Former Biden administration official Sam Brinton, who made headlines last year as the White House’s first “gender-fluid” bureaucrat, will not be getting jail time for stealing luggage from the Minneapolis airport. Brinton, who served as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, was placed in an adult…

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Russia’s military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city not far from Ukraine’s border, injuring two and scaring local residents. Belgorod, a city of 340,000 located about 25 miles east of the Russia-Ukraine border, has faced regular drone attacks during Russia’s current military…

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President Joe Biden will sign an executive order establishing the Office of Environmental Justice, in an executive order that will dramatically increase the scope of the administration’s initiatives in that space, the White House announced Friday morning. The new executive order directs federal agencies to consider the “disproportionate and adverse” impacts of climate change on…

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An eighth-grade boy has been charged with assault for allegedly punching another boy after he lost a youth wrestling match in a video that went viral, according to a report. WBBM-TV in Chicago reported Thursday that Hafid Alicea, 14, was charged with assault under a local ordinance in the Village of Oak Park, Illinois. The…

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The NFL suspended five players for violating the league’s gambling policy on Friday. Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney were suspended indefinitely, the league announced. Meanwhile, Lions wide receivers Stanley Berryhill and Jameson Williams were suspended six games. Cephus, Moore and Toney are suspended…

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Dale Shepherd, a former world record holder in weightlifting and multiple time New Zealand’s strongest man, applied to enter the weightlifting completion “Day of the Deads” in the women’s category. According to the New Zealand news media website Stuff, Shepherd wrote the words, “I identify as a woman for this contest” on the entry form…

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Few topics engender more impassioned takes than the topic of transgender athletes in sports. Few sports better highlight the innate physiological differences between men and women than mixed martial arts. Perhaps due to those two facts, former MMA champion Jake Shields issued an open challenge Thursday on social media to prove a long-simmering point about…

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A deceased former Navy lieutenant — and murderer — will become the first veteran to have his remains removed from Arlington National Cemetery this year due to the nature of his crimes. Former Lt. Andrew Chabrol kidnapped, raped and murdered an enlisted woman — 27-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa Harrington — in Chesapeake, Virginia,…

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Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier Báez was removed from Thursday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays after he lost track of how many outs there were and ran into a double play. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch removed Báez in the third, one inning after Báez’s gaffe on the bases. “If you watch the last couple of…

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Medieval scholar Grigory Kessel recently discovered ancient Gospel text hidden in an ancient manuscript fragment. Kessel, a senior scientist at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, published his findings last month in the periodical, “New Testament Studies.” According to the article, Kessel had been studying the “undertexts” of an old…

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