Swift announced on Thursday that her her ninth studio album, evermore, is going to drop at midnight on Friday, and one unlucky fan was caught without Internet when the news broke. The fan in question, named Matteo (Twitter handle: @matteopng), jokingly predicted that Swift would surprise release a second album in 2020, just before he signed off of Twitter on Tuesday to embark on a “middle of nowhere” road trip....
title: “Another World” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-29” author: “Michael Marks” Apart from the difficulty of getting there and the relief that comes with success, what makes this desert so exciting? What makes it so exciting that scientists see it through tears of joy, so exciting that NASA’s Web servers strain to send the pictures to eager viewers around the world? What makes it so exciting that U.S. President George W....
Davis tied his career-high of 43 points but it wasn’t enough to keep the Pelicans from losing to the Hawks 121-115, dropping their fifth straight game to start the season. MORE: Biggest disappointments of the NBA season so far The All-Star forward came in to the game shooting below 40 percent on the season but hit 14 of 23 field goal attempts and 14 of 16 free throw attempts in the loss....
They’re about to do the same with his second prime year. MORE: Eight players with the most to prove in 2016-17 Davis was expected to take a step forward last season after his huge 2014-15. New coach Alvin Gentry planned to take some pressure off Davis defensively, and to move him more to the high post offensively to take advantage of his versatility. If it worked, Davis seemed a good bet to join the ranks of MVP candidates....
He’s proud of the job that this season’s Kentucky team has done, too, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to concede defeat to the currently undefeated Wildcats.MORE: Kentucky’s season of supremacy in photos | Calipari named a Hall of Fame finalist When Davis was asked Saturday at All-Star Weekend festivities who would win between this season’s Kentucky team and his 2011-12 squad, the former national player of the year’s answer was fairly simple....
“We just don’t play hard all the time,” Davis said, via The New Orleans Times-Picayune . “That starts with our first unit coming out and setting the pace and setting the tone for the rest of the game and setting the tone for the guys that sub in especially after halftime. That’s kind of been our thing this year. It starts with the first unit, and it starts with me....
The Lakers and Celtics have emerged as front-runners to land Davis, but New Orleans would rather send Davis to the Celtics, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst explained earlier this week on “The Jump.” Windhorst’s comments came after it was reported the Lakers have “made progress towards completing a multiteam deal” for Davis and Los Angeles has discussed using its No. 4 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft as an asset. Per NJ....
Fauci made the comments in an interview hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was asked how long people will need to keep up behaviors that prevent the spread of the coronavirus, such as wearing masks. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said it depends on how many people have a COVID vaccine. The current front runners for roll-out in the U....
Scientists in the U.K. say early evidence suggests the new strain—dubbed the “B.1.1.7 lineage” or “VUI–202012/01—is better at infecting people, but does not appear to be more deadly. Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the new strain on PBS NewsHour Monday. “We have to make that assumption [that it has arrived in the U.S.]” said Fauci....
Joshua expected to have his long-awaited showdown with WBC champion Tyson Fury to determine an undisputed champion. However, an arbitrator ruled in favor of Deontay Wilder to get his third fight with Fury before Joshua could. Instead of waiting to see the outcome, Joshua decided to step into the ring with a dangerous opponent in the form of WBO No. 1 contender Usyk. The undefeated Usyk (18-0, 13 KOs) is a highly decorated champion that captured Olympic gold in 2012, turned pro a year later and became the fourth male boxer in history to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF titles....
Zach Munro, a former student at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, New Jersey, claimed Thursday that Superintendent Scot Beckerman believes “all lives matter.” The administrator allegedly made the remark in response to Munro and other alumni urging him to discuss “political movements like Black Lives Matter and anti-Asian hate” with teachers. But the superintendent dismissed the request for such a “safe space” in a phone call with Munro, prompting some current and former students to say the entire district has “normalized racism....
