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Bill Belichick, the recently hired football coach at the University of North Carolina, said on Thursday that he is committed to the collegiate game and is not searching for a way back to the professional ranks. A large portion of the football community was taken aback this week when the University of North Carolina hired Belichick, whose stellar NFL career contrasts sharply with a bare collegiate curriculum. The six-time Super Bowl winning coach told reporters in Chapel Hill, "I didn't come here to leave." "I m here to do the best I can for the University of North Carolina and the program." The University's Board of Trustees and Board of Governors must approve Belichick's five-year deal. "We've been playing football at Carolina since 1888 and I suspect that in those 136 years, there are fe...

Washington A tax lawyer involved in the largest tax fraud case ever; a county commissioner convicted of accepting nearly half a million dollars in bribes, including a stone-fired pizza oven; and the owner of a Medicare billing business in the Detroit area who masterminded a $26 million Medicare scam. In the biggest single-day act of clemency in contemporary history, President Joe Biden commuted the federal sentences of all of them on Thursday. In a broad and historic move, Biden commuted nearly 1,500 sentences and granted 39 pardons to inmates who had been released from prison more than a year ago under the CARES Act, a pandemic-era law designed to reduce overcrowding in federal prisons and convicted of non-violent crimes, many of which had to do with illegal drugs. The offense will now ...

Washington Despite President Joe Biden's vow to veto it, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bipartisan bill supported by the federal judiciary that would add hundreds of new judgeships. Prior to President-elect Donald Trump's election victory last month, the law was regarded as uncontroversial and had already passed the Senate with bipartisan backing. Massachusetts' House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark urged colleagues to vote against the bill in a memo she sent out prior to Thursday's vote. She noted that although this plan aims to address our court system's backlog, House Democrats should maintain objectivity on the implications of permitting a sizable number of new, vacant judgeships in the event of a Trump administration. On Thursday, the bill was approved by the Ho...

A UCLA student is bringing a medical malpractice lawsuit against several California hospitals and healthcare providers, claiming she was misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria and then hurried onto a path of irreversibly harmful puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. In a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, claimed that she was sexually abused as a young child and that by the time she was eleven, she was struggling with the idea of becoming a woman and had started to think that life would be simpler if she were a boy. She told her then-school counselor about this, and the counselor informed her that she was transgender and called her parents to confirm this. Breen, who was also suffering from anxiety, depression and undiagnosed p...

Police said James Kennedy, a reality star on Vanderpump Rules, was arrested earlier this week on a misdemeanor domestic assault complaint. Burbank Police verified to NBC News that the 32-year-old DJ, whose full name is James Kennedy Georgiou, was taken into custody Tuesday night in Burbank, Los Angeles County, after officers were called to a residence for a fight between him and a woman at approximately 11:30 p.m.The event was initially reported by TMZ. According to police, Mr. Georgiou was arrested after the inquiry found it to be a domestic incident. After posting bond, he was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence. According to the police, the Burbank City Attorney's office is still reviewing formal charges. Ally Lewber, who also starred on the reality show, is Kennedy's girlfriend....

This holiday season, alcohol will cost you a little more than it did last year. Additionally, there are ways to get more for your money whether purchasing a round of drinks or bringing a bottle to an event. Beer continues to be less expensive than many liquors, and alcohol is still typically less expensive at home than in pubs and restaurants. But some spirits, including many tequilas and whiskeys, are seeing noteworthy price drops that have made even top-shelf bottles a bit more affordable. According to official inflation data issued on Wednesday, the average cost of whiskey purchased for domestic consumption has decreased by almost 2% in the past year. Conversely, beer served outside the house costs roughly 4% more. And on Thursday, federal regulators turned a spotlight on retail booze p...

Despite making lowering grocery prices a central platform of his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump is admitting that it might be challenging. But in an interview with Time magazine, which named him 2024's Person of the Year, Trump stated that he still thinks supply chain improvements and cheaper energy prices will make it possible. When asked if he believes his presidency will be a "failure" if grocery costs don't decline, Trump said it won't, while criticizing the present administration for its handling of inflation, which first caused food prices to rise. "They got them up, you see. I want to take them down. Once something is up, it's difficult to take it down. In the interview that was released on Thursday, he stated, "You know, it's very hard." However, I believe they will. That e...

Along with some juicy anecdotes, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy provided a very helpful guide on how to cut a mango. In a video for "Bon Appetit" magazine on Wednesday, Murthy demonstrated his ability to peel and dice food while recalling a narrative of his parents' immigration to the United States from India. The headline of the article was "How to cut a mango like a surgeon (general)." When his parents arrived in the United States, they planted nine different kinds of mango trees because they wanted to "recreate India in the backyard," according to Murthy. "Whenever mango season came we would peel them all day long and make mango dishes out of them," Murthy stated. "Mango bread, mango pudding, mango ice cream, mango cake, mango lassi." Murthy, 47, is the youngest active-duty flag o...

The cost of those Grade A eggs has increased recently, barely two years after egg prices hit all-time highs, which is a shock to grocery buyers. According to consumer price index statistics released Wednesday, the average retail price of eggs in the United States has increased by 38% since November 2023. Just last month, prices went up 8%. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of a carton of twelve large Grade A eggs increased from $2.14 in November to $3.65 in November. Economists and industry analysts attribute the spike to two main factors: the strong consumer demand that is normal during the winter holiday season, and bird flu, which has decreased the availability of eggs. The possibility of us flirting with record price highs is extremely possible, according to B...

Washington According to a long-awaited Justice Department inspector general report issued Thursday, the FBI did not take the "basic step" of gathering intelligence from its field offices prior to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to the inspector general's office, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told investigators that the absence of a canvas was a "basic step that was missed" and that he would have expected it to have happened. The FBI "recognized the potential for violence" and took "significant and appropriate steps" despite having "only a supporting role in preparing for and responding to" the events of January 6, according to the inspector general. Additionally, the report contains information that would most likely bolster the "fedsurrection" narrative th...