtown Atlanta before police brought the situation under control. “Atlanta police are under attack by Antifa terrorists. Left-wing terrorism is the biggest threat to democracy. When will Merrick Garland and DOJ (Department of Justice) go after actual terrorists instead of MAGA/ Trump supporters,” Greene wrote. She later posted a photo of a burning vehicle and added in another tweet: “It’s happening again tonight in Atlanta....

In an interview with MSNBC’s Katie Phang on Sunday morning Walsh said, “Kevin McCarthy is a hollow man. Look this is too late, these House moderates who want Republicans to focus on immigration or healthcare or inflation, it’s too late. The American people don’t know who these House Republican moderates are. They know who Marjorie Taylor Greene is.” Walsh continued, saying, “McCarthy will probably be Speaker, but let’s be real....

Cuban’s tweet came in response to Dallas radio personality Mark Davis, who tweeted at Cuban on Sunday about the possibility that players could kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner” when the NBA resumes its 2019-2020 season in Orlando, Florida, later this month. Davis assumed that Cuban would make sure his NBA team wouldn’t take a knee. “I am so ready to be be in on this year’s #Mavericks home stretch: so much promise, so much personality,” Davis tweeted....