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The BlessReach knee scooter is compact, bright blue, and retails on Amazon for about $140. It’s been Trent Thornton’s constant companion in the clubhouse since he underwent season-ending surgery in early August after tearing his Achilles covering first base in a July 31 game against the Rangers. After his surgery, Thornton has spent time back home in the Charlotte area …

Sally Mann at her home studio in Lexington, Va., on August 16, 2025. Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR hide caption toggle caption Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR The winding road that leads to Sally Mann’s home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is dotted with lush green fields, where horses graze and gallop when visitors turn a corner. There’s a mythical feel to this …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump and his allies have praised the conservative organizer and provocateur as a free speech champion who set a high First Amendment standard for the “Make America Great Again” movement. Trump, eulogizing Kirk on Sunday in Arizona, identified “reason and open debate” as “the basis of our entire society” and the …

How benching Kimmel landed Disney’s Iger in the middle of culture wars  The Washington Post Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’  Politico Jimmy Kimmel News Stirs Up Conservative Podcasters  The New York Times Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread  NBC News Free speech storm intensifies as Trump goes after Kimmel  The Hill Source link

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It isn’t especially surprising how farcical the Trump administration’s commitment to free speech absolutism turned out to be. The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!—prodded on by Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission after Kimmel made a …

Post-Kimmel, Dems could change the cancel culture narrative  Politico ABC hopes to bring Jimmy Kimmel back, but temperature needs to be taken down under FCC threats  CNN Jimmy Fallon says he hopes Jimmy Kimmel gets to go back on ABC  Business Insider Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech  The New York Times Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk …

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said he will pull state funding for the country’s national film honors, the Ophir Awards, after the Palestinian anti-war drama The Sea took top prize at the 2025 ceremony Tuesday night. Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s drama follows a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living under occupation in the West Bank who risks his life, dodging military checkpoints and the …

Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. Now, think …

Media pundits, journalists, and academics, including MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd, have also been fired or targeted over their comments about Kirk. Executives from Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, sent out an email to employees seemingly referencing Dowd’s dismissal over an “unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue.” In response to …

Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by “unethical” marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time among those aged five to 19, the United Nations agency for children warned on Tuesday. In a dire report, Unicef projected that nearly one in 10 individuals within that age group will …