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No Antonio Brown, no problem. At least for now. The Raiders struck first Monday night in their Week 1 matchup against the Broncos, capping of an impressive 77-yard drive with a Derek Carr touchdown pass to Tyrell Williams, who became one of the team’s go-to receiver with Brown’s departure. Oakland desperately needed to make a statement at home, just two days after ending its short-lived relationship with Brown. Brown, a seven-time Pro Bowler, demanded his release from the Raiders following a messy offseason and eventually signed a one-year deal worth up to $15 million with the Patriots. He is eligible to suit up in Week 2, when New England takes on lowly Miami. The Raiders will not face New England this season. Credit: Source link The post Raiders quickly show up Antonio Brown on Monday Night Football appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2HYOEsX

THREAD: Trigger Warning: violent speech, harassment. I got harassed, followed and threatened on the street today. Someone was upset that I was wearing a pink kippah, carrying a purse and had a pride patch sewn onto my jeans. I am sharing the encounter for three reasons. pic.twitter.com/Y9HWiX2nSs — Adam Eli (@aewerner) September 9, 2019 A gay, Jewish New Yorker on Monday was followed out of a Manhattan subway station by a homophobe who ordered him to take off his pink yarmulke and yelled: “Stay in the closet!” Community organizer Adam Eli tweeted a video showing the unidentified hatemonger walking up the stairs of the 28th Street and Broadway station and saying, “take that kippah off.” Eli can be heard responding: “Why? Because I’m gay and wearing a kippah … is that why?” “It’s a Chillul Hashem,” the hatemonger says, using a Hebrew term for when a Jewish person desecrates the name of God by acting immorally in public. “Any man that lays with another man is an abominati...

Hurricane Dorian has come, gone and created a lot of damage to property and to the economy. And nobody will miss Dorian except the TV news shows that managed to inundate us with storm coverage. What would these people do if we could prevent hurricanes? Lucky for them, we probably can’t, although a lot of thought has been given to the subject. One of those thinking about hurricane prevention was President Trump, who thought that nuking hurricanes while they are forming might be a good idea. That sounds pretty loopy — except that scientists have long considered it and some other seemingly crazy options. Other possibilities? Flying supersonic jets in concentric circles around the hurricane’s eye. The theory is that the sonic boom will disrupt the upward flow of warm air that creates the storm. God bless those pilots! Don’t like that? How about using a giant funnel to divert warm water back into the ocean? Or a government project to seed hurricanes with silver iodide to strengthen...

A group of 50 attorneys general have launched an antitrust probe into Google, saying the search giant’s dominance has become a concern for consumers and businesses alike. The law enforcement heads — including 48 from US states and two from the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico — requested documents from Google that focus on the Alphabet subsidiary’s advertising business, Texas AG Ken Paxton announced Monday. The investigation, which lacks the participation of California and Alabama, is probing concerns that publishers and advertisers have little choice but to advertise with Google. Utah AG Sean Reyes said the probe was “for the benefit of the tech ecosystem to help level the playing field.” Arkansas AG Leslie Rutledge called Google’s online search engine a “juggernaut,” and argued that a free search sometimes came at the cost of the freedom to choose the best products from the best companies. “Is something really free if we are increasingly giving over our privacy information?...

Corey Ballentine did not fly back home from Dallas with the Giants Sunday night after their 35-17 season-opening loss to the Cowboys. Instead, the rookie cornerback returned home to Topeka, Kan., to testify Monday at the preliminary hearing for an 18-year old man accused of shooting Ballentine and killing his best friend and former Washburn University college teammate. Ballentine is one of 13 people who were called to testify at Shawnee County District Court, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. The incident took place in the early morning April 28, hours after the Giants made Ballentine a sixth-round pick in the draft. Ballentine and his friend, Dwane Simmons, 23, were leaving a party when a car pulled up and soon after, shots were fired. Ballentine was wounded in the buttocks and Simmons was killed. Francisco Alejandro Mendez, 18, of Topeka is accused of firing the shots. Ballentine made his NFL debut on Sunday, playing nine snaps on defense and returning two kickoffs for ...

A notorious inside trader who was slapped with a then-record, 11-year prison term in 2011 was quietly released to home confinement in his swank Upper East Side apartment this summer — thanks in part to Kim Kardashian. Ex-billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was released early for good behavior, but didn’t have to move into a seedy halfway house full of other ex-cons as do most federal felons released early. That’s because Rajaratnam, 62, whose estimated worth in 2010 was $700 million, qualified for special treatment under the “First Step Act,” a series of criminal-justice reforms that President Trump signed into law last year after Kardashian lobbied for it in the Oval Office. One provision allows some federal inmates who are over 60 years old, or who face terminal illnesses, to serve the end of their sentences at home, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported Rajaratnam’s release. The kid-gloves treatment marked the second big break scored by the former head of the Galleon Group h...

