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Mikaela Shiffrin breaks another of Ingemar Stenmark’s records

Another day, another record for Mikaela Shiffrin.

Shiffrin’s third-place finish in the slalom Sunday in Are, Sweden, was her 156th World Cup podium. That breaks Ingemar Stenmark’s record for career podium appearances, which had stood since 1989.

The milestone comes two years after Shiffrin won the slalom in Are to break Stenmark’s record of 86 all-time World Cup wins. Shiffrin has since blown past that mark, winning her 100th World Cup race two weeks ago.

Shiffrin was solidly in the lead after the first run, finishing 0.43 seconds ahead of Germany’s Lena Duerr. But with conditions deteriorating, Shiffrin was 25th in the second run and wound up behind Austria’s Katharina Truppe and Katharina Liensberger.

Her combined time of 1:42.27 was 0.19 seconds behind Truppe.

Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to keep her slim chances of winning the season slalom title alive. Though she’s won three of her five World Cup slalom races this season, she missed two months after tearing a deep gash in her oblique muscles in a crash during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont.

“I’m still trying to get the repetition back,” Shiffrin said, according to NBC. “I feel almost like when you haven’t skied the whole summer, and then you come back and your timing is just a little bit wrong. It’s coming really well in slalom now, but I just have to keep practicing it.”

Shiffrin now has two weeks before the World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Bills announce release of two-time Super Bowl champion

The Buffalo Bills are releasing Von Miller but haven’t ruled out a reunion, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

It’s a move that comes three years into a six-year, $120 million deal. The Bills will save about $8.4 million against the cap by releasing Miller, according to Spotrac.

Buffalo made plenty of headlines by signing Miller ahead of the 2022 season. For Miller, he was fresh off winning a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams. It was an opportunity for Buffalo to improve its roster after another heartbreaking playoff loss.

The Bills lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round to end their season in the now-famous ’13 seconds’ game. Miller was signed with the expectation of boosting a defense that couldn’t yet overcome the Patrick Mahomes hurdle.

Miller has been plagued by injuries during his time in Buffalo, unable to play more than 13 games in a season. He posted 14 sacks in 36 games and didn’t register a single sack over 12 games in the 2023 regular season.

More importantly, Miller failed to make his presence known in the playoffs.

He totaled just two tackles, one fumble recovery, one quarterback hit and failed to record a sack in five playoff games for the Bills.

Miller’s cap hit was set to check in at $23.8 million for 2025 in what will be his age-36 season.

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DAVID MARCUS: Confusion reigns as Canadians confront Trump’s tariffs

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CALGARY, Alberta – I hadn’t even gotten off the plane in Calgary before two young men, coming home from a church mission trip, were asking me what was going on with President Donald Trump’s aggressive, on again, off again, tariffs on our neighbor to the north.

‘I like Trump,’ one of them told me, ‘but I don’t understand why he is doing this to Canadians.’

What struck me is that he didn’t ask why Trump was doing this to Canada, or the soon-to-be-replaced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but rather, to Canadians.

After talking to them, and more Canadians around Calgary on Saturday, I started to get the sense that even if Trump thinks the tariffs are strictly business, the denizens of the Great White North are clearly taking it personally.

Signs on the way into town urged Canadians to boycott American goods. Above one store was a somewhat confusing sign that read, ‘Our orange Cheetos don’t impose tariffs,’ and even as Canada’s Liberal Party moves to name a new prime minister this week, the tariffs are the thing on the top of everyone’s mind.

Calgary has an active and fun nightlife. On a pedestrian-only stretch of 8th Ave SW, under the shadow of the famous tower, restaurants abound and the sound of the Flames vs Canadiens hockey game spilled from bars out onto the street.

The James Joyce Restaurant and Pub is a classic Irish joint. Under the sign it says, ‘since 1882,’ not because the bar is that old, but because that is the year of the great novelist’s birth, a subtle play on words he would have enjoyed. Once inside, I found more ire.

Kelly is in his 60s and retired. He likes the place because it has no TVs, and when he realized I was American, I didn’t have to bring up the tariffs, he did, ‘Nothing Trump is doing seems rational,’ he told me.

Kelly also said that the ‘trade war,’ as it is called up here, had sparked a resurgence of nationalism in Canada, noting the recent hockey games against America. ‘We have our elbows up now,’ he said.

