In the wake of two mass shootings in America over the weekend that left dozens dead, Carlson called Americans’ growing concerns about the rise of white supremacy and white nationalism a “hoax” during his opening monologue on Tuesday. It’s a “conspiracy theory used to divide the country,” the host said, lashing out at the media for criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio....

The company, who has been studying the impact of fuel prices on consumer vehicle purchase behavior bi-monthly since 2005, says that in its January 2022 study, 65 percent of respondents said that they expect fuel prices to increase in the near future but only 23 percent of them said that the higher prices would cause them to change the type of vehicle they would purchase. In August 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when commuting was at a virtual standstill, just 15 percent of survey respondents said that fuel prices would impact purchasing which was down from a high of 33 percent in 2012....

Democratic Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has said she will not vote in support of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan. The plan is considered an important part of Biden’s and congressional Democrats’ agenda leading into the 2022 midterm elections. “While I support beginning this process, I do not support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion,” Sinema said. Her statement could indicate her flexibility over its final proposals or spending limits. She has not yet indicated which she might be willing to support though....

He said he and the late John Lewis concluded, “it had the possibilities of doing to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what ‘Burn, baby, burn’ did to us back in 1960.” Biden, and even President Barack Obama, would follow suit in pointing to the potential of the movement that arose to national prominence after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, to divide rather than bring people under its banner....

McConnell made the remarks to reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday when he was asked about the Republican Party “embracing” the former president following the January 6 Capitol riot. Republicans are hoping to regain control of the Senate next year and possibly the House of Representatives as well, while many in the GOP still see Trump as the party’s leader and he has continued to push unfounded claims of voter fraud in the last presidential election....

“The Republican Party is in deep disarray and he’s solid as granite. I mean, he’s right where he was when he left,” Tim Malloy, an analyst for the Quinnipiac University poll, told Newsweek. Just days after the Senate acquitted Trump in his second impeachment trial, three out of four Republicans — 75 to 21 percent — told Quinnipiac they would like to see the former president play a prominent role in the GOP....

First Deputy Police Supt. Eric Carter made the announcement that starting from Friday, all scheduled days off for all sworn personnel will be canceled in an internal memo seen by the Chicago-Sun Times. “All RDO [regular day off] personnel will be attired in the prescribed regulation field uniform of the day, including helmet, baton and yellow safety vest,” Carter said. In a statement to Newsweek, a Chicago Police spokesman added: “To enhance public safety and to address current crime patterns, all full-duty sworn members will have one regular day off canceled this upcoming weekend between November 12, 2021 through November 14, 2021....

It comes as voters in so-called Super Tuesday 2 states—Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington state—headed to the polls. After Biden dealt a humbling blow to Sanders’ campaign in the Super Tuesday voting contests last week, the Vermont senator will need a good showing tonight to regain momentum for his campaign. Biden made a comeback last week after former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke dropped out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed the former vice president’s campaign....

Howls coming from Alberta oil country are for Eakins’ head. There’s talk of trades to fix the mix on a team that, despite having the No. 1 pick in more recent drafts than the worst NFL team, hasn’t been able to put anything together. There might be no stronger message than the ones fans delivered Saturday. It went something like this: “Boo!” These Oilers are a ghost of the franchise that went to the Stanley Cup finals in 2006....

Goal USA sources have confirmed a Washington Post report that revealed contact between former U.S. coach Bruce Arena and U.S. Soccer over the past few months about stepping in and replacing Klinsmann. Arena has recently signed a new contract with the LA Galaxy, but he would be allowed to leave the position in order to take over as U.S. coach. Why Klinsmann’s job should be in jeopardy Klinsmann is expected to meet with U....

Indeed, the perception that the crisis is approaching a dangerous new level is not confined to Pyongyang. According to the Kyodo News Agency, Tokyo might soon deploy two Aegis-equipped warships with missile-tracking technology near the Korean Peninsula. In Washington, meanwhile, the Pentagon put 24 long-range bombers on alert for possible dispatch to the region and signaled that the departures of some 2,900 troops scheduled to complete tours in South Korea might be delayed to keep America’s combat presence at full strength....

The statement was released in response to a reported nationwide trend circulating across the app in which users threatened to perform school shootings on December 17. “We handle even rumored threats with utmost seriousness, which is why we’re working with law enforcement to look into warnings about potential violence at schools even though we have not found evidence of such threats originating or spreading via TikTok,” the app’s statement read....

Now you’ll know them not because of Beast Mode, the Legion of Boom or the woke locker room, but by their neon uniforms. Maybe that’s good enough for Seattle these days: Dress different, act like the masses. It wasn’t good enough before, though, when the Seahawks nurtured an identity, lived by their own rules and stayed late at the playoff party every year. Here’s how this emerging version of the Seahawks make news now: — Unloading veterans for salary-cap reasons....

The national average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded gas hit $4 this week, just a few cents shy of the national record set nearly 14 years ago in July 2008 when it was about $4.11 per gallon. Industry experts said last week that it is likely the U.S. will soon set a new national average gas price record in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The military conflict has raised concerns about potential disruptions to the global oil supply, and prices at the pump have increased in response....

Abbott made the announcement during a Tuesday press briefing. The governor acknowledged that while many people will be able to return to the jobs they held before lockdown measures were put in place, many others will need to look for new jobs. “I wanted to share information with the public about so many job openings that are out there,” Abbott said. “Believe it or not, we have close to half a million jobs that are available as we speak right now… there are a lot of different types of job openings we have....

Asensio, 21, has starred early in the season, scoring four goals in five games in all competitions, including a brace against Valencia on Sunday. The three-time Spain international was lauded by Vazquez, who joined him in Julen Lopetegui’s squad as a replacement for the injured Vitolo. “He is spectacular,” Vazquez told Cadena SER about Asensio. “He is at a very high level and still has to grow. We hope to enjoy him a lot....

Babbitt, 35, was part of the mob of Donald Trump supporters that stormed the building while Congress was preparing to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Footage of the moment when Babbitt was shot was widely shared online. It showed rioters trying to break through a glass door separating a hallway from the Speaker’s Lobby and Chamber. As the crowd were attempting to smash through the door, Babbitt began climbing through a broken window....

But when the roster was announced on Wednesday, it was revealed that she would not be making the trip overseas to represent the country in 2021. However, Harris said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that while to say she is not disappointed “would be a massive understatement,” she chose to look on the bright side of what her life has brought to her in 2021. “The last several months have been extremely difficult but I’ve met it with hard work, grace and finding joy off the field....

Defense Secretary Les Aspin explained to NEWSWEEK that the Pentagon last April set up two groups to look at the issue from different perspectives the Rand group and a panel of three-star generals and admirals. “At each stage of the process, you’d take the conclusions from one study and match them against the conclusions from the other study,” said Aspin. “We kept developing both of these alternatives until it came time to choose, We eventually chose the military working group alternative....

The American Lung Association (ALA) thinks that could change if more kids were able to control asthma through medication and management plans. The group is urging parents to work with a physician to create a written back-to-school plan that includes individualized information about the child’s particular symptoms, attack triggers, daily medications, rescue inhaler (to be used if an attack has started), limitations on physical activity and specific instructions about what to do and whom to call if a child has an attack at school....