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December 21, 2014

Santa Clara – Things just keep getting worse for the Forty-Niners. After blowing a huge lead the San Diego Chargers fought back and tied the game to force an overtime and came away with the 38-35 victory over San Francisco. Nick Novak’s 40-yard field goal sealed their win in OT. The 49ers suffered their fourth straight loss and blew another lead when scoring 21 or more points at halftime.

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“As a team, we didn’t finish it,” said San Francisco’s head coach Jim Harbaugh. “Up 28-7 at one point, but guys were fighting. San Diego did a heck of a job. Tremendous comeback.”

The 49ers made it look easy in the first half, they went up 21-0 by the start of the second quarter. Frank Gore scored on the first series by rushing for a 52-yard touchdown. He rushed a total 158 yards on 26 carries which is the fifth most rushing yards in a single game in his career. Gore had 129 yards on 14 carries in the first half.

“My whole offensive line was there,” Gore said. “All year, we missed one guy here, one guy there. I think that is what the problem has been (all year). My O-Line dominated their D-line tonight.”

San Francisco used their running game early and it was successful. Gore had more yards tonight than in the last four games. Colin Kaepernick also recorded 151 yards on 7 carries. Looking like Kaepernick of last season, he scored a touchdown on a 90-yard run which is the second longest in the franchise history. Running back Garrison Hearst rushed for a 96 yard touchdown in 1998.

The only other quarterback to rush for more than 90-yards in the NFL was Terrelle Pryor last year against Pittsburg on October 27, 2013. Kaepernick finished the night rushing the most yards for a quarterback in a single game in NFL history (regular season). But the individual accolades wasn’t enough to pull out the win.

“That’s a grown man performance right there,” said Kaepernick on Gore’s performance. “Coming off a concussion we weren’t sure if he was going to play or not. He said, ‘I want to go out and fight with you all. I’m not going to leave you all out there by yourselves.’ And to come out and play the way he did and give this offense that life was huge.”

Kaepernick found Bruce Ellington for an 8-yard touchdown in the second quarter and Anotine Bethea’s pick 6 on a 49-yard touchdown gave San Francisco a 21-0 lead. Philip Rivers threw three interceptions, one of those was Bethea’s first career touchdown. But the Chargers got on the board when Rivers connected with Eddie Royal for a 15-yard touchdown right before the half ended.

Rivers threw three more touchdowns in the second half to close the gap. He found Antonio Gates for a 1-yard and 21-yard touchdown. Then Rivers connected with Malcolm Floyd in the fourth for an 11-yard touchdown to tie the game with 3 minutes left in regulation. Forcing an overtime, the 49ers had no idea they would see their lead slip away.

“I can’t, it’s just tough,” said Bethea. “Come out strong and just fizzle out in the second half. You really can’t put your finger on what it was, just one of those years. It’s a tough year.”

Despite a team record of rushing 355 yards, which included Kaepernick’s 90-yard touchdown, could help San Francisco’s struggles. After being eliminated from the playoffs last week, the 49ers practically gave the game away with penalties and turnovers.

“We had three turnovers and that was really the difference of the game,” Kaepernick said.

Kaepernick’s fumble that Corey Liuget recovered in the end zone for the touchdown might’ve been the biggest one outside of Joe Staley’s two penalties that negated Aquan Boldin’s touchdown in the first quarter. San Diego’s defense dismantled a struggling offense to save their season in hopes of making a playoff run. Rivers comeback in the fourth is something Kaepernick has yet to do this season.

“At halftime, we didn’t know if we could come all the way back,” said Rivers. “Look we didn’t know if we could win the game or not but we were going to fight like crazy, that’s who we are.”

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Poll Shows Support for Policies That Help Families Afford Child Care

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

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New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

The national survey was conducted by UpOne Insight on behalf of the First Five Years Fund from January 13–18, 2026.

Key findings include:

• Parents need help: 80% of voters say the ability of working parents to find and afford child care is either in a state of crisis or a major problem.

• This is an affordability issue: 82% believe federal child care funding will help lower costs for working families — including 69% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 94% of Democrats.

• And there continues to be strong support (62%) for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a federal program that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families to afford safe, quality care for their children while parents work or go to school, including a majority of Republicans, 63% of Independents and 72% of Democrats.

• Support for funding child care programs remains strong: 75% believe child care funding should be increased or kept at current levels — including 75% of Republicans, 85% of Independents, and 97% of Democrats.

• 74% say funding for child care is an important and good use of tax dollars, including a majority of Republicans, three-quarters of Independents, and nine in ten Democrats.

FFYF Executive Director Sarah Rittling said, “Voters across the country are sending a clear message: federal child care and early learning programs work. These investments help parents stay in the workforce, strengthen families, and support healthy child development. They have also long had strong bipartisan support in Congress. At a time when affordability is top of mind for families, continued federal funding is essential to ensure child care remains accessible and within reach.”

First Five Years Fund works to protect, prioritize, and build bipartisan support for quality child care and early learning programs at the federal level. Reliable, affordable, and high-quality early learning and child care can be transformative, not only enhancing a child’s prospects for a brighter future but also bolstering working parents and fostering economic stability nationwide.

We work with Congress and the Administration to identify federal solutions that work for families with young children, as well as states and communities. We work with policymakers to identify ways to increase access to affordable, high-quality child care and early learning programs for children. And we collaborate with advocacy groups to help align best practices with the best possible policies. http://www.ffyf.org

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Trump’s MAGA Allies are Creating Executive Order Plan to Steal the 2026 Midterms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

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A group of MAGA pro-Trump activists, who say they are working in coordination with the White House, are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would claim without evidence that China interfered with the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential to President Joe Biden by over 7 million votes. Since Trump lost to Biden in 2020, he has repeatedly claimed that the election was “stolen” without evidence. The report of a group of “Trump allies” preparing an executive order to give Trump power over elections was first reported by The Washington Post.

The lies around the right-wing campaign that pushed falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen was trafficked through right-wing media, particularly Fox News. Fox News was then sued for defamation for the claims by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox lost the case and had to settle for the largest defamation amount on record of $787.5 million in April 2023.

The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

The story in The Washington Post arrives as Trump increasingly signals that he may take actions that would alter the result of the 2026 midterms. The Republicans are widely expected to lose as their approval ratings plummet as a result of a failing economy under Trump. Over 50 members of Congress have announced they will retire this year and not return in 2027.

The Trump Department of Justice, which now has a large image of Trump on the side of it, “sued five new states Thursday [Feb. 26, 2026] demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well,” according to Democracy Docket, a group that works to protect voting rights.

Trump claimed back in late 2020, the last year of his first term, that he had the authority to issue an executive order related to mail-in voting for the 2020 elections — which he would then lose. But the Constitution states that control of elections lies with the states. As the GOP works to place hurdles in front of voting, Democrats worked to make voting easier.

In March 2021, President Biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to expand voting access as part of the Biden Administration’s effort “to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections.”

Trump’s focus is clearly on altering the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s polling numbers and the elections and special elections that have taken place around the U.S. over the last year clearly indicate that Republicans are about to be hit by a blue wave of Democratic victories.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent investigative journalist and the founder of Black Virginia News. She is a political analyst who appears on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and hosts the show LAUREN LIVE on YouTube @LaurenVictoriaBurke. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke