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The right-wing Freedom Convoy protests against COVID mandates, among other things, were brought to an end roughly a month ago. The Canadian government assembled a task force to hunt down the crypto donations, composed of agents from the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). So far, however, the task force has managed to confiscate only about 30 percent of the bitcoin donations, according to Crypto Slate....

Consider the efforts by two Democratic members of Congress to persuade the leading cable and satellite television providers not to carry Fox News or Newsmax. If these coercive efforts were to succeed, Fox and Newsmax would still be allowed to broadcast, but millions of viewers would be denied to right to access them on their televisions. Or consider “cancel culture,” which is intended to punish speakers who have violated some often undefined norm....

The manuscript was found near the car crash that killed the 46-year-old author in 1960. His widow refused to publish the fragment, fearing that its first-draft roughness might further damage his reputation, then under attack from many French intellectuals. Since then, Camus’s standing has steadily improved. His first novel, “The Stranger,” is required reading in French schools and sells 200,000 copies a year. So when Camus’s daughter, Catherine, now 48, read the manuscript, reputation wasn’t an issue....

According to French journalist Fabrice Hawkins, the Ligue 1 club attempted to sign the 28-year-old on loan during the January transfer window but the deal failed to materialize. Jorge Sampaoli’s side are reportedly set to resume their pursuit of Bailly this summer. The centre-back left Villarreal to join Manchester United in a deal worth £30 million in the summer of 2016. He immediately became a regular starter for the club, making 38 appearances in his debut season at Old Trafford and helping the Red Devils win the Europa League and EFL Cup....

Statistics on the French Open men’s singles final today in which Rafael Nadal beat David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in 2hr 16mins: Nadal Ferrer ——————————- Aces: 5 1 Double-faults: 2 5 First serve percentage: 70 62 Net points won/played 13/17 10/14 Winners: 35 22 Unforced errors: 25 35 Breaks/Break points: 8/16 3/12 Total points won: 100 72 afp 0 votes

The French head of state joined his country’s victorious players in the locker room after they beat Croatia 4-2. He jostled with midfielder Paul Pogba while being filmed for Snapchat. And he posed for picture doing a dab pose with defender Benjamin Mendy. It was a rousing evening for a president who went through a range of emotions at the Luzhniki Stadium. Earlier in the evening, Macron had paced nervously and then leaped euphorically from his seat in the VIP section as a guest of FIFA and Russian President Vladimir Putin....

Raphael Varane, Ibrahima Konate and Kingsley Coman became the latest French players affected, joining Adrien Rabiot and Dayot Upamecano, who were forced to miss the team’s semifinal win over Morocco because of illness. Varane, Konate and Coman - as well as Aurelien Tchouameni (hip) and Theo Hernandez (knee) - were part of training on Saturday. The issue could scarcely have come at a worse time for manager Didier Deschamps as he attempted to win his second consecutive World Cup trophy against an Argentina side captained by Lionel Messi in Qatar, but there was good news for Les Bleus on Sunday....

USC beat Fresno State 45-20 as 5-point favorites last year, with the game slipping just UNDER the 65.5-point total. The Trojans’ Cody Kessler threw for 345 yards and four TDs in that game, and he’s back for his junior season under new coach Steve Sarkisian. Fresno State has had to replace three-year starter Derek Carr, with the battle between junior Brian Burrell and senior Duke transfer Brandon Connette. Line: USC -21....

What time does Friday Fortnite Start? Friday Fortnite takes place July 19 at 4 p.m. EDT and lasts for at least three hours. Start and end times for the matches may fluctuate slightly based on technical difficulties and player availability. How to watch and stream Friday Fortnite The best place to watch Friday Fortnite unfold is on the UMG Events Twitch channel embedded here. That link acts as a central hub for the action, but you can also consult the teams list below if you’d like to keep an eye on individual streamers....