I asked if this situation was hurting conservative politicians, specifically Pierre Poillievre, who will run for prime minister for the Conservative Party. He looked skywards, shook his head a bit and said, ‘Oh yeah, a lot. It’s a problem.’

Here in the conservative province of Alberta, Kelly did not seem happy about it.

Later in the evening, I met David O’Brien, who immigrated to Calgary about a decade ago from Ireland. ‘You have to understand,’ he said in a lilting brogue, ‘the cost of living here is out of control. That’s why so many people hate Trudeau, but it also makes the tariffs even more scary.’

He said that Canada has become incredibly politically divided of late, but the tariffs and Trump’s teasing about it becoming the 51st state have created a kind of national unity. ‘There are a few I know that talk about joining America, but I think they know it’s not real, it’s more about the sad state of affairs in Canada,’ he said.

For its part, the state-controlled Canadian news media is all in on bashing Trump and his tariffs, and it is absolutely pervasive. Imagine a country in which basically every news channel is MSNBC and you get pretty close to the situation in Canada.

One thing that is important to understand is that in the U.S., or ‘down south,’ as they call it here, the Canada tariffs are at the back of the newspaper and in the D block of the news shows. After all we have the Ukraine war, Trump’s battle with the bureaucracy, and our own economic worries to contend with.

In Canada, these tariffs are the only story penetrating the news cycle, and what Americans see as little more than a tough trade negotiation, many Canadians see as an unexpected betrayal from a nation they have always held among their closest allies.

So far, from what I can tell, the confusion and frustration over the tariff situation in Canada has not turned to anger, at least not towards the American people. But the strain on the relationship is palpable and quite evident.

Not just the next four years of Trump’s presidency, but even the next four months could fundamentally change the relationship between our two countries, which share everything from trade, to a language, to sports leagues. 

Whether this change to U.S. and Canadian relations turns out to be positive remains to be seen, but the mood in Canada today is not very optimistic.

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‘Not a serious franchise’: Will Steelers be aggressive in free agency?

ESPN’s Chris Canty, co-host of the show “Unsportsmanlike,” recently said something about the Pittsburgh Steelers that caught my attention. Yes, it was inflammatory. But hear him out. Listen carefully. What he says about the Steelers is important because the organization, historically one of the best in all of sports, will be among the most watched teams when the tampering period for free agency begins at noon ET on Monday.

Canty isn’t a flamethrower. If you watch the show regularly you know his takes are opinionated but also smart and measured. He also brings the perspective of a former NFL player. He’s someone you should listen to.

The Steelers, by any measure of success, haven’t struggled over the course of their existence. Obviously, it’s been the opposite. There have been moments when the team’s dominance was staggering.

But that has changed. Coach Mike Tomlin has lost six straight playoff games with another one-and-done postseason. The Steelers have not won a playoff game since January 2017.

Again, the Steelers make the playoffs a lot. It’s that once they get there, they falter.

The Browns would love this type of futility.

But the Steelers? Nah, nope, no way. It’s not who they are or, better put, it’s not what the organization is supposed to be.

This was the point Canty was making.

‘The Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s been a decade and a half since they’ve been in a Super Bowl,” Canty said on the show. “So the standard, the excellence that we’ve seen in that franchise, essentially excellence personified, that has now lost a little bit of its luster and it continues to do so with each passing year where they have early exit after early exit in the postseason.

“And so, I don’t know what the move is, but clearly they need to be more aggressive than they have in years past because they’re sitting on (their) hands, and doing business as usual hasn’t gotten them to where the organization prides itself on being in terms of one of the teams that is constantly in the chase for championships.’

He added, in part, one last thing: ‘They got a championship-level coach, but their roster is not championship caliber, and their quarterback play certainly has been anything but, post-Ben Roethlisberger. So yeah, it’s hard for me, and I can’t believe I’m saying this because the Pittsburgh Steelers seem like they are as buttoned up, as functional, as any franchise in the NFL. But the Pittsburgh Steelers, they’re not a serious franchise. They’re just not. I don’t take them seriously.’

Not a serious franchise.

Is that true? Maybe that’s harsh. But Canty isn’t alone thinking that.

If you want to say Canty said those things because he’s a former Baltimore Raven and the two franchises hate each other, well, you’d be wrong. He also played for the Giants and Cowboys. Canty is simply stating things that some across the NFL are saying privately.

