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White House meetings on college sports’ money mess to give athletes key role for first time starting this week
President Trump’s plans to reform the business of college sports are ramping up this week – and college athletes are slated to join the talks for the first time, On The Money has learned. Sources with firsthand knowledge of the matter say 30 collegiate athletes from various sports will be part of the ongoing discussions…
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Kim Kardashian’s next career move is taking her to Broadway
There’s no business like show business. Kim Kardashian will serve as one of the producers of “The Fear of 13,” a play starring actors Tessa Thompson and Adrien Brody that gives an honest look at the wrongful conviction of Nick Yarris. “For the past decade, criminal justice reform has been a deeply personal mission of mine,”…
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In a new monument for South-Central, Lauren Halsey cements her loved ones as landmarks
Someone said heaven is on the corner of 76th and Western. It’s nearly 90 degrees on a Saturday in South-Central and “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles” is gleaming and activated. Thousands of people fill the streets that surround it in lit, ecstatic union. Parliament-Funkadelic…
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‘One of the greats!’ Trump praises Epstein-linked lawyer for impeachment expungement idea
President Donald Trump lavished praise Tuesday on Alan Dershowitz – a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein and lawyer who helped secure Epstein’s unprecedentedly lenient plea deal in 2008 for child abuse – after Dershowitz floated a plan to help Trump expunge his 2019 impeachment. “Alan, one of the greats, should do it!” Trump wrote on…
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The Atlantic’s May Cover: Caity Weaver Finds the Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
“Here is the promise you and I must cling to across the thousands of words that follow: At some point within this text, I will reveal to you what—after 555 responses, 13,000 miles of travel, and months of monomaniacal research—I have determined to be the best free restaurant bread in America. I will not attempt…
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Trump’s personnel agency is asking for federal workers’ medical records
The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they…
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Trump comments on FEMA official’s supernatural claim: ‘I know nothing about teleporting’
President Donald Trump responded to a request for comment on supernatural experiences claimed by a high-ranking official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gregg Phillips, the third-ranking official at FEMA, has been quietly sidelined from key operations following public reports that he claims to have teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Georgia, and…
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The Eighth Deadly Sin
Sometimes, staring brainlessly into my laptop in the trough of a weekday afternoon, experiencing myself as a kind of online shadow, a thing of fidgets, a half-being hollowed out by roaming spectral appetites—for destruction, for gratification, for the email that never comes—it occurs to me to ask: Now, which of the seven deadly sins is…
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Mexico’s new top diplomat: A gay millennial with deep knowledge of the U.S.
MEXICO CITY — The junior Mexican diplomat, part of an official delegation to Washington, was caught in an undiplomatic moment: munching on peanuts piled on a napkin as he sat with political heavyweights including Mexican Cabinet secretaries and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The 2019 image of the peanut-chomping envoy quickly went viral, begetting a biting social-media hashtag:…
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What trainers actually think about the 12-3-30 workout
When it comes to exercise, so many people — beginners; die-hard enthusiasts; reluctant participants; and everyone in between — are searching for holy grails: workouts that involve the least amount of time and effort and offer maximum results. We live in the most scientifically advanced age of fitness. Exercise is a multibillion-dollar industry, and a…