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Pokémon TCG Scalpers Buy Out 42,000 Phantasmal Flames Sets Months Before Release

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Pokémon TCG Scalpers Buy Out 42,000 Phantasmal Flames Sets Months Before Release


The Phantasmal Flames expansion of the Pokémon Trading Card Game won’t be available for purchase for another few months, but a group of scalpers has already managed to buy it out. Earlier today, the Mega Evolutions-centric set was announced to be coming to the West on November 14 this year.

Though the release date is still two months away, PokéBeach reports that a group of scalpers has managed to hack the Pokémon Center and trick it into selling them the packs early. Packs were apparently pre-loaded into the official website today, which has allowed the group to buy out the sets before they even officially appear in the store to the general public.

Scalpers Boast Huge “Success” In Buying Out Phantasmal Flames Stock

“This Is Our Holiday Season”

Screenshots from the private Discord group Hidden Society show members boasting of their success at bypassing the online store’s safeguards and successfully checking out the upcoming sets. In the screenshots, a user named robyewest reports that the group’s collective efforts resulted in the sale of over 42,000 Phantasmal Flames products. The user goes on:

“This is OUR holiday season, let the criers cry and whiners whine, they can go tell their moms what happened today and break their monitors while we reap the benefits.”

It’s unclear at this point if the Pokémon Center will actually honor these purchases, as reports of alleged cancellations have already started to circulate. The company will likely pull and cancel the orders since they were made before the official release. Despite this, there seems to be nothing much stopping scalpers from repeating this massive haul when Phantasmal Flames officially arrives in November.

Pokémon TCG Scalpers Are Getting Out Of Hand

Despite The Company’s Best Efforts, Scalpers Prevail

Pokémon TCG's Mega Charizard ex has blue flames emerging from the sides of its mouth.
Pokémon TCG’s Mega Charizard ex has blue flames emerging from the sides of its mouth.

Scalpers have become a serious issue for many products, and Pokémon TCG cards in particular are being targeted by resellers looking to turn a quick profit. Renewed interest in the cards has driven up demand, which makes it easy for scalpers to create artificial shortages and resell the products for huge markups.

This issue was especially prevalent with the incredibly popular Prismatic Evolutions set released early this year, which even caused fights to break out. Many Pokémon TCG fans fear that scalpers are making it not fun to collect what is, in essence, a children’s game and a fun collectible.

The Pokémon Company has taken several steps to try and reduce the effect of scalpers, including an anti-bot queue, but most efforts have failed to stop resellers from buying huge quantities of products out from under real fans’ noses. Despite the poor behavior of the Hidden Society group, many fans remain hopeful that the Pokémon Company will use this opportunity to ban its members.

Even if they do, though, there are ways to bypass bans. At the end of the day, the best method of dealing with scalpers is not to buy from them. Unfortunately, as long as reselling Pokémon Trading Card Game cards remains lucrative, it will continue to be difficult for real fans to actually enjoy their hobby.



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Montell Jordan’s prostate cancer is back. He has a battle plan

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Montell Jordan’s prostate cancer is back. He has a battle plan


Montell Jordan, the son of South L.A. who shot to fame in 1995 with the hit “This Is How We Do It,” says his prostate cancer has returned despite having a radical prostatectomy last year.

“We thought [the cancer] was all confined, isolated to the prostate,” he said Wednesday on “Today.” “Apparently, that was not the case.”

Jordan said that after his nine-month follow-up exam and testing, doctors noticed a “tiny amount” of cancer cells in the prostate bed — the former site of the gland that was removed — and in some lymph nodes on the left side of his body. He is opting for proton radiation therapy to target the cancer and hormone blockers to reduce or eliminate production of testosterone, a hormone that the Mayo Clinic says is needed for most prostate cancer cells to grow.

The five-day-a-week radiation treatments will be “a 7½-week interruption of life to make sure that I have a longer life,” said the 56-year-old Pepperdine University graduate, who is now a pastor based in Georgia, in addition to continuing to work in the music industry.

After getting prostate exams regularly since he turned 40, he knew his doctor suspected he had cancer when his PSA test results came back elevated. Still, he said, getting the official diagnosis early in 2024 was a shock.

“I still go numb a little bit,” Jordan told “Today.” “I’m the type of person that tries to live a life of moderation in what I eat and what I drink and how I work out. I don’t do alcohol or smoke or any of those things.” He noted that his quality of live has been “fantastic” since his surgery.

