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Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing major backlash

Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing major backlash

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Short-handed Browns lose WRs Cooper, Moore to injury in win

CLEVELAND -- Leading Browns receiver Amari Cooper sat out Thursday night's 37-20 playoff-clinching win over the New York Jets because of a heel injury.

Cooper had been dealing with the injury all week. He tried to run during pregame warmups but was ultimately ruled inactive.

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The Browns lost another starting receiver to injury during the game. Elijah Moore left in the second quarter with a head injury. He caught an 8-yard touchdown from quarterback Joe Flacco earlier in the quarter.

In Sunday's win over the Houston Texans, Cooper broke the Browns receiving record with 265 yards. He also had two touchdowns.

Cooper is sixth in the NFL with 1,250 yards receiving despite playing with four different quarterbacks. He also has 72 receptions and five touchdowns.

Cleveland (11-5) clinched a berth in the AFC playoffs for the third time since returning to the NFL in 1999.

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Carry On stat revealed as World War Two hero who helped plan Great Escape

Recently the news has come on the internet that Carry On star Peter Butterworth was a secret World War Two Hero, the National Archives disclosed. He was an actor and comedian who assisted in planning the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III camp in Poland, where 76 airmen escaped on 24 March 1944. Since his name came on the internet it has gone viral on the social media platforms. Now several social media have been searching for the news as they are super curious to know about the whole information about it. Here we have more information about the news and we will share it with you in this article.

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Late actor Butterworth took benefit of prisoners being permitted to write letters home to loved ones and managed to pass vital coded messages to British intelligence. Comedian Peter passed away on 17 January 1979 when he was 63 years old. Dr Will Butler, of the National Archies, stated “He was a very amazing artist who has been noted in the camp records as a highly-skilled forger of documents.” The Great Escape was perpetuated in the 1963 movie starring Steve McQueen. Swipe up to the next page for more information about the news.

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Reportedly, as an airman with the Fleet Air Arm, the actor was shot down at the start of the battle and ended up spending the remainder of it as a convict of war. In scenes reminiscent of Hollywood movies, the actor directed elaborate thought tunnels and managed to get out for three days before being sprinkled by a member of the Hitler Youth. The actor was a very amazing person who achieved a huge success due to his best. You are on the right page for more information about the news, so please read the complete article.

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As far as we know, his son Tyler Butterworth previously stated ” He always joked he’d never work with children after that.” Tragically like many of his friends on screen, Butterworth lost his life while persisting to perform for crowds in January 1979, while starring as Window Twankey in Aladdin at the Coventry Theatre, Peter was discovered dead in his hotel room. Now many people must be keen to know about the cause of death. Reportedly, he had suffered a suspected heart attack. Here we have shared all the information that we had if we get any information then we will update you soon. Stay connected with us for more updates.

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Quarterbacks for NFL's Final TNF Game of 2023: Jets' Trevor Siemian vs. Browns' Joe Flacco

The Jets and Browns meet tonight in Cleveland with vastly different reasons for wanting to beat each other into primetime submission. And the fourth different starting quarterback for both teams will have a lot to say about which team comes away victorious.

For the Jets, the playoffs are a dream for next year, but they want to build on home wins over Houston and Washington, toward a potential 8-9 record to take with them into the offseason. And the well-traveled Trevor Siemian, who piloted the 30-point offense that led by a lot early and by just enough late to defeat the Commanders, will make his second start for Zach Wilson, still in the NFL's concussion protocol.

Cleveland's QB is well known not just to the Jets, their coaches and fans but around the NFL. Joe Flacco was signed to the Browns' practice squad in November, became their fourth starter earlier this month, and has posted 300-yard passing games in his last three games, all wins as the denizens of the Dawg Pound have risen to 10-5 and can officially end the suspense and clinch an AFC playoff berth with a win tonight.

But Flacco and the Brownies will have to do it without their top WR, Amari Cooper, who was on the injury report all week with a heel injury and has been deactivated for the game.

It was 15 months ago that Flacco was the Jets backup and occasional starter. His only win for the Green & White from 2020-22 came in this same stadium that sits almost on the shores of Lake Erie. He guided the Jets from 30-17 down to the 31-30 comeback win, all in the final 1:22, with touchdown passes to Corey Davis and then-rookie Garrett Wilson, sandwiched around Braden Mann's perfectly executed onsides kick recovered by Justin Hardee.

