The NBA has banned Jontay Porter for life after a league investigation found the player had violated several league rules on gambling. In an official statement, the NBA said Porter — most recently contracted to the Toronto Raptors — had passed “confidential information” to sports bettors, limited his own participation …
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What are American guns doing in Mexico? This question first came to me nearly a decade ago while working as an EMT treating wounded migrants who were risking their lives trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. I wanted to understand what role high-powered weapons, easily bought in the U.S., played …
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Jerrod Carmichael expressed some regrets over his recent criticism of Dave Chappelle — not his actual disappointment with the comedian for leaning heavily on jokes about trans people, but that he aired those grievances to the press. On The Breakfast Club Tuesday, Carmichael sported a bit of a grin as …
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After nearly a year of allegedly ducking service of a lawsuit claiming child sexual abuse in his organization, Scientology leader David Miscavige sent his lawyer to a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday to seek disqualification of the judge on the matter using a peremptory challenge — a special right that doesn’t …
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Caitlin Clark, the star shooting guard from the University of Iowa who has helped usher in aboom in NCAA women’s basketball and passed Pete Maravich as the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, was selected as the top pick in the in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever on Monday. Clark …
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V ICTOR MONTALVO DRIVES the most yellow vehicle in Los Angeles County, a 1987 Mitsubishi SUV he just purchased off of Craigslist. He pulls through the security gate at a sprawling Santa Monica office compound, parks, and removes a gold chain and ring he bought in India last year. The …
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As anticipated by industry observers, Tesla on Monday announced that it was was laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce, shedding around 14,000 jobs worldwide. CEO Elon Musk announced the cuts in a memo to the entire company, writing that they “will enable us to be lean, innovative, …
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Malcolm LaVergne, a longtime lawyer for O.J. Simpson and the executor of his estate, clarified his stance on Sunday about whether the Goldman family would receive money from the late former football player’s estate. On Friday, LaVergne had said that the family of Ron Goldman — Simpson was acquitted of …
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The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the container ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, causing it to collapse and killing six members of a roadwork crew. As The Washington Post reports, numerous federal agents were seen boarding the cargo ship Dali …
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M y recent trip to Montgomery, Alabama, wasn’t my first visit. I had previously explored the city and the sites associated with Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in 2019, in what turned out to be a pivotal moment — after Donald Trump’s ascent to power, but before the Covid-19 …
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