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The former Clippers owner has, at last, ended his legal battle with the NBA over the $2 billion sale of the franchise by agreeing to a settlement. The agreement announced Friday comes after a federal judge dismissed Sterling’s lawsuit against the NBA in March in which Sterling asked for $600 million in “actual damages” as well as other legal fees. MORE: The worst owners in sports “Donald is pleased with the outcome and is looking forward to focusing on future endeavors,” Bobby Samini, Sterling’s attorney, wrote in an email to the Los Angeles Times....

The former U.S. president said Harry was “whipped like no person I think I’ve ever seen” and criticized him for missing a memorial to Prince Philip in March. He said the only issue he disagreed with the queen over was the fact Harry and Meghan retained their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles. The comments were Trump’s most wide-ranging broadside at the couple following several past criticisms and came in the inaugural interview for Morgan’s new show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, broadcast on April 25....

Trump made his comments during a Tuesday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Hannity asked Trump about his dealings with Taliban leaders and the Afghan government as Trump prepared to withdraw U.S. military troops from the region. First, Trump said that he negotiated with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the Taliban’s co-founder. Trump said he told the Taliban leader that the U.S. troop withdrawal was a “conditions-based agreement....

Comstock, who left Congress in 2019 after losing her 2018 reelection bid, has repeatedly criticized Trump for spreading the falsehood that his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden was due to massive voter fraud. On Tuesday, Trump fired back, lumping the former congresswoman in with other GOP figures that he has spoken against after receiving criticism. “RINO Former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock of Virginia, who lost her race conclusively to someone she should have easily beaten, now goes around telling Republicans how to get elected,” Trump said in a statement....

Though the outgoing president avoided the most talked about controversial pardons, there is concern that he could issue “secret” pardons that could later be produced to defend against federal charges. Legal consensus suggests Trump can issue a valid pardon without publicly announcing it but this could potentially complicate matters for recipients if they aren’t able to show that the pardon was properly issued and delivered. Brian C. Kalt is professor of law at Michigan State University....

The occasion was marked with solemn ceremonies in multiple locations in Poland. These included the Baltic port of Westerplatte near Gdansk, bombarded by German battleships in the war’s opening salvos. Crowds also gathered in the city of Wielun, which was razed by Nazi aircraft in what is considered among the first of a long list of Nazi war crimes in Poland. Several heads of state, meanwhile, attended an event in Warsaw to mark the anniversary....

Meanwhile, the sort of trial that GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed in the U.S. Senate, in which there are no witnesses or impartial jurors and the purpose is merely for Republican senators to make official opinions they’ve already presented on Fox News, has no such civic utility. The historic, geopolitical, and procedural urgency that led House Democrats to push forward toward impeachment just weeks ahead of the beginning of voting in the 2020 presidential campaign—the very campaign Trump hopes foreign nationals and entities will disrupt—does not, in any way, create a similar urgency for Democrats or the country to acknowledge the value of a televised show-trial....

While the size of the president’s Twitter following remains massive, analytics suggest his numbers have now declined for at least 12 consecutive days. Despite the fluctuations, his personal account remains the sixth most-followed profile on the site. Since election day, at least 200,266 accounts have stopped following Trump according to user statistics compiled by social media analytics platform Social Blade. While the president attracted a vast amount of followers in the days immediately after election day—amassing more than 530,000 on November 4 alone—the analytics show that thousands of user accounts on Twitter now appear to be leaving every day....

The president’s son sent a stark message Thursday to GOP leaders hoping to further their political careers, writing that those who haven’t supported Trump during the election process “cower to the media mob instead.” “The total lack of action from virtually all of the ‘2024 GOP hopefuls’ is pretty amazing,” he tweeted. “They have a perfect platform to show that they’re willing & able to fight but they will cower to the media mob instead....