The Steelers have lost some of that air of greatness that has surrounded the organization for decades. It’s still an outstanding franchise. It still has a great head coach in Tomlin.

But, for now at least, it’s not those Steelers any longer.

The organization could change the direction of the franchise with a significant move. Go get wide receiver DK Metcalf. Be aggressive in the draft. Something.

At some point the Steelers will have to enter the 21st century when it comes to free agency and big moves. It’s OK, Steelers. We got rocket ships. Flying cars are on the way.

Modern football isn’t going to bite. Promise.    

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LeBron James exits game vs. Celtics with groin injury: What we know

The Los Angeles Lakers lost Saturday night to the longtime rival Boston Celtics, but that’s suddenly the least of their concerns.

All eyes are now on the health of LeBron James.

The NBA’s all-time leading scorer was shown on ABC’s broadcast heading to the locker room with just over six minutes left in the fourth quarter and he was ruled out with a groin strain. The Lakers lost the contest 111-101. James finished the night with 22 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists in 35 minutes.

He said the injury occurred on the play where he scored his final basket of the night with 7:05 to go.

James has dealt with plenty of injuries since he signed with the Lakers in 2018, but groin strains have been a persistent issue during his time in Los Angeles. He suffered a left groin strain on Christmas Day 2018 in a win over the Golden State Warriors that ended up derailing Los Angeles’ season. He missed 17 straight games − then a career-high − and Los Angeles went 5-12 without him as its playoff hopes evaporated. He didn’t play the final six games of that season.

Left ankle and foot injuries have plagued James in recent years, but he’s been relatively healthy this season, missing only four contests heading into Saturday.

LeBron James groin injury: What we know

The NBA play-in games start on April 15 and the first round of the playoffs is slated to begin on April 19.

James said after the game he didn’t have ‘much concern’ about the injury and considered himself ‘day-to-day.’

James said he immediately thought of that 2018 injury.

‘I’ve been there before and I know what type of injury you’re dealing with,’ James said.

But he added this injury is ‘not as bad as that’ one that kept him out for 17 straight games.

The Lakers (40-22) have been rolling since mid-January and are now 12-3 since acquiring Luka Doncic after falling Saturday. They are currently the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, a half-game behind the Denver Nuggets and 1½ games ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies.

This story has been updated with new information.

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Men’s March Madness bracket bubble tracker: Latest on who’s in, out

It’s officially conference tournament time in college basketball.

The conference tournaments that begin next week could be the final opportunity for some teams to jump from the bubble into the tournament. But it could also be a chance for a team that is not on the radar to surprise everyone and steal a bid.

With a 68-team field, less than half are currently a ‘lock’ in the tournament. However, many teams have done enough and should be in it. Then there are the teams firmly on the bubble that need to make a deep run, if not win their conference tournaments.

In ESPN’s Bracketology by Joe Lunardi, San Diego State, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Xavier are the last four teams in the tourney following play on Saturday. Conversely, Boise State, North Carolina, Texas and Nebraska are the first four teams out of the tournament.

Here’s an updated look at the NCAA Tournament bubble, with which teams are locks and likely in the field as the conference tournaments begin this week:

March Madness bracket bubble watch tracker

Tracker based on games through Saturday, March 8

NCAA Tournament locks

ACC (3): Duke, Clemson, Louisville
Big Ten (8): Michigan State, Michigan, Purdue, Wisconsin, Maryland, Oregon, UCLA, Illinois
Big 12 (6): Houston, Iowa State, Texas Tech, Arizona, Kansas, BYU
Big East (4): St. John’s, Marquette, Creighton, UConn
SEC (9): Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Missouri, Kentucky, Ole Miss
Other (3): Memphis, Saint Mary’s, New Mexico

Not much has changed in terms of locks for the three big conferences. The SEC still leads the way with nine locks, while the Big Ten is up to eight now after Illinois was bumped from a ‘likely in’ to a ‘lock’ following ranked wins against Purdue and Michigan.

NCAA Tournament likely ins

ACC: None
Big Ten: None
Big 12 (2): Baylor, West Virginia
Big East: None
SEC (3): Georgia, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt
Other (3): Gonzaga, Drake, Utah State

Georgia and Oklahoma join Vanderbilt as SEC teams that will likely make the tournament following strong recent runs. The Bulldogs had an impressive win over then-No. 3 Florida and have followed it with three more wins. A win over Missouri at least changed the narrative around the Sooners.

