Brazil manager Tite has fired back at Donald Trump, suggesting he be “more well informed historically” about the country’s five World Cup wins after the US president poked fun at the team’s paltry showing at the 2018 tournament. READ MORE: ‘You’ve been a p**** your whole life!’: Irish coach Keane in alleged foul-mouthed rant at […]
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Winx to run at historically short odds
CHAMPION mare Winx is set to start the shortest favourite in a Sydney Group 1 race for nearly 60 years in the $ 600,000 TAB Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The racehorse, rated the world’s best on turf, was installed at $ 1.08 by TAB Fixed Odds price assessors to win […]
Is the NBA Leaving Detroit's Historically Versatile Big Man Behind?
The 2018 NBA All-Star Game starting lineups were revealed last week, and while perennial stars like Stephen Curry, LeBron James, James Harden and Kevin Durant topped the list of vote-getters, some interesting developments were revealed through the association’s new selection system. Fan voting used to decide the entirety of All-Star rosters, but this season the […]
The Post: How historically accurate is Meryl Streep’s new movie? See the BACKLASH
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star as Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee in the film, directed by Steven Spielberg. After generating a lot of buzz and positive reviews, it finally hits UK cinemas today. It follows the paper’s journalists as they attempt to publish classified documents containing information about the involvement of the United States’ […]
Investing legend Bill Gross says women have historically ‘gotten the short stick’ — then lists 6 positive qualities of men
Janus Investing guru Bill Gross said in his latest newsletter that he supports the recent wave of support for women and the Me Too movement. Gross also listed a few things that men deserved to be recognized for, including needing “fewer pairs of shoes and purses.” Much like men, Gross said, bonds are also in […]
Ex-FBI director Comey heckled at historically black college
Published time: 22 Sep, 2017 15:49 Edited time: 22 Sep, 2017 15:56 Hecklers tried to drown out a speech by former FBI director James Comey at Howard University in Washington, DC. Howard, a historically black college, hired Comey as a special guest lecturer. A group of students in the back of the auditorium have kept […]
A former KGB spy explains how US presidents have been historically naive about the Russians
Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,” explains how American presidents have historically been naive about the Russians. Following is a transcript of the video. This is a much more complex world today than it was during the Cold War. […]
Trump played golf 19 times in his first 100 days — here’s why American presidents have been historically obsessed with the game
REUTERS/David Moir President Donald Trump may have criticized Barack Obama for playing too much golf, but he’s already beating Obama’s pace. As of his first 100 days in office end on Saturday, Trump has gone on 19 golf outings, compared to Obama’s one during the equivalent time as president. Regardless of who’s in office, it’s […]
The Only Thing, Historically, That’s Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Calls to make America great again hark back to a time when income inequality receded even as the economy boomed and the middle class expanded. Yet it is all too easy to forget just how deeply this newfound equality was rooted in the cataclysm of the world wars. The pressures of total war became a […]
South Carolina elected its first openly gay lawmaker from a historically deep-red district
Sean Rayford/AP GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s first openly gay legislator hails from the unlikeliest of places: an ultra-conservative part of the state that is home to the Christian fundamentalist school Bob Jones University. Republican Rep. Jason Elliott, a 46-year-old divorce attorney, said his sexual orientation was not an issue in his campaign and […]