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Facebook employees take a photo with the company’s new name and logo outside its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2021. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge after-hours Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp increase in expenses. (Tony Avelar/AP)

The Irish signed their entire class in the early period, with 12 players already enrolled in South Bend, Ind. Their biggest addition since December was the transfer of Northwestern safety Brandon Joseph, a first-team All-American as a redshirt freshman in 2020, when he tied for the national lead with six interceptions in nine games. Coach Marcus Freeman also reached into the transfer portal for Arkansas State kicker Blake Grupe, the Sun Belt Conference’s career co-leader with 64 field goals over the last four seasons.

Kelly Van Arsdale poses for a photo Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Spinnaker Chocolate, the store he owns with his brother in Seattle where they make and sell single-origin chocolate bars. Van Arsdale is holding a laptop showing his company’s website, and he says despite getting a lot of foot-traffic business, reaching customers online has been expensive and difficult. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

It’s a role Williams, 52, has held before — for two seasons with the Minnesota Vikings in 2012 and 2013. But that stint wasn’t spectacular. The Vikings went to the playoffs in Williams’ first season overseeing the defense, winning 10 games while finishing fifth in the league in sacks, 22nd in takeaways, 16th in total yards allowed and 14th in points allowed.

“At a time when politicians in some places have dipped their toes into the waters of sedition, or pulled chairs up for the ghosts of Jim Crow, or spurned the fires of educational curiosity in favor of book banning, or are telling women you have to take your reproductive health choices back to the 1950′s, at a time when some would question the very foundations of science and medicine, at a time when some would condemn simple acts of courtesy and kindness like wearing a mask so that fewer people die, this government in this state said, ‘Not here,’” Pritzker said.

Wilkins described her parents as people who loved God and loved their family, spending time as a young family with growing children going on vacations and welcoming foster children. They loved to collect Coca Cola memorabilia, even going to conventions for collectors. Later in life, with 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, they spent summer weekends at a lake house in Michigan, soaking up the water. Thanksgivings were spent around fire pits there.