Drake and Utah State can lock in a spot in the tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments, rather than leaving a potential bid to be stolen by a surprising run by a school in the tournaments.

NCAA Tournament bubble teams

ACC (3): SMU, North Carolina, Wake Forest
Big Ten (3): Ohio State, Indiana, Nebraska
Big 12 (1): Cincinnati
Big East (1): Xavier
SEC (2): Arkansas, Texas
Other (10): VCU, Bradley, San Diego State, Liberty, Dayton, North Texas, Boise State, Colorado State, UC San Diego, UC Irvine

These teams have an outside shot of making the Big Dance but will also need help. According to ESPN RPI, these schools have a 25% to 69% chance of qualifying for the tournament.

For one, winning their conference tournaments would remove doubts about the strength of the schedule, quality of wins, etc. Schools such as Arkansas or Texas in the SEC, or Ohio State, Indiana and Nebraska in the Big Ten, could use deep runs in their respective conference tournaments to lock in a spot.

At this point, none of the schools on this list should book tickets for the NCAA Tournament, but one good week could change the discourse and make Selection Sunday less stressful.

The ACC has the most bubble teams this week, and they are hoping to join the three locks listed above. The SEC could prove very deep if Arkansas and Texas find a spark and make a deep run into the tournament to steal a spot away.

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Messi is ‘much better’ and could play in Inter Miami’s match Sunday

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lionel Messi is feeling ‘much better’ with a possibility he could play for Inter Miami in Sunday’s home game against Charlotte FC, coach Javier Mascherano said Saturday.

Messi has continued to practice despite fatigue from a jam-packed start to the 2025 season for the Argentine World Cup and the defending MLS Supporters’ Shield champions.

Sunday’s match would be Messi’s first game since Feb. 25, if he plays. Messi has missed Inter Miami’s past two games, not because he’s injured, but to rest.

‘Leo is much better,’ Mascherano said before Messi participated in Saturday’s practice. ‘We are going to evaluate him. We are optimistic that if all goes well, there is a possibility that he will be called up, so we’ll see.’

Is Messi playing today?

Mascherano did not declare whether Messi would play against Charlotte.

Messi’s playing status will be confirmed when Inter Miami’s starting lineup is announced about an hour before kickoff on Sunday.

What time is Inter Miami vs. Charlotte FC match today?

The match begins at 4 p.m. ET (5 p.m. in Argentina) inside Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

How to watch Inter Miami vs. Charlotte FC match?

The match will be available to live stream on MLS Season Pass via Apple TV.

How much has Messi played to begin 2025?

Mascherano said Messi was considered day to day with fatigue, after Inter Miami’s 2-0 win over Jamaican champions Cavalier FC in their Concacaf Champions Cup round-of-16 match last Thursday.

Messi also did not travel when Inter Miami played on the road against the Houston Dynamo, winning 4-1, on March 2.

Messi predominately played in three matches during a six-day stretch from Feb. 19-26, and eight matches in a 40-day span from Jan. 18 to Feb. 14, including five preseason matches played in Las Vegas, Peru, Panama, Honduras and Tampa, Florida.

Overall, Inter Miami has played in 10 matches in 47 days from Jan. 18 to last Thursday.

‘With so many matches in a short period of time, yes, clearly, we are looking at the issue of minutes,’ Mascherano said.

Mascherano said along with consulting with Inter Miami’s team doctors, he’s also gauged Messi on how he feels to determine his playing status.

What’s next for Messi later this month?

After the Charlotte match, Inter Miami will visit Cavalier FC at National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on Thursday for the second leg of their Champions Cup matchup. The match could be Messi’s first match in the Caribbean country.

When Inter Miami returns from Jamaica, they will travel to face Atlanta United on March 16 in a rematch of last season’s first-round series in the MLS Cup playoffs, which saw Messi and his side lose in upset fashion.

Messi is also expected to join the Argentine national team for two World Cup qualifying matches later this month. Argentina will visit Uruguay on March 21, then host Brazil on June 25.

‘I know that if Leo plays, we’re stronger. I’m not going to shoot myself in the foot – it’s crazy,’ Masherano said when asked about the risks of pushing Messi before he’s ready to play.

