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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the vaccine requirement Wednesday, saying that police, firefighters and other city workers who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 will be placed on unpaid leave. The PBA argues that vaccinations are a “personal medical decision.” “Now that the city has moved to unilaterally impose a mandate, we will proceed with legal action to protect our members’ rights,” PBA President Pat Lynch said in a statement. The city’s mandate applies to more than 100,000 workers and has a deadline of November 1 for getting the first vaccine dose....

The Hall of Fame center won three titles with Los Angeles from 1996-04. He compared those squads to two-time defending champions the Warriors in an interview with USA Today on Wednesday. “I think we’d easily win,” O’Neal said. “Other people might feel different, they [the Warriors] might feel different. But we had one of the best teams of all time in 2001 when we went 15-1 in the playoffs. We would’ve gone 16-0 but A....

O’s pitcher Kevin Gausman was ejected by home plate ump Sam Holbrook in the second inning of Wednesday’s game for hitting Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts with a pitch. In isolation — and only knowing that the teams have exchanged beanballs over the course of a week, mostly aimed at Gausman’s teammate Manny Machado — you might say, “Well, yeah, Gausman deserved to go. Good job, umps.” FAGAN: Lengthy suspensions will curb head-hunting...

On Thursday, Herring wrote, “Why is Biden still trying to act like he’s going to be president when he knows the Dem cheating has been uncovered? He should be working on a way to clear all the charges he faces.” He also tagged President Donald Trump and OAN. Many people fired back at Herring, calling voter fraud claims and OAN’s reporting on them bogus. CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy shared it to show “what coverage in some pro-Trump circles looks like....

In an appearance on former MI6 Director Richard Dearlove’s One Decision podcast earlier this week, Johanna Maska—a longtime advance team official in the Obama White House—suggested now is the time for new leadership in the Democratic Party, particularly as Biden stands as the first and only octogenarian ever to occupy the White House. Biden himself has openly contemplated whether he would run again in 2024. “I worked with President Biden,” said Maska....

Obama opened his mentions up for a Q&A session, using the hashtag #AskPOTUS. His original intent was to talk about climate change, but the president couldn’t resist answering a few questions about sports. MORE: Bulls fire Tom Thibodeau | J.R. Smith thrilled not to be a Knick The first question about sports that he answered was, “Can J.R. Smith out shoot Steph Curry and lead the Cavs to a championship?...

The move was among 273 commutations and pardons Obama announced Tuesday as his term winds down. McCovey, 79, and Dodgers Hall of Famer Duke Snider pleaded guilty in 1995 to knowingly failing to report money made from autographs and memorabilia shows from 1988 to 1990. McCovey and Snider were sentenced in 1996 to two years’ probation and fined $5,000. Snider died in 2011. MORE: A-Rod to host reality show featuring broke former athletes...

It attributes to The Washington Post a line saying Obama’s plan would save families about $2,500. But the Post was citing the estimate of the Obama campaign and didn’t analyze the purported savings independently. It claims that “experts” say Obama’s plan is “the best.” “Experts” turn out to be editorial writers at the Iowa City Press-Citizen – who, for all their talents, aren’t actual experts in the field. It quotes yet another newspaper saying Obama’s plan “guarantees coverage for all Americans,” neglecting to mention that, as the article makes clear, it’s only Clinton’s and Edwards’ plans that would require coverage for everyone, while Obama’s would allow individuals to buy in if they wanted to....

Obama participated as part of Chase’s “Show Me Your Walk” live stream to celebrate students graduating from Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Saturday afternoon. In his address, Obama said that while the coronavirus may have dampened some graduates’ final semester, they should all still be proud. “So, even if half this semester was spent at Zoom University, you’ve earned this moment. You should be very proud,” he said. “Now look, I know this isn’t the commencement any of you really imagined, because while our HBCUs are mostly known for an education rooted in academic rigor, community, higher purpose, they also know how to turn up....

Obama awarded Lewis the President Medal of Freedom, in 2011 and viewed the Democratic Congressman, who once marched with Martin Luther King, as his hero. When the future president was elected a U.S. Senator, Obama said that he “stood on his shoulders.” “He loved this country so much that he risked his life and his blood so that it might live up to its promise,” Obama said in a statement....

