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MANILA: Civilians on board Philippine fishing boats sailed on Wednesday (May 15) towards a China-controlled reef off the Southeast Asian country to distribute provisions to Filipino fishermen and assert their rights to the disputed waterway. The trip to the waters around Scarborough Shoal comes two weeks after China Coast Guard vessels fired water cannon at two Philippine government boats in the same area, in the latest maritime incident between the countries. Waving tiny Philippine flags and…

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker railed against Pride month along with President Biden’s leadership during the pandemic and his stance on abortion during a commencement address at Benedictine College last weekend.The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered the roughly 20-minute address Saturday at the Catholic private liberal arts…

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The EU’s 720 lawmakers will spend the next five years pondering issues including a digital euro and capital markets reform – but which MEPs will likely stand out? ADVERTISEMENTElections to the new European Parliament are now just weeks away, and headline polling suggests there’ll be a swing to the right.But…

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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, with a libretto by Greg Pierce is back at The Met for eight performances following its sold-out world-premiere production last season. In all new footage from the production’s 2022 run, watch highlights of the cast in action featuring Kelli O’Hara, Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and more.The Hours is the first Met commission to be performed in consecutive seasons in almost 100 years. Nominated for a 2024 Tony Award for Best Leading…

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The WNBA’s new Golden State franchise has found its identity.The team will be known as the Golden State Valkyries, as the league’s first expansion team since 2008 revealed their name, brand and look on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday. The Atlanta Dream was the last franchise to be added to the WNBA. Valkyries is a name that comes from Norse mythology, and it fits perfectly with their affiliate team: the Golden State Warriors.  The team’s…

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A new video has captured the moment the front of a Delta plane burst into flames after landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last week.  The Airbus A321neo had just arrived Monday from Cancun, Mexico when the 189 passengers onboard were ordered to evacuate on emergency slides due to a fire in the plane’s nose area, according to KOMO News. “I think people responded to that with panic, there was a little bit of jostling in the aisles to get to the exit,” passenger Ashwin Menon told the station. “But overall it was a pretty smooth evacuation process.”  Officials say an electrical…

A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday night.It was the 11th triumph for poodles of various sizes in the United States’ most prestigious canine event — only wire fox terriers have won more. And it was the second best in show win for handler Kaz Hosaka. He led another miniature poodle, Spice, to the trophy in 2002 and said this year’s Westminster would be his last.”No words,” he said in the ring to describe his reaction to Sage’s win, soon supplying a few words: “So happy — exciting.” Sage, a…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/12/2024 in BroadwayWorld’s grosses section.Also, you will find information on each show’s historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.Of note this week: ILLINOISE cancelled one performance (Weds. 5/8).Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses… Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL (12.6%), SUFFS (12.3%), & JULIET (7.6%), THE GREAT GATSBY (7.3%), THE WHO’S TOMMY (7.2%), CHICAGO (5%), HAMILTON (5%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (4.7%),…

Smothering defense by the Connecticut Sun torpedoed the much anticipated pro basketball debut of Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark.The two-time national college player of the year struggled for much of her first WNBA regular-season game as Clark labored for each of her 20 points in Connecticut’s convincing 92-71 victory.”There’s a lot to learn from, it’s the first one,” Clark told reporters after the game. “There’s going to be good ones, there’s going to be bad ones.” In the Sun’s first home-opener sellout since 2003, fans at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville divided their allegiance by cheering for both the hometown…

The husband of adult film actress Stormy Daniels said on Tuesday that there’s a “good chance” the couple will leave the country if former President Donald Trump is acquitted in his Manhattan criminal trial. Barrett Blade spoke to CNN’s Erin Burnett about the vitriol his wife, who is a key figure in the controversy over a 2016 hush money payment allegedly made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf, has faced. “​​Either way, I don’t think it gets better for her. I think if it’s not guilty, we got to decide what to do. Good chance we’ll probably vacate this country,” Blade…

Share on PinterestA new study shows that those who participate in extreme exercise may live longer than the general population. TREVOR JOHNSTON / Eye Meets World Photography/Getty ImagesRegular exercise is an important part of living a healthy life, but some research suggests intense exercise may do more harm than good.A new study challenges previous findings and suggests that those who participate in extreme exercise may live longer.Researchers tracked a select group of elite runners capable and found they could live around five years longer on average than the general population.Further studies on types of exercise and duration are needed to…

Last updated: May 14, 2024 23:00 EDT | 1 min read The South Korean tax body, the National Tax Service (NTS), has announced it has liquidated previously frozen crypto worth more than $800,000.In a press conference held at its Seoul headquarters on May 14, the NTS exhibited some of the items it had seized in raids on “high-value” and “habitual” tax delinquents.South Korean Tax Body Liquidates Crypto as Crackdown ContinuesThe NTS and its regional affiliates have been cracking down on tax dodgers who use crypto investments to hide their income in recent years.These crackdowns have yielded great success for the…

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Sarah Paulson. Taylor Hill/Getty Images Sarah Paulson is naming names. While appearing on the Wednesday, May 13, episode of the “Smartless” podcast, the actress, 49, shared that she once received unsolicited feedback from another performer about her acting skills. “I did do a play once. The last time I was on stage, I did a play called Talley’s Folly at the Roundabout, and the actress — and I’m going to say this, and I’m not going to ask you to cut this out, because I don’t f—king care — this actress came to the play. Her name is Trish Hawkins…

close Video Former President Trump’s private Boeing 757 clipped a parked private jet at a Florida airport over the weekend, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA said the incident happened at 1:20 a.m. Sunday at the West Palm Beach International Airport.The agency said the Boeing 757 aircraft winglet, which is a small wing that is nearly vertical at the tip of an aircraft’s wing, “contacted” a corporate jet after it had safely landed at the international airport. It was unclear if Trump was aboard the plane at the time of the incident. TRUMP UNLEASHES ON ‘FASCISTS’ IN DEM…

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A Maryland Democrat new to the national political stage has won her state’s Senate primary against a wealthy controversial congressman who spent millions of his own money on the race.Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who could be the first Black woman from Maryland ever elected to the U.S. Senate, topped Rep. David Trone in a race called by The Associated Press.She will now face former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in what could end up being a race that’s more competitive than expected considering Maryland’s heavy Democratic leanings and Hogan’s popularity in the state.RACIAL SLUR, ALLEGED THREAT TO ‘EXECUTE’ MAN:…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated Tuesday that the central bank will be patient and wait for evidence that inflation is slowing before it cuts interest rates.  Speaking during a panel discussion in Amsterdam, Powell said that recent inflation figures – which have come in higher than expected since the start of the year – suggest it will take longer than previously thought to attain the confidence needed to start loosening monetary policy.  “We did not expect this to be a smooth road, but these were higher than I think anybody expected,” he said. “What that has told us is…

   The US Justice Department on Tuesday notified Boeing that it breached terms of its 2021 agreement in which the company avoided criminal charges for two fatal 737 Max crashes. After a series of safety missteps earlier this year, including a door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines flight shortly after takeoff in January, the Department of Justice said Boeing is now subject to criminal prosecution. “For failing to fulfill completely the terms of and obligations under the [deferred prosecution agreement], Boeing is subject to prosecution by the United States for any federal criminal violation of which the United States has…

A drone-fired missile hit a house in South Waziristan, Pakistan, killing at least four villagers, including children, according to police.The strike occurred in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border.The victims of the strike were civilians not associated with the insurgents.A missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan along the Afghan border before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four villagers, including children, police said.The strike happened in South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police chief Hidayat Ullah said. He said it was not immediately clear who…

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