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Rudy Gobert hizo historia. Victor Wembanyama estuvo a punto de hacerla.

Stormy Daniels described the tawdry circumstances of her alleged one-night stand with Donald Trump while he sat just feet away.

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Investigadores federales de seguridad de autopistas en Estados Unidos quieren que Tesla les diga cómo y por qué desarrolló el parche en la revisión de más de dos millones de vehículos equipados con el sistema parcialmente automatizado Autopilot de la compañía.

Fox News host Jesse Watters questioned why none of the anti-Israel activists that have been protesting on college campuses across the country have accepted scholarship offers from Iran.

Donald Trump's attorneys unsuccessfully pushed for a mistrial during the testimony of porn actor Stormy Daniels.

Harrison Bader understands the Mets have a crowded scene, but at the same time expected a larger role when he signed a one-year contract.

After all, entering Tuesday night’s Game 2 second-round matchup with the Hurricanes at the Garden, the Rangers had won each of their first five games of the 16 postseason wins required to hoist the Stanley Cup.

Other heavy headliners include Mötley Crüe, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age.

Officials identified the person as José Mynor López, 37, of Baltimore

University of Virginia and police officials defended actions that led to the arrests of more than 25 pro-Palestinian protesters on campus grounds over the weekend, even as faculty members and others criticized what they saw as an overly aggressive response.

The state Supreme Court cited problems with Circuit Court Judge April T. Ademiluyi’s behavior toward jurors, impartiality on the bench and compliance with the law.

The Eagles capture the WCAC championship for the eight straight year, helped in large part by junior Carson Looney’s round of 5 under par.

Boca Raton is shedding its reputation as a retirement town filled with geezers in golf carts.

The Tigers earned their 11th straight city title with a 15-5 win against School Without Walls.

Flair was in Gainesville celebrating family members' graduation and had a heated interaction at a Piesanos Stone Fired Pizza location.

The Team USA selection committee has their work cut out for them in terms of choosing the 12-player roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer.

The Ducks had the third-best odds (11.5%) of landing the No. 1 pick of the 2024 NHL draft. They stayed where they were projected, earning the No. 3 pick.

Military demonstrators on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, flew helicopters, shot blank ammunition and showed off tactical proficiencies to audiences.

The Pentagon said Tuesday that a U.S. Army soldier detained in Russia last week will remain in a pretrial detention facility, at least until his next hearing.

A newly proposed bill in California could ban grocery stores and certain retailers from offering self-checkout options for customers in an effort to cut down on theft. 

Wednesday, NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks will testify before Congress. He needs to admit the truth: The system he oversees has a massive antisemitism problem.

Actor Susan Buckner, best known for portraying peppy cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 movie 'Grease,' died last week, The Times has confirmed. She was 72.

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday upheld the murder convictions of John Powell in the fatal 2018 shootings of three people near Dixon.

Tanques israelíes tomaron el martes el control del vital cruce fronterizo de Rafah en Gaza, mientras Israel hacía caso omiso de las advertencias urgentes de sus aliados y avanzaba hacia la ciudad del sur, incluso cuando las negociaciones de alto el fuego con Hamás seguían al filo de la navaja.

One contract worker was killed and another seriously injured after a box truck veered onto the shoulder of California State Route 71 in Chino Hills.

The judge presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former President Trump has canceled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely.

Authorities in Virginia say no one was injured when an upright dump truck slammed into a highway overpass. Bridge inspectors have deemed the structure safe despite the impact.

Dallas police are investigating Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice for allegedly hitting a photographer at a Dallas club, WFAA reported on Tuesday. 

The judges accused Columbia of becoming “ground zero for the explosion of student disruptions, anti-semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints on campuses.”

The sharp-tongued comic will sling punchlines in Syracuse on Oct. 11.

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie spoke candidly about the airline industry, likening it to a rigged game and saying U.S. consumers are "the long-term losers."  

Classified State Department records that members say “credibly suggest" COVID-19 originated from a “lab-related accident in Wuhan, China" a House subcommittee wrote in a letter

There’s a new favorite to be selected at the top of the 2025 NFL Draft.

Panera will stop selling the high-caffeine lemonade and other fruit drinks amid lawsuits claiming that people were harmed or killed.

With white jokes, black jokes, gay jokes, Jewish jokes — and jabs Jabs about CTE and Brady's failed marriage to Gisele Bündchen — the roast felt like shedding decades of political correctness.

