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March 11, 2023
Gary Lineker interrupts ‘Match of the Day’ presentation after tweets about immigration
Gary Lineker interrupts ‘Match of the Day’ presentation after tweets about immigration
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California floods; snow in New York, Dakotas: Weekend weather
An atmospheric river pounding California caused evacuations, a Presidential Emergency Declaration and an increasingly serious warning that more heavy rains are coming for parts of the state.
The central part of California was particularly hammered by the floods: Dramatically flooded roads around Kern County And Members of the National Guard encountered flooding as they deployed to assist first responders in Santa Cruz County.
Forecasters’ concerns are mostly focused away from the state’s major population centers. Saturday afternoon, Los Angeles and San Diego were free of weather watches, warnings and advisories; the San Francisco Bay Area was under extensive flood watch.
Meanwhile, forecasters said a winter storm could dump a foot or more of snow across northeastern North Dakota, part of a storm affecting parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan this weekend.
Impacts of the storm in California: flooded roads, evacuations, broken leveesMore than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday. First responders rescued dozens of people Saturday in a northern California farming community after the Pajaro River levee burst. In Tulare County in the Central Valley, another levee breach prompted evacuations on Friday.
Monterey County Board of Supervisors Chairman Luis Alejo said in a tweet that residents would take months to repair flood damage to their homes in Parajo, a predominantly Latin American community in Monterey Bay. .
“We need all the help we can get from our state and federal leaders to help our families get through this devastating ordeal!” Alejo said.
And in an unusual move, officials opened spillways at Lake Oroville for the first time since April 2019 because one of the state’s largest reservoirs had too much water. State water managers have been wrestling with how best to use recent storms to help emerge from a severe drought.
California Weekend ForecastAn atmospheric river blasting California will continue to dump heavy rain and snow across much of the state on Saturday.
The storm, known as the ‘Pineapple Express’ because it’s fueled by moisture stretching from the Pacific to Hawaii, has caused particular concern as California’s mountains piled up a massive snowpack after several more atmospheric rivers hit the state this winter. It is the 10th atmospheric river of the season in the state.
The high-altitude snowpack is so deep it should be able to absorb rain, forecasters said. But lower elevations could face a troubling combination of melting snow and precipitation at the same time.
Central California remained at risk for stronger and more severe isolated storms Saturday afternoon into the evening, the National Weather Service said, and the Central Valley could see “hail, strong winds and possibly a brief tornado”.
Low-level rain and snow in the mountains of northern and central California were expected at a slightly lower intensity than in recent days.
Atmospheric river:The weather phenomenon stretches thousands of miles from the tropics to the western United States
Another storm heads for CaliforniaSome of the same areas affected in recent days by snow, heavy rain and flooding will see the same in the next storm, the weather service said.
The start of the week will bring “extensive flooding impacts” along California’s central coast, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley and southern Sierra Nevada foothills. The Bay Area should brace for damaging winds starting Monday evening.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, heavier rains and snowmelt could lead to widespread flooding before another flurry of snow “further exacerbates impacts and snow load issues,” according to the weather service.
Any rainfall in California brings good news for the state.
About 26% of the state is now considered drought-free, up from just 16% on Feb. 28, said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bob Larson, adding that this new figure doesn’t even include the two atmospheric rivers that affect the state. State Saturday. and next week.
“It doesn’t end the drought but (it) absolutely helps,” he said. “Although it causes all sorts of problems in the short term, in the long term it helps.”
A strange winter ends:New data details record heat and strange snow patterns
Map of winter stormsEast/North-EastLike California, the eastern and northeastern United States will continue to experience winter storms on Saturday before a quiet Sunday, followed quickly by another storm.
A strip of the region between Buffalo And Binghamton, NY can expect 6 to 12 inches of snow during New York City can get 1 to 3 inches.
The further east the storm moves, the less significant it becomes,” Larson said.
western Massachusetts can get between 2 and 4 inches of snow during Boston looks like it will be spared any major precipitation this weekend.
Come Monday, it will change with a nor’easter.
“It’s not going to be an extended lull,” Larson said. “But all New England should be dry and quiet in between for Sunday.”
SouthStrong to severe thunderstorms are expected in eastern oklahoma and most of Arkansas Saturday before the threat moves from the southeast to the southern half of Mississippi, Alabama And Georgia on Sunday.
