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Atlanta extended linebacker Deion Jones on a four-year deal, the team announced Wednesday. The new contract is worth $57 million, with $34 million of that guaranteed, his agent told ESPN. The Falcons’ announcement comes two days after the team agreed to terms with Grady Jarrett, who had the franchise tag placed on him. Jarrett agreed to a four-year deal worth a reported $68 million. Jones, 24, was selected in the second round of the 2016 draft by Atlanta....

You can glimpse this phenomenon on many fronts. There’s Microsoft. The Justice Department’s antitrust suit amounts to “industrial policy”–an avowed attempt to intensify competition and innovation in an industry where they’re already plentiful, with unpredictable consequences. If you believe the White House, the suit was filed without any review by administration economic officials. Could the policy have passed a broader inspection? Then there was Ken Starr’s unending investigation of Clinton....

The delivery of over a million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been impacted so far, including 407,000 first doses and 333,650 second doses in Texas, 200,000 total doses in Florida and 133,000 in Colorado. Several states have been forced to cancel COVID-19 vaccination appointments due to the shipment delays and for safety reasons amid the harsh weather conditions. “Due to the severe winter weather currently impacting a large swath of the country, the U....

“Summer (Year?) Of Hockey Analytics (#fancystats) continues: Tyler Dellow (aka @mc79hockey) leaving blogging world to work for an NHL club.” — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) “Dellow’s site (http://t.co/O9pBqDyov8) ceased to be operational/accessible overnight. Dellow’s landing spot believed to be EDM. #fancystats” — Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) Dellow became one of the biggest names in analytic writing because of the groundbreaking work he posted at his site — largely, at least initially, about the Oilers....

France international Mendy hobbled out of Saturday’s 5-0 win at home to Crystal Palace ahead of a key week in which City face Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League and Premier League champions Chelsea. Man City 9/1 to win Champions League But midfielder Delph has put his hand up to help out Pep Guardiola by reverting to a role he has played previously, including in the midweek EFL Cup defeat of West Brom....

“Delta is aware of reports suggesting one of the airline’s pilots passed away from vaccine complications while operating a flight, resulting in an emergency landing. All of these allegations are false,” the company’s statement, released Tuesday evening, said. “The pandemic has been an incredibly tragic time for many, and our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of families who have passed away from the horrific virus,” the statement concluded....

But more importantly than that juicy storyline, it’s another opportunity for New Orleans to come out, play hard and get a win. That’s the message Cousins playfully repeated like a Migos hook when reporters peppered him with questions Thursday about taking on his old employer. MORE: 7 players we’d love to see in James Harden’s situation It was all in good fun as Cousins stuck to the script regardless of how they framed their inquiries....

So, it seemed a little off when Cousins said this after being asked when he'd return from a right ankle sprain: "Probably not, think I'll be out rest of the season and I can get a comeback commercial," Cousins said, according to KXTV-ABC in Sacramento (via ESPN.com). Cousins, who played for the same college coach as Rose, John Calipari, backtracked on Wednesday in a statement on his personal Twitter account....

Demaryius Thomas and the Broncos agreed to a five-year, $70 million deal with $43.5 million guranteed Wednesday, ESPN was first to report, just before the 4 p.m. deadline for franchise players to sign a long-term contract. MORE: NFL’s highest-paid players | Bryant gets his deal Dez Bryant and the Cowboys agreed to a five-year, $70 million contract with $45 million guaranteed. Another franchise player, the Chiefs’ Justin Houston, signed the most lucrative linebacker contract in NFL history earlier in the day....

The club’s record signing, a €105million arrival from Borussia Dortmund to replace Neymar, will soon return to team training as he steps up his recovery from a damaged hamstring sustained in only his second league appearance for Barca. A return for the Clasico against rivals Madrid on December 23 had been mooted for the France international, but Valverde played down Dembele’s chances of being available for the crunch clash....

