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Nets season was ‘really tough’ personally for Mikal Bridges
And it’s more about between the ears than on the court, more about his mentality than ability.
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Chrissy Teigen defends Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, after Keith McNally calls her ‘revolting’
The Balthazar owner -- completely unprompted -- wrote of Bezos and Sánchez on Instagram, "What an ugly and F--king SMUG - LOOKING couple they make."
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Greece proposes 2 marine parks as part of $830M environmental protection program
Greece has proposed a plan to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect marine ecosystems, drawing criticism from Turkey.
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It’s been 60 years since the Mets opened Shea Stadium and Jack Fisher changed a part of baseball
Though Shea Stadium is gone, another part of Fisher’s legacy remains in the game.
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Brendan Loughnane takes KO lesson to heart in pursuit of second PFL title
Fair to say that the majority of the human population has never been knocked out.
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US Ally Reveals Threshold for Triggering Article 5 Against China
Analysts have said Beijing is taking advantage of vague wording in the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty to use increasingly forceful tactics.
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When Will Cicadas Emerge? Three Signs Point to Imminent Awakening
Cicadas might emerge earlier than expected this year as warm soil temperatures are reported across several states.
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Russian deserters of Ukraine war hide abroad, but as asylum claims surge, foreign countries are suspicious
Russian soldiers who defected and fled Russia since the start of the war with Ukraine speak about their reasons for leaving and their struggles finding a safe place to land.
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Brian Austin Green says he picks his ‘battles’ while co-parenting with Megan Fox
The "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum explained that exes "can't expect ... to get along" while raising children together after calling it quits.
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Scientists Reveal Hidden Benefit of Blinking
The findings are evidence that blinking isn't simply a mechanism to keep our eyes moist and healthy, Rochester University researchers found.
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The U.K. to Vote on the World’s Only Generational Smoking Ban
Lawmakers are expected to pass an effective lifetime ban on smoking for those under the age of 15.
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Mussolini's wartime bunker opens to the public in Rome
Mussolini's bunker at Villa Torlonia in Rome was built nearly 20 feet underground and clad in 13-feet thick cement walls. Construction started in December 1943 and was not quite finished when the Italian dictator was arrested in July 1943.
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Singapore's outgoing PM to stay on as senior minister, his successor says
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will transition out of office after 20 years, with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong set to succeed him on May 15.
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American Airlines’ pilots report ‘significant spike’ in safety issues
American Airlines' pilots union has reported a "significant spike" in safety issues, raising red flags over fewer routine aircraft inspections and shorter test flights on planes following major maintenance work.
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U.S. family finally reunited after escaping Sudan's year-long civil war
A Sudanese-American family is the first to be reunited in the U.S. after a woman and her sons spent nearly a year stuck in Saudi Arabia.
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Rory McIlroy gets caught up in LIV Golf rumors, supposedly offered massive deal: report
Rory McIlroy was rumored to be linked to a jump to LIV Golf on Monday with a massive sum and equity in the organization coming his way.
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Angel Reese shares emotional moment with Kim Mulkey at WNBA Draft
Angel Reese celebrated the start of her new life with her old coach.
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House to send Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate as clash over trial looms
The Senate is tasked with the trial after the House impeached Mayorkas earlier this year. Senate Democrats are expected to move to quickly quash the effort.
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Jury selection continues in Trump's historic hush money trial
Jury selection will continue Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's New York hush money trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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Seeking motivation, high school athletes run with shelter dogs
“I’ve had kids who graduated come back and run with us and the dogs,” said Jarrin Williams, boys cross-country and track and field coach in Illinois.
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Exclusive: Tech Companies Are Failing to Keep Elections Safe, Rights Groups Say
At least 160 rights groups are calling on tech platforms to adopt greater election safeguards amid concerns over AI-powered disinformation.
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Biden flexes his cash advantage, GOP megadonors spend big in latest FEC filings
Federal Election Commission filings from the first quarter of 2024 show Democrats building an advantage over Republicans in key Senate contests, even as some GOP self-funders and wealthy donors have made the race for cash competitive by pumping their own money in.
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Donald Trump's Collateral in $175m Bond Revealed
Trump says he should never have been forced to repost the bond in his fraud case.
