Locke made the remarks during a sermon on Sunday. Locke blasted Governor Bill Lee for signing Executive Order 83 on Friday, an order intended to expand health care resources by easing regulations as the state attempts to grapple with a surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The pastor falsely claimed the hospitals would be proven “empty” if someone were to “carry a camera” into one before insisting that Lee’s order would allow camps to be built to hold those “still in refusal to be vaccinated....

On Sunday, the Global Vision Bible Church pastor took aim at the president and pushed the claim still being pursued by conservative figures across the country that the 2020 election was fraudulent. It is a claim that is not supported by recent audits that did not find enough votes to overturn the election results in Arizona. During the fiery sermon in Juliet, Pastor Locke also doubled down on comments he made the week before that he believes the Delta variant is “nonsense,” despite surging cases in Tennessee....

Wiles, the senior pastor at Flowing Streams Church in Florida, made the remarks on his right-wing TruNews program Tuesday evening. He claimed that cowboys, mountain men and “guys that know how to do violence” would start attacking and “hunting down” Democrats. “If they take him [Trump] out, there’s gonna be violence in America,” the religious leader said. “That’s all there is to it,” he asserted. “However he leaves, there’s gonna be violence in America,” Wiles went on....

The 19-year-old had been the most passionate and knowledgable wrestling fan on the reality show, having already had experience as a professional wrestler. Combined with his athletic skills, he looked to be the favorite to win the competiton. MORE: What we learned on WWE Raw | Undertaker makes surprise return at Battleground With a show like this, however, decisions are based on how much the audience likes someone. His lack of humility earned him a spot in the bottom three this week alongside Josh and ZZ....

Ewing wrote some of the most memorable chapters in the building’s history during a 15-year spell with the New York Knicks, but his Hall of Fame legacy doesn’t grant him preferential treatment in the arena he once called home. The Georgetown head coach returned to Madison Square Garden this week for the Big East Tournament, which has been held at the venue since 1983. Ewing, however, found the environment less welcoming than expected....

The Chiefs quarterback and his fiancée Brittany Matthews announced Tuesday that they will be having their first child. The couple became engaged earlier this month on the same night Mahomes received his ring from Super Bowl 54. If genetics are at all predictable, the world ought to expect a great athlete with the last name Mahomes to emerge in the public eye about 20 years from now. PATRICK MAHOMES: Relationship timeline with Brittany Matthews...

As for the rest of the 2017 playoff teams? They have plenty of work to do to avoid being part of the league’s typical postseason turnover. Of the 12 playoff teams from 2016, only four returned to the postseason last year. MORE: NFL coaching stock watch, Week 4 From the field of 2017, six teams, including the Patriots, are not currently in a playoff position. New England, however, had a dominant game against now 3-1 Miami on Sunday to suggest the Pats will roll to another AFC East title....

New England announced Monday it has re-signed defensive lineman Danny Shelton. The terms of the contract have not been released. Shelton, who will be entering his fifth year in the NFL, reacted to the news just minutes after the official announcement. “All Glory to God!,” he tweeted in part. The Patriots originally acquired Shelton, 25, in a March 2018 trade with the Browns. He played in 13 regular-season games with one start but had three consecutive healthy scratches in December....

The current Panther wrote an article for the Players’ Tribune detailing his release from the Patriots just before the 2013 season. The undrafted tackle had gone from unknown to a key player during his three seasons in New England, starting 25 games. But when he was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, he was no longer wanted. MORE: Love tells SN all about Diabetes diagnosis, release from Patriots “In so many words, they said that they didn’t want to be liable if I were to have any health complications during training camp,” he writes....

Kraft’s company, the Kraft Group, is one of the investors prepared to contribute between $25 million and $50 million as part of a WME-IMG bid to buy the mixed-martial arts organization, ESPN.com reported. WME, together with the Dalian Wanda Group, is competing with China Media Capital; the two groups have offered up to $4.1 billion for the UFC, the report said. MORE: NFL offseason report cards | Kraft praises friend Donald Trump...

