Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey says the team has not discussed hiring Condoleezza Rice as a coach, disputing an ESPN report.

Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Will Ferrell returned this weekend as guest host, reviving his impersonation of George W. Bush for the occasion.

For the 10th consecutive year, former President Barack Obama is named as America's "most admired man," according a new Gallup survey.

NCAA president Mark Emmert, citing polling numbers and talking about a federal investigation into criminal activity in college basketball, said Monday the public is losing confidence in his organization.

Press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday is scheduled to hold a daily press briefing at the White House.

Former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer is one of three new members of the College Football Playoff selection committee, the entity announced Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs philanthropic director Dina Powell will soon join the Trump administration as a White House adviser, people familiar with the matter reported.

President Barack Obama was considered the man most admired by Americans in 2016, and Hillary Clinton the most admired woman, a Gallup Inc. survey revealed.

On Nov. 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set off to break the fictional record of voyaging around the world in 80 days set by Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg. She made the trip in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

On Aug. 20, 1968, about 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" -- a brief period of efforts to democratize socialism in the country.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the league will institute a Rooney Rule for women when it comes to the hiring of NFL executive positions.

On Aug. 20, 1977, the first U.S. Voyager spacecraft (one of two launched in 1977) left Cape Canaveral, Fla., bound for Jupiter and Saturn.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014

Former Princeton President William G. Bowen called Haverford students "immature" and "arrogant" for protesting previously scheduled commencement speaker.

Former Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgenau bows out as commencement speaker at Haverford, while Christine Lagarde of IMF withdraws at Smith.