“He got younger…,” reads the text above the image Trump Jr. shared to his Instagram page on Monday. It appears as though Trump’s eldest son is referring to a tweet posted by far-right activist Jack Posobiec, where the Trump supporter asked, “How is he getting younger?” alongside the same image. “There’s some truth to this,” Trump Jr. replied via his own social media account. “He takes the stress and it fuels him, and in all fairness he took more crap than any other president times about 1000....

Political consultants told Newsweek that Trump’s determination to stay off Twitter could help the GOP take back both the House and the Senate in November’s midterms. “Truth be told, most Republican lawmakers would prefer that he not rejoin the Twitter universe, because it will be impossible for them to stay on message if he does,” said Jay Townsend, a Republican political consultant who has worked for four presidential campaigns and a number of congressional races....

Trump’s net approval rating, excluding don’t knows, was -11. By comparison, The Squad—which includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley—who also all had negative approval ratings, were significantly better. New York’s Ocasio-Cortez’s was -3, Minnesota’s Omar was -6, Michigan’s Tlaib was -3, and Massachusetts’ Pressley was -3. The four women had larger “don’t know” answers than Trump, who has far greater name recognition among the wider American public....

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled on Wednesday that the former president must answer questions under oath in relation to the allegations made by magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll claims that Trump assaulted her at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, and later defamed her character while denying it. Kaplan rejected Trump’s legal team’s attempts to have the deposition delayed and ordered the former president to appear for a deposition hearing on Sunday....

The Austrian used the word ‘greatness’ to describe Novak Djokovic. Thiem was also given the word ‘GOAT’ but he gave a diplomatic reply to that, saying that it was “impossible” to pick a name currently. The following are Dominic Thiem’s exact responses to the questions on Novak Djokovic and the GOAT. Dominic Thiem’s responses were in stark contrast to those of Eugenie Bouchard, who had also played the same game a few days ago....

Lemon pointed to the ongoing problems with COVID-19 and the number of Americans who have died from the virus. The president tested positive for the disease more than a week ago and received treatment at Walter Reed medical center. Lemon showed a clip of Trump saying he’d been treated by 14 doctors. The quote “Fourteen doctors, huh? Do you have 14 doctors?” Lemon asked his viewers. “Can you even see a doctor?...

Attention to the University of Alabama-Birmingham dropping football has shifted at least a bit to whether the decision will look like the University of the Pacific’s decision in 1995, a one-off that was not repeated for almost 20 years, or the start of a larger movement in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Will UAB cause school presidents, governing boards, even athletic directors to think twice about football ambitions or will it be dismissed as a black swan?...

Since opening June with four-straight losses, the Yankees have won nine of 13 to slide past Baltimore into second-place in the division, and are now only 1.5 games behind Toronto. The Jays’ problems began before the Yankees series, and they have now lost nine of their past 12. Baltimore has been up and down, and who knows when – or if – Boston will wake up from their World Series hangover....

In a survey conducted on behalf of the brand, 51% of respondents said they’d be willing to pay £2,409 extra for a home with smart home devices already installed. A strangely specific amount, but that’s what the results say. The most requested product was a smart security system, with buyers willing to add an average of £345.10 to the asking price if one is already installed. Smart white goods were the next most popular items, with buyers willing to add an average of £242....

Essentially, Sora’s Disney connections are not evident in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This is a sacrifice many are willing to accept, even if characters like Donald and Goofy are removed from related Kingdom Hearts art in Smash. At one point, some hoped Donald and Goofy could “appear” as part of some of Sora’s moveset, but it’s okay that they won’t. Arguably, even, a character like Donald the Duck (at least in Kingdom Hearts) is too powerful for Super Smash Bros....

Larry Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and frequent critic of Trump, noted the president’s lawyers’ arguments that he cannot be investigated for any offense until he’s out of office, which “leads to one conclusion only: He must be removed from office. As soon as possible.” According to The Washington Post, the as yet undisclosed nature of the complaint involves Trump communicating a “promise” to Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky. The information comes from two unnamed U....