Where they’re heading There are not many steps left for the Pacers to take, and seeing as they got Miami to a Game 7 in last year’s Eastern Conference, the next logical landing spot is the NBA Finals. In order to help that cause, the Pacers aggressively bolstered their bench this summer, wiping clean some of the disappointments in the reserve unit last season and bringing in point guard C....
Nuno leads an ambitious project at Wolves, who have spent heavily in order to aid their ambition to win promotion to the Premier League this season. Everton 21/10 to beat Palace The former Porto and Valencia boss has taken his side two points clear at the top of the Championship with 35 points from 16 games. Everton’s search for a replacement for Ronald Koeman has so far been fraught with disappointment after Watford rejected their approach for Marco Silva and Sam Allardyce declared himself no longer interested in the role....
The 27-year-old who endured a difficult time under the previous manager Ronald Koeman took his goal tally to seven in 15 league appearances this season to help the Toffees to a 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace in their last game. Impressed by his performance, the former England manager has showered encomium on the forward for the showings. “I think Oumar’s position at Everton has never really been as good as it is at the moment,” Allardyce said in a pre-match conference....
Heidi Klum has returned to the design competition as host and judge alongside co-host Tim Gunn, who also acts as a mentor to the contestants. The judging panel is rounded off by Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott and actress and designer Nicole Richie. There will also be guest judges appearing throughout the season. So, which stars will be sharing their expertise with the contestants this season? Newsweek has everything you need to know about the guest judges on Making the Cut Season 3....
The Steelers wide receiver was fined $11,567 for his end-zone antics, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Brown’s celebration, during which he accidentally grabbed a security guard’s hair, came after a fourth-quarter punt return for six — the exclamation point on Pittsburgh’s 45-10 win over Indianapolis. GENTILLE: Please don’t criticize Brown | WEEK 14 PICKS: Steelers over Bengals Brown received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for the celebration. The amount of his fine matches that of Broncos linebacker Von Miller, who after Week 3 was punished for a sack dance....
In The Dropout, Mean Girls star Amanda Seyfried transforms herself into Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder who persuaded investors to pump millions of dollars into her blood testing company—and was convicted of making false claims about its technology. The eight-episode series is Hulu’s most anticipated release for the month, but the line-up includes plenty more intriguing films and shows. Among the movies are Deep Water, the long-delayed erotic thriller starring former couple Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck, and Fresh, Sebastian Stan’s second Hulu project of the year, in which he plays a man who may be a cannibal....
The Academy Award-winning actress, 32, made the comment during Vogue’s “73 Questions” video, but it’s not the first time she has spoken so frankly about the disgraced movie producer, 70. Weinstein is serving a 23-year prison sentence for multiple sex crimes and in 2018, was sued in a civil suit by six women for sexual assault, with one claiming he had “bragged” about sleeping with Lawrence after she rejected his advances....
For background: Kravitz and Bonet were married from 1987 until 1993, and together they share daughter Zoë Kravitz. Years later, in 2005, the Aquaman star met Bonet; they eventually had two kids together, and got married in 2017. “People can’t believe how tight Jason and I are, or how tight I still am with Zoë’s mom, how we all relate,” Kravitz admitted to Men’s Health. “We just do it because that’s what you do....
Queen Charlotte (portrayed by Golda Rosheuvel) is getting her own spin-off, and rightly so as the royal is certainly one of the breakout stars of Shonda Rhimes’ racy period drama. Here is everything you need to know about the show. Who Will Star in the Spin-Off? Rosheuvel will return to reprise her Bridgerton role of Queen Charlotte, with Adjoa Andoh and Ruth Gemmell also returning as Lady Danbury and Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton, respectively....
Here’s everything you need to know about the Blue Raiders. Where is Middle Tennessee State University? Middle Tennessee State University is in Murfreesboro, Tenn (population: 117,044). It’s pretty much in the dead-center of the state. MORE: No one saw that upset coming | Worst first-round choke jobs How many students go to MTSU? The undergrad enrollment is 20,262 (comparison: Michigan State has 50,085). What do non-basketball players do at MTSU?...
