Trending News
Israel's president picks Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to form government
Knesset has been deadlocked since the election last month when Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition lost its majorityIsrael's president has ⁠chosen Gadi Eisenkot, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ⁠strongest rival, to ⁠try to ​form a new government, after a deadlocked election that left neither man ⁠with a clear path to power.Isaac Herzog's office said he had informed Eisenkot, the leader of the Yashar party, on Saturday night "of his intention to task him with forming a government". Continue reading...
Israel's president taps opposition candidate, not Netanyahu, to form a government
Gadi Eisenkot ran as the main rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but neither won enough support to command a majority. Israel's main parties have recommended Eisenkot form a new government.
UFC head Dana White says he will meet with Trump Monday on White House press secretary offer
Stop us if you’ve heard this before.Steph Curry made NBA history.In the Warriors’ 126-119 overtime win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday at Chase Center, Curry went a perfect 4 for 4 on go-ahead shots during the final two minutes of regulation and the extra period. It’s the first time in the tracking era (start of the 1996-97 NBA season) a player has made at least four field goals without a miss under those circumstances in a single game (h/t @automaticnba/X).And that’s not even the whole story. Curry also made two free throws in the final minute of regulation, with the first also giving Golden State the lead at the time. Additionally, with 2:21 to go in the fourth quarter, Curry made a layup that tied the game at 100.So, all in all, that’s six different instances down the stretch when Curry made a shot to either tie the game or take the lead. Oh, and it’s probably worth mentioning Curry finished with 41 points on 13-of-19 shooting from the field, 5 of 10 from 3-point range and a perfect 10 of 10 from the free-throw line — not to mention six rebounds and six assists.One more key tidbit, in case you forgot: Steph Curry is 38 years old.Saturday’s performance was Curry’s 47th game with 40-plus points since he turned 30 years old, as well as his 16th such game since turning 35. He now leads all NBA players in both categories all-time.Finally, another impressive benchmark for the road.Curry joined Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook as only the third point guard in NBA history to record 25,000 points and 5,000 rebounds in his career (h/t @statmuse/X).Just another night at work for Chef Curry as the Warriors won their seventh consecutive game.Download and follow the Dubs Talk PodcastThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
Montreal Alouettes defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL East final - CBC
Montreal Alouettes defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL East final CBCCFL division final takeaways: Alouettes, Elks rise to occasion, reach Grey Cup Sportsnet.caZach Collaros says Eastern Final presented by Wegovy® loss was 'a microcosm of what the year felt like' CFLGame Day HQ | Eastern Final | Blue Bombers at Alouettes Winnipeg Blue BombersBlue Bombers : Mike O'Shea is being kept secret about his starting quarterback CityNews Winnipeg
See live results from the California and Bay Area midterm elections
Stop us if you’ve heard this before.Steph Curry made NBA history.In the Warriors’ 126-119 overtime win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday at Chase Center, Curry went a perfect 4 for 4 on go-ahead shots during the final two minutes of regulation and the extra period. It’s the first time in the tracking era (start of the 1996-97 NBA season) a player has made at least four field goals without a miss under those circumstances in a single game (h/t @automaticnba/X).And that’s not even the whole story. Curry also made two free throws in the final minute of regulation, with the first also giving Golden State the lead at the time. Additionally, with 2:21 to go in the fourth quarter, Curry made a layup that tied the game at 100.So, all in all, that’s six different instances down the stretch when Curry made a shot to either tie the game or take the lead. Oh, and it’s probably worth mentioning Curry finished with 41 points on 13-of-19 shooting from the field, 5 of 10 from 3-point range and a perfect 10 of 10 from the free-throw line — not to mention six rebounds and six assists.One more key tidbit, in case you forgot: Steph Curry is 38 years old.Saturday’s performance was Curry’s 47th game with 40-plus points since he turned 30 years old, as well as his 16th such game since turning 35. He now leads all NBA players in both categories all-time.Finally, another impressive benchmark for the road.Curry joined Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook as only the third point guard in NBA history to record 25,000 points and 5,000 rebounds in his career (h/t @statmuse/X).Just another night at work for Chef Curry as the Warriors won their seventh consecutive game.Download and follow the Dubs Talk PodcastThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
UFC boss Dana White says he's meeting with Trump after press secretary job offer