This pit of scorching snakes was no match Monday night for the world’s greatest Polar Bear exhibit. As well as the Diamondbacks have played over the past two weeks to surge into serious NL wild-card contention, there are just games where Pete “Polar Bear” Alonso places this Mets lineup on his back and refuses to let it fail. On this night, the slugging first baseman cleared the left-field fence twice, giving Jacob deGrom the necessary runs in a 3-1 victory at Citi Field that snapped the Mets’ two-game skid. The Mets entered the night four games behind the Cubs — who played later in San Diego — for the NL’s second wild card. Alonso, with homers No. 46 and 47, moved two ahead of Mike Trout for the major league lead as the Angels began play Monday. In addition, Alonso now needs only six homers to break the MLB rookie record established by Aaron Judge in 2017. Alonso’s second solo blast of the night gave the Mets a 3-1 lead in the fifth. The multi-homer game was Alonso’s fourth of the...

A Dutch police officer shot and killed his two young children before turning the gun on himself on Monday night, authorities said. The 34-year-old cop opened fire on his children, ages eight and 12, at a home in the city of Dordrecht, Dutch police said. He also wounded his 28-year-old wife in the shooting, according to police. The mayor of Dordrecht, Wouter Kolff said he planned to visit the scene of the shooting on Monday night. Investigators and medics were still at the scene of the shooting Monday. With Post Wires Credit: Source link The post Dutch police officer kills two children in double-murder suicide appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/32tJMni

President Trump traveled to North Carolina Monday to show support for the Republican in a special election for a House seat that’s viewed as a toss-up. “North Carolina, vote for Dan Bishop tomorrow. We need him badly in Washington! His opponent is a far left Sanctuary Cities supporter,” Trump tweeted about the GOP candidate, who will face Democrat Dan McCready at the polls Tuesday. Bishop, 55, a state senator since 2017, is a conservative and critic of LGBTQ rights who once compared gay rights activists to the Taliban, and spearheaded North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which banned transgender people from using from using public restrooms other than those designated for their biological sex as defined on their birth certificates. It was subsequently overruled by a federal judge in Asheville in a ruling affirmed by the Supreme Court — but not before costing the state millions in canceled business events. Bishop also is a staunch Trump supporter. McCready, 36, served in t...

Our Milky Way galaxy could be filled with alien civilizations, a new study claims, but we don’t know because they haven’t stopped by Earth for a visit in millions of years. According to a study published last month in The Astronomical Journal, extraterrestrial life might be taking its time to fully explore the galaxy, even using the movement of star systems to make this type of journey easier. The scientists’ work is the latest response to what’s known as the Fermi paradox, which wonders why we have yet to detect signs of alien life. Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi famously said something to the effect of, “But where is everybody?” in reference to the possibility of star-hopping space aliens. The new study claims the aliens may just be taking their time and being strategic. “If you don’t account for motion of stars when you try to solve this problem, you’re basically left with one of two solutions,” Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, a computational scientist and the study’s le...

Heart-wrenching photos of a 5-year-old girl gently supporting her 4-year-old brother as the side effects of chemotherapy disrupt their playtime have gone viral after their mother shared a raw post about how childhood cancer impacts the whole family. “One thing they don’t tell you about childhood cancer is that it affects the entire family,” Kaitlin Burge, a mother of three from Princeton, Texas, wrote on Sept. 3. “You always hear about the financial and medical struggles, but how often do you hear about the struggles families with other children face? To some this may be hard to see and read. My two kids, 15 months apart, went from playing in school and at home together to sitting in a cold hospital room together.” Burge had posted the photos on the “Beckett Strong” Facebook page, which was created after her son, Beckett, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in April 2018. ALL is the most common form of leukemia found in children and accounts for about 30% of all ...

