Vote counting has begun in southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho following a day when thousands of citizens in urban and rural areas voted to elect the country’s 120 legislators. Soon after the polls closed, electoral officials were seen verifying voters’ rolls at various polling stations. The Independent Electoral Commission will announce the official results, which some expect will …
Read More »David Beckham and son Romeo now have matching dye jobs
David Beckham and Rome cemented their father-son status with matching dye jobs. The football legend,47, appeared to be taking inspiration from his son Romeo, 20, as he showcased his freshly bleached platinum blond hair on Friday. It comes as it’s revealed that Romeo is reportedly training with Premier League club Brentford’s B team, as he seemingly looks to advance his …
Read More »Kanye West calls out Kim Kardashian for being ‘overly sexualized’
Kim Kardashian is too sexy for Kanye West. In the hip-hop mogul’s wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Thursday night, West criticized the advertising for his ex-wife’s SKIMS shapewear line for being “overly sexualized.” “I had a lot of issues with the imagery or SKIMS,” said West, 45. “I felt like there’s a lot of imagery that was …
Read More »Google remembered the phone part of the smartphone
Watching Google officially announce the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro yesterday, I was struck by how much of its presentation focused on the most fundamental of smartphone features: the phone call. Smartphones may have become miniature handheld computers, capable of doing everything from office work to filming movies, but Google refuses to forget about the phone part of its …
Read More »Megan Rapinoe discusses NWSL report ahead of USWNT’s Wembley friendly
LONDON — Megan Rapinoe was in a remarkably light mood for such a dark week in women’s soccer. Unfortunately, she said, the sport and its players are used to weeks like these. The first week of October was supposed to be a pure celebration of women’s soccer: the U.S. vs. England, the reigning World Cup champion against the newly crowned …
Read More »Kylian Mbappe beats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to top Forbes rich list
Kylian Mbappe has scored 182 goals in 228 games for Paris St-Germain Kylian Mbappe has topped the Forbes list for highest-earning footballers – the first time someone other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo has been number one for nine years. Mbappe’s PSG team-mate Messi is second on $120m (£108m) and Manchester United forward Ronaldo third on $100m (£90m). Neymar …
Read More »Mexican cartels using social media to recruit smugglers amid historic border surge
Mexican criminal cartels are increasingly using social media to recruit people in the U.S. to help with their smuggling operations at the southern border, just as the U.S. is facing a historic migrant surge – with the apprehension of a tractor-trailer packed with dozens of migrants marking the latest instance of such recruitment methods. Transnational criminal organizations coordinate operations at …
Read More »NYC Mayor Adams declares state of emergency after 17,000 migrants spark shelter ‘crisis’
New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday in response to the continued arrival of illegal migrants from southern states. More than 17,000 migrants have been bussed to the city since the spring, a small fraction of the migrant encounters at the border over that timeframe. Adams said that 1 in five of people in the …
Read More »Dem candidate paid blogger who amplified remarks using the n-word to describe Obama to promote campaign
A blogger who shared racist remarks about former President Barack Obama was paid by Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez’s campaign for “advertising services” on two separate occasions. In November 2014, Juan Montoya, who operates the El Rrun Rrun blog, amplified the insensitive comments that were penned by Jerry McHale, another blogger who was revealed in July to have made numerous racist …
Read More »Nobel Peace Prize awarded to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is going to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the award’s judges said Friday. Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the judges wanted to honor “three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbor countries Belarus, …
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