Pelosi called for the new commission in a letter addressed to her Democratic colleagues. The letter also urged the passage of an emergency bill to fund additional security for members of Congress, including measures to improve travel safety, while members were reminded of the “trauma and resilience resources” that were available to them. “The insurrectionist attack on January 6 was not only an attack on the Capitol, but was a traumatic assault targeting Members,” wrote Pelosi....

North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn made the claim about Pelosi’s “drinking” at a campaign event that was captured on video by Twitter account @PatriotTakes. Cawthorn revived a debunked claim about Pelosi at a time when he has come under criticism for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug.” The video posted by PatriotTakes, which partners with progressive advocacy group MeidasTouch, shows Cawthorn leveling the claim at Pelosi while speaking at a recent campaign event....

Pelosi briefly discussed impeachment after attending a roundtable panel with Venezuelan community members in Florida on Thursday. As she was speaking with local leaders, Trump was also in Sunshine State to address his supporters. “The president has confessed to his violation of his oath of office, and right there, there it is. So it doesn’t need too much inquiry,” Pelosi said, according to the Miami Herald. She added that it’s “sad for our country that our president would put us through this situation....

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker make the claim in their book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, which is due for release on Tuesday, July 20. It was already public knowledge that Pelosi had spoken to Milley about Trump and his access to nuclear weapons, but the contents of the conversation hadn’t been disclosed. Leonnig and Rucker write that Pelosi was one of several lawmakers who spoke to Milley by phone following the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper in November 2020....

Fortunately, your situation sounds completely different. People who are sleep-deprived feel groggy during the day and may fall asleep when they least want to, at their desks or behind the wheel. Voluntary napping, on the other hand, is not a sign of sleep deprivation, illness or aging. In fact, a “power nap” can be helpful as well as enjoyable. Federal researchers studied 200 airline flight crews that each conducted eight 9-hour transpacific flights during a span of 12 days....

Koeman rejects ex-agent’s Barca claim Massimiliano Allegri’s future with the champions is under increasing scrutiny after fresh speculation linking him with Arsenal was followed by claims he has already agreed to leave Turin after this season. Italian newspaper Il Tempo suggested Sarri had held a meeting with Juve to discuss replacing Allegri, but the 58-year-old angrily refuted the report. “A newspaper claims that I have already met with Juventus,” Sarri said ahead of Napoli’s home Serie A match with Genoa on Friday....

The space agency says that the so-called Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, hasn’t been used for two years and is in a state of disrepair. The building will likely be demolished next year, the Houston Chronicle reported. Completed in 1967, the LRL was constructed as a facility to quarantine astronauts and the material they brought back from the moon during the Apollo program to ensure that they were free from diseases....

Nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because it resembles an underwater world, the latest Hubble image shows the giant red nebula NGC 2014 towering above its smaller blue companion NGC 2020, both of which are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way around 160,000 light-years away. Nebulae are vast interstellar clouds of dust and gas that can be formed after stars explode as supernovae at the end of their lifecycles....

On July 4 and 5, Southern California was hit by magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes, respectively. This was followed by over 1,000 aftershocks around the epicenter, near the city of Ridgecrest. The 7.1 quake was the biggest to hit the area in over 40 years. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have now produced a map showing the surface displacement before and after the two earthquakes. The first image was taken on April 8 last year and the next on July 8, 2019....

Put simply, SLS is heavy. In its most basic configuration it weighs 5.75 million pounds, or around 2,600 metric tons. It therefore needs a powerful vehicle to transport it—the Crawler-Transporter 2 (CT-2). As the name suggests, NASA’s crawler-transporters were built to move very large, heavy objects from one place to another, and not particularly quickly. The crawlers are historic, having operated for more than 50 years. First built in 1965 to move the enormous Saturn V rocket from the VAB to the launch pad, the crawlers went on to transport the Space Shuttles for 30 years....

