On Friday, House Democrats formally released the full text of the bill, which includes $1,400 stimulus checks; $350 billion in state and local government relief; an extension of $400 federal unemployment benefits; and further funding for small businesses—as well as money to assist schools reopening and coronavirus vaccine distribution. As Republicans quickly condemned the package and renewed their opposition to its price tag, Biden expressed willingness to make cuts to the legislation....

The release comes after a controversial vote by the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this month, in which the committee voted to make Trump’s federal tax returns public. Trump refused to voluntarily release the federal returns during his campaign and his presidency, citing an ongoing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit. But the IRS didn’t audit Trump until 2019 when Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Democrat, requested the returns....

“Building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border and costs American taxpayers billions of dollars is not a serious policy solution or responsible use of federal funds,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement. The new plan does not cancel the project and likely will face opposition in Congress from Republicans eager to promote a plan similar to Trump’s. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

Way before the internet and reality TV, Soros theorized that we live between two realities: objective and subjective. Objective realities are true regardless of what people think or say. For example: Every human will die. Or, you have $3,457 in your bank account. Subjective realities, however, are shaped by what people think. What is important is that these beliefs shape objective reality. Financial markets fall into this category because participants can never know all relevant objective facts driving an interconnected global economy....

He called for banning chokeholds by police, creating a national police oversight commission, stopping “transferring weapons of war” to police forces, improving oversight and accountability, and creating a model use of force standard. Biden cited a proposal by New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries that would outlaw chokeholds as the type of change he would support. Biden added that every police department in the country could take steps now to conduct a comprehensive review of their hiring, training, and de-escalation practices....

Trump’s approval rating is now so bad, and Biden’s lead so strong, that Senate Republicans up for election this year are beginning to fear the president’s performance is a heavy weight on their own chances, and, if things get much worse, they may also lose control of the upper chamber. A quarterly Citigroup survey of 140 fund managers released last week found that 62 percent expect Biden to win in November, up from 70 percent anticipating a Trump victory back in December, a near-total reversal of views amid the coronavirus pandemic....

Biden made the comment during his Tuesday evening address in Golden, Colorado. In his address, he spoke about climate change and the Democratic infrastructure bill. “In the end, it’s not about red states or blue states,” Biden said. “A drought or a fire doesn’t see a property line. It doesn’t care, give a damn, for which party you belong to. Disasters aren’t going to stop. That’s the nature of the climate threat....

Speaking during a press call Monday, a senior administration official unveiled details of the “Domestic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems National Action Plan,” billed in an accompanying fact sheet as “the first whole-of-government plan to address UAS threats in the Homeland.” In discussing the nature of these threats and the actors associated with them, the official warned that “the threat to the homeland posed by nefarious, careless or uninformed operators of commercial recreational drones is growing as UAS technology becomes increasingly available and the barriers to weaponization remains quite low....

Biden won 306 electoral votes, more than the 270 votes required to win the Electoral College. Trump has repeated baseless conspiracy theories that alleged widespread voter fraud. In some battleground states, Trump’s legal team filed lawsuits attempting to reverse his defeat. During his Monday speech, Biden called his Electoral College win a “clear victory.” “Together, Vice President Harris and I earned 306 electoral votes while exceeding the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory,” Biden said....

Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is also expected to give Biden his support after dropping out of the presidential race after the South Carolina primaries on Saturday. Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg are expected to appear at a rally in Houston, Texas Monday to announce their endorsements. National Democratic front runner Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has also been garnering support for his campaign, receiving an endorsement from progressive political action committee Democracy for America [DFA]....

The 2015 Big 12 Baseball Tournament will be held from Wednesday, May 20 until Sunday, May 24 at at Oneok Field in Tulsa, Okla. MLB DRAFT 2015: Mock draft The tournament features an eight-team field and has a double-elimination format will end with the championship game on Sunday BIG 12 BASEBALL TOURNAMENT 2015: Printable bracket Here’s the full TV schedule (all times CT): Wednesday, May 20 Game 1: No. 4 Texas Tech vs....

“We’re in a fact-finding mode, we’re in a data-gathering mode,” Boren said. “In other words, what will it mean to the stability of the conference? What will it mean financially to the conference? MORE: Reasons to be excited, skeptical for Big 12 teams | Early Top 20 “We’ve sort of said to ourselves, come this summer, we’re going to have to finally make a decision about what we do. We cannot indefinitely postpone decisions....

Sure, Day has only one full season as a head coach under his belt. He’s also 16-1 with a College Football Playoff appearance, and the recruiting machine Urban Meyer built has not slowed down. Day was ranked No. 7 in our 1-130 overall rankings, and we’re good with that, too. MORE 2020 COACH RANKINGSACC | Pac 12 | Big 12 Penn State’s James Franklin, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst are the next three coaches on the list — and their order depends on the year....

The Illini had a chance to win on Tracy Abrams' shot, but it bounced off the front of the rim as the final buzzer sounded. Michigan (24-7), the regular season champion, advances to Saturday's semifinals with its seventh straight win. It will face either fourth-seeded Nebraska or fifth-seeded Ohio State — two teams it has not lost to this season. The Buckeyes and Cornhuskers play later Friday. Conference player of the year Nik Stauskas scored 19 points to lead Michigan, which won despite scoring six points in the final 7½ minutes....

The Unwanted One: Giggs’ Man Utd destiny fading fast Only five teams have scored fewer than West Ham’s return of 23 Premier League goals this season, with winger Michail Antonio shouldering much of the burden with eight goals. Andy Carroll - who has spent most of the season injured - is the highest-scoring of their recognised strikers with just two goals, while Simone Zaza, Ashley Fletcher, Diafra Sakho and Jonathan Calleri have only two between them....

The Gates announced their split after 27 years of marriage on Monday, setting off a torrent of posts on Telegram, Gab and other platforms popular with believers in QAnon, a conspiracy theory alleging Satan-worshipping elites run a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against Donald Trump when he was president. Bill Gates became a primary target of QAnon last year, when devotees claimed he was a leader in the supposed ring....

The committee aired a clip of Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump’s most loyal Cabinet members, testifying that the former president’s claims about massive voter fraud in the 2020 election are “bullsh*t,” during a primetime televised hearing on Thursday. Additionally, the committee played a brief video of the former president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, testifying that she respected the former attorney general and “accepted” his assessment regarding the last presidential election....

In his first interview since the insurrection in Washington, D.C. which resulted in five deaths, Barr said the debate about the election’s legitimacy “was the thing that precipitated the riots on the Hill.” “I think it’s always important to remember most people are exercising their First Amendment rights,” he told British program ITV News, “but there is a substantial group obviously that went far beyond that and broke into the Capitol and tried to interfere with the proceedings and that’s unacceptable....

During a brief visit on the red carpet, Belichick was caught checking out supermodel Chrissy Teigen. MORE: Stephen A. Smith criticizes Tom Brady for missing White House trip It didn’t take long for the SpyGate jokes to come flying in. Here’s Teigen’s husband, R&B superstar John Legend. Linda Holliday, Belichick’s girlfriend, also commented on the viral photo, and gave the Super Bowl champion coach a pass. But really, it’s not a big deal....