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At the time of writing, forecasts from Decision Desk give the Democrats an 83.5 percent chance of winning a majority in the Senate, an 83.6 percent percent chance of defeating President Donald Trump, and a greater than 99 percent chance of keeping the House. According to those predictions, the party could be in command of all three of these cornerstones of power in the United States following the upcoming elections....

But with Senate Republicans hoping to move at breakneck pace to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before November 3, Democrats see another opportunity to oust enough of the upper chamber’s GOP members to take back the majority. “Everything Americans value hangs in the balance,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “Health care, protections for pre-existing conditions, womens’ rights, gay rights, workers’ rights, labor rights, voting rights, civil rights, climate change and so much else is at risk....

The former NFL cornerback and MLB outfielder won more than $2.2 million from Pilar in a defamation lawsuit after she claimed in online posts and in interviews that she was a victim of domestic abuse, TMZ.com reported. MORE: NFL players arrested in 2015 | Primetime’s career, in pictures According to one of Deion Sanders’ attorneys, he feels a sense of “relief and vindication” after a judge ruled that Pilar defamed her former husband’s character....

Woods walked off the course on Saturday at 7 over for the tournament, with the cut line at even par and leader Dustin Johnson at 10 under. MORE: Two rounds at St. Andrews | Saturday’s questionable decision | Leaderboard “It was so frustrating because all my shots that I hit solid and flush into the wind, they just weren’t carrying,” Woods told media members after his long, trying day....

New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Delhi Police moved an application before a city court seeking open non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel in connection with the IPL spot fixing case. “It has come to our notice that the main bookies and fixers were in touch with Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel… They gave directions to bookies and fixers in India,” the special cell of Delhi Police said in the application filed before Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna....

The first entry to Dell’s updated arsenal is the Dell 14 Portable Monitor - something that may not have been on your radar beforehand. It’s Dell’s first ever 14-inch portable monitor with the thinking being that you can take it out and about with you thanks to its lightweight design or you can simply pull it out at home when needed. It offers a full HD resolution, along with 16:9 aspect ratio with IPS technology, plus you can quickly hook it up thanks to its USB-C connectivity....

In a statement released on Twitter, Steele said she withdrew Senate Bill 1355 because the committee chairman insisted she add an amendment that would protect rapists who assaulted their spouse. “I have worked for months with rape victims who have been forced to co-parent with their rapists and with rape and domestic violence advocacy groups to ensure this is effective and thoughtful legislation,” Steele wrote. “I was forced to pull my bill because the committee chairman held my bill hostage with the demand that I allow an amendment to exempt married victims who are raped by their spouses,” she added....

Center DeMarcus Cousins didn’t mince words when talking about the team’s problems. MORE: George looks good in practice | Griffin misdemeanor case dropped | NBA Draft stock report “It’s been a circus, man. It’s been a complete circus,” Cousins told The Washington Post. “We got off to a hot start. Unfortunately, I got sick, so it ruined the look of the team. I take some blame for that. I know for a fact, if I wouldn’t have gotten sick, things wouldn’t have happened the way it happened....

Yet, the middleweights can’t help but still feel like they were slighted by Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin, who are having their highly-anticipated rematch on Sept. 15. Saunders believes GGG’s camp publicly dangled the possibility of Golovkin facing him to force the rematch between he and Alvarez to happen. This past May, Saunders’s promoter, Frank Warren, even claimed that his boxer signed a contract to face GGG, but that the Kazakhstan fighter never signed his side....

But China’s efforts to whitewash the coup turned out to be as clumsy as the putsch itself. When the plot unraveled, so did Beijing’s celebratory official line. The People’s Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper, prepared a congratulatory edition for Aug. 20–then quickly scrapped it. After muzzling its official Xinhua news agency for several hours, Beijing acknowledged Gorbachev’s comeback as “the choice of the Soviet people.” Finally, Xinhua wrote off the entire subject as an “internal affair” of another country....

