Author: insighter

Arriving at the airport to discover you’ve forgotten or lost your ID is every traveler’s worst nightmare. Here’s how to handle it and (possibly) still make your flight. Packing for a trip can be stressful enough — especially with checked bag fees on the rise for several airlines. While forgetting something simple like a toothbrush is easily solvable at your destination, showing up at the airport without a valid ID would fill the best of us with pure panic. Related: What to do if you lose your passport while traveling internationally In this scenario, remain calm. All hope may not…

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  It’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.The Minnesota Timberwolves’ deceptive season has been one of the hottest topics in the West so let’s start there. Rob Riggle, Amin Joseph, Joshua Malina and more share NBA Finals predictions   Every conversation pertaining to the Minnesota Timberwolves circles back around to a single question: Are they for real or a figment of our regular season imaginations? The Stagg R. Leigh pseudonym used by American Fiction’s Thelonius “Monk” Ellison to present a trope-filled autobiography…

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  The shakeup of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken over by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees continued Wednesday with the departure of its board chairman who had been highly critical of Disney. Martin Garcia’s departure as chairman of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is coming a week after the district’s administrator, Glen Gilzean, left to accept an appointment by DeSantis as interim elections supervisor in Orange County, the home of Orlando, at half his district’s $400,000 salary. Martin didn’t respond to an email and phone message seeking comment on Wednesday. He was appointed by DeSantis last…

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    Alyssa Videlock was 11 years old when she started searching for people like her on the internet. What she found, back in the early 2000s, was not at all what she’d hoped for. “Being trans online was not really a thing,” she says. “There was fetish stuff for it, and there were stories about transformation. But it was either porn or … porn.” So Videlock was especially grateful, about a decade later, when she started exploring Reddit. She was still closeted to her family and friends, and finding a place where she could speak with other trans people…

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The White House press secretary has said that the Biden administration does not digitally alter pictures of the president or vice president. “Why would we digitally alter photos? Are you comparing us to what is going on in the UK?” Karine Jean-Pierre commented, answering a question from a reporter during a press conference. This comes after the Princess of Wales apologised “for any confusion” after she said she edited a Mother’s Day photograph of her and her children. Ms Jean-Pierre also added that they wished Catherine a “speedy recovery” after her abdominal surgery two months ago.

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  Source: MSNBC YouTube Things are getting very messy for the First Lady Jill Biden as her top aide Anthony Bernal, who she reportedly refers to as her “work husband,” is being accused of sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. Jill Biden’s top aide, Anthony Bernal, who is openly gay, has a history of questionable work conduct but is deemed “untouchable” because she views him as her “work husband.” Bernal, according to the report, has been known to speculate on the penis size of staffers pic.twitter.com/IEj7jmadIn — Bob (@Metro0uBob) March 13, 2024 Jill’s ‘Work Husband’ In Hot Water Last…

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The country scaled back its military capabilities after the Cold War ended but is reassessing the situation in a changed security climate. Denmark will call up women as well as men as it expands conscription to respond to Europe’s changing security climate. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the revised policy was designed to increase the number of young people doing military service. Conscripts will also be expected to serve more time in the military – 11 months, compared with four months at the moment. “We are not rearming because we want war, destruction, or suffering. We are rearming right…

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Stephanie Linnartz got even less time than expected to fix Under Armour’s many problems. Linnartz, a veteran executive who was previously No. 2 at Marriott International, left the global hotel chain last year to become CEO of Under Armour. She took over the struggling sportswear chain on Feb. 27, 2023—and, the company said today, she will be leaving the CEO role at the end of this month, after just over a year on the job. She had said that her turnaround strategy for the company would take three years to execute. Kevin Plank, Under Armour’s controversial founder and controlling shareholder,…

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  During the course of an NBA season, we get quite a few wow moments in many different ways. If it’s not a defender getting crossed up so badly he hits the canvas, it’s a rim-shattering dunk that makes folks rise up out of their seats. Sometimes it’s us watching in awe as players like Stephen Curry or Damian Lillard hit dagger game-clinching threes from 40 feet. But what Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green did to Anfernee Simons of the Portland Trail Blazers over the weekend should damn near be illegal. A new candidate for dunk of the year has…

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