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Grading the Week: Is Kevin Durant starting to slip? Or is Aaron Gordon really that good?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

There are a few ways to view Kevin Durant’s shockingly ordinary performance against the Nuggets over their recently concluded playoff series.The first, and most accessible, is to conclude that the Phoenix Suns superstar and one-time NBA MVP is no longer the unstoppable bucket-getter he once was. A second, and more satisfying verdict for the Grading the Week staff, is that Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon is really that good.Aaron Gordon — A+How quickly opinions change when a player actually gets to focus on the things they are good at.It wasn’t all that long ago that Gordon and teammate Will Barton were the primary scapegoats in a disappointing 4-1 series loss to the Golden State Warriors in the first round of last year’s NBA playoffs.Thrust into a No. 2 role alongside two-time MVP Nikola Jokic with Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. sidelined, Gordon often looked lost while attempting to carry a load that was never meant for him. But with Murray and Porter back...

Curry, Green say this isn’t the Warriors’ “Last Dance” despite loss to Lakers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

LOS ANGELES — Steph Curry refused to believe it was over until the math just didn’t add up. After all he’s done on the playoff stage, how could you blame him?Rui Hachimura had just eased past him into a layup to put the Lakers up 23 points with six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of Game 6. Curry kept pushing — at too many points in his career, he’s defied odds and won momentous games with little hope remaining. But reality overcame rational cockiness.He and his teammates who’ve won four titles together had fallen into unfamiliar territory: Out of the playoffs before the Finals for the first time since 2014, the year of a first-round loss that taught Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson how to win together.“Our worst season since 2014 and we still had a chance to make a run,” Green said.The Warriors’ Big Three won’t count the dismal 2020 (worst record in league) or 2021 (knocked out in play-in) seasons because they weren’t c...

Bouie: Clarence Thomas can’t undermine Supreme Court legitimacy fast enough

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

For Republicans, the investigations into Clarence Thomas and his friendship with Harlan Crow, a Texas billionaire, are just pretexts for an attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.“This assault on Justice Thomas is well beyond ethics,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on Supreme Court ethics reform. “It’s about trying to delegitimize a conservative court that was appointed through the traditional process.”For their part, Democrats do not seem eager to attack or undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Just a handful of Democrats in the House of Representatives called for Thomas’ resignation after reports that he accepted lavish trips and gifts from Crow, and Senate Democrats have been careful with the issue. There’s no indication that Democrats have the votes to pass anything like a meaningful Supreme Court ethics law.What’s more, Democrats still speak as if they hold the Supreme Court in high esteem. Th...

Ask Amy: My husband refused to confiscate this big shot’s handicap placard

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

Dear Amy: I have been happily married for 39 years. The few “disagreements” we’ve had always seem to center around my husband’s family.The latest has to do with my brother-in-law. He has always had a very entitled attitude.When my mother-in-law passed away in 2020, the car she recently bought was taken over by him. I was fine with that.However, she also had a handicap parking permit that was issued to her by the state of New York due to her deteriorating health issues.My husband’s brother has chosen to use that permit illegally for the past two years.I have always suspected the fraud but didn’t want to accuse him and cause problems in the event that he had gotten his own permit.This past week he left the area to visit another relative, and his car was left in our driveway while he was away.After checking the tag through the window, I confirmed that he has been illegally using my mother-in-law’s handicap permit tag. This left me furious.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: No...

Debt ceiling standoff shows how era of pandemic spending is giving way to focus on stemming deficits

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — One outcome is clear as Washington reaches for a budget deal to end the debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID-19 era of government spending to cope with the pandemic and rebuild in its aftermath is giving way to a new fiscal focus on tailored investments and stemming deficits.President Joe Biden has said recouping unspent coronavirus money is “on the table” in budget talks with Congress. While the White House has threatened to veto Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill with its “devastating cuts” to federal programs, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.The end result is a turnaround from just a few years ago, when Congress passed and then-president Donald Trump signed the historic $2.2 trillion CARES Act at the start of the public health crisis in 2020. It’s a dramatic realignment even as Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act are now investing billions of dollars into pav...

