Kevin Durant calls out ESPN’s Shams Charania for being on phone at NBA All-Star Celebrity Game: ‘Have some respect’

The insider life is a 24/7, 365-day grind. But Kevin Durant wasn’t going to let it slide. ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania took part in Friday night’s NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, and during the middle of the action, he was seen typing away on his phone. Durant, the 15-time All-Star, took to X, posting a photo of the news-breaker along with sharing his thoughts. “My goodness, have some respect @ShamsCharania …during the game??????????” Durant wrote on his account. But the NBA reporter didn’t just get shade from Durant. Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, coaching one of the teams with his brothers,…

The key factor keeping Mohamed Diawara in Knicks’ rotation

As a second-round pick with only overseas experience on his résumé, Mohamed Diawara was considered, at best, a project. On draft night, he was only a couple of months removed from his 20th birthday, just coming off averaging 5.8 points in the French league.  Those are hardly the signals of…

Newsom’s Germany jaunt funded by little-known nonprofit run by aides

Gavin Newsom’s whirlwind weekend in Germany will cost a pretty penny, paid for by a secretive nonprofit that’s run by his longtime aides and receives money from special interests, The California Post has learned. The invite-only Munich Security Conference is being held across two luxury hotels in Old Town Munich…

AOC won’t say whether US should defend Taiwan if China invades

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stumbled over her words at the Munich Security Conference on Friday and wouldn’t commit to defending Taiwan if China ever invades. “Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy…

Gavin Newsom calls Trump’s climate deregulation ‘death sentence’ for US automakers — as Californians reap ,400 savings

Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental deregulations are a “death sentence” for the US auto industry, slamming the rollback that’s estimated to save California drivers $2,400 — while also trying to take credit for boosting “manufacturing innovation” in the country. In remarks at the Munich Security Conference…

Trump says Zelensky must ‘get moving’ with Ukraine peace talks

President Trump jabbed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday — blaming him for a lack of progress in peace talks to end Russia’s nearly four-year invasion. “Zelensky is going to have to get moving,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for North Carolina. “Russia wants to…

DOJ removes redactions from some Epstein files in response to Massie, Khanna’s complaints co-conspirators’ names were hidden

Several redactions have been lifted from documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) accused the Justice Department of improperly blacking out names of possible co-conspirators, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday night. After viewing unredacted files, the lawmakers told…

Josh Hart is fully embracing his Knicks polarity

Josh Hart’s nightly boxscore is like a box of chocolates: you never quite know what you’re going to get.  He molds his aggressiveness in that department to whatever the game needs. At times, he becomes the main facilitator, orchestrating the Knicks offense, pushing them in transition and allowing Jalen Brunson…

Verizon must face FCC probe for turning over GOP lawmaker phone records: Hagerty

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) is demanding that the Federal Communications Commission probe Verizon for allegedly breaking federal law by sharing his and other Republicans’ call logs with former special counsel Jack Smith. Hagerty filed a consumer complaint against the carrier on Monday and urged FCC Chairman Brendan Carr…

Jasmine Crockett shares vulgar 6-word message for Trump in Epstein probe

Progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, shared a vulgar six-word warning for President Donald Trump as Democrats continue to hunt for links implicating him in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. It comes after Ghislaine Maxwell’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee in which the convicted Epstein accomplice invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering…

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