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NEW ORLEANS — At his annual Super Bowl news conference Monday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell strongly supported the league’s policies designed to promote diversity at the club-employment level and said they would continue. But during Super Bowl LIX, and with President Donald Trump apparently planning to attend on Sunday, the NFL might be making another kind of statement on the Caesars Superdome field itself. According to two league sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, league officials recently changed one of the slogans expected to be stenciled in the back of an end...

"A lot of private sector people, when they get into government, they don’t take the time necessarily to see what the good work is or why it’s structured the way it is,” Gates said on ABC News’s The View Tuesday. “So I’m a little worried particularly with this USAID stuff. My foundation partners with USAID on nutrition and getting vaccines out.”

The move came as Roger Goodell defended the league's DEI policy The words "End Racism" will not be featured in the back of end zones during Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Instead, the phrases "Choose Love" and "It Takes All of Us" will be emblazoned in the end zones at the Caesars Superdome. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Athletic on Tuesday the decision came amid the recent tragedies that have occurred in the U.S. since the start of 2025, including the terror attack in New Orleans, wildfires in the Los Angeles...

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky called on US companies Tuesday to invest in his country’s rare earths after US President Donald Trump said he wanted a deal with Kyiv that involved getting the minerals in exchange for aid. Trump said Monday that he would want strategic metals — essential for various technologies — in exchange for security from the United States. Zelensky, who had floated the idea to the Republican last year, said it would be “fair” to give US companies access to the minerals as Washington has helped Kyiv fend off Russian forces. “I would like US business... to develop...

Despite reservations, Republicans are falling in line behind President Trump’s contentious top administration picks, signaling a broader retreat from challenging him.After early signs that some of President Trump’s unconventional cabinet choices could be derailed by Republicans alarmed at their character, disturbing paper trails and lack of expertise, the resistance has collapsed.One after the other on Tuesday, Republican senators fell into line behind two of the president’s most baggage-laden nominees, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.The party-line committee votes to send both nominees to the floor for likely confirmation next week provided...

After months of horrific allegations of sexual misconduct, The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman has been taken to court in a trio of states on allegations of rape, human trafficking and more by a former New Zealand nanny of his and musician Amanda Palmer’s son. “This claim arises out of Defendant Neil Gaiman’s sexual abuse of Plaintiff, and his wife Amanda Palmer’s role in procuring and presenting Plaintiff to Gaiman for such abuse,” states a rape and human trafficking complaint filed in federal court Monday in Wisconsin by Scarlett Pavlovich. “Gaiman has a decades-long history of sexual misconduct consistent with the...

After video of a worker using a hammer, chisel, and other tools on the stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza went viral on social media last November, outrage about the incident has grown to include a statement in Egyptian Parliament and one Egyptologist claiming “mismanagement.” The viral video of construction workers at the 4,600-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was taken by tourists. Officials from the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities told local media outlets that the ancient monument had suffered no damage. Related Articles Allegations of 'Mismanagement at Giza Great Pyramid After Viral...

The Democrat Party has totally collapsed.

'If they did that, they would be obliterated,' Trump responded. 'I have left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won't be anything left.' When asked to clarify his comments, the president made the same threat. 'That would be called total obliteration,' Trump said. 'I can't imagine they would do that,' he also commented.

Trump Works To End California's Man-Made DroughtAP California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water. After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to "ensure adequate water resources in Southern California." He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs. He directed the Bureau of Reclamation to "deliver more water and produce additional hydropower" to high-need communities. That may seem impossible. California has been battling drought for years. In 2022, Scientific American declared the Southwest's megadrought was "the...

Donald Trump has signed over 45 executive orders, removed DEI from government and military, ordered federal workers back, reinstated 440 journalists, among other decisions, the White House said. The White House shared a clip reflecting on the decisions Donald Trump has taken in the past two weeks since his inauguration. The video features White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and starts with her saying, “We are two weeks in and President Trumps is already delivering big wins for the American people. Let’s go through the facts. On the borders, President Trump declared a national emergency, deployed the military, ended catch...

A preliminary report from the Florida Auditor General found UF failed to prevent former President Ben Sasse from leveraging his executive privileges to inappropriately spend university funds. The Florida Auditor General’s report, obtained by The Alligator, revealed new details about Sasse’s spending practices, including that he used more than $300,000 in university funds to charter flights on the University Athletic Association’s private jets for trips with no clear business purposes.

Elizabeth Warren, in a hysterical rant, claims that Elon Musk is “seizing power from the American people.”

The White House is firing back at Democrats and union bosses who urged federal employees not to take a 'buyout' currently on the table for millions of workers. Last month, President Donald Trump announced an offer that would allow government workers to resign and continue to be paid through September 30. So far, around 20,000 have accepted it out of two million, Axios reported Tuesday. The Trump White House wants to reduce the federal workforce by between 5 and 10 percent. But the American Federation of Government Employees union is claiming the offer could be a 'trick' and Democrats have...

Just days after the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. said it would cancel its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the Smithsonian Institution, a consortium that includes 21 national museums, announced its diversity office will also close. According to the New York Times, the Smithsonian will also freeze hiring for all federal positions and employees will have to return to in-person work full-time. This move follows an executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald J. Trump, which labels the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.” The Smithsonian, which includes...

Hollywood producer David Pearce was found guilty of murder Tuesday in the drug overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and her pal — whose lifeless bodies were callously dumped outside Los Angeles hospitals in 2021. A jury convicted him on all charges, including the rapes of seven women who came forward after he was charged in the overdose deaths. Pearce, 42, was charged with murder for luring Giles, 24, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, 26, to his apartment in November 2021, plying them with fentanyl-laced cocaine and drugging their drinks. Prosecutors alleged that he refused to call for...

Even in a world where President Donald Trump clearly racks up foreign policy wins, CNN’s smug harpies desperately try to convince all eight of the network's viewers that he’s really losing. CNN anchor Erin Burnett injected a hefty amount of spin into her reporting on Mexico and Canada collectively waving the white flag on their retaliatory threats against Trump’s tariffs and agreed to increase security on both the Southern and Northern borders respectively. But in Burnett’s Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted worldview during the February 3 edition of OutFront, this supposedly constituted “Trump backing down twice in a day.” Huh? So “what...

JTA — For decades, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called its adversaries “religious extremists.” Today, the group has a more specific target: fighting Christian nationalism. The decision to sharpen the language was made by Rachel Laser, the group’s president for the last six years. A Jew and the first member of a religious minority to lead Americans United since its founding in 1947, Laser wanted the group to be more clear-eyed about what she sees as a growing threat to religious pluralism in the United States: the belief that American laws should favor Christian values over those...

Vaccine manufacturers often operate on very slim profit margins. If they get sued repeatedly and successfully, they simply move out of the vaccine space. We've already seen this happen with vaccines in the past.” To be clear, she’s arguing that Big Pharma should be shielded from lawsuits—even when their vaccines cause harm. Some of these people are truly insane.

...Following President Trump’s recent criticism of the delta smelt — a fish he has tied to the lack of water for fighting the Los Angeles fires — his administration is planning to cut funding for a captive breeding program intended to ensure the survival of the endangered fish...A memorandum signed Jan. 20 by the president, titled “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California,” calls for undoing fish protections and increasing delta pumping, in part to help Los Angeles area fire crews... .