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for NetflixTurns out Tom Brady might be a good sport after all.The future Hall of Famer was subjected to a vicious drubbing during a Netflix roast on Sunday, and only appeared to raise his hackles once—when comedian Jeff Ross cracked wise about Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner.Brady’s reaction? To get up from his seat, cross the stage, and audibly tell Ross: “Don’t say that shit again.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified about a sexual encounter she says she had with him.

U.S. stocks held relatively steady as trading on Wall Street calmed following some sharp recent swings

In a world growing accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few weeks have taken those environmental extremes to a new level.

Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plum described the offseason as "tough" in her first public remarks since news broke she and New York Giants tight end Darren Waller filed for divorce.

Myles Turner said he was looking forward to the NBA’s Last Two Minute report, but the Pacers star isn’t going to be happy with the league’s findings. 

Late in a tight game Monday, Jalen Brunson was swarmed by a pack of Indiana Pacers. When he saw that, he knew he had one job: “Get the ball to Donte.”

Republicans accuse the Biden administration for not doing enough to stop it.

Two of the three men charged in the slaying of Canadian Sikh separatist leader Singh Nijjar in June made a brief first court appearance.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.As the Israel-Hamas war continues, breathless headlines sometimes conceal more than they reveal.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic. David A. Graham: “The Stormy Daniels testimony spotlights Trump’s misogyny.” The politics of fear itself When conservative parents revolt Waiting for DetailsIn March, CNN reported that “the Israelis have ‘basically accepted’ a six-week ceasefire proposal in Gaza,” per a U.S. official. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Hamas said it had “accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal.” Each of these claims quickly spread across the internet, fueling arguments among partisans around the world and raising hopes among both Palestinians and Israelis. Of course, as anyone following the conflict in Gaza knows, the fighting has not ended. These pseudo-cease-fires are far from the only instance of such whiplash between the headlines and reality in recent months—just recall the breathless news coverage surrounding Iran’s strike on Israel and the Israeli response, both of which were cast as a prelude to regional and possibly world war before fizzling into nothing of the kind.Confused? Trying to figure out how to tell what’s true and what’s not? You’re not alone. I struggle with the challenge too. Here are four points about the cease-fire talks that guide my own reporting, and help me untangle where things stand.1. As they negotiate, both parties are attempting to shape international media coverage—and their statements should be read with this in mind. In professional sports leagues, before consequential trades or player signings, there are often a flurry of leaks to media outlets about potential contract terms or trade packages. Most of these turn out to be false. This is how Aaron Judge, the superstar captain of the New York Yankees, was momentarily reported to have signed with the San Francisco Giants in 2022. Why are so many of these reports wrong? Sometimes, they reflect genuine offers from the midst of a fluid negotiation; other times they are an attempt by one side to increase their leverage.International reporting is not sports reporting, but it is subject to similar dynamics. In the case of Israel and Hamas, both sides are selectively sharing information in order to shape press coverage, attempting to present themselves as reasonable and their opponent as recalcitrant. In some cases, this can lead to certain media outlets getting ahead of the story or being spun by those advancing an agenda. That appears to be what happened yesterday, when Hamas unilaterally announced that it had “agreed to” a cease-fire, and several outlets repeated the claim without sufficient scrutiny as to what the group had actually agreed to. As The New York Times reported, it later turned out that “Hamas did not ‘accept’ a cease-fire deal so much as make a counteroffer to the proposal on the table previously blessed by the United States and Israel.” Moreover, Hamas refused to commit to releasing only living Israeli hostages, as opposed to dead ones, in the first stage of a proposed multiphase deal. Here, as elsewhere, when confronted with a sensational headline, it pays to wait for more details before assuming the initial report provides the full picture.2. Israel and Hamas aren’t the only ones negotiating—and this makes things very complicated. Israel and Hamas did not have formal relations even before they went to war in October. As a result, they have long communicated through intermediaries. Right now, cease-fire negotiations are being conducted in Cairo with the assistance of multiple outside mediators, including the United States, Egypt (which borders both Israel and Gaza), and Qatar (which hosts the Hamas political leadership). Each of these actors is providing their own proposals and compromise suggestions, which can help the parties progress but also allow them to posture by accepting a friendlier proposal from one of the external mediators than they would get from the other side. Understanding this dynamic can help you decode the headlines: There will be a deal when the story is not “Israel accepts U.S. cease-fire proposal” or “Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari proposal” but rather “Israel and Hamas agree to mutual cease-fire proposal.”3. Several core sticking points still need to be resolved. To know whether the parties are actually close to a deal, it helps to know why they haven’t gotten to one yet. In addition to Hamas’s caginess