Maher said the co-host of The View “should not be canceled or put off her show, as much as I totally disagree with her crazy statement,” before he added, “free speech. She should be there, she shouldn’t get a time out.” Goldberg was suspended by ABC News for two weeks after she said that the Holocaust was “not about race,” but rather about “man’s inhumanity to man.” She later tweeted, “I am sorry for the hurt I have caused” adding “I also stand with the Jewish people,” in an apology that was welcomed by the Anti-Defamation League....

“He has no friends,” Maher said of Cuomo during the monologue of his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher. “Biden called on him to resign. Nancy Pelosi called on him to resign. Chuck Schumer, yes, called on him to resign.” “Everyone is piling on,” he said, joking that former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner “called for a double date.” Maher said that he feels bad for CNN host Chris Cuomo, the governor’s brother....

The NCAA announced De Sousa would be forced to miss the remainder of this season, of which he has already sat the first 21 games, and all of the 2019-20 season “because of his guardian’s involvement with an agent.” His guardian. Not De Sousa. His guardian. “In my 30-plus years of coaching college basketball, I have never seen such a mean-spirited and vindictive punishment against a young man who did nothing wrong,” KU coach Bill Self said in a statement released by the Jayhawks basketball office....

MORE: The 15 scariest NBA free agents Simmons, who staked his claim to fame as a writer and television personality at ESPN, now hosts “Any Given Wednesday,” his own uncensored show on HBO. In the series’ second episode, the New England native and lifelong Boston sports fan offered his advice on how New York could get on the path to lifting its hoops curse and win its first NBA title since the Nixon administration, serving up some free-agent advice free of charge....

Share value in Huabao International Holdings, a leading e-cigarette flavor maker, plunged about 67 percent after a filing from the flavoring and fragrances company was released announcing the probe. The Hong Kong-listed firm did not elaborate on details, but said Chu Lam Yiu, its chairwoman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder is being investigated by a supervisory committee for Leiyang, a city in China’s Hunan province. According to the company, Chu controls 71 percent of its shares, Bloomberg reported....

Watkins was in Toronto last week “without any visible sign of an injury,” TSN.ca’s Mike Hetherington reports. The Bills’ top pass-catching threat was in town for a promotional appearance for Courtyard Marriott at the NXNE festival. “For training camp, I think I’ll definitely be available,” Watkins told TSN.ca. “I might sit out two or three days. It’s all about how I feel within those days. The goal is to come back and be prepared for training camp....

To get “Bills Mafia” ready to face their AFC East rivals, tailgating fans were given the opportunity to smash an actual jet with a hammer outside New Era Field. MORE: J.J. Watt’s hurricane relief fund hits $30 million The jet smashing was a success.

During his end-of-the-year news conference, Whaley said he doesn’t know why owner Terry Pegula made the decision to fire Rex Ryan as the team’s head coach. “I was told by my boss that I will no longer be working with Rex,” Whaley said Monday when asked about last week’s firing of Ryan and his brother, Rob, who was a defensive assistant. “I haven’t even thought about it.” MORE: NFL 2017 opponents, home and away matchups for each team...

Buffalo was heavily favored to beat the Jets, so the loss was certainly a disappointing one for the team. However, the more discouraging aspect of the contest was that star quarterback Josh Allen left it a bit banged up. Allen appeared to suffer an injury to his throwing elbow on the Bills’ final offensive drive of the contest. Allen initially downplayed the problem; he said he had “slight pain, but (he’ll) get through it....

Who he is: Billy Wagner has heard some of the arguments against his Hall of Fame case. Wagner played 16 years in the majors, racking up 422 saves, but partly due to pitcher usage rates for his era, he retired with just 903 innings. Every reliever who’s gone in the Hall of Fame has had at least 1,000 innings, though Bruce Sutter appeared in 192 fewer games than Wagner. Trevor Hoffman, who’s also new to the BBWAA ballot this year, checked out of the majors in 2010 with 1,089 1/3 innings....

