A Philadelphia influencer known as “Meatball” avoided jail after she was arrested for live-streaming rabid looters who raided several stores across the city during protests last September. The 22-year-old influencer, whose real name is Dayjia Blackwell, was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to complete 150 hours of community service on Thursday. Blackwell was … Read more
“Disheartening,” summed up Rattlers head coach Larry Abney, whose team fell to 5-4 in the Canadian Elite Basketball League this season. Saskatchewan Rattlers guard Jalen Harris, left, dribbles the basketball against Calgary Surge during the first half of CEBL basketball action at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, Sask., on Thursday, June 20, 2024.Photo by Heywood Yu … Read more
Joseph Komrosky, shown at a 2023 school board meeting in Temecula, has lost a recall by a narrow margin. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A conservative public school board president in Temecula whose promotion of policies on race and gender thrust the district into the national battle over critical race theory in the classroom … Read more
ATLANTA — Lionel Messi’s through ball led to Julián Álvarez’s goal in the 49th minute, then he assisted on Lautaro Martínez’s goal in the 88th as Argentina began the defense of its Copa America title with a 2-0 victory over Canada on Thursday night. Argentina is seeking its third straight major title after winning the … Read more
The Liberty held a moment of silence before their game Thursday in memory of Courtney Vandersloot’s mother, Jan, who died over the weekend after a two-year battle with cancer. Vandersloot, who didn’t play in the Liberty’s 93-80 win against the Sparks at Barclays Center, has missed the last six games due to personal reasons. She … Read more
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Lilly King was already having a week to remember. Then, an unexpected moment of joy happened on Thursday night. King, 27, already won the 100-meter breaststroke earlier in the week at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis to qualify for the 2024 Paris Summer Games before finishing second behind Kate … Read more
Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised $85 million toward the president’s 2024 re-election effort last month, according to a report — a figure well short of former President Donald Trump’s massive May fundraising haul. The 81-year-old incumbent’s May totals mark the second-best month of fundraising for his campaign and allied groups, the Biden … Read more
An abandoned US veteran who died alone in a Maine nursing home was given a proper goodbye Thursday by hundreds of kind-hearted strangers. Former Marine Gery Brooks’ burial at the Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery in Augusta was marked by a 21-gun salute, a pilot who performed a flyover, a motorcycle escort and full honors thanks … Read more
Ben Affleck continues to wear his “resting bitch face” proudly. The 51-year-old actor was photographed on a coffee run in Los Angeles Thursday while fully dressed with his RBF after he defended it on the Season 4 premiere of Kevin Hart’s talk show, “Hart to Heart,” which premiered that day. “I’m also a little bit … Read more
A general view of an Al Jazeera building in Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2024. REUTERS Considering how much attention the American media get, it’s amazing that one piece of actual, unbelievable subversion keeps going on. That is the Al Jazeera network — founded, funded and directed by the terrorist-supporting state of Qatar. Last month, The … Read more
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