The NFL announced Friday that Saints receiver Willie Snead has been suspended three games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. “We are aware of it. That will factor into how we plan for the early part of the season,” Saints coach Sean Payton said Friday. SIGN UP to watch every NFL game this season on DAZN Snead, undrafted out of Ball State in 2014, caught 72 passes for 895 yards and four touchdowns last season....
The Saints on Saturday released the wide receiver with a left squad designation after he opted to leave training camp just one day after playing in New Orleans’ first preseason game. While Saints coach Sean Payton didn’t provide a reason for Matthews’ departure, he did specify that it was the veteran’s decision. “It’s not for everyone at this point,” Payton said, per NOLA.com. “We’ll look this week to bring a few different players in....
Denver was without all of its rostered quarterbacks due to COVID-19 protocols and lost to New Orleans 31-3 on Sunday at Empower Field at Mile High. Kendall Hinton, a promoted practice squad receiver, got the passing duties for the Broncos while they also let Royce Freeman and Phillip Lindsay take snaps in quarterback alignment. With Taysom Hill on the other side, that meant that the NFL’s 2020 pass-heavy identity was nowhere to be found....
Or so we thought. On June 16, the citizens of Russia will vote in the first round of an election that may yet stand on its head every assumption a smug, triumphalist West has made about the New World Order. Eleven candidates are running for Russia’s immensely powerful presidency. If no single candidate gets more than half the votes in the first round, the leading two will face each other in a runoff, most likely in early July....
Russia’s Interior Ministry confirmed the incident in a statement on Telegram. The Udmurtia branch of the Interior Ministry said the gunman had killed himself, and that police had found his body. Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the gunman as Artem Kazantsev, born in 1988, a native of Izhevsk, and a graduate of the school. The committee said he wore a black t-shirt with “Nazi symbols.” “Currently, investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee are conducting a search at his place of residence, the identity of the attacker, his views and surroundings are being studied,” the committee said in a statement....
In an interview with The Atlantic, 38-year-old Anton Shalaev, who recently fled Russia in the wake of Putin’s conscription announcement, said that when the invasion of Ukraine began, “it became clear to me that the old man [Putin] had nothing to lose.” “He is a psychopath and does not care what happens to us all, to our economy, to our future,” Shalaev said. “My only hope is that he has some instinct for self-protection that will stop him from nuking us all....
The former president, who announced in November he would be seeking re-election in 2024, has said several times he believes he could resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine within hours, were he in office. On Saturday, Trump told a crowd gathered in Salem, New Hampshire, that he could end the Ukraine war in just one day. He said his “personality” had kept the U.S. “out of war” during his time in office, but “even now, I could solve that in 24 hours....
The pro-Kremlin propagandist’s remark was part of his interview with Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Middle East, who spoke about the war during a recent segment. A clip from the interview was posted to Twitter on Friday by Julia Davis, a columnist at The Daily Beast and creator of the Russian Media Monitor, which added English subtitles to the interview. Satanovsky was giving an assessment of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which he described as a “holy war,” before the TV host weighed in and said that he believes Russia is “getting into a gigantic European war....
The troops were sent to the Central Asian nation last week by a military alliance of six former Soviet states called the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Tokayev requested the security forces to help quell protests that erupted on January 2 over soaring fuel prices but quickly spread across the nation and grew to signify larger dissatisfaction with Kazakhstan’s authoritarian rule. It was the worst public unrest in the country since it gained independence three decades ago, with dozens of civilians and law enforcement officers killed....
Yaroslav Yemelianenko, a council member of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, posted on Facebook that Russian “terrorists” had been digging in the Red Forest—named after the color of trees contaminated by the disaster of April 26, 1986, and which lies within the exclusion zone. While nuclear experts on Twitter have been disputing whether troops could have suffered “acute radiation syndrome” from digging in the soil, as some outlets reported, the claim highlights the concern over nuclear power plants being caught up in the war in Ukraine....