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Porn Star Takes Castmate to Court Over Shoot Gone Horribly Wrong
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyA top adult film star alleges she was forced to participate in an onscreen orgy against her will and then became the victim of a vicious smear campaign after a fellow performer overdosed on prescription drugs and nearly died while on set.Now, Melissa Hutchison, who is known to her fans as Phoenix Marie, claims to be out multiple millions and a deal with the Fleshlight brand of sex toys, according to a $30 million federal lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast.The situation has led to “anxiety, panic attacks, sleepless nights, and sexual dysfunction,” Hutchison maintains.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Severe weather stretches from Wisconsin to Arkansas, golf-ball-sized hail hits DC
More than 90 severe storms have been reported from South Dakota to Virginia in the last 24 hours.
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F1 News: Former Champion Urges Formula One To Do More For Young Drivers - 'Nothing is Done'
Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve criticizes the insufficient support for young drivers in Formula One.
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Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
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Gravel gardens save time and water. Here’s how to create one.
These low-maintenance and drought-tolerant beds are an eco-friendly alternative to the traditional lawn.
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From ‘Sugar’ To ‘Monsieur Spade’: Old-School TV Detectives Are Having A Moment
Columbo would be proud.
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Tucker Carlson went after Israel — and his fellow conservatives are furious
Tucker Carlson speaks in Florida on April 2, 2024. | Ivan Apfel/Getty Images Carlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel. The New York Times once described Tucker Carlson’s Fox News hour as “the most racist show in the history of cable news.” In the past week, allegations of bigotry involving his new show on X have come from a rather different corner: his fellow conservatives. The fight started April 9, when Carlson published a friendly interview with Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac. The pastor — who has reportedly praised the “strength” of the October 7 attackers — argued that Israel is no friend to Christians: It bombs them in Gaza, represses them in the West Bank, and restricts their ability to proselytize inside Israel proper. The interview went viral, receiving over 30,000 reposts so far. Erick Erickson, a prominent radio host and former Carlson ally, spoke for many on the right when he labeled Tucker a “pro-Hamas” ally of “the antisemites on college campuses, and the terrorist-supporting progressives of the American left.” Carlson has, according to Erickson, become “willing to use his platform and formerly earned trust and reputation to persuade the easily manipulated to believe the lies he used to rail against.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) wrote a blistering post on X that attempted to banish Carlson from the conservative movement entirely. “Tucker’s MO is simple: defend America’s enemies and attack America’s allies. There isn’t an objective bone left in that washed up news host’s body,” Crenshaw wrote. “Tucker will eventually fade into nothingness, because his veneer of faux intellectualism is quickly falling apart and revealing who he truly is: a cowardly, know-nothing elitist who is full of shit.” While Erickson and Crenshaw are seen as more establishment-friendly voices nowadays, the outrage at Carlson was shared even by some in the right’s Trumpier corners: Even the sorts of people who oppose Ukraine aid laid into the former Fox host after the Isaac interview. Only an openly antisemitic fringe of the conservative movement — the so-called Groypers — seem to be gleeful, believing that pitting Israel against Christians can bring old-school European Jew hatred to contemporary America. “It’s waking people up. It’s making people aware of the fundamentals — which is first and foremost that Jews are not Christians,” said Nick Fuentes, the leading voice of the Groypers. “Once you get into those basics, you can start to build upon that and get to where we are.” So is what Carlson suggests about Israel and Christians accurate? And what does the right-wing backlash against him say about the state of the conservative movement today? Broadly, I think there are basically three key answers to these questions: It’s true that Palestinian Christians are suffering, though it’s largely because they are Palestinians rather than because they are Christians. Carlson’s message, however, does less to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians than to pit Jews against Christians. In trying to excommunicate Carlson, conservatives are pretending that he’s changed — but he’s really the same guy he always has been. The antisemitic and otherwise bigoted things he said on Fox were far worse than anything in the Isaac interview and received only a fraction of the internal right-wing condemnation. Carlson is exploiting legitimate criticism of Israel to fan the flames of Christian antisemitism, which has become a growing problem on the right even as much public attention recently has focused on the left wing. Let’s discuss each of these points in turn. Israel doesn’t persecute Christians, but it does oppress Palestinians Christians are a small minority inside Israel — about 2 percent of the total population. But this mostly Arab group’s numbers are growing, and they tend to do better than their Muslim peers in socioeconomic terms. A 2021 report from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics found that Israeli Christians were more likely to get a college degree and less likely to be on welfare attainment than Muslims and even Jews. Israeli law guarantees formal freedom of religion, and there are no legal restrictions on Christian worship. There is some restriction on missionary activity, but that typically only affects travel visas for foreigners rather than Christians living in Israel. No one in the country has been prosecuted for missionary activity. That’s not to say Israeli Christians have no problems. Jewish extremists occasionally harass Christians in Jerusalem, and there are tensions surrounding the city’s holy sites. Danny Seidemann, a leading expert on Jerusalem, has warned that settler plans for the city threaten the historic Christian presence there. But this, per Seidemann, is less a reflection of hostility toward Christians