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The Chad Powers people get pretty cranky if you ask them about Ted Lasso

The Chad Powers people get pretty cranky if you ask them about Ted Lasso

We’ll admit to a certain perverse, sustained fascination with Hulu’s upcoming sports comedy Chad Powers, a bizarre Mrs. Doubtfire riff, based off of an Eli Manning viral streaming clip, that we once described as one of the worst ideas for a TV show we’d ever heard. The premise is as simple as it is goofy: Hire 36-year-old Glen Powell to play a disgraced …

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Glen Powell & Eli Manning Chad Powers Interview: Football Meets Comedy

Glen Powell & Eli Manning Chad Powers Interview: Football Meets Comedy

Glen Powell can do it all. He acts, he writes, he endlessly charms — but the man could not take a shotgun snap. Not well enough for Peyton and Eli Manning, at least. “They sent Eli and me the videos of his throwing sessions …” Peyton explains. “You watch [a pro QB] take a snap … his fingers are pointing …

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The Urge to Purge: US gives immigration officials discretionary powers to determine if social media posts are ‘anti-American’

The Urge to Purge: US gives immigration officials discretionary powers to determine if social media posts are ‘anti-American’

US President Donald Trump (PTI) TOI Correspondent from Washington: The Trump administration has announced it will undertake broad discretionary screening of social media posts for “anti-American” views while adjudicating applications for visa, green card, and citizenship. In an updated guidance issued on Tuesday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the nodal agency in charge of legal immigration, said its …

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Trump administration claims powers of D.C. police chief : NPR

Trump administration claims powers of D.C. police chief : NPR

National Guard personnel keep watch as travelers arrive at the entrance to Union Station near the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation’s capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration …

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Rad Power’s Radster: A very non-radical commuter bike

Rad Power’s Radster: A very non-radical commuter bike

Rad Power’s system uses large, orange arrows on the display to tell you when the directionals are on, and which direction is being signaled. It takes a little while to get used to shutting them off, since you do so by hitting the same switch that activated them—hitting the opposite switch simply activates the opposite turn light. But the display …

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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

US President Donald Trump has used a series of executive orders to reshape US science.Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty US President Donald Trump issued an expansive executive order (EO) yesterday that would centralize power and upend the process that the US government has used for decades to award research grants. If implemented, political appointees — not career civil servants, including scientists — …

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Trump and SCOTUS are weakening the separation of powers

Trump and SCOTUS are weakening the separation of powers

Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority authorized President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. In another shadow docket ruling that lacks legal precedent, facts or justification, the court dealt an even more serious blow to separation of powers than to public education. The Education Department was established by federal statute in 1979 to “strengthen the Federal commitment to …

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MLB All-Star Game 2025: Kyle Schwarber powers NL to win with 3 homers in 3 swings in event’s first swing-off

MLB All-Star Game 2025: Kyle Schwarber powers NL to win with 3 homers in 3 swings in event’s first swing-off

The 2025 MLB All-Star Game was tied 6-6 by the end of the ninth inning. Instead of extra innings, fans got some heroics from Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber. Decided by baseball’s first All-Star swing-off, the National League beat the American League to notch its second ASG win in three years. It’s only the league’s fifth win in 28 years. …

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