[ad_1] Last week, I decided I was going to buy a new iPad. There’s nothing wrong with the sixth-gen iPad I currently have, except it’s heavier than I’d like. All I want to do is watch my silly dramas in bed and for it to hurt less when I whack myself in the forehead while drifting off to sleep. It’d …
Read More »Gaga Slonina: Young GK’s road from Chicago to Chelsea, USMNT
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill.—It’s a story that’s been shared in snippets or fragments over the past year or so, but it’s worth highlighting here because of what it might become. If (or when) Gabriel Slonina is the next iconic American goalkeeper—if he achieves his ambition and becomes the very best in the world—then what happened on I-290 in August 2021 is going …
Read More »Birmingham City 2-0 Queens Park Rangers: Blues shock Michael Beale’s high-flying Hoops
QPR keeper Seny Dieng was left helpless by Blues defender Auston Trusty’s opportunist fourth-minute flicked opener Resurgent Birmingham City claimed their biggest scalp of the season as John Eustace’s side battled their way to victory over high-flying Queens Park Rangers. QPR, second in the Championship and needing to win to go back on top, were done no favours by two …
Read More »San Francisco PD chief: ‘Intuition’ of 911 dispatcher who took Pelosi call led to ‘higher priority’ response
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said a “higher priority dispatch” was sent to the residence of Paul Pelosi because of the 911 operator’s “intuition” that there was “something more to the incident than what she was being told.” Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked at their San Francisco residence early Friday morning after 2 …
Read More »Angered, mourning Iranian activists launch billboard campaign in NYC’s Times Square seeking Big Tech’s help
It’s been more than 40 days since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was beaten to death in the custody of Iran’s brutal morality police for not wearing the mandatory Muslim headscarf. At least 250 people have been killed in the unrest since Amini’s death, including 27 children, according to Javaid Rehman, a United Nations representative on Human Rights in Iran. The United …
Read More »California state senator says he remembers Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker from 2013 nudist protests
California state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, said that he remembers Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker from nudist protests in 2013 relating to the implementation of a San Francisco ban on public nudity. David DePape, 42, is accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in their San Francisco home early on Friday morning. San Francisco Police …
Read More »‘Take a breath, Tim’: Candidates for Minnesota governor hold final, insult-filled debate as polls tighten
The candidates for Minnesota governor clashed in a heated, third and final debate before Election Day that was loaded with insults. Democratic incumbent Gov. Tim Walz has held a healthy lead over Dr. Scott Jensen, the GOP nominee, throughout the race. However, polls have tightened in recent weeks with RealClearPolitics’ average of political polls reporting Walz is up just 2.5 …
Read More »FORE: Clip of Tiger Woods mistakenly included in campaign ad advocating for the death penalty
Republican Kris Kobach, the party’s nominee for Kansas attorney general, released a campaign ad Thursday advocating the use of capital punishment for “cop killers” and “mass murderers,” but mistakenly included a clip of pro-golfer Tiger Woods’ 2017 DUI arrest in the ad’s footage. The ad, titled, “Just Intentional,” slammed Kobach’s opponent, Democrat Chris Mann, over what it said was his …
Read More »Qatar ditches World Cup COVID test requirement
World Cup host Qatar has scrapped a requirement for visitors to obtain a negative COVID-19 test before departing for the Gulf Arab state, its health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Previously, Qatar had told fans attending the World Cup they must show proof of a negative COVID-19 test regardless of their vaccination status, before departing by air or …
Read More »Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman praised Krasner for eliminating cash bail in 2018
Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz highlighted an April 2018 video showing his opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, endorsing policies to eliminate cash bail and refusing to prosecute marijuana crimes. Fetterman called such policies “commonsense” while talking about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in 2018. “I really have been enjoying watching Larry Krasner, your new district attorney, take some commonsense …
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