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But while weary and wary immigration activists count down the days until Biden can erase Trump’s administrative orders, they do not see a large-scale legislative overhaul contained within one bill as a workable strategy any longer. Previously the gold standard, a bipartisan comprehensive approach to reforming the nation’s immigration laws—essentially one bill to rule them all—has been the Democratic strategy for the better part of the past two decades....

As of 4:59 p.m. local time, Biden was ahead of Trump by at least 4,235 votes, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office. Data also showed Biden receiving 49.42 percent of the state’s votes, compared with Trump’s 49.34 percent. Before the most recent update, Biden was ahead of Trump by just over 1,000 votes as of Friday morning. Biden’s increased lead over the president in Georgia, one of the final states left to be called in the 2020 race, comes shortly after state election officials announced a recount....

The Elland Road outfit are looking for their fourth manager in just over a year following the decision to sack Paul Heckingbottom on Friday. Former Argentina, Chile and Marseille manager Bielsa has emerged as a surprise frontrunner to take over the Championship club as they look to return to the Premier League for the first time since relegation in 2003. And while the likes of Michael Laudrup and Claudio Ranieri have also been linked with the now vacant post, Bielsa’s agent and brother, Rafael, has confirmed that he is in conversation regarding his client’s future....

Entering Tuesday, Power 5 conferences were split into three camps: The Big Ten and Pac-12 wanted to postpone their season in favor of a spring campaign, the SEC and ACC wanted to play a regular fall schedule and the Big 12 remained undecided. Now that the Big Ten and Pac-12 have canceled their respective seasons, the Big 12 could ultimately decide whether there will be any college football this year — spring or fall....

Documents outline a November 2015 trip by West Virginia president Gordon Gee to Houston to tour the Cougars’ athletic facilities with athletic director Hunter Yurachek and football coach Tom Herman, as well as lunch with Houston president Renu Khator. MORE: Expansion? Title game? A look at the Big 12’s options Houston, currently a member of the American Athletic Conference, is likely the Big 12’s top choice after going 13-1 in 2015 and finishing at No....

The VIP ““comfort pallet’’ wasn’t the only thing egregious about Ashy’s flight. At a time when USAF personnel and equipment are stretched thin around the globe, the C-141B had been flown, empty, from McGuire AFB, N.J., to Rhein-Main in Germany, where it was refueled and flown, again empty, to Naples (map). The next day, after a formal change-of-command ceremony, Ashy and his aide flew to Colorado, where the crew lay over for the night....

Ed Brown, better known as Big Ed, will appear on 90 Day: The Single Life, a new show on the Discovery+ streaming service that’s dedicated to celebrating the single lives of former 90 Day Fiancé franchise hopefuls. But it doesn’t sound like Ed will stay single for long. In a recent conversation with Us Weekly, the 55-year-old claimed that he’s found a “wonderful girl.” Big Ed has been polarizing among 90 Day fans, ever since he first appeared on Season 4 of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days last year, because some of his questionable behavior and the age gap between him and his then-partner, Rosemarie Vega, who’s 31 years his junior....

In businesslike presummit negotiations, both Koreas seemed to sense that the chance to reach out to each other is perishable. “If we don’t make this happen now, we may lose it,” said a senior South Korean official. For the South, the symbolism of the meeting is probably more important than the substance. But Kim Young Sam will insist dutifully on discussing the North’s nuclear program. His aides say he will demand that Pyongyang agree to mutual inspections verifying a 1991 North-South agreement to keep nuclear weapons off the Korean peninsula....

Sanders also had been invited to Team USA camp in Las Vegas and, most important, he was granted a four-year, $44 million extension this summer. Sanders had averaged only 6.2 points and 5.5 rebounds in his first three years, but Bucks brass and new coach Larry Drew felt he eventually would be a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, and that he had untapped offensive potential. Instead, Sanders got off to a miserable start in his first three games, averaging 2....

