Appearing on comedian Ziwe Fumudoh’s show, the Democrat was quizzed about his taste in music. Yang, 46, replied that he “listened a lot” to hip hop during the 1990s and 2000s, and named New Yorker Jay-Z among his favorite artists. Asked to name his favorite song by the man who produced hits such as “99 Problems,” “Can I Get A…” and “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” he hesitated at first but then launched into a rap....
No nonsense allowed? Murray needed 87 minutes to complete his 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 victory. That should leave him fresh for Saturday’s match against Italia’s Andreas Seppi. MORE: Action at Wimbledon | Canada’s Pospisil joins Raonic in Round 3 Murray reaches the third round in fine fettle. “I felt there were things I could do better in the first round but today I did things much better, he told BBC Sports....
His coach is now trying to test that theory. Andy Reid appeared in one of State Farm’s most recent ads as he, too, vied for the personal price plan. In the new ad, Reid confesses to drawing fake mustaches on players while they’re asleep. He’s then shocked to learn that the personal price plan is for everyone, and has to throw his marker away as Mahomes comes out with a drawn-on mustache of his own....
On Monday it was reported that Rose bet on baseball as a player, something he has denied for a long time. The news was all over the baseball community so, naturally, Scioscia was asked about it. PETE ROSE: If ban lifted, what next? | Classic Pete Rose photos “We’ve survived PEDs. This game will never survive gambling,” he said. “Will never … if there’s an allusion that anybody in this game is making bets on performance, whether it’s pro or con, baseball will just unravel....
On one team, arguably the best player in baseball is in the same lineup as a heralded rookie phenom whose skillset has been commonly compared to Babe freakin’ Ruth. On the other, two home run machines — one that’s homegrown, and the other who was acquired in the offseason — in the most famous uniform in baseball. BENDER: Mike Trout much more than home-run leader for AL West-contending Angels...
While strolling across the Chabot College campus with their mother and one sibling, the ducklings fell through a grate and into a storm drain, where they languished until Hayward Animal Control Officer Susan Perez devised a plan to rescue them. Hint: it involved YouTube. The ducklings’ plight came to the attention of the authorities when a passerby noticed that the “mama duck was quacking loudly” and apparently notified the college’s maintenance and operations department, according to a Facebook post by the Hayward Police Department....
The 29-year-old scored a hat trick in the final period to lead Chicago to the victory, with all three of his goals coming at key times for the Blackhawks. With the teams deadlocked at 1-1 after 40 minutes of play, Anisimov scored the first goal of the third period to break the stalemate. At 1:07 of the period, Anisimov knocked a Patrick Kane pass into the net to give the Blackhawks the lead for the first time in Monday contest....
“The poor bear was euthanized for no reason. (Except that we don’t have a wall on our border),” Coulter tweeted on Tuesday afternoon, alongside a link to a New York Post report, published in February, titled “Man eaten by bear after meth overdose.” Park officials encountered a bear in Great Smoky National Park that was feeding on the remains of 30-year-old William Lee Hill Jr.’s body in an area off a trail last September, according to the Post....
He added that the likelihood of the Republican-controlled senate impeaching the president seems relatively low, and the process is just dividing the country. While he admitted he’d been approached to join the Republican party, he said he’d be staying a Democrat. “I’m staying in the party, in spite of some of the stuff that’s going on that I don’t agree with, I am not going to switch parties at this stage of my career, " said Peterson to KVRR....
This guy was no Eliot Ness. He wasn’t even Leslie Nielsen. He was strictly Mr. Magoo. I had not thought of him at all for years until I read the book of FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich. I don’t know what book by Aldrich practically everyone else has been reading with all their earnest journalistic wondering about the authenticity of this story and that. Because of the sloppy, undisciplined way it’s written the whole thing is suspect to me, even some of the scandalous parts I might well believe if they weren’t being presented in this incorrigibly flawed way....
It would seem like the 49ers would want to keep the venerable veteran, given they have a mostly unproven mix behind top wideout Torrey Smith. But it’s clear Chip Kelly thinks he’s OK operating his offense without Boldin. Despite being 35 and turning 36 in October, Boldin still has a lot left to offer as the best free agent in the league left this offseason. He’s coming off catching 69 passes for 789 yards and four TDs....
Now that we’ve fully established that undeniable fact, take a look at his latest absurd performance. On Sunday night against the Nuggets, the Pelicans star almost posted a quadruple-double — 36 points, 14 rebounds, seven assists and nine blocks. MORE: Comparing Davis and KG | Latest mock draft | Rockets edge Clips in Griffin’s return That’s right. Davis was one block and three assists away from being the fifth player ever to pull off a quadruple-double in an NBA game....
Davis, a Black man, became famous for coaxing members of the Ku Klux Klan away from their racist beliefs through patient dialogue, collecting along the way the robes of dozens of KKK members who renounced their beliefs due, in part, to his intervention. He has converted Grand Wizards and stood up to racist attacks. But in his latest Reddit Ask Me Anything—a form of Q&A, in which people can submit and vote for questions they’d most like to see answered—Davis emphasized that the problem of white supremacy extends far beyond the KKK....
But while Feucht and other Christian media outlets such as the Christian Broadcasting Network claimed that 35,000 to 40,000 people attended the event, local news reporters with WUSA9 estimated the largely maskless crowd only to be in the “hundreds.” The event, which went from 4 to 8 p.m. local time, featured Feucht and other musicians as well as on-site prayers and baptisms. Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley also made an appearance on stage to pray for then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett....
Video posted to social media showed a man being dragged out of Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles in Anaheim by security guards while a woman can be heard shouting “brutality.” “Let go of him,” another person can be heard yelling. Officers responded to the scene following reports that someone had been pepper sprayed, but no one was injured or arrested in the protest, KCAL-TV, a Los Angeles television news station, reported....
Steve Lynch was a Republican candidate who unsuccessfully ran to become the executive of Northampton County. In the November 2 election, he lost by more than 7,700 votes to the incumbent, Democrat Lamont McClure. Since the election, Lynch and his supporters have been “haunting” the Northampton County Courthouse in an attempt to monitor the official processing of the ballots, according to The Morning Call. At the courthouse, a bipartisan team tallies each vote and corrects errors for the tally’s final certification....
Co-founder of The Lincoln Project, George Conway, has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Conway is also the husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. “The problem with Donald Trump is he always sees himself first,” Conway said on MSNBC in November. “Trump is all about Trump.” Other members of The Lincoln Project include Republican strategists Jennifer Horn, John Weaver and media consultant Rick Wilson, author of the book Everything Trump Touches Dies....
Republican Voters Against Trump released the advert titled “Country First” on YouTube on Thursday morning, and have picked up a little more than 10,000 views at the time of writing. The campaign spot is largely made up of snippets from McCain’s 2008 Republican National Convention speech contrasted with remarks from President Donald Trump both in office and on the campaign trail. “A word to Senator Obama and his supporters,” McCain says in the advert’s opening clip “Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us....
