After this weekend there will be just 16 teams left in the running to hoist the prestigious trophy on May 14 in London’s Wembley Stadium. Fans are always eager to see a Cinderella run, but the last time a club from outside the top division won the competition was West Ham in the 1979-80 competition, and the last time a team from a lower division made the final was Cardiff City in 2007-08....
Booker grabbed a rebound with 1:59 left in the third period and fired a 3-point shot seven seconds later that did not connect. That was the Suns’ last chance as they went on to lose badly, and it pretty much was Booker’s final meaningful activity in the game, save for how much significance one invests in his walking toward the bench 70 seconds after that last shot attempt and remaining there as the final accounting was transacted on Bucks 120, Suns 100....
The founder and former boss of WPP—one of the world’s largest advertising groups—told The Guardian he considers social networks to be publishers as well as tech firms, and they have a responsibility to police what users upload. The advertising titan spoke out after companies including Unilever, Coca-Cola, Disney, Adidas and Starbucks cut Facebook ad-spend in conjunction with the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, which accused the site of failing to combat hate content....
Both defensemen were injured in Thursday’s opener of the Pittsburgh Penguins-New York Rangers series. MORE: Friday’s games | Thursday | Action images | Video | Saturday odds Saturday’s Game 2 will start about 8 ET. TV: NBC in the U.S., CBC and French-language TVA Sports in Canada. Girardi gets attention from a trainer. Getty Images Girardi was hit in the face with the puck and didn’t return to the game....
After “Sex and the City’s” finale this Sunday, it’ll be our turn to reach for the Kleenex, and not just because a trailblazing sitcom is saying goodbye. Given Hollywood’s lousy track record with actresses in their 40s, we might not see much more of Cattrall, despite her multiple Emmy nominations. Just ask her. “It’s no real mystery that women of a certain age tend not to exist in Hollywood,” says Cattrall, who’s 48....
Television star Dog the Bounty Hunter, real name Duane Chapman, has joined officials in looking for the 23-year-old in Florida, focusing his own search near Fort De Soto Park. The Claim A Twitter user shared a photo on the social network on September 29, purportedly showing a plane in the air with a banner reading: “Aloha Brian Laundrie - Dog.” The user claims that Chapman hired the plane to fly the message over Florida....
The episode reveals the media scrutiny Spears faced after her rise to stardom. It also sheds light on Spears’ struggles with her conservatorship legal status. Journalist Diane Sawyer has received online backlash after the episode showed clips of her 2003 ABC primetime interview with Spears that, at one point, moved Spears to tears. The Claim Television producer and writer Bryan Behar tweeted: “Diane Sawyer asked Britney Spears what she did to cause Justin pain, then told her the Governor of Maryland’s wife wanted to shoot her, implying it’s Britney’s fault because she’s a bad role model to kids,” in a tweet that has received almost 5,000 likes and more than 700 retweets....
COVID-19, the disease caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, is an infectious respiratory illness that spread rapidly across the world in early 2020 as part of a pandemic that caused much of the world to go into lockdown. “The results of our study show that this virus is 99.9 percent an artificially created copy of a natural virus”, Valentin Bruttel, a scientist from the University Hospital of Würzburg and author of the paper, told EuroNews Weekly....
While making an appearance this week with John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Biden has been noticeably absent from the side of other party candidates, some of whom are fighting on the tightest of margins. So it was with some surprise that when confronted by a reporter this week the president quickly remonstrated his reported absences. The Claim A clip of Joe Biden, posted on Twitter on October 21, 2022, shows the president telling a reporter that he had 15 Democratic candidates campaigning with him....
The claim The video gained traction after it was shared by Rob Smith, a Senior Contributor at conservative group Turning Points USA. The 10 second clip shows Biden saying, “They’re saying, ‘Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf’.” The Twitter account that originally tweeted the video was suspended but it had been viewed more than 2 million times by then, according to Smith....
The explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait damaged an important supply route for Russia’s forces. While Ukrainian officials celebrated, the explosion they have not claimed responsibility. Russian security services have initially suspected “sabotage,” but stopped short of assigning blame. As the dust settled—and before Putin’s Monday address in which he claimed, without offering evidence, that Ukraine was behind it—footage began to circulating online, which some claimed showed the moment of a missile strike....
The Claim Republicans are pinning the current period of high inflation on federal spending under President Joe Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress. “When it comes to spending, spending trillions is what is driving inflation,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently told Newsmax, per a clip of the interview he tweeted on July 29. “We’re seeing an inflation bomb growing across our economy. Americans across the economy are seeing the price of food go up, are seeing the price of gasoline go up, are seeing lumber go up, are seeing houses go up....
Artificial intelligence, edge computing and exploratory space missions have helped us, in recent years, understand the history of the earth’s place in our galaxy, in ways unimaginable to our ascendants. And like any good scientist, even with such advances in our path, we ought to always consider the possibilities of what we don’t know yet. The Claim A post on Reddit claimed that the Hoba was the biggest meteorite in the world....
Five Memphis Police Department officers—Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith— were fired and charged with Nichols’ murder. They also face charges of aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression. One other officer, Preston Hemphill, who was also disciplined in connection to the incident, was rumored among social media users to have lost his job too. The Claim Multiple tweets, posted on January 31, 2023, claimed that Memphis Police Department officer Preston Hemphill has been fired since the death of Tyre Nichols....
Joe Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama and current Democratic presidential nominee, would be one of just a few presidents who attended a state university if he is elected next month. During a campaign rally in Ohio Monday, Biden—recounting information he remembered circulating after his nomination—suggested he would be “the first non-Ivy League school graduate” to assume office in 80 or 90 years. Zach Parkinson, deputy director of communications for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, relayed Biden’s quote on Twitter Monday and said the statement was false....
We’ve given his statements little attention until now. But here we look at some of his more outlandish claims: * Paul claims that a secret conspiracy composed of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and a cabal of foreign companies is behind plans to build a NAFTA Superhighway as the first step toward creating a North American Union. But the NAFTA Superhighway that Paul describes is a myth, and the groups supposedly behind the plans are neither secret nor nefarious....
Dani Alves set up Gonzalo Higuain’s first-leg double before doing likewise for Mario Mandzukic at Juventus Stadium on Tuesday and blasting in to put the Italian champions four goals to the good by half-time in the return fixture. Why did Barca let Alves go? Kylian Mbappe became the youngest scorer in Champions League semi-final history with a strike after the break in Turin, but it was too little too late....
Just three years ago, the Falcons at this point in the season were 4-1 and on their way to Super Bowl 51. Now they are buried in the NFC South behind the Saints (4-1), Panthers (3-2) and Buccaneers (2-3) before even playing a division game. The Falcons have gone from good complementary football with quarterback Matt Ryan playing at an MVP level to a debacle of a team with no running game or defense, putting everything on Ryan to save the day....
Atlanta was expecting 2018 first-round pick Calvin Ridley to return and reprise his role as the team’s No. 1 receiver. He had missed all but five games in 2021 after stepping away from the Falcons to focus on his mental health and well-being, but seemed ready to return in 2022. However, Ridley was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after an investigation revealed that he had bet on NFL games during a five-day span in November of 2021....
If you enjoy all varieties of wine as much as I do, then you’ve likely had a sip of Pinot Noir and Cabernet on even the hottest of days during the summer. Nothing, however, brings out the beauty of the colorful changing of leaves or the crispy cool weather conditions quite like red wine. Not to mention the many at-home chefs who will finally break out the crock pots and Dutch ovens to cook up hearty stews and soul-warming soups, which are even more fulfilling when paired with a glass of full-bodied vino....
