Price, 81, represents a reliably Democratic district that includes liberal strongholds of Durham, Wake County and Chapel Hill, though the district could change in redistricting. In 2020, he was reelected with more than 67 percent of the vote. “I am announcing today that I will not seek re-election as representative for North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District,” he said in a statement on Monday. “I do so with a profound sense of gratitude to the voters of the Fourth District; to the supporters who have backed me in 18 successive campaigns; and to my staff in Washington and the district, whose competence and dedication are responsible for the quality of representation and service I have been able to provide....

The number of intensive care unit (ICU) hospital beds needed is predicted to hit a peak in less than a week in at least a handful of states. The number of hospital beds needed across the country is projected to peak in just over a week, reaching around 185,435 on January 15, according to the latest forecast by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington....

Due to this early success, the chemistry in Sacramento is at an all-time high. Nothing could ever illustrate this better than Wednesday night’s bench interaction between DeMarcus Cousins and Omri Casspi. MORE: Green nearly licks Griffin in staredown | Hayward chase-down block of LBJ | NBA under pressure As both players sat on the bench with their team ahead of the Denver Nuggets, 82-61, in the third quarter, Casspi realized Cousins’ headband was uneven....

Denver’s Demaryius Thomas told NFL Media ahead of Monday night’s game against the Bengals that Brock Osweiler throws harder than Manning. MORE: Top photos from Week 16 | McCarthy: Sunday shows took dive for Manning “You know, Brock is a different type of quarterback, so you know his (ball) is for sure faster with a little more thump behind it,” Thomas said. “Peyton doesn’t really have a route he can throw hard on unless it’s a short route....

Dembele, 20, scored a 78th-minute winner for a 10-man France in a 3-2 victory over England in Paris on Tuesday. The star attacker has reportedly attracted interest from Barca but is contracted at Dortmund until 2021. Mbappe makes Madrid revelation Dembele only joined the Bundesliga outfit from Rennes last year and said Barca had also been keen. “Last year I had contact with the Barcelona sports director,” he said, via Mundo Deportivo....

Northern Africa, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa are expected to see the largest increases—up by more than 300%. The analysis was conducted by international researchers and published in Lancet Public Health. Emma Nichols, MPH, a lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, told Verywell that the research that “looked at forecasting the prevalence of dementia to 2050 is part of the Global Burden of Disease study, which is a larger effort to comprehensively quantify the burden of different diseases across the world and over time....

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Demetrius Andrade delivered a flurry of punches right on cue, with James Brown’s triumphant bellowing of “woooo-oooo-oooo” toward the tail end of “The Payback.” He then tacked on a few more shots in concert with the “Godfather of Soul,” exclaiming each word, “Lord! Those hits! Carry on! Carry on!” That moment during his public outdoor workout Wednesday at The Providence Rink in his hometown offered a sliver of what makes the reigning WBO middleweight champion such a likable guy....

So, who exactly is Max Ehrich? Ehrich is mainly known for his acting career. The Marlboro Township, New Jersey native made his film debut in 2004 at the age of 13 with a role in One Easy Job. Ehrich was a principal dancer in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, along with a recurring role on the third season of Ugly Betty, and was in a TV movie for the Nickelodeon show iCarly....

Fields, a Democrat, urged his fellow representatives not to support an amendment to Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy’s SB 3006 bill that would ban vaccine mandates in the state. SB 3006 aims to address the COVID-19 crisis in Alaska by allowing multi-state nurse licensure to facilitate more telehealth opportunities. “Here we are, 1,500 Americans dying every day, a September 11th every two days, because politicians and bloggers and conspiracy mongers have discouraged people from getting vaccinated,” Fields said....

Gloria Romero, a former state senator who chaired the California State Senate’s Democratic Caucus and was also its majority leader in the early 2000s, announced her endorsement of the conservative radio host in an ad that Elder’s campaign released last week. On Wednesday, she participated in a virtual press conference with Elder and former Lieutenant Governor of California Abel Maldonado, a Republican, to discuss her endorsement decision and views on the recall effort....

Filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that challengers in Iowa and Montana both had more success in fundraising efforts than their Republican counterparts. Republicans currently control the Senate with a 53-47 advantage but the November election will see dozens of seats contested, with the potential for Democrats to win back control of the chamber if they can achieve a net gain of at least four seats, or three if they also win the presidency....

Pritzker, a Democrat who was reelected as Illinois governor in November, was among a group of U.S. politicians questioned during the “America (Un)Bound” panel at the annual summit. Notably, Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin also participated. While answering a question, Pritzker stressed that Biden “has gotten things done.” “He has worked with some reluctant members of his own party,” Pritzker said. “He’s worked with some reluctant members of the opposite party, but we have gotten things done for the United States at the federal level under this president....

The Democrat-led House Ethics Committee held a closed-door meeting Friday on Brady’s comments and announced their decision Monday in a statement. “While it is manifestly the business of this committee to ensure the decorum of House proceedings and to punish unlawful and unethical conduct that reflects upon the integrity of the House, there is no precedent for policing the lawful expression of opinions or a member’s choice of words in what he believed to be correspondence with a private citizen,” said Delaware House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, the committee chair....

“Senator Sanders, respectfully, is not involved in these negotiations and his characterization is just not accurate,” said Warner, a Democrat, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on the network’s State of the Union program Sunday morning. A bipartisan group of senators, including Warner, recently introduced a proposed plan that aims to offset ongoing economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal suggests allocating $908 billion in federal funds to raise weekly unemployment benefits, subsidize state and local governments, and replenish resources offered to small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program....

Stabenow said that “there better be a plan” for dealing with Iranian retaliatory attacks against Americans after the drone strike that killed Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport early Friday. Stabenow cautioned that the Tehran government has the “capacity” to launch military attacks by sea or on land in addition to cyber attacks against U.S. targets domestic and abroad. A general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Americans “wherever they are” in response to the death of Soleimani....

That didn’t happen, however, as Democrats actually picked up seats in places like North Carolina amid an underwhelming night for Republicans in states where they were expected to be competitive. What nobody saw coming Tuesday night, however, was the party’s apparent loss of ground in a district otherwise expected to yield an easy win for the Biden White House. As Governor Kathy Hochul held off a strong challenge by Republican Lee Zeldin in the deep-blue stronghold of New York, Sean Patrick Maloney—the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a close ally of President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi—lost his seat in the New York City suburbs after three consecutive double-digit wins and a last-second change in endorsement by a coalition of rabbis in Rockland County, which boasts one of the highest concentrations of Jewish Americans in the country....

US Bookies, a betting aggregator, found that the party’s odds of winning the 2022 midterms had increased since the end of February. The aggregator said its chances of holding the Senate rose from 13-2 to 3-1, and their odds of controlling the House improved from 11-2 to 9-2. While the increase is slight, Democrats can be optimistic about the shift in trends as Republicans continue to eye huge gains in November....

Florida residents who want to vote in November’s election had until 12 a.m. Tuesday to register, but hours before the deadline, many reported that the website RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov was unavailable. Florida’s Secretary of State Laurel Lee tweeted that the state’s voter registration portal went down for a brief period on Monday. “Due to high volume, for about 15 minutes, some users experienced delays while trying to register. We have increased capacity,” she wrote on Twitter....

Here is a mayor who has presided over 90-plus consecutive nights of violence in the city which has the most active Antifa faction in the country. Stores have been invaded, buildings have been burned and police have been injured, while the Portland city government and the Oregon state government have been relentlessly incompetent and ineffective. On Saturday, a supporter of President Donald Trump was killed by the left-wing activists. Apparent Antifa members there practically celebrated his murder....

A Newsweek analysis of current voting registration in the battleground state shows that there are 18,080 fewer registered Democratic voters in Erie and Northampton counties than in 2020. In recent weeks, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidates for Senate and governor have managed to narrow the leads that their Democratic opponents have held for much of the election cycle. While Democrat Josh Shapiro is still projected to beat Republican Doug Mastriano for governor, the double-digit advantage John Fetterman had has been whittled to about 2 points by GOP candidate Dr....