U.S.Yahoo SportsKellen Winslow Jr. requests 14-year prison sentence be reduced due to 'physical trauma' from football
Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. has requested his 14-year prison sentence be reduced with the argument that the physical trauma he sustained while playing football entitles him to a shorter stay behind bars under a new California law, according to USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer. The former Cleveland Browns first-round draft pick and Pro Bowler received his 14-year sentence in Mar. 2021 under a plea arrangement that saw convicted of forcible rape, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to commit rape, indecent exposure and lewd conduct in public.
PoliticsHuffPostMitch McConnell May Have Just Pulled The Ultimate Revenge On 2 Rival Senators
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may have just delivered some harsh payback to fellow Republican Sens. Scott, who confirmed his and Lee's removal, didn't seem to think so. “This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” Scott told the New York Post on Wednesday.
PoliticsJezebelNikki 'Women Don't Care About Contraception' Haley Is Running for President
Nikki Haley—former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador—is set to announce her intentions to run for president later this month. Barring any other last-minute eager beavers, Haley will be former President Donald Trump's first official challenger for the 2024 Republican nomination. Personally, I will always remember Haley for her steadfast belief that “women don't care about contraception.” When on The View in 2012, Haley made that bold statement to a room full of women who...seemed to disagree.
WorldReutersUkraine's new weapon will force a Russian shift
The United States has answered President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's plea for rockets that can strike deep behind the front lines of the nearly year-long conflict with Russia. Now Russian forces will need to adapt or face potentially catastrophic losses. The new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), will allow Ukraine's military to hit targets at twice the distance reachable by the rockets it now fires from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
HealthTODAYA woman with a 100-pound leg spent her childhood hiding. Now she’s a model.
Mahogany Geter, a model in Tennessee, spent her childhood avoiding mirrors. “I felt hideous, like a freak of nature,” Geter, 25, tells TODAY.com. Geter was born with lymphedema in her left leg, which she says caused it to eventually swell to 100 pounds.
U.S.Miami HeraldDave & Buster’s employee dies days after cook attacks him at work, Florida cops say
A Dave & Buster's employee died days after he was attacked by a cook while at work, according to a Florida sheriff's office. A witness told deputies that the cook, later identified as Cordell Bentley Russell, 34, was in a “bad mood” that day, the report says. The victim said, “Put the food right there,” in a “strong tone,” the report says, and Russell became angry.
U.S.Yahoo NewsCalifornia police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?
A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both legs, holding a knife but leaving his wheelchair and shuffling away from the officers. Jeffrey Fagan, a Columbia University law professor who is an expert on policing, told Yahoo News in an email that the details of the case call into question whether the use of lethal force was warranted.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderAOC to GOP: Don't tell me you're condemning anti-Semitism when a Republican 'who has talked about Jewish space lasers' gets a plum committee assignment
AOC unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy with their vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from her committee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy Thursday while defending her fellow "squad" member, Rep. Ilhan Omar. Republicans voted to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her controversial comments in the past about Israel.
U.S.JezebelA Woman Was Ordered to Stop Breastfeeding to Accommodate the Father’s Visitation Rights
A woman in Virginia has been ordered by a judge “to make every effort to place the child on a feeding schedule and use a bottle” in order to accommodate the baby's father's visitation rights and schedule, the Washington Post reported this week. Since Arleta Ramirez's daughter was born last July, she's been breastfed, which Ramirez says is in accordance with all guidance from her doctors. Ramirez's baby needs to be fed once an hour, and feeding time interferes with her ex's visitation time, prompting the court order for Ramirez to stop breastfeeding.
U.S.In The Know by YahooKim Kardashian's micro bikini line is so tiny a TikToker used tortilla chips for scale: 'If I wore that in public, people would call the police'
The “micro bikini” from Kim Kardashian's SKIMS collection is taking a major beating on TikTok this week after one woman brilliantly illustrated just how impossibly tiny it really is. According to TikTok user @bbysarita's post, the barely-there bikini set leaves very little to the imagination — and might as well be like walking naked on the beach. “If you've been eyeing the SKIMS micro bikini and wondering about the size, these are tortilla chips for scale,” she says in the now-viral TikTok.
U.S.Women's HealthThe Hotel This Influencer Wanted To Stay At For Free Is Now Billing Her Millions
Soon after YouTuber Elle Darby asked Dublin's White Moose Cafe and Charleville Lodge if she could stay for free, NY Mag reports the hotel's owner Paul Stenson shut her way, way down. In a January 16 Facebook post, Stenson screengrabbed Darby's apparent email in which she asked for a comped stay essentially in return for traffic to the hotel. She notes her tens of thousands of YouTube and Instagram followers as proof this arrangement would be beneficial to the hotel.
BusinessBuzzFeed"Your Chill Millennial Manager": This Actor's TikTok About Working For Millennials Is Extremely Funny Because It's True
Well, recently, 26-year-old nonbinary actor Amanda Ripley (@irxpley) posted a TikTok homage to the "chill millennial manager" archetype, and honestly, it's so accurate that I had no choice but to laugh. My favorite part of working in food service was getting the occasional chill manager.
PoliticsYahoo FinanceWhy Republicans won’t reveal their spending cuts
House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, will demand government spending cuts as a condition of raising the debt ceiling and allowing more federal borrowing so the Treasury can keep paying the nation's bills. President Biden and his fellow Democrats will insist on a “clean” debt-ceiling hike with no conditions. The real political battle, however, is over which side can most effectively trash the other before a last-second deal averts a financial crisis and Congress raises the debt ceiling.