Journalist Francis Scarr posted a video on Twitter of a nighttime crowd gathered on Moscow’s main pedestrian street of Arbat, shouting, “Send Putin to the trenches!” Arbat Street is located only about a mile from the Kremlin, Putin’s official residence. The gathering followed Putin’s announcement on Wednesday in response to a Ukrainian counteroffensive in regions like the Donbas. Part of the mobilization includes a transfer of forces in Izyum and Balakliya for what Russian officials refer to as the continued liberation of the Donetsk People’s Republic....
During an interview on ABC’s This Week released on Sunday, Bowers spoke about the pressure he faced from Trump and his associates in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona where Biden won by almost 11,000 votes. Bowers joined a list of Republicans who have broken with the former president, and testified against him before the Select House committee. In his testimony, Bowers said that Trump and his legal team discussed a plot with him that would allegedly appoint pro-Trump election officials who would falsely declare a victory for the former president in the state....
But perhaps no first-round matchup is more peculiar than the 10-7 matchup between Clemson and Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights (-1) opened as the only 10-seed to be favored in their respective matchup, though both they and the Tigers have issues the other team can capitalize on in the first round. Neither team inspired much confidence heading into March Madness, which makes their meeting all the more interesting. Clemson (16-7, 10-6 ACC) has a better record than Rutgers (15-11, 10-10 Big Ten); but it’s important to note the Tigers play in what’s considered a mediocre ACC while the Scarlet Knights record is likely skewed by the difficulty of the Big Ten, which is the clear top conference in basketball this season....
Ginsburg, who died Friday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87, made the comments September 12, 2018, while speaking during a discussion hosted by the George Washington University Law School. The event took place just days after Kavanaugh had his confirmation hearing, during which senators questioned the judge on his potential racial profiling tactics, among other topics. The discussion also took place the same day The Intercept reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein had possession of a Kavanaugh-related document, but was still withholding it from the Senate Judiciary Committee....
The Texans quarterback missed the team’s charter flight to Miami for Sunday’s game against the Dolphins, the Houston Chronicle reported. Mallett had to take a commercial flight to join the team. MORE: Week 7 picks | Betting lines, odds | NFL scoreboard Mallett, of course, drew the wrath of coach Bill O’Brien in August when he missed a practice, claiming he had overslept. Mallett vowed to get a new alarm clock....
The Englishman made his Ryder Cup debut in Europe’s 2004 victory at Oakland Hills and helped the team retain the title two years later at the K Club near Dublin. His most recent appearance came in a defeat to the United States at Valhalla in September 2008. Casey failed to qualify automatically and was overlooked by Colin Montgomerie for a captain’s pick in 2010 and has not featured since....
Finally, the wait is over for Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar’s Maharashtrian fans who were looking forward to his reading his autobiography in Marathi. His eagerly-anticipated autobiography “Playing It My Way” in the first non-English language, Marathi, has gone for printing and will be released in the markets, both online and offline, from May 30, said Mehta Publishing House founder-chief Anil Mehta. “Currently, the book is in the presses and we are printing 20,000 copies in the first run....
On Tuesday afternoon, the SafeMoon Twitter account shared a screenshot of a donation progress bar that had passed the 100 percent mark. The tweet read: “Fundraiser complete! Thank you so much! All will go towards the SafeMoon exchange!” Details on the proposed SafeMoon exchange are scarce. The cryptocurrency, which was set up last month, has been listed on a number of other exchanges, including ZBG, but has yet to make its debut on major platforms such as Binance or Coinbase....
The 25-year-old, who finished runner-up at the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta on Sunday, gained a total of 3600 points that saw her total tally jump from 79192 points to 82792 points. That meant she toppled Carolina Marin, who despite winning the title, gained no points. Saina has had a fantastic 2015 so far; she became the first Indian woman shuttler to reach the final of the All England Open and reached the number one position in the world during the India Open in March....