However, the biopsy that came back after his prostatectomy showed that his cancer was likely Stage 2, not Stage 1 as originally thought, he said. Stage 2 means that the cancer has grown larger and has possibly spread to nearby lymph nodes. The most recent exam appears to have confirmed that diagnosis.

Jordan said he is talking about his journey because the way that prostate cancer and notions of manhood and masculinity are interwoven means men don’t like to talk about the disease — Black men especially.

The minister, who with his wife, Kristin Jordan, formed the “100% virtual” Master Peace Church operating out of Dacula, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, is also filming a documentary about his experience.

“I’m trying to give a template for people that get diagnosed with this to, one, know they have options available to them,” Jordan said. “And, two, in the mix of what that looks like, it’s OK to cry. It’s OK to shake your fist at God. It’s OK to navigate and do what you need to do, but doing nothing is not an option.”



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Lady Gaga Miami Concert Canceled on Mayhem Ball Tour

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Lady Gaga Miami Concert Canceled on Mayhem Ball Tour


Lady Gaga announced late Wednesday (Sept. 3) that she had to postpone her Mayhem Ball Tour stop in Miami after fans had already packed Kaseya Center for the show.

She revealed that her voice was strained during rehearsals on Tuesday night and that it hadn’t improved during her warm-up ahead of Wednesday night’s show.

“Hi everyone I am really so so sorry but I need to postpone tonight’s show in Miami,” Gaga wrote in an all-caps message posted to her Instagram Stories. “During rehearsal last night and my vocal warmup tonight my voice was extremely strained and both my [doctor] and vocal coach have advised me not to go on because of the risk it poses.”

In her message, Gaga expressed just how “agonizing” the decision was for her to make, but she couldn’t ignore the potential for long-term damage to her voice.

“I want to be hardcore and just push through this for you but I don’t want to risk long term or permanent damage on my vocal cords,” Gaga wrote. “There is a significant risk based on all our combined experience with a show like ours and as you know I sing live every night –and even though this was a hard and agonizing decision I would be more afraid of the long term implications on my voice. I hope you can forgive me and accept my sincerest apologies for any disappointment, let down, inconvenience. I am so so sorry. I tried so hard to avoid this. I take serious care of myself to be able to put on this highly demanding show. I love my fans so much, respect you and hope you can accept my sincere regretful apology.”

To end the message, Gaga assured fans: “We are trying to reschedule the show as quickly as possible.”

Videos on social media showed fans pouring out of Miami’s Kaseya Center after being informed of the last-minute postponement.

Gaga kicked off her Mayhem Ball Tour in Las Vegas in July and has U.S. dates scheduled through Sept. 18 in Chicago. Her international dates — with stops in Europe, Australia and Asia — go through Jan. 30.

Next up, Gaga is scheduled for two more dates at New York’s Madison Square Garden this weekend — on Saturday and Sunday — as well as a performance on Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Earlier Wednesday, Gaga dropped “The Dead Dance,” featured in the second season of Wednesday, along with a Tim Burton-directed music video and a deluxe edition of her most recent Mayhem album.

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C.T. Fails Leka, Fights With Turbo

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C.T. Fails Leka, Fights With Turbo


[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for The Challenge Season 41 Episode 6, “Is He Throwing a Fit?”]

Chris “C.T.” Tamburello is arguably the G.O.A.T. of The Challenge. Sure, Johnny Bananas has more season wins, while Jordan Wiseley has earned the most money (so far). However, CT has managed to win hearts, minds, and five regular-season finales over a decades-long career on the show. So it was a complete surprise when the entire house turned against him on the latest episode of Vets and New Threats — and we have to wonder how much more he still has in the tank, as he might word it.

On Wednesday’s (September 3) new segment, the daily challenge was “Runes My Life,” which was both a suspension and a water challenge. Last time CT saw one of those was on Battle of the Eras, and he went to the hospital over it, so he experienced a bit of post-traumatic stress at the sight of it. “I’ve always been nervous but never afraid. This time is different. Falling from this high, uncontrollably, is pretty scary for me now. This is the first time I’ve had to face my fear, face my trauma,” he admitted in a confessional.