United States Weather Watch and WarningsNational Weather RadarContribute: The Associated Press
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Hollywood power outage darkens Oscars preparations
No one can blame a slap in the face of Will Smith for this shocking development!
A temporary power outage in Hollywood on Saturday briefly threw a wrench into preparations for Sunday’s Oscars.
Shortly after 1 p.m., power dropped for an entire block along the boulevard that includes the Dolby Theater, where rehearsals for the Academy Awards were taking place.
The outage was brief in the building and rehearsals progressed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Crew and rewards insiders were stuck in elevators, and local store owners were forced to close early.
The news comes after days of heavy rain in the Los Angeles area that are expected to dissipate before the awards show.
Chris Gardener, who writes for the media, tweeted video of people walking along stuck elevators.
Shortly after 1 p.m., power dropped across an entire city block that included the Dolby Theater, where Oscar rehearsals were taking place.AFP via Getty Images
He quoted a source as saying the scene inside Dolby was “chaotic” and that “it’s a good thing it’s not.” [Sunday].”
Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars this year.
The Academy is putting in place measures to avoid “unprecedented” performances at this year’s 95th Academy Awards after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the live stream last year.
During the ceremony, a “crisis team” will be ready to intervene in case of unforeseen events.
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Hilary Duff’s Husband Matthew Koma Playfully Trolls Her Ex Joel Madden
Non-friendly exes are so yesterday!
That’s why not only is Hilary Duff on good terms with her ex Joel Madden, but so is her husband Matthew Koma. So good, in fact, that the two have been known to hang out with the Good Charlotte singer and his wife, Nicole Richie. Therefore, when Joel turned 44 March 11, Koma paid tribute to him on social media.
“Happy birthday @joelmadden,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories. “Grateful for you and our friendship @joelmadden.”
Matthew, 35, included in his posts a pic of himself and the birthday boy at an outdoor party as well as a photo of themselves walking Joel and Nicole’s two German Shepherds, Roki and Xavi.
Matthew also shared a throwback photo of Joel and Hilary, 35, taken at a Zac Posen fashion show in New York City in September 2006, two months before the former couple split following a two-year relationship. Matthew also addressed the elephant in the room. “It’s not even that weird that you dated my wife @joelmadden,” he wrote. “It just makes me feel closer to you.”
March 9, 2023
Rita Moreno Reveals the Hilarious Problem of Working With Jason Momoa
Rita Moreno wants to know what the weather is like up there for Jason Momoa.
The West Side Story actress recently shared her experience filming Fast X, the 10th installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, where she literally couldn’t see eye-to-eye with her co-star.
“Jason Momoa is the world’s tallest person,” Rita exclusively told E! News at the Time Women of the Year Gala on March 8. “When I met him while I was there doing the film in England, I was actually talking to his belt. That man is so damn tall, literally. I mean he’s like way up here and you’re sort of looking at his belt and then go, ‘Hey, it’s me, Rita.'”
Even if height distance makes it hard for Rita to have a face-to-face conversation, at least technology helps bridge the divide. As she explained, “I’m a text buddy of Ludacris and a couple of other people that I think is surprising.”
‘COVID Vaccine Death Memorial’ video viewed 1 million times
A video showing what she describes as a “COVID vaccine death memorial” in Canberra, Australia’s capital, has been viewed more than a million times on TikTok.
The clip mentions reports that Canberra is the most vaccinated city in the world and suggests that COVID-19 vaccines have been responsible for many deaths.
This claim is often made by anti-vaccination groups and conspiracy theorists. The “memorial” posters in Canberra appear to be a set-up by these activists.
However, health authorities in Australia, the United States and elsewhere have found no evidence for their claims about the deaths.
The National Library of Australia in Canberra, pictured in October 2014. Opposite is Queen Elizabeth Terrace, where campaigners have erected a ‘memorial’ to people they claim died after receiving the COVID vaccine.Simon McGill/Getty Images
The Australian Department of Health’s latest COVID vaccine safety report, published in January, states: “Vaccines can cause death in extremely rare cases. However, most deaths that occur after vaccination are not caused by the vaccine.
The department “identified 14 reports where the cause of death was related to vaccination from 959 reports received and reviewed” since the start of the COVID vaccine rollout.
