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The Thunder guard/triple-double tornado attempted to destroy another ball Monday night, this time against the Pistons. Midway through the first quarter, Westbrook blew past Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on his way to a rim-rattling dunk that forced the ball through the basket with the same force as a space shuttle re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. NBA PREDICTIONS: The MVP race is going to be messy Just look at Marcus Morris’ face. That’s a man making a smart business decision....

“Pick on someone your own size” is an age old saying. And many have found it to be a saying well heeded. Not Newcastle defender Danny Simpson, however, who decided to engage in a brawl and get himself knocked out. Simpson reportedly got into a brawl outside a takeaway in Manchester and even beat up another customer. After winning that particular round, Simpson tried to flee by getting into a cab, only to be dragged out of it by another guy....

Irving in particular is a nightmare for opponents to slow down in isolation. 20.1 percent of his offense comes in those situations on the season and he ranks in the 92.9 percentile with 1.18 points per possession. To put into context just how impressive that is, Irving has attempted 118 shots out of isolation and only two players ahead of him in efficiency have attempted more than 50 shots: Chris Paul (81) and Isaiah Thomas (53)....

Goalkeeper is notoriously a position in which players develop late, often continuing their careers well into their late 30s, yet the France Under-20 international only turned 19 in January. The experience he has gathered for his age is quite incredible. Moreover, he has already developed a habit of reserving his best performances for the big occasion, really making his breakthrough when he shut out Paris Saint-Germain in a 2-0 home win last season courtesy of a couple of truly astounding stops....

Samsung has issued a statement revealing that it has received record pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3, surpassing its previous foldable devices. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 Have Outsold Previous Galaxy Z Devices In fact, the consumer interest in Samsung’s latest foldable devices is so much that the pre-order figures of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 combined are higher than the sales of the entire Galaxy Z series in 2021 so far....

Worldwide, the trafficking of illegal migrants is a $4 billion-a-year industry, nearly as profitable as drug and arms smuggling. But for decades the problem has languished far down on the food chain of law enforcement. No longer. The carnage of Sept. 11 served as a wake-up call for Western authorities, highlighting the fact that militants often resort to smuggling networks to get from point A to point B. “Now we’re seeing illegal immigration as a terrorism concern,” says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad....

The confirmation came shortly after E3 was officially canceled, as it was revealed that Warner Bros. Games was planning to announce a number of new games this summer. Among the list of potential new announcements included a brand new Batman game, as well as the new Harry Potter title, meaning whatever Warner Bros. Games had in store would have likely been the highlight of the show. RELATED: Harry Potter Wizards Unite: Update Brings Back Popular Feature...

Not quite. William H. McRaven, it seems, was too good an officer. Today he is a rear admiral, and his new job is one that could not rank higher on President George W. Bush’s to-do list in election year 2004: nailing Osama bin Laden. It is a job that will require much ruthlessness–a good deal more of that, perhaps, than personal honor. NEWSWEEK has learned that McRaven is heading up Task Force 121, a covert, miniature strike force with a command structure so secretive that McRaven’s role hasn’t even been reported until now....

Firstly Graham, have some journalists got it right with the predicted end of Spanish dominance with Barca/Real Madrid beaten to submission by the Germans in the Champions League and the national side losing to Brazil in the Confederation Cup? I don’t know. I don’t know who those journos are, don’t know how you define dominance. Not long ago, if you did an end of term report when Spain reached Confederations Final, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona reached UEFA Champions League semi-final for the third straight year, when Spain u21?...

Before the vote counting had even finished, the media closed ranks and rallied around Biden. Before lawsuits had even been filed in six different states—and long before they would be resolved in court—the anti-Trump media rejected them sight unseen and began the drumbeat that Trump should concede. (Of course, this is the same media that had been 93 percent negative in its coverage of his administration.) Before the various states held canvasses and validated their vote counts, the news media began to complain that President Trump was refusing to play his role and surrender....