Point spreads and totals listed here are current as of Friday morning. Visit our odds board for updated NBA lines from Las Vegas. Houston Rockets (2-0 ATS) at Dallas Mavericks (0-2 ATS) Series: Rockets lead 2-0 Game 3 Line: Mavericks -1, Total: 214 Unpleasant changes out of Dallas are the huge story in this series even while the Rockets are up 2-0. Point guard Rajon Rondo’s honeymoon with Rick Carlisle, if there ever was one, is certainly over....

Gun Media developers also gave fans of Friday the 13th: The Game a sneak peek at how some of the title’s stealth mechanics would work with a second video. In the additional clip, potential players can see how the archetypal “jock,” “edgy guy,” and “girl next door” characters will be able to hide around various areas in Camp Crystal Lake. After showing off the new Friday the 13th: The Game footage, the Gun Media team talked about certain aspects of how the stealth system will work, discussing its experimentation with having a HUD on the screen and how much leeway is given to fans being able to zoom in on certain spots in the environment....

Robert Redford founded the Sundance Institute as a workshop for aspiring screenwriters and directors in 1981. The institute began hosting its own little film festival in 1985. Early on, Sundance spotlighted small cinematic gems such as “Smooth Talk” (1986) and “River’s Edge” (1987). In 1989, Steven Soderbergh’s starkly shot exploration of sexual repression, “sex, lies, and videotape,” captured Hollywood’s attention and put indie film on the pop landscape for good....

Please, Mr. Nielsen. Oh, the ratings are going to sparkle and we’ll all be playing highlights of Wichita State-Kentucky in our heads for years. So the NCAA Tournament selection committee can smirk and pretend as though the job they performed in seeding the field was not only successful, but spectacular. And if they’re running a television show, they’re certainly correct — except they’re not. They’re running an athletic competition that is televised, and that is a very different thing....

If Biden does win the election, California Sen. Kamala Harris—the first woman of color on a major party presidential ticket—will become his vice president. Harris’ pick crystalizes the center-left establishment foreign policy platform Biden’s campaign has sought to build, breaking with Trump’s unilateral, combative, “America first” worldview and seeking a return to what American voters will see as more normal international relations. Though not traditionally a prominent voice on foreign policy, Harris’ Senate record, presidential run and past interviews suggest she is an internationalist who values America’s traditional alliances and leans towards multilateralism to address global challenges like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic....

“Sediment can increase by a factor of 100 in areas that burn,” says Whiting. That means clogged streams and culverts nearby; farther downstream, silts and clays can smother fish eggs and disrupt drinking-water quality. The Forest Service and other agencies are preparing for the worst, re-seeding 80,000 acres with quick-growing grasses, laying down barriers and trenches along hillsides and expanding culverts. The efforts have already paid off in New Mexico, where the summer thunderstorm season passed without major incidents....

The film follows the Eternals, an immortal alien race that has secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, as they re-emerge to fight a new threat to human life. This film takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, so is a continuation of the timeline alongside other new releases like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Loki. The group in Eternals includes some big names like Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek, and recent reports have suggested Harry Styles also appears in the film....

“What do most people not realize can seriously f**k you up?” read the question asked by u/Specktakles88, which amassed nearly 30,000 votes since it was posted on Thursday. Teeth One Reddit response involved problems as it pertains to teeth. “I had a filling that fell out and I ignored it, worst pain ever,” one Reddit user wrote. “Cost me a lot too.” “An infection in your gums can easily migrate to your heart,” commented another....

It is as one who has experienced this astounding, rapid and unthinkable transformation in my own world (and resisted much of it along the way) that I look at the tumult in Congress and think I know what is going on. In the same span of time I am talking about they have gone from government by junta to a kind of quasi-democratic system. They have gone from unaccountability to open sessions, sunshine caucuses and unending threats of insurrection against those in authority....

Before Hubble took a look, other telescopes had spied protoplanetary disks around just four (of the estimated 400 billion) stars in our Milky Way galaxy. But these disks were old, and didn’t necessarily form when the star did. Hubble’s photo shows directly that the dust around a newborn star is spinning too quickly to be sucked into the stellar inferno; instead, it naturally spreads out into the sort of pancake that can break into planets one day....