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has offered the job of White House press secretary to his friend and UFC boss Dana White, an announcement unconventional even for the norm-busting president. White said Saturday that he plans to meet with Trump on Monday at the White House.
This plot to hurl Trump overboard would be insanely dangerous — and America's best hope
America has finally, finally, figured out en masse that Donald Trump himself is the disease, and did all it could to excise him with clarity.The only issue remaining is that when Trump faces "problems," his only tool, the only solution of which he can conceive, is to throw "more Trump" at the debacle. He hits strategic limits upon deciding, "If brute force isn't working, it's because I'm not using enough." See Stephen Miller being made his new chief of staff.Others have now come to the same conclusion, except these others are within the Trump camp as currently constituted. Yes, according to a Bulwark report, it appears there might be a trilateral agreement to oust Trump or at least render him impotent... more impotent.Based primarily on speculation regarding their actions, Jonathan V. Last posits that JD Vance, Don Trump Jr., and Tucker Carlson are, to some degree, operating together to fix a problem they know will only grow, absent an alternative.He notes that Vance blamed the historic electoral loss on the war with Iran — of which the decision to start was unilaterally Trump's, a break in Article II hegemony. The cleanest break, not messy policy, the war. A break that Don Jr. immediately and unequivocally agrees with — it was the war, Trump's decision, nothing else. Meanwhile, the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned and suspected anti-Semite Tucker Carlson has always opposed the war and appears to be in cahoots with the other three.The way the putsch organizers see it, they can still have it all. MAGA's strongest man in the bullpen, Vance, gets to be the next president. He has immediate cred with righty voters (such as they are), given that he wasn't the one who ordered the war — opposed it all along, if you read it right — and has support of the Trump family, which is where Don Jr. comes in. Meanwhile, Tucker plays the role of the intellectual, the coach, the disappointed CEO, standing off out of the way (for now), nodding, assuring others this is a good idea because it was always a bad idea to support Israel in a war, and thus proof Trump lost it long ago, something else Tucker noted previously.What is "the end goal"? On that, things get a little fuzzy.The group can go all the way from publicly demanding Trump step aside; they can huddle the Cabinet and utilize constitutional remedies — putting Vance in as at least temporary president — or form a government in waiting, an alternative in which Trump no longer has the one thing he demands above all else, loyalty.Will it work? Of course not. But first we better define what constitutes "working" as this plan's goal. With that, together, we're full circle. They understand that, as things stand, they'll lose in 2028, and there's no damn rule saying it can't be even worse. They understand that Trump will do nothing and is indeed fully incapable of addressing the issues (Has he yet accepted any personal role in this loss? None so far, no reason to believe that will change). In other words, "this" becomes the plan to save 2028. Thus it is doomed from the beginning, but they might do a lot to endanger whether this country ever sees 2028. To be sure, first, there is an outside chance that Trump takes a survey of all his projects, sees that none are really close to completion, and decides that he's now really not having any fun anymore. He no longer owns libtards, rallies are stupid; he already has his own helicopter and plane anyway, plus it's almost winter and who wants to be in DC in winter? He might simply resign, attribute it to health reasons (he'd never concede he's been defeated), even be partly correct — he's bored to death. The other options are more compelling as television, more terrifying as citizens.The troika can approach Trump with their plan in private, likely be told to get bent, and only then go public. (As all know, Trump cannot fire Vance as an independently elected officer. He can demand Vance resign — not the worst idea from Vance's perspective — but Trump cannot fire Vance). If they go public, it is on. And right there, it gets dangerous.As said, Trump can't react with introspection, restraint, adhering to good counsel — no, he promotes Miller; this is Donald Trump. He will go insane with the certainty that only more Trump will fix this. Even that is nothing really new; it can be 2 a.m. on a Tuesday and Trump will be medium to medium-well wholly out of control angry about something. This time, however, Trump will be fighting to demonstrate that he's president, he calls the shots, no one forces him out, and he still pushes all power buttons.There are precious few harmless ways for an already reckless president to demonstrate total executive authority. One would not want to be Iran in such a situation because what's more "American president" than bombing someone who can't fight back? And he could go way, way overboard, something that gets The Hague's attention. *One somewhat comforting fact: Trump is now so neutered (as