The Briton, who is aiming to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of seven world titles this year, won the Styrian Grand Prix last week after a five-second penalty demoted him to fourth in the opening race in Austria earlier this month. The omens are good for Hamilton, who has won in Hungary in the past two seasons and has triumphed a record seven times at the Hungaroring, three more than any other driver....
It will be the second time new Toffees boss Sam Allardyce leads the club into their most important game, with the Reds also set to host Everton in the Premier League this month. That tie is not the only grudge match that came out of the hat as Premier League and Championship teams entered the national competition, with Crystal Palace set to visit Brighton and Middlesbrough facing Sunderland. Arsenal face a trip to second-tier club Nottingham Forest, while Forest’s Midlands rivals Derby County also landed a plum draw away to Manchester United....
Fabregas has been linked with an exit from Stamford Bridge in recent months, with Nemanja Matic and N’Golo Kante Antonio Conte’s favoured midfield pair in a 3-4-3 formation. The Spain international was picked ahead of Matic at the Stadium of Light and made his mark with a sweet finish after 40 minutes, securing Chelsea’s 10th successive Premier League win that sent them six points clear at the summit. Cesc sees Chelsea past Sunderland...
Nash scored a season-high 19 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-98 Friday night. PHOTOS: Steve Nash through the years Wesley Johnson and Chris Kaman each scored 17 and six Lakers finished with double-digit points. Nash, the oldest player in the NBA, played like the guy who was a two-time NBA MVP a decade ago. He had five assists, four rebounds and shot 8 for 15 in just his eighth game of the season....
A customer named Kelly Wagner told local news station WPLG that she had spotted the masks at a Shell station located at 6201 Powerline Road. A reporter for the station traveled to the gas station and purchased one of the masks, noting that it was the only one there. Wagner said that she had asked the woman behind the counter at the gas station if Shell was “actually selling swastika face masks....
If you deactivated the option to allow guests to invite friends when you created the event, you can re-enable. Just edit the event and toggle the “Guests Can Invite Friends” switch to the On position. Although it’s possible for you (and other guests) to share your private event on your news feed or in a group, people who haven’t been invited will not be able to click or tap the link to find information about the event....
Bolsonaro said during the live video that people in the U.K. who had received two COVID-19 vaccination doses were developing AIDS faster than unvaccinated individuals. The video was removed on Sunday night, three days after it was posted. “Our policies don’t allow claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill or seriously harm people,” Facebook’s press office said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press. Facebook did not respond to questions from AP regarding why it took three days to remove Bolsonaro’s content....
The Republican lawmaker was kicked off Twitter for 12 hours after she repeated her criticism of coronavirus vaccines. The suspension came after an appeal by President Joe Biden and the Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, for tech companies to clamp down against bogus vaccine claims—calls which were met with a strongly-worded rebuttal by Facebook. But despite the dispute between the White House and Facebook, Greene said she believed there was a link to her predicament and the White House push to curb misinformation....
Lloyd Austin, 67, will need a waiver to existing law that requires the Pentagon leader to have at least a seven-year cooling off period from military service—a long-standing tradition that’s meant to ensure civilian control of the military and guarantee that the Pentagon chief is loyal to the nation’s interests and not the military’s like in authoritarian regimes. Austin, who would make history as the nation’s first Black secretary of defense, retired from the military four years ago....
An upcoming original Netflix documentary takes a look at the last remaining Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, and the demise of the home video rental company. The Claim Netflix’s preview of “The Last Blockbuster,” poised for a March 15 release, drew excitement online as users noted the irony of Blockbuster’s former nemesis dropping a documentary about the company. Some users offered an alleged piece of corporate history, saying that Blockbuster turned down an opportunity to purchase Netflix for $50 million....
The Claim Questions were raised over the poll being sponsored by Jack Posobiec, a conservative commentator who has been highly critical of Biden. A tweet with more than 1,500 likes at time of writing said: “Today’s biased Rasmussen poll was sponsored by none other than Jack Posobiec, and brought to you by the letters G O and P.” Another, with more than 2,800 likes, said: “This Rasmussen Poll is sponsored by Jack Posobiec and yall take this s*** seriously?...
First approved for use in the late 1980s, ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is most commonly prescribed to fight against parasites like worms, lice, and scabies. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the drug became popular among anti-vaccine circles as an alternative treatment for the virus, gaining support from people like Joe Rogan, despite no definitive scientific evidence that it was safe and effective. Due to the drug’s surging demand, some began to purchase the ivermectin variant formulated for horses, leading to critics accusing proponents of using “horse dewormer” to treat COVID....
DeSantis told Fox News that the two planes sent to Martha’s Vineyard are part of his program to send “illegal migrants” to progressive states, in protest of Biden administration’s liberal immigration policies, which the Florida governor—along with other Republican leaders—insists, are incentivizing migrant crossings over the U.S.-Mexico border. This tactic, practiced by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey since April and May, is not only highly controversial, but also, it turns out, quite expensive....
“The blessing of homosexual unions cannot be considered licit,” the statement said, in part. Shortly after the news, Grammy award-winning and self-proclaimed “flamboyant superstar” Elton John took to Twitter to point out what he called the hypocrisy of the Vatican’s decree. The Claim “How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they ‘are sin’, yet happily make a profit from investing millions in ‘Rocketman’ - a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David?...
The Claim Videos and images of the explosions and ensuing fire were shared extensively on Twitter and Telegram, alongside claims that it was caused by a rare counteroffensive strike by Ukrainian forces with an OTR-21 Tochka, or “Tochka-U,” a Soviet-made tactical ballistic missile. “Ukraine carried out a precision strike with the Tochka-U missile on an ammunition warehouse in the village of Oktyabrskoe, near Belgorod, Russia. Russia supplies its artillery attacking Ukraine with rockets and missiles stored at the facility,” Yury Butusov, a Ukrainian journalist, wrote on Tuesday night on his Facebook page....
Any indictment of Trump will likely be delayed—if it even happens at all—but it remains a real prospect for the man leading the polls for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. However, in a recent show of support, one of his former advisors has come out to claim the documents at Mar-a-Lago were Trump’s to keep. The Claim In an episode of the America First podcast with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the former Trump advisor said the ex-president still had the same security clearances as he did while still in office....
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and family faced criticism over their trip to Cancun amid the power failure in the state. Now some people have turned their attention toward Cruz’s wife, Heidi. The Claim Heidi Cruz, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Some people on Twitter made the connection between Goldman Sachs and a merger agreement involving TXU Corp., the former parent company of Texas electricity provider TXU Energy....
THE CLAIM: “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to raise taxes,” Pence said. “They want to bury our economy under a $2 trillion Green New Deal, which you were one of the original co-sponsors of in the United States Senate. They want to abolish fossil fuels and ban fracking which would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs all across the heartland.” THE FACTS: Biden denied that he would ban fracking during a July interview....
With certain states pushing for more stringent laws and restrictive access to abortion in the wake of SCOTUS’ Roe v. Wade ruling, that conversation is getting ever more heated, with critics suggesting some changes could put lives at risk. Embedded in this debate is a claim that has been circulating for around a decade and has again resurfaced, suggesting that “fetal tissue” is, in fact, being used in commercial food production....
His seeming desire to adapt to roadblocks, including established facts, has been a cornerstone of his public persona. So, after Trump announced he would file a lawsuit against the Department of Justice over the recent FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, rumors began to circulate that he would even represent himself in court. The Claim Multiple tweets, published on 22 August 2022, which have received tens of thousands of engagements, claim that (according to registered court filings attached to some of the posts) Donald Trump would be representing himself against the United States government....
