Bye

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Jeffrey Toobin leaving CNN

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is leaving CNN.

The pundit made the announcement Friday afternoon, and the news was confirmed by a CNN spokesperson soon after.

https://thehill.com/homenews/3598767-je ... aving-cnn/

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Rangers fire Chris Woodward: Texas manager out in midst of another sub-.500 season, per report

The Texas Rangers have fired manager Chris Woodward amid a disappointing season that has them likely to miss the postseason for the sixth consecutive year, reports the Dallas Morning News.

Woodward, 46, was in his fourth season as Rangers manager. The team went 211-287 (.424) those years, though the club was clearly in a rebuild in 2020 and 2021. Texas committed over $500 million to free agents this past offseason, most notably Corey Seager and Marcus Semien, yet they are on track to miss the postseason again.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/rang ... er-report/

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Thank you Rena best wishes.

Rena Sofer Reveals She’s Leaving B&B After Nine Years As Quinn Fuller

On Tuesday, Rena Sofer posted on social media several flower arrangements and teased she had some more information to share — and she wasn’t kidding. Now we know — she will be leaving her role as Quinn Fuller on the Bold and the Beautiful. What does this mean for the character — and could it be an answer to General Hospital fans’ prayers?

Rena Sofer Out As Quinn

Sofer tweeted the news, which appears in the new Soap Opera Digest that she has finished taping her last scenes as Quinn. “Friday August 5 was my last day playing Quinn on @BandB_CBS.” The actress revealed to the magazine that it was her choice to move on.

https://soaphub.com/bold-beautiful/the- ... nn-fuller/

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Jon Daniels dismissed by Rangers; Chris Young to run baseball ops

ARLINGTON -- The Rangers parted ways with president of baseball operations Jon Daniels on Wednesday, effective immediately.

General manager Chris Young will inherit all duties, including oversight of all aspects of the Rangers’ baseball operations department, the club said in a press release. The move comes just two days after Texas relieved manager Chris Woodward of his duties following a 51-63 start to the season.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jon-daniels-di ... by-rangers

[Glennfs]

Jon Daniels dismissed by Rangers; Chris Young to run baseball ops

ARLINGTON -- The Rangers parted ways with president of baseball operations Jon Daniels on Wednesday, effective immediately.

General manager Chris Young will inherit all duties, including oversight of all aspects of the Rangers’ baseball operations department, the club said in a press release. The move comes just two days after Texas relieved manager Chris Woodward of his duties following a 51-63 start to the season.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jon-daniels-di ... by-rangers

I went to see the Hickory Crawdads this year. They are the Rangers AA affiliate. It was pitiful. Other than one t
Relief pitcher I didn't see a player with major league potential anywhere on.the field.

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Pirates’ Rodolfo Castro suspended 1 game after phone fell out of pocket during game

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Rodolfo Castro was suspended for one game and fined on Tuesday for having his cell phone fly out of his pocket while running the bases last week, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Castro violated Major League Baseball’s electronic device policy. He is going to appeal that suspension, meaning that Castro will be able to play against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.

https://sports.yahoo.com/pirates-rodolf ... 16480.html

[Glennfs]

Pirates’ Rodolfo Castro suspended 1 game after phone fell out of pocket during game

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Rodolfo Castro was suspended for one game and fined on Tuesday for having his cell phone fly out of his pocket while running the bases last week, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Castro violated Major League Baseball’s electronic device policy. He is going to appeal that suspension, meaning that Castro will be able to play against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.

https://sports.yahoo.com/pirates-rodolf ... 16480.html

That is pretty funny I am sure his teammates are going to needle him to death

[Glennfs]

San Diego Padres infielder suspended 80 games for violation of performance enhancement drug policy.
He claimed it was ringworm medication

[Number6]

San Diego Padres infielder suspended 80 games for violation of performance enhancement drug policy.
He claimed it was ringworm medication

I find Fernando Tatis' explanation to be a bit suspicious. I'll give him credit for accepting responsibility and not challenging the suspension. BTW, the Fernando Tatis Bobble Head giveaway for Sept 12th has been cancelled by the Padres.

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Pa. Kids-for-Cash Judges Ordered to Pay More Than $200M

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are “the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions.”

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/lo ... s/3337689/

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CVS, Walgreens And Walmart Ordered To Pay $650 Million In Ohio Opioid Case

A federal judge ordered CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to pay a collective $650.5 million to two counties in Ohio for their part fueling the opioid crisis in the state, a landmark ruling that lays partial blame for the epidemic on pharmacies that supplied the drugs.

U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster said the penalty must be paid over the next 15 years, the first ruling that hands down a massive monetary figure against pharmacy chains. The ruling came after a federal jury found last November that the three chains had substantially contributed to the opioid crisis, turning a blind eye to the burgeoning epidemic of abuse and dispensing pain medication without considering red flags.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cvs-walgreens- ... 54735.html

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A 25-year old man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for operating a "grandparent scam." The scam involved calling persons in their 70s and 80s claiming to be their grandson saying they were arrested and need money to get out of jail. He scammed over 70 victims netting over $2 million.

A 25-year-old California man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 46 months in prison for scamming over 70 elderly victims, including at least 10 people from San Diego County, in a more than $2 million fraud scheme, prosecutors said.