predicted here long ago) that if he were to go too far, order a nuclear launch or massive land invasion, we could see revolts in the Pentagon — it's possible.Trump could tell Blanche to arrest the traitors, perhaps charging them with treason, subject to the death penalty, unintentionally writing his own Shakespearean tragic comedy as he circles the drain. A nation that arrests people for simply challenging authority (It's not like Vance is rallying troops at the White House gates), that's a pretty sucky nation — right there with Venezuela if you think about it, no matter how close we may already appear as such, be as such. An already somewhat addled Trump mind may become even less tethered to reality and start really drifting, unable to make even the most obvious orders from a president that might need to protect us from the obvious. After all, if the FBI gets word that Iran has assembled terrorist actors here within the U.S. (Or Israel does something similar, making it look like Iran, not impossible), we at least want a president aware of such and overseeing what experts tell him we need — but even that's not guaranteed, not if they threaten anything outside of Florida. Hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires, tornadoes, all have a habit of showing up at the worst times — there couldn't be a worse time, or more blue states.Vance could get cold feet, stepping back to let the two that aren't currently in the administration do most of the work — though he best be careful; word around the campfire is that Carlson may run for president and the first order of business in such a plan is to "pew-pew" the guy who would otherwise be the heir apparent, even with a Vance resignation, perhaps especially with a Vance resignation, putting more distance between himself and any Trump stench.Trump would watch on in fury as he's more and more ignored, a condition that was coming without regard to a historic loss; being a lame duck is lame, especially for a self-obsessed dopamine addict. If one were Vance, one would think that the best option is an intervention behind closed doors, nothing in public — until leaked, which may not be needed if done right. Vance can flatter; Trump has succeeded! He got rid of DEI, he's been ultra cruel to immigrants, he blew s*#* up, and, more than anything, he won again after 2020. It's already mission accomplished; let Vance take it from here. It all sucks anyway!Trump may or may not know that his son stands behind him with a giant knife.The odds of success depend almost solely on whether a lot more golf and a lot more money (He would demand a payday, of course) ensconced in Mar-a-Lago as President Emeritus sounds better than the Oval Office. They can lie and say he'll be consulted on everything, and they'll tell the public such, and if successful, never to speak to him again. Sadly, it all really does get down to how much fun the toddler really sees in his near future, his only future at his age.The one unavoidable is the GOP will not even sniff the White House with a blue map, and Trump remains president. It could be entertaining; it will be inherently dangerous to all of us. But watch Don Jr., see if he makes another comment. He must know that he has no future, either, if he doesn't divorce that fam fast. He is likely to be the most obvious weather vane.The laughable part is that these three almost surely believe that the plan is a restart, giving them a real chance in 2028. Sure, J.D., sure. But feel free to give it all you got.Trump is dangerous enough as is. Maybe this isn't necessarily more dangerous. Maybe even we can agree it's worth a shot. It's not like we're worried about their ultimate success.Not anymore. Jason Miciak is a Raw Story columnist, former editor at Occupy Democrats, author, attorney, consultant, and single parent girldad. Please follow on Bluesky, and he can be reached at [email protected]
Newhook scores twice as Canadiens beat Maple Leafs - Sportsnet.ca
Newhook scores twice as Canadiens beat Maple Leafs Sportsnet.caFowler channels Price's poise as Canadiens hold off Maple Leafs Sportsnet.caMcKenna gets benched, scores as scuffling Leafs lose for fourth time in five games TSNRosie DiManno: Gavin McKenna giveaways 'killed' the Maple Leafs against the Canadiens. At least the kid owns it Toronto StarPreview: Canadiens join the Leafs for the HHOF weekend PPP Leafs
Fajardo leads Elks to win over Lions as Edmonton advances to Grey Cup against Montreal - TSN
Fajardo leads Elks to win over Lions as Edmonton advances to Grey Cup against Montreal TSNElks to face Alouettes in Grey Cup after beating Lions in West final CBCNathan Rourke on facing the Elks defence: "There's a fine line between playing safe and making smart decisions" CFLPhotos: Edmonton Elks beat B.C. Lions 28-16 in CFL Western Final Edmonton JournalWest final a showdown of well-rounded teams Global News
2 licensed skydivers die in California after their parachutes become entangled
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Two experienced skydivers who were taking part in an organized skydiving event in Southern California were killed after colliding midair and plummeting to the ground. The Riverside County Sheriff's Office on Saturday identified the two who died as Georgia Jean, 56, of Box Elder, South Dakota, and Levi Pimentel, 29, [...]
On TV