Wilson continues to make much noise as the Jets' WR-1. He's already notched 80 catches for the second straight season and needs just 42 more yards — all tonight would be fine for starters — to reach 1,000 receiving yards for the second straight season. He is joined in explosive playmaking on the offense by RB Breece Hall, who amassed 95 rushing yards, 96 receiving yards on 12 catches, two rushing TDs and 11 first downs in helping the Jets conquer the Commanders.

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Browns News: Myles Garrett Almost Didn't Play Against Jets

They have emotions, they have families, and sometimes it's hard to separate what's going on in their personal lives and what's happening on the field or locker room. Embracing this has been something that the sports community has done a tremendous job of accepting over the last few years. 

This was the case for Cleveland Browns All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett during Thursday night's win against the New York Jets.

The Browns officially clinched a playoff berth with the victory. However, Garrett had trouble fully embracing the moment with his teammates. 

Myles revealed that he almost didn't play on Thursday night against the New York Jets because of an unexpected loss in his family. Garrett's uncle passed away earlier this week on Christmas night which was understandably still on his mind leading up to the game.

“I kind of left it up to my mother and if she needed me, I’d have been gone in a second," Garrett said of potentially missing the game on Thursday nigh. "And football is great. I love this team, I love the Browns, but I only got one mom. I’m hopefully going to have many more games, many more years, but there was only one CJ, and there’s only one mom. If she needed me, I’m always going to be there for her, just like she is for me.”

Obviously, Garrett ended up suiting up for the Browns and recorded three tackles including his first sack in five games. His efforts in the win and all season long are a major reason why the franchise is headed to the playoffs for the second time in four. 

This is an absolutely heartbreaking story. The holidays are supposed to be a time of celebrating with loved ones and Garrett wasn't able to experience that. He also wasn't able to fully welcome the team's first postseason berth since 2020.

Garrett explained why he used the postgame press conference as a platform to share the news despite normally internalizing that type of stuff.

“I think getting off my chest is kind of like the best medicine," he explained. "I also didn’t want my teammates, if they saw me walking off the field, to feel like I wasn’t proud or happy of what we accomplished and achieved tonight. And it’s not indicative of how I truly feel, because I love this moment and how far we’ve come and how far we plan to go. But I just feel like this was more of a message to them than to you all."

He also didn't want to send the wrong message to his teammates. This Browns team seems like a tight-knit group and I'm sure they're right by his side to support him. 

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Standout rookies bump heads as Heat face Warriors

One of the league’s best road teams will encounter a hot home squad when the Miami Heat open a five-game trip with a matchup against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night in San Francisco.

The Heat have won three in a row overall and three straight on the road to improve their record away from Miami to 9-6. At the start of play Wednesday, only the Minnesota Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks had more road wins, each with 10.

Miami, however, ruled out forwards Jimmy Butler (calf) and Caleb Martin (ankle) as well as guard Kyle Lowry (soreness) for Thursday’s game. Guard Josh Richardson (back) remains doubtful for the contest.

Miami is coming off a 119-113 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Christmas. Impressive rookie Jaime Jaquez Jr. contributed career highs in points (31) and rebounds (10) to the victory.

Making just his seventh start, Jaquez became the first rookie in 38 years to post a 30-point/10-rebound double-double in a Christmas Day game. Only four rookies — Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Walt Bellamy and Patrick Ewing — previously had accomplished the feat.

“Great to get a win, career night, Christmas,” Jaquez said after the performance. “I grew up watching these games, and to be able to play and have a career night, I just go back to all the hard work, late nights in the gym, preparing for moments like this.”

Most of those moments took place in Southern California, where Jaquez was born (Irvine), went to high school (Camarillo) and played 134 games for UCLA the past four seasons.

The 22-year-old will be returning to California for the first time in his NBA career at the start of the Heat’s trip. He will head to his old stomping grounds for matchups against the Los Angeles Clippers on New Year’s Day and the Lakers next Wednesday.

Jaquez has started the past three games in place of Butler, who has been bothered by a strained right calf. Butler made the trip to California but won’t play in the Golden State game.

The Warriors lost their Christmas Day showcase 120-114 to the Denver Nuggets on the road. The Miami meeting begins a run of seven in a row at home for a team that’s won its past eight games inside its own building.