Andrade delivered a scintillating first-round knockdown, before putting on a boxing clinic and completely schooling Maciej Sulecki toward a dominant unanimous decision victory at the Dunkin Donuts Center and live on DAZN on Saturday night to retain his WBO middleweight championship. All three judges scored it 120-107, as did Sporting News. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year After the resounding win, Andrade (28-0) didn’t waste time calling out IBF/WBA middleweight titleholder and the face of boxing, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for a September showdown....

In an op-ed penned a year after the anonymous article made waves on Capitol Hill, Meeks writes for The Washington Post that it is time those in the administration who count themselves as the “steady state” should know that it is “foolhardy” to try to “tame” Trump. “There is no telling whether you, the author of the anonymous op-ed, are still in the administration,” Meeks wrote in his op-ed, published Monday....

Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is running for California’s 50th district, was criticized by his own party for agreeing to sit down with Defend East County founder Justin Haskins on October 7. His party also condemned him for his comments during the interview, including how he may not vote for Joe Biden in November’s election, backs Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court in the seat left vacant following Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death last month, and how he would not have voted to impeach President Donald Trump had he been a congressman at the time....

Hosted by ABC News and Univision, the debate will start at 8 p.m. ET and run for three hours. It is taking place on just one night, unlike the first two presidential debates that spanned two nights each. The debate can be live streamed starting at 7 p.m. ET on its site ABC News Live, ABC.com and the television network’s app. It can also be streamed through Univison’s social media pages including YouTube, Facebook and Periscope....

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams demanded that the federal government help pay for the wave of asylum seekers headed to the nation’s most densely populated city, warning that resources are quickly spreading thin because of the busloads of people pouring in—especially given the city’s “right to shelter” mandate that guarantees beds for homeless asylum seekers. “Currently, New York City is experiencing a marked increase in the number of asylum seekers who are arriving from Latin America and other regions,” Adams said in a statement....

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized $2,000 direct payments in a Friday floor speech, two days before the 116th Congress ends on Sunday. “A huge chunk would essentially be socialism for rich people,” the Republican leader said, before dismissing the checks as a “universal cash giveaway.” Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, disputed McConnell’s remarks and called out Republicans for being concerned about “socialism for rich people” despite supporting massive tax breaks for companies....

This is more than just a symptom of politics in 2020—which has become an all-out tribal civil war in which the object of the game isn’t so much to defeat your opponents as it is to delegitimize and destroy them. What makes this particular struggle both important and ironic is that Democrats say they are defending democracy against a deadly threat to our institutions posed by Trump and the Republicans....

Given the bicameral objections from Democrats on Capitol Hill about approving a waiver for Austin to exclude him from a WWII-era law requiring defense secretaries be out of the service for at least seven years—which some Democrats voted against doing in the case of former Trump Defense Secretary James Mattis—Senate Republicans could be crucial to the Biden nominee’s confirmation. Austin has been retired from active duty in the Army for just four years....

Gallego read about a Democratic city councilman in New Mexico who used to fish with his father, hunt with his grandfather, and was advocating for the protection of wildlife species at the U.S.-Mexico border after founding an organization to encourage Hispanics to access and learn about public lands and waters. Gallego remembers thinking that his party needed more people like Gabe Vasquez to run for office. “When I read he was an avid outdoorsman, a hunter, I thought he was someone who could resonate with the traditionally Democratic male Latino voters in New Mexico and elsewhere who have been sliding away from us,” Gallego told Newsweek....

Those Trump sympathizers were Attorney General William Barr, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and one of the attorneys on the president’s legal defense team, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. “Everyone except President Trump and his lawyers agree that presidents can be impeached for abuse of power,” impeachment manager Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued on the Senate floor. House impeachment managers sought to use the Republicans’ own words from the past to dispel the notion, held by Trump and other GOP members of Congress, that a president cannot be impeached for acts that do not amount to crimes....