Slovenia international Oblak signed a fresh four-year deal near the end of last season, tying him to the LaLiga club until 2023. Atleti had declared their intention to upgrade the goalkeeper’s release clause almost 12 months earlier and Diego Simeone confirmed talks were underway as early as November. The impasse fuelled transfer rumours and the 26-year-old conceded there were times when he considered whether other clubs would value him more....

It was a family affair for the Serbian in Turin as both his kids and wife Jelena were present in his player’s box to cheer him on during his second group stage match against Andrey Rublev in the ongoing ATP Finals. In his post-match interview, the 21-time Major winner revealed that it was the first match that both his kids watched from start to finish. “One of the best matches of the year without a doubt” - Novak Djokovic on his defeat of Andrey Rublev at ATP Finals Novak Djokovic defeated Andrey Rublev in straight sets 6-4, 6-1 to march into the semifinals of the ATP Finals....

Thompson always has needed to prove, in public, that he’s a solid guy. When former senator Howard Baker got him a job as a U.S. attorney in Nashville, locals groused that he’d been rewarded for connections, not talent - and he won 14 of the 15 bank-robbery cases he tried. He’d never worked a day in Washington when Baker asked him to be minority counsel of the Senate Watergate committee - and he performed round-the-clock, skillfully....

Flirting with the devil may be an ancient pastime in the Holy Land, but today it’s big business. Even before Israel and Jordan signed their treaty last week, Arab businessmen from Masqat to Marrakech were slipping into Israel in record numbers, hoping to make a killing on peace. And politicians are pushing hard to bolster peacemaking with financial interdependence. This week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, eight of his ministers and some 130 Israeli businessmen will hobnob with their Arab counterparts at an unprecedented regional economic summit conference in Casablanca....

In a deposition unveiled as part of the NRA’s Texas bankruptcy trial on Monday, LaPierre said he used the 108-foot-yacht, named Illusions, to shelter from threats and the national outrage that followed the shootings of dozens of schoolchildren in the two incidents. “They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they knew the threat that I was under. And I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre said, according to the New York Daily News....

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released an abstract of its findings from a yearlong report into the crash, concluding that pilot Ara Zobayan violated his training and several safety protocols when he flew into a wall of clouds. NTSB investigators found Zobayan became spatially disoriented inside, causing him to bank left at a decreasing altitude when he thought he was ascending above the clouds. The NTSB noted that Zobayan’s “poor decision” to fly the Sikorsky S-76B helicopter into the clouds was likely “influenced by his self-induced pressure to fulfill the client’s travel needs....

Rahul’s unbeaten 132 is the highest individual score by a captain in the IPL. With his knock, Rahul also became the first player to score a hundred in the UAE. The 28-year-old also registered the highest individual score by an Indian batsman in the IPL during his innings in Dubai. Rahul’s amazing ton against a hapless RCB attack was a continuation of the good form he displayed in the limited-overs series in New Zealand at the start of the year, where he scored 224 runs in five T20Is and 204 runs in three ODIs....

Mother Irene Gibson, who belongs to the Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Face of Jesus group, and her colleague, Sister Anne Marie, from New Zealand, were ordered to leave their compound after they attended the religious event in Dublin last December. The Dail, based in the Irish capital, is the Irish lower house of the Oireachtas, which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish legislature....

As cloud streaming struggles to catch on, passing an important milestone of users is huge for Nvidia. Like Google Stadia—a relatively comparable service—Nvidia GeForce Now has been met with its fair share of criticism since entering the market. Just last month, Nvidia’s cloud streaming service was lambasted after users could not get their games purchased from GOG to run on the platform. Through listening to their audience and addressing issues like this, Nvidia GeForce Now has steadily grown in popularity....

Nvidia released the RTX 4090 on October 12 as the company’s newest flagship graphics card. With an MSRP of $1,599 US, it is one of the priciest GPUs on the market and is significantly more expensive than its predecessor. That price tag brings users 24GB of VRAM, a base clock of 2.235Ghz, 16,384 CUDA cores, 128 ray tracing cores, and a 384-bit bus width. However, all of that depends on its connectors functioning correctly and not melting when users plug them in....