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Defense rests without Trump testifying, focus turns to jury instructions
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and will debate the charge with prosecutors and Donald Trump’s lawyers ahead of jury deliberations next week.
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Trump's social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a 'unified Reich'
It’s now been taken down, but a video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network included references to a 'unified Reich.'
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American couple stranded in Brazil over ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ after newborn son arrives months early
A Minnesota couple in the midst of a "bureaucratic nightmare" amid a months-long stay in Brazil, where paperwork issues regarding their newborn son have prevented them from returning to the United States, is one step closer to being able to leave. 
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Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies being arraigned in Arizona
Arizona is one of seven states that Trump lost in 2020 where his allies are accused of schemes to put up alternate electors.
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‘Anora’: Wild Sex Worker Cinderella Story Just Dazzled Cannes
Cannes Film FestivalSometimes it feels like an actor has just been waiting for their breakout moment: Mikey Madison just had hers at the Cannes Film Festival. She has been good for a long time in projects like Better Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Scream. (In both of the latter titles she, bizarrely, played a crazed villain who was ultimately lit on fire. She has a great scream.)But she has never quite had a role like the title character in Sean Baker’s Anora, a twisted fairy tale about a sex worker who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. The film is very funny, until it punches you in the gut with a beautiful ending, and it entirely rests on Madison’s performance as the tough-as-nails Anora.Anora, however,goes by Ani, when we first meet her through a series of lap dances at the midtown strip club where she works. That night her boss tells her to go meet with Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), a gangly Russian patron, who wants her for a dance because she speaks his language. He’s infatuated, they hit it off, and she gives him her number. When they first meet up for sex, he reveals his family’s riches, and after inviting her to a rager of a New Year’s Eve party, he pays her $15,000 to be his girlfriend for a week, in which they party, run around Coney Island, and go to Vegas. It’s all like a semi-sordid dream for her. He showers her with affection and lets her live in his lavish world. And then, in Sin City, he proposes. She says yes.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Police lower the boom on Pasadena man accused of setting off over 150 explosions in two years
Pasadena police accused 63-year-old Art Leon Berian of a detonation spree that had disturbed a local neighborhood repeatedly since 2022.
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Wild moment driver rams Lamborghini into armed robber who held him for his Rolex
Shocking video footage captured the moment a Lamborghini driver rammed his car into a thief who allegedly stole his Rolex watch at gunpoint before attempting to flee the scene.
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Taylor Swift handles mid-Eras Tour wardrobe malfunction like a total pro: ‘She’s so human’
The singer had some issues with her dress during a recent performance in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona election interference case
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden.
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North Dakota ranked best state for childbirth, Mississippi ranked worst: report
Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia are among the worst states for childbirth, according to a recent report by the Birth Injury Lawyers Group.
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Border officials slam Biden’s attempt at last minute border fixes ‘because it’s election year’
"I think it's too little too late and counters everything [Biden's] argued that he doesn't have the authority," Clem said.
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Virtual reality porn is ‘highly addictive’ and ‘ruining relationships’ as lines blur, experts say
A new breed of interactive porn has emerged that is “ruining relationships everywhere”, experts are warning.
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The musical evolution of Post Malone: Rapper, singer, songwriter from NY
Post Malone has experimented across genres with his music. Most recently, he has emerged in the country music scene with his hit song "I Had Some Help" featuring Morgan Wallen.
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I was inside the court when the judge closed the Trump trial, and what I saw shocked me
Alan Dershowitz was allowed to stay in the courtroom during former President Donald Trump's hush money trial while Judge Merchan scolded witness Robert Costello.
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Inside Graceland Mansion — Elvis’s former estate that now faces foreclosure
The music legend's legendary home in Tennessee continues to attract fans from around the world -- however, it now faces foreclosure.
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First Australian flight evacuating citizens from New Caledonia touches down
The French territory of New Caledonia has been consumed by riots sparked by electoral changes by the French government. Australia has begun to evacuate its citizens who are stuck there.
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Blue Jays fan shows the grisly impact of getting hit by a 110 MPH Bo Bichette foul ball
That'll leave a mark.
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Can’t sleep on a plane? This psychologist says her 4-step ‘hack’ will help you drift off
No matter how weary, some travelers struggle to get ample shut-eye on airplanes — but this may be your solution.
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Donald Trump's Excuse for 'Unified Reich' Video Raises Eyebrows
Donald Trump's explanation for "unified reich" video raises questions about who has access to his Truth Social account.
