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A predatory former Olympic swimmer has been jailed for 21 years for raping two teenage girls and forcing them to have sex with ‘strange’ men. Antony James, 35, who represented Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympic Games was convicted of multiple counts of child sex offences at Plymouth Crown Court today. During the trial,…
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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CW In the realm of adaptations of the “Superman” mythos, “Smallville” is certainly up there in terms of its enduring popularity. The series, which starred Tom Welling as Clark Kent, aired for a whopping 10 seasons…
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A crypto-gambler appeared to shoot himself on a livestream on X after allegedly losing $500 on a memecoin investment. Arnold Haro, 23, apparently livestreamed himself on the site playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with what appeared to be a loaded revolver. Video since deleted from his account showed the father-of-one telling followers, ‘If I die, I hope…
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Ostriches, butt cheeks and relentless energy: How Austin Hedges became an indispensable MLB teammate
After the Texas Rangers acquired Max Scherzer at the 2023 deadline, a number of their players were unsure of how to act, and almost distanced themselves out of respect for the future Hall of Famer. Catcher Austin Hedges, who joined the Rangers two days later in a separate trade, took the opposite approach. “He was…
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Columbia Pictures This article contains spoilers for “Cobra Kai” Season 6 Part 3. The best legacy sequels use familiar faces to attract franchise devotees while also introducing fresh characters to pull in a whole new generation. For six wild seasons of television, “Cobra Kai” managed to do…
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Tributes have poured in for a 14-year-old British schoolboy who died in a horrific skiing accident while on a half-term holiday with his family in the Dolomites in northern Italy. Matthew Leggatt, from Bristol, lost his balance and crashed as he went down a red slope in the Cortina d’Ampezzo resort on Saturday morning, authorities said. …
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Back in my early twenties, I was at a party at a rooftop bar trapped in a round of small talk with a friend of a friend. Scrambling around for conversation, I asked her where she came from. “Folkestone,” she said. If you don’t know, that’s a coastal town in Kent, in the south east…
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Before he was writing half the shows on Paramount+, Taylor Sheridan was an actor. The man behind shows like “Yellowstone” and “Tulsa King” and the scripts for films including “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water” cut his teeth with screen work, a pastime he occasionally returns to when he…
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The Federal Reserve has moved into a near standstill as President Donald Trump continues to rail through and cut government contracts, workforce, programs and even entire agencies. While much remains up-in-the-air within the federal government, the U.S. central banking system is struck trying to adjust to the fallout in real time as Trump and his…
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Take two proud hockey countries in a best-on-best final, add a massive dose of geopolitics into the equation, and then conclude the matchup with a historic overtime goal by the game’s best player. It’s a recipe for a historic viewership number — and that’s what we saw with Canada’s 3-2 overtime win over the United…