Jaquez wasn’t the only rookie with a historic performance on Christmas. Golden State’s Brandin Podziemski had 13 points, nine rebounds, six assists and five steals in the defeat.

No rookie had posted that combination of stats in any game since Ben Simmons did it in 2017. The last Warriors rookie to do it was Purvis Short in 1978.

Also, his season-best steals total made him one of just three Warriors rookies in the past 20 years to swipe five in a game, joining Stephen Curry (twice) in 2010 and Eric Paschall in 2020.

Podziemski has teamed with fellow rookie Trayce Jackson-Davis to ignite a Warriors turnaround in recent games with Draymond Green on suspension. Golden State had a five-game winning streak snapped in Denver.

Curry noted neither he nor his teammates are surprised by the improved play of late, which has followed much national scrutiny over the team’s slow start.

“It’s been like that for years now, even before we won the ’22 championship,” Curry said of media negativity. “They always find something to nitpick, and that’s because there’s expectations for us to win. So you kind of take that in stride.

“For me, my approach is to dumb it down to just … win a game at a time, give ourselves some momentum, some confidence, some energy.”

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Jack Smith on Trump prosecution

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Wednesday in the Washington, D.C., prosecution of Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, a motion whose larger significance might be easily missed. What Smith is asking U.S. district court Judge Tanya Chutkan to do is significant not only legally but politically as well.

On its surface, Smith’s motion only asked the court to prevent Trump from raising matters during the trial that have nothing to do with determining whether he is guilty of committing the offenses with which he is charged.

The motion seeks pretrial evidentiary rulings from the judge to ensure that Trump can’t politicize his trial by introducing evidence that would turn a courtroom into a circus. The former president has already begun to attempt this with statements that are playing a large part in his campaign to return to the White House but otherwise have no bearing on the case at hand.

Trump offered a striking example of the kind of thing Smith wants barred from the trial in a Christmas Eve post on Truth Social:

As the special counsel’s motion put it, Trump’s defense should be barred from “raising irrelevant political issues or arguments in front of the jury. … In addition to being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury’s determination of the defendant’s guilt or innocence, would be prejudicial if presented to the jury, and must be excluded.”

What counts as “irrelevant political issues or arguments”? Well, Smith wants the judge to bar Trump from offering 10 different forms of evidence at the trial, virtually all of them foreshadowed by Trump’s messaging to the public.

For example, Smith noted that “the defendant has signaled his intention to blame the events of January 6 on the Capitol Police, National Guard, and the District’s Mayor.” He asked Judge Chutkan to bar Trump from doing so during his trial. As Smith writes:

Smith also wants the court to preclude Trump’s claims of government’s “coordination with the Biden Administration” to bring the case, at least unless Trump can produce some minimal evidence to justify raising the claim. A grand jury of 23 ordinary citizens filed this indictment against Trump based on evidence—the president’s administration did not.

In addition, Smith’s motion alleges that “the defendant has indicated that he intends to introduce evidence of foreign influence in the 2020 presidential election to show that (1) he was personally tricked by foreign disinformation, and/or (2) the January 6 riot resulted from ‘efforts by foreign actors to influence public opinion.’ ”

“Such evidence,” Smith notes, “should be excluded as an irrelevant and confusing sideshow.”

As a matter of law, Smith is clearly right. Parties are not permitted to bring before trial juries claims made of whole cloth. Lawyers can only engage in what scholars call “fact-based persuasion.”

And no facts have surfaced to support Trump’s self-serving claims that someone else is to blame for Jan. 6, that President Joe Biden has anything to do with the prosecution, or that foreign actors had anything to do with the 2020 election results.

Beyond the legalities, however, Smith has told us three important things about his larger project and strategy.

First, he’s a man in a hurry to ensure the fair administration of justice. Trump, on the other hand, wants to delay his court date as long as possible. Smith’s new motion suggests that he hopes the election interference case can quickly overcome the former president’s stalling tactics and be ready to go to trial the moment appellate courts deny Trump’s claim, as they surely will, that he is immune from prosecution as a former president.

Second, the motion told us that even while the trial is on hold, Smith intends to take the initiative and remain the lead in the courtroom. That’s what great trial lawyers do at every stage of a court proceeding. Trump excels at surviving unfavorable situations by introducing chaos into them—but the motion shows that Smith will not let him do that here.

