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Facebook Tweet Email Link One of my earliest memories is standing in the living room of a small house in Garden City, Michigan, mimicking Hulk Hogan’s pose down to my laughing parents. Any wrestling fan knows the rhythm: Flex one arm while pointing to the side with your other, then turning 90 degrees to show off both biceps before turning back square to the audience and bending your arms at a right angle to flex your chest and arms repeatedly. Maybe you’d rotate your hand a few times before cupping it to your ear to hear the cheers as well.…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Venice — The abandoned Venetian island of Poveglia — site of a plague pit and former asylum — is about to take on a happier new identity. On August 1, a group of Venetians will take possession of the supposedly haunted island under a 99-year lease from the Italian state and embark on a project to turn it into an urban park open only to residents of the Italian city. The locals fought off stiff competition from property developers to ensure Poveglia remained a public asset. In 2014, the island, which is around 7.5 hectares (18.5…
President Donald Trump said Friday that there’s a 50-50 chance he will strike a trade deal with the European Union ahead of a deadline for imposing hefty tariffs on the US’ close economic partner. “I would say that we have a 50-50 chance, maybe less than that,” Trump said at the White House. “But they want to make a deal very badly.” Still, he left the door open for a last-minute agreement, saying he’d only put the odds of a trade pact with Japan at 25% before the US clinched a deal with that nation earlier this week. Trump later…
Facebook Tweet Email Link It’s a sticky, boiling hot day in Paris, London, Rome, Athens or any other heatwave-stricken European destination. You flop down in a cafe after a morning spent on your feet. You order a refreshing cold drink. The beverage arrives and it’s lukewarm. No ice cubes to be seen. You flag down the server and ask for the same again, this time with ice. It arrives with a solitary, sad-looking ice cube that melts before the first sip. “So, I started saying, ‘Oh, can I get extra ice?’ And then they give just two ice cubes…” recalls…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington is fixated on the twists and turns of a widening political crisis as MAGA world revolts over the Trump administration’s Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio. Yet there’s nowhere near as much attention on a humanitarian scandal of unbearable dimensions that is unfolding in Gaza, in which the United States may be complicit. The Epstein saga is a tragedy, written in the pain endured by dozens of women and young girls who testified that they were abused by the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. But this human angle has often been forgotten in a week focused on…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has told multiple associates and allies that there’s no chance he will bow to President Donald Trump’s calls for him to resign, vowing to withstand several more months of the president’s unprecedented, multi-pronged assault over Powell’s refusal to lower interest rates. The top central banker has privately argued that he must stay put for more than just personal reasons — the fate of his chairmanship is now linked with that of the Fed’s overall independence, according to people familiar with the discussions. He has said that stepping down now would undermine…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Dr. Mohammad Saqer is hungry. So ravenous that he sometimes struggles to keep upright while treating his desperately ill patients at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. On Thursday, he fainted while working at the ward. And then, moments after recovering, he returned to finish his 24-hour shift. “My fellow doctors caught me before I collapsed and gave me IV fluids and (sugar). There was a foreign doctor who had a packet of Tango juice and prepared it for me. I drank it immediately,” Dr. Saqer told CNN. “I am not diabetic – this was hunger.…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Major League Soccer announced Friday that Inter Miami stars Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba will be suspended for the team’s next match against FC Cincinnati on Saturday. The suspension comes after Messi and Alba skipped the MLS All-Star Game without permission earlier this week in Austin, Texas. “Per league rules, any player who does not participate in the All-Star Game without prior approval from the league is ineligible to compete in their club’s next match,” MLS said in a statement. Neither Inter Miami nor the two players responded immediately to request for comment on the suspensions.…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun. But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon. Discovered at the end of 2024, the space rock looked at first as if it might hit our planet by December 22, 2032. The chance of that impact changed…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The NFL is fining more than 100 players and approximately two dozen team employees for selling their Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, the league confirmed on Friday. Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told CNN on Friday that the players would be fined one-and-a-half times the amount of the face value of the ticket they sold. The team employees will be fined double the amount of the ticket’s face value. The Associated Press was first to report on the fines. In a memo of sent to the league’s top team executives, presidents and lawyers, NFL…