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Adam Hunger/Associated PressThe New York Jets traded linebacker Avery Williamson and a 2022 seventh-round pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2022 fifth-round pick, according to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News and ESPN's Adam Schefter. Williamson, 28, has started five games for the Jets this season, registering 50 tackles and an interception. Jason…

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded a private hospital, Kunwarke Clinic and Maternity in Kan-Tsakuuwa, near Federal University Lafia, Nasarawa State, abducting five persons.It was gathered that the gunmen, who came shooting sporadically to scare residents of the area, whisked away a staff of the hospital, Cletus Igube, and…

In a show of support of questionable political value, pro-Trump demonstrators clogged freeways Sunday across the country, from blue states like New Jersey, New York, and Washington state, to red-leaning Texas and purple Arizona. “WHOOO! We shut it down baby! We shut it down!” says one pro-Trump videographer as he…

11.20pm GMT23:20 US judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas A federal judge in Texas scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday on whether Houston officials unlawfully allowed drive-through voting and should toss more than 100,000 votes in the Democratic-leaning area, Reuters reports. US district judge Andrew…

Paul Rudd kept voters waiting in the New York rain happy by handing out cookies on Thursday.As queues formed of people keen to have their say in the U.S. presidential election, Ant-Man star Paul was on hand to keep their bellies full. It appeared the 51-year-old actor visited the Barclays…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Nina Power in The Daily Telegraphon restrictive strictness‘Virtue-signalling’ can’t be policed, and the BBC is doomed if it tries“Everybody should be allowed to express their opinion in private – except…

A dispatch from this year’s mostly virtual New York Film Festival.  The halal cart operator at 65th Street and Broadway used to get a lot of business from me in late September and early October, even though his fare, to be candid, was less than superb. (“How is that even…

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Jesus Medina’s second-half goal lifted New York City FC to a 1-0 victory over a banged-up Toronto FC on Wednesday in MLS play. It marked the first loss in five outings (3-1-1) for Toronto at Pratt and Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, its pandemic home away…

Soon after his show began Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson tweeted a video in which he explains that a trove of documents about Hunter Biden that was shipped overnight from New York to Los Angeles never arrived … the packaged was opened at one of the shipping facilities and the documents…