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Bears QB Caleb Williams celebrates one-year anniversary with girlfriend Alina Thyregod

The Bears rookie quarterback reflected on the past year with girlfriend by sharing photos of them kissing on the sidelines, among other snapshots of the blonde beauty.
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Liam Payne was discussing marriage with girlfriend Kate Cassidy before his death
Kate Cassidy revealed that she and Liam Payne talked about getting married just weeks before his tragic death. The girlfriend of the former One Direction member shared this in a heartfelt message on her Instagram. Watch the full video to learn more about Kate and Liam’s plan to spend the rest of their lives together. ...
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Cardi B slams ‘dirty ass narcissistic’ estranged husband Offset in series of now-deleted tweets: ‘I wish the worst on this man’
"I never hated somebody soooo much and these bitches be so [thirsty] to have him please take this man off my hands," the "I Like It" rapper tweeted.
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GOP attack ads in California House races link Democrats to pedophiles
In some California races that could determine which party controls Congress next year, Republican attacks link Democrats to pedophiles.
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Justin Bieber considers suing business managers for squandering his fortune
Justin Bieber is reportedly considering taking legal action against his former business managers for mismanaging his money. Sources told TMZ that the singer has been livid for many years because he believes he lost a lot of cash because of the managers’ decisions. Watch the full video to learn more about Justin possibly taking legal...
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Florida mother files lawsuit against AI company over son's death
Megan Garcia says her son was in a monthslong virtual emotional and sexual relationship with a chatbot. Garcia claims the Character.AI bot encouraged her son to take his own life.
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Rare midcentury-modern home designed by Twin Towers architect lists for $2.89M
A rare Michigan home designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the visionary architect behind New York City’s original World Trade Center, can now be yours.
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Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US.
President Joe Biden talks about US environmental efforts on Earth Day, April 22, at Prince William Forest Park in Virginia. | Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images The United States is, by many measures, a global environmental leader — barring four years under former President Trump. It has some of the strongest environmental laws in the world, such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. The country invests billions of dollars to fight climate change and wildlife declines. And it produces much of the world’s leading environmental research. For the most part, the country prides itself on these environmental achievements. That’s what makes this so surprising: The US is the only nation in the world, other than the Vatican, that hasn’t joined the most important global treaty to conserve nature. The treaty, known as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), isn’t just some inconsequential agreement. The Convention is designed to safeguard Earth’s life support systems, its animals and ecosystems — a mission that requires global cooperation. The Convention achieved one of its most important accomplishments in 2022 when its member countries agreed on a groundbreaking new deal to halt biodiversity loss by 2030, called the Global Biodiversity Framework. The deal has 23 targets, including conserving at least 30 percent of land and oceans and reducing annual subsidies that harm ecosystems by at least $500 billion. Experts hailed it as the Paris Agreement for nature, the global treaty to combat climate change. This week and next, officials from those member countries are meeting in Cali, Colombia, at an event known as COP16 to formally review their progress. They’ll also negotiate a handful of other issues including how to manage genetic data from plants and animals that’s stored in open-access databases. A senior State Department official told Vox that the US government is sending a sizable delegation to Cali including technical experts. But while the delegation will try to influence the negotiations, it won’t have a formal say in any outcomes. So, for example, if countries come up with a plan to manage genetic data, the US won’t be able to formally object if it doesn’t agree with the terms. Experts say this is a problem. Fixing the biodiversity crisis is an enormous task, and one that requires reforming entire industries and financial flows that harm nature, such as industrial agriculture and the subsidies that uphold it. As the planet’s largest economy, the US has a lot of control over those industries. So why isn’t it at the negotiating table? President Bush refused to sign a biodiversity treaty that the US helped craft Nearly half a century ago, scientists were already warning that scores of species were at risk of going extinct — just as they are today. In fact, headlines from the time are eerily familiar: “Scientists say a million species are in danger,” read one in 1981, which is almost identical to a headline from 2019.  Those concerns ignited a series of meetings among environmental groups and UN officials, in the ’80s and early ’90s, that laid the groundwork for a treaty to protect biodiversity. US diplomats were very much involved in these discussions, said William Snape III, an environmental lawyer and an assistant dean at American University and senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group.  “It was the United States who championed the idea of a Biodiversity Treaty in the 1980s, and was influential in getting the effort off the ground in the early 1990s,” Snape wrote in the journal Sustainable Development Law & Policy in 2010.  