Chris Sale

As reunion looms, Tom Brady remains the ultimate example of Bill Belichick's successful but uncompromising ways

Not even Brady was big enough to receive special treatment under Belichick. If he were, those six Super Bowl banners in New England may not be hanging.

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  Bill Belichick dismisses notion that he didn’t want to keep Tom Brady

  ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
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  Bill Belichick: Tom Brady and I 'had good relationship' during Patriots career

  NBC Sports Boston

Alabama trying to use COVID relief funds for new prisons

Facing a Justice Department lawsuit over Alabama's notoriously violent prisons, state lawmakers on Monday began a special session on a $1.3 billion construction plan that would use federal pandemic relief funds to pay part of the cost of building massive new lockups. Gov. Kay Ivey has touted the plan to build three new prisons and renovate others as a partial solution to the state’s longstanding troubles in its prison system. The proposal would tap up to $400 million from the state’s $2.2 billion share of American Rescue Plan funds to help pay for the construction.

Biden gets a vaccine booster shot; thousands of New York health care workers could lose jobs as soon as today: COVID-19 updates

President Joe Biden received his COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine booster shot Monday. New York health care workers could lose jobs. Latest COVID news.

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  Gov. Northam provides updates on the COVID-19 booster shots and possible plans for vaccines in schools

  WTKR
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  Is Pfizer Stock A Buy As 'Open Season' Begins On Covid Booster Shots?

  Investor's Business Daily