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Ivan Provorov, who is Russian Orthodox, refused to wear a Pride-themed jersey prior to Tuesday’s game between the Flyers and Ducks. (Photo by Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty Images) The Philadelphia Flyers held their annual Pride Night on Tuesday to celebrate and support the LGTBQ+ community. As part of the festivities, the Flyers wore Pride-themed warmup jerseys and rainbow-taped sticks that will be auctioned off with proceeds going towards Flyers charities aiming to grow hockey in… Source link

The “butt punt” from Sunday’s game between the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills will undoubtedly go down as one of the wildest, and funniest, plays of the season — if not in recent memory. At least one person, however, isn’t laughing. “Absolutely zero amusement and a 100% critical mistake that has an opportunity to possibly lose a game,” Dolphins special teams coach Danny Crossman said on Tuesday, via USA Today. “It will never get a smile from me.” With about 90 seconds left in… Source link

Google has refused to reinstate a man’s account after it wrongly flagged medical images he took of his son’s groin as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the New York Times first reported. Experts say it’s an inevitable pitfall of trying to apply a technological solution to a societal problem. Experts have long warned about the limitations of automated child sexual abuse image detection systems, particularly as companies face regulatory and public pressure to help address the existence… Source link

The North Carolina Courage apologized to fans after re-signing Jaelene Daniels in 2021. (Photo by Bryan Byerly/ISI Photos/Getty Images). North Carolina Courage defender Jaelene Daniels, who declined to play for the U.S. national team in a Pride Month jersey, is now refusing to play for her club on Pride Night. The Courage play the Washington Spirit on Friday night in the National Women’s Soccer League, and will host an inaugural pre-match Pride Festival, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community…. Source link

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall testified Thursday as a Republican witness in opposition to the confirmation of President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, but instead made headlines over his refusal to acknowledge Biden as the “duly elected and lawfully serving president of the United States.” Marshall was questioned by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who focused his initial line of questioning on Marshall’s views about Biden. “Is Joseph R. Biden of Delaware the… Source link

All in all, the stock market is hanging tough in what has been a turbulent two weeks for humanity. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 600 points on Wednesday as of this writing. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are nearing gains of 2%. All three major indexes are nicely off the lows hit by the close of trading on Feb. 23, a mere hours before Russia invaded Ukraine. Every member of the FAANG [Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google/Alphabet] cohort has gained in the… Source link

Oxygen 15-Year-Old Girl Convinces Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Dad For Having Too Many Rules Parent-children relationships can be difficult — but the murder of Lewis “Lewy” Fryer exposed a dark and twisted scheme orchestrated by his own teen daughter. On the morning of May 13, 2010 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, a frantic 911 came in from a 15-year-old girl reporting she had found her father dead. “There’s blood everywhere … I’ve never seen a dead body before,” Kaleigh Fryer frantically says in audio… Source link

A Texas judge hearing a state antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google denied on Thursday a request for the case to be moved to California, where the company is fighting similar lawsuits. Google had asked for the case to be moved for several reasons, including that its headquarters is in California, as are many of the witnesses who would likely be called. read more Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, however, disagreed that that… Source link

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) – A Texas judge hearing a state antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google ruled on Thursday that the case would not be moved to California. Google had filed a motion asking for the case to move to California, where it is fighting similar cases. (Reporting by Diane Bartz Editing by Chris Reese) Source link