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Odds and Ends The 49ers added depth to their roster Thursday. The 49ers signed wide receiver Jaron Brown, safety Johnathan Cyprien, defensive back Evan Foster and offensive lineman Hroniss Grasu. All four were on hand for the session. – There are no updates on the status of Ben Garland yet. …

Text size Data from BioNTech and Pfizer were particularly promising. Jeenah Moon / Getty Images After a hiatus from a late summer break, the news of a Covid-19 vaccine is heating up again as a handful of leading programs are rapidly moving to a decisive phase. Reports from several companies …

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice said on Thursday that she was “100 percent convinced” that Russian opponents would try to win the US election this year. ‘I almost never say this, but [I am] 100 percent convinced that Russia is doing a lot of what it did in 2016 …

Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department banning Protestants from the block where she lives, citing her right to safety. The Democratic mayor said her family needs increased security because of threats she receives, but did not work out. “I think residents of this city, understanding the nature of …

Pro Football Focus has been one of Mitchell Trubisky’s biggest critics for the past few years, but on Thursday the site’s Twitter team reached a new low. On Trubisky’s birthday every day, PFF decided to tweet a disparaging stat using its own proprietary “rating” stat. Worst of all were that …