In the summer of 1992, CBD opened for signature at a big UN conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It laid out three goals: conserve biodiversity (from genes to ecosystems), use its components in a sustainable way, and share the various benefits of genetic resources fairly. Dozens of countries signed the agreement then and there, including the UK, China, and Canada. But the US — then under President George H.W. Bush — was notably not one of them. And it largely came down to politics: It was an election year that pitted Bush against then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and a number of senators in Bush’s party opposed signing the treaty, citing a wide range of concerns. Among them was a fear that US biotech companies would have to share their intellectual property related to genetics with other countries. There were also widespread concerns that the US would be responsible for helping poorer nations — financially and otherwise — protect their natural resources and that the agreement would put more environmental regulations in place in the US. (At the time, there was already pushback among the timber industry and property rights groups on existing environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act.) Some industries also opposed signing. As environmental lawyer Robert Blomquist wrote in a 2002 article for the Golden Gate University Law Review, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and Industrial Biotechnology Association both sent letters to Bush stating that they were opposed to the US signing CBD due to concerns related to intellectual property rights. President Clinton signed the treaty but failed to find support for ratification In 1992, Clinton won the election and, in a move hailed by conservationists, signed the treaty shortly after taking office. But there was still a major hurdle to joining CBD: ratification by the Senate, which requires 67 votes. Clinton was well aware of the CBD opposition in Congress. So when he sent the treaty to the Senate for ratification in 1993, he included with it seven “understandings” that sought to dispel concerns related to IP and sovereignty. Essentially, they make it clear that, as party to the agreement, the US would not be forced to do anything, and it would retain sovereignty over its natural resources, Snape writes. Clinton also emphasized that the US already had strong environmental laws and wouldn’t need to create more of them to meet CBD’s goals. In a promising step, the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly recommended that the Senate ratify the treaty, making it seem all but certain to pass. At that point, the biotech industry had also thrown its support behind the agreement, Blomquist wrote. Nonetheless, then-GOP Sens. Jesse Helms and Bob Dole, along with many of their colleagues, blocked ratification of the convention from ever coming to a vote, Snape said, repeating the same arguments. The treaty languished on the Senate floor. And that pretty much brings us up to speed: No president has introduced the treaty for ratification since. GOP lawmakers still resist treaties — any treaties Three decades later, concerns related to American sovereignty persist, especially within the Republican Party, and keep the US out of treaties. Conservative lawmakers stand in the way of not only CBD but also several other treaties awaiting ratification by the Senate, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. “Conservative nationalists in the United States (including the Senate) have long mistrusted international agreements,” Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Vox in 2021. They view them, he added, “as efforts by the United Nations and foreign governments to impose constraints on US constitutional independence, interfere with US private sector activity, as well as create redistributionist schemes.” In other words, not a whole lot has changed. In 2021, a week after Biden was sworn into office, the Heritage Foundation, an influential right-wing think tank, published a report calling on the Senate to oppose a handful of treaties while he’s in office, “on the grounds that they threaten the sovereignty of the United States.” They include CBD, the Arms Trade Treaty, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, among others. (Environmental treaties like CBD tend to draw a stronger opposition from conservative lawmakers, who often fear environmental regulations, relative to other agreements, Snape said.) Legal experts say concerns related to sovereignty aren’t justified. The agreement spells out that countries retain jurisdiction over their own environment. Indeed, US negotiators made sure of it when helping craft the agreement in the ’90s, Patrick wrote in World Politics Review in 2021. “States have … the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies,” reads Article 3 of CBD. (Article 3 goes on to say that states are also responsible for making sure they don’t harm the environment in other countries.) “The convention poses no threat to U.S. sovereignty,” wrote Patrick, author of The Sovereignty Wars. And what about the other concerns? The agreement stipulates that any transfer of genetic technology to poorer nations must adhere to IP rights in wealthier nations, Patrick writes. Clinton’s seven understandings also affirmed that joining CBD wouldn’t weaken American IP rights and clarified that the treaty can’t force the US to contribute a certain amount of financial resources. Sign up for the Explain It to Me newsletter The newsletter is part of Vox’s Explain It to Me. Each week, we tackle a question from our audience and deliver a digestible explainer from one of our journalists. Have a question you want us to answer? Ask us here. Joining the CBD is also unlikely to require anything in the way of new domestic environmental policies, Snape and Patrick said. “The U.S. is already in compliance with the treaty’s substantive terms: It possesses a highly developed system of protected natural areas, and has policies in place to reduce biodiversity loss in environmentally sensitive areas,” Patrick wrote. Will the US ever join the CBD? The US says it embraces the objectives of the Convention — i.e., conserving and sharing the benefits of nature — and worked hard to bring about an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework. The State Department told Vox that it endorses that framework with the exception of a few of its targets related, unsurprisingly, to the private sector. Those include reducing government subsidies that harm the environment and increasing spending on foreign aid for conservation. That’s partly because decisions regarding government spending require congressional approval. US representatives can’t unilaterally agree to financial targets. This brings us, again, to what is ultimately the barrier to stronger US environmental action: Congress. Reforming industries that harm nature and funding conservation will require approval from a heavily divided Congress, as will joining the Convention on Biological Diversity. For the foreseeable future, the votes are just not there. And should former President Trump win the election next month, the prospect of joining CBD will only become more grim, Patrick said. Some of the targets under the Global Biodiversity Framework — such as the goal to conserve 30 percent of US land — are “totally anathema to any potential Trump administration,” he said. That ultimately makes it harder for the Convention, this life-sustaining treaty, to get anything done. “The world is in the throes of an ecological emergency,” Patrick said. “Given the scale of that, it’s embarrassing to have the United States be AWOL. It just undermines what is already a really heavy lift.”
