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Why Mary Earps represents Manchester United’s all-or-nothing Women’s FA Cup final

There will be a first-time winner when United face Tottenham in the Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley and all eyes will be on the England goalkeeper


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Surprise grizzly bear attack prompts closure of a mountain in Grand Teton
A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, prompting closure of a mountain there Monday.
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Rudy Giuliani launches coffee brand amid bankruptcy case and legal woes: ‘Smooth, rich, chocolatey’
For $29.99, two pounds of the “finest beans imaginable” can be yours, according to Giuliani. 
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Clay Holmes’ new closer entrance aims to energize Yankees fans: ‘Feel the energy’
The Yankees are a staid organization that features a laid-back and easygoing closer. They have added some theatrics to Clay Holmes' entrance that seem to suit both the club and the pitcher.
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Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock Is Censured by Faculty Over Protest Actions
The president, Sian Leah Beilock, called in the police just hours after a pro-Palestinian encampment went up on campus. A bystander and a professor were injured.
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No joke: Chargers' Jim Harbaugh reminds Denzel Perryman of Will Ferrell
Linebacker Denzel Perryman is back with his first NFL team and likens Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh to comedian Will Ferrell because of their off-beat deliveries.
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Prosecutor in Hunter Biden case plans to call ex-wife, brother's widow as witnesses
In court papers filed ahead of a June 3 trial, the special counsel suggested they would call multiple women who had relationships with Hunter Biden to testify.
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LAURA INGRAHAM: The credibility of Michael Cohen is cooked
Fox News host Laura Ingraham reacts to Michael Cohen stealing from the Trump Organization on "The Ingraham Angle."
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Nina Dobrev hospitalized after bike accident, says ‘it’s going to be a long road of recovery ahead’
Nina Dobrev shared she was involved in bike accident recently, landing in the hospital with a brace on both her neck and on her left leg.
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NBA Conference Finals Predictions for Celtics-Pacers, Timberwolves-Mavericks
Predictions for the 2024 NBA Conference Finals matchups between the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers, and Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks.
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OpenAI Yanks AI Voice That Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson Amid Blowback
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty ImagesOpenAI is shelving an artificially intelligent voice assistant that has drawn scrutiny and criticism in recent days over its suspicious resemblance to the voice of Scarlett Johansson.“We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” the company said on Monday morning. “We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them.”In a lengthy statement, Johansson said she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” that Sky’s demo voice sounded “so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Sen. Joe Manchin tells GOP colleagues: 'When you get a chance to secure the border, take it'
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Monday encouraged his Republican colleagues to back a second attempt at passing a border bill, following failed efforts in February.
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California Assembly passes bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes
Assemblymember Matt Haney says the bill, which needs Senate approval before it heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, would level the playing field for the highly taxed and regulated legal weed industry.
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Giuliani es el último acusado en ser notificado en el caso de los compromisarios falsos de Arizona
La fiscal general de Arizona dijo que el exalcalde neoyorquino Rudy Giuliani ha sido notificado de una acusación formal en su contra en el caso de los compromisarios falsos del estado por el papel que desempeñó en el intento de anular la derrota del expresidente Donald Trump frente a Joe Biden en las elecciones de 2020.
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Former Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox arrested as part of underage sex sting operation
Austin Maddox, a 33-year-old former Boston Red Sox pitcher, was arrested on Monday as part of an underage sex sting operation that saw 26 others taken into custody.
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Francisco Lindor, Mets extend struggles in loss to Guardians
The Mets shortstop wasn’t alone in futility, but as somebody batting only .193 after his hitless performance in four at-bats his quiet performance was the most pronounced.
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Youth, 16, shot Saturday in Northwest D.C. has died, police say
Hi grandmother said she held his hand and put her head on his chest as doctors at MedStar Washington Hospital Center removed him from life support.
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Análisis: Cuando se corone al nuevo campeón de la NBA, una joven estrella capaz fue el artífice
LeBron James llegará a los 40 años en diciembre. Stephen Curry tiene 36.
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Surprise grizzly attack prompts closure of a mountain in Grand Teton
A mountain was closed in western Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park after a grizzly bear attacked and injured a man from Massachusetts; he was taken to a nearby hospital.
