Christie, the former governor of New Jersey and former ally of Donald Trump, appeared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to promote his new book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party From Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden, on Tuesday. “The book is about conspiracies and lies, and you really don’t take on Fox News. Why not?” Wallace asked Christie. “Have you seen the Tucker Carlson program?...

Speaking ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Cuomo said that Americans had become “weak people” in the face of the pandemic and suggested “somebody” or “somebodies” were responsible for making people more skeptical about the vaccine. CNN host Don Lemon discussed 9/11 as Cuomo handed over to him, describing how he remembers that day every time he passes by the site where the World Trade Center towers stood....

Hahn, the host of The Aggressive Progressive podcast on iTunes and a regular contributor to Fox News, came in for a barrage of abuse from Giuliani after he questioned why Giuliani had spoken with Ukraine at the request of the State Department. “Do we have the stomach for a president utilizing a private attorney to deal with foreign policy?” Hahn said in an interview with Newsweek on Sunday about the whistleblower complaint alleging Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden and his son Hunter....

The Clippers persisted without him though, and took a 2-1 series lead. Chris Paul was upbeat after the win, searching out an L.A. fan wearing a replica of his jersey in the stands in Salt Lake City. MORE: NBA playoffs Saturday schedule Paul handed him a really sweaty real-life version instead, right off his back. Make sure you wash that, kid.

In the third quarter win over the Rockets on Wednesday, Suns All-Star guard Chris Paul suffered an apparent right-hand injury in a bizarre sequence that resulted in his ejection. Here’s what we know about Paul’s injury so far. NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) What is Chris Paul’s injury? As the Suns were looking to mount a second-half comeback against the Rockets, Paul apparently injured his right hand after passing the ball and making contact with the arm of Rockets forward Jae’Sean Tate on the follow-through....

The Thunder guard’s understanding of NBA jersey protocol saved his team Friday night, giving Oklahoma City a chance to force overtime and ultimately prevail in a 139-127 victory over the Timberwolves. Yes, the whole thing is as silly as it sounds. With 1.1 seconds left in regulation, Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns stood at the free throw line ready to give Minnesota a three-point lead. Before he could shoot his second attempt, though, Paul pointed out that Jordan Bell had returned to the floor with an untucked jersey....

“I’m OK, I have a whole show and I’m not talking about that until I get paid. Life is good. I got my hearing back,” the comedian and presenter said during his show at Fantasy Springs on Friday night, according to the California-based Desert Sun newspaper. Rock was struck by Smith during the March 27 Academy Awards ceremony after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia—an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss....

Stewart signed a one-way contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday worth an average annual value of $750,000, the team announced. “We’re happy to have Chris under contract,” president of hockey operations Chuck Fletcher said in the team’s release. “Chris came into training camp with a great attitude and a strong work-ethic. He brings size and a veteran presence to our lineup.” THE LINEUP: Game of the week pits Oilers vs....

The tweets were sent after Stodden’s 2011 marriage to 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchison. Stodden (who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) was 16 years old at the time. Their mother gave them permission for the wedding. Stodden said numerous media members publicly shamed them as a slut after the wedding. Around that time, Teigen tagged Stodden in public tweets saying that they looked “like an idiot” and were “so effing weird....

The model, 36, confirmed in a recent Instagram post that she was in the midst of another round of IVF treatment. She shares daughter Luna, 5, and son Miles, 3, with her husband, John Legend, 43. Their son, Jack, was stillborn in September 2020. On Tuesday, Utah native Teigen took to her Instagram Stories to share video footage of herself administering her own ovarian stimulation shots. The injectable hormones are taken to “stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple eggs—rather than the single egg that typically develops each month,” according to the Mayo Clinic....

For much of its life, Christianbook was known as CBD. But the recent rise in popularity of cannabidiol, a chemical found in marijuana better known as CBD, resulted in an influx of calls to the bookseller’s 1-800-CHRISTIAN phone line, inquiring about the drug. “A person may call up and say, ‘Hey, I’m looking for my order,’ It’s like, ‘What did you order?’ ‘Oh, I ordered gummies.’ ‘You don’t have the right company,’” Ray Hendrickson, the chief officer of Christianbook, told The New York Times....

The 23-year-old, who has more than 287,000 followers on Twitter, posted “wear a condom, damn,” in an apparent reference to his father having three children he did not previously acknowledge and reports that he paid for his then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, despite now supporting a national ban on the procedure with no exceptions for rape, incest, or if the mother’s life is in danger. Herschel Walker, who is running for the Georgia Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock, has denied the abortion claims first reported by The Daily Beast, calling the allegations a “flat-out lie” and a “repugnant hatchet job....

At a press telebriefing on Wednesday Cindy Friedman of the CDC’s travel branch said the safest option was to postpone winter travel during the upcoming holidays and stay home, much like over Thanksgiving. She said that the volume of travel over Thanksgiving was high, and even if a small percentage of those individuals were sick it would translate into hundreds of thousands of infections. Jennifer Dowd, associate professor of demography and population Health at the University of Oxford, U....

Cruz of Texas and 20 other Senate Republicans wrote to the Treasury this week, urging it to remove inflationary gains from its calculation of capital gains tax liability. The GOP senators argued that this “punishes taxpayers for the mere existence of inflation and is inherently unfair.” They pressed the Treasury to use its executive authority, bypassing Congress, to change the methodology. They claimed the move would encourage investment, spurring on further economic growth in the wake of the Trump administration’s $1....

Democrats are pushing through President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion package using reconciliation, which allows them to progress the bill without Republican support. The Senate passed the package last week, with a vote split along party lines. The amended bill has returned to the House, which is due to vote on it on Wednesday. McConnell criticized the package on the Senate floor, branding it “very liberal and purely partisan.” The Kentucky senator and other Republican lawmakers have criticized the use of the reconciliation process to pass Biden’s relief plan....

Democrats have been battling over the future of the bill with progressives within the party who are holding on to the bill’s original $3.5 trillion price tag. But in an effort to get the bill through Congress, more moderate party members are proposing lowering the sum to $2 trillion. Biden’s deal entails Democratic initiatives, including new options for social services, expanded health care, child care, education and climate change mitigation strategies....

In the first study, researchers followed 32,000 female nurses for 12 years, periodically checking their smoking habits and health status. Those puffing at least 25 cigarettes a day suffered two and a half times the AMD rate of those who had never smoked. Women who had quit still developed the condition at twice the rate of those who had never smoked. The second study tracked 21,000 male physicians and found a similar pattern....

Christ Mocked, by the Italian painter Cimabue, was sold for $26.8 million at an auction in Senlis, France, reports CBS News. The painting’s hefty price tag far exceeds the $6.5 million it was expected to sell, as per a pre-auction estimate in September. The pre-Renaissance artwork had previously been in hanging in the kitchen of a French woman in the town of Compiègne, near France. The owner had no idea of the work’s provenance or its value....

The 28-year-old woman had been performing in the Circus Rio show at Glenelg in Adelaide on Tuesday afternoon when the accident happened, Australia’s ABC News reported. One witness described how about 45 minutes into the show, the unnamed woman was performing on a ring on the trapeze which was about 36 feet above the ground and there was no safety net. Initially the audience thought the fall was simply part of the show....

Nobody likes having a foreclosed home in the neighborhood. But having multiple abandoned buildings in such close proximity—particularly in a part of Boston known for crime and drugs—is especially bad news. It’s a problem that’s affecting many big cities across the country, and one more way in which the subprime mess isn’t just an accounting abstraction but a growing social problem. By last fall, police were getting dozens of calls about crimes on Hendry Street....