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April 15, 2023
Ariana Madix Is Feeling “Amazing” After Tom Sandoval Split
“I actually did break up with her on Valentine’s Day,” he said on the April 11 episode of the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, “I had already broken up with her two weeks earlier.”
Tom claimed during the podcast episode that Ariana was not willing to accept their breakup at the time.
“I sit down to talk to her and she’s like, ‘I’m not letting you leave me. You’re going to have to force me out of this relationship,'” he recalled of Ariana’s alleged response. “I was like, ‘Ariana, I don’t think I could be faithful in a relationship with you right now.'”
The 39-year-old also shared that he was drawn to Raquel because his relationship with Ariana “didn’t have the intimacy” it used to.
“After Raquel and I kissed, I got my ass into therapy immediately,” he recalled. “The feelings were very strong and those feelings that I had started to take over logic. All that s–t went out the window because I hadn’t experienced that…but the environment that it created—with the lying, the sleeping around—was very unhealthy.”
E! News reached out to Ariana’s rep for comment on Tom’s claims, but did not hear back.
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Joe Biden wraps up Ireland visit with perfect musical choice and raucous crowd
Joe Biden may have just found his theme song for the 2024 election.
The US president concluded his trip to Ireland this week with a speech at St. Muredach’s Cathedral, and he arrived at the Ballina monument on Friday with the perfect entrance music: “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” by the punk band American Celtic Dropkick Murphys.
The song’s signature bagpipes rang through the air as Biden took the stage and raucous onlookers hoisted Irish and American flags. He began with a reference to the country’s former president, Mary Robinson, who allegedly told him of the Irish tradition of putting a light in the window to guide strangers traveling at night.
“Mary, I see the light,” he said.
About 27,000 people gathered to hear Biden speak outside St. Muredach, which was built with bricks made by Biden’s great-great-great-grandfather. Many in the crowd, which was nearly double Ballina’s total population, would have driven for hours to see him.
The Irish American politician visited many sites and monuments linked to his family line during the trip, although the main focus of the visit was the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which declared the official end sectarian violence that had plagued Ireland for decades.
Biden naturally commented on his Irish heritage during his speech, saying the country was not just part of his personal family history, but part of his “soul.”
“Being here is… like coming home,” Biden said. “It really is.”
In addition to making a grand entrance, the choice of “I ship to Boston” could have had additional meaning for the president.
During a show in Pennsylvania last year, Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey called Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump a “crook.”
“You’re duped by the biggest con man in the history of the world,” Casey told a crowd in September. “You’re duped by a bunch of crooks and billionaires who don’t give a damn about you or your family.”
It’s unclear if Biden was aware of the incident, but the president has confirmed that he intends to run for re-election and could therefore face Trump for the second time.
Biden’s approval rating at home is just 43%, but online reactions indicated a favorable reception to the “rock star” as an appearance in Ballina.
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‘Chelsea won’t win any more games this season’
Chelsea may not win another game this season after Frank Lampard suffered three out of three defeats in his return to Stamford Bridge.
That’s according to talkSPORT hosts Jamie O’Hara and Gabby Agbonlahor who were stunned by the Blues’ performance in the loss to Brighton.
Chelsea were toothless against Brighton
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The game even saw co-owner Todd Boehly face angry fans
Chelsea surrendered a 1-0 lead at home to lose 2-1 to the Seagulls, with Danny Welbeck and Julio Enisco toppling Conor Gallagher’s opener.
The defeat was Lampard’s third on the rebound since replacing the sacked Graham Potter, with Chelsea in the midst of one of their worst Premier League campaigns, sitting 11th in the table.
Things aren’t looking any better in Europe either, with a lifeless 2-0 draw against Real Madrid last time out in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Brighton not only took three points away from west London but came back south with a standout performance in which they outplayed their opponents.
Speaking on talkSPORT’s GameDay Phone-In, Aston Villa great Agbonlahor said: “We were watching Brighton and we thought, who’s the home team?