They may get it soon enough. Late last week bin Laden appeared to be staging his last stand. Afghan fighters, aided by Delta Force and other U.S. and British Special Forces, closed in on the Tora Bora caves, while U.S. warplanes rained down precision-guided bombs as well as a couple of massive 15,000-pound Daisy Cutters. Bin Laden may still slip out through the snowy mountain passes to Pakistan, but President George W....
Keating, who was prime minister from 1991 to 1996, told Australia’s National Press Club that China was not a “contiguous threat” to his country. He also criticized the recent AUKUS submarine deal struck by Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.—suggesting that the eight subs Australia intends to build will not be an effective form of defense. “Taiwan is not a vital Australian interest. Let me repeat that, Taiwan is not a vital Australian interest,” Keating said....
The actor, 90, is set to boldly become the oldest person in space after flying onboard Jeff Bezos’ company’s New Shepard spacecraft on Wednesday. Abrams, the former head of Blue Origin’s employee communications, said that the escapade was evidence that humans were becoming like the Ferengi—a fictional alien species that first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation and are defined by large ears, bumpy heads, and insatiable greed....
The U.S.’s top diplomat was asked during a news conference at the State Department on Tuesday about Trump’s refusal to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden whom major news outlets have called the winner. Trump and his campaign have made accusations of electoral fraud without offering proof. When asked whether his agency would engage with Biden’s transition team, Pompeo said there “will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration....
Victor Jimenez had served as lead public information officer at the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs and spoke to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday about his decision. Jimenez said he had voted for Republican Glenn Youngkin in the recent Virginia gubernatorial election in which Youngkin scored an upset victory against Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe. Carlson introduced Jimenez by showing a clip of him speaking to Telemundo in Spanish and saying: “I believe that Biden turned me into a Republican....
Chris Stirewalt previously worked as the digital politics editor at Fox News but was let go by the network in January 2021. He was fired after facing significant backlash from former President Donald Trump and his supporters because his team correctly called Arizona for now-President Joe Biden early on election night in November 2020. In an interview with CNN on Thursday evening, Stirewalt discussed text messages that several prominent Fox News hosts sent on January 6....
The statement from Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky and Diana Falzone slammed Hannity for abusing his power to try to convince O’Reilly to return to the network, despite many women being bound by NDAs and no-rehire provisions. “It is ironic that a man accused of sexual harassment over the course of many years by many different women is being courted to return to Fox News by its most prominent on-air personality, while his many victims and other survivors of sexual harassment at the same network continue to be bound by onerous confidentiality provisions that prevent them from disclosing what those harassers said or did to them,” the statement read....
Laundrie is missing and has been named a person of interest in his girlfriend Gabby Petito’s death. Petito was declared missing on September 11, 10 days after not returning from a cross-country tour of national parks with Laundrie. Ex-fugitive Seth Ferranti made the comments in an interview with NewsNation Now on Monday. Ferranti was sentenced to 25 years in 1993 for selling LSD across states, but prior to that, he faked his own death and was on the run from the police for two years....
Ex-Democratic Rep. Dave Nagle has pinned the blame for the chaotic Iowa Democratic caucus on Perez, and nicknamed the DNC chairman after the Roman governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible, The Washington Post reported. Nagle told the newspaper that the state party had been “bushwhacked by a bad system” as uncertainty still surrounded the caucus results, adding that local Democrats were “trying to clean up.”...
Duggan, a naturalized Australian, “provided military training to [People’s Republic of China] pilots” on at least three known occasions between 2010 and 2012, said the document unsealed in December by the District of Columbia court. The training was offered through a South African flight academy with a presence in China. The school hired teachers with “knowledge and experience in naval aviation meeting [NATO] standards,” the document said, with the training taking place in China, South Africa and other locations....