Over 65 million doses have been administered in Australia and 96.2% of the population has received two or more injections.
Medical events such as heart attacks have occurred among a small number of people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, but research has found that such incidents are much less common than those in patients infected with the virus itself.
The memorial depicted in the TikTok video appears to have been erected on Queen Elizabeth Terrace near the National Library of Australia on the bank of the Molonglo River. Posters depicting people who allegedly died after receiving the COVID vaccine were pasted on sticks planted in the ground.
Similar posters have been put up across Australia in recent weeks, according to Evie magazine. The campaign, known as ‘Forest of the Fallen’, is said to have been started by a woman in Tasmania, but has since been taken up by a group called Reignite Democracy Australia.
“The pain that big pharma and the government have imposed on all of us also cannot be forgotten,” the group said in a Jan. 23 statement. “It is our responsibility to spread the truth.”
A video showing one of the memorials was released by Reignite Democracy Australia on March 7.
Australia recorded 17,900 more deaths in the first 11 months of 2022, according to the country’s Institute of Actuaries, which is 11% above expected levels for the year. Just over half of those deaths, 10,300, were attributed to COVID-19 and the virus was a contributing factor in another 2,900.
In October, author and anti-vaccination campaigner Alex Berenson claimed that vaccines “kill people, plain and simple”, noting an increase in deaths in Australia after COVID vaccines began to be administered.
However, the Institute of Actuaries suggested that the excess deaths that were not attributed to COVID could have been due to several other factors, including a higher risk of deterioration of other underlying conditions after battling the virus. viruses; delays in emergency care; and “mortality displacement,” in which people who might have died earlier in the pandemic succumb to an underlying disease later.
Newsweek contacted Reignite Democracy Australia and the Australian Government’s Department of Health for comment.
The department’s website states, “Vaccination against COVID-19 is the most effective way to reduce death and serious illness from infection. The protective benefits of vaccination far outweigh the potential risks.
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Manhattan DA gives strong indication of Trump accusations: report
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told Donald Trump’s legal team that he could face criminal charges over hidden money paid to an adult movie star in the 2016 election, officials said on Thursday. four people familiar with the matter at the New York Times.
According to the sources, prosecutors have offered Trump the chance to testify before a grand jury next week, which would be an unusual step if they don’t plan to press charges. It’s also a sign that a decision on an indictment is near, the Times noted. Sources later confirmed the offer to testify with The Washington Post.
Trump, who has announced his intention to run for president again in 2024, is unlikely to testify.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office did not return HuffPost’s request for comment on the report.
The DA’s investigation is the longest of several ongoing criminal investigations into Trump’s conduct and relates to a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
Following an explosive Wall Street Journal report on the 2018 payout, longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen admitted to orchestrating the arrangement a month before the 2016 election in exchange for Daniels’ silence. on the alleged affair. Cohen was later convicted of violating campaign finance laws and sentenced to three years in federal prison, but only served one year.
Trump, meanwhile, denied ordering Cohen to repay Daniels and said the money for the payment did not come from his campaign.
A Trump spokesperson released a statement reacting to the Times report, saying the District Attorney’s “threat to indict President Trump is simply insane” and calling the investigation a “witch hunt.”
Just over a month ago, The Times reported that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was preparing to present evidence to the grand jury convened for the case and had contacted several people who had worked on the campaign. of Trump in 2016.
The former president remains under investigation by the Justice Department for his alleged role in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and for the large volume of classified documents found at his Mar-a- Lago in Florida last year. A grand jury in Georgia is also investigating his alleged role in attempts to nullify the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
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Raquel Leviss Sends Legal Letters to Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix
The Tom Sandoval cheating scandal just got messier: Raquel Leviss is SUR-ving legal letters.
Her lawyer alleges that her Vanderpump Rules co-star recorded an “intimate” FaceTime session with her without her consent, according to the letters obtained by E! News. The documents are dated March 3, days before she broke her silence amid allegations of a months-long affair with Tom—a romance that led to his split from fellow cast member Ariana Madix after nine years.
In legal letters sent to him, his ex Ariana and other members of the cast, the attorney warned them not to share the recording or risk breaking the law. It’s not revealed what the video contained.
