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ESPN's Stephen A. Smith points out the hypocrisy of Kyrie Irving saying Biden needs to "do his job" and get Brittney Griner back from Russian prison. Irving voluntarily sat out most of last season for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

F.C. Shakhtar Donetsk CEO Sergei Palkin calls for Ukraine to replace Iran in next month's FIFA Men's World Cup due to Iran's support of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi recalls an interaction with Iran’s morality police when she was 12 years old: "They assumed that my 12-year-old self and my 45-year-old uncle were married just because we were walking down the street."

Halep said she was shocked and that her test showed she tested positive for "an extremely low quantity" of Roxadustat. She faces a possible four-year ban from professional tennis. bbc.com/sport/tennis/6…

Former world No.1 women’s tennis player Simona Halep has been suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. Halep denied knowingly cheating and said, “Today begins the hardest match of my life: a fight for the truth.”

The trade deadline will be Nov. 1, and Moore has expressed frustration that he hasn't been targeted enough in games. sports.yahoo.com/report-jets-re…

New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh on wide receiver Elijah Moore reportedly requesting a trade amid a three-game winning streak: “He's not gonna get traded."

Swifties on Friday saw Spotify briefly crash after the release of Taylor Swift's tenth studio album, #Midnights.

On his podcast, @cthagod says Kanye West called him last November about Pete Davidson: “He's going on and on and then finally he goes, 'MY WIFE IS OUT HERE FUCKING A WHITE BOY WITH A 10-INCH PENIS AND YOU WON'T HELP ME!'"

On the latest episode of his podcast, Tom Brady said the NFL season is like "deployment in the military," despite having no military experience. si.com/nfl/2022/10/18…

Tom Brady apologizes for comparing the difficulty of playing in the NFL to serving in the military: "It was a very poor choice of words. I just wanted to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken it in a certain way."

Tom Brady shoots down speculation that he will retire before this NFL season ends: "No retirement in my future."

"[School] didn't tell me that I needed a combat hat and a shield when I went to the White House." — @AprilDRyan, the longest-serving Black female White House correspondent and repeatedly the target of Donald Trump's ire, says we're in a "totally different era" of journalism

Gas station operator Circle K partners with cannabis dispensary Green Thumb and will sell medical marijuana products at select Florida locations starting next year.

BTS + Army = Seoulmates The world’s most famous pop stars will enlist in South Korea’s compulsory military service. One question: Literally why?

Actor Jalyn Hall says he wasn't nervous to play Emmett Till in new movie "Till": "When you're giving someone who didn't have a voice a chance to show that voice in the front of the entire world, then it's one of the things you just must do."

She allegedly said, “Oh, you’re allergic? Good," when told several of the sheriff's deputies were allergic to bees. nbcboston.com/news/local/mas…

Police say a 55-year-old woman was arrested in Massachusetts last week for releasing several boxes of bees on sheriff's deputies as they attempted to serve an eviction notice. No one was seriously injured in the incident, according to police.

Singer and TikToker Nessa Barrett says she felt that much of her relationship with ex-boyfriend and TikTok star Josh Richards was "for views and content.": "It was too serious for how young we were ... It got really hard for me to process."