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What the death of Iran’s president could mean for its future
Iranians gathered to mourn the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash the previous day, at Valiasr Square, on May 20, 2024 in Tehran, Iran | Majid Saeedi/Getty Images The Iranian regime is unlikely to change course in the near term, but Ebrahim Raisi’s death could affect crucial succession plans. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash, a shocking turn of events that immediately raised questions about the Islamic Republic’s future. In the short term, Raisi’s passing is unlikely to alter the direction of Iran’s politics. But it does remove one possible successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the long term, Raisi’s unexpected death may prove more consequential. The question of Khamenei’s succession is increasingly urgent because of his advanced age. Though Iran’s president can be influential in setting policy, the Supreme Leader is the real seat of power, controlling the judiciary, foreign policy, and elections. Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian’s helicopter made a hard landing sometime on Sunday in Iran’s mountainous northwest, where weather conditions made travel difficult and dangerous. Iranian state media announced the deaths of the two politicians and six others onboard, including three crew members, on Monday after rescue teams finally reached the crash site. The deaths of both Raisi and Amirabdollahian come at a time of internal and external challenges for the Iranian regime. A harsh crackdown after the widespread protests of 2022 and significant economic problems domestically have eroded the regime’s credibility with the Iranian people. Internationally, Iran is embroiled in a bitter regional conflict with Israel as well as a protracted fight with the US over its nuclear program. In the near term, the first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, will be the acting president as the country prepares to hold elections within the next 50 days as dictated by its constitution. (The Iranian government includes vice presidencies overseeing different government agencies, similar to US Cabinet-level secretaries; the first vice president is roughly equivalent to the US vice president.) Raisi was considered a potential successor to Khamenei, having already been vetted by the ruling clerics during his 2021 presidential run and having been committed to the regime’s conservative policies. With his death, amid one of the regime’s most challenging periods, Iran’s long-term future is a little less certain. Within Iran, succession is the biggest question A hardline conservative cleric, Raisi always wore a black turban symbolizing his descent from the prophet Muhammad. His close relationship with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fueled speculation that he could succeed Khamenei. The paramilitary force exerts significant sway over internal politics and also wields influence throughout the broader region through aligned groups and proxy forces in Iraq and Syria, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza. Raisi was initially elected in 2021 with 62 percent of the vote, though turnout was only 49 percent — the lowest ever in the history of the Islamic Republic, evidence of the crisis of legitimacy in which the government increasingly finds itself. “People don’t want to legitimate the government by participating in what they consider either fraudulent or just non-representative political outcomes,” Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Walter H. Annenberg professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, told Vox. Throughout his judicial career, Raisi is alleged to be responsible for or implicated in some of the government’s most brutal repression and human rights abuses since the 1979 revolution, including serving on the so-called Death Committee, which was tasked with carrying out thousands of extrajudicial executions of political prisoners in the 1980s. During and after the Iran-Iraq war, there were a number of groups opposed to the regime, as well as supporters of the Iraqi position and even an attempt to attack Iran from Iraq. In order to preserve the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered a sweeping purge of the opposition; many of the dissidents who were arrested were chosen for execution arbitrarily. Following the disputed 2009 election — which birthed the Green Movement, the most significant threat to the regime in decades — Raisi, then a high-level member of the judiciary, called for the punishment and even execution of people involved in the movement. And as president, he helped oversee the violent backlash to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement that erupted following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Raisi’s unpopularity due to his repressive past and worsening living standards for ordinary Iranians had helped further erode the government’s legitimacy, which may affect the upcoming presidential contest. “On the one hand, bringing people to the ballot boxes is going to be difficult,” Ali Vaez, director of the Iran program at the International Crisis Group, told Vox. “On the other, I think [the Council of Guardians, which oversees elections in Iran] also don’t want, necessarily, the people to come to the ballot boxes. And they also don’t want to have an open election, because the entire focus of the leadership right now is on ideological conformity at the top, they don’t really care about legitimacy from below.” That will mean a highly manicured list of candidates in the upcoming election. Though there are possibilities for some marginal change, Negar Mortazavi, a journalist and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, said during a panel discussion Monday that there will be little room for any significant shift. “[Raisi] could potentially be replaced by someone like Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,” the current speaker of the Parliament, who is not a cleric and may be less socially conservative, Mortazavi said. “So I see a little bit of openings in the enforcement of, for example, mandatory