Unfortunately for CT — and especially for his partner Ayoleka “Leka” Sodade — that fear, coupled with his apparent lack of physical conditioning, made him unable to climb a rope ladder at all. He tried to offer her some guidance from his spot in the water, but the scene was both horrifying and humorous to the others. The show even meme-d him floating around helplessly in the water like so…

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CT instantly earned admonition from others, especially Turabi “Turbo” Çamkıran, who repeatedly called his performance shameful and even accused him of purposefully throwing the mission.

CT denied he bellyflopped, so to speak, on purpose. “There are better ways to throw a challenge, and humiliating myself wouldn’t be the first option. I know I need to get up. It’s like paralysis,” he said in a confessional. However, Turbo still accused him of doing just that in a fiery kitchen confrontation. After a bit of screaming — with the rest of the house gathering around to watch with popcorn in hand — CT told Turbo he should’ve talked to him about this in private and that he thought they were friends, but Turbo issued the ultimate takedown by calling him a p-word and saying he’s now subject to “jungle rules,” whatever that means.

After Nany Gonzales intervened to stop her friends from fighting, the business of the upcoming elimination could finally commence. With Leka automatically sent into the arena, it was up to the daily challenge’s winners, Leo Dionicio and Sydney Segal, to choose who to put up in the jury vote alongside “hangnail” Olivia Kaiser. Despite Olivia’s plea to Leo that Aneesa not be the winners’ pick, Leo, after some speechifying, threw her into the mix anyway.

The vote between Olivia and Aneesa was a close one, but it was Aneesa’s longtime friend Leroy Garrett who stood firm to save her; though his partner, Izzy Fairthorne, wanted to throw their vote to Olivia and thought she should have the choice since it was a women’s elimination day, he said there wasn’t anything she could do to change his mind, and that was that. While Aneesa faced some serious doubters from other vets, like Ashley Mitchell and Aviv Melmed, Leroy was in her camp 100%. (“I was a little conflicted at first, but I thought, ‘What would Johnny Bananas do in this situation?’” he later explained of his foot-down decision… and here comes another Johnny Bananas “rent free” tweet.)

In the arena, “Out of Time,” Leka and Olivia were challenged to go back and forth across giant ramps with rollers on them to press buttons on either side, and whoever could rack up the most button presses in five minutes would win. Leka, who’d literally carried her team on her back earlier in the day while Olivia sat out as the hangnail, ran out of steam halfway through and lost by two points. Thus, she paid the price for CT’s big mistake, but will he be next on the chopping block?

At the selection, CT was partnered up with Aneesa, who was also in the crosshairs this week, so the future looks grim for both. Meanwhile, the other pairings are as follows: Sydney and Derrick Kosinski, Leo and Nany, Adrienne Naylor and Leroy, Derek Chavez and America Lopez, Aviv and Gabe Wai, Cedric Hodges and Jonna Mannion, Michaela Bradshaw and Justin Hinsley, Yeremi Hykel and Tay Wilcoxson, Ashley and Theo Campbell, Will Gagnon and Izzy, and Jake Cornish and Olivia.

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RHOA Alum Kandi Burruss Talks Phaedra Parks Rift; Defends Kenya Moore

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RHOA Alum Kandi Burruss Talks Phaedra Parks Rift; Defends Kenya Moore


We all know that things will never be okay between Kandi Burruss and Phaedra Parks, but it never hurts to ask. Keke Palmer recently interviewed the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum and asked her about their years-old beef. Kandi touched on it for the one thousandth time, and she also weighed in on Kenya Moore’s departure from Bravo. These are two of RHOA’s biggest controversies, and Kandi didn’t hesitate to talk about them.

Kandi Burruss gets vocal about Phaedra Parks and Kenya Moore

“Do you think there’s any way that [Phaedra] could get you to look her way again? Has she ever tried to reach out?” Keke asked.

“We’ve been in the same rooms before, but there’s no reason for us to communicate. We just don’t interact. I’m not disrespectful, I don’t come in cussing anybody out or anything … it’s just, you just stay in your lane, and I’ll stay in my lane,” Kandi replied. “I don’t feel the need to fake it for the world in that situation.”

Kandi also made it extremely clear that she wouldn’t tolerate revisionist history surrounding what happened in RHOA Season 9.

“I see people online trying to change what happened,” Kandi continued. “Obviously, y’all did not watch the show, or y’all did not really pay attention to what happened. [But] I’m not here to re-explain it. I’m not here to bring it up some more.”

