“THANK YOU! With your support, and the support of voters from across Virginia Beach and Norfolk, we have won this Special Election,” Rouse wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. “No rest for the weary – tomorrow, we head to Richmond to get to work for Virginia families.” The former Virginia Beach City Councilman and NFL player beat his Republican opponent Kevin Adams by a thin margin, with less than one percent of the vote over his competitor....

Appearances by key members of President Donald Trump’s administration, video of official actions, and a grand finale event on the grounds of the White House—complete with a fireworks spectacular from the National Mall—prompted repeated questions through the week of whether Trump was taking the benefits of incumbency too far and breaking the law passed in 1939. “The basic rule is you are not allowed to use your official position to support or oppose a partisan candidate in an election,” Richard Painter, law professor at the University of Minnesota, told Newsweek....

The House Ways and Means Committee announced its members will begin to review potential expansions to the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) on Wednesday. The legislation would be included in President Joe Biden’s robust $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Democrats in both chambers voted on Friday to move the bill forward through budget reconciliation. “[The] committee will take a crucial step to confront this challenge and show the country that help is on the way,” Chairman Richard Neal said in a statement....

McConnell said Monday that Congress is struggling thanks to “months of Democrat heel-dragging,” primarily in the form of an “impeachment obsession” that has left “core, routine governing duties still unfulfilled.” “It is past time to get serious and pass these key bills,” he argued. McConnell then went on to accuse his colleagues of “blocking funding for our armed forces and delaying the [National Defense Authorization Act], a must-pass bill for our troops....

But this year it matters. In the wake of the staggering news that President Donald Trump, 74, was hospitalized after contracting the coronavirus that has killed 200,000 Americans, and with the knowledge that his opponent Joe Biden is 77, voters will be watching Wednesday to see the leadership, substance, and style of two people who could one day serve as president. It’s impossible to pinpoint when it began, but Democrats have been licking their chops for a long time over the idea that Senator Kamala Harris could take on one of the heads of the Trump administration in a debate....

Did Deng himself realize the irony of talking about ““trampling,’’ even as the bodies of the Beijing massacre were barely cold? Reformer and despot, a man whose life spanned the reaches of modern Chinese history, he leaves behind a contradictory legacy. ““His mind is round and his actions square,’’ Mao Zedong once said. During his decade and a half as China’s ““paramount leader,’’ his program of radical economic change transformed life for one fifth of the world’s population....

Ross Chastain secured a spot in the Championship 4 in Phoenix after pulling off a ridiculous move at Martinsville Speedway, riding the wall through two turns and beating out Denny Hamlin. The move put Chastain in position for a championship run this Sunday. Of course, while witnesses were dazzled by the gutsy move, drivers on the track were just as impressed. NASCAR team comms revealed some drivers were stunned by the No....

He won it in dominating fashion, leading the final 23 laps and even with drivers wrecking behind him, it appeared no one would catch him on his way to the finish line at Daytona International Speedway. MORE: Daytona 500 lineup | Watch Bowyer’s car flip | Harvick fails inspection | Hamlin dominates Hamlin also won Saturday in the Sprint Unlimited and has cemented himself as the driver to beat Sunday in the Daytona 500....

Ready-to-use dental dams can be purchased online or at some drug stores; you also can make a DIY dental dam out of an external or internal condom. History Dental dams originally were developed for use by dentists to isolate areas of the mouth being treated and to prevent bacterial contamination. In the 1990s, people began using dental dams for oral sex. In 1998, the condom company Glyde USA received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a latex dental dam designed for oral sex....

The unsealed documents revealed that Depp’s team wanted to introduce evidence in that case that Heard previously worked as an “exotic dancer” years before she met Depp. He’s also been accused of trying to use “revenge porn” in the case by using nude pictures of Heard as evidence. Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote stating that she was the survivor of domestic abuse. After a seven-week trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, the jury sided with Depp and found Heard guilty on three counts of defamation, but Heard’s team are currently appealing the verdict....

That isn’t to say Jeff Saturday and Matt Ryan aren’t up to their jobs, but there’s no denying it doesn’t reflect well on the team they beat in their first game together. The Raiders, who entered this year with lofty expectations behind new coach Josh McDaniels and premier wide receiver Davante Adams, have dropped to 2-7, worst in the AFC West. MORE: Four things Jeff Saturday did right in his winning Colts coaching debut...

An indictment filed in a Minnesota court on Thursday alleged Chauvin held his knee on the neck and upper back of a Black 14-year-old who was lying prone, handcuffed and unresisting during a 2017 arrest. Chauvin was recently found guilty of three charges that could land him in prison for decades for kneeling on Floyd’s neck while he said he couldn’t breathe. The new indictment also alleges Chauvin held the 14-year-old by the throat and struck him “multiple times in the head with a flashlight....

MORE: ‘Jeter’ chant at Fenway | Jeter does it ‘his way’ | Jeter’s farewell Your browser does not support iframes. Jeter even received more cheers than any of the Red Sox players during the introductions. Fenway didn’t stop there as they were selling Jeter items at the gift shop.

Jeter was a wizard on the field, yet positively plain off it, and according to him, it was all part of the plan. MORE: Longest-tenured franchise players | Jeter’s replacement? On Wednesday, Jeter spoke in front of an audience of over 5,000 people at Hamilton College in upstate New York, and the Yankee legend revealed that he was easily able to avoid follow-up questions from the media by using one simple answer....

Harper made headlines during the offseason after calling baseball “a tired sport” and has continued his message into the regular season with Make Baseball Fun Again T-Shirts, hats and bat decals. Jeter agrees that baseball isn’t as fun as it could be and thinks he could make a difference if he owned a team. MORE: Best first-round picks in Yankees history “In my mind, this is the greatest sport in the world,” Jeter said....

Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. A nerve root is a bundle of nerve fibers that branches off from the spinal cord and passes through an opening between two vertebrae. Vertebrae are small bones that make up your backbone. From there, the nerves travel throughout your torso, arms, and legs. They make up the peripheral nervous system. These nerves provide sensory (sensation-based) information, motor function (movement), and other functions....

The Brazil international was involved in a clash of legs with the Hornets defender and received treatment on the pitch. Guidetti: Manchester is blue Coutinho attempted to continue, but was clearly in discomfort and could be seen hobbling when not on the ball. After coming off, he had strapping placed around his thigh. While the loss of Coutinho, who spent time on the sidelines with an ankle injury earlier this season, represents a blow to the Reds, boss Jurgen Klopp was able to welcome back Adam Lallana as his replacement – the England international having not played for Liverpool since March 19 after injuring his thigh for the national team against Germany....

The sale of Neymar has opened up a free berth in the Catalans’ attacking line and reports have linked them with an interest in the Brazil international. Coutinho 6/4 to join Barcelona While Liverpool are set to rebuff any approaches, Carragher thinks that the 25-year-old attacker will still want the move to take place. “I don’t think he’s going to go, but he would want to go. Who wouldn’t want to go to Barcelona?...

Of more personal impact for NASCAR competitors, the top-finishing Toyota driver in the NASCAR All-Star Race will be on the cover of the game. That creates a bit of an intramural race inside the race, with Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth and Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr., who enjoys an alliance with JGR, battling for the spot. “I’m sitting here thinking of how strange this is for all of these things to converge,” Edwards said....