Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJoe Biden is in the process of alienating his allies for the sake of adversaries he can neither win over, nor appease. This, as they say, is a rookie mistake.I’m speaking, of course, about Biden’s threat that the U.S. will not supply weapons for Israel to invade Rafah, a city that the Associated Press describes as “the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza.”In so doing, Biden is being less than a loyal friend to Israel, an ally who rightly views Hamas as an existential threat. But he’s also alienating his political allies right here in America. And while we can debate the ethics of urban warfare in Gaza, what seems less debatable is the notion that this is a shrewd political move. Indeed, it strikes me as quite stupid.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Cornell University President Martha Pollack just unexpectedly announced that she’s stepping down at the end of June, after months of campus turmoil.

Michael Cohen is back on TikTok, using the Trump trial to troll for dollars.

Jeenah Moon/Getty ImagesThe federal judge overseeing a pregnancy discrimination case against Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign approved a bid by the ex-president and his team to switch to new legal counsel—bringing in a Maryland law firm where a top partner stands accused of bilking millions belonging to the nation of Somalia.Judge Katharine Parker signed off Wednesday on the replacement of the Trump camp’s old representation, LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland, with a lawyer from the firm Schulman Bhattacharya, LLC. The previous defense team asked to abandon the ex-president and his former top advisors in the lawsuit earlier this month, citing an “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship” in the suit, which GOP operative Arlene “A.J.” Delgado first brought in 2019, alleging that campaign leadership stripped her of responsibilities after married advisor Jason Miller impregnated her.Parker initially rejected the law firm’s abdication, but ultimately allowed the campaign to swap in Schulman Bhattacharya, LLC, which did not respond to The Daily Beast’s requests for comment. But while the firm’s attorney Jeffrey Gavenman will be defending Trump, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Sean Spicer, one of the founding partners at his firm will be fighting to keep himself out of prison.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Neymar quedó fuera de la plantilla de la selección brasileña para la Copa América el viernes, mientras que el adolescente Endrick fue incluido.

Josh Hart is now the first Knicks player to have 15 rebounds in back-to-back playoff games since Patrick Ewing in 1999.

No star has shined more consistently brightly throughout the first seven games of these Stanley Cup playoffs — all wins — than Igor Shesterkin. 

Reuters/Erin ScottIt’s been a hectic week for Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, who was slated to make his first foray into politics later this year as a delegate at the Republican National Convention but had it walked back Friday—just a week before his highly-anticipated high school graduation.Little is known about the younger Trump’s time at Oxbridge Academy, with his three years there largely shrouded in secrecy as his parents kept him out of the public eye, but there have been glimpses into what his education was like behind the doors of the West Palm Beach, Florida, private school.Nearly a dozen recent graduates, students, and their parents declined interview requests about Barron’s time at Oxbridge, which charges $41,500 a year for high schoolers not on scholarship. Over a dozen others did not respond to calls, texts, direct messages, and emails.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett CollectionAnna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far to become Anne Bancroft as Lucille LeSueur did to become Joan Crawford.When she was one month short of graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a casting director gave her a role in Turgenev’s Torrents of Spring for the TV show Studio One. The following year she tested for a movie role at 20th Century Fox. Studio head Darryl Zanuck saw her screen test, said, “Sign that girl,” and presented her with a list of new last names. “They all sounded like I should have looked like Lana Turner, or been a stripper, all except Bancroft, which sounded dignified,” she remembered, then spent the fifties typecast as a film noir starlet in movies ranging from New York Confidential to Gorilla at Large to The Girl in Black Stockings.The last straw came after a string of forgettable roles. “I began to realize you can’t wait for the gods to bless you with the right part,” said Bancroft. “Finally, I thought I’d help the gods help me. So I went to New York.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyAh, the scandalous 2010s: Anthony Weiner’s sexts, Fifty Shades of Grey, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child. It was in this fecund soil that Ashley Madison—the infamous website dedicated to extramarital affairs—became a household name. The website and its purposely eye-raising slogan—“Life is short, have an affair”—seemed to define a decade filled with tawdry turpitude and tabloid titillation.But when I recently received an email from the Ashley Madison press team, my first reaction was, “That still exists?” (I am apparently not alone here: The first suggested search when you type the company into Google: “Is Ashley Madison still a thing?”)It’s not just that the site suffered one of the most famous data breaches of the 21st century, revealing millions of member accounts and exposing the affairs of government workers, celebrities, and probably your middle school softball coach. It’s also that, in the golden age of “ethical non-monogamy,” when New York magazine is publishing “A Practical Guide to Polyamory” as its cover story, and major celebrities are coming clean about their open marriages, you have to wonder if anyone is still having “affairs”—especially on a website older than Facebook.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Duncan Marsten and Bryce Rainer lead Harvard-Westlake past San Dimas 5-4 in the Southern Section Division 1 baseball quarterfinals.

