People don’t seem to mind the idea of former President Donald Trump acting as a dictator, he told Time magazine in an interview that drew swift rebuke from the Biden-Harris campaign.
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NEW YORK — A judge considered holding Donald Trump in contempt yet again on Thursday for more potential gag order violations as his hush money trial resumed in Manhattan.
The Florida Department of Health has closed its longtime family planning clinic in Fort Lauderdale.
The closing came on the same day — on May 1 — that the need for family planning services such as birth control became more urgent with Florida’s six-week abortion ban taking effect.
By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
With David Leitch’s love letter to stunt professionals, “The Fall Guy” hitting theaters, and rumblings of a potential Academy Award for stunts on the horizon (something Leitch has advocated for), it’s the perfect time to fire up some of the best movies with the finest stunts that you can find on streaming.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Why do Republicans follow Fox, OAN and the like, even after Fox’s $787.5 million election-lie settlement?
Facing threats of legal action, OAN several days ago retracted a Trump story that Michael Cohen, not Trump, had an affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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Increase your ‘wow’ factor
High-top sneakers have an undeniable athletic vibe, but they’ve become a staple of chic streetwear in recent years. Whether you wear them with joggers and a T-shirt or skinny jeans and a leather jacket, they can instantly up your outfit’s cool factor.
A Palm Beach County landowner will take a few more months to refine a proposal for hundreds of new homes, a hotel, stores and more in West Delray, reacting to concerns from some residents about the plan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFans of the Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays who watch their teams through Xfinity cable will have to find other options.
A dispute between Diamond Sports Group, parent of Bally Sports, and Xfinity parent Comcast has resulted in the removal of all Bally Sports channels from Xfinity cable systems across the country.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
BOSTON — No, they didn’t have enough.
No, there wasn’t a next man up.
And perhaps most significantly, there was no Playoff Jimmy.
So, in the end, a playoff crash and burn for the Miami Heat, their season coming to an end with Wednesday night’s 118-84 loss to the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Logan Sargeant, the dashing 23-year-old Fort Lauderdale native who is the only American driver on the popular Formula 1 circuit, can always draw a crowd, especially when he’s promoting Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy RYAN PEARSON, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK (Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of arrests to more than 2,000 at dozens of college campuses since police cleared an encampment at Columbia University in mid-April, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge.
Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such information, drawn from across the internet and from various databases totaling, according to at least one estimate, somewhere around 300 billion words.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Joe Field needed something to write about.
“I came up with the idea for Free Comic Book Day when I was a columnist for an industry trade magazine,” says Field, who is the owner of the Flying Colors Comics and Other Cool Stuff store in Concord.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: We live on a street with curb parking in front of the houses, as well as private driveways.
We have lived here for more than 10 years and basically park peacefully wherever we want to, including using the available on-street parking.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — In October 1984, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware was invited to address a conservative Baptist church near Wilmington as he campaigned for a third term.
Biden, hardly the favorite of social conservatives, was in hostile political territory.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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Sketching is one of the oldest art forms that we know of. Neanderthals and early humans mixed pigments with other substances to create rudimentary drawings for thousands of years before the invention of paint or pencils.
General Daily Insight for May 02, 2024
Inspiration could come to us today, but figuring out what to do with it might require actual effort. When the inquisitive Aquarius Moon squares brilliant Uranus and expansive Jupiter, big ideas may flow a mile a minute.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
UCF continued its impressive showing in the transfer market by landing a commitment from former East Tennessee State cornerback Sheldon Arnold II.
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As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be contaminated with cancer-causing pollutants.
Nicole Leonard, WHYY | KFF Health News (TNS)
PHILADELPHIA — On a narrow street lined with row houses and an auto body shop in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Marsella Elie climbs a home’s front steps and knocks hard on the door.
By MATTHEW BARAKAT (Associated Press)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.
MIAMI — Jesús Sánchez hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 Thursday and swept their three-game series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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“It’s impossible not to love someone who made toast for you,” Nigel Slater, in “Toast”
The snowbirds are gone, the equestrian crowd (horsebirds?), too. So why is this weekend so disorientingly packed with things to do? Not complaining, just trying to plan my outfit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOne of the biggest reasons for such division in this country is not Taylor Swift or pickleball, but the extinction of local news.
I have no interest in rehashing why the lack of local news has resulted in us not knowing each other or that news deserts give mega-news sources an inordinate amount of influence.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
MIAMI — The five-year plan with Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro has produced two trips to the NBA Finals and three to the Eastern Conference finals.
And then it crashed and burned in the first round of this season’s playoffs against the Boston Celtics, just as it did in the first round in 2021 against the Milwaukee Bucks.
Forget boring braids, it’s all about key-shaped challah this Shabbat!
Shlissel challah, Yiddish for “key challah,” is a post-Passover tradition symbolizing unlocking prosperity for the coming year. Think of it as a bread-y good luck charm!More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
MIAMI (AP) — Roddery Muñoz pitched six strong innings to get his first major league win and the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 4-1 on Wednesday night.
Making his second major league start, the 24-year-old Muñoz (1-0) gave up one run and three hits while striking out seven and walking two.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
BOSTON — Observations and other notes of interest from Wednesday night’s 118-84 NBA playoff loss to the Boston Celtics:
– So what did we learn about the 2023-24 Heat?
– Not nearly enough.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A new Emerson College/The Hill swing state poll shows President Joe Biden behind in seven battleground states that could prove as decisive in the next general election as they did in 2020.
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