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5+ min ago (423+ words) Head coach Ghalenoei is part of the delegation attending the draw despite saying they would boycott it over visa issues. Iranian football team's head coach Ardeshir Amir Ghalenoei has arrived in Washington, DC, with a delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation, before the draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026. FIFA confirmed the delegation's presence in the United States capital on Friday, as preparations continue for the expanded 48-team tournament next summer, which will be hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico. Iran initially said they would boycott the ceremony in the US capital over visa issues. While Iran had applied for nine visas for their delegation, Iranian football federation (FFIRI) spokesman Amir Mehdi Alavi was quoted as saying the US had granted four visas, including coach Ghalenoei. Mehdi Taj, president of the FFIRI, was not granted a…...

8+ min ago (519+ words) The ballot measure seeks to undo a citizen-driven one that passed in 2024, which expanded abortion rights in the state. An appeals court in Missouri has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state. The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri's Western District of Appeals represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive. Following the 2022 Supreme Court ruling Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which upended federal recognition of abortion rights, a "trigger law" in Missouri automatically banned abortion in the state. In 2024, abortion rights activists spearheaded a ballot initiative campaign and garnered enough signatures to force a vote on the measure in November, which…...

11+ min ago (926+ words) Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been one of the most vociferous defenders of President Donald Trump's expansive use of executive authority, withholding billions of dollars in federal funding to states and dismissing protests of the White House's boundary-pushing behavior as the gripings of "disenfranchised Democrats." But court documents reviewed by ProPublica show that a decade ago, as a House member, Duffy took a drastically different position on presidential power, articulating a full-throated defense of Congress' role as a check on the president " one that resembled the very arguments made by speakers at recent anti-Trump "No Kings" rallies around the country. In an assertive, thoroughly researched 2015 legal brief, Duffy, then a Republican representative from Wisconsin, detailed the history of America's creation in reaction to the absolute power of the English crown, invoking the Magna Carta and the Founding Fathers as he…...

12+ min ago (304+ words) CNN anchor John Berman threw down with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Friday over whether or not Congress has given President Donald Trump the legal authority to bomb alleged drug smuggling boats off the coast of Venezuela. The Trump administration has so far killed over 80 people on those boats and ignited a firestorm of criticism over its bombing of survivors in a so-called double-tap strike, which many critics are calling a war crime. Berman asked Cotton, "Question: If they are terrorists, when did Congress pass the authorized use of force to attack them?" Cotton replied, "John, the reason why your question is not well-founded is like saying, "Would Barack Obama be okay droning an American citizen when he was president?" Like he did to Anwar al-Awlaki over in the Middle East. These are…...

13+ min ago (335+ words) Cillian Murphy returns as Thomas Shelby in "The Immortal Man," coming to theaters before its streaming debut "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" is officially set to hit select theaters and Netflix in March 2026. The news also comes the same day that Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery reached a $82.7 billion deal for the former to acquire the latter's studio and streaming assets. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos also noted they intend to support WB's movie theater output, although he noted the release window will evolve. It has been nearly four years since the sixth and final season of "Peaky Blinders" premiered on Netflix in 2022. "The Immortal Man" will catch viewers back up with Murphy's Tommy in a feature-length adventure directed by "Wild Rose" and "Peaky Blinders" Season 1 director Tom Harper. Set in 1940 Birmingham, the film follows Murphy's Tommy as he is forced…...

14+ min ago (349+ words) CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Perez offered some kudos to Fox News" Sean Hannity for pressing FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on past conspiracy theories he pushed about the suspect in a Washington, D.C. pipe bombing case. Perez joined Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on The Situation Room on Friday to discuss the latest in the case of Brian Cole, 30, the man the FBI and Justice Department have accused of placing pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democrat National Committee buildings on January 5, 2021, the night before the Capitol riot. CNN reported on Friday, citing sources briefed on the matter, that Cole told FBI agents he believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen, something Perez noted could be the first major indicator in the suspect"s motivation. Cole is set to be arraigned on Friday afternoon and has not entered an official plea…...

15+ min ago (1450+ words) WASHINGTON " To end the longest government shutdown in American history, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators came together and agreed to kick the can. The can seems to have hit a brick wall. Unless Congress acts, massive spikes in health-care premiums are coming in the New Year for millions of Americans " the reason Democrats refused to fund the government this fall. "This whole year we've been moving backwards on health-care because of this administration," Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) told Raw Story just off the Senate floor. While President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have yet to offer a policy solution, this week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a measure to stave off premium spikes by extending COVID-era health insurance subsidies for three years. As part of the deal that ended the shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune promised to bring…...

15+ min ago (310+ words) The Trump administration released its official National Security Strategy this week " and many critics noted that it was loaded with rhetoric frequently used by white nationalists. Some of the most inflammatory language in the document is aimed at US-allied European countries that supposedly face "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" within the next 20 years. In particular, the document accuses the European Union of enacting policies "that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence." The document goes on to claim that "should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less," while emphasizing that US policy is to help "Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and…...

19+ min ago (258+ words) First words are sweet and first steps are exciting, but there's something about first lost tooth that makes us so emotional. It's a milestone that truly feels like a "big kid" one, and officially shows that your baby is no longer little. Andy Cohen is going through it with his son Ben, 6, and we're sending all the hugs. And it wasn't just a little teary-eyed. "I was sobbing in front of Ben's school," Cohen admitted. "Looking at the pride that he had and how excited he was, and that was his first tooth, and he'll never have this again. And I was sobbing down the whole street today on the way home." Aww! Bless his poor heart, that sounds awful. I remember feeling the same way when my now-8-year-old lost his first tooth, and nothing prepares you for seeing…...

22+ min ago (1244+ words) I knew immediately we had to do something," said Carpenter, who is a member of Sunrise Brown and an outreach organizer for the national Campus Climate Network, or CCN." That night, Carpenter joined a Zoom call with other Brown students who spent two hours discussing what to do. They decided to launch a new organization,"Brown Rise Up, specifically to counter the spread of authoritarianism on campus. I knew immediately we had to do something." Students at other universities that had been asked to sign the compact were having similar conversations." Within 24 hours of the compact's release, we had students from every one of the nine schools getting on a Zoom call to discuss how to respond," said Alicia Colomer, a recent New York University graduate and CCN managing director." CCN is one of many organizations in the nationwide Students…...