Ben Gordon spent 11 seasons in the NBA, retiring in 2015. However, he was detained in December 2022 after reportedly stabbing a number of people with sewing needles. For his podcast, It Is What It Is, Cam'Ron visited the hospital where Gordon was being held. “At 11:15 this morning, former NBA player Ben Gordon was detained and taken to Harlem hospital after witnesses say he was trying to stab random people with sewing needles,” Cam wrote on Instagram alongside the video at the time.
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David McCallum has been playing Ducky on NCIS for more than two decades. Before joining NCIS, the actor appeared in hit TV shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Sapphire & Steel. McCallum had the funniest response after meeting Mark Harmon for the first time. David McCallum as Ducky on ‘NCIS’ McCallum first joined … Published on October 23, 2020 3 min read David McCallum has been playing Ducky on NCIS for more than two decades.
BooksA new book examines the history of far-right authoritarian US groups – and ways the public has chosen to look away
Pro-Nazi propaganda, courtesy of the US post office? This unlikely scheme was hatched by George Sylvester Viereck, a German-born American who between 1937 and 1941 sought to marshal US sentiment against intervention in Europe. Those who heeded him included prominent members of Congress, such as Burton Wheeler of Montana and Rush Holt Sr of West Virginia, anti-interventionist Democratic senators known for speeches that prompted accusations of antisemitism.
Latvian director Viesturs Kairiss, who won the international narrative competition at the Tribeca Film Festival last year with his coming-of-age drama “January,” is prepping his next feature film.
“Ulya” is based on the real-life story of Ulyana Semjonova, a girl raised in the Latvian countryside who reaches a height of seven feet and would go on to become a famous professional basketball player.
Reclaim your brainWell actuallyRevealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study saysExclusive: Millennium Cohort’s finding raises questions about why a large proportion has a difficult relationship with social media
Almost half of British teenagers say they feel addicted to social media, according to findings that come amid mounting pressure for big tech companies to be held accountable for the impact of their platforms on users.
The finding, from the Millennium Cohort study, adds to evidence that many people feel they have lost control over their use of digital interactive media.