Última hora y noticias en vivo de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania: Rusia intentó, sin éxito destruir el sistema Patriot fabricado en Estados Unidos

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

Haz clic aquí para ver las entradas más recientesUn sistema de defensa aérea Patriot del Ejército de EE. UU. en Rzesznow, Polonia, el 8 de marzo de 2022. Sean Gallup/Getty Images/ARCHIVOThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Revelan nuevos retratos del día de la coronación del rey Carlos y la reina Camila

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

(CNN) — Puede que haya pasado una semana desde la coronación del rey Carlos III de Gran Bretaña, pero el palacio sigue publicando detalles del gran día, esta vez en forma de dos fotografías publicadas este viernes, tomadas después de la coronación.En una imagen, Charles aparece con su hijo mayor, William, el príncipe de Gales y su nieto, el príncipe George, en el Salón del Trono del Palacio de Buckingham.En esta foto publicada por el Palacio de Buckingham el viernes 12 de mayo de 2023, el rey Carlos III del Reino Unido, el príncipe de Gales y el príncipe George posan para una foto el día de la coronación, el 6 de mayo de 2023, en el Salón del Trono de Palacio de Buckingham, Londres.(Hugo Burnand/Royal Household 2023/AP)El rey viste todas las insignias, la Túnica de Estado y la Corona del Estado Imperial, mientras sostiene el Orbe del Soberano y el Cetro del Soberano con la Cruz. Está sentado en uno de los dos tronos que se hicieron para el futuro rey Jorge V y la reina María p...

Eurovisión 2023: participantes, horarios y cómo ver por televisión e internet

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

(CNN Español) — La gran final del Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 2023 será este sábado 13 de mayo a partir de las 3:00 p.m., hora de Miami. En el concurso, que este año se realiza en Liverpool, Reino Unido, se presentarán 26 participantes que compiten por los votos del público y de los jurados.Durante las dos semifinales, celebradas el 9 y 11 de mayo, el público seleccionó a los 20 participantes que concursarán este sábado. Por primera vez, la votación fue abierta a los espectadores de Eurovisión de todo el mundo y no solo a los de los países participantes.La votación en las semifinales duró 15 minutos, conforme a las reglas establecidas para el concurso.¿Qué participantes llegaron a la final?En la primera semifinal se presentaron 15 concursantes y en la segunda 16. Durante cada una se seleccionaron 10 participantes.Los otros seis concursantes pertenecen a los llamados “Big Five” (Francia, Alemania, Italia, España y el Reino Unido), que, por ser los países co...

Zelenskyy in Rome to meet with Italian officials, Pope Francis

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Rome on Saturday to meet with Italian officials and Pope Francis.“Today in Rome,” Zelenskyy tweeted in the morning, calling the trip “an important visit for approaching victory of Ukraine.” He was greeted at a military airfield at Rome’s Ciampino airport by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. “We reaffirm our support for the Ukrainian people in defending freedom and democracy,” Tajani said. The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, later welcomed Zelenskyy to the presidential Quirinale Palace. “We are fully at your side,″ Mattarella told his guest at the start of their meeting.While Zelenskyy’s exact schedule is unknown — for security reasons — he is due to meet with Pope Francis after his closed-door talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.Last month, Pope Francis told reporters that the Vatican was engaged in a behind-the-scene peace mission to put an end to the conflict in Ukrain...

5 people facing charges after pair of stabbing attacks in Brockton

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:07:25 GMT

Five people are now facing charges after two different stabbing attacks in Brockton Friday, according to police. The first stabbing happened near a softball field outside Brockton High School shortly after dismissal around 2 p.m., leaving three people with injuries, police said. Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital. The third person later sought medical attention on their own.About an hour later, police said officers rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital, also in Brockton. There, police said a suspect in the stabbing outside the high school was stabbed during a fight. Police had not publicly identified the people charged in this case as of Friday night.Police and the Brockton Public Schools both said this was not a random incident and there was never a threat to the high school.