Messi’s upcoming schedule with Inter Miami, Argentina

Messi could play in the following six matches with Inter Miami and the Argentina national team later this month: 

Sunday: Inter Miami vs. Charlotte, 4 p.m. ET (MLS)
Thursday: Cavalier FC vs. Inter Miami, 8 p.m. ET (Champions Cup) 
March 16: Atlanta vs. Inter Miami, 7 p.m. ET (MLS)
March 21: Uruguay vs. Argentina, 7:30 p.m. ET (2026 World Cup qualifier)
March 25: Argentina vs. Brazil, 8 p.m. ET (2026 World Cup qualifier)
March 29: Inter Miami vs. Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. ET (MLS)

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Canadians feel ‘under economic attack,’ frustration with US over Trump tariffs, annexation talk: ambassador

Canadians feel ‘frustrated’ with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s talk of annexing the country along with his tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman said Sunday.

Hillman detailed the frustration that Canadians are feeling with their neighbor during an appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation,’ saying its citizens ‘don’t really appreciate it.’

‘They’re getting a little bit frustrated with that kind of rhetoric,’ Hillman said, referring to Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st state. ‘But more importantly, Canadians are frustrated with our neighbors.’

‘Canadians feel under attack – under economic attack,’ Hillman said about Trump’s tariffs. ‘And that is causing some challenges for sure across Canadian society.’

The U.S. began imposing a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, and an additional 10% levy on Chinese imports as Trump looks to curtail drug trafficking and illegal immigration. 

By Thursday, Trump suspended the 25% tariffs on most goods from Canada and Mexico covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for one month. 

Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs come as Canada is set to elect a new leader who will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has recently had a contentious relationship with Trump.

Hillman said Canada’s new leader will ‘prioritize trying to have a good and healthy and productive relationship’ with Trump.

‘I am sure that that’s going to be possible,’ she said. ‘Relationships go both ways, but I know that on our side, that’s going to be a priority.’

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Biden’s ‘autopen signature’ appears on most official docs, raising concerns over who controlled the WH: report

The majority of official documents signed by President Joe Biden allegedly used the same autopen signature, reinvigorating concerns over the former president’s mental acuity and if he ‘actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents,’ a report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation found. 

‘WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY,’ the Oversight Project, which is an initiative within the conservative Heritage Foundation that investigates the government to bolster transparency, posted to X on Thursday. 

‘We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year. Here is the autopen signature,’ the group claimed on X, accompanied by photo examples. 

Autopen signatures are ones that are automatically produced by a machine, as opposed to an authentic, handwritten signature.

The Oversight Project posted three examples showing Biden’s signature, including two executive orders and the president’s announcement he was bowing out of the 2024 presidential race. The signature on the two executive orders, one of which was signed in 2022 and the other in 2024, showed the same signature that included what appeared to be a line, followed by ‘R. Biden Jr.’

Biden’s signature on the document announcing his departure from the 2024 race varied from the other two posted by the Oversight Project, showing a signature that wasn’t as clear as the one on the executive orders. 

Fox News Digital, at random, examined more than 20 Biden-era executive orders documented on the Federal Register’s office between 2021 and 2024 and found each had the same signature. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s office for comment on the Oversight Project’s findings on the autopen investigation, but did not immediately receive a reply on Sunday. 

Fox News Digital also examined the signatures on President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which are often signed in public or in front of the media, during his first administration and second administration and found the signatures were also the same. 

Biden and his administration, however, came under fierce concern and scrutiny over his mental acuity last year. 

The year 2024 kicked off with Biden in the driver’s seat of the Democratic Party as he keyed up a re-election effort in what was shaping up to be a rematch against Trump. In February of that year, however, Biden’s 81 years of age and mental acuity fell under public scrutiny after years of conservatives questioning the commander in chief’s mental fitness. 

Special counsel Robert Hur, who was investigating Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents as vice president, announced he would not recommend criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials after his vice presidency, calling Biden ‘a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’

The report renewed scrutiny over Biden’s mental fitness, which rose to a fever pitch in June 2024 after the president’s first and only presidential debate against Trump. 

Biden faced backlash for a handful of gaffes and miscues in the days leading up to his ill-fated debate against Trump, including former President Barack Obama taking Biden’s wrist and appearing to lead him off a stage during a swank fundraiser, and also abroad when Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni guided Biden back to a group of world leaders when he appeared to wander off to give a thumbs-up to a parachutist during the G-7 summit. 

