On May 4, 1949, nearly the entire Torino FC team and staff died in a plane crash returning from a match in bad weather. Eleven days later, Umberto Motto took the field when their entire youth team was promoted. Now 92, Motto remembers the team president telling him in the locker room that day, "Boys, your masters are watching you." "Grande Torino" had won four straight championships and was awarded a fifth after the tragedy. Torino has only one championship since.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel. Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of "incitement" and said the cabinet decision had been unanimous. read more
Two Israeli officials tell Axios that an ammo shipment bound for Israel was held back last week by the Biden administration.
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Russian military personnel have entered an airbase in Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defence official told the Reuters news agency, following a decision by Niger's military rulers to expel US forces from the country. read more
Donald Trump is privately trashing South Dakota's MAGA Gov. Kristi Noem for executing her puppy and writing about it in her forthcoming memoir ... read more
American military forces are building two floating platforms off the Gaza coast as a temporary port for delivering as many as 2 million meals a day to civilians facing starvation amid the Israel-Hamas war. read more
"The recent coverage of college campuses reminded me of an important life lesson. I don't know about you, but the coverage started frustrating and angering me. So, I've been trying to abstain from the sensationalist headlines and rage porn saturating my newsfeed. Did you know that there are stories that don't involve pepper bullets, riots, antisemitism, Islamophobia, mass arrests, and violence? In fact, several colleges don't involve *any* police action whatsoever. Take a moment and read what's happening at Brown, Middlebury, and UVM. Rather than allow tensions to fester and escalate, some college administrations agreed to"gasp"meet with students and hear them out. Some colleges have ongoing discussions and negotiations, while others have reached agreements and ended the encampments." read more
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft's communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. read more
Prominent Republican Party lawyer Charlie Spies has resigned from his position with the RNC. Donald Trump was reportedly upset that Spies expressed skepticism that the 2020 election was stolen. Some too Spies recent hire as a sign the Trump influenced RNC would still be able to attract serious talent. read more
A new, unholy alliance has emerged on Capitol Hill, and it's hoping not just to recraft governmental policy around digital funny money but to push its antiregulatory agenda across a whole host of elections. To do so, the crypto industry is teaming up with the people behind the latest megahyped, bubblicious tech trend: the artificial intelligence boom. read more
Long Beach officials declared a public health emergency Thursday afternoon after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak in the city. read more
Despite an unprecedented rise in incidents of antisemitism nationwide, Elon Musk said Thursday he's reinstating the X account of Nazi-sympathizing broadcaster Nick Fuentes. read more
The Israel/Hamas conflict is stimulating growing unrest across the nation. Although the conflict in Gaza is the current motivation for protest, unrest in major U.S. cities is a recurring dynamic. And while causes may differ, the formula employed to incite unrest follows a standard "playbook" that has proven effective dating back over three-quarters of a century. read more
This manufacturing technique uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of a vehicle's underbody. Typically, the underbody can consist of hundreds of individual parts. read more
HuffPost writers Liz Skalka and Arthur Delaney make a list Donald Trump's potential vice presidential picks. read more
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