A woman in upstate New York died after being mauled by one or both of her pet Coonhounds at her home, police said Monday. Arlene Renna, 67, was found unconscious on her living room floor by her husband around 4 p.m. Saturday, when he got back to their house in Pleasant Valley, state police said. Renna succumbed to her injuries at the scene. Police said the wounds were consistent with a dog attack. Both of the Coonhounds were taken by the Dutchess County SPCA and a judge will decide what happens to them, cops said. It’s unclear how long the couple owned the hunting dogs, who are generally “sweet, mellow, sociable,” according to the American Kennel Club. Details about what may have prompted the attack weren’t immediately available, but police said they found no evidence of foul play. In a devastating Facebook post, Renna’s ex-husband John Taylor announced that his high school sweetheart had died “accidentally at home” on their daughter Jillian’s 31st birthday. “It is nothing shor...

TORONTO – Ever wondered what a mermaid vagina would look like? I certainly hadn’t, until I saw “The Lighthouse.” But that’s only the tip of the surrealist iceberg in this beautiful black-and-white head trip from director Robert Eggers (“The Witch”), where Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe battle the elements, drink, dance, fight, fart and stumble toward the edge of madness as lighthouse-watchmen on an isolated rocky outcropping. It’s a rare pleasure to encounter a movie so genuinely strange you’re not sure how to define what you’ve just seen. Fortunately, director Robert Eggers was on hand at the Toronto screening Sunday night, along with Dafoe, to talk to the crowd sitting agape in the IMAX theater as the credits rolled to the tune of an old sea shanty. “I have this stupid obsession with trying to do things period-accurately,” said Eggers (“The Witch”), who dug into the writings of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, dictionaries of sailor lingo and more to create his two-man...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday failed to force a snap election amid the growing crisis over Brexit — before preparing to suspend Parliament for more than a month. The move came hours after the Queen gave her royal thumbs up to a law that would force him to delay pulling Britain out of the European Union until 2020 unless he can strike a divorce deal. “If you really want to delay Brexit beyond October the 31st, which is what you seem to want to do, then vote for an election and let the people decide if they want a delay or not,” Johnson told Members of Parliament as he implored them to call an election. “And if you refuse to do that tonight, I will go to Brussels and negotiate our departure, hopefully with a deal, but without one if necessary. I will not ask for another delay.” But Johnson failed to secure the two-thirds of Parliament needed to trigger an election, with many members abstaining from the vote. “This government is a disgrace, and the way the prime minister...

An elementary school teacher in Kentucky allegedly made repeated sexual advances toward a female student he called “baby” and demanded hugs from girls in his class, according to a report. Stephen Loder, who resigned in September 2018 from Newport Intermediate School after just two month, was named in a civil lawsuit filed in July that claims he sexually harassed and assaulted the girl by touching her backside and pressing his groin against her back, the Cleveland Enquirer reports. Loder, who taught sixth grade at the school, allegedly demanded displays of affection from female students and placed their faces near his groin during those embraces. Loder also frequently referred to his genitals during his class, the suit claims. Loder, who has not been criminally charged, could not be reached for comment on Monday. He declined through a relative to respond to the allegations when reached by the Enquirer. A spokeswoman for Newport Independent Schools told The Post that Loder had resig...

The Chinese woman accused of sneaking into Mar-a-Lago was fixated on the Trump family and believed she was going to meet Ivanka at the president’s posh Florida club, according to a report. Self-described businesswoman Yujing Zhang was drawn to the first family because of its prominence in the real estate world and was interested in real estate opportunities in New York and Miami, The Miami Herald and South China Morning Post reported Friday. The 33-year-old from Shanghai reportedly paid $20,000 for a travel package that included a ticket to a March 30 benefit at the president’s Palm Beach resort, that was to feature a guest appearance by Trump’s sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau. Zhang was busted that day after she allegedly lied to a Secret Service agent to gain entrance to the swank club — even though she’d known the charity event had been cancelled, according to the Herald. Suspicion that she was working as a spy arose when federal agents allegedly found a trove of electronics on Zh...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has hired a powerful union leader with a long history of pushing his pet projects to help run City Hall. Hizzoner announced Monday that Alison Hirsh, vice president and political director of 32BJ SEIU, will become his new $230,000-a-year senior adviser for strategic planning. Her duties also will include overseeing his communications team. Hirsh’s union — which includes doormen, office cleaners and bus drivers — has been a longtime supporter of de Blasio’s political campaigns, policies and proposals. She most recently partnered with him to lobby for guaranteed two weeks paid vacation for private-sector workers. Hirsh also has worked closely with City Hall to help secure such things as the $15 minimum wage. Her husband, Jonathan Green, is a former de Blasio senior adviser. Green left City Hall in May to work as political director for de Blasio’s presidential campaign. “Alison is one of the most respected people in the fight for progressive ideals in this city...