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Woman’s basketball star Caitlin Clark is too injured to play in the 2025 All-Star game in Indy. Caitlin Clark won the most votes in the WNBA for the All-Star game but it doesn’t matter. Clark is too injured to compete.Clark shared a message earlier today with the announcement.❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/8XlC6TQFmW— Caitlin Clark (@CaitlinClark22) July 17, 2025After two years of getting hammered on the court, Clark will not be able to play this weekend.Can you guys remember a star male athlete getting treated this badly by the league as a whole? Not one team, basically every team. This is year two now of…
ToplineThe House approved legislation to regulate stablecoins Thursday and later approved two other crypto bills after conservatives blocked the legislative package for a record nine hours Wednesday, defying President Donald Trump’s demands for what Republicans have dubbed “crypto week.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a press conference following a House Republican … More conference meeting on Capitol Hill on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey FactsThe House passed the stablecoin bill, known as the Guiding And Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, in a 308-222 vote, sending it to Trump’s…
French electronic band Yelle announced on Wednesday that it is canceling its North American tour because they do not “feel safe” traveling to the United States due to “the current political climate in the U.S.,” bizarrely citing “immigration and freedom of speech” as their reasons, before admitting to currently facing financial difficulties. “My dear friends in North America,” Yelle began in its announcement. “You know how much we love visiting you, singing with you, dancing with you, hanging with you. You know how important you are to us. You’ve been here since the beginning and it’s always been more than amazing. A true…
Corn Syrup Usurped Sugar—But Not Because of Tariffs President Trump says he got Coca-Cola to agree to replace high-fructose corn syrup with real cane sugar in its flagship American soda. The company hasn’t confirmed the full extent of the change, but just the announcement was enough to send corn refiners into panic mode and free-trade purists into smug mode. Cato’s Scott Lincicome fired off a typical series of condescending tweets: “Anyone want to tell Tariff Man why Coke puts corn syrup in the worse US version? Spoiler… sugar protectionism.” Mark Perry, an economist who is an AEI emeritus scholar repeated…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) stated that the Trump administration is “trying to stop people’s First Amendment rights and their ability to be able to protest against the administration and the things that they are doing” by charging people over an incident involving ICE protests in Spokane where one of the charged individuals said that “civil disobedience is, to me, the only other option” while discussing the incident. Guest host Antonia Hylton discussed the arrest of people in Spokane and played video of former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart saying, “How do you deal…
Political protests in the US are rarely acts of pure conviction, according to Adam Swart, CEO of a prominent publicity firm that supplies paid demonstrators for political and corporate events.Swart, who founded Crowds on Demand in 2012, revealed what was described as the “dirty secrets” of his profession in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. His company recruits and manages individuals who appear at rallies, protests, and public events on behalf of paying clients.Swart argued that compensating activists is not unethical. He said the service allows people to engage in causes they support but might not otherwise be able…
Farrell assaults Navarro: reacting to bullying? The iconic rock band Jane’s Addiction was supposed to have performed a 33-date North American tour in 2024, and tied it all up with a new album. But it all came crashing down in September, when singer Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro onstage, suspending the Boston show and resulting in the cancellation of the tour. Now, the California rockers are back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as they fight in the courts in parallel lawsuits. As we can read in the Hollywood Reporter: “Perry Farrell has filed a lawsuit of…
Tinatin Japaridze, an analyst with Eurasia Group, joined “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss the latest in the Russia-Ukraine war, including President Trump’s threat to impose “severe” tariffs on Russia if it refuses to reach a peace deal with Ukraine in 50 days. Watch the full interview above. Read the full article here
Ibrahaim Traoré became president of Burkina Faso, the tiny nation in the Sahel just south of the Sahara Desert in Africa, in September 2022. At 37, Traoré is the second youngest president in the world — with a strong appeal for Africa’s young population used to much older leaders. Traoré promised to leverage his nation’s rich mineral resources for the benefit of its 24 million citizens.President Ibrahim Traoré’s Amazing Projects shows some of the mega projects Traoré has launched in just 2.5 years. How President Ibrahim Traoré Is Creating New Global Order! explains why Traoré’s “resource nationalism” is terrifying the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine´s economy minister and the key negotiator in the mineral deal with the U.S, Yuliia Svyrydenko, was appointed as its new prime minister Thursday, becoming the country’s first new head of government since the start of Russia´s full-scale invasion in 2022. Svyrydenko is one of a group of officials taking on new roles in Ukraine´s government, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reshuffles the Cabinet in a bid to energize a war-weary nation and boost domestic weapons production in the face of Russia´s grinding invasion. At home, however, the Cabinet recalibration has not been seen as a major…