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HOUSTON, TEXAS – APRIL 23: Jalen Green #4 of the Houston Rockets goes up for a dunk against Gui … More Santos #15 of the Golden State Warriors in the second half in Game Two of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Toyota Center on April 23, 2025 in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)Getty Images Over the past couple of years, a narrative around Jalen Green…

Actor Pedro Pascal, star of Disney’s The Mandalorian, Marvel’s The Fantastic Four, and HBO’s The Last of Us, is blasting Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling for daring to be an advocate to protect women from the incursion of transgenders. Rowling celebrated the recent ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court maintaining that transgenders do not legally qualify as biological women. The author had posted several messages to social media after the ruling, but her celebrations did not sit well with the Last Of Us star. And he isn’t just critical of Rowling, he said he agrees with a writer who is urging people to destroy…

The era of poisonous compounds being injected into the U.S. food supply is “coming to an end,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday. “For too long, some food producers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based chemicals without their knowledge or consent,” Kennedy said in the post, alongside a video, on X. “These poisonous compounds offer no nutritional benefit and pose real, measurable dangers to our children’s health and development. That era is coming to an end,” he said, declaring that the United States is restoring a “gold-standard science, applying common sense, and beginning to earn back…

A series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have left dozens dead, Palestinian media reported on Thursday.At least 15 people were killed in Jabaliya in the north of the blockaded coastal strip when a building sheltering displaced persons was hit, according to the news agency WAFA.WAFA also reported multiple other deadly strikes, including in Gaza City. Citing medics, the agency said a total of 52 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since early morning.The Israeli military said it targeted a command and control center used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Jabaliya. The military stated the…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, faces sentencing in federal court on Friday.The New York Republican, who served in Congress for barely a year before being ousted in 2023 by his House colleagues, pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.He admitted to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of nearly a dozen people, including his family members, to fund his winning campaign. As part of a plea deal, Santos has agreed to pay roughly $580,000 in penalties in addition to prison…

Other NATO members must contribute more to deal with the threats they supposedly face, the Pentagon chief has said European NATO members must overcome their dependence on the US for security and increase their own military spending, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said.The US is prioritizing the protection of its own borders “after decades of securing other people’s borders in far-off places,” Hegseth stated on Wednesday. This shift in focus from the Pentagon comes alongside an “increased allied burden-sharing” in strategic regions, he added, as he summarized his first 100 days in office in a speech at the…

A Moroccan man convicted of sexually abusing and prostituting more than a hundred children in Spain, mainly in Tortosa, was arrested in Turkey after years on the run. The news once again exposes the failure of left-wing immigration and security policies, which seem to prioritize political correctness over the protection of the most vulnerable. The arrest took place on April 20 in Istanbul, according to Interpol. The individual, whose identity has not been disclosed by authorities, had been wanted since 2019, when he fled after being convicted in Spain for crimes of sexual abuse and child exploitation. Most of his…

Alabama returns to the Adult Contemporary chart for the first time in nearly 35 years, thanks to the … More collaborative charity single “One Nicolin Voices for Tanzania.” Randy Owen, Jeff Cook (1949 – 2022), Mark Herndon, Teddy Gentry of Alabama attend the American Music Awards circa 1985. (Photo by Lester Cohen/ Getty ImagesLester Cohen Decades after solidifying its place as one of the most successful Southern rock bands in American music history, Alabama is still making it to the Billboard charts. Sometimes, the group returns with some of the classics, or a compilation, but not this week. This time…

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva claimed on Wednesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro suffers from drug addiction in an explosive letter highly critical of Petro and key members of his inner circle. Leyva, who served as Petro’s foreign minister from August 2022 to May 2024, published a copy of the four-page missive on his personal Twitter account. In the letter — stamped as “received” by the Colombian presidency on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 22 — Leyva expressed to Petro his concerns derived from the “direct knowledge that I have had and still have of situations and facts”…

President Donald Trump plans to meet on Thursday with Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who published the Signal story in March and the hoax story claiming Trump called fallen World War I soldiers “suckers” and “losers.” Trump announced in the late morning Truth Social post that he would be meeting with Goldberg and two other Atlantic reporters for a meeting: Later today I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor of The Atlantic, and the person responsible for many fictional stories about me, including the made-up HOAX on “Suckers and Losers” and, SignalGate, something he was somewhat…