“We understand that sometime recently you and Ms. Leviss engaged in an intimate exchange on Facetime, which you recorded without the permission of Ms. Leviss,” the lawyer wrote to Tom. “California is what is called a ‘two party consent’ state, and accordingly such recording is illegal in California and can potentially expose you to both civil and criminal penalties.”
The lawyer continued, “On behalf of Ms. Leviss, we hereby demand that you delete the recording from your phone and from the cloud and from any other manner or method in which the recording may exist.”
I wanted to break the TV after watching Antonio Conte, Bruno Fernandes is an irritable child and how can West Ham replace David Moyes with Michael Carrick?
talkSPORT’s Simon Jordan has his say on the biggest stories in football this week…
There’s been plenty to talk about, from Bruno Fernandes’ behavior in Manchester United’s 7-0 loss to Liverpool, to questions about the future of Tottenham manager Antonio Conte and West Ham boss David Moyes.
talkSPORT pundit Jordan has given his verdict on some of the best football stories of the week
How Erik ten Hag should deal with Bruno FernandesJordan’s Verdict: I think Fernandes is one of those conundrums that you give a little dispensation for because they are very talented players. But will they get Man United where they need to be?
There was a lot of fury after the game, with Graeme Souness scoring his points and Gary Neville trying to get a feel for Man United’s performance. Fernandes wasn’t the leader United needed, but again neither were the other 10 players on the pitch.
I think there should be consequences for pushing the linesman, because I think we’re trying to get some order in the game and some culture and respect for the officials. We see it land in grassroots football, the way people relate to officials, referees and linesmen. So I’m not a big fan of that.
I think it is light weight. I think he falls when he feels like it. I think he has a lot of ability and that ability will be given as an excuse for other aspects of his game. Whether he’s captain or not… well, that’s a bigger question. Technically, he is a very gifted player. His behavior is petulant and childish. This is not the kind of reaction one would expect. You can’t imagine people like Roy Keane leading the team like that. Keane talks about the dynamics of feeling like a circus is coming to town.
I think Ten Hag will stop this particular situation. I think Fernandes will be arrested for protesting not being taken off, kicking Trent Alexander-Arnold, pushing the linesmen, or generally having the body language of a lightweight .
You can’t sum up United’s season in this beating. A lot of people don’t care a lot about it, but I think it will be good for United. I think that will stop the idea that they are actually going to be in the Premier League title race, because they are not. And it will give them more opportunities to square certain circles that Ten Hag will clearly see. There were a lot of them there, it wasn’t just Fernandes, but right now Fernandes is the person you’re supposed to turn to, who sets the temperature, sets the tone. And he did everything but that. So I think it was petulant and poor.
But then again, you show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser. What you wanted to see was a little more resilience, a little more discipline, a little more courage, a little more example. And to be completely honest with you, in this game, Fernandes didn’t do any of that.
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Captain Fernandes was widely criticized after the beating at Anfield
Antonio Conte’s interview after Tottenham’s Champions League exit made me lose my mindJordan’s Verdict: I listened to Conte’s interview and I wanted to turn on the television.
What I find inexcusable are some of the comments Conte made last night about progressing to victory. What a bunch of old shit. Losing to Sheffield United was a build, wasn’t it?
Here is the question: what is Antonio Conte’s vision? Because I was a big defender of the winning mentality that Conte would bring to Tottenham. I thought it would change the culture.
After 16 months, that’s a reasonable amount of time for him not to say the same things he said when he walked in the door. You have heard this story. It’s absolute crap to suggest that you have to build things and not just make up wins.
You win against teams like Sheffield United. That’s what you do. It is absolutely outrageous. Football managers take the mickey. They speak in riddles and they never answer the question. I understand why he doesn’t want to talk about his contract. It is not unreasonable for him to dodge this question. I don’t like it, but that’s the nature of the beast.
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Conte is under increasing pressure at Spurs after their Champions League exit
One thing that I don’t accept, that I don’t understand, that I won’t tolerate and that I won’t allow him to get away with is losing in competitions like the FA Cup.
This would reduce some of the noise. If Tottenham were in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, they would still have something to play for this season, in addition to a fourth place.
If Tottenham fans are happy with fourth place, then we’re redundant in this conversation, because who are we to tell Spurs fans what they should be going through? But I feel like many rational and irrational Tottenham fans want to see more of their side. They want a better looking football team and they want to see something on the table.
