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The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized
A World Cup on North American soil ended with the most thoroughly imported, overseas-style final match possible. The foreign tourists who tried to smuggle ranch dressing through TSA; the Norwegians who scarfed down Texas brisket while doing the Viking row at Dallas barbecue joints; the garish, out-of-place halftime show in a New Jersey football stadium—all…
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Superweapon against Trump handed to Dems with arrest of MAGA influencers: analysis
With the arrest of two far-right influencers over the weekend, Democrats may have been handed a superweapon to wield against President Donald Trump, according to an analysis published Monday in Zeteo. On Saturday, far-right influencer Andrew Tate was arrested in Florida along with his brother, Tristan Tate, on a sealed warrant that was later revealed…
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Yemen’s Houthis declare naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, widening threat to global oil supplies
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf. Iran had pressed the Houthis to close the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea if the US continued to attack Iranian power infrastructure. In…
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Ariana Grande and on-again boyfriend Ricky Alvarez’s romance heats up as he supports singer at NYC concert
Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez are continuing to flaunt their on-again romance. The dancer was spotted in the audience at Grande’s New York City concert over the weekend as part of her “Eternal Sunshine” tour. In a viral TikTok video, a fellow attendee filmed Alvarez, 35, holding up his phone light while swaying to “Imperfect…
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The Subject Too Big for Fiction
Is there any subject that fiction cannot address? From its beginnings as a form, the novel has dealt with love and hate, war and peace, courage and cowardice, boredom and catastrophe. Yet there is far more in heaven and earth than any human can convey. In the view of the writer Amitav Ghosh, one subject…
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Trump faces ‘nightmare scenario’ as enemy launches new oil blockade
The consequences of President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran took a dire turn Monday after the Houthis, a Yemeni political and military organization, announced a new maritime blockade on the U.S. ally Saudi Arabia — a move that could put “at risk the flow of millions of barrels” of oil, according to Bloomberg.…
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Reflecting Pool vandalism case faces dismissal as prosecutor’s evidence ‘missing’
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s felony case against a three-time Olympian faces dismissal after her own prosecutor showed defense attorneys the alleged crime scene — where the evidence no longer exists. David Hearn, the 67-year-old Olympian, was indicted July 2 on a single felony count of destruction of property — accused of pulling up two square…
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GOP has ‘moved on’ as Trump’s own party ignores ‘mess’ of a speech: report
Donald Trump’s much-hyped prime-time address to the nation , centering on his 2020 election loss last week, fell flat with his own party’s lawmakers who are pretending it never happened, according to a report. Despite White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s breathless promises that the speech would be “shocking,” the address generated minimal enthusiasm beyond…
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WABC-TV’s ‘Eyewitness News’ accounces major shakeup in its roster of reporters
A longtime fixture of New York City television news has quietly signed off. Lauren Glassberg, the Emmy Award-winning WABC-TV reporter whose “Neighborhood Eats” segments and feature reporting made her one of the most familiar faces on “Eyewitness News,” has left the station after 26 years. The departure was first spotted by industry newsletter FTVLive. Glassberg…
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Why Craig Melvin is absent from ‘Today’ show after intruder debacle
Craig Melvin is off “Today” all week for “a little family vacation” following Thursday’s terrifying security breach. Savannah Guthrie explained the reason for Melvin’s absence at the start of Monday’s broadcast while sitting beside Sheinelle Jones, who filled in for Melvin. “We’ve got Sheinelle in for Craig, who’s getting a little family vacation,” Guthrie, 54, told…