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  Politics Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Creative Commons America is lucky to have the “best Biden ever.” At least according to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: “F you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.” pic.twitter.com/xRsLuqpoWf — TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 6, 2024 RELATED: CNBC Host Visibly Irritated With Pete Buttigieg Arguing The Border Crisis Isn’t Biden’s Fault: ‘Did You See 7.2 Million People Come In’ Under Trump? ‘Best Biden Ever’ – Says Joe Scarborough Despite the president’s many gaffes and being unaware of where he is half the time, Joe Scarborough claimed…

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There’s just over a month until one of the most memorable moments of the year. On April 8, millions of Americans will experience a total solar eclipse as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, darkening the afternoon sky. It’s a phenomenon that won’t happen again in North America for 20 years. To witness the spectacle, travelers are planning spring getaways to Texas, the Midwest and parts of the East Coast set to experience the eclipse most dramatically. This is fueling high hotel prices and earned the event a spot in TPG’s 2024 Travel Trends Report. But the…

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As visitors’ coins splash into Rome’s majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet. For hundreds of years, when in Rome, visitors have flocked to the fountain to make a wish, following a storied ritual. Few gave their coins a second thought. Today, coins pile up for several days before they are fished out and taken to the Rome division of the worldwide Catholic charity Caritas, which counts the bucketfuls of change and uses them to fund a food bank, soup kitchen and…

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  Each year following NBA All-Star weekend, we discuss the slam dunk contest for at least two to three weeks afterward. Whether it’s good, bad or somewhere in the middle, the conversation surrounding it blazes on for some time. Now we get Zion Williamson fanning the flames dunk contest banter, with his fake “ultimatum/gesture” toward the Association saying he’ll join the dunk contest if he’s an All-Star. Mac McClung & the history of white men who can jump “If I’m in the All-Star Game, I’ll do the dunk contest,” he said. “But if I’m not, I’m not doing it.” –…

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  The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” But the modern State of the Union address — the pageantry, the televised address and the agenda-setting message — is a far more recent tradition. A look at some State of the Union history as President Joe Biden prepares to give his address to Congress: Who delivered the first State of the Union address? George Washington on…

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  Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced Wednesday that users on the chat app with personal accounts can now convert them into business accounts by paying a monthly fee. This gives users the ability to list information such as location and opening hours, which might be helpful for small cafes and shop owners. Some of the other features for business accounts involve organizing chats with color labels, using automatic greetings or away messages, and shortcuts for quick replies. On his channel, Durov said that Telegram plans to launch more business features this month including a way to integrate AI-powered chatbots for…

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  Opinion National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This week, social media proved its utility thanks to a viral Veterans Affairs memo published on the site X by a popular account known for exposing woke ideology in government. The memo called for the removal of the iconic World War II photo of a sailor celebrating V-Day by kissing a nurse in Times Square. The memo demanded VA facilities remove the photo and replace it with something more in line with the organization’s values. Why? Because the photo was allegedly against the VA’s zero tolerance policy for…

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  Silicon Valley venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz is aiming to raise $6.9 billion from investors for a new collection of funds, including two focused on artificial intelligence, according to a person familiar with the matter.  The firm is raising the money for a master fund, with half the amount going to the firm’s fourth growth fund, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Two years ago, it raised $5 billion for its growth vehicle. The remaining half of the new fundraise will go toward two dedicated artificial intelligence funds, a gaming fund and a fund to back startups in a…

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  The 1995-96 season was the end of the golden era for big men in the NBA. Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson and Shaquille O’Neal were stuffing opponents into lockers with their unstoppable back-to-the-basket games. They were the superstars in the paint, but Alonzo Mourning, Rik Smits, and many others dominated a league in which offense began on the inside and then went outside. Is pulling Victor Wembanyama from NBA Summer League the right move? | Agree to Disagree Robinson broke his foot the next season and the league gradually became more perimeter oriented. Teams were looking to find…

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Latest comments come as US and South Korea hold joint military exercises involving thousands of troops. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered heightened readiness for war after inspecting troops at a major military operations base in the country’s west. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not reveal the location of the base in its report on Thursday. The North Korean leader said the military must “dynamically usher in a new heyday of intensifying the war preparations in line with the requirements of the prevailing situation”, according to KCNA. “Our army should … steadily intensify the actual…

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