The format for the 2019 NASCAR All-Star Race is similar to that of last year — four stages consisting of 30 laps, 20 laps, 20 laps and 15 laps, respectively. Five laps were added to the final stage to make the 2019 NASCAR All-Star race a little lengthier, 85 laps in total. The Monster Energy Open, which will take place a couple hours prior to the All-Star Race and help set the field for Saturday night’s main event, will feature a format of three segments (20 laps, 20 laps and 10 laps....

As is typical with summer weather in Florida, there’s a threat of pop-up showers and storms in the days leading up to Sunday night’s Coke Zero 400, per weather.com. There’s a 60 percent chance of rain on Saturday and a 40 percent chance for Sunday’s Coke Zero 400, which may delay racing, but chances are an official race will be completed. MORE: Drivers hoping Daytona can add spark to their season | Kyle Busch in big wreck during Daytona practice...

Kahne opted to exit the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet for the final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular-season race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2 p.m. ET; NBCSN, IMS, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) after suffering from extreme heat exhaustion and dehydration during the final 100 laps of last Sunday’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. The issue has been a chronic problem that came to a head at Darlington, even though Kahne had made a point to stay hydrated in the days leading up to the event....

The 34-year-old is absolutely dominating the race at Kentucky Speedway while Brad Keselowski is struggling. Busch had a seven-second lead for a good portion of the second stage and was coming up Keselowski’s backside hard down the stretch. But Keselowski wasn’t going to let him knock him off the lead lap so easily. So when Busch came up on his tail and was looking to pass, Keselowski cut him off and forced the leader to hit the brakes....

With his third-straight victory last Sunday at Indianapolis, Busch has now won four Sprint Cup events this season and currently sits 32nd in the standings, 23 points behind Justin Allgaier for 30th. Busch has to finish 30th or higher in the driver standings to be eligible for the Chase, regardless of how many wins he has this season. MORE: NASCAR’s best championship battles | Sprint Cup winners in 2015 | Busch wins at N....

Sunday’s race at the 10-turn, 1.99-mile road course features an elevation change and narrow straightaways, making it a difficult task to master. Sonoma is the more technical of the two road-course tracks on the schedule. Watkins Glen is a much faster track, which is easier to navigate. Clint Bowyer is coming off his second win of the season in a rain-shortened victory at Michigan, but Martin Truex Jr. grabbed his second at Pocono and Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch remain in contention each week....

MORE: Petty: I can’t compare myself with Earnhardt, Johnson Edwards tried to block fellow Championship 4 driver Joey Logano on the inside row after Logano got up to speed faster than the No. 19 car. Edwards pushed Logano all the way into the inside wall, but found himself caught up with more damage by creating a huge chain-reaction wreck that brought out the red flag. After the wreck, Edwards apologized to Logano’s pit box on the way to the infield care center....

Johnson’s team came under fire as NASCAR looked into whether a pit crew member modified the side skirt on the No. 48 car during a pit stop. NASCAR outlawed side skirt manipulation this year; teams were doing it to increase downforce and improve speed. NASCAR officials determined “the Hendrick No. 48 crew did not make an unapproved adjustment of a body panel during a pit stop late in Saturday night’s annual invitational event....

The starting grid for Wednesday’s race at Martinsville, scheduled to start at 7 p.m. ET and broadcast live on FS1, features five Fords in the first six starting spots as a result of the procedure that utilizes a combination of points standings and a random draw to set the lineup. MORE: Updated 2020 NASCAR Cup Series schedule As for pit stall selection for the NASCAR Cup Series races being run without qualifying, it is ordered based on finishing positions from the series’ previous race, followed by new entries in order of points....

Harvick led 119 of the 160 laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and was rarely threatened. The one exception was a moment when he deviated from his strategy on one of the race’s nine restarts. He had been electing to start on the outside but chose to start on the inside with fewer than 50 laps to go and was passed by Ryan Blaney. He restored order shortly after, though, and returned to the outside for subsequent restarts, winning by just over six seconds over second-place finisher Joey Logano, and eight seconds faster than third-place Bubba Wallace....