Affleck spoke with CinemaBlend during a press event for his latest film, The Way Back. When asked about his support for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, he had this to say. “I didn’t know about it. Zack was like, ‘Hey, they are doing this thing.’ And I said, ‘Zack, I love you, and I support you. However I can help you. I do think that movie, you know, having two directors is a very weird thing,” Affleck said....
Ben Roethlisburger wasn’t one of them. MORE: Marshall Faulk says Le’Veon Bell is most like him | Steelers offense has no choice but to be great The Steelers quarterback said he expected his Patriots counterpart to win his Deflategate appeal all along, adding that commissioner Roger Goodell hastily concluded judgment. “I just felt like the league had done something without really — you know, and I wasn’t big in looking at all the details, this and that,” Roethlisberger said Sunday morning on a conference call with reporters....
“That does not come from me or our doctors," he said of the report. “I just left Dr. Bradley and he said, ‘Where do these reports come from that you’re coming back at a certain week?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know, Doc. I haven’t really heard any of them.’ So, I assume that’s exactly what he was talking about. We know that people like to just speculate and say things....
The Steelers quarterback, who is recovering from an MCL sprain and bone bruise, will be inactive Sunday at Kansas City, the team said. Third-string quarterback Landry Jones will get the start instead. MORE: Biggest disappointments entering Week 7 | Week 7 scoreboard Roethlisberger initially suffered the injury when he took a low hit in the Steelers’ Week 3 win over the Rams. He was originally expected to miss four to six weeks but donned a knee brace for a “trial and error” practice Wednesday in his first full workout since getting hurt....
His agent, Rich Paul, informed ESPN of Simmons’ decision not to play in the Olympics so he could instead place a priority on NBA activities. Simmons would like to play for Australia in the future, and he had been listed on Australia’s extended Olympics roster. MORE: Reviewing Final Four’s best prospects | Nerlens Noel destroyed his rental home Simmons declared for the NBA Draft following his freshman season at LSU....
The latest: The Athletic’s Shams Charania says Simmons “clearly appears done with the 76ers organization, as well as the city of Philadelphia.” Not only that, but Simmons has reportedly emptied his home in Philadelphia and his place will soon go up for sale, his mentality being that “a trade is coming at some point.” MORE: How Simmons went from top pick to polarizing trade target Charania added that the 76ers continue to hope that Simmons will report to the team and that Philadelphia’s front office, head coach Doc Rivers and agent Rich Paul have “remained in dialogue” about finding a way to get the three-time All-Star to return to Philadelphia....
The gist of his remarks: He doesn’t regret stepping away from baseball in the wake of divorce proceedings with his wife, Julianna. At 38, he isn’t sure this will be his last MLB season. And while he’s with the Cubs, he’ll give 100% as they chase the Cardinals in the NL Central. From his news conference at Wrigley Field, via the Chicago Tribune: “It was a very easy decision for me (to step away), very easy....
David Bitan told Kan public radio Netanyahu “doesn’t want to give even the slightest legitimacy to this matter.” The Sunday election ended Netanyahu’s 12-year rule with a close vote of 60-59 in Knesset. Bennett was sworn in late Sunday and in two years Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will take over as prime minister. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. The new government was sworn in late on Sunday and set to work Monday morning, with ministers announcing appointments of new ministry directors....
Speaking with CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, the prime minister defended the Israeli Defense Forces’ action, reiterating that intelligence claimed the tower “contained military assets belonging to the Hamas military intelligence.” “It’s inconceivable you would have talked to President Biden and not shared proof of Hamas in those buildings that housed the journalists. Did you share that with him?” host John Dickerson asked Netanyahu on the TV program....
Less than two weeks after scoring four goals against Carolina, the NHL’s top defensive forward registered another hat trick in Boston’s 5-2 win over the New York Islanders on Thursday night. Bergeron had failed to score in any of the Bruins’ four games following his offensive outburst against the Hurricanes, but regained his scoring touch in the first period by wristing the puck past Jaroslav Halak to tie the game at 1-1....