U.S.NextSharkChinese corn mill in North Dakota deemed ‘significant threat’ by US Air Force
The construction of a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota will likely be halted after the U.S. Air Force flagged it as a “significant threat to national security.” Fufeng Group, an MSG and xanthan gum manufacturer based in Shandong province, China, previously bought 370 acres of farmland in Grand Forks through its American subsidiary. The city council approved the company's $700 million proposal to build the mill last year, citing economic development success.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Omar vote ‘about targeting women of color’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y. called out House Republicans' efforts to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn. from a prominent committee on Feb. 2, noting inconsistencies in their stances on racially motivated attacks.
U.S.Associated PressFate of last ex-cop charged in Floyd murder lies with judge
The attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd said in court filings Tuesday that his client is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted on state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. Tuesday was the deadline for prosecutors and defense attorneys to file final written arguments in the case of Thao, the last of the four former officers facing judgement in Floyd's killing. The state and federal cases against Derek Chauvin and the two other officers involved have largely been resolved, except for Chauvin's appeal of his murder conviction.
BusinessFortuneThere’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up—and the academic who proved manipulation in 2017 suspects it may be happening again
A number of experts who follow crypto trading from day to day see no plot to inflate the prices, but a well-functioning market. I don't see a cabal of insiders,” says Andrew Thurman, a researcher at Blockchain analytics provider Nansen. The price movements in Bitcoin are notoriously cyclical by nature.
WorldUSA TODAYPay for entry: US travelers will soon have to pay a fee to enter the United Kingdom
U.S. citizens will soon have to apply for permission before their United Kingdom trips and pay a small fee to enter as part of the country's upcoming Electronic Travel Authorization scheme. The ETA scheme is meant to secure the U.K.'s borders by giving them more accurate data on who is passing through, according to a U.K. official for the British Consulate General. The move is part of the U.K.'s plan to fully digitize its borders by 2025.
BusinessAutoblog2024 Cadillac Lyriq getting new entry-level Tech trim with lower price
Cadillac revamped the Lyriq page on its retail website, but the brand still isn't ready to share new information about what's coming to the EV crossover yet. For now we turn to GM Authority for updates on what's to come, the all-General-all-the-time site reporting two more important changes for the 2024 Lyriq. The first is a new entry-level trim called Tech, the second is that the Tech trim lowers the entry price.
PoliticsINSIDERTrump says that if he's reelected he won't use the powers of the presidency to punish his enemies, but adds that he'd be 'entitled to a revenge tour'
Trump said if reelected he won't go on a revenge tour even though he's 'entitled' to one. The ex-president made the comments on Hugh Hewitt. Former President Donald Trump waged war against Republicans who voted for his 2021 impeachment — but he pledged not to take the same payback tactic against his political enemies if reelected to the White House in 2024.
U.S.Idaho Statesman‘Seldom seen’ critter gets stuck in home chimney, Utah officials say. See it go free
The release video shows the furry creature — a ringtail — inquisitively taking a peek at the conservation officer who released it before scampering off through the snow. Ringtails are fairly widespread throughout Utah but seldom seen,” the department said on Facebook, adding that they're mostly nocturnal and feed on insects, small mammals and fruit. The animal, which looks like a smaller, slimmer version of a raccoon, is so secretive several people wrote that they didn't even know there were ringtails in Utah.
WorldReutersU.S. readies $2 billion-plus Ukraine aid package with longer-range weapons -sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. One of the officials said a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion, would come from a fund known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows President Joe Biden's administration to get weapons from industry rather than from U.S. weapons stocks. The USAI funds would go toward the purchase of a new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) made by Boeing Co, which have a range of 94 miles (150 km).
WorldUkrayinska PravdaPutin threatens West "not only with armoured vehicles" for giving Leopard tanks to Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he would respond "not only with armoured vehicles" to those who send tanks to the borders of the Russian Federation, and also boasted of Russia's "many friends" around the world, including in North America. Details: Putin believes that Russians have absorbed the "heritage of the winners" "with their mother's milk". The president of the aggressor country also did not forget to mention the "Banderites" [colloquial term for members and supporters of the faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by Stepan Bandera, who Russia claims to be targeting in Ukraine – ed.] and "Hitler's followers" who are fighting against Russia.
U.S.WJAX‘Hell no:’ Florida bill banning left-lane cruising sparks mixed reactions
Florida's highway drivers might see an end to left-lane cruisers if a bill filed in the State Capitol Becomes law, but the bill is sparking some mixed reactions. “It's dangerous out there,” said West Virginia's John Baker, who was traveling to Bradenton. Technically in Florida, you can drive in the fast lane, so long as you move out of the way if another car is trying to pass.
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AOC blasts Republican resolution to oust Omar from committee as 'targeting women of color'
Speaking on the House floor on Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. called a resolution to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from the House Foreign Affairs Committee part of a "continued attack" by Republicans and an extension of "racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body."
“Streaming is beginning to look an awful lot like the old-fashioned analogue TV it was supposed to replace.”
“Streaming isn’t going away … You’re still going to have a lot of choice for a long time.”
“In the future, [streaming] likely will cost more, have a little less library content and cancel more shows more quickly.”
“Streaming is still a game of content … It’s not a matter of who’s spending more, it’s who’s spending smartly.”
“Streamers are retreating from any sort of creative risk in favor of humdrum, lowest-common-denominator shows.”