Jack Owuor, of Paramount, pleaded guilty to participating in a large-scale “grandparent scam” racketeering conspiracy with seven others, Kelly Thornton with the Office of the United States Attorney Southern District of California stated in a release.

“From approximately November 1, 2019, until October 14, 2020, the members of the criminal enterprise targeted elderly Americans, contacting them by phone and feeding them phony stories that their grandchildren were in legal trouble and needed money to pay for bail, pay medical expenses for car accident victims, or prevent additional charges from being filed,” Thornton said.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-new ... rent-scam/

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What Does Brian Stelter’s Exit Mean For The Future Of CNN?

What to make of Brian Stelter’s sudden departure from CNN after almost a decade with the network? As one well-placed source suggested to me when the news began leaking out on Thursday afternoon, “John Malone, John Malone, John Malone.”

That would be the billionaire media mogul and Warner Bros. Discovery shareholder who is a close confidant of CEO David Zaslav.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08 ... le-sources

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Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of an Islamic State cell known as "The Beatles" to life in prison for involvement in a hostage-taking plot that led to the killings of American journalists and aid workers in Syria.

Families and friends of the four Americans killed and of other hostages previously detained by the militant group looked on as District Court Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, to life without parole, calling his behavior "horrific, barbaric, brutal and of course criminal."

https://www.aol.com/news/islamic-state- ... 52647.html

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Uvalde school board fires police chief after mass shooting

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom.

In a unanimous vote that arrived after months of angry calls for his ouster, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees fired Arredondo in an auditorium of parents and survivors of the May 24 massacre. His ouster came three months to the day after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.

https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-schoo ... 16dc418383

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Judge who denied a teen's request for an abortion because her grades weren't good enough voted out of office.

In addition to removing Florida Rep. James Bush from office, Jared Smith, a judge in Florida’s Hillsborough County, also lost his reelection.

Prior to the election, both Bush and Smith received widespread condemnation for their views. While Bush crossed party lines as the only Democrat in the state legislature who voted on a 15-week abortion ban and the anti-LGBTQ "Don't Say Gay" bill, Smith denied a 17-year-old girl an abortion without parental consent, claiming her school grades demonstrated a lack of “intelligence or credibility.”

According to Daily Kos, in the case’s initial ruling in January, Smith became focused on the teen’s grades over other evidence. In his ruling, he said that while the teen said she made mostly Bs in her testimony, at the time of the ruling her GPA was 2.0—reason enough to deny her request for an abortion.

“The court found her intelligence to be less than average … she claimed that her grades were ‘Bs’ during her testimony, her GPA is currently 2.0,” Smith wrote according to court documents. “Clearly, a ‘B’ average would not equate to a 2.0 GPA.”

Smith even claimed that the teen should not get an abortion due to the fact that she does not care for younger family members. However, others noted the teen did not have younger siblings for this claim to apply.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8 ... -of-office

This idiot judge deserved to be voted out of office.

[ProfX]

It's weird how these judges think if they're so young or so irresponsible, too so to get an abortion, that makes them a perfectly fine to-be parent instead.

I guess she could just leave the child in one of these "drop boxes" they've set up around town.

[Libertas]

It's weird how these judges think if they're so young or so irresponsible, too so to get an abortion, that makes them a perfectly fine to-be parent instead.

I guess she could just leave the child in one of these "drop boxes" they've set up around town.

And Randi is off till Tuesday, right? Producer moving...I like how she said "No, I am not helping." I get it, me either.

[ProfX]

Yep, she said that.

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Meta takes down hundreds of Facebook, Instagram accounts associated with Proud Boys

Executives with the social media company Meta announced Thursday that they recently removed 480 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, and groups associated with the Proud Boys, for violating the platforms' ban on the far-right extremist group.

The Proud Boys organization was banned by Facebook and Instagram in 2018. Meta is the parent company of both platforms.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/meta-takes-hu ... d=88846963

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Bills release P Matt Araiza due to gang-rape allegations

The Buffalo Bills released punter Matt Araiza on Saturday night, two days after the rookie was named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was one of three college players involved in a gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl last October.

https://www.southernminn.com/around_the ... %20October.

[ZoWie]

Half the Greek houses at U$C just dropped out of the university's system because it was about to require observers at parties. I guess everything will stay the same, only with less oversight. They'll become even more elitist, and even more inclined to treat the rest of us like inferiors deserving only exploitation.

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Comcast needs to go out of business forever they're the worst.

A sign that broadcast television is struggling in the age of streaming?

NBC is considering something once thought unthinkable — giving up what has traditionally been one of the prime pieces of real estate on TV. According to The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Flint, NBC is considering giving the 10 to 11 p.m. prime-time hour back to local affiliates.

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022 ... ogramming/

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Bills release P Matt Araiza due to gang-rape allegations

The Buffalo Bills released punter Matt Araiza on Saturday night, two days after the rookie was named in a civil lawsuit alleging he was one of three college players involved in a gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl last October.

https://www.southernminn.com/around_the ... %20October.

This is a big story here in the San Diego area since Matt Araiza played at San Diego State.

[Number6]

Half the Greek houses at U$C just dropped out of the university's system because it was about to require observers at parties. I guess everything will stay the same, only with less oversight. They'll become even more elitist, and even more inclined to treat the rest of us like inferiors deserving only exploitation.

But isn't that the purpose of a fraternity, to make themselves believe they're superior to everyone else? It's high school behavior taken to the next level.