Bernard L. McCutcheon, 26, of Washington D.C., was charged with two counts of assault on a police officer, one count of possession of a Molotov cocktail and one count of assault with a deadly weapon, U.S. Capitol Police said in a news release. The incident took place along Massachusetts Avenue NW, just west of North Capitol Street, and near Union Station, where two patrol officers arrived at around 3:30 p....
Sanders, the Vermont independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, told CBS Mornings on Monday that he had not yet made a decision about a third White House bid. “That’s a big—you know, I haven’t made that decision,” the senator said. He also addressed the possibility that Biden could step down and choose not to run again. There has been speculation for months that the president may decide not to seek a second term, though he has repeatedly indicated it’s his intention to do so....
Inflation, excluding energy and food, increased rapidly in June, rising 4.5 percent—the largest move since September 1991. Consumer prices increased by 5.4 percent, marking the largest monthly gain in about 13 years. Meanwhile, Biden and Democrats have proposed a massive $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan, which has raised further inflation concerns from Republicans, moderate Democrats and some economists. Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats and chairs the Senate Budget Committee, was asked about these concerns in relation to the large spending proposal during a Wednesday interview with CNN....
Civil rights activist Phillip Agnew, who announced he is joining the 2020 presidential hopeful’s campaign team on March 7, said, “I am not my tweets from 2009,” after his old posts emerged following his appointment. In one tweet from October 2009, Agnew wrote: “Random thought while standing on Gas Station: Michel Obama is an odd looking woman… I’d call her ugly but I don’t want the backlash.” In another post two months later, Agnew added: “Michelle Obama is just not pretty… I’ve tried to look at her from every angle possible....
Both presidential candidates were scheduled to hold events in Cleveland on Tuesday night but called them off just hours before they were to start. Voters in Ohio, which has 136 pledged delegates up for grabs, will decide next week which candidate should be nominated at the Democratic Convention later this year. “Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland. We are heeding the public warnings from Ohio state officials, who have communicated concern about holding large indoor events during the coronavirus outbreak,” Mike Casca, Sanders’ communications director, said in a statement....
Trump won the 2016 election despite coming up nearly three million ballots short of Hillary Clinton in the popular vote. His electoral college victory in that race was still comfortable, as analyst Dave Wasserman noted in a new projection of possible discrepancies between the electoral outcomes and popular support in 2020. Sanders has previously said that it’s “hard to defend” the Constitution’s current system for allocating electors, which heavily weights rural states and minimizes the impact of large urban centers, and had called for re-examining “the concept of the electoral college....
Literature distributed by the NCWU said that if Sanders won the presidential election, his Medicare for All program would “end Culinary Healthcare.” That plan is opposed by the NCWU which provides health insurance through a specially established trust fund. After the flyer was passed around, the NCWU said it was the victim of harassing emails, tweets and phone calls. “It’s disappointing that Senator Sanders’ supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built over 8 decades,” said NCWU Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Arguello-Kline in a Wednesday statement....
The latest data, which was drawn from surveys of more than 40,000 registered voters from January 6 to 12, showed Sanders beating Trump by 4 percentage points, up from a previous 2 percent lead, at 46 percent compared to the president’s 42 percent. Although Biden still performs slightly better—46 percent compared to 41 percent for Trump—Morning Consult noted that Sanders outperformed Biden among independents and young voters, or those 18 to 29 years old....
The latest data from Morning Consult surveyed nearly 16,000 Democratic primary voters across the country from February 12 to 17 with a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point. Sanders was the frontrunner with support from 28 percent of voters, while billionaire former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg came in second at 20 percent. Former Vice President Joe Biden was a close third at 19 percent, followed by former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 12 percent....
Danon–a free-market conservative and ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu–told attendees of a conference hosted by the powerful pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Sunday that the Democratic Party front-runner for president is an “ignorant fool.” Sanders declined to attend the AIPAC event and labeled it a platform for “bigotry.” During the last Democratic debate, Sanders described Netanyahu, another Trump ally, saying: “Sadly, tragically, in Israel, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country....
