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Brown is without a team after he was released by the New England Patriots earlier in the season amid allegations of sexual assault against him, which he strenuously denies, and misconduct. The 31-year-old’s departure from the Patriots in September was the latest move of a chaotic 12 months, with the player having also left the Pittsburgh Steelers and then the Oakland Raiders. BROWN INVESTIGATION: What to know about rape accusation, lawsuit...

Brown had a 35-game regular-season streak in which he caught at least five passes with at least 50 yards come to an end under Vick. In the two games Vick has started, Brown has eight combined receptions for 87 yards. He had more than that in each of the three games with Roethlisberger this season. MORE: NFL Week 6 picks, predictions | Roethlisberger to participate in 7-on-7 drills He’s easily one of the best receivers in the league (he led the NFL in receiving yards with 1,698 last season) so when he’s not producing big numbers under Vick, it’s easy to understand why he’d be frustrated....

But after his dance on Monday’s episode, the Steelers wide receiver was interviewed by Erin Andrews and joked about the intensity of the dances. Things got … uncomfortable. PHOTOS: Athlete-celebrity couples | MORE: NFL players on DWTS Hopefully Brown can keep his “bloodflow” problem under control throughout the rest of the competition.

His mind instead was on his Facebook Live session and not what Mike Tomlin was telling the team immediately after Pittsburgh’s 18-16 divisional round victory over the Chiefs. As the views piled up (that was a constant source of pride for Brown during the 17-minute presentation), Tomlin was heard warning his players not to stir the pot ahead of the AFC championship game against the Patriots. MORE: Steelers get six FGs, hold off Chiefs...

The incoming president’s pick to lead the U.S. State Department, former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, told Senate confirmation hearing members that “no party has a monopoly on good ideas.” Blinken reiterated his opposition to “the way Trump went about” implementing his foreign policy, but he supported the president’s peace efforts in Israel and the Balkans. In regards to China, which current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused of committing “genocide” on Tuesday, Blinken said he supports Trump’s approach of leveraging U....

China officially claims Taiwan as part of its territory, but the smaller Asian country has long operated independently with the backing of the U.S. and other Western nations. In recent years, analysts have grown increasingly concerned about the possibility that China could take military action to reassert its dominance over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Blinken warned that any such action from Beijing would be a red line for the administration of President Joe Biden....

Conservative U.S. bishops have been seeking a clear directive on allowing Communion for Catholic politicians who support a woman’s right to abortion. Vatican teachings forbid abortions and consider them a grave sin. “One of the luxuries of my job is that I don’t do domestic politics,” Blinken said when asked about the issue. He described his talk with the pope as “extremely warm and very wide-ranging.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below:...

Photos and videos that circulated across social media on Thursday show members of the Guard lying on the floors of the garage. Over 25,000 members of the Guard were deployed to Washington, D.C., following the January 6 riot at the Capitol. They were also brought in for increased security at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. “Yeah this is not okay. My office is free this week to any service members who’d like to use it for a break or take nap on the couch....

Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive who represents New York, made the remarks during an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. She asserted that she sides with the iconic civil rights leader’s belief that capitalism has ingrained poverty into society and argued for major political reform. “We don’t have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party,” the congresswoman said. “The Democratic Party is a center, or a center-conservative, party....

The tweet came after Palin appeared on Fox News Wednesday night and said she was more of a feminist than the progressive Democrat from New York. During the Fox News Primetime segment, the former Alaska governor and onetime vice presidential nominee was shown a clip of AOC talking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday about Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his state’s restrictive abortion law. Ocasio-Cortez said the Texas Republican was “not familiar with a menstruating person’s body” and should not be regulating one....

Speaking on NBC News’ Meet the Press,Ocasio-Cortez responded to Cassidy’s earlier statement that physical infrastructure, such as bridges and roads, could be an issue for women because they are often the ones “taking the children to school” or “doing the shopping.” “My wife says that roads and bridges are a woman’s problem if you will,” Cassidy said during an earlier interview on Meet the Press Sunday. “Because oftentimes it is the woman, aside from commuting to work, who’s also taking children to schools or doing the shopping....

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the process was being kept confidential and had not been completed. Texas has been looking to replace Mack Brown, who stepped down in December after 16 seasons with the Longhorns. Strong is in his fourth year at Louisville and coming off his second straight double-digit victory season. He took over a program coming off three straight non-winning seasons and has gone 37-15....

The Judge Rotenberg Education Center (JRC), a residential school located in Canton, Massachusetts, has served adults and children with conduct, behavioral, emotional, and or psychiatric issues. Despite the center’s mission, they have been labeled as one of the most controversial institutions for people with disabilities due to their use of electric shock devices. Finn Gardiner, MPP, disability activist and communications specialist at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, tells Verywell that electric shock devices deliver an electric shock by direct contact and are used to modify behavior....

“Brand name ‘air tags’ are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking lots,” York Regional Police wrote in a December 2 statement. “Thieves then track the targeted vehicles to the victim’s residence, where they are stolen from the driveway.” Apple launched AirTags in April. The locating devices are intended to be used with frequently misplaced items such as keys or valuable items like laptops or luggage....

Neither announcement was completely unexpected. Indeed, on Monday Netflix, the mail-order DVD rental service, launched what some considered a pre-emptive strike against Apple. It said it would be offering unlimited streaming of movies and television shows to its 8 million subscribers. Previously customers could only stream a limited number of shows and films, and so far the service has been available only to Windows customers. But analysts would be surprised to see Netflix’s streaming service hamper iTunes Movie Rentals, which Gartenberg says “is to video and movies what iTunes was to music....

Around 2,500 homes and 7,800 residents of San Bernardino and Riverside counties are threatened by the fire and have been ordered to evacuate. Evacuation orders are in place north of Cherry Valley Boulevard, west of Highland Springs Avenue and east of Beaumont Avenue, as well as north of Wilson Street, east of Sunset Avenue and west of Hathaway Street, and The Oak Glen community in San Bernardino County. There are also evacuation orders south of the County Line, north of Dutton Street, and east of Oak Glen Road and an evacuation warning in the Forest Falls area, north of Morongo Rd, east of Millard Canyon Rd, west of Whitewater Canyon Rd....

This price acceleration that has been building for months could weaken the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, as a U.S. Labor Department report shows sharp price inflation on everything from food to housing. “It looks like inflation pressures are not only building but are likely to be here at least through the rest of the year,” Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors, told the Associated Press. “With growth robust, firms have a measure of pricing power that they haven’t had in decades, and they appear to be using it....

Arnthia Willis, 58, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of unlawful request for emergency service assistance, The Wichita Eagle reported. Police were called to a shooting at 8:32 a.m. in the northeast of the city. “Multiple police units, probably between 15 to 20 officers from the Wichita Police Department as well as fire department and EMS responded to the scene,” police Lieutenant Ronald Hunt told reporters at the scene on Thursday....

On Monday, the South Carolina Aquarium tweeted screenshots of a hilarious and educational text exchange that occurred after one recent visitor drunkenly texted the aquarium’s “Text an Educator” number. “The ‘Text an Educator’ number is available to any general admission guest or South Carolina Aquarium member who visits,” Brent Duncan, Senior Manager of Advertising and Community Engagement for the aquarium told Newsweek. “We typically receive questions posed by first-time visitors who might not be as familiar with the South Carolina Aquarium and our exhibits....