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U.S., allies finalize $50 billion Ukraine loan backed by Russian assets
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and her Ukrainian counterpart held a signing ceremony Wednesday as the West moves to provide Kyiv with additional support.
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Oakland A’s shop $500M minority stake in deal that values Vegas-bound team at $2B: sources
Billionaire Oakland A's owner John Fisher is looking to cash in on the team's move to Las Vegas by selling off a minority stake that values the franchise at $2 billion -- a whopping 66% increase from its most recent valuation, The Post has learned.
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Iron Maiden pays tribute to original singer Paul Di’Anno in concert after his death: ‘An amazing voice’
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson paid his respects to his "groundbreaking" predecessor Paul Di'Anno, who was "devoted to rock ’n’ roll right up till the last minute of his life.”
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I’m a self-made millionaire at 20 — but my X-rated career has ruined by dating life
Maddi Miller is a self-made millionaire who has created the life of her dreams at the age of 20.
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David Stearns makes Mets’ Pete Alonso intentions clear ahead of free agency
Alonso, 29, hit .240 with a career-low .788 OPS in his sixth season with the Mets, hitting 34 home runs and recording 88 RBIs.
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McDonald's pulls Quarter Pounders at 1 in 5 locations due to E. coli
McDonald's said it believes onions may be to blame for the deadly E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounder.
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Kamala Harris’ campaign flip-flops on fracking — again
The Kamala Harris campaign has flip-flopped once again on fracking, with a key official admitting the vice president is not advocating its expansion. Harris’ struggles balancing her climate activism with a shift to the center on energy threaten her chances in Pennsylvania, where former President Donald Trump is pulling ahead in some polling. Fracking is...
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So far these 10 states have E. coli cases that are linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders
An outbreak of E. Coli that sickened 49 people and killed one across 10 states was first linked to the Golden Arches’ famous hamburgers on Tuesday evening.
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G-7 allies are moving ahead with a $50-billion loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian funds
U.S. to kick in $20 billion as G-7 moves forward with $50-billion loan — backed by frozen Russian funds — to help Ukraine in its fight for survival.
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Unrivaled league preparing massive offer for Caitlin Clark as they pick up pursuit
For the Unrivaled league, which will tip off in Miami in January and run throughout the WNBA’s offseason, Clark’s involvement would be nothing short of revelatory. 
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Danny Amendola, Witney Carson on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ fans recreating their viral leg lift at home — and how to avoid injuries
The dance duo exclusively spoke to Page Six about all the TikTok fans attempting the “Operation Archer” move from their contemporary routine set to “Unsteady” by X Ambassadors.
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Police identify suspect arrested in 3 attacks on DNC offices in Arizona
The suspect was also arrested for allegedly hanging suspicious bags of white power from political signs lined with razor blades.
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Attack on a Key Turkish Defense Company Leaves 4 Dead
The two attackers — a man and a woman — were also killed, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
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Accused murderer Sarah Boone says it was ‘funny’ when she zipped boyfriend in suitcase – but claims she only left him in it as feared his abuse
Sarah Boone, 47, took the stand on Tuesday.
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Did the heat shut off in your apartment? You’ll want this 360° space heater for the winter!
There's no need to call 311 when the heat suddenly turns off in your building.
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Israeli strikes pound Lebanese coastal city after residents evacuate
Israeli jets have struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre, sending large clouds of black smoke into the air.
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Dwight Howard is open to potential Lakers return after storied history with franchise
The athlete is currently competing on Season 33 of "Dancing With the Stars" but is open to hitting the court again.
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2025 WNBA Championship odds: See where Caitlin Clark, Fever rank
Oddsmakers are clearly expecting growth in Clark's second season.
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Video of Dem-aligned individual at Montana ballot box sparks 'tampering' concern from election administrator
A local election administrator expressed concerns of potential ballot box "tampering" from a Democrat-aligned individual, the Montana secretary of state tells Fox News Digital.
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Justin Timberlake, suffering from laryngitis and bronchitis, postpones six concerts
Justin Timberlake postpones six concerts on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour because he has bronchitis and laryngitis. 'I'll make it up to you,' he tells fans.
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Medicare vs. Medicaid: What's the difference?
They may sound similar, but there are some big differences between these two healthcare-related programs.