per se than it is a reflection of the generalized settler goal to control all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa blesses Christian worshipers at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday 2024. But while the Israeli state does not officially discriminate against Israeli Christians, it does oppress Palestinians — and Palestinian Christians suffer along with their Muslim brethren. From churches bombed in Gaza to Israel’s “security barrier” cutting right through Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians experience Israeli occupation the same way that other Palestinians do: as violence and unfreedom. “The major threat to Christian communities and institutions is dismissiveness. They’re not seen,” Seidemann writes. “What’s seen are Palestinians and Arabs who are always suspected terrorists.” Most of Isaac’s comments in the Carlson interview were focused on explaining how the general cruelty of the occupation hurts Palestinian Christians. But Carlson’s additions — such as saying Israel is “blowing up churches and killing Christians” — go a bit further. He suggests that Israel is targeting Christians as a class, and that the Jewish state is fundamentally hostile to Christianity. In doing so, he is playing with antisemitic fire: invoking the longstanding canard that Jews are a danger to the Christian West. “Palestinian Christians, like all Palestinians, suffer under occupation,” writes Matt Duss, a leading Christian expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict. But “Tucker Carlson is absolutely not an ally in the struggle for safety and equality. Be clear: he seeks division here, not solidarity.” The right’s turn on Tucker is hypocritical — at best The conservative movement is highly factional, riven by deep disagreements over all sorts of major issues. But with the exception of the openly antisemitic fringe — which we’ll talk about in a second — most of them have expressed anger at Carlson’s interview. But what’s striking in this discourse is a pervasive sentiment that Carlson’s current output is radically at odds with his work for Fox. Jenna Ellis, former Trump 2020 election attorney and convicted felon, said on her Salem News Channel show that Tucker’s worldview is “very, very different than who he presented himself as on Fox News.” Her guest, Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer, who is Jewish, agreed. “I genuinely enjoyed watching Tucker on Fox. But it turns out Tucker needed Fox more than Fox needed Tucker, because he needed those guardrails. He needed his staffers [and] research assistants,” Hammer said. The specifics of Hammer’s claim are pretty funny, as Carlson’s staff at Fox included notorious extremists. In 2020, head writer Blake Neff resigned after his history of racist posts in anonymous forums came to light. More generally, the Fox show was typically far worse than anything in the Isaac interview. From openly espousing the “great replacement” conspiracy theory to suggesting that immigrants to the United States are dirty and diseased to peddling the same sort of antisemitic lies that motivated the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Carlson consistently worked to make some of the most dangerous fringe ideas in American politics palatable to mainstream Republicans. This flirtation with antisemitism isn’t a break from Carlson’s longstanding persona but an extension of it. Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images Tucker Carlson in 2018, while he was still hosting on Fox. The internal conservative discourse on Carlson is thus both substantively and psychologically revealing. Substantively, it shows that the right is willing to forgive or downplay antisemitism unless it’s somehow linked to criticism of Israel — in which case there’s a zero-tolerance policy. Psychologically, it shows there is a powerful need to reconcile conservatives’ previous love of Carlson with the reality of who he is, requiring implausible contortions about his changing radically after leaving Fox. “Tucker Carlson is the same person he was for his last few years at Fox. You may have pretended not to see it because it would have been personally inconvenient, but there were a select few of us on the Right who stated the uncomfortable truth out loud and were scorned for it,” Mediaite’s Isaac Schorr writes. The reticence among conservatives to acknowledge that Schorr was right all along points to something bigger: that the issue of right-wing antisemitism is much more serious than mainstream conservatives want to admit. The right’s growing antisemitism problem In the past few years, the Groypers have looked more influential than many on the more mainstream right seem to appreciate. In 2022, Nick Fuentes finagled an invite to Mar-a-Lago and had dinner with Donald Trump. More recently, popular podcaster Candace Owens has outed herself as a Groyper-adjacent antisemite. While this turn led to her departure from the right-wing Daily Wire, it also showed how much the movement has made inroads on the broader right. During the Owens saga, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing sat down for a conversation with Fuentes that was streamed on X. Speaking to a man he had once called “a wicked little s**t with evil ideas,″ Boreing praised Fuentes as a “most talented” and “very funny” broadcaster — and invited him to be a guest on a Daily Wire show. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Woven Stars of David at the Tree of Life Synagogue on the 1st Anniversary of the shooting on October 27, 2019. There’s a lot of evidence that right-wing antisemitism is rising. While much attention has been paid (rightly) to left-wing antisemitism after October 7, academic research suggests that antisemitic attitudes are disproportionately concentrated among right-wing young adults. Right-wing extremists are responsible for nearly all of the deadly attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in recent years. Trump’s own rhetoric has long been rife with antisemitic stereotypes and conspiracy theories. The simple fact is that the worldview of the antisemitic right has clear resonance with the Trumpified Republican party. Their influence is primarily felt online today, but what happens online doesn’t always stay there. There’s enough evidence of this bleeding out into the real world — all-too-often literally — that it’s worth being alarmed about it. The reaction to Carlson’s interview raises a question about whether conservatives can see this. Are they merely angry that Tucker’s longtime antisemitism turned into anti-Israel sentiment? Or are they capable of the broader self-reflection and self-policing necessary to fix the movement’s deeper problem with Jews?