about releasing living hostages—it has yet to provide a list of those Israelis it currently holds, and appears to want to use the live ones as bargaining chips for later stages—both parties have a fundamental disagreement about whether a deal would officially end the war. Hamas insists that it must, while Israel wants to reserve the right to return to Gaza and continue pursuing Hamas’s leadership, even after a long lull in hostilities.This split over a “permanent cease-fire” might seem largely symbolic: Israel and Hamas have been at war with each other on and off for more than a decade, and that won’t change based on what a piece of paper says. But symbolism matters. Both parties—and in particular, their political leadership—want to be able to declare victory when a deal is signed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in thrall to far-right coalition partners and dead in the polls, doesn’t want to look like he conceded to Hamas. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, desperately wants to appear to have achieved something after all the devastation that Hamas and its October 7 massacre brought upon the people of Gaza. Being able to emerge from hiding and declare that he’d outlasted the vaunted Israeli military would accomplish that.More substantively, Israelis are divided over whether the overriding goal of the current war should be destroying Hamas (in which case Israel cannot disengage until the group’s final battalions are defeated) or returning the hostages (in which case Israel could end this war now and fight Hamas another day). Israel’s leadership has so far refused to choose between these two goals, but the moment of decision seems to be arriving.4. There is no agreement, but there are negotiations and they are at a pivotal point. Yesterday, Hamas made a negotiating counteroffer, then accepted its own counteroffer. That is obviously not how a bilateral agreement works, but it is evidence that negotiations are advancing. In response, Israel announced yesterday that it would send a new delegation to Cairo to continue talks. CIA director William Burns is reportedly personally on site to help facilitate a deal. At the same time, Israel has begun an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where it says Hamas’s leadership is hiding among more than 1 million sheltering Palestinians.President Joe Biden has warned the Israelis against a full-scale operation in Rafah, which is partly why the current one is limited in scope—it began with an evacuation order for 100,000 civilians, leaving the rest in place while Israel maneuvers in a smaller geographic area. This move undoubtedly puts further pressure on Hamas, but it also hastens the moment when Israel will have to decide whether to press forward into the rest of Rafah, potentially breaking with the Biden administration. This prospect in turn increases the pressure on Israel itself to reach some sort of agreement. Although the outcome of these precipitous events is uncertain, an inflection point is fast approaching—and the time may come once again to practice patience as the incomplete headlines roll in.Related: The right-wing Israeli campaign to resettle Gaza (From 2023) What did top Israeli war officials really say about Gaza? Today’s News The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial denied his lawyers’ request for a mistrial during Stormy Daniels’s testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with the former president and a hush-money payment. TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, sued the U.S. federal government over recent legislation that mandates the sale of TikTok, claiming that the law violates the company’s First Amendment rights. Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fifth term as the president of Russia in a ceremony that the U.S. and many European nations boycotted. Evening Read Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. Enough With Saving the HoneybeesBy Ellen Cushing In 2022, at least 18 states enacted bee-related legislation. Last year, a cryptocurrency launched with the intention of raising “awareness and support for bee conservation.” If you search Etsy right now for “save the bees,” you’ll be rewarded with thousands of things to buy. Bees and Thank You, a food truck in suburban Boston, funds bee sanctuaries and gives out a packet of wildflower seeds—good for the bees!—with every grilled cheese sandwich it sells. A company in the United Kingdom offers a key ring containing a little bottle of chemicals that can purportedly “revive” an “exhausted bee” should you encounter one, “so it can continue its mission pollinating planet Earth.” All of the above is surprising for maybe a few different reasons, but here’s a good place to start: Though their numbers have fluctuated, honeybees are not in trouble. Other bees are. But the movement’s poster child, biggest star, and attention hound is not at risk of imminent extinction, and never has been. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic The conjoined twins who refused to be “fixed” “Ukraine has changed too much to compromise with Russia,” Illia Ponomarenko argues. Being an ambassador in Washington keeps getting harder. James Parker: “Some late-breaking adjustments to my new autobiography” Culture Break Max Watch (or skip). Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (out now on Max) is a new unscripted show about the comedian’s life that may lean too much into voyeurism, Hannah Giorgis writes.Read. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria, by Caroline Crampton, explores the pervasiveness of health anxiety.Play our daily crossword.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.Explore all of our newsletters here.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

Former President Donald Trump said after court Tuesday that anti-Israel agitators need to be identified and treated in the same manner as Jan. 6 protesters.

Panera is phasing out a highly caffeinated selection of lemonade beverages that's at the center of several lawsuits.