“The legislature, if it so chooses, can basically make any governor irrelevant in Kentucky,” Scott Jennings, a GOP strategist, told Newsweek. Jennings has worked on four presidential campaigns and as a senior adviser for a super PAC for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Beshear narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Matt Bevin in the gubernatorial race. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Beshear had a lead of 5,333 votes out of more than 1....

Emerson Levy, an attorney running to represent House District 53 said she had been “excited” to speak to the business community at the event on Wednesday evening. “I was excited to talk to the business community at the Bend Chamber event, instead my opponent got all of the tickets,” Levy wrote in a tweet. “Every time I spoke grown women heckled me when I stood to speak and while I spoke....

McConnell falls back on an old institutional argument—that Democratic Senators may want to use the filibuster when they are in the minority in the future. But Democrats would be wise to ignore McConnell’s advice. The party and its members are much more likely to pay a price for an inability to actually get laws passed than garner much benefit in stopping Republican changes in some unknown future fight. The filibuster, a rule that was likely adopted by accident in the early days of the Republic, has constantly morphed over the years....

We are living through a process defined by a pro-Trump universe and an anti-Trump universe. The great economy, record-low unemployment, the conservative judges, the achievements in renewing the Space program and a host of other positive things are occurring in the pro-Trump universe. However, the willful avoidance of facts and evidence by left-wing media and left-wing Democrats is a sign that there is an alternative anti-Trump universe. The report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was devastating in its indictment of senior FBI officials—and even more in its repudiation of the lies being told by Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is the public face of the impeachment effort....

According to a new report from Axios, a number of bipartisan senators intervened in the Biden administration’s plan to replace Beasley, asking the White House to extend Beasley’s five-year term instead. “I’ve seen David Beasley in action around the world, making a difference, both raising funds for the World Food Program from countries in the Gulf and in Europe,” Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a key Biden ally, said to Axios....

Filmed and released before both men signed up to fight the Axis powers, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington tells the story of Stewart’s Jefferson Smith, the head of the Boy Rangers who is appointed to an empty Senate seat based on the belief by party bosses that he would be easily manipulated to vote on bills advantageous to their interests. After realizing he is being used, Smith launches an epic filibuster on the Senate floor and exposes the nefarious scheme hatched by his corrupt opponents....

Another piece of information that was not confirmed during the event were some of the launch titles that will either accompany the PS5 at its release date on November 12 or will follow shortly thereafter. Chief among those is the Demon’s Souls remake from Bluepoint Games. RELATED: New Demon’s Souls PS5 Box Art Revealed During the event, Bluepoint showed off the first look at true gameplay from Demon’s Souls, which highlighted the improvements to gameplay, the visuals in-engine, and gave some quick glances at the game’s iconic boss fights....

The Hall of Famer-turned-college football coach has been pushing to transform historically black college Jackson State into a football powerhouse. His latest act? Giving away half of his salary to speed up renovations of the Tigers’ football facility. Sanders announced his decision on Instagram Monday, posting a lengthy video of himself going around different parts of Jackson State’s facilities. MORE: Saban, Sanders put beef over NIL behind them in new commercial...

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, citing unnamed sources, tweeted that Sanders is being considered for the position. Sanders works for the network as a studio analyst. BENDER: Eight best candidates to replace Taggart at FSU Sanders, 52, has never been a coach at the collegiate or professional level, but he has coached high school football (per CBSSports.com), including at Prime Prep, the now-closed Dallas-area charter school he co-founded. He also has maintained ties to the Seminoles’ program, most visibly through occasional speeches to the team....

Ronaldo played just one season under Del Bosque at Real Madrid before the current Spain coach was sacked in June 2003 and replaced by Carlos Queiroz, reports Xinhua. “Who best understood me as a coach? Vicente del Bosque,” Ronaldo told AS daily. “He was very simple. All the players liked him a lot because he did things the way they had to be done, without creating many problems. The training sessions, the talks… With him there was no concentration on the home games and this for me was important, because it killed the players....