“Vol. 2” fills in the motivational and emotional blanks that left the first movie tasting like a meal made only of appetizers. We learn why the Bride left the DiVAS, why Bill ordered her assassination on her wedding day, what their relationship was all about, how our heroine obtained her fighting prowess (under the fierce tutelage of ancient Chinese master Pai Mei, played with haughty comic contempt by Gordon Liu), not to mention what happened to the eye under Elle’s eye patch....

Love or hate Duke—and many Americans love to hate Duke—it has a winning tradition like few organizations in America. Ask anyone who knows basketball why, and you’ll get the same answer: Coach K. Few people bother to say his whole name. Fewer try to spell it. Even Polish people. Mike Krzyzewski arrived on the scene in Durham, North Carolina, back in 1980. Since then, his Duke teams made the Final Four 12 times, won five national championships and won over 75 percent of their games....

Then one man on a mission—along with a team of marriage experts and philanthropists—took a run at the problem, deploying diagnostics and old-school social capital to drive some stunning results in a two-year test program. Divorce rates in Duval County, Florida—which includes the fourth-biggest city in the state, Jacksonville—experienced a stunning 28 percent plunge between 2015 and 2017, according to the Philanthropy Roundtable, the program’s initial sponsor. That’s a number that should have prompted headlines nationwide, it’s so big....

HAPPY SNAPSFlash and Forget Technology is fast making the camera the most dispensable part of photography. Witness PopShots, Polaroid’s instant “one-time use” camera. It packs a magazine of 10 slightly slimmed-down prints. And this camera won’t weigh down a traveler’s backpack because the designers left off the usual battery pack and provided a manual pull ring for extracting the prints. The conscientious tourist doesn’t even have to feel guilty throwing way such an engineering marvel after, say, photographing a Mexican squatter camp....

The iPhone 5C is pretty much an iPhone 5 with fancy clothes on. It is actually a replacement for the iPhone 5. Needless to say, it will run the latest iOS 7 and is made out of polycarbonate. The iPhone 5C will continue with an 8 MP camera, same as the iPhone 5, but the camera has been improved. Expect the iPhone 5C to be a bit heavier and bulkier that the original iPhone 5....

I propose a corollary, Blackbeard’s Law: As a discussion of the Iraq War grows longer (and more heated), it becomes more and more likely that someone will invoke the phrase “blood and treasure.” This olde-tyme expression, popular with Jefferson and Monroe in the 18th and 19th centuries—and Cromwell long before that—first crept into the Iraq debate a couple of years ago and quickly went viral. B&T has now become the go-to cliché for journalists, bloggers, politicians or anyone else who finds himself getting clobbered in an Iraq argument and is groping around for a little rhetorical juice to disarm the other side....

If true. Last week ABC News, which had bought the rights to Hersh’s upcoming Little, Brown book, ““The Dark Side of Camelot,’’ admitted that the documents were fakes. ABC’s ““20/20’’ played the story as an expose; Peter Jennings confronted the man who had given Hersh the documents–Lawrence (Lex) Cusack Jr.–with an accusation of forgery. Visibly shaken, a trickle of sweat rolling down his face, Cusack denied the charge–and did so again to NEWSWEEK....

The former reality television star, 33, is facing two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography. Intense media coverage has surrounded Duggar since 2015, when it was reported that he allegedly molested a number of underage girls including his sisters. The current charges were brought against Duggar in April of this year. The trial is taking place in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Courthouse and Tuesday marked the first day of jury selection....

Ambitious French kids have always worked hard. Just not this hard. Back in the 20th century, go-getters studied diligently to win admission to one of the country’s Grandes Ecoles–where they could network with others who had made the grade. The elite got careers in government or state-owned companies; everyone else struggled for a job in a market that wasn’t generating enough of them. But thanks to the changes sweeping the French economy–and, most of all, to the Internet–this generation sees things differently....

Following the mixed response to Marvel’s Avengers in 2020, I really wasn’t sure what to think about Square Enix once more dipping its toe into the Marvel universe. I’ve been a fan of the Guardians of the Galaxy for a long time, having read many of the comics and watching both of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies multiple times. To call it my favorite superhero group would probably be a bit of an understatement....