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Koepka to miss Cup playoffs, targets U.S. Open ESPN.com August 19, 2020 The knee issue that has bothered Brooks Koepka for the better part of a year has caused him to withdraw from the Northern Trust at TPC Boston, ending his 2019-20 season. The four-time major champion, however, still has designs on playing in the U.S. Open, which begins Sept. 17 and is the second event of the new season, his agent, Blake Smith, said Wednesday. Koepka is 97th in the FedEx Cup standings and would have needed a high finish to advance to next week’s BMW Championship.…
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Far-right activist Laura Loomer wins Florida GOP primary By Tal Axelrod TheHill August 19, 2020 Far-right activist Laura Loomer won the GOP House primary in Florida’s 21st Congressional District, handing the Republican Party a controversial nominee in a safe blue district. Loomer pulled in front of a crowded field of Republicans to win the nomination in the heavily blue southeast Florida district, according to The Associated Press. She will face off against Rep. Lois Frankel (D), who ran unopposed in 2018 and won with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2016. Loomer becomes the Republican nominee…
California Gov. Newsom signs Cal State ethnic studies requirement into law Fox News August 18, 2020 Students at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, will need to take an ethnic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The change comes amid the national reckoning over racism and police brutality sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It represents the first change to the CSU general education curriculum in over 40 years. Under the measure, beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year, all 23 CSU campuses must…
Roger Stone drops appeal of charges against him: ‘Time for me to move on’ By Vandana Rambaran Fox News August 18, 2020 Longtime GOP operative Roger Stone says “it is time for me to move on” and has dropped an appeal of seven federal felony convictions against him stemming from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion. Stone wrote in a statement posted on his website, StoneColdTruth.com, that the decision was in the best interest of his family. “It is time for me to move on with my life with my family, friends, and supporters. I…
Comparing Duke basketball freshman class to Michigan’s Fab Five Ball Durham August 18, 2020 Almost three decades ago, Michigan’s Fab Five became the first all-freshman starting five in a national championship game. Many consider that class of Wolverines to be the greatest in NCAA history. The 2020-21 Duke basketball rookies may shatter that perception. Michigan’s five freshmen were a disparate group brought together by head coach Steve Fisher in the fall of 1991. Point guard Jalen Rose and power forward Chris Webber hailed from Detroit. Center Juwan Howard played his high school ball at Chicago Vocational Career Academy…
Roger Stone drops appeals of felony convictions By Josh Gerstein POLITICO August 18, 2020 Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone has unexpectedly dropped the appeal of his seven federal felony convictions for seeking to thwart a House investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Stone’s lawyers submitted a notice to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit withdrawing the appeal Monday night, about a month after President Donald Trump spared Stone a 40-month prison term and a $20,000 fine by commuting his sentence. The court submission came less than an hour before a midnight deadline…
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