Kylian Mbappé confirmó lo que todo el mundo del fútbol estaba esperando escuchar, el viernes anunció que dejará al Paris Saint-Germain antes de posiblemente irse al Real Madrid.

La política de la ciudad de Nueva York de limitar a 60 días la estancia de las familias migrantes en los albergues se ha aplicado de forma desordenada a lo largo de los últimos seis meses, con problemas como el hecho de que la ciudad no notificara a las embarazadas que podían quedar exentas, según ha revelado una nueva auditoría realizada por el contralor municipal.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA dozen blocks uptown from Donald Trump’s trial stands a black behemoth that New York University named after a hedge-fund billionaire the former president has admiringly nicknamed “Money Machine.”“John A. Paulson Center” reads the white letters affixed to the black glass facade at the building’s main entrances—name-checking an alum who is bankrolling Trump’s terrifying attempt to retake the White House.While many of the students walking in and out of the center had no idea who it is named after or what that person stands for, the building has acquired a nickname among neighborhood preservationists.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final day...

President Biden raised millions of dollars for his reelection bid in Silicon Valley on Friday as he poked at former President Trump and argued that his campaign was being underestimated.

Golden Together's Steve Hilton and Gloria Romero implore state colleges and universities to reinstate canceled classes and commencements.

StarzEngland may have narrowly avoided a war with Spain in last week’s episode of Mary & George. But in Episode 6—the penultimate installment of the deliciously deviant limited series—the country, and all of the self-serving characters who inhabit it, are critically injured and bleeding out regardless. The constant power struggles fought by the malevolent matriarch Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) and her equally capricious son George (Nicholas Galitzine) have waned now that they have gotten used to their posts inside King James I’s (Tony Curran) court. But the problem with sitting on a hard-won throne is that there’s always someone you stomped on while climbing to it, waiting in the shadows to take your seat.This week’s episode opens in 1620, two years after the events of Episode 5. We know that time has passed because George’s short hair is now flowing at shoulder-length, and Galitzine should really consider working this lace front as a full-time thing, because George has never looked more dashing. But despite all of the Olaplex George is running through his mane to keep it silky and sexy for his royal lover, the king’s interest in George is declining. James has other things on his mind, namely the protests outside of his door, which haven’t died down since James decided to behead Sir Walter Raleigh for plotting treason and trying to incite that pesky war with Spain.As chants of “King James: Spain-fucker!” grow louder outside, the inside of the royal palace is eerily quiet, more morose than ever before. Queen Anne (Trine Dyrholm) has succumbed to several illnesses, dying at the age of 44. In the weeks leading up to her death, James could barely bring himself to speak to his wife, and after her passing, hasn’t even been able to see her, lying embalmed in her coffin. But that neglect presents an additional problem: Anne needs a proper funeral, and James and George’s reckless spending has left no more money for state-sponsored service. In turn, James has left Anne to lay lifeless while he putters about, angering their son, Prince Charles (Samuel Blenkin), with his carelessness.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Prosecutors declined to file felony charges, and it will now be up to City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office whether to charge the former L.A. County Federation of Labor employees with misdemeanors.

A federal appeals court has ruled against a Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, ordinance aimed at cutting down on the abundance of political lawn signs.

Fox News host Sean Hannity reveals President Biden's fears ahead of the 2024 presidential election on Friday's "Hannity."

Entertainment broadcaster Sam Rubin has died at age 64

With the way the Yankees offense has been rolling lately, their starting pitchers have typically enjoyed some breathing room during their outings. Clarke Schmidt had none on Friday and thrived on it.

A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted a plan by the Biden administration to lower late fees on credit cards to $8 that was slated to go into effect next week

A woman shot in the neck during a high school graduation for her son is expected to survive, authorities said.

"Jesse Watters Primetime" host Jesse Watters argues President Biden's "splintered" base is benefitting former President Trump's re-election efforts.

