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They are just good enough to anger you. They are just good enough to annoy you. They are just good enough to Michael Corleone you — just when you think you’re out, they drag you back in. Again and again and again. And just good enough to make you throw up your arms in aggravation as you tear up your ticket stubs — OK, nobody has ticket stubs anymore, but you’d rip ’em up if you had ’em — as you walk out of Madison Square Garden and head for your train. They are your New York Knicks at the…

For the first time in just over a month, Obi Toppin returned to the court on Monday night.  His cameos, though, only lasted as long as Giannis Antetokounmpo was on the bench.  Toppin played eight minutes — backing up Julius Randle at the 4 during spurts when Antetokounmpo also got some rest — and chipped in three points and a steal as the Knicks fell to the Bucks, 111-107, at the Garden.  “Great to see my man back on the floor,” Immanuel Quickley said. “Glad he’s healthy. Always want to see your teammates but also your friends out there, so…

Lawyers for rap legend Dr. Dre are demanding that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stop his using his music, after the controversial politician used the hit “Still D.R.E.”“I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,” Dre, who was born Andre Young, said in a statement.Greene, who represents a district in northeast Georgia, has promoted the far-right and baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, and in February 2022 she spoke at a white nationalist event.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday.Jacquelyn Martin / APIn December she said she would have “won” the…

Prince Harry fans have queued outside book shops to get their hands on the first hardback copies of Spare – with one saying they wanted to read the story from the ‘horses mouth’Dedicated fans were seen queuing out on the streets to buy a hardback copy of Prince Harry’s autobiography on Tuesday morning as it hit shelves at midnight. Bookshops across the country reopened at 12am on Tuesday for the long-awaited release of the Duke of Sussex’s controversial memoir Spare, which was leaked and also sold early by some book shops in Spain last week. A handful of people could…

International donors on Monday committed over $9 billion to help Pakistan recover from ruinous floods last year, exceeding its external financing goals and paving the way for a new model on raising funds to fight climate disasters in poorer countries. Officials from some 40 countries as well as private donors and international financial institutions gathered at a meeting in Geneva as Islamabad sought funds to cover around half of a recovery bill amounting to $16.3 billion. The meeting’s co-hosts, the United Nations and Pakistan’s government, said more than $9 billion had been pledged from bilateral and multilateral partners. Among the…

CNN  —  Republicans seized on revelations that several classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found in his former private office to create cover for former President Donald Trump’s hoarding of secret records. The disclosures Monday about the material found last fall spun up an immediate political storm at a time when Trump is in increasing legal peril. The new GOP House majority is meanwhile rushing to undermine investigations against him and unleashing a wave of counter investigations against the current president. But there are clear distinctions between the two cases. The new controversy so far appears…

CNN  —  One of Kevin McCarthy’s first acts as speaker of the House was to take a selfie with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right conspiracy theorist and election denier who has emerged as one of his staunchest allies. That image, which Greene immediately posted on social media, encapsulates the wager McCarthy has placed for the entire House Republican Conference – and indeed for the GOP overall. To secure the speakership, McCarthy did what his two Republican predecessors in the job, Paul Ryan and John Boehner, would not: grant concessions to the House GOP’s most militant conservative faction that will…

Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published “Common Sense” on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. “In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments and common sense,” Paine wrote.”The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.”ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, JAN. 9, 2007, STEVE JOBS INTRODUCES APPLE iPHONE AT MACWORLD IN SAN FRANCISCOThe explosive treatise fueled revolution in the minds of the American people. It implored colonists to stand behind the heroic rebellion against the British…

CNN  —  California has gone from extreme drought to extreme flooding in a matter of days. On Monday, 90% of the state’s population was under a flood watch as another round of storms rolled through. Yet it was just last week when several counties in the state were experiencing the exact opposite – exceptional drought, which the US Drought Monitor considers the most severe category. California’s parade of ultra-wet storms has not completely reversed the deeply rooted drought. And scientists warn that it has a long way to go to erase years unfavorable precipitation trends and water supply overuse. But…

The number of patients at clinics in the province reached a peak on Dec 19, but the number of severe cases was still high, he said, without giving further details. Yin Yong, acting mayor of Beijing, was cited as saying the capital was also past its peak. Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission in the city of Chongqing said the peak there was reached on Dec 20. In the province of Jiangsu, the peak was reached on Dec 22, while in Zheijiang province “the first wave of infections has passed smoothly”, officials said. Two cities in the…