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Jena Sims reveals intimate look at Brooks Koepka getaway after SI Swimsuit launch, PGA Championship
Fresh off SI Swimsuit launch week, Jena Sims enjoyed a vacation with husband Brooks Koepka, who competed in the PGA Chapionship last weekend.
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New York's high court upholds requiring insurance to cover medically necessary abortions
New York's high court has upheld a rule requiring companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions
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Jennifer Lopez shares the ‘one thing’ she trusts as she attends ‘Atlas’ premiere without Ben Affleck
Lopez attended the premiere of her new Netflix movie without Ben Affleck amid rumors the couple are splitting up.
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Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck's daughter Violet's graduation leaves actress in tears
Jennifer Garner revealed how she's handling the upcoming high school graduation of daughter Violet, who she shares with ex-husband, Ben Affleck.
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Anti-Israel agitators interrupt Blinken Senate testimony, hauled out by Capitol police
Anti-Israel protesters interrupting a Senate hearing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken were shouting that Blinken is a "war criminal" guilty of "genocide."
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‘9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman Opens Up About How His Suicide Attempt And tWitch’s Death Changed His Life: “Lean On Your Brother”
"Luckily I got a second chance, by the grace of God," the actor said.
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Costco ‘fan’ fight! Shoppers lose their cool over fans
Black Friday came early this year. As temperatures soared in Mexico, so did tempers at a Costco in the city of Celaya, where hundreds reportedly suffered from heat stroke. In this heated brawl, a man in pink shorts is filmed snatching a boxed electric fan from a woman, then shoving another man to the floor.
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NYC condo once owned by Neil Diamond’s son cuts price to $3.99M
Neil Diamond’s son Micah Diamond once called this Upper West Side condo home. It’s now on the market for $3.99 million — down from its initial ask of $4.19 million in March. The four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, three-story unit, at 157 W. 74th St., is 2,352 square feet and comes with a 950-square-foot irrigated garden. It’s part...
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Wendy's offers $3 breakfast combo, as fast-food customers recoil from high prices
More fast-food chains, discount retailers are cutting prices as budget-conscious consumers balk at high prices, hurting sales.
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Peloton Removes Diddy’s Music in the Aftermath of Cassie Assault Video
On Sunday, Combs publicly apologized for his actions in a video posted on his Instagram page.
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Co-op at celeb-studded One Fifth Avenue hits the market for $4.45M in NYC
A co-op on the 10th floor of legendary One Fifth Avenue has just hit the market for $4.45 million. If you snag the three-bedroom, three-bath combined corner unit, you just never know who you might meet in the elevator. Past and present residents include Jessica Lange, Patti Smith (Robert Mapplethorpe shot her “Horses” album cover...
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to attend Monaco Grand Prix after romantic Italy trip: report
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end reportedly plans to meet the pop star in Portugal this week before they make their way to Monaco on Sunday.
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Tennis Explains Everything
Tennis is an elegant and simple sport. Players stand on opposite sides of a rectangle, divided by a net that can’t be crossed. The gameplay is full of invisible geometry: Viewers might trace parabolas, angles, and lines depending on how the players move and where they hit the ball. It’s an ideal representation of conflict, a perfect stage for pitting one competitor against another, so it’s no wonder that the game comes to stand in for all sorts of different things off the court. Google tennis metaphor and you’ll learn how marriage is like the call and response of a rally; how business is like trying to find the best angle on your opponent; how in life it’s sometimes important to “come to the net.”Naturally, the protagonists of Luca Guadagnino’s film Challengers, whose entire existence revolves around tennis, also make sense of themselves through the rules of the game. To hear them speak to one another is to experience their monomania: Everything they really mean is hidden beneath layers of tennis puns and analogies, and the lines between life and the game become as imperceptible as those on a well-used clay court. If this is a movie about love or desire or anything else, it’s only by way of tennis.The film’s story unfolds during the final of the fictional Phil’s Tire Town Challenger tennis tournament, held in New Rochelle, New York. Via flashbacks interspersed throughout the match, we learn about the rivalry between the prim champion Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and scruffy down-on-his-luck Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor)—as well as their relationships with Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a once-promising player whose career fell apart due to injury. Although Art and Tashi are now married, the film slowly reveals the evolution of these relationships. We see how they all met at a sponsor party during the U.S. Open Junior tournament, where Tashi promised her phone number to the winner of a match between the two boys, who at the time were best friends, declaring her desire to watch some “good fucking tennis.” We see how Patrick and Tashi were a short-lived couple and had an affair long after they broke up, and how Art’s irrepressible flirtation with Tashi led to a career-defining romantic and coaching partnership between the two of them. As we realize how much of their lives are tied up in the Phil’s Tire Town final, every glance, serve, and motion becomes fraught with meaning.The narrative progresses in a way that’s not unlike John McPhee’s 1969 book, Levels of the Game, which recounts a single match played between two American players, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, in the semifinals of the 1968 U.S. Open. Between McPhee’s descriptions of various points played during the match, he travels back to key moments in each competitor’s life, narrating the personal and social conditions that shaped their respective playing styles and dispositions on the court—and how the two rivals see each other.For McPhee, “a person’s tennis game begins with his nature and background and comes out through his motor mechanisms into shot patterns and characteristics of play.” Graebner sees Ashe’s short strokes and risk taking as an extension of his “loose” lifestyle, equating his confidence on the court with the rising social position of Black Americans. To Ashe, Graebner’s cautious and predictable play style is indicative of his traditional values and conservative, family-oriented life: He calls it “Republican tennis.” Although in some ways it was just another meeting between two longtime rivals, the match comes to stand in for competing cultural currents in America, the civil-rights struggles of the ’50s and ’60s looming in the background.A few years later, another match took on post-1960s gender politics in a famously theatrical showdown. The “Battle of Sexes” match in 1973, between Billie Jean King and then-retired Bobby Riggs, has since been mythologized as a turning point for women’s sports. If the social allegory of the Ashe-Graeber match was subtextual, the one in this spectacle—which ended in a decisive victory for King over the cartoonishly chauvinistic Riggs—was glaringly explicit. At a time when women’s liberation was becoming a force that threw all sorts of conventions into question, and plenty of people were for or against the gains of the movement, seeing the debate represented by a game of tennis surely had a comforting appeal. For those with more regressive beliefs, rooting for Bobby was certainly easier than really articulating a justification for maintaining massive pay disparities between men and women, both within and outside of professional tennis.[Read: Tennis temperament]In Challengers, the topic of tennis plays a similar orienting role for three players whose “only skill in life is hitting a ball with a racket,” according to Tashi. Talking with Patrick and Art after she meets them, Tashi describes tennis as a “relationship.” On the court, she understands her opponent—and the crowd understands them both, watching them almost fall in love as they battle back and forth. For Tashi who has nothing but tennis to talk about, the tennis metaphor works because seeing things as a game based on one-on-one competition, long-standing rivalries, and extended strategic play makes intuitive sense. Although pretty much everything else in her life might be complicated, tennis is not.But this assured confidence doesn’t follow the players off the court. Within their love triangle, tension arises with the dawning recognition that in a one-on-one sport, there’s always another person who doesn’t have a place on the court. Save for the night they meet, when Tashi induces Art and Patrick to kiss each other for her entertainment, the three of them rarely engage with one another at the same time: Someone is always watching from the stands, whether literally or metaphorically. Tashi’s solution to Patrick and Art’s competing interest—giving her number to the winner of their match—doesn’t stop the loser from wanting to continue play, of course. Life isn’t that simple.Nor are the boundaries between sport and play so neatly defined. During Patrick and Tashi’s brief romance, a post-coital conversation seamlessly transitions into a discussion about Patrick’s poor performance as a pro, and eventually becomes a referendum on why their relationship doesn’t work. Confused, and trying to make sense of it all as their banter swiftly changes definitions, Patrick asks: “Are we still talking about tennis?” “We’re always talking about tennis,” Tashi replies. Frustrated, Patrick tersely retorts: “Can we not?”What would it be for them to not talk about tennis? As the linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue in their 1980 book, Metaphors We Live By, “Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” In other words, we’re always talking about things in terms of other things—even if it’s not always as obvious as it is in Challengers. Metaphors are more than just a poetic device; they’re fundamental to the way language is structured. Complex ideas almost always elude easy explanation, so we reach for metaphors, either consciously or not. When tennis represents these various concepts—love, gender, race—they become easier to discuss due to the sport’s inherent legibility. No matter what issue is at stake, or how grand it may be, it can always be reduced to an individual’s performance on the court.And as a sport, tennis is versatile enough to be a playful and rich metaphor in Challengers. While Patrick is still dating Tashi, and Art is transparently trying to steal his best friend’s girl, Patrick playfully accuses Art of playing “percentage tennis”—a patient strategy of hitting low-risk shots and waiting for your opponent to mess up. It’s something unique to the game, as it wouldn’t really make sense in the context of other individual sports like boxing, track, or bowling. As we learn, it’s also not a good strategy for love—because although Art does make his move once Patrick inevitably screws up, his unflagging commitment isn’t enough to make Tashi genuinely love him.On the night before the Phil’s Tire Town final, Art asks for Tashi’s permission to retire once the season is over. Art knows that this would be the end of their professional relationship—he would no longer be able to play dutiful pupil to Tashi. But it might also be the end of whatever spark animated their love in the first place, as you can’t play “good fucking tennis” in retirement. Tashi says she will leave Art if he doesn’t beat Patrick in the final. Tired of playing, but unable to escape the game, Art curls up in his wife’s lap and cries.The next day, as the final nears its conclusion, tensions run high. Art has just discovered the truth about Patrick and Tashi’s affair, and the match goes into a tiebreaker to decide the final set. After an intense rally, Art jumps for a smash and falls over the net, landing in Patrick’s arms. As she watches her two lovers embrace, Tashi stands up and screams “Come on!” with a passion not seen since early in her career. It doesn’t matter who wins. Lost in a moment of catharsis, they’re finally not talking about tennis anymore.