Tale trotting the same guts is so unconscious that it almost passes the understanding. It’s on you, mate. It’s about you. You leave places with people who want more. We have to suggest that Conte is an important part of the fault mechanism. When he enters the building, rather than the mood going up, it seems to go down.
I now move away from the idea that Conte and Kane were the way Spurs should go. Kane, yes, but he’ll probably go in the summer. And Conte marks time.
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Kane is Tottenham’s top scorer but has yet to win a trophy in his career
Michael Carrick replacing David Moyes is not the solution for West HamJordan’s Verdict: Would I replace David Moyes with Michael Carrick? Well, first and foremost, that’s assuming Carrick would leave Middlesbrough to go to West Ham. He was a West Ham player. I tried to sign him from West Ham in 2005, and almost did.
I’m surprised, pleasantly surprised and actually wrong about my expectations of Carrick’s challenges and struggles at Middlesbrough. He didn’t have them. He made them straighten up and fly straight. And it’s like when I bought Ian Dowie from Crystal Palace and we were bottom of the league and got promoted. Or when Sunderland brought in Roy Keane with no Championship experience and got promoted.
Carrick is certainly kicking back and taking numbers at Middlesbrough. But asking him to step into a situation at West Ham, because currently he looks good at Middlesbrough, is a wild rush. Listen, it’s a terrible result on the weekend. But then again, I think right now Brighton are one of the best teams in the Premier League, one of the best teams in the Premier League. And the only reason they don’t get that accreditation is because they’re at Brighton, and they’re not at Liverpool, Manchester City, Man United, Arsenal or Tottenham.
They’re Brighton and so they always come with that tag, that there’s a level of expectation against them. But Brighton are capable of doing that to most Premier League teams.
West Ham need to pull themselves together. Moyes made some pointed observations about who wants to come with him a few weeks ago and then got a decent result against Nottingham Forest, where they looked much better. They were OK against Man United and had a bit of bad luck in the cup. And now they’re going back to the league and getting their heads back.
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Moyes’ side lost 4-0 at home to Brighton on Saturday
David, again, talks about players coming with him and then nuanced it by saying they’re a good group. I’m afraid David is turning to football manager territory when talking about what has been done before. If they are relegated from this division, which I don’t think they will, racing in Europe and finishing in the top half of the Premier League will be little consolation for anyone.
David needs to refocus and refocus to find a methodology that allows this team to do a little better. The argument that players like Soucek and Bowen didn’t show up is starting to dwindle because those players have been better in recent weeks. But the team’s performance is not. Players like Rice, who people are making a lot of noise about, must be doing much better than them because they are supposed to be £120m footballers.
They’re not the only reason, but they’re the players you turn to. I wouldn’t say changing Moyes for Carrick is a solution. I also wouldn’t suggest that Carrick will sprint to do it. Moyes needs to pull himself together and then see what the future looks like. Because unfortunately for David, it’s the only season where he has no arguments. He had £160m in transfer spending. Put him behind the eight ball in this situation, and West Ham need to find some balance. Otherwise, they will be sucked into the situation again, when they have enough quality and innate ability not to be in the position they are in.
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The bodies of 2 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico have been returned to the U.S.
Enlarge this image Mexican soldiers are seen preparing for a search mission for the kidnapped U.S. citizens in Matamoros earlier this week. Two of the Americans were killed, and Mexican authorities returned their bodies to the U.S. on Thursday. AP
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MATAMOROS, Mexico — The Mexican authorities returned the bodies of the two Americans killed in the border city of Matamoros.
After autopsies were conducted, security forces escorted the remains of Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown late Thursday evening to American authorities, who then drove them across the bridge to Brownsville, Texas.
Woodard and Brown had been killed after they were caught in the crossfire by unidentified gunmen last Friday. One unidentified Mexican woman also died in the incident.
Their two companions, LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams, survived and are recovering in a U.S. hospital.
Earlier in the day, one of the organized crime groups that controls Matamoros left five men in the middle of the street with their hands tied.
In a note, the group apologized for the killings and said these were the men responsible.
But Mexican authorities have said nothing about the note or the men accused by the cartel. So far, only one arrest has been made in relation to the kidnapping.
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