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Russian Hackers are at it again. They infiltrated and wreaked havoc on the 2016 United States Presidential election. Russian hacking is absolutely destroying the American political process, on all levels, right now.
Today, one very notorious Russian hackers group, The Fancy Bears, have used their power to expose protected medical data in Olympic sports. Tuesday’s revelation was the Fancy Bears’ first exposure in the football world.
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It’s very common for many British newspapers to report questionably sourced and extremely unrealistic transfer rumors as legitimate reports, but fictional quotes? This is a definition of “fake news” that we rarely, if ever see. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, one of the most entertaining soundbites in football, made the perfect subject for an interview quote hoax because of what an affable and entertaining man he truly is.
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Alt-right website Breitbart .com has had more than its share of controversy over the years. They certainly have gotten a lot wrong along the way too. This time, their mistake was to include a picture of former Arsenal FC flop Lukas Podolski in a story entitled “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis.”
Podolski, a Polish born German international who now plays his club ball for J-League side Vissel Kobe, has absolutely nothing to do the subject matter of the story. The only connection he has to the Breitbart “article” is the fact that he’s on a jetski in the photo.
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One woman is dead and 19 other people are injured following a terrorist attack by a member of a white supremacist group in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. A 20-year-old white male committed alleged vehicular homicide as he intentionally drive his car into a crowd of counter-protestors demonstrating against the hate rally.
This came on the heels of a torch-lit demonstration by nazis, neo-nazis, confederacy sympathizers, alt-right, white nationalists, white supremacists and other hate groups held on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.
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Chelsea Football Club Owner Roman Abramovich, who Forbes estimates to be the 139th wealthiest person (£7 billion, $9.1 billion) in the entire world, is separating from his wife Dasha Zhukova. The pair maintain that this is a very amicable parting of ways and they plan on continuing to work together in the art world. Zhukova, 36, is an art collector, who resides on the board of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has no more worries about approval ratings. In his next career, the ratings he’ll be pre-occupied with will pertain to radio listenership. Christie is going through the motions as he finishes out his final term, blissfully aware that it no longer matters what the public thinks of him as a politician.
The Fourth of July Holiday week, in which Beachgate had a heavy presence in the news cycle, showcased just how much Chris Christie doesn’t a give a you-know-what. Well, in his next career, being hated could help, as long as the haters tune in.
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Why is Bobby Knight still a thing? We’ve known for several decades already what kind of horrible human being he is. During his 76 years on this planet he’s racked up an infamous resume of deplorable actions that should have long disqualified him from relevance and being worthy of our attention.
Yet here we are again, talking about another disgusting thing Bobby Knight did. This time, he went to give a motivational speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and he ended up under investigation from both the FBI and the U.S. Army for groping the female employees.
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Britt McHenry, known first and foremost for her infamous berating of a tow company employee, was among those laid off by ESPN in April. She hasn’t secured her next gig yet, and as such doesn’t have to currently adhere to the “opinions expressed are my own and not that of the corporation” routine.
The only brand she has to be concerned with right now is that of the individual named Britt McHenry. Given that she’s let loose a bit and showcased her political bent, which leans to the right.
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Paul Pogba gave a very detailed, interesting, thought-provoking and in-depth interview with Esquire.
While the Q&A appears in the July/August edition of the magazine, which hits news stands today, it was actually conducted about 72 hours after Islamic terrorist Salman Ramadan Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at Manchester Arena. The blast, at an Ariana Grande concert, killed 23 and injured 250 people.
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The Chicago Cubs visited the White House for a second time yesterday, and this time the occasion had very limited media access. Limitations aside, this photo of Cubs outfielder Albert Almora seemingly extending his middle finger, albeit downward emerged and briefly created some uproar.
Of course, if Almora was actually “flipping the bird” to President Trump, he would have had his hand turned upward, not downward. Have a look:
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Russian President, and de facto ruler of the United States according to late night talk show punchlines Vladimir Putin is trying to encourage his struggling national team. Heading into Saturday’s Confederations Cup opener against New Zealand in St. Petersburg, the Russian football/soccer team have won just three of their last 15 games.
Mother Russia is hosting this tournament, as well as next summer’s World Cup.
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Ana Navarro, conservative strategist and political commentator, absolutely stole the show at the 2017 AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing conference. Her Tuesday morning session, “Multiculturalism and Today’s Media: The 2016 Election and What It All Means,” was the highlight of the entire event. The jokes she made about “The Wall” and her story of what she said to Paul Ryan at the Romney retreat was worth the price of admission all by itself.
She was part of a panel that included the woman in that AWFUL Tronc video Anne Vasquez, and Juan Carlos Lopez, anchor of CNN en Español.
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