Third, and most important, Smith is saying loud and clear that he’s got Trump’s number. The special counsel is telling Trump and the rest of us that he (Smith) understands who Trump is and the meaning of his trial for a rule-of-law society.

As Harvard historian Jill Lepore suggests, the D.C. prosecution has monumental significance for the current state of America, and Wednesday’s motion shows it. The case is about truth versus disinformation, proof versus propaganda, and the difference between a court of law and the court of public opinion.

In the political world that Trump inhabits—a world of grievance, blame, and made-up messaging whose repetition sinks them into the public consciousness—Trump is a master. But in courtrooms where facts matter, Trump is a perpetual loser.

Trump knows from vast experience that the one place where the false stories to which he is devoted do not fly is in court. And Jack Smith knows that by hook or crook, Trump will try to get those false stories before a jury. It’s his only way out.

The former president needs fraudulent messaging to lead one or more jurors to hang the jury, even in the face of overwhelming proof of Trump’s guilt. Stopping that unlawful signaling is why Smith brought his motion Wednesday.

Again, however, that’s just the ground game. What’s really going on here is a kind of morality play of a much larger sort. Smith is enforcing the legal system’s rules on a man who insists that he doesn’t have to abide by them.

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It’s obvious why Trump makes his claims to put himself above the law. He seeks the unlimited power of a “dictator on day one.” In what lawyer and commentator David M. Crane calls “the age of strongmen,” leaders like Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orban have virtually complete freedom to serve their own interests and those of their friends at the expense of the freedom of others, regardless of whatever laws may exist on paper to preclude such behavior.

By contrast, the rules of a constitutional republic, top to bottom, stand in the way of that power.

So with Jack Smith’s new motion to enforce established evidentiary procedures and preempt their violation, we shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees. He is speaking not just to Judge Chutkan, but also to the American public. He is reminding us that rules and their enforcement, even the kind of procedural rules that govern the stories that can be told in trials, are what truly make a constitutional republic function and thrive.

Smith’s motion Wednesday captures the battle we’re all immersed in right now: one between a rule-of-law society and a man bent on destroying it. It shows the special counsel’s resolve in the fight, and that he is in a hurry to do the criminal justice system’s part in getting on with it.

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Browns place QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson on injured reserve

The Cleveland Browns have had a plethora of injuries throughout 2023. Quarterback Deshaun Watson and running back Nick Chubb suffered season-ending injuries, which has been a devastating blow to the team’s offense. Now, the Browns have suffered another season-ending injury at quarterback.

The team is placing quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson on injured reserve for the rest of the season due to a hip injury he suffered in Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans. Thompson-Robinson came into the game for Joe Flacco after the team took a massive lead in the second half, but exited the contest after suffering the injury.

This is not the first injury the quarterback has dealt with this season. He suffered a head injury back in week 12 in the loss to the Denver Broncos. P.J. Walker will be signed to the active roster from the practice squad to backup Flacco.

Thompson-Robinson played in eight games for Cleveland this season (three starts) before the team brought in Flacco, who has solidified himself as the starter. Thompson-Robinson has 440 passing yards, a touchdown and four interceptions. He has not put up impressive stats but has won four out of five games he has played in this season.

The Browns are 10-5 and in second place in the highly competitive AFC North. They will host the New York Jets on Thursday Night Football this week, then will finish the regular season off against the Cincinnati Bengals. Cleveland has the top wild-card spot in the AFC and will solidify a playoff birth with a win this Thursday. The team is in good shape to make a good playoff push, but if Flacco were to go down with an injury, their chances of winning in the playoffs would be very slim.

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Wendy's selling bacon cheeseburgers for one cent this week

The fast-food chain is selling its Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger for one penny through Jan. 2. Customers must order another item through the Wendy's app to take advantage of the deal. 

Customers may only purchase a single one-cent burger per order, and the offer is only valid at the fast-food giant's participating locations. It is only available à la carte and not valid with other offers or as part of a combo meal.

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To score the deal, customers can sign in to Wendy's online rewards store and look it up through the available offers.

Wendy's previously offered the same deal in September to celebrate National Cheeseburger Day on Sept. 18, joining rivals McDonald's and Burger King in recognizing the "holiday" with steep burger discounts.

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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads in January. Will you have to pay more?

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads in January. Will you have to pay more?