The Reds have seen the Brazilian playmaker mature into a talismanic presence at Anfield. His ability has never been in question, but he is now an on-field leader and a calming presence away from the pitch. No Liverpool bid for Arsenal’s Ox Johnston considers him to be among the best in the business and a vital part of Jurgen Klopp’s plans, amid ongoing talk of interest from the likes of Barcelona....

Griffin was arrested on Sunday and charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful entry, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Sunday. An affidavit said the FBI had received a tip on January 9 that Griffin—an Otero County commissioner—was at the Capitol on January 6 and had vowed to return on January 20 to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk....

Normally, she would make an appearance at Lauren’s First and Goal (LFG) Football Camp, speaking to thousands of high school-aged players and hundreds of coaches, all there in her honor. She is a survivor of multiple brain tumors and cancer diagnoses, which she has battled since her initial diagnosis of Type 1 neurofibromatosis in 1997. Money raised from those camps — normally held in early June at Lafayette College (Easton, Penn....

Fraser Health—one of five publicly funded health care regions in the province—said in a statement that eight people at the farm had tested positive for the disease. Officials are screening several more employees as well as tracing the contacts of those that are infected. Operators of the farm located in Fraser Valley, which has not been identified, and affected staff are now self-isolating, according to Fraser Health. Scientists have found that minks are susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, with the animals capable of suffering a range of symptoms, including severe pneumonia....

The documents, obtained by the Washington Post, said that the Delta variant, initially found in India, is not only as contagious as chickenpox but also more contagious than the common cold, flu, smallpox and the Ebola virus. It cited studies conducted in Canada, Singapore and Scotland that found the Delta variant is more dangerous than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the United Kingdom, in regards to the risks for intensive care and death alongside hospitalization....

That makes the tribe the largest in the nation, with Cherokee enrollment now second, at 392,000. However, a Cherokee tribal spokeswoman told the Associated Press that Cherokee numbers are also on the rise, with about 200 more applicants per month than average. Tribal governments received $4.8 billion from the CARES Act based on federal housing population data for tribes, according to a spending breakdown. The U.S. Treasury Department recently revised its methodology after some said it was badly skewed....

Long-haulers are also referred to as people with “chronic COVID” or “long COVID." But some survivors and experts are pushing for a different name, or at least, consensus on one name. Diana Berrent, the founder of COVID-19 research and support organization Survivor Corps, recently asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about landing on an official name in an interview. Berrent suggested “long-term COVID” or “LTC-19,” the names Survivor Corps uses....

Congress approved tens of billions in funds six months ago to be distributed to renters at risk of eviction. The funds are being distributed at a slow pace in many states over red tape such as bureaucratic obstacles and a lack of federal guidance. The Treasury Department said only 11 percent of the roughly $46.5 billion in rent relief funds has been distributed through July by states and localities....

There had been some speculation prior to the announcement that scientists who were involved in the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines would be recognized by this years’s award. But in the end, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet decided to give the award to Julius, an American at the University of California, San Francisco, and Patapoutian—a Lebanese researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California. According to a tweet from the Nobel Prize account, the “seminal discoveries by this year’s #NobelPrize laureates in physiology or medicine have explained how heat, cold and touch can initiate signals in our nervous system....

The pharmaceutical company this week revealed that its existing COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, which was approved for use in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month, could offer protection against two new fast-spreading variants of the virus, the B.1.1.7 strain and the B.1.351 strain. However, Moderna also warned that as long as the virus continues to spread between people, it will continue to mutate, which will lead to further new strains emerging....

McCarthy’s job security seems firm at the moment, but questions about his future in Dallas have existed since his debut season on the sideline in 2020. A disappointing end to the 2021 season has only ratcheted up those discussions. With Payton stepping away from the sideline earlier this offseason, some have connected the dots to him perhaps supplanting McCarthy in Big D, returning to the organization for which he worked from 2003-05....

According to the Dallas Morning News, Romo will undergo a second MRI this weekend, which will likely determine whether the Cowboys keep him on the active roster to start the season, or place him on injured reserve. If he’s placed on IR, the earliest he could return would be Week Nine for the Cowboys’ Nov. 6 game against the Browns. FANTASY: 2016 QB rankings | Top 200 rankings Romo was initially expected to miss 6-10 weeks after breaking a bone in his back, but it appears it will be closer to 8-10 weeks....

This much is clear: The Cowboys didn’t draft a running back, and they apparently have decided not to pursue Texas native and unhappy Vikings star Adrian Peterson. MORE: La’el Collins is Cowboys’ X factor | Staubach wouldn’t have signed Hardy So the first of 12 offseason practices at Valley Ranch is the first opportunity for Joseph Randle, Darren McFadden, Lance Dunbar and Ryan Williams to open some eyes before training camp begins in July....

Atlanta, which at halftime of Sunday’s Week 2 game in Dallas had a 29-10 lead, made an inexplicable error on special teams when it failed to recover the Cowboys’ onside kick attempt with 1:46 to play. Instead, Dallas recovered the ball and worked the clock all the way down to 4 seconds before Greg Zuerlein sealed a 40-39 victory with a 46-yard field goal as time expired. Multiple Falcons players could have recovered Zuerlein’s onside kick, but they appeared to be waiting for the ball to cross the 45-yard line....

So when “Roger the Dodger” — a franchise icon who led Dallas to its first two Super Bowl victories — weighs in on Dak Prescott, it carries extra heft. WEEK 6 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread “You can tell that the players respect the heck out of him and that he’s already a leader,” Staubach told ESPN. “He is amazing at making decisions when … there’s a difficult situation there and he needs to dump the ball off....

With a tight cap position, there’s a good chance the Cowboys will look very different in 2015. The free agents The Cowboys’ unrestricted free-agent class this year accounted for 111 starts and nearly 7,000 snaps. Eight free agents to-be started last weekend’s divisional playoff game against Green Bay, so Dallas must prioritize and determine a way to make it work for 2015 and beyond. Here’s a list of the Cowboys’ unrestricted free agents....

The Cowboys running back is suing his former business manager, Michael Vick, for misappropriating money throughout McFadden’s eight-year NFL career. Vick is accused of making bad investments for McFadden, including a failed Bitcoin business venture that lost $3 million, according to The Associated Press. MORE: NFL’s most underrated teams for 2016 The suit names Vick, who lives in Mabelvale, Ark., and 10 others simply referred to as “Doe.” Vick told the AP on Thursday he hadn’t seen the lawsuit and declined to comment....

The team fined its star wide receiver an undisclosed amount for skipping team meetings and a scheduled MRI on Tuesday, according to the Dallas Morning News. MORE: Week 4 picks | Against the spread Bryant briefly exited Sunday night’s 31-17 win over the Bears before returning and finishing. Injured players typically are expected to report for treatment the day after a game, but Bryant’s examination was put off until Tuesday morning....

At the same time, the lawmakers passed a more moderate measure proposed by four Senate leaders as an alternative to the Helms amendment. Following new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, it requires that health professionals performing specific “exposure prone” procedures learn their HIV status. Those testing positive would be barred from the riskiest procedures unless they receive permission from patients and professional review panels. Neither measure has the force of law; both were tacked on to an appropriations bill now headed for a HouseSenate conference committee....

The skinny: The EFF’s goal was to expose the folly of the government’s export system, which forbids companies to ship strong encryption overseas. The Data Encryption Standard (DES), which uses a 56-bit key (the more bits, the stronger the protection), has been around for years. But the United States, except in special cases, won’t let companies like Microsoft put it in products they ship around the world. Law-enforcement officials say that if DES-level privacy software was in use, their crime-fighting efforts would be greatly hampered....