The Biggest Stories Of April 17, 2024
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The Biggest Story Line for Each 2024 NBA Play-In Game
The official start of the 2023-24 NBA playoffs remains days away, yet playoff discourse has already reached peak form. The play-in matchups and playoff seeds that resulted from the weekend’s Game 82 chaos set up one big question that immediately made headlines at ESPN and elsewhere: Should the eighth-seeded Lakers intentionally lose the West’s 7 vs. 8 play-in game because its winner will face the defending champion Denver Nuggets in the first round? If they did, the Lakers would be forced into...
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Biden's false cannibal story described as a simple ‘misstatement,’ ‘off on the details’ by the media
Some media outlets reported on President Biden telling an odd cannibal story twice on Wednesday as a "misstatement" rather than an outright lie, which critics say is different from how Trump is normally treated. While in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Biden shared a story about his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., whom he called "Bosie." "He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones, and he got shot down in New Guinea. They never found the body because there used to be,...
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How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics
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