Another thing that does not need to be re-explained is the drama between Kenya and Brit Eady. Throughout Season 16, Kandi made it known that she felt like Kenya’s punishment didn’t match the crime. On stage with Keke, Kandi kept the same tune. She felt like Kenya’s mid-season removal was the wrong move from Bravo.

“At the end of the day, after seeing how it played out, it was wrong on both sides. I feel like you can’t take one off [the show] and not take the other off. I feel like that was wrong, and y’all can disagree with me, but that’s how I feel,” Kandi said.

She continued, “And I’m definitely going to support my girl and say they didn’t even give her the opportunity to come back and apologize. Everybody else got chances to come back and apologize, you know? So why doesn’t she get that chance?”

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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long term power to ‘raise the ceiling’

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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long term power to ‘raise the ceiling’

Shares of design software company Figma plunged 14% in extended trading, as investors took a dim view of Figma’s first quarter earnings report. 

Figma CEO Dylan Field, who cofounded the company in 2012 and watched its $20 billion acquisition by Adobe fall apart in 2023, isn’t one to get caught up in the negative. “We’re at the very start of what I hope is a long term relationship together,” a confident Field told listeners as he kicked off the earnings call, taking advantage of the opportunity to demonstrate Figma’s presentation technology.

Prior to the call, Field spoke to Fortune and shared his thoughts on one of the most important trends affecting his business: AI.

“No one knows whether we’re going to look back in five years at everything that’s happening right now in AI and say, ‘Oh my God, those were the bubbliest of times,” Field said. “Or: ‘Wow, we totally underestimated the effect it would have on society.’ But for Figma, what I think will be true in five years is that we’re always trying to make it so you can go as fast as possible from idea to production. And I think with AI, you can really accelerate that.”

AI is at the center of the private and public markets, and is widely viewed as a key tailwind—and risk factor—for Figma. In its fiscal second quarter, Figma grew revenue a healthy 41% year-over-year to $249.6 million, roughly in-line with analyst expectations. Figma reported $28.2 million in net income, or break-even on a per share basis.  

Field believes one of the key intersections between AI and design is that AI tools will help broaden access, letting more people become designers. Figma added four new AI-native tools to its platform this quarter and told investors on the call to expect significant investments in AI going forward.

“We want to lower the floor, but raise the ceiling—make it so more people can participate in the design process, while also enabling professionals to do even more with AI,” Field told Fortune, reiterating a company mantra of “design is the differentiator.”

The “design as differentiator” thesis dates back to Figma’s early days. When Field was an intern at Flipboard in 2012, he noticed that, even then, companies were hiring more designers. 

And as mobile technology and consumer expectations evolved, he theorized design was becoming a critical differentiator, transitioning from a skill to a critical business advantage. That’s only more true today, he said, adding that “there’s a kind of talent war happening for design right now that’s being talked about in conversation a lot online.”

Ultimately, Field said, Figma’s approach to AI is about riding the wave. 

“Our philosophy is that as the models get better, we get better,” he said. “That’s always the test I have strategically for us.” 

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Is this an easy way of identifying potentially cheap FTSE shares?

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Is this an easy way of identifying potentially cheap FTSE shares?


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Every day, I take a look at the biggest FTSE share price movements – up and down. When it comes to the winners, I don’t expect the stocks in my portfolio to appear. Most of my investments are in FTSE 350 companies, whose share prices tend to be more stable, with large daily upwards movements being rare.

Fortunately, this means my stocks usually don’t appear in the list of fallers either. But I’m realistic enough to know there are never any guarantees when it comes to investing in the stock market.

However, it’s the losers that continue to interest me the most. That’s because — I believe — investors often over-react to bad news, sometimes sending a share price lower than is justified.

A bad day at the office

An example of this occurred on 3 September.

The share price of Hilton Food Group (LSE:HFG) tanked 17% after investors took a dislike to its interim results for the six months ended 30 June (H1 25). The company is a supplier of meat, seafood, vegan, and vegetarian foods to customers in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the results were particularly impressive. After all, a 0.4% fall in adjusted operating profit, compared to the same period in 2024, isn’t what you would expect from a listed business.

In addition, the company recorded a net cash outflow of £30.8m compared to an inflow of £30m in H1 24. Also, over the past 12 months, net debt has increased by £65.4m.

