Millions of women across America may be asking themselves the same thing. And not just about the Sexy Slav. After his U.S. relay team won the semifinal on Friday, Jon Drummond ripped off his shirt and flexed for the crowd, leading Bob Costas to wonder if the runner had confused the Olympics with a Mr. America contest. And NBC cameras couldn’t get enough of the little tattoo suggestively located just above swimmer Tom Dolan’s Speedo line....
With perhaps too much chutzpah, I shouted, ““The issue, Mr. President, is not affirmative action but racial preferences.” I didn’t have the microphone in my hand at the moment, but the president heard me and wheeled around. ““Abigail,” he asked, "” do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell? Yes or no?” This is not a question that can be answered with a yes or a no, and the discussion of race requires thoughtfulness, not theater....
No-one in Ligue 1 knows that better than Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe, who was given the fright of his life by the tricksters at his club. Many members of the PSG squad were pranked by the social media team, who conned them into believing that they were filming a promotion to wish their fans Happy Halloween. Midway through their interviews, all the lights in the room would cut out, leaving the players in pitch darkness....
Dallas hosted Vegas for its inaugural regular-season game Friday at American Airlines Arena, but hockey has taken a distant backseat for the NHL’s expansion franchise after a man opened fire on a country music festival crowd outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort along the Strip, indiscriminately killing 58 and injuring hundreds more. MORE: Bryan Bickell suits up one last time for Blackhawks As part of the ceremony to honor the victims, the Stars, who generally stand opposite their opponent before each game, skated en masse to form ranks behind the Knights on the other side of center ice....
It comes as the latest in a string of mysterious structures that are being recorded around the world, prompting widespread conspiracy theories. The golden monolith appeared near Chia in the Colombian department of Cundinamarca, on Saturday morning, according to media reports in the country. The sighting has not been confirmed, but footage and pictures on social media appear to show the golden pointed structure standing in an open area....
In the clip, shared on TikTok last Wednesday by the dog’s owner, under the username jimbopupperino, the young golden retriever can be seen stomping his paws in the snow, wearing his thermal boots that delighted viewers across the platform. The viral post comes with a caption that reads: “Me explaining to my puppy what will happen when we post his little boots on the internet, pawpular.” According to AKC Pet Insurance, in some situations, shoes can be beneficial for dogs, providing extra comfort and support, while in others, they’re unnecessary and can even be harmful....
In the TikTok video, which has been viewed 2.6 million times, the golden retriever can be seen bringing a frisbee to her puppies, clearly expecting them to be as in to it as she is. User Eloise Smith who posted the video can be heard saying, “I don’t think they want to play Mila, they’re just not quite big enough yet,” while the caption explains, “Mila trying to play with her f4 day old puppies....
He said the New York investment bank’s clients want to participate in the Bitcoin market, but current regulations are unclear. “We continue to think about digital currency and the digitization of money in a very proactive way,” Solomon told CNBC. “And in that context, we are engaged with our clients and we look at all this though through the centricity of ‘what do our clients need?’” Major U.S. financial institutions now offer clients exchange-traded funds that track the price of Bitcoin....
Now Lalas has that and more–a place in soccer history. When he took the field for Padua, a small, pretty city 25 miles west of Venice, he became the first American ever to play in Italy’s elite league, considered the best in the world. It is a remarkable step for Lalas, who prior to this summer’s World Cup was thought to have a better future as a rock guitarist than as a fullback....
But Olivia Joules is someone else–someone Bridget might envy from afar. She’s an ambitious freelance journalist whose wild imagination sees intrigue everywhere, and she’s confident about her smarts and her looks. Writing a story on “Cool Miami” for the Style section of the Sunday Times of London, Olivia sees a chance to become the foreign correspondent of her own dreams. She decides that the cosmetics tycoon with the French name, whom she’s met at a South Beach party to launch a new face cream, could be Osama bin Laden with a makeover....
Speaking at the rally, Conner said it was a “sad day” for the United States when the president promotes a national boycott of an American company and American workers. He noted that Trump railed against the company before confirming the information he had was factual and that his attack “scares the hell” out of Conner. “And it ought to scare the hell out of every working man and woman in this country,” Conner said....
Julie Samuels, the Executive Director of Tech:NYC, a non-profit organization that developed COVID Alert NY, tells Verywell that this technology is meant to complement traditional contact tracing, which relies on officials to track and trace people who have had exposure to someone with COVID-19. “This app is a tool that will help contact tracers increase the availability of contact tracing in the population; it will not replace traditional contact tracing," she says....
The employees have reportedly posted internal messages and images deriding Google’s removal of the app while blasting the company for capitulating to Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, Google was threatened with criminal prosecution of individual employees and legal demands by Russian regulators to remove the app. The same person, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue, told the Associated Press that Russian police visited Google’s Moscow offices last week to enforce a court order blocking the app....
GOP candidate Kathy Barnette, has filed one of several lawsuits in the state after Donald Trump made baseless claims that the election was a “major fraud on the nation.” The president and his team have continued to argue that the mail-in ballots have left the election open to fraud, without putting any evidence forward. As more and more absentee ballots are counted, Joe Biden has pulled forward in the race....
Owens told The Salt Lake Tribune that he believes President Donald Trump actually won the November election, stating, “There’s no question in my mind that I think he won.” “I think it’s the right thing to do,” Owens said of Republican attempts to oppose the electoral vote. “Seventy-plus percent of conservatives say that this [election] is not fair. We the people should have this opportunity to have this conversation versus [just] people with black robes....
The Republican governor said that there will be “a number of alternatives” for the 2024 presidential election. When asked whether he could potentially be one of those alternatives, Hutchinson responded “absolutely.” “I am looking at it very seriously….I am encouraged that a governor who has actually solved problems, who has a conservative commonsense approach can draw support and can be a good alternative so I am encouraged by it, [and] probably looking at January for a decision point,” he said during an interview on CNN This Morning....
“Attention! Consumer protection alert!” the ad begins, police sirens blaring through its one-minute length. “Beware of a new scam from Donald Trump targeting 2020 voters requesting money to be used for an Official Election Defense Fund.” “Do not be fooled,” the ad continues. “Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. The election has been certified by all 50 states. Over 50 Trump lawsuits and counting have been thrown out....
“Even though it’s been a Republican all my life,” several voters, from Pennsylvania to Michigan to Arizona, say in the roughly 30-second video, “I can’t support Trump and his response to the coronavirus is exactly why.” The ad, which is on social media and will run Tuesday online and on Fox & Friends in the Washington, D.C., area, comes from Republicans for the Rule of Law, an organization that supported President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office....
“That’s a pretty wild idea,” Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leadership member, told Newsweek. “Our country has to have confidence in the electoral process,” added Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). “It does not sound to me like that would add any credibility to our electoral process.” The longshot approach would be ultimately symbolic and fail to change the results, given Congress’ political makeup. Still, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) plans to lead a group of conservatives in the House to formally contest the Electoral College’s certification of Joe Biden’s win on January 6....
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump a second time after he incited a violent insurrection targeting the U.S. Capitol on January 6, as Congress met to certify the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden. Although most Republicans declined to back the impeachment, 10 GOP lawmakers voted with their Democratic colleagues while many more condemned the president’s actions. Now the Republican Party appears fractured, as some lawmakers continue to push conspiracy theories that the election was stolen....
