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The Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid is forking up $25,000 for a raunchy celebration during the Sixers’ 137-133 win over the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday.After converting an and-one bucket, Embiid turned to the crowd and went way back in time to hype up fans. He busted out the old Triple H/Shaun Michaels celebration from their D-Generation X days.The NBA fined him for “making an obscene gesture on the playing court.”Kevin Durant, who was inactive Wednesday, tweeted that it was a “trash celebration.”Embiid laughed it off.NBA CHAMP MATT BARNES SUED BY FIANCÉE’S EX-HUSBAND AFTER ALLEGEDLY SPITTING ON HIM AT COWBOYS-49ERS GAMEIt’s Embiid’s fourth…

Protesters hit the streets of New York City Friday night to express their outrage over the fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols after video of the violent confrontation was released to the public. Several different demonstrations erupted across the Big Apple, including ones in Union Square, Times Square and Grand Central Terminal. The protests appeared to remain peaceful early Friday night, but at Union Square, Black Lives Matter leader, Hawk Newsome, warned that violence isn’t off the table. “Was they peaceful when they were stomping on brother Nichols’ head, when they was hitting him with that baton?” Newsome said to…

Japan and the Netherlands will restrict exports of chip manufacturing tools to China after reaching a deal with the US designed to make it harder for Beijing’s military to develop advanced weapons.Several people familiar with the trilateral agreement said the countries reached an agreement on Friday after a final round of high-level talks at the White House. The accord comes three months after Washington imposed unilateral export controls that barred US companies from selling advanced chipmaking equipment to Chinese groups.The White House declined to comment. But the deal marks a significant milestone in US efforts to work with allies to…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Cellulite can be a bit mysterious. No matter how much you work out and no matter how well you eat, it usually tends to pop up sooner or later. It doesn’t necessarily matter how healthy you are. It’s a very normal thing to have, especially for women. That doesn’t mean we love it though! So, doing extra squats isn’t necessarily going to rid you of all of your cellulite, but do you have to pay an expensive trip to the spa or dermatologist…

Angry demonstrators have roared through the streets of Haiti’s capital, blocking roads and shooting guns into the air to protest a slew of killings of police officers by Haitian gangs over the last week. Haitian news outlet Le Nouvelliste reported that angry scenes erupted in several neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince on Thursday, and barricades of burning tyres were erected in the centre of the city. Public transportation was interrupted and several schools were forced to close, it said. “Armed demonstrators posing as police officers tried to enter the courtyard of the prime minister’s official residence before heading to the airport road,”…

South Dakota’s Senate Republican leader said Friday that a committee will investigate a suspended senator for allegedly harassing a legislative aide during an exchange over childhood vaccines and breastfeeding.Sen. Casey Crabtree, the Senate GOP leader, had declined to provide details of the allegations against fellow Republican Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller on Thursday when the Senate voted to suspend her legislative powers. Crabtree said in a statement on Friday afternoon that Senate Republicans this week had received a “detailed report” from a staff member of the Legislative Research Council accusing Frye-Mueller of “inappropriate behavior and harassment related to private maternal matters, including…

DANA POINT, Calif. – Harmeet Dhillon has a warning for the Republican National Committee.Dhillon, the RNC committee member from California who was unsuccessful on Friday in her bid to unseat longtime national party chair Ronna McDaniel in a high-profile and combustible election, pointed to her grassroots support and warned “if we go back to our homes and ignore this message, I think it’s at our peril. It’s at our peril personally, as party leaders and it’s at our peril for our party in general.”McDaniel won re-election on Friday, bringing to an end nearly two months of barbs and accusations amid a…

Pennsylvania voters almost certainly will not see a package of proposed constitutional amendments on the statewide ballot in May’s primary election after a deadline set by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration came and went Friday for lawmakers to pass the measures.The amendments include a long-awaited bipartisan effort to give victims of child sexual abuse a new chance to sue perpetrators, plus two Republican-backed measures to expand voter-identification requirements and empower lawmakers to cancel regulations without facing a governor’s veto.The Republican-controlled state Senate gave its approval earlier this month, although GOP lawmakers isolated Democrats by combining the measures into one bill.REPUBLICAN…

US prosecutors have asked a New York judge to prevent Sam Bankman-Fried from contacting his former FTX colleagues and from using encrypted messaging apps, claiming the crypto company founder communicated with potential witnesses in his looming criminal trial.In a letter sent to the court on Friday, the government alleged Bankman-Fried had been “in direct communication” over the Signal messaging app with the general counsel of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, who might be asked to take the stand in the case against his former boss. The letter did not name the general counsel, but the role is occupied by former Sullivan…

A Hamilton-based chef who says he’s been repeatedly denied protected refugee status in Canada will not be deported this weekend as per an order from the federal government. Attorney Joshua Makori told 900 CHML’s the Scott Radley show that his client John Mulwa has been allowed to stay in Canada for another 18 months on a temporary residence permit issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.“We did submit an application for him to become a permanent resident under the what you call the humanitarian and compassionate application process … the minister may have given him this extension so that the application…