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Why opioid settlement money is paying county employees’ salaries
Billions of dollars in opioid settlements are pouring into state and local government coffers. In some cases, they aren’t used for addiction services.
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Election 2024 latest news: Biden heading to Pa. for first of three days in battleground state
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Patrick Mahomes Is Already Thinking About His Next Super Bowl Win
The Kansas Chiefs quarterback is one of TIME's 100 most influential people of 2024
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Read Alex Rodriguez’s TIME100 Tribute to Patrick Mahomes
Find out why Patrick Mahomes is one of the 100 most influential people of 2024.
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What their lineups’ young studs have meant to the Yankees and Mets in the early going
The kids have arrived in full force.
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Iran threatens to attack Israel with weapons it has ‘not used before’ as gets military support from Russia
Iran is threatening to fire weapons it has never before used in "a severe, extensive and painful response" to the "slightest action" by Israel.
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Dr. Peter McCullough on Bird Flu: ‘A Perfect Storm Is Brewing’
The Wellness Company and their new prescription Contagion Kits are the gold standard when it comes to keeping you safe and healthy. The post Dr. Peter McCullough on Bird Flu: ‘A Perfect Storm Is Brewing’ appeared first on Breitbart.
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Queen Elizabeth's Poignant Last Words to Prime Minister Revealed
Liz Truss was Queen Elizabeth's 15th and final prime minister, meeting with her just two days before her death in 2022.
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hang out with Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers in unseen photo
The "Is It Over Now?" songstress and Kansas City Chiefs tight end got in some quality time with the "Don't Take the Money" crooner's bandmates last weekend.
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Donald Trump Ally Wants to See Him Arrested
Laura Loomer said the former president should "call their bluff" and be arrested for skipping his New York trial.
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Trump trial set to continue with second day of jury selection in New York
Jury selection in former President Donald Trump's historic criminal trial in New York will continue for a second day on Tuesday
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Historic Copenhagen old stock exchange building erupts in flames
The 17th-century building's iconic spire, thought to protect the building "against enemy attacks and fires," collapsed among the flames.
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The worst mainstream media habit: Distorting polls for clicks
Reporters and editors know better, but they can’t resist.
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Prince Harry's Reaction to Meghan Kissing Teammate Goes Viral
Meghan Markle watched husband Prince Harry play polo and joined his teammates on the winners' podium in Florida.
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Mysterious 'Remarkably Round' Sinkhole in Field Stumps Russians: Video
A man filmed the hole in the middle of agricultural land in the southern Rostov region.
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Cops Say Livestreamed Attack on Controversial TikTok Star Was Terrorism
Christ The Good Shepherd Church/AAP via ReutersA knife attack on a bishop and others at a church in Sydney on Monday was a religiously-motivated terrorist act, according to police in Australia. A 16-year-old boy was restrained and arrested after he allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and others at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the suburb of Wakeley. Footage of the alleged attack, in which at least four people sustained non-life-threatening injuries, captured by a church livestream spread rapidly online, sparking outrage and prompting an angry mob to descend on the place of worship.The suspect was held inside the church for his own safety as hundreds of worshippers assembled outside demanding vengeance. The crowd violently clashed with police, throwing bricks and bottles at officers trying to maintain order. Two officers were hurt—including one who suffered a broken jaw—and 10 police cars were destroyed in the hourslong riot, according to the BBC. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison detainee shares emotional testimony in trial against Virginia military contractor
Former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are suing Virginia-based military contractor CACI for what they claim is its role in the torture they suffered while imprisoned.
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Bayer seeks legal shield from suits claiming Roundup causes cancer
Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it legal protection from suits claiming Roundup causes cancer. Experts say such a measure could have much broader implications.
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