Remember, this was a time of irrational exhuberance. The dotcom revolution was in full swing. A company that sold dog food over the Web was valued at $100 million. Three letters of the alphabet, I.P.O., turned normally sensible people into sheep. Six months after leaving Time Warner, Brill announced his new magazine would be called Content. Then whoops–the first stumbling block. It turned it out that another magazine was already being published by that name....
The blog Tire Meets Road reported on the incident, which began with the airing of a remote broadcast on Sunday, the last day of the show. In the clip, Cardenas, with his shirt untucked and tie loosened, starts off outside the show among cars belonging to the Sacramento Classic Thunderbird Club, a group of locals who dote on their immaculately restored Fords. As he’s describing the scene, Cardenas hops up onto the trunk of one of the cars, stretching out and asking the anchor in the studio “tell me what you think about this pose, Tina?...
When the last helicopters swung away from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon in 1975, I was just 8 years old. I don’t remember grisly images from the evening news or anti-war protests or rising body counts. But growing up in the wake of the baby boomers–a generation that seemed to define itself by the conflict–I could never quite escape the war’s aftereffects. Still, my impressions were shaped secondhand, more “Platoon” and “China Beach” than Walter Cronkite....
The journalist who works for TNT Sports claims that the Premier League club has made its first move for the Argentine forward. He reports that the bid is worth €63 million. In case you didn’t know… Chelsea have two other strikers out on loan: Michy Batshyai and Tammy Abraham. The two youngsters have been doing well at Borussia Dortmund and Swansea City respectively but things don’t look good for them....
Ed Woodward and the board has backed the manager so far, but it’s believed that they have now run out of patience with the Portuguese and cannot give him any more chances to prove himself worthy of being a Manchester United manager. In case you didn’t know Mourinho came to Manchester United in 2016 after previously being sacked at Chelsea in 2015, the season after he won the Premier League title with the Blues....
Federico Bernadeschi has fallen out of favor at Juventus since his move from Fiorentina in 2017. The Italian enjoyed a fruitful first season at Juventus but is struggling to make an impact at the club due to the heavy competition for places. The 26-year-old has managed to score just 10 goals and assist 15 others in 112 appearances for Juventus, a meager return for a winger playing in one of the biggest clubs in Europe....
The Sacramento Bee reported that Johnson told reporters late Tuesday he decided not to seek another term “after much thought and soul-searching.” MORE: Politics and sports | Patriotism, politics and sports “I leave knowing that the city is headed in the right direction and is ready to embrace the exciting changes ahead,” Johnson told the Bee in an e-mail. “And I leave knowing that my relationship with and work on behalf of the city is far from over....
The reports suggest that Manchester United hierarchy is deliberating on the option of securing the services of Brighton goalkeeper Mat Ryan. De Gea is yet to renew his contract with the Premier League giants and Juventus are closely keeping an eye on this situation unfolding in Old Trafford. In case you didn’t know… David De Gea has been an ever-reliable starter for the Red Devils and hence has been named as their player of the year for the unprecedented fourth time during May....
De Boer, 50, will oversee the Oranje’s challenge at Euro 2021 and the World Cup the following year. It is reported that Frank de Boer will be presented to the media either later this week or early next week. It is also being reported that the KNVB will evaluate his performance after Euro 2021 to decide if he should continue as the head coach for the World Cup in 2022....
It is also widely reported that despite the Manchester United hierarchy wanting to tie down De Gea to a long-term deal, the player is in no rush to sign a new contract. Being their best player, De Gea is probably looking for better personal terms and willing to bide his time until a better offer comes his way. In case you didn’t know… There have always been rumors circulating regarding De Gea’s future at Manchester United since the last few transfer windows....
According to Tuttosport in Italy, Milinkovic-Savic fits the profile outlined by Real President Florentino Perez of ’the best players in the world’ and that the Serbian would fill a growing ‘hole’ in midfield. Tuttosport also claims that Madrid has eyes for Juve’s Miralem Pjanic in a similar capacity. In case you didn’t know… Real Madrid’s midfield strength and dominance have been depleted with the departure of Kovacic on loan to Chelsea this season....