A closer look

However, the company said it expects “to deliver full-year results within the range of expectations”. The consensus of analysts is for a pre-tax profit of £76.8m-£81m. It made £61m in 2024.

On this basis, I think wiping around £150m off the group’s market cap is unjustified. This is particularly the case when the increase in its net debt is explained by “increased tactical inventory holding” and additional capital expenditure. It’s not as if the group’s been wasting its surplus cash.

And it announced a 5.2% increase in its interim dividend. When added to last year’s final payout, today’s share price crash means income investors might be tempted by the stock’s healthy yield of 5.1%.

Been here before

But it’s not the first time that the group’s shareholders have suffered. In September 2022, on the day it issued a profit warning, its share price tanked 28%.

This is just one example of how investor patience has been tested in recent years. In April 2022, the shares were worth over 80% more than they are today.

A more positive view

However, I think there are plenty of reasons to consider today’s reaction by investors as a mistake.

The group’s plans to expand internationally remain on schedule. It’s due to commence trading in Saudi Arabia with a joint venture partner in the second half of 2026. And it plans to launch a new business in Canada in 2027.

And if it does meet analysts’ expectations this year, it means the stock’s trading at around 12 times forward earnings. Others in the sector, including Cranswick, Kerry Group, and Greencore Group, attract a higher multiple.

That’s why I think today’s share price movement means Hilton Food Group is a stock for investors to consider. And why I think large share price falls are worth keeping a close eye on.



This story originally appeared on Motley Fool

‘Miss Palestine’ Nadeen Ayoub to compete in global pageant to show ‘we are human beings’ | World News

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‘Miss Palestine’ Nadeen Ayoub to compete in global pageant to show ‘we are human beings’ | World News


A woman who will appear as Miss Palestine in a global beauty pageant has said she wants to represent her culture and “show the world that we are human beings”.

Nadeen Ayoub told Sky News she wants to “speak up about Palestine and to carry the voices of those that are unheard”.

Speaking on The World With Yalda Hakim, she said she became Miss Palestine in 2022 and will now head to Thailand in November to compete against dozens of others at Miss Universe.

“I don’t want people to be thinking when they hear the word Palestine, to just be thinking of suffering and pain,” said Ms Ayoub.

“So just like we hear the word ‘Italy’ and we think of beautiful things, like the Amalfi Coast and pizza and pasta.

“When we think of other nations, we think of their heritage and their culture and their identity, and we see them as human beings.

“I want the same thing for Palestine to show the world that we are human beings, and that is simply my message.”

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Ms Ayoub was partly raised in the US and Canada and now reportedly splits her time between Dubai, Ramallah, and Amman.

She was supposed to compete in Miss Universe following success as Miss Palestine at another pageant in 2022.

However, she told Sky News she delayed her entry until now after the Hamas attack on Israel sparked the Gaza war.

The 27-year-old has been criticised by some for calling the dire situation there a “genocide” during an interview last month. Israel denies all accusations of genocide.

Among her critics is the runner-up in the Miss Israel contest, who questioned Ms Ayoub’s inclusion in November’s pageant and urged her to speak out against Hamas.

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“Miss Universe stands for unity, peace and co-existence – and if she stands for all of those things then let’s have it,” Adela Cojab Moadeb told the NY Post.

“I would welcome an advocate who stands against extremism and stands for the right of all people to exist.”

Ms Ayoub declined to comment in her Sky News interview, stressing her message is to “show the world that we Palestinians have an identity of creativity, of talents, of heritage, of culture”.



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Trump admin illegally froze Harvard funds, Judge says : NPR

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Trump admin illegally froze Harvard funds, Judge says : NPR


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A federal judge in Boston handed Harvard University a legal victory on Wednesday. It’s the latest in a high-profile legal fight over whether the Trump administration acted illegally when it froze more than $2.2 billion in Harvard research funding in response to allegations of campus antisemitism.

In her ruling, Judge Allison D. Burroughs said the administration’s funding freeze was issued without considering any of the steps Harvard had already taken to address the issue.

Burroughs said she found it “difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law].”

White House spokesperson Liz Huston said after the ruling: “We will immediately move to appeal this egregious decision, and we are confident we will ultimately prevail in our efforts to hold Harvard accountable.”

