John Brooks has secured a late upgrade, with the U.S. men’s national team center back pivoting from an apparent agreement with Mallorca to a deal with Portuguese power Benfica. Brooks, who has been out of contract since his time at Wolfsburg ended in June, had reportedly agreed to a deal with Mallorca that would have seen him join the Spanish …
Read More »Biden says ‘MAGA Republicans’ threaten democracy as he and Dems crank up anti-Trump rhetoric ahead of midterms
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Biden Thursday aimed to frame the state of U.S. politics as a battle between “equality and democracy” and a GOP allegedly assaulting those principles in a campaign-style speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The president’s address continues a recent pattern of increasingly aggressive and divisive broadsides against his political opponents. Biden …
Read More »The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands
The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile’s engineering and network operations teams are experiencing waves of layoffs, which have included managers and executives, on top of thousands of jobs eliminated by restructuring after the company merged with Sprint in 2020. T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was “all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the new T-Mobile will be …
Read More »Giants release Blake Martinez: Veteran LB was working his way back from serious knee injury
Getty Two days after making their initial 53-man roster, inside linebacker Blake Martinez was released by the New York Giants. In a corresponding move, the Giants acquired veteran offensive lineman Tyre Phillips off waivers from the Baltimore Ravens. A team captain in 2021, Martinez tore his ACL during the Giants’ third game of the season. The Giants reworked his contract …
Read More »White House blames Trump for COVID school closures despite teachers unions, Dems fighting to keep them shut
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House on Thursday appeared to blame former President Trump and Republicans for a decline in children’s reading and math scores during the COVID-19 pandemic. The comments came during Thursday’s White House briefing. A reporter cited statistics from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showing that 9-year-olds in the U.S. had …
Read More »Mexican cartels expanding production of fentanyl at rapid rates, experts say
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mexican drug cartels are rapidly expanding fentanyl production, pushing more of the deadly drug into the United States and profiting markedly from an easily produced, highly addictive substance. “Even seeing just one lab in Mexico pressing pills was something unique that we were seeing. And this was only a few years ago,” …
Read More »White House shrugs off question on Biden’s recent ‘semi-fascist’ rhetoric: ‘We understand we hit a nerve’
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre was repeatedly asked Thursday to answer for President Biden likening former President Trump’s “extreme MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.” Asked Thursday whether the Biden administration was concerned it may be stoking the divisiveness that the president was ostensibly trying to heal, Jean-Pierre said Biden “is never going to …
Read More »Federal judge declines to quash Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Georgia election probe subpoena
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Atlanta refused to quash a subpoena issued to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to appear before a grand jury in relation to a probe into the 2020 election by Fulton County prosecutors. In a filing on Thursday, Judge Leigh Martin May declined to quash Graham’s subpoena fully, but put …
Read More »‘Lord of the Rings’ fans rip ‘cheesy’ promo video
Fans of Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” had a laugh on Twitter when a goofy promotional video for the new series was confused for the series’ opening sequence. “Apparently this is the intro for the new LOTR show… this is what $750 million buys you,” a Twitter user wrote alongside the clip on Wednesday, mocking …
Read More »California gun control law stays unenforceable after Democrat lawmakers fail key vote
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic lawmakers in California failed to replace an existing gun control bill that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional Thursday, leaving the state’s concealed carry regulations unenforceable. The legislation failed to pass the California Assembly by a single vote early Thursday morning. California Attorney General Rob Bonta lamented that Californians currently have …
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