A government lawyer said he resigned from the team prosecuting President Donald Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone because the Justice Department inappropriately pushed for a more lenient sentence."I have never seen political influence play a role in prosecutorial decision making, with one exception: United States v. Roger Stone," federal prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky said in testimony…
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday he would “support” and “encourage” a team to sign former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, according to a report.In an interview with ESPN's Mike Greenberg on "The Return to Sports," Goodell said he's pushing for an NFL team to sign Kaepernick, who hasn't played in the NFL since the 2016 season when he…
Roger Stone, President Trump’s convicted former campaign adviser, predicted Friday that Republicans may try to impeach the federal judge who presided over his criminal trial. Stone, who is awaiting the start of a 40-month prison sentence he received as a result of the conviction, said on social media that he anticipates Republicans will set their…
NFL teams will have to navigate an entirely different terrain on Thursday night when they conduct the first-ever draft totally online, with even Commissioner Roger Goodell making selections from his basement.General managers across the league allowed fans to peek inside their homes for a look at their own war rooms that they will be using…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…