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Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards can’t run from stardom anymore

Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards can’t run from stardom anymore

Connected media - Related media PHOENIX — Fresh off, arguably, the most important performance of his young career, Anthony Edwards sat in front of the world with a white tank top and an all-black Atlanta Braves fitted cap that sat loose, hovering just above his crisp hairline — making him look more like an extra in Outkast’s “Player’s Ball” video than the future face of the NBA. Edwards is who he is. Silly. Lovable. Intelligent. Country. He wears it all, loudly and proudly. He’s also a competitor. A trash-talker. He wears all of those things just as loud, just as…
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Connected media - Linked media The crash of a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran could hardly have come at a more volatile time for the Islamic Republic.Sunday’s episode left the fate of Mr. Raisi — who many analysts believed was being groomed to become Iran’s next supreme leader — uncertain against a backdrop of economic misery, widespread public discontent and geopolitical tensions that had pushed Israel and Iran to exchange rare direct attacks. In the event of the president’s death, the vice president takes over and must organize an election within 50 days, said Ali Vaez, the Iran…
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Trump Calls ‘Apprentice’ Biopic at Cannes ‘Garbage’ and Plans to Sue

Trump Calls ‘Apprentice’ Biopic at Cannes ‘Garbage’ and Plans to Sue

Linked media - Associated media The day after the Cannes Film Festival premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the former president hit back at the movie, calling it “malicious defamation” and threatening legal action. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by the author Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Trump (Sebastian Stan) as an ambitious young man seeking to establish himself as a real estate magnate. He finds a mentor in the wily lawyer Roy Cohn…
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As the U.K. Tries Moving Asylum Seekers Offshore, Ireland Pushes Back

As the U.K. Tries Moving Asylum Seekers Offshore, Ireland Pushes Back

Connected media - Associated media After years of friction, Mr. Sunak last year struck a deal with the European Union, known as the Windsor Framework, which finally seemed to defuse the issue. But Britain’s abrupt cancellation on Sunday of a meeting between its home secretary, James Cleverly, and Ireland’s minister for justice, Helen McEntee, added to the sense of a fresh diplomatic crisis. A meeting of lower-level British and Irish officials produced only a vague agreement to “monitor this issue closely.” “It’s something that needs to be solved, and I don’t see any easy solution,” said Bobby McDonagh, a former…
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Former N.H.L. Player Faces Sexual Assault Charges in Canada

Former N.H.L. Player Faces Sexual Assault Charges in Canada

Linked media - Related media The allegation of a sexual assault was reported to the police in 2018, when the players were members of Canada’s national junior team, and it has created an enormous firestorm over the years, even in a sport with a long history of similar accusations. It led to a clean sweep of the board and leadership of Hockey Canada, the sport’s national governing body, provoked an exodus of sponsors, cut off government funding for the sport, spurred a parliamentary inquiry and prompted scathing rebukes from the public and from political figures, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.…
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