“When I sat down and talked to Rex before I signed with the Jets, my role and my situation was explained to me totally different to what actually happened,” Johnson said on the Rich Eisen Show. “I think a lot of the stuff was out of Rex’s hands.” MORE: Latest mock draft | Combine character questions Johnson, 29, came to the Jets last season after six years with Tennessee. He rushed for a career-low 663 yards on 155 carries and had only one rushing touchdown, while his teammate in the backfield, Chris Ivory, ran for 820 yards and six touchdowns....

The two deputies who were killed in the hours-long standoff have been identified as K-9 Deputy Logan Fox and Sgt. Chris Ward. Fox died at the scene and Ward died after being flown to a Tennessee medical center for treatment. Law enforcement personnel were conducting a welfare check when the shooting broke out. The officers were dispatched to a home in Boone at 9:44 a.m. Wednesday after the homeowner didn’t report to work or answer telephone calls....

For years, Teigen accused the former president of online bullying—among other things—and Trump even responded to her taunts and critiques. But some social media users are calling Teigen the bully after Stodden told The Daily Beast in an interview published May 10 that when she was 16, Teigen “wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself....

The model and entrepreneur suddenly returned to her 1.5 million Twitter followers after she wrote on Instagram on March 25 that it was not trolls or bullies that drove her away but it was her decision and that she had to come to terms with negative public opinions of her. “Turns out it feels TERRIBLE to silence yourself and also no longer enjoy belly chuckles randomly throughout the day and also lose like 2000 friends at once lol,” Teigen tweeted Friday morning, declaring her return in a post that has garnered more than 44,000 favorites, 1,200 retweets and counting....

He is the Panthers’ Christian McCaffrey, and he is on a pace to break the NFL record for combined rushing and receiving yards. He also might soon top the running back salary chart. I saw the tremendous value of a dual-threat running back early in my NFL front office career in Minnesota, where Chuck Foreman rushed for 1,155 yards and added 55 catches for 567 yards as the lead back on our 1976 Super Bowl team....

Genetic predisposition A virus or other infection Immune system abnormalities Stressful conditions Central nervous system (CNS) and hormone abnormalities Exposure to toxins Not everyone with chronic fatigue syndrome has all of these factors. They likely have a combination of them that, for some reason, has led to the condition, which is more common in women than men. Genetics People may be genetically predisposed to ME/CFS—in other words, they’re likely to get it if enough triggers come together....

In her book On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross identifies five stages of grief that a patient goes through after learning of a terminal prognosis. While FMS and ME/CFS won’t kill you, you could still feel an overwhelming sense of loss. That’s understandable because you likely will need to make some big changes to your lifestyle. The stages of grief are: Denial: A refusal to accept what is happening. Anger: Feeling like it’s not fair or being angry in general....

“Peter King stood head [and] shoulders above everyone else … I will miss him in Congress [and] value his friendship,” Schumer wrote on Twitter. On Monday morning, King announced on Twitter that he would be retiring from Congress after 28 years when his term concludes in 2020. The New York congressman called not seeking reelection a “difficult decision” and noted that the years he spent fighting for his constituents were “extremely fulfilling....

The Trump administration has been accused of pressuring the newly-elected Ukrainian president to open an investigation into the business dealings of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Ukrainian leaders decided against opening the investigation and the Trump administration withheld military aid. Following bipartisan pressure from Congress, the military aid was eventually released, along with an extra $140 million. “Explain how, all of a sudden, when the aid got released, more money showed up....

Still, people took notice when Wilson’s girlfriend — pop star Ciara — and her son paid a visit to the Seahawks’ training camp on Saturday. I have no strong desire to read into someone’s personal life, but here we go… MORE: Russell Wilson’s 10 worst games | What Wilson’s deal means for Andrew Luck By the looks of things, Wilson is already pretty close to Ciara’s son, Future Zahir. The young man showed up at the camp proudly wearing a No....

All eyes are on the star, who plays a dealer with a Jackson Pollack she needs to sell for $20 million. She’s a striking woman, pretty with her tousled mop of hair, big eyes and chiseled jaw. The crowd is a forgiving one, roaring at lame lines and forgiving her rather flat readings. Of course, the audience also pulsates with the energy of the star’s friends, a few of whom, like Sting and Valentino, are almost as famous as she is....

It’s not easy–but then little on Sheehan’s long and improbable journey to this place has been. When she first set up her lawn chair outside George W. Bush’s Texas ranch in the summer of 2005–a grief-stricken mother demanding to speak to the president about the death of her son Casey in Iraq–she had no idea how she would capture the media’s imagination and spark a movement. Her 26-day roadside vigil three years ago drew thousands of supporters to Crawford, Texas, and prompted marches and protests across the country....

The Hangar, a funky circus-training studio in East London, gives lessons in singles and doubles trapeze (hangaruk.com). In Paris, Les Noctambules offers flying classes with trapeze, rope and aerial rings. Daredevils Down Under can get off their feet at Australia’s National Institute of Circus Arts in Victoria (nica.com.au). Running away and joining the circus has never been easier.

To meaningfully reduce gun violence, we need an actual strategy: one that responds to what local gun violence prevention advocates have made clear will actually help. We must stem the flow of firearms into cities. We must invest in proven, community-led gun violence interventions. And rather than ignoring the systemic racism that has caused gun violence to take a disproportionate toll on Black and Latino communities, we must tackle it head-on, by reversing racist policies, and making broad, sustained investments that expand economic opportunity in the neighborhoods hit hardest by this and so many other public health crises....

According to reports, on Jan. 1, 2020, Baton Rouge Police Department Sergeant Ken Camallo stopped the 16-year-old male, his brother Clarence Green, 23, and a woman named Kayleen Butler, who was driving. Incident reports obtained by Reason Magazine said that Camallo stopped the car for “suspicious driving.” Citing the smell of marijuana, Camallo handcuffed both Green and his 16-year-old brother before removing their clothes and underwear as they leaned against a police car....

“This historic sentence brings the Floyd family and our nation one step closer to healing by delivering closure and accountability,” the family and their legal team said in a statement. “For once, a police officer who wrongly took the life of a Black man was held to account,” the statement went on. “While this shouldn’t be exceptional, tragically it is. Day after day, year after year, police kill Black people without consequence....

The honor, announced Tuesday at the Winter Meetings in suburban Washington, D.C., is named for the longtime Sporting News publisher and has been presented annually since 1962 “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.” Smith covered the Yankees for five years beginning in 1983 for the Hartford Courant and maintained a high profile as a columnist with The New York Times from 1991 to 1998 and as an editor and columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1998 to 2007....

Until recently, the Dow-S&P fight was strictly inside baseball, to mix sports metaphors. The public used the 30-stock Dow as a shorthand for the stock market; money managers used the more broadly based 500-stock S&P as a benchmark to measure investment performance. When it came to investing, there was no competition: S&P has been licensing its indexes for mutual funds and other investment products for about 20 years, while Dow Jones, owner of The Wall Street Journal, wouldn’t license its Dow averages, lest it sully its image....

There were some eyebrows raised last month when the dust settled on the draft Class of 2014 contract extension numbers. Only four players received extensions, starting with No. 1 pick Andrew Wiggins, who got a full, $148 million max deal. Beyond that, Joel Embiid got an only semi-guaranteed $146.5 million contract from Philadelphia, Denver’s Gary Harris got $84 million over four years and T.J. Warren of the Suns got $47 million....