hijab, the lifestyle policing of young Iranians. That’s the one area that we could potentially see any policy change direction or enforcement of existing laws and regulations.” But the next president, whoever it is, will likely be a caretaker and not the successor to Khamenei. That person — potentially Khamenei’s own son, Mojtaba — will be the conduit for power and policy in Iran over the coming decades. Iran’s political future will also be dictated by the IRGC, which has grown its power, visibility, and centrality in recent years. “What the [Iranian] deep state wants is a leader who’s no longer supreme, and is basically a frontman for the current office and the Revolutionary Guards to be able to preserve their vested economic and political interest in the system,” Vaez said. “There are clerics who would fit that profile — either Ayatollahs who are too old to be able to actually run their own affairs, and they certainly would not be able to run the country, or are too young and too inexperienced and lack constituency of their own.” Iran’s international precariousness, explained Raisi’s death comes as Iran is engaged in a deepening proxy war with Israel as the Jewish state fights Hamas in Gaza, particularly through Iran’s affiliated group in Lebanon, Hezbollah. Its allies in Yemen, the Houthis, have traded fire with US forces in the Red Sea, and Syrian and Iraqi militias have attacked US anti-terror installations in those countries. In April, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in retaliation for Israel’s assassination of an Iranian military official in Damascus, Syria earlier that month. It was the first time Iran had launched such an attack on Israeli territory from its own, and prompted further retaliation from Israel in the form of its own missile and drone attack. Iran’s conflict with Israel usually comes through allied non-state groups in its “axis of resistance” across the Middle East, like the militias in Syria and Iraq that attack American positions or Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which trades rocket fire with the Israeli military over the southern Lebanese border. Those international efforts are not likely to change significantly in the near future following Raisi’s death. Amirabdollahian was close to the IRGC command, the Associated Press reported Monday, and they are likely to maintain significant sway over Iran’s internal and external affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani will take over as acting foreign minister until a new government is formed. His portfolio includes negotiation over Iran’s nuclear program, which will continue to be a critical part of its foreign policy agenda. Some experts fear that any uncertainty about Iran’s internal politics, given the nuclear stakes, elevates the risk of direct conflict between Iran and the US or Israel. “Iran is already a nuclear weapons threshold state, and regional tensions are high,” Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, said in a panel discussion Monday. “We’ve seen this uptick in Iranian statements about weaponization potential. So the risk of the United States or Israel miscalculating Iran’s nuclear intentions was already quite high, and any injection of domestic political turmoil increases the risk of misinterpreting Iranian actions. I think that the risk of miscalculation will remain.” On the other hand, this period of turnover, during which the Iranian government’s priority will likely be to mitigate any risk of major change or upheaval, could present an opportunity for the international community and the Biden administration to de-escalate relations with Iran, particularly concerning its nuclear projects, Davenport said. “I think the Biden administration should be prepared to try to put a package on the table that incentivizes Iran to take some short-term steps that reduce proliferation risk,” she added. Real change in Iran will not come through a single person, but through systemic change, Kashani-Sabet told Vox. “Iran needs a new political framework; we need a new constitutional framework,” she said. “I think this is really the only way out for Iran — a constitutional framework that helps to forge a more participatory and inclusive political culture.”
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Moose Kills Alaska Man Attempting to Take Photos of Her Calves
A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of two newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother.
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Attack on police station in Colombia leaves 2 officers dead, bomb blast injures 6 others
Violence in southwestern Colombia intensified when an attack on a police station in Morales by rebel group FARC-EMC left at least 2 police officers dead, and a bomb blast in Jamundi left 6 injured.
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ESPN’s Knicks-centric pregame show left Dan Patrick ‘embarrassed’
One former "SportsCenter" host took issue with ESPN's pregame coverage of Knicks-Pacers Game 7, with one of its current voices mocking the New York-heavy showing.
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Scarlett Johansson ‘shocked’ and ‘angered’ over ChatGPT voice that sounds ‘eerily similar’ to hers — says she rejected offer to do it
Scarlett Johansson said Monday she was “shocked” and “angered” after the new ChatGPT voice created by OpenAI used a voice that is “eerily similar” to hers. Johansson blasted the tech company and revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman approached her last year about hiring her to voice the new AI voice assistant, according to NPR....
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Mother moose kills Alaska man, 70, attempting to take photos of her newborn calves
A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of two newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother, authorities said Monday.
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Video shows wild riot break out at Florida skating rink after party is canceled
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested six adults and 23 juveniles on Saturday night after a brawl broke out at a Brandon roller rink.
