NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is not saying troubled Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is anti-semitic. In an interview Thursday with the New York Times, Silver talked briefly about his meeting with Irving this week at the NBA’s office in Manhattan. The meeting followed a series of events where Irving promoted a film that contained anti-semitic
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,595 more cases of the coronavirus since over the weekend, bringing the total number of cases to 3,501,782 as of Thursday, Nov. 10. Officials reported eight more deaths linked to the coronavirus since Wednesday for a total of 34,039 deaths since tracking began. There were 28 fewer patients
Donald Trump has described Ron DeSantis as an “average” politician, in a statement aimed at belittling the man who could rival him for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr DeSantis, 44, was re-elected as Florida governor with almost 60% of the vote, marking him out as a rising star and a possible contender for the presidency
Kwasi Kwarteng claims he told Liz Truss to “slow down” after the market crashing mini-budget was announced. The ex-chancellor, who was sacked by the then-prime minister, told TalkTV’s First Edition programme: “She said, ‘Well, I’ve only got two years’ and I said, ‘You will have two months if you carry on like this’.” Mr Kwarteng
Microsoft on Thursday attributed the recent spate of ransomware incidents targeting transportation and logistics sectors in Ukraine and Poland to a threat cluster that shares overlaps with the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group. The attacks, which were disclosed by the tech giant last month, involved a strain of previously undocumented malware called Prestige and is said
Another CMA Awards in the books. As far as awards shows go, last night’s show actually wasn’t terrible. There were surprisingly quite a few highlights, including the best performance of the night from Chris Stapleton and Patty Loveless paying tribute to their home state of Kentucky with an absolutely incredible performance of “You’ll Never Leave
The 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber for her debut YA novel The House of Rust. The novel is a coming-of-age story steeped in Swahili and Hadrami culture in which Aisha, a young girl in Mombasa, Kenya, embarks on a sea journey in an enchanted boat
As Elon Musk‘s second week running Twitter comes to a close, the social network is tilting toward outright anarchy. The most visible problem arose from Musk’s harebrained idea of selling verification badges for $8 a month — without a mechanism for confirming the user’s identity. For years, you could trust that a blue check next
Columbus Short‘s neighbor says the actor’s got it out for him so bad, he’s had to go to court to get protection … and a judge is giving it to him. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the neighbor says Columbus got in his face last weekend … allegedly referring to himself as a
A review of the Atlanta series finale, “It Was All a Dream,” coming up just as soon as I tell you how many seasons of Homeboys in Outer Space there were… The thing about Atlanta is that the series is so fluid, and so unpredictable in terms of subject and tone, that it could have
Realme 10 Pro+ specifications and design have been teased in India, revealing some of the specifications and the handset’s design ahead of its debut in the country. The smartphone will sport a 120Hz curved display. The Chinese smartphone maker also claims that the Realme 10 Pro+ will feature the world’s first 2,160Hz dimming technology to
A union representing more than 100,000 civil servants has voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), one of the largest unions in the UK, said the legal threshold for industrial action had been reached in 126 separate areas, covering workers including driving test examiners,
The Sundance Institute has announced the addition of Shripriya Mahesh, Lulu Wang and Patrick Gaspard to its Board of Trustees. The trio will now help steer and act in an advisory capacity for the organization, working closely with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente. Mahesh is the founding partner of Spero Ventures, as
Union Station Homeless Services is in desperate need for frozen turkeys due to a nationwide shortage and rising prices, which has prompted nonprofit leaders to ask for the public’s help. The organization hosts a Dinner in the Park event annually to distribute meals to adults and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, senior citizens, and those
“Trumpty Dumpty” – probably as much a political epitaph as a headline. When the New York Post put that on their front page, it wasn’t just selling papers, it was crafting the end of a career. And it wasn’t alone – searing assessments of Donald Trump and what he meant for the 2022 midterms have
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said he “could not speak or sleep” when he found out his wife had breast cancer. Susie Cleverly, 49, was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer in December 2021 after spotting dimpled skin underneath her right breast the month before – nearly a year ago to the day. At the
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of “massive phishing campaigns” that distribute five different malware targeting banking users in India. “The bank customers targeted include account subscribers of seven banks, including some of the most well-known banks located in the country and potentially affecting millions of customers,” Trend Micro said in a report published this week. Some
Alan Jackson sure had a helluva night at the CMA Awards yesterday. He was honored with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement award, which is of course undoubtedly deserved, if not overdue. And prior to his beautiful and moving acceptance speech, some of country music’s biggest names took the stage to celebrate him with a medley of
“And The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, who’s a problematic author,” spits Bruce Friedman into the microphone at the October 6 Clay County District Schools board meeting. Baldwin’s classic is among the nearly 2,000 books on a list that Friedman, president of the Florida chapter of No Left Turn in Education, claims to have
We all saw this one coming, Elon Musk: Twitter users are buying the $8 verified checkmarks for their accounts to spread misinformation. On Wednesday, after Musk rolled out the new paid function for everyone to have access to a blue checkmark, dozens of accounts were suspended for spreading misinformation and impersonating official users, athletes, and