Republicans have hinted they will likely pass a future round of such support, but have suggested waiting to see what is required, as businesses begin to open up again across the U.S. This hesitation has been condemned by Dems eager to push their $3 trillion HEROES Act through the Senate, having passed it in the House last week. The Republican majority in the Senate has pushed against the bill, while it has been suggested President Donald Trump could veto it even should it manage to pass....

Biden was already the oldest person ever to serve as president but now he’s 79-years-old, he’s set another new record for the greatest age reached by any serving commander in chief. The longtime record-holder was former President Ronald Reagan, who was 77-years-old when he left office in 1989. Biden was 78-years-old on inauguration day on January 20 this year. His birthday is likely to add further fuel to speculation about his role in the 2024 presidential election - a topic that has already seen his age become a major focus of concern....

In an interview with NBC News, Biden warned that “things could go crazy quickly” in the region" as he said “we’re dealing with one of the largest armies in the world.” Amid the buildup of more than 100,000 troops by Russia’s border with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has insisted he doesn’t want war. However, Russia is set to kick off large-scale naval drills in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov....

He had just joined the UC squad by completing the requirements for freshman eligibility. MORE: Every No. 1 pick since 1960 | Nets have right idea | What top free agents should do I had just taken over the Bearcats and college basketball beats for the Cincinnati Enquirer. The person I met that day bore little resemblance to the one who walked out the door, albeit on crutches, a little more than three years later....

And then the recording proclaiming him as “the originator of sports talk radio in Memphis” would play — and it darned near could have called him the originator of sports talk radio, period — and his microphone would go hot. And George would begin another episode of “Sports Time” on WHBQ. And you would swear he was just fine. MORE: John Calipari’s 10 greatest players ever This was George’s little miracle over the past three years, as he has battled a disease called Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis — IPF for short, though it is uncommon enough that not many ever need an abbreviation....

The mission of the DEA is to enforce laws and regulations related to “controlled substances,” which include illegal drugs such as heroin and legal but closely monitored drugs such as prescription opioids. But during some of the most critical years of the opioid epidemic, the agency seems to have supported opioid manufacturing. In a scathing 77-page report, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) said the DEA was “slow to respond” to the crisis in a number of ways, failing to develop a comprehensive strategy to cull the epidemic and to cut production quotas for manufacturers profiting off their drugs’ widespread abuse....

A new report from Axios says that after Sanders stated he was comfortable with the $3.5 trillion price tag, Manchin reportedly said that he was “comfortable with zero” and telling Sanders that he’d be OK with the Senate not passing the bill at all. The disagreement was described to Axios by a witness, Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who called the encounter a “disagreement in opinion” between Manchin and Sanders....

Appearing in the local newspaper Tulsa World, State Representative Kevin McDugle said Glossip’s death penalty case was “perhaps the most unsettling” in Oklahoma as he called for executions to be stayed if authorities could not “guarantee accuracy.” He also said no jury had been able to hear an “avalanche of new witnesses” willing to testify that Glossip had “nothing to do” with the murder of Barry Van Treese in 1997....

Then-Senator Joe Biden refused to support a GOP-led effort to increase the debt ceiling, making arguments that closely reflect those advanced by Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party today. “My vote against the debt limit increase cannot change the fact that we have incurred this debt already, and will no doubt incur more,” Senator Biden said following his “nay” vote in 2006. “It is a statement that I refuse to be associated with the policies that brought us to this point....

The Fire Club have struggled to score on the road in the competition so far and needed two late goals to eliminate Al Tahady in the preliminary round. They were unable to record a single shot on target in the first half when they faced Algerian team ES Setif in the last qualifying round on Wednesday. However, they were bailed out thanks to Sam Adams’ late goal from the spot in the second half....

The 21-year-old could have chosen to represent Netherlands through his Dutch mother, but the exciting Los Blancos winger has never represented the country at any level. Instead, Asensio played for Spain through the youth categories before making his senior debut against Switzerland in 3-1 victory in May 2016. Spain 7/1 to win WC Things could have been very different had he succumbed to Netherlands’ advances when Van Nistelrooy made the call, though Asensio is adamant he never wavered from his Spain dream....

All-rounder Marsh, selected for his first appearance of the series ahead of vice-captain Travis Head, took 4-35 as England collapsed from 170-3 to 226-8 after tea. Pat Cummins (2-73) and Josh Hazlewood (2-76) also did damage on the opening day after Tim Paine won the toss and opted to bowl as the tourists — who retained the urn by taking a 2-1 lead at Old Trafford last weekend — strive to secure a series win....

He might as well have proposed turning the Tour d’Argent into a sushi bar. The staid daily Le Figaro splashed SCANDAL across its front page. The director of French museums huffed that “even the most pharaohesque of pharaohs took care of the art works that were buried with them.” More explicit Japan-bashing came from the Tribune de Geneve, a Swiss daily: “Masterpieces in Peril-the Yellow Peril,” ran the caption below its cartoon of a bucktoothed Asian man tossing paintings into an open coffin....

The California-born singer and actress, 30, reveled in a dream-come-true moment on the set of her Netflix show Emily in Paris, when she performed the BTS megahit “Dynamite” during an episode on Season 2. After “throwing it out there” that she would love to cover a song by her favorite band on the Lily Collins-fronted comedy, Park revealed that the producers “miraculously got the rights” to the chart-topping track....

Kutcher was shown chatting up legendary Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable during the meet. Kutcher grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career, thus explaining his Hawkeyes affiliation. He and Kunis have been rumored to be secretly engaged following his divorce from Demi Moore, which was finalized around the end of November. NOTE: The original version of this story had incorrectly attributed the game as a women’s volleyball match....

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) said a resident in the city of Blaine, near the border with Canada, spotted an “unusually large” hornet on their property on December 8. The individual alerted the WSDA, and said they had also seen a live giant hornet at a hummingbird feeder, before it headed into a forest. Officials visited the property and took the huge bug away. It was later confirmed as an invasive Asian giant hornet....

The U.S. Embassy called the verdict a “cruel sham” and said it showed that President Alexander Lukashenko’s “regime will stop at nothing to keep power.” Viktor Babariko, the head of a commercial bank owned by Russian natural gas company Gazprom, hoped to challenged Lukashenko last year but was arrested before the election and was prohibited from registering as a candidate. He was convicted on Tuesday on counts of bribery and money laundering....

More specifically, in those whose liver function is already compromised by either acute or chronic illness, surgery may tip the scales in favor of liver decompensation, or worsening of liver disease, liver failure, and death. Therefore, surgery must be carefully considered if you have liver disease. Factors that are assessed in potential surgical candidates with liver disease include the following: acuity, cause, and severity of the liver disease type of surgery urgency of surgery type of anesthesia intraoperative drops in blood pressure...

The space rock, dubbed 2019 NW5, will make a close approach to our planet on Sunday, figures from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Studies (CNEOS) show. According to the CNEOS data, the asteroid will be nearest to Earth at 9:59 p.m. UTC, or 5:59 p.m. ET, on July 18. At this point, 2019 NW5 will come as close as around 3.5 million miles to our planet, which is almost equivalent to around 15 times the average distance between the Earth and the moon....

With both debatably under achieving against their goals in the league last season, managers Steven Gerrard and Jesse Marsch will be keen to quickly get their squads in shape with the new top-flight campaign now just under three weeks away. This friendly will act as Villa’s second fixture of this preseason after they beat League Two outfit Walsall 4-0 previously, whilst for Leeds it will be their third, following 4-0 and 2-1 victories against Blackpool and Brisbane Roar respectively so far....