However, the final grades for participation in this year’s event are to be handed out here: North Carolina: A-plus. The Tar Heels went on the road and out-toughed, outhustled, outmanned Tom Izzo’s Michigan State Spartans, 79-65. This stands as the best win for any program to date, given the venue, opponent and the style in which it was achieved. It’s going to be hard for UNC to be consistently great with Marcus Paige as the only player making 3s....

Several conference members had their bottom line get a substantial jolt from the Big Ten Network as they received a revenue share from the television network for the first time. MORE: SN’s All-Big Ten | Big Ten non-con schedule rankings | 10 best Big Ten games Purdue reported a $32 million share from the conference, with more than $1 million coming from the BTN, according to the Lafayette Journal and Courier....

These days, Thompson’s name is no longer greeted with applause in the tobacco industry. He and other former executives are soon to be quizzed by federal prosecutors about the shady side of the cigarette business. NEWSWEEK has learned that a federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating explosive allegations about links between major cigarette makers and global smuggling operations that move vast quantities of cigarettes across borders without paying any taxes....

Who is the biggest surprise of 2014 so far? Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Joey Logano? MORE: Power Rankings | Indy schedule | NASCAR to RTR: Talk to the lawyers | How Earnhardt controls temper There have been no shocking turnarounds or surprising breakout performances so far. But these two established stars are having stellar seasons and have exceeded expectations. Here’s the case for both sides: Earnhardt Jr. The season opened with two pretty big surprises....

Pep: We did absolutely everything The hosts led through a Glenn Whelan own-goal before Bojan’s 74th-minute leveler, when the Hammers keeper unadvisedly rushed out and missed an attempted clearance. Bilic, though, acknowledged West Ham deserved no more than a point after his side struggled to create chances and lacked fluency, particularly during a dismal first half. “A point is a point and it’s a fair result. But we were looking for three points....

Julian Edelman was one of Brady’s favorite targets while in New England, with the pair combining for 36 touchdowns in Foxborough. Under Bill Belichick, the Brady-Edelman connection won three Lombardi trophies. So it’s no surprise that Edelman, who announced his retirement on Monday, is the glue that once again brought Belichick and Brady together, with both coach and player posting heartfelt messages to the wideout. “On the biggest stage and in the biggest moments, you always came through,” Brady tweeted....

Over the past week, both ESPN and Sports Illustrated released longform pieces that detailed alleged wrongdoings by New England over the past several years. On Thursday night, the Steelers had an issue with their headsets and started a whole new situation. MORE: Pittsburgh writer rips New England | More Patriots complaints from Steelers Belichick started with the headset issue, saying “it’s pretty common” to encounter that problem. He said he hasn’t heard anything else from the NFL on the matter at this point....

This is what passes for brutality in Bill Bradley’s world. While the McCain camp implies that George W. Bush hates Catholics, and Bush surrogates call voters to tell them McCain is a fraud, Bradley goes negative by charging that Gore’s rating on environmental issues is a full 20 points lower than his. Bradley had expected to spend this time in California and New York, daring Democrats to dream again. Instead, he parked himself last week in Puget Sound, repeating the same debate-club attacks to anyone who would listen....

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, he described Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plans for a prompt floor vote “inconsistent” and suggested the Trump administration and the Senate GOP’s political approach rests on self-serving principles. “Their position is, ‘Do whatever maximizes your power. If it’s totally inconsistent with what you said before, don’t worry about it,’” Clinton said. His comments came amid a wider conversation about the speed with which President Donald Trump and Republican leaders, like McConnell, aim to appoint a new jurist to fill Ginsburg’s spot....

De Blasio called into The Brian Lehrer Show podcast, for his weekly Friday appearance on WYNC, to discuss the mayor’s efforts to get New York City vaccinated. He first addressed the city’s latest mandate directed at public healthcare workers, which was initiated on Wednesday. “We’re going to really respect our workforce, but we’re also saying very clearly, you have to get—if you’re a public health care worker, you have to get vaccinated or get tested once a week,” de Blasio said....