“Brighton had 25 shots today! 26 shots for an away team at Stamford Bridge is unacceptable.
The performance has given Chelsea nothing to rely on this season
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“I couldn’t name a single player who would have gotten more than 3/10 today. If Lampard fails to motivate these players, who will?
Former Tottenham midfielder O’Hara added: “I don’t know if Chelsea will win another game this season, I don’t think they will win another game.”
“I don’t think they will either,” Agbonlahor agreed.
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Alabama baseball coaches and coach face prosecution for alleged abuse of former player
Three members of the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball coaching staff are being sued for allegedly mismanaging a former player’s injury.
According to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court, coach Brad Bohannon, pitching coach Jason Jackson and athletic trainer Sean Stryker are facing a lawsuit for negligence, alleged negligence and breach of contract. agreement for their treatment of former pitcher Johnny Blake Bennett’s arm injury.
The defense seeks to dismiss the lawsuit. A hearing is scheduled for June 20.
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An Alabama Crimson Tide ball in a dugout during a game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 10, 2014. (John Korduner/Icon SMI/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“The university does not comment on pending litigation but looks forward to sharing the actual facts with the court,” the school’s athletic department said in a prepared statement.
“The mental and physical well-being of its student-athletes is of the utmost importance to the university. We have supreme confidence in our coaching staff and provide our student-athletes with access to top sports physicians. and sports psychology practitioners in the country.”
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According to the complaint, a few weeks after Bennett’s injury, he began having trouble controlling his throws. The lawsuit alleges that Bohannon, Jackson and Stryker played a role in mishandling Bennett’s recovery.
An Alabama Crimson Tide cap in the dugout during a game between the Alabama and the LSU Tigers on May 12, 2018, at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (John Korduner/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The suit also claimed that Bennett repeatedly told coaches and the trainer that he had some sort of problem with his arm.
“God, I really wish I could talk about some details. I really wish I could. But, unfortunately, you know, I can’t,” Bohannon said Friday.
“I truly believe that we provide our student-athletes with access to the best sports medicine and sports psychology resources in the country, and you know, this is the third SEC school I’ve been to, and I would put our sports medical staff against any school in the country and even professional organizations. They are simply outstanding. We place great importance on the mental and physical well-being of our student athletes, so that is all I have to say about it.
The SEC logo during a 2015 SEC Baseball Tournament opener between Alabama and Ole Miss. (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Bennett was eventually diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome and underwent surgery in March 2020. The pitcher alleges he was told by Bohannon in May that the school had decided not to renew his athletic scholarship.
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Bennett transferred to Pensacola State College but eventually withdrew from the school. He then enrolled at Jacksonville State University, but was released in May 2022.
Bennett and the Gamecocks played in Alabama just two days before he was fired.
Chantz Martin is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital.
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Kanouse wildfire in New Jersey now 95% contained in West Milford: officials
New Jersey officials reported the North Jersey Kanouse Fire is almost completely contained, as West Milford reels from New Jersey’s largest wildfire since 2010.
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service (NJFFS) reported that crews successfully reinforced containment lines in West Milford Township on Friday, bringing the percentage of containment to 95%.
The forest currently has an area of 972 acres. It is the biggest fire in North Jersey since 2010.
“Ground crews have made excellent progress in dealing with the burning of dead trees threatening containment lines in the area of the fire,” read the NJFFS’ Facebook post on Friday evening.
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The New Jersey Forest Fire Service (NJFFS) reported that crews successfully reinforced containment lines on Friday, bringing the percentage of containment to 95%. (FOX 5 New York)
“Containment is expected to continue as crews work at night,” the organization added.
Officials say no structures are currently under threat and all evacuation orders have been lifted. Hours earlier, authorities reported that 10 structures – nine residential and one commercial – were at risk.
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Parts of Echo Lake Road are still closed as weakened and dead trees pose a hazard to drivers.