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The more than $2 billion in federal funding that the administration had frozen supported more than 900 research projects at Harvard and its affiliates. That includes research into the treatment and/or prevention of Alzheimer’s, various cancers, heart disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and autism. Burroughs also highlighted a program through the Department of Veterans Affairs “to help V.A. emergency room physicians decide whether suicidal veterans should be hospitalized.”

The case has been the subject of intense focus as Harvard has stood largely alone in pushing back against the Trump administration’s efforts to use funding cuts as leverage to win vast ideological and financial concessions from other elite institutions, including Columbia and Brown University.

In a July hearing, a lawyer for the Trump administration said Harvard’s funding had been frozen because the school had violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color and national origin, by failing to address antisemitism on campus.

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters face off outside of Columbia University on April 22, 2024.

But Burroughs ruled that it was the administration that had run afoul of Title VI by quickly freezing funding without first following a process clearly laid out in law.

Harvard’s attorneys had argued that the cuts imposed by the Trump Administration threatened vital research in medicine, science and technology.

Burroughs wrote in her decision that, “research that has been frozen could save lives, money, or the environment, to name a few. And the research was frozen without any sort of investigation into whether particular labs were engaging in antisemitic behavior, were employing Jews, were run by Jewish scientists, or were investigating issues or diseases particularly pertinent to Jews (such as, for example, Tay-Sachs disease), meaning that the funding freezes could and likely will harm the very people Defendants professed to be protecting.”

Burroughs underlined that antisemitism is intolerable, and criticized Harvard, saying it “has been plagued by antisemitism in recent years and could (and should) have done a better job of dealing with the issue.” But, the judge concluded, “there is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism.”

In this screenshot, Allison Burroughs is sitting at a table equipped with a microphone at her 2014 Senate confirmation hearing to be a U.S. district judge.

President Trump has previously been outspoken in his criticism of Burroughs, writing on Truth Social earlier this year that she is a “Trump-hating Judge,” and “a TOTAL DISASTER.”

Following Wednesday’s ruling, White House spokesperson Liz Huston again criticized Burroughs and said “It is clear that Harvard University failed to protect their students from harassment and allowed discrimination to plague their campus for years. Harvard does not have a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars and remains ineligible for grants in the future.”

“This ruling is huge. It is a big, decisive victory for academic freedom,” said Harvard history professor Kirsten Weld, who is also president of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which was a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Even though the White House plans to appeal, Weld says she hopes this ruling sends the message “that you cannot break universities in this fashion and that it is worth standing up and fighting back.”



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Hilaria Thomas Baldwin Joins Dancing With The Stars Season 34 Cast

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Hilaria Baldwin’s Dancing With The Stars news excited both her loyal fans and those who follow the dance competition program. Hilaria Baldwin, a dancer and the host of a wellness platform, is the wife of American actor Alec Baldwin. Moreover, her level of fitness hyped the forty-year-old to work tenaciously to keep herself in stellar shape, allowing her to compete on a television show where participants dance every day. The vigor of the thirty-fourth season that her fans were expressing has been built and saved to shine on the show that she loves.

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With the exclusive partnership with Lear, Hilaria garnered the platform to announce what her fans were expecting from her in some way. The Shimmy Shawl was now a memory, replaced with the Sparkly Pink, the very first Shimmy product. The whole ensemble was perfected with a uniquely tailored, elegantly over-the-top dress and editor-at-home Hilaria and the man of the hour, her dance partner, were serving against the backdrop of a blindingly sparkled room full of disco balls and the unending showtype glamorous energy.

The positive commentary that came with Hilaria’s Dancing With The Stars entrance was dazzling. Well-wishers were flocking to the authority to check the status of the competition. A well-wisher said, “I will watch because of you! Team Hilaria!” The next said, “Now I have to watch,” indicating her attendance to the show will bring more viewers.

Hilaria’s Dancing with the Stars entrance captured the hearts of viewers of the show at how much she practiced. It appears that Hilaria tended to practice with Alec Baldwin. These social media exchanges tend to indicate that her followers have observed Hilaria focusing on dance practice for a considerable amount of time.

According to the report, there are resonant comments in the Spanish language as well. One of the comments is, “buena suerte!” It is a bilingual expression of goodwill that makes use of the Spanish language, which is spoken by a significant part of her fan base, while the nickname her fans have for her acknowledges her wellness background and support from the Spanish-speaking community.

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Additionally, fans are keen to see her dance challenges this season, which have been a topic across social media platforms.



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