On Monday state police shared information with the public about the thefts, along with guidance on how to minimize the risk of stolen mail. In a press release shared with Newsweek Tuesday morning, state police noted that individuals have removed “checks, cash and other valuable documents” from the Postal Service’s blue mailboxes. In light of the recent thefts, police outlined a set of recommendations urging people to exercise caution when dispatching important items through the post....
Tlaib and Carson both spoke at the event amid the escalating conflict pitting the Israeli military against Hamas and other militant groups. At least 35 Palestinians, including 10 children, have died following Israeli airstrikes, while hundreds of rockets targeting Israel have killed at least three people. The conflict was ignited days after clashes between Israelis and Palestinians began in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. “Today, I was honored to join @RepRashida and a diverse crowd of people at the State Department to demand justice for Palestinians,” Carson tweeted after taking part in the protest....
All 25 GOP members of the Ohio state Senate were recently sent “envelopes full of feces,” according to a Thursday report from The Columbus Dispatch. The origin of the unwelcome deliveries, which the Republicans received on Thursday morning, is being investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Ohio Senate Republican Caucus spokesman John Fortney told the newspaper that the still-unknown party that sent the envelopes were “pathetic, little cowards,” while suggesting that he would like to engage in a physical confrontation with those responsible....
“President Trump, in the district I’m from, he’s very strong. In Pennsylvania, he’s very strong,” Kelly told reporters on a Tuesday conference call. Kelly argued that pollsters are excluding first-time voters in their “likely voter” models. He used the 2016 polls to exemplify how polls fail to take into account supporters who are voting for the first time. The polls in the last presidential election showed Trump falling behind Hillary Clinton in key battleground states, but the president went onto win unexpectedly in the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania....
The much-anticipated debate between Biden and Trump in Cleveland, Ohio quickly descended into a chaos on Tuesday evening. Both candidates repeatedly talked over each other during the hostile event, causing moderator Chris Wallace to urge them to “please stop interrupting.” After Biden questioned Trump’s intelligence, the president launched a series of off-hand insults, including comments about the former vice president’s son. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah told reporters the hour and a half long affair was an “embarrassment,” while Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska called the debate a “shitshow....
But whatever disagreements presently exist within the fold when it comes to foreign policy, most Republican voters are on the same page when it comes to their view of how the party should confront the Left’s destructive cultural agenda. At a time when the militant Left seeks to let biological men run roughshod over the very notion of femininity and to indoctrinate the younger generation in the civilizational arson that is critical race theory, Republican voters want their party to dive headfirst into the so-called culture war issues....
Inflation is an invisible tax on poor people, and the percentage of Black Americans in poverty is practically double their percentage of the total population. According to the U.S. Census, in 2019 Black Americans represented 23.8 percent of the population living in poverty, while accounting for only 13.2 percent of the population overall. And because inflation hurts the poor most of all, it is disproportionately hurting Black and Latino families, as a report by Bank of America released in November of last year found: Black, Hispanic, and Latino households spent 7....
The footage, shared on TikTok in November by the dog’s current owner, under the username Torimarkle, shows a sequence of pictures and clips of the golden retriever with his new mom, who spoils him and gives him all the love he needs. Heartworm disease, or dirofilariasis, is a serious and potentially fatal disease, caused by a blood-borne parasite known as Dirofilaria immitis. According to VCA Animal Hospitals, a U.S. network of hometown hospitals, adult heartworms are found in the heart, pulmonary artery, and adjacent large blood vessels of infected dogs, and rarely in other parts of the circulatory system....
The last four of the boys and the team’s 25-year-old coach were rescued Tuesday from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks. “We have been informed by the Football Association of Thailand that due to medical reasons, the boys will not be in a position to travel to Moscow for the FIFA World Cup final,” the sport’s governing body said Tuesday after the rescue operation was completed....
