“CNN is so dishonest,” he tweeted after visiting two Border Patrol facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border. “Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.” On Friday, Pence toured a Border Patrol processing center for adults in McAllen, Texas, that a pool reporter described as squalid and foul-smelling. “The cages were so crowded that it would have been impossible for all of the men to lie on the concrete,” The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey wrote....

Less than 24 hours after being announced as its coach, Riley spoke of his plans to bring the program back to perennial national dominance during his introductory press conference. MORE: 2014 coaching changes | Matt Hayes: Jim McElwain goes to Florida “We are in this together to build young men and win championships, and they don’t have to be exclusive of each other,” Riley said. “We’re going to do it right....

Days after Harper signed with the Phillies, he was already plotting to get Trout to return home to Philadelphia when his contract was set to expire in 2020. Not three weeks later, Mike Trout agreed to a reported $430 million contract extension with the Angles, making it the largest contract in professional sports history. PONY UP: Bryce Harper contract a stupid-good expense for Phillies Trout not only surpasses the highest paid player in MLB history, he also surpasses highest annual value....

LOS ANGELES — Mikey Garcia said he wouldn’t look past Robert Easter Jr., but he also made it clear that the fight he really wanted was with Errol Spence Jr. He may get his wish soon. The WBC lightweight champion defended his title while claiming Easter’s IBF title with a dominant performance en route to a unanimous-decision victory in Saturday’s main event in front of 12,560 at Staples Center. It was a homecoming of sorts for Oxnard, Calif....

Garcia, the WBC lightweight champion, searched for the biggest fights possible, and was in serious negotiations to face Miguel Cotto at the end of 2017; Garcia didn’t want to be locked into a promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions. A fight had also been discussed with WBA lightweight titleholder Jorge Linares but the latter wasn’t available to compete in December. The way Garcia fought against Broner convinced him to stay at 140 pounds....

Is a player with 504 homers (Eddie Murray) better than one with 493 homers (Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff) just because he passed the round number? Nah. Of course not. But, right or wrong, those round numbers mean something. MORE: A’s say they’re ready to seize October chances So here’s a look at five players who could hit significant round-number milestones in the month-and-a-half left of the 2019 season. Nelson Cruz, eight homers from 400 Need to know: The odds were stacked against Cruz even sniffing the 400-homer milestone....

While it’s nearly three years since the 30-year-old’s divorce from Hemsworth was finalized, it would appear that the Australian actor is still very much on her mind. Plenty of eyebrows were raised when the singer took to social media on January 1 to announce that she was returning with a new single that would be released on January 13. Fans were quick to spot that that date also happens to be Hemsworth’s birthday....

Marketing guru: Artisan’s John Hegeman is the brain behind the buzz ‘Blair’ booty: You want spooky? The stick figures are based on an old rune called ’the burning man.’ A Blair Witch ‘Dossier’ chronicles the investigation of the trio’s disappearance. The Sci Fi Channel’s sidekick mockumentary set a ratings record for the tiny network. The elaborate Web site is a trove of information on the Blair Witch and her victims....

Taken together, “Hapgood” and “Areadia” make up Stoppard’s crash course in the seminal ideas of the century. “Hapgood” uses the world of quantum physics as a metaphor for the world of espionage, with its triple-crosses and duplicitous identities. In “Arcadia” he brilliantly entwines past and present in a double helix of emotion and thought. in the setting of a great English country estate, Stoppard shifts between the early 19th and late 20th centuries, examining basic oppositions within the Western mind: classic-romantic, free will-determinism, love-lust....

In a tweet Saturday night, she is seemingly referencing his latest remarks at campaign rallies held on Friday and earlier Saturday. “He is unraveling. What you are witnessing is the weakest expression of strength,” she wrote. “It’s similar to the final acts of fallen dictators. We will outlast him because our stronger [muscle].” Alongside other members of The Squad—the group of women elected to Congress during the 2018 elections, consisting of New York Rep....

Walz described the actions during a Thursday news conference as a way to “start turning the dial and normalizing some of the things that have been taken away.” Minnesota schools were originally expected to reopen March 27. During the closure, schools have been engaging in distance learning. “I am sorry for all of our students who will miss out on graduations, tournaments and end of year celebrations,” Walz said in a Thursday news release....

Brett James Stimac, 41, from Brainerd, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, after the incident at the Red Lake reservation in northwestern Minnesota on September 1, 2019. He has also been fined $9,500. According to court documents, Stimac, who is not an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, wilfully, knowingly and without authorization or permission entered the reservation that evening for the purposes of hunting a bear....

It’s all about picking your battles — even when it comes to the right to protest — and a battle involving sexual assault allegations isn’t one the players were going to win. MORE: NCAA’s response needs to strengthen The alternatives to dropping the bowl game would have been much worse. If Minnesota’s administration had caved, then what kind of message would that send about the handling of sexual assault allegations?...

Protesters involved in the demonstration, which began during the earlier part of the evening, were confined to the freeway by 10:30 p.m. local time after law enforcement allegedly blocked nearby exits. Minneapolis Police Department personnel assisted the Minnesota State Patrol in its response to the protest. Those who participated in the demonstration marched along a section of 1-94 to protest President Donald Trump’s potential reelection, as well as advocate for a more progressive and inclusive future, as one organizer said, regardless of the election’s outcome....

The badly mutilated body of the woman, who had left Gache Gache village to travel to the Mudzimu Irrigation Scheme seven-and-a-half miles away, was discovered on Wednesday. Gache Gache Ward 8 Councillor Kudzanayi Makanyaire confirmed the incident, The Herald reported. The publication added that the death had left the entire community shaken. “Information at hand is that the woman visited the village on Friday and left later that day to return to the Mudzimu Irrigation Scheme,” Makanyaire said....

Memphis police first reported Shatiqua Palmer, 32, as missing last week, and on Monday, November 14, stated she had been found. According to CBS affiliate WREG, police had offered no update until they later confirmed that officers were investigating her death. Police didn’t give any details about how Palmer died or where her body was eventually located. In 2021, there were a record 342 homicides in Memphis - according to NBC affiliate WMC....

The chief executive of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Woodward has been vocal about taking all the recommended precautions against spreading COVID-19. She has advocated for people getting vaccinations and wearing masks, but on Tuesday she said Mississippians have “failed to respond in a unified way to a common threat.” Woodward delivered the speech during the opening of a field hospital tent set up with ICU beds in the parking lot at the University of Mississippi Medical Center....

This means more children died of COVID in Mississippi over the last six weeks than during the first 17 months of the pandemic. Three children under 18 died in that initial period. The state’s total COVID death toll for people under 18 currently stands at seven. The state also announced the number of fetal deaths in unvaccinated pregnant women suffering from COVID had reached 72, and that 8 pregnant women have died as a result of the virus....

“For anyone who still needs it, most Republican House members last week provided more evidence that the GOP—once the ’law-and-order’ party—is now the party that coddles criminals,” the editorial board wrote in a piece published Saturday afternoon. “By overwhelmingly voting against holding Donald Trump crony Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, this shameful roster (including all six of Missouri’s GOP House members) is once again running interference for a lawless ex-president who tried to overthrow a valid election,” the editorial board added....