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What we know about North Korea sending troops to Russia
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed there is evidence of North Korean troops in Russia. Austin stipulated it's not yet clear what they are doing there. In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a partnership agreement. CBS News national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata breaks down what's known.
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Kamala Harris speaks out after ex-Trump chief of staff claims former prez praised Hitler: ‘Wants unchecked power’
Vice President Kamala Harris stepped out to make unexpected remarks Wednesday about former Trump chief of staff John Kelly claiming his boss previously praised Adolf Hitler.
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TNT sneaks in Kia ad during Dikembe Mutombo remembrance
It’s a tough time to pay the bills with an ad read when you’re talking about the death of NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo. TNT broadcaster Ian Eagle interrupted Stan Van Gundy while he talked about his brother Jeff’s former player in Mutombo, who passed away at the age of 58 from brain cancer in September....
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Harris accuses Trump of seeking 'unchecked power,' being 'unhinged and unstable'
Vice President Harris accused former President Trump of seeking "unchecked power" and being "unhinged and unstable" at a brief address on Wednesday.
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“Is she on drugs?” – Donald Trump hurls insults at Harris and Walz during North Carolina Rally
The former president spoke to a room of supporters at a rally in Greensboro, NC and was joined by former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
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Hundreds of thousands of migrants are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border
TAPACHULA, Mexico — This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant time bomb ready to go off just after the US presidential election. The fuse was lit in December 2023, when the Kamala Harris-Joe Biden administration sent senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a highly mysterious grand...
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Washington teen accused of murdering family banned from contacting sole-surviving sister
A judge in Seattle has banned a 15-year-old boy from seeing his sole-surviving sister after he allegedly murdered their parents and three other siblings.
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Bob Saget’s widow Kelly Rizzo thinks he wouldn’t be ‘thrilled’ with her dating
When Bob Saget unexpectedly died in 2022 following an accident in a Florida hotel, his wife of four years, Kelly Rizzo, was devastated.
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Ted Danson apologizes to ‘Cheers’ co-star Kelsey Grammer for strained relationship: ‘Missed out on the last 30 years’
"I really do apologize." — Ted Danson
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Character.AI, Google face lawsuit over teen's death
A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Character.AI and Google. In February, Megan Garcia's 14-year-old son died by suicide. She says her son was in a monthslong virtual emotional and sexual relationship with a chatbot. Garcia claims the Character.AI chatbot encouraged her son to take his own life. Character.AI called the situation tragic and said its hearts go out to the families, stressing it takes the safety of its users very seriously. A spokesperson for Google told CBS News that Google is not and was not part of the development of Character.AI. In August, the company said it entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Character.AI that allows it to access the company's machine-learning technologies, but has not used it yet.
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Mass trial shines a light on rape culture in France
A harrowing and unprecedented trial in France is exposing how pornography, chatrooms and men’s disdain for or hazy understanding of consent is fueling rape culture.
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The Vitamin Shoppe reveals secrets and supplements to support longevity
Reverse aging used to be for A-listers, but this company wants to make it for everyone.
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Welcome to the Trolligarchy
When Donald Trump and Elon Musk can turn death threats into punch lines, the joke is on the rest of us—and that’s the point.
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Yankees' Brian Cashman dismisses notion about World Series drought, says teams 'cheated us'
New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said he "hates" the notion the Yankees were in a 15-year World Series drought during a recent appearance on MLB Networks "High Heat."
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Tim Walz votes, slams Donald Trump after John Kelly's dictator warning
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz addressed reporters after casting his vote early alongside his family. Walz commented on a recent New York Times report detailing how former Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, Donald Trump's ex-chief of staff, feels about a second term for the former president.
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Catholic schoolgirls storm McDonalds, wreak mayhem dressed in Ronald McDonald costumes
A group of Australian schoolgirls have gone viral after they stormed McDonald's while dressed as Ronald McDonald, causing utter mayhem.
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Andy Dalton’s wife shares update after family’s scary car crash
Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton's wife, Jordan, said their family, including their three kids, are "a little banged up" after they were involved in a car accident on Tuesday in Charlotte.
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Whitmer defends 'this beautiful city' of Detroit after Trump blasts Michigan's urban 'mess'
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer slammed Trump over his comments about Detroit being a "failure" and a "mess" during Tuesday's rally with Barack Obama.
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N.J. Devils’ defensive struggles magnified over early stretch
Jeff O’Connor, host of the ‘Devils Insider’ podcast, joins New York Post Sports anchor Brandon London to break down New Jersey’s 8-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, whether the goalie interference call on Dawson Mercer was correct, and why the Devils’ defense has struggled recently.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox’ On Netflix, Which Details How The Sox Beat “The Curse” And The Yankees With A Comeback For The Ages
Director Colin Barnicle starts with the pain of the 2003 ALCS before launching into the '04 team that won it all.
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