When the big debate day arrived, Biden missed his marks repeatedly, tripping over his responses and appearing to lose his train of thought as he squared off against Trump. The disastrous debate performance led to an outpouring from both conservatives and traditional Democrat allies calling on the president to bow out of the race in favor of a younger generation. 

Biden dropped out of the race in July, with the signature on that official document showing it was noticeably different from the signature on his EOs. 

Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday of last week demanding an investigation be opened into whether Biden’s ‘cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval.’

‘There are profound reasons to suspect that Biden’s staff and political allies exploited his mental decline to issue purported presidential orders without his knowing approval,’ the letter read. 

‘Speaker Johnson, for example, reported that staff and elected officials – including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer – tried to prevent Johnson from meeting with Biden,’ it continued. 

‘Though presidents always have gatekeepers, in Biden’s case, the walls around him were higher and the controls greater, according to Democratic lawmakers, donors and aides who worked for Biden and other administrations. Staff limited Biden’s ability to speak with others and limited the sources of information he consumed.’

The Oversight Project shared Bailey’s letter in its thread investigating Biden’s signature on official documents, in addition to an interview with Speaker Johnson, R-La., when he recounted that Biden didn’t remember signing an order freezing new liquid natural gas exports in 2024. 

‘I didn’t do that,’ the president said, Johnson recounted during an interview with the Free Press’ Bari Weiss in January. 

‘Sir, you paused it, I know. I have the export terminals in my state. I talked to those people in my state, I’ve talked to those people this morning, this is doing massive damage to our economy, national security,’ Johnson said he told the president at the time. 

‘I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble – who is running the country?’’ Johnson said of the 2024 meeting.

‘Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know,’ he added. 

The Oversight Project continued in its findings that investigators should determine ‘who controlled the autopen’ during the Biden administration. 

‘For investigators to determine whether then-President Biden actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents, or if he even had the mental capacity to, they must first determine who controlled the autopen and what checks there were in place. Given President Biden’s decision to revoke Executive Privilege for individuals advising Trump during his first Presidency, this is a knowable fact that can be determined with the correct legal process?’ the Oversight Project posted to X. 

Concerns over Biden’s mental acuity when he was in office, combined with the Oversight Project’s findings, have sparked outrage among conservative social media users as they question if Biden personally signed the executive orders. 

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Weeks after Epstein file fallout, a new deadline looms in the release of the RFK and MLK files

Sunday marks the second deadline in an effort to release the RFK and MLK assassination files, just weeks after the fallout from the highly anticipated release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice.

In light of President Donald Trump‘s executive order in January to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., the director of national intelligence (DNI) and other officials were expected to submit their proposed release plans for the RFK and MLK files on March 9. 

DNI and the attorney general were previously given a Feb. 7 deadline to submit their release plans for the JFK files. 

The RFK and MLK release plan deadline comes just weeks after the Justice Department revealed a batch of Jeffrey Epstein files in late February. Many of the documents publicized then had already been released during the federal criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former lover and convicted accomplice. 

The lack of new material prompted an outcry and criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files – and questions about what the RFK and MLK documents could hold upon their release. 

Gerald Posner, author of ‘Case Closed,’ told Fox News Digital at the time that he expects ‘there will be news in there, but it’s not going to be something that turns upside down our understanding of what really happened with those cases.’

Trump’s declassification executive order came after he promised to declassify the documents upon entering his second term while on the campaign trail, saying at the time, ‘When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth.’

The FBI said in a February statement that it had conducted a new records search in light of Trump’s executive order, saying at the time, ‘The search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file.’

‘The FBI has made the appropriate notifications of the newly discovered documents and is working to transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the ongoing declassification process,’ the agency continued. 

Fox News Digital reached out to DNI and the FBI for additional comment. 

After the Epstein file fallout, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent FBI Director Kash Patel a fiery letter accusing federal investigators in New York of withholding thousands of pages of Epstein documents. 

‘I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,’ Bondi wrote. ‘Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.’

Bondi told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week that the DOJ had received a ‘truckload’ of Epstein files from the FBI following the Friday 8 a.m. deadline she had imposed on the agency. 

Fox News’ David Spunt and Jake Gibson contributed to this report. 

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