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Bud Harrelson, the shortstop on the Mets’ first two World Series teams and later the club’s manager for parts of two seasons, died Wednesday at a hospice home in East Northport on Long Island. Harrelson, who was 79 was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. A good-field, no-hit player, Harrelson spent 15 years in the major leagues and was the starting shortstop on both the Miracle Mets’ 1969 world championship team which upset the Baltimore Orioles that October and their 1973 National League pennant winners who lost that year’s World Series to the Oakland Athletics in seven games.

“I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination” ... Following a 30 second bit on SNL where he branded big pharma as a ‘cartel’ forcing it’s drugs on people with government consent, actor Woody Harrelson has further spoken out against COVID mandates. In an interview with the New York Times, Harrelson warned that America is no longer a free country, branding COVID protocols as “rather absurd.” ... When asked what was “absurd about the COVID protocols,” Harrelson replied, “The fact that they’re still going on!” “I don’t think that anybody should have the right...

SPOTTED: Woody Harrelson going from the "White House" to Capitol Hill — taking a break from filming his Watergate series to get some one-on-one time with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) The "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" actor — who's been filming in Washington in recent days for the forthcoming HBO docuseries, "The White House Plumbers" — was eyed walking into Pelosi's office on Wednesday, before the pair strolled toward the House chamber together. It's unclear what Harrelson and Pelosi discussed. A Pelosi spokeswoman didn't immediately return ITK's request for comment.

Legendary Chicago White Sox broadcaster Ken “Hawk” Harrelson took a shot at LeBron James on Sunday while he was calling a game. Harrelson apparently had a problem with James talking about politics and social injustice. “Well, I used to watch LeBron but no more,” Harrelson said during the NBC Sports Chicago broadcast. “I wish these guys would keep their nose out of politics and just play because people didn’t come to hear their opinions on politicians.”

Last weekend's hatefest in New York City, in which John Kerry endorsed the vicious attack of Hollywood hacks on the Commander-in-Chief, provides a sad portent of things to come. Leftist hate group MoveOn.org announced last week that it has enlisted the help of the Hollywood elite in its partisan campaign to smear the president and stigmatize America’s War on Terror. According to a Time magazine story (“I’m Rob Reiner, and I Approve This Ad”), such Hollywood powerhouses as Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, Rob Reiner, “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Al Franken, the ubiquitous Kevin...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider claims that Charles Harrelson was wrongly convicted of the 1979 assassination of a federal judge in San Antonio. Announced without explanation, the justices' decision represented a third and perhaps final rejection of a lengthy appeal financed by the convicted killer's movie-star son, Woody Harrelson. The denial means Charles Harrelson likely will die in the maximum-security federal penitentiary in Colorado where he was sent after attempting to escape an Atlanta federal prison. The 65-year-old is serving two sentences of life without parole. His appeal, filed in 1997, attracted widespread attention largely because...

Harrelson sows the seeds of activism in documentary Woody Harrelson in director Ron Mann's documentary 'Go Further' Chris Garcia XLxtra Woody Harrelson is becoming the Martin Sheen of Whole Earth activism. The Texas-born actor is out there, vocal and loud, pushing an agenda of vegan diets and conservation, occasionally agitating until police come and cuff him. In 1996, he was arrested for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky. He was acquitted in court. Known for playing soft-headed Woody on "Cheers" and firecrackers in films like "White Men Can't Jump" and "Natural Born Killers," Harrelson is mixing activist documentaries with his...