In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Gabriel Gras affirmed the safety of the institute, stating that the chance of a leak was at “0 percent.” After collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the French government, Gras supervised and accredited the safety of a biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory. “I do not have any problem working in this [BSL-4] lab,” Gras told the Post. “I would not feel in danger....

In a statement on Thursday, the USDA said that samples from a backyard flock in the state were tested at the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, part of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and the presence of avian influenza was confirmed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa. The Kalamazoo County case brings the total number of states in which the virus has been found in backyard birds to four—Michigan, Maine, Virginia, and New York....

Birdie: Rory McIlroy What second-round problems? For all the hysteria about McIlroy’s frequent Friday setbacks, the two-time major champion seemed oblivious to recent history when he birdied three of his last four holes en route to a six-under-par 66. With a four-shot lead at 12 under, McIlroy is potentially 36 holes from the third leg of a career Grand Slam. But these will likely be a long two days. Never known for his persistence in tough conditions, McIlroy will have to prove he can persevere through what is likely to be a miserable, wet Saturday while the rest of the field tries to catch up....

While data on trans people who have given birth is slim, one can presume those who have given birth to autistic children may also experience depression until trans family planning research expands. Why Are Moms of Autistic Kids More Prone to Depression? Dr. Dan Gottlieb of Philadelphia’s NPR station WHYY commented on the study. To paraphrase, he suggested that mothers who feel they can never do enough for their child with autism are likely to suffer from depression....

Words, words, words–they’ve long been a blessing for Barack Obama. But it’s clear now that they can be a curse, too. If you happened to encounter a television, newspaper or Internet-enabled computer device over the weekend, you’re probably aware by now that Obama is enjoying an extended dip in the proverbial hot water for remarks he made at an April 6 fundrasier in San Francisco. Attempting to explain the electoral psychology of blue-collar Pennsylvanians to the limousine liberals in attendance, Obama noted that in “these small towns… the jobs have been gone for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them”–even though “the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate....

Dubbed the pelican eel and known scientifically as Eurypharynx pelecanoides, this mysterious fish lives in the deep ocean in tropical and temperate regions around the world, although not near the bottom, instead preferring depths between 500 and 3,000 meters (1,640 to 9,842 feet), according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Joel Llopiz, a fisheries oceanographer and larval fish ecologist at Woods Hole, told Newsweek the most interesting aspect of this species is its relatively huge, expandable, scoop-like mouth that opens 90 degrees....

Joyce Beatty, a Democratic representative in Ohio and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, was arrested on Thursday afternoon inside the Senate Hart Office Building atrium. After the demonstrators arrived there, the police asked them to clear the area, but they refused to do so. Beatty was taking part in the rally with a small group of activists, including Women’s March co-founders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory. They were calling on the Senate to pass the For the People Act, a sweeping electoral reform bill, according to a statement from the lawmaker’s office before the event....

The restaurant’s owner said the incident was not racially motivated and told Newsweek he takes responsibility for escalating the situation after learning more about the extenuating circumstances. In a video of the incident that began circulating online, the male customer can be seen wearing white sneakers inside the Buckhead neighborhood’s Umi restaurant. At one point during the minute-long video posted on Twitter, he can be heard calling the request for them to leave “pure racism....

The event was only for professional brokers, she was told. Ruffin was the only Black attendee. The 33-year-old environmental lawyer ran up her credit cards and emptied her savings to launch a business booking customers on luxury yacht trips all over the Caribbean—a market that is just now beginning to court people of color and millennials. Her experience at the superyacht show was “extremely intimidating,” she told Zenger News, but she had clients to serve....

Protesters said Jae Passmore had been leaving a demonstration in downtown Tampa on Wednesday night when she was detained by police. In a video shared on Instagram, Passmore is seen pinned to the ground by several officers as protesters shout at them to free her. “Stop! Get your knee off her neck!” a protester can be heard repeatedly yelling. Another is heard screaming: “Get off of her like that!”...