Another playoff game, another heart-stopping one for the Knicks. This time they lost 111-106 after Andrew Nembhard nailed the go-ahead 3-pointer with 16.4 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyOver two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Putin’s aircraft still use U.S., Japanese, and European components. A forthcoming report from the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, a Ukrainian think tank known as NAKO, found shocking evidence that components from hundreds of foreign companies are present in Russian military planes. Of those foreign made components, over 60 percent came from American manufacturers such as Texas Instruments and Intel. The products themselves, such as circuit boards and semiconductors, sound mundane but are deeply important to aircraft manufacturing. Many are listed as “highest priority” by the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security due to a “heightened risk of being diverted illegally to Russia because of their importance to Russia’s war efforts.”Even amid sanctions and export controls, NAKO’s report found that Russia has increased its imports of western made electronic components since 2021, in some cases by more than 500 percent. In 2023 alone, they found that Russia imported over $4 Billion in components connected to aircraft manufacturing. These components make it possible for the Russian air force to maintain its role in Ukraine. NAKO has published numerous authoritative reports on components in Russian weapons.The problem extends beyond Russia’s planes. Western components are found in Russian weapons such as drones and missiles, but Russia’s ability to maintain its aircraft and build new ones is a key part of its war effort. Russia enjoys a large advantage in airpower over Ukraine, which makes it hard for Kyiv to hold ground and even harder to reclaim it. Russia relies heavily on “glide bombs” launched from aircraft to pound Ukrainian positions.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Everett CollectionThis week:Possible RFK Brain Worms, RankedI, like most of America, have not stopped thinking about the story that doctors found a dead worm in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s brain. It’s a “well, that certainly explains things” anecdote in an era of entirely inexplicable nonsense. This bozo literally had “brain worms,” the catch-all phrase we use for someone whose asinine ideas suggest they are absolutely losing their mind.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The New York Times issued a scathing report about President Biden's "broken relationship" with Muslim leaders, something the paper says "could pose a significant problem" in November.

"If it was such a policy, I'd have to be crazy to keep doing it. Or I'd have to say the policy is meaningless."

Even the Knicks' Iron Man needs a breather.

Little League World Series hero and first-round MLB draft pick Sean Burroughs died this week, Little League International announced. He was 43.

Tom Dundon, Carolina’s notoriously penurious owner, didn’t want to pay Vincent Trocheck when the center came up on free agency two years ago but the CEO and his team are sure paying now.

The elderly woman fatally struck by a “maniac” driver fleeing cops in Brooklyn was a grandmother and “beautiful person” who “helped everyone in the neighborhood,” grieving friends said Friday.

Florida Georgia Line singer Brian Kelley discussed the possibility of reuniting with his former bandmate, Tyler Hubbard, to make new music.

Un planeta rocoso, que es dos veces más grande que la Tierra y se encuentra en un sistema solar cercano, tiene una atmósfera densa, según informaron investigadores el miércoles.

La percepción del consumidor en Estados Unidos cayó drásticamente en mayo a su nivel más bajo en seis meses, y los estadounidenses mencionaron la alta inflación y las elevadas tasas de interés, así como el temor a que el desempleo pudiera aumentar.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham reacts to the radical left running the show at the Biden White House on "The Ingraham Angle."

Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty ImagesAs night descended across the Earth on Friday, a solar storm suffused the skies with a gorgeous display of aurora borealis, and well, it was jaw-dropping.For the first time in 20 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a watch for a “very rare” severe geomagnetic storm, which was upgraded to an extreme G5 storm later on Friday. This is the first G5 storm since 2003, and could effect the power grid, as well as radio communications. Aurora borealis caused by the storm were expected to be visible from Europe, Canada, and several northern U.S. states. On Friday night, they began to appear.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jace Christian Hanson, 21, admitted at least some of the revolting acts were inspired by men he met on dating apps and fetish sites -- who egged him on and made special requests, according to cops.

Sounds like utter lunar-cy. As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) readies to return astronauts to the moon and convert the space rock into an orbital outpost, plans are apparently being mulled to build a train on its surface. “We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient...

If you’re out to buy a home, you have to be vigilant. To clue you into the pitfalls, here are six of the most common ways people mess up getting a mortgage.

Six days before she makes her official home WNBA debut for the Indiana Fever, Caitlin Clark took in Friday's Pacers-Knicks playoff game in a suite.

Caitlin Clark loves a good 3-pointer.

The top-ranked Bears deliver a convincing performance in the game they wanted most, avenging a loss to their rivals in last year’s title game.

Geomagnetic storms can affect infrastructure, but may also bring an expanded viewing of the aurora borealis.

The streamer would have its first event from a major professional sports league as it makes a push into TV's advertising market.