Some of the Patriots players hung out at the Kentucky Derby Friday and Saturday, but apparently they left before the event even started. Moments after American Pharoah took first place, Julian Edelman posted a photo of the fellas on a plane headed to Las Vegas for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown. MORE: NFL Draft board | Kentucky Derby hats | Mayweather-Pacquiao strange sights It’s one of the greatest sports days in recent memory so can you blame the guys for soaking in as much as possible?...

Here’s a breakdown of the Patriots’ current position in the playoff picture and their outlook going into the final three weeks of the 2022 NFL regular season: Where do the Patriots stand in the AFC playoff picture? The Patriots started Week 15 with the No. 7 seed and the third AFC wild-card position. They fell to No. 8 and out of the playoff picture, now a full game behind the victorious Chargers (8-6) and the losing Dolphins (8-6)....

New England was a 16-point favorite in its AFC divisional playoff game against the Texans at Gillette Stadium. While it was close throughout, the Patriots pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 34-16 victory to advance to next Sunday’s AFC championship game. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was uncharacteristically inconsistent against the NFL’s top-ranked defense. Brady threw 28 touchdown passes during the regular season with only two interceptions, but was picked off twice against the Texans....

The Patriots will take two separate planes for the rescheduled Monday night meeting against the Chiefs, according to Pro Football Talk. New England is slated to travel Monday once the team has received its latest COVID-19 testing back (and assuming everything comes back negative). The game was pushed back after Cam Newton’s positive COVID-19 test was announced Saturday, as was Kansas City practice squad quarterback Jordan Ta’amu’s. Pro Football Talk’s report indicates that one New England plane will carry the roughly 20 people who have been in closest contact with Newton....

The Patriots got outscored 23-0 in the second half at Miami last week, losing 33-20 as 3.5-point favorites in the out-of-character collapse. All three other AFC East teams won. The Vikings got off to a great start, 34-6 win as 2.5-point dogs at St. Louis, and will be playing their first regular-season game at the outdoor TCF Bank Stadium (home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers). Their new stadium should be ready in 2016....

General manager Sam Presti and the Thunder’s front office were the receivers of two threatening voicemails, according to a search warrant filed last week. In the voice message, the man, who identified himself as being from Virginia, said he hoped “to kill everybody” and criticized the Thunder’s decision to trade George. “Y’all traded Paul George but kept Raymond Felton. You kept Andre Roberson. Do y’all not love Russell Westbrook?” a transcript of one of the voicemails reads, as per ABC-affiliate KOCO News....

The Clippers blew a 19-point lead Sunday as the Nuggets forced a deciding Game 7 with a 111-98 victory. The collapse followed LA giving up a 16-point lead in a Game 5 loss. George, however, still likes the team’s chances of progressing to a conference finals series with the Lakers. “It’s positive,” George said when asked about the mood among the roster. “This group’s staying together. We still in the driver seat....

Congressman Rep. Gosar sparked fierce backlash on Sunday after he tweeted an anime video that showed him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. The video, based on the anime Attack on Titan, shows Rep. Gosar killing the New York lawmaker with a sword before launching himself at President Joe Biden. Within hours the tweet went viral and as of Tuesday morning had been viewed more than 3.2 million times. The video and depiction of violence against Rep....

The former Beatles band member received both praise and criticism on social media for using footage of the Pirates of the Caribbean actor during his set at the British music festival. Depp recently won a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard after she wrote a 2018 op-ed stating she was the survivor of domestic abuse. While Depp won the trial, he has continued to divide opinions among the public, as did his brief appearance during McCartney’s headlining set at Glastonbury....

Richard Childress Racing announced this week that former Xfinity and Camping World truck series crew chief Danny Stockman is taking over as crew chief for Menard’s team, starting this weekend at Pocono Raceway. MORE: 10 to watch at Pocono | Petty: Pocono track of ‘compromise’ Then Menard went out and led Friday’s opening Sprint Cup practice for Sunday’s Pennsylvania 400 with a lap of 177.438 mph. Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five....