The Simpsons — 38x6: "The Kosmic Kruiser" (FOX)

The Gilded Age — 4x2: "You Won't Hear Me Beg" (HBO)

Bertha returns to a frosty reception from the household, Peggy's career aspirations clash with the Newport crowd, and Agnes reluctantly gives an interview.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — 13x29: "Episode 29" (HBO)

New Music

No new drops today. Go rediscover something in your old playlists.

In theaters

No new releases hitting theaters today. Your popcorn can wait.

Launching today

Nothing launching today. Every rocket is staying grounded and behaving.

Useless Fact

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The loonie
CAD → USD
0.7086
▼ 0.0063
CAD → EUR
0.6356
▼ 0.0012
Today In History
2020 — Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Dies at 80
Canadian-born American television personality Alex Trebek, who was best known as the host (1984–2020) of the TV game show Jeopardy!, died at age 80
2016 — Donald Trump Elected 45th US President in Upset
Despite trailing in most polls, Republican Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, though his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million
2013 — Philippines struck by Super Typhoon Haiyan
On this day in 2013, the Philippines endured what many consider its worst natural disaster when the country was struck by Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded to strike land
1994 — Republicans Win Control of U.S. Congress in 1994
In the U.S. midterm elections, the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 40 years; the sweeping victory was partly because of President Bill Clinton's low popularity at the time. How much do you know about the history of American politics? Americana/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
1978 — Norman Rockwell, Iconic American Illustrator, Died in 1978
American illustrator Norman Rockwell, best known for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post, died
1972 — HBO Debuts with 'Sometimes a Great Notion'
The American cable television company HBO officially debuted on this date in 1972 by airing the 1971 film "Sometimes a Great Notion", which starred Paul Newman.
1966 — Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Bill Allowing NFL-AFL Merger
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a tax bill that included a rider allowing the National Football League to merge with the American Football League, thus preventing legal challenges involving antitrust issues
1962 — Release of "Mutiny on the Bounty" Film
The epic film Mutiny on the Bounty, which recounts the 1789 mutiny on the HMS Bounty, was released in American theatres; it was perhaps best known for its production difficulties, many of which centred on star Marlon Brando
1960 — John F. Kennedy Elected 35th US President
Democratic politician John F. Kennedy was narrowly elected the 35th president of the United States in 1960, defeating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.
1956 — Discovery of Comet Arend-Roland's Anomalous Tail
Comet Arend-Roland was discovered; it was remarkable for its anomalous second tail, which projected toward rather than away from the Sun
1932 — FDR Defeats Hoover in 1932 US Presidential Election
During the Great Depression, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover to win the presidency of the United States. How much do you know about U.S. presidential elections?
1923 — The Beer Hall Putsch Attempt in Germany
Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff attempted to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic, but the Beer Hall Putsch they led was quickly suppressed the following day.
1900 — Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone with the Wind", born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1900
Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, was born in Atlanta, Georgia
1884 — Birth of Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach
Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach was born in 1884. He is known for devising the inkblot test that bears his name, which was widely used clinically for diagnosing psychopathology.
1837 — Mount Holyoke Female Seminary Opened
One of the first institutions of higher education for women in the United States, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) opened in Massachusetts.Jim Gipe; courtesy of Mount Holyoke College
1656 — Edmond Halley Calculates Orbit of Halley's Comet
English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley, the first to calculate the orbit of Halley's Comet, was born in Greenwich, Kent, England

This is today, boiled down to the essentials. The full stash lives at logicalchaos.ca. Go get lost in it.