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Greg Gutfeld Welcomes Bill Maher to Fox News With Cringey ‘I’m Sorry’ Song
Fox NewsFox News host Greg Gutfeld wanted to let Bill Maher know he was “so sorry” on Monday night—in the form of an off-key satirical song. Hilarity did not ensue.While making the media rounds to promote his latest book (which is really just a roundup of his favorite editorials from his long-running HBO series Real Time), Maher made his debut on Fox News’ Gutfeld! on Monday evening. Once a favorite villain in the Fox universe, Maher has become the network’s favorite “liberal” in recent years as he’s become an outspoken critic of progressive policies and all things “woke.” This has also resulted in Maher and Gutfeld forming something of a mutual admiration society, bonding over their anti-woke expertise and disgust of so-called cancel culture. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Drunk, pregnant Michigan mom of 4 smashes into 16 pedestrians, killing 2: police
Ashley Monroe, 35, drunkenly plowed into a group of 16 pedestrians, half of them under the age of 8, then fled the scene on Saturday, Michigan prosecutors said. Two victims died at the scene.
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California Supreme Court Could Make Uber Leave State
The state's highest court will hear arguments on a case about whether drivers are independent contractors.
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Bill Maher Pushes Back Against Joy Behar’s Suggestion That Trump Supporters Put Swastikas On Their MAGA Hats On ‘The View’: “You Can’t Hate Everybody Who Likes Him”
Maher also defended Behar, telling viewers that she "should not be afraid that people are going to attack her" over the remark.
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Special counsel suspected additional obstruction effort by Trump in docs case
The special counsel appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Trump to obstruct the government's classified documents probe, according to a filing.
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Businesses Expect More People to Quit Their Jobs
The Federal Trade Commission recently voted 3-2 to ban non-compete agreements.
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California Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on Uber, Lyft-backed Prop. 22
California’s Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 22, which classified drivers working in the gig economy as independent contractors.
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Taylor Swift Eras Tour Raises COVID Fears
Reports of COVID clusters are circulating after Swift's Paris shows.
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MAGA 'Prophet' Predicts Bad News for Joe Biden, Supreme Court Justices
A pastor and self-described "prophet" claims she has received another dark prophecy about President Joe Biden.
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US allies France, Belgium defend ICC prosecutor's request for Israeli arrest warrants
France, Belgium and Slovenia have expressed support for the International Criminal Court to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli government officials alongside Hamas leadership.
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Ben Affleck's 18-Year-Old Daughter Celebrates Major Milestone Amid Jennifer Lopez Split Speculation
Violet Affleck reached a major milestone in her life as dad Ben Affleck grapples with the alleged tension in his marriage to Jennifer Lopez.
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Cicada Invasion's 'Wall of Sound' May Help People With Tinnitus
The cicada noises may help mask the sounds of tinnitus, soothing the symptoms. However, this is not the case for everyone.
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy urges faster aid, direct Western involvement to counter Russian advances
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has voiced frustration with Western allies' slow military support decisions and urged for direct involvement in intercepting Russian missiles.
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Inflation still causing pain for Americans — with parents hit harder: Fed survey
Inflation remained the top financial concern, the report said. Sixty-five percent of adults said high prices had made their situations worse.
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LGBT group tackles Chiefs kicker's Catholic college address: 'Erroneous and dangerous'
GLAAD, the largest LGBT advocacy group in America, issued its own "fact check" of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's recent Catholic college commencement speech.
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SeaWorld enthusiasts and twin brothers who attended camp as kids work at park for milestone anniversary
Two twin brothers and full-time SeaWorld San Antonio employees were introduced to the park as young kids. Today, the Texas-based brothers work with animals daily, saying they're "grateful."
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