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King is featured twice on the album. His first appearance is right at the album opening “2 Much,” in which Bieber includes a snippet of his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” where King says, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Later in the album, the track “MLK Interlude” features audio of King’s “But If Not” sermon delivered at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1967, according to Democracy Now....

“It’s just so hypocritical to say to a person, ‘It is Jim Crow to require that you have an ID when you go to vote,’” King said while appearing on the Monday installment of The Jim Bakker Show, an evangelical talk program. King was referring to criticisms against Georgia’s recently passed voter law. The law, which requires voter ID along with many other changes, has been criticized by President Joe Biden and others as a form of “Jim Crow....

Marcus Mariota will get the starting role over rookie Desmond Ridder, an unsurprising development given Atlanta signed Mariota shortly after trading Matt Ryan to the Colts and head coach Arthur Smith’s familiarity with Mariota. The Falcons may have drafted Ridder this year, but it was apparent they want to find their QB of the future in either Bryce Young or C.J. Stroud in next year’s draft. But to do that, they’ll very likely the first or second overall picks....

The company released a moving ad entitled “Ohana” touching on the importance of family to the young quarterback. NFL prospect is a major staple in Honolulu and has not only built a fan base, but a family. The ad is look at the person beyond the helmet. Mariota’s parents and “River” by Leon Bridges set the scene for what is one of the best commercials by the brand. MORE: NFL Draft order 2015 | Top prospects | Browns trading for Mariota?...

The Three Lions were in great attacking form in the Euro 2020 Qualifiers England concluded a triumphant Euro 2020 qualification campaign with a first-place finish in Group A after their 4-0 rout of Kosovo on Sunday. The Three Lions established seven wins out of eight games and tallied a staggering 37 goals in the course of the qualification stages. They netted a total of 38 goals in 2019, which is the most that the English national team have scored in a calendar year since 1908....

The Face the Nation moderator said that Vice President Mike Pence replacing Trump in the event of impeachment would not “undo the election results” as McCarthy argued in an interview yesterday. Brennan also quizzed the leading House Republican on a new offer set out by the Ukraine whistleblower’s attorney Mark Zaid at the weekend. The representative of the unidentified whistleblower, who raised the alarm about Trump’s now-infamous phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said his team offered Republicans the chance to send written questions to his client under oath with the penalty of perjury attached....

Whether it’s on the main courts, where Maria Sharapova plays today; or somewhere else at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, matches are paring the field in Queens, the New York borough that contains Flushing Meadows. Sharapova faces Alexandra Dulgheru (don’t worry, we had to look her up too). CoCo Vandeweghe, one of the aforementioned lookers, was among American winners on Tuesday. And Jordan got to see Federer win....

The temperature was forecast to spike at 44 Celsius (111) Thursday, on the third straight day of a heat wave. It was already 39C (102F) when Sharapova's match started and increased to 42.5C (108.5), forcing organizers to enact the Extreme Heat Policy and suspend matches on outside courts. MORE: Must-see Aussie images Sharapova wasted three match points on serve at 5-4 in the third set, and then had to save break points and serve to stay in the match before getting the crucial break in the 17th game of the deciding set....

Meteorology being not nearly as sophisticated as it is now, the general received daily reports providing only a rough read on whether the following day’s weather conditions would allow for the landing of Allied forces on the beach at Normandy. Though they had tricked the Germans into thinking the invasion would be in Calais, the Allies knew it was only a matter of time before the enemy figured out the deception....

Women’s hockey coach Harendra Singh was today made in-charge of the men’s side, while men’s coach Marijne was re-designated as the women’s coach in an inexplicable rejigging of roles by the national federation following India’s medal-less finish at the CWG since 2006. Dutchman Marijne, who was handed the reigns of the men’s team in November last year, is currently at his home in the Netherlands. “We won the Asia Cup with dominating hockey, in the World league we have shown we can beat world class teams and with our New Zealand tour we made another step in our process to win the Asian Games and the World Cup,” Marijne said in a statement posted on his official blog....

According to USA Today, Rollins was caught using Stanozolol, a muscle-building anabolic steroid. MORE: Bold Mariners predictions | A look back at PED use | MLB manager rankings “Having spoken at length with David, I know that he is truly remorseful for his error in judgment,” Mariners executive vice president Jack Zduriencik said in a team statement. “We will continue to work with him to get past this situation.”...

Headlining the video game discounts for MAR10 Day is the 2019 sports video game, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The game is currently available for $49.99, which is $10 cheaper than its original list price of $59.99. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the sixth installment in the Mario & Sonic series that offers a variety of sports mini-games that are inspired by the real-life Olympics....

Let’s relive the goal that shook the world and brought the world cup to Germany. The goal was assisted by Andre Schurrle, who had come on for Christoph Kramer after he was forced off the field following a concussion early on in the game. Andre Schurrle started playing out on the left flank, which meant that Mesut Ozil was dropping centrally. Mario Gotze made a considerable impact coming as a substitute after replacing the mostly ineffectual Miroslav Klose....

Some fans theories suggested that Mario says “so long, gay Bowser” as he flings the shelled character in the air, while others had theorized that the protagonist says “so long aye Bowser.” The truth is that Mario says neither of these things in Mario 64. On April 28, a fan tweeted Charles Martinet, the voice actor of Mario in Mario 64. Martinet just replied with “So long Kinga Bowser.” Because of Mario’s accent and the way he adds “-a” to the end of words (such as “It’s-a me, Mario!...

Greene took aim at unnamed critics of Trump and argued that he was right not to grant pardons during his final days in office to those allegedly involved in the riot. “I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did. I ate way too much, enjoyed time with my family, went shopping on Black Friday, & got a dress for my daughter’s upcoming wedding,” Greene tweeted. “But I’ve been noticing in certain echo chambers absurd criticism of Pres Trump & J6’ers (January 6 protesters),” she wrote....

In a Tuesday interview on Greg Kelly Reports, a program on the conservative-leaning media network Newsmax, Kelly asked Greene about whether she believed in the conspiracy theory that a Jewish space laser caused the 2018 California wildfires. “I actually have no idea because I’ve never said that phrase or typed it, ‘Jewish space lasers,’” Greene responded. “This is a story that some leftist ‘journalist’—really he’s an activist—wrote a hit piece on me and entitled it ‘Jewish space lasers....

Greene was speaking as part of her headline appearance at the New York Young Republican Club’s 110th Annual Gala on Saturday night. While dismissing the allegations that she was involved in plotting the riot at the Capitol, along with top Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon, Greene said that there would have been weapons at any right-wing coup in the U.S. “Then Jan. 6 happened. And, next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon,” Greene said....

Tensions within the GOP came to a head as House Republicans remained divided about who should be elected to lead Congress’ lower chamber after the party retook a narrow majority in the midterm elections last year. Representative Kevin McCarthy, of California, has secured the majority of his party’s support, but a handful of holdouts threatened to derail his bid. McCarthy could lose only four votes due to Republicans’ slim majority....

Tight end Mark Andrews left in the second quarter with a shoulder injury. The team first announced that Andrews was questionable to return and then said later that he was out. After a Week 7 performance with no catches, Andrews had two for 24 yards within the first two plays of the Week 8 game. But he and Jackson connected just once after that. Andrews left the game with three catches for 33 yards....