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Biden rejects ICC allegations against Israel: 'What's happening is not genocide'
President Biden on Monday said his administration stands with Israel after the ICC announced it will seek arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
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Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth as a state holiday this year
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Con mira puesta en Copa América, Argentina convoca a 29 para amistosos en EEUU. Dybala ausente
Con la ausencia notoria de Paulo Dybala y la confirmación de Alejandro Garnacho como variante en la ofensiva, el vigente campeón mundial y continental Argentina citó a 29 futbolistas que disputarán los amistosos ante Ecuador y Guatemala a mediados de junio en Estados Unidos, en la última prueba antes de iniciar la defensa del título en la Copa América.
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Hiker dies after falling from trail in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, officials say
Oregon officials say a hiker died after falling from a trail in the Columbia River Gorge
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Tennessee professor swept away by wave during Brazil study-abroad trip has died
A Tennessee community college says one of its professors who was swept away by an ocean wave during a study-abroad trip in Brazil has died
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Moose kills Alaska man attempting to take photos of her newborn calves
Authorities in Alaska say a moose has killed a 70-year-old man in the community of Homer
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Pennsylvania woman gets 4 to 8 years for shooting county prosecutor
Porice Diamond Mincy, 32, of Brookville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty Monday to shooting Cameron County District Attorney Paul J. Malizia in the leg last year.
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Embattled Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice participating in offseason program amid legal issues
Embattled Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is participating in the team's OTAs this week despite dealing with off-the-field issues.
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Scarlett Johansson’s Statement About Her Interactions With Sam Altman
The actress released a lengthy statement about the company and the similarity of one of its A.I. voices.
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Ortiz se siente honrado de ser nuevamente homenajeado en Nueva York; ahora por su labor filantrópica
El dominicano David Ortiz, miembro del Salón de la Fama, está comprometido con su labor post-carrera como si estuviera haciendo swing al bate durante sus días como jugador.
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Trump trial in tatters after Michael Cohen’s ‘otherworldly’ testimony
The completion of the testimony of Michael Cohen left the prosecution of Donald Trump, like its star witness, in tatters.
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Primary ballots give Montana voters a chance to re-think their local government structures
Voters in Montana will have an opportunity this year to audit the powers and structures of their county and city governments through a 'local government review' on their primary ballots.
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AMC triggers backlash for adding warning to 'Goodfellas' for stereotypes that don't match modern 'inclusion'
AMC Networks Inc' sparked backlash after adding a warning that "Goodfellas" may include stereotypes or offensive language that do not fit modern cultural standards.
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It's been one year since California launched a hate-crime hotline. Here's what's happened so far
In the year since the hotline debuted, the state has received 1,020 reports of hate crimes — including discrimination and harassment claims.
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Arpaio verdict reportedly costing taxpayers some $314 million
Legal and compliance costs in the overhaul of Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office are expected to reach $314 million by next summer.
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Florida man on the run from police for 2 months found hiding in clothes dryer: 'Tumble-ready'
A Florida fugitive on the run for two months was arrested last week after he was found hiding inside a 'remarkably small' drum of a clothes dryer.
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'Are you staring me down?': Fiery moment between judge witness in Trump trial
In a fiery moment on Monday, Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded a key witness testifying in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
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NYPD Responded Aggressively to Protests After Promises to Change
Violent responses to pro-Palestinian activists follow a sweeping agreement aimed at striking an equilibrium between preserving public safety and the rights of protesters.
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Filip Chytil making ‘positive’ Rangers strides with Game 1 vs. Panthers looming
Signs continue to look good for Filip Chytil to come back into the lineup after his triumphant return hit a snag after he played Game 3 against the Hurricanes then did not play for the rest of the series.
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Con doble de Machado, Padres remontan en el 8vo y vencen a Bravos
El doble de dos carreras de Manny Machado en el octavo inning le dio la ventaja a San Diego y los Padres revirtieron un déficit de cinco anotaciones para vencer el lunes 6-5 a los Bravos de Atlanta en el primer duelo de una doble cartelera.
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The U.S. assembles the pieces of a possible Gaza war endgame
The elements that could bring an end to the brutal conflict are all there — on paper.
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Voters Want RFK Jr. in Presidential Debate, Poll Finds
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to a pair of debates.
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Opinion: 5 Rock Solid Theories on What Went Wrong for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesSome people look at the apparent rough patch in Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s marriage and ask, “Why?” Others look at it and ask, “Why not?”Based on clues planted in Lopez’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and a knowledge of celebrity couples, it’s easy to theorize which marital stressors led to this strife. Here are five theories on what went wrong.1. The problem with ‘a love that stops time’ is that time inevitably marches on.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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