Ali Nazari, the spokesperson for the National Resistance Front forces now besieged by the Taliban in Panjshir valley, said his group is the last hope for the West to take on transnational militant groups looking to once again use the Taliban-held country to attack targets abroad. “Afghanistan is going to become a hotbed for international terrorism,” Nazary told Newsweek. “The last allies that the United States and the Western world have on the ground that are willing to fight international terrorism — and we are fighting international terrorism right now, all alone, for which we feel abandoned — is the National Resistance....
When he finally faced reporters, in a quick one-minute interview, he expressed gratitude for an opportunity to play with the Patriots. He avoided going into detail about the recent sexual assault allegations and his availability for the team’s Week 3 contest against the Jets. “I’m just super grateful to be here, thankful for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady,” Brown said. “I’ve got a lot of offense to learn and catch up but I’m excited and grateful to be here....
The mercurial wide receiver is seeking to recover approximately $30 million in guaranteed money he says he’s owed by the Raiders, but that effort took a hit during the grievance’s discovery process, ESPN reported Sunday. The Raiders submitted multiple text messages from Brown to team owner Mark Davis, asking for his release, according to ESPN, which cited unidentified sources. The Raiders, who acquired Brown in trade from the Steelers in March, obliged him on Sept....
Blinken said Sunday that such an attack “would invoke U.S. mutual defense commitments,” referring to a 1951 treaty with the Philippines that obliges both nations to come to the other’s defense in the instance of an attack. The statement came on the anniversary of a 2016 international tribunal ruling in support of the Philippines that rejects China’s maritime territorial claims outside of its internationally recognized waters. “Nowhere is the rules-based maritime order under greater threat than in the South China Sea,” Blinken said in the statement....
Lee and Ocasio-Cortez wrote in the letter that the refugee cap for 2022 should be set at “no less than 200,000.” This would be an increase of nearly 140,000 from the cap of 62,500 set by Biden for 2021. It would also be many thousands more than the 125,000 the president has previously said he wants to raise it to in 2022. “As the people of Afghanistan face an unfolding tragedy, the United States must open its doors to refugees fleeing the devastating consequences of a 20-year U....
Ocasio-Cortez offered a list of remarks while responding to a tweet from Bloomberg reporter Erik Wasson, who quoted Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) saying that “people who are making six figure incomes and who have not been impact by Covid-19 do not need checks” during debate over the bill from the House floor. “1st of all, aid starts phasing out at $75k,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, correctly noting that the legislation does not offer checks for individuals who are making “six figure incomes” as Schrader claimed....
The Democratic New York representative was speaking on The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock TV on Sunday night. Cuomo, 63, who has been governor of New York for more than a decade, has been under pressure for allegations of sexual assault, bullying, and the Democratic Party is scrutinizing him for allegedly hiding the true number of COVID-related deaths in state care homes. Over the weekend, a second former aide of Cuomo’s came forward with accusations that he sexually harassed her....
The freshman congresswoman tweeted that the president exhibited “mom, yell at my teacher” energy by posting a complaint about his impeachment on Thursday, following a House vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial of the commander-in-chief. Ocasio-Cortez voted in favor of both articles of impeachment in December, when President Trump became only the third commander-in-chief in American history to be impeached. She was also among the 228 House Reps....
Ocasio-Cortez was responding to an article published by Politico suggesting that Republican lawmakers are privately horrified at Trump’s constant electoral agitation, spreading baseless conspiracy theories about voter fraud and demanding an unprecedented early end to ballot counting. MSNBC anchor Katy Tur shared the article, adding: “Republicans publicly silent, privately disgusted by Trump’s election threats.” Ocasio-Cortez responded to the tweet, writing: “Publicly complicit*”. The president has been laying the groundwork to challenge the election result for months, mostly by claiming that mail-in ballots—of which there are a record number due to fears of the spread of coronavirus pandemic at in-person polling stations—are untrustworthy and invalidate the election....