Officials say no structures are currently under threat and all evacuation orders have been lifted. (FOX 5 New York)
Officials say environmental factors are contributing to harmful wildfires across the state, including one in Manchester Township in Ocean County.
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“We have very hot conditions, we have a changing climate, we have the impact of these invasive plants and insects – all of this combines to exacerbate what we would generally expect under normal fire conditions here in the forest. oaks and hickories,” New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Assistant Commissioner John Cecil said, according to FOX 5 New York.
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Zimbabwe’s budding female artists are still ‘frowned upon’
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A self-portrait shows Nothando Chiwanga covering her face with a yellow miner’s helmet as money spills over the edge of a traditional African reed basket she holds in her lap.
The artwork, a collage titled ‘Immortal’, challenges age-old gender roles in a heavily patriarchal country like Zimbabwe by juxtaposing a helmet from overtly male-dominated work with a delicately woven basket commonly used by women in the markets.
For art curator Fadzai Muchemwa, the piece speaks directly to a woman’s struggle to break free from these traditional roles.
“To survive as a woman in Zimbabwe…you need a helmet,” Muchemwa said of the collage, which combines photography and painting in an intentionally blurred but striking image.
Chiwanga’s “Immortal” is one of 21 works by female artists that have been on display at the southern African country’s national gallery since International Women’s Day on March 8. The exhibition titled “We should all be human” is a tribute to women’s ambitions and victories, says Muchemwa.
There are paintings, photographs, textiles, sculptures and ceiling installations. They tackle issues such as migration, the economy and health, but also much more contentious issues in Zimbabwe, such as women’s reproductive rights. Part of the art seeks to provoke discussions around pregnancy and maternity leave.
“Immortal” calls for change and invites women to reinvent themselves, said visual artist Chiwanga.
“It’s not often to find women doing this kind of work like mining,” she said. “In Africa, women are mostly looked down on. People only see the face or the body, but the work you do can also represent your identity.”
In her collage, Chiwanga’s basket of reeds, money, satin skirt and carefully manicured fingernails are manipulated with blurs of red, yellow, brown and black to highlight the complexity of women’s lives in Zimbabwe. , said Chiwanga.
She points out that women represent more than half of the country’s 15 million inhabitants, but that they are still largely underrepresented in higher education and formal employment.
More girls than boys complete primary school in Zimbabwe, but one in three women married before they turned 18, according to the UN children’s agency. UNICEF cited teenage pregnancy and early marriage as key factors preventing girls from completing high school and pursuing careers.
Previously, girls could marry at 16 in Zimbabwe while boys had to be 18. A Constitutional Court ruling led to changes to the law last year setting the legal age of marriage and sexual consent for boys and girls at 18.
Chiwanga, 26, is one of the few young women to graduate from Zimbabwe’s National School of Visual Arts and Design. She was one of 30 artists from 25 countries to include works in the ‘Notes for Tomorrow’ exhibition on the COVID-19 pandemic, which was shown in the United States, Canada, China and Turkey. in 2021 and 2022. She also had a show last year in Nigeria.
The ‘We Should All Be Human’ exhibition in Zimbabwe was designed to raise the profile of young female artists and encourage them to continue making art despite persistent societal pressures to marry, have children and focus on a life of domestic chores.
“You see a promising student, two or three years later they’re married and they’re done with art,” Muchemwa said. “In our society, married women are not expected to be entertainers. They are frowned upon, but their male counterparts are celebrated.”
“We are presented more as subjects and not as creators of art. This is a narrative we need to change,” she said.
Phineas Magwati, who teaches music and art at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, goes further. A woman’s decision to pursue a career in art often causes “conflict” in her family, he says.
This is reflected in Chiwanga’s life: her mother supports her art, but other family members harass her to get married and find a “real job”, she says.
Much of his art is crafted in a rusty brown caravan in the spacious courtyard of his family home on the outskirts of the capital, Harare.
Sitting on a sturdy old wooden bed, Chiwanga works on her latest piece, covering her face with a sheer white veil and moving a camera back and forth to capture the right angles of herself. The photographs are then fixed on matte paper and worked in color.
“I faced a lot of challenges because as a woman you have to be married when you hit your twenties,” she said. “Even growing up you will be told that a woman should aspire to marriage, you should not aspire to be great.”
“But as an artist, I told myself that I really want to be successful, I have to be big. You shouldn’t force a woman to marry before she can perfect herself,” she said.
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Recent UFO sightings may be probes of alien mothership, Pentagon official says
A Pentagon official who heads a secret unit studying unidentified flying objects has speculated that recent sightings in US airspace may in fact be alien probes from a mothership sent to study Earth.
Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), claims in a new academic paper that the objects, which appear to defy physics, could be “probes” of a “parent craft.” extraterrestrial.
The draft paper, co-authored by Harvard professor Avi Loeb and seen by Politico, that interstellar objects such as the cigar-shaped “Oumuamua” that scientists spotted flying through the galaxy in 2017 “could potentially be a parent ship that releases many small probes on its close pass to Earth.
The authors liken the probes to “dandelion seeds” that could be separated from the parent craft by the sun’s gravitational force. The probes could use starlight to “recharge their batteries” and Earth’s water as fuel.
“Habitable planets would be particularly attractive to extraterrestrial trans-medium probes, capable of moving between space, air and water,” the authors write in the March 7 article.
“At great distances, Venus, Earth or Mars would be equally attractive to probes. But on closer inspection, Earth would show spectral signatures of liquid water and vegetation.
An image released by the Pentagon last year that officials say was taken by Navy personnelThe paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, demonstrates that the Pentagon is open to scientific debate about the origins of UFOs, Politico reports, an important signal to send to academia.
Professor Loeb has a privately funded academic effort to research UFOs called The Galileo Project.
He and Mr. Kirkpatrick, himself a respected scientist who worked at the Department of Defense and US Space Command, speculate on the aliens’ motive for sending exploratory probes to Earth.
“What would be the main purpose of the trip? By analogy with real dandelion seeds, probes could propagate their senders’ plan,” the authors write. “As with biological seeds, raw materials on the planet’s surface could also be used by them as nutrients for self-replication or simply scientific exploration.”
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The AARO was created last summer and has already received hundreds of reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
The bureau works with other federal agencies to detect objects of interest near military installations or other areas of interest and is required to report regularly to Congress.
Interest in UFOs peaked in recent weeks after the United States shot down what it described as a large Chinese spy balloon that entered American airspace. American jet fighters then shot down three unidentified flying objects, two in the United States and one over Canadian airspace in quick succession.
The incidents prompted the Pentagon to start taking a closer look at other objects in flight.
David Jewitt, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, however, said some of the paper’s claims were “very questionable” and called Mr Kirkpatrick co-authoring “odd “.
“The Air Force is very good at bombing objects, but when it comes to their UFO research, I think I would trust them as much as I can throw them,” Jewitt told the website.
“It’s not clear that the Air Force and military capabilities are best suited to the study of extraterrestrials.”
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Japanese PM Kishida unharmed after explosion heard at port where he was due to speak
Enlarge this image A person (bottom) is detained after throwing an apparent “smoke bomb” in Wakayama on April 15, 2023, where Japan’s prime minister was due to give a speech. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images
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SEOUL — Japanese authorities evacuated Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unharmed after an explosion was heard at a port where he was due to give a stump speech.
There were no reports of injuries, and a suspect was detained for allegedly throwing an explosive during the campaign event.
Kishida was in the city of Wakayama, stumping for a candidate in upcoming by-elections. Public broadcaster NHK reported that an object was thrown and there was an explosion and white smoke.
NHK video shows half a dozen security personnel pinning a person wearing olive-colored pants and sneakers to the ground, before dragging the person away.
Japan updated VIP protection procedures following the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July.
A police report following Abe’s shooting concluded that with better planning and on-site security, Abe’s killing could have been prevented.
President Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age in France clears final hurdle
Enlarge this image Demonstrate gather outside the Paris town hall on Friday in Paris. France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in a victory for French President Emmanuel Macron after three months of mass protests over the legislation that have damaged his leadership. Lewis Joly/AP
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PARIS — France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in a victory for President Emmanuel Macron after months of mass protests that have damaged his leadership.
The decision dismayed or enraged critics of the pension plan. Hundreds of union activists and others gathered peacefully in Paris Friday evening before some groups broke off in marches toward the historic Bastille plaza and beyond, setting fires to garbage bins and scooters as police fired tear gas or pushed them back.
Unions and Macron’s political opponents vowed to maintain pressure on the government to withdraw the bill, and activists threatened scattered new protests Saturday.
Macron’s office said he would enact the law in coming days, and he has said he wants it implemented by the end of the year. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Friday’s decision “marks the end of the institutional and democratic path of this reform,” adding that there was “no victor” in what has turned into a nationwide standoff and France’s worst social unrest in years.
The council rejected some measures in the pension bill, but the higher age was central to Macron’s plan and the target of protesters’ anger. The government argued that the reform is needed to keep the pension system afloat as the population ages; opponents proposed raising taxes on the wealthy or employers instead, and said the changes threaten a hard-won social safety net.
In a separate but related decision, the council rejected a request by left-wing lawmakers to allow for a possible referendum on enshrining 62 as the maximum official retirement age. The council will rule on a second, similar request, next month.
Carl Pfeiffer, a 62-year-old retiree protesting outside City Hall, warned that the Constitutional Council’s decision won’t spell the end of tensions.
The council members “are irresponsible, because the anger that will come right after in the country, it’s their fault,″ he said.
Bartender Lena Cayo, 22, said she was disappointed but not surprised by the decision.
“We are protesting for so many weeks and the government didn’t hear us,” she said. “Workers who have gone on strike or protested the legislation since January are fighting “for their rights, but nothing changes.”
As tensions mounted hours before the decision, Macron invited labor unions to meet with him on Tuesday no matter what the Constitutional Council decision was, his office said. The unions rejected Macron’s invitation, noting that he had refused their previous offers of a meeting, and called for mass new protests on May 1, international workers’ rights day.
Unions have been the organizers of 12 nationwide protests since January and have a critical role in trying to tamp down excessive reactions by protesters. Violence by pockets of ultra-left radicals have marked the otherwise peaceful nationwide marches.
The plan to increase the retirement age was meant to be Macron’s showcase measure in his second term.
The council decision caps months of tumultuous debates in parliament and fervor in the streets.
Spontaneous demonstrations were held around France ahead of the nine-member council’s ruling. Opponents of the pension reform blockaded entry points into some cities, including Rouen in the west and Marseille in the south, slowing or stopping traffic.
The prime minister was interrupted while visiting a supermarket outside Paris by a group of people chanting, “We don’t want it,” referring to the way she skirted the vote by lawmakers to advance the pension reform.
The government’s decision to get around a parliamentary vote in March by using special constitutional powers heightened the fury of the measure’s opponents, as well as their determination. Another group awaited Borne in the parking lot.
Union leaders have said the Constitutional Council’s decisions would be respected, but have vowed to continue protests in an attempt to get Macron to withdraw the measure.
The leader of the moderate CFDT, Laurent Berger, warned that “there will be repercussions.”
Holding out hope to upend the decision, unions and some protesters recalled parallels with a contested 2006 measure about work contracts for youth that sent students, joined by unions, into the streets. That legislation had been pushed through parliament without a vote and given the green light by the Constitutional Council — only to be later scrapped to bring calm to the country.
Far-right lawmaker Marine Le Pen denounced the pension reform as “brutal and unjust.” In a statement, she said that once the reform is put into practice it “will mark the definitive rupture between the French people and Emmanuel Macron.”
Polls have consistently shown that the majority of French citizens are opposed to working two more years before being able to reap pension benefits. The legislation also requires people to work 43 years to receive a full pension, among other changes to the system.
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