The New York Knicks will become the first champions of the National Basketball Association to accept an invitation from the White House under President Donald Trump.

The team’s owner confirmed the decision after the Knicks players participated in the championship parade through New York City on Wednesday.

‘Look, I invited the president to come down for the game. He is a friend. I’ve known him for 30 years.’

James Dolan made the comments while appearing on a radio show on WFAN New York.

“Thank you for asking me that. We just did receive an invitation from the White House, which we accepted,” Dolan said.

“We still have to figure out the details, et cetera, but yes, of course,” he added. “Look, I invited the president to come down for the game. He is a friend. I’ve known him for 30 years, and I’m very proud to bring the team to the White House.”

Trump attended the third game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden and watched as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Knicks. The team bounced back to defeat the Spurs and take the title for the first time in 53 years.

Every team that has won the NBA championship has declined to meet Trump, beginning with the Golden State Warriors in 2017. Warriors star Stephen Curry said he had no interest in going to the White House, prompting the president to retract the invite.

“Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team,” the president replied in Sept. 2017. “Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

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The president is a New York City native and longtime Knicks fan.

“Well, I’ve been a Knicks fan for a long time, and I’m also a Jim Dolan fan,” the president said. “He’s a nice guy, OK? He spent a long time wanting to win, and he’s a competitive guy. He’s got a team that’s amazing.”

Three other NBA championship teams visited the White House during former President Joe Biden’s one and only term in office: the Bucks, Warriors, and Celtics.

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“Yesteryear” is a time-travel novel being made into a film that supposedly crushes the “tradwife” movement through a Christian influencer’s journey back to a time void of scrolling and comfort.

Anne Hathaway, who will star in the film, posted a clip of herself on social media promoting the new book, which is when BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey really began to understand the true message behind it.

“That means that this book is conveying a message that Hollywood wants us to hear, Hollywood wants us to believe, that the media wants us to believe,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“And that is why so much has been ginned up around this because it is echoing a sentiment that is not only very popular already among a lot of liberal women, the progressive intelligentsia, and Hollywood, but it is also trying to convince us of something. It is also trying to scare us away from something,” she continues.

In the book, which is written by Caro Claire Burke, an influencer named Natalie is monetizing her happy, doting-wife, homestead life — even though it couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Her husband is a part of this political dynasty, but also he’s secretly cheating on her. And she is pretending to her Instagram followers to be a farmer, to be a stay-at-home mom, but really she’s outsourcing all of these responsibilities to other people, but making money off of this fake persona,” Stuckey explains.

“This idea of an influencer not being who she is portraying herself to be for money, like we understand it. It resonates with us,” she continues.

Natalie is then transported back to 1855 where she is forced to live the life that she’s monetizing without the comfort, and it only gets darker from there.

“You can see that, OK, there is almost a malice behind this story and how it is written and the punishment that is doled out that seems to me, ideological,” Stuckey says. “It seems to me, personal.”

“I think she wanted her to become a caricature because I believe to this author that Natalie represents conservative Christian women, and she does not want the reader to have empathy for the different facets of conservative Christian women,” she continues.

In fact, according to Stuckey, Burke “explicitly says this is a critique of America.”

“This is a critique of America as a Christian nationalist nation,” she says, before pointing out that the author got much of her source material from ex-religious communities on Reddit.

“There are bad people who use religion certainly as a way to perform and then to mask hypocrisy. All of that is true, but Reddit is not the place to go for these testimonies or for an objective rendering of what these worldviews are like,” Stuckey says.

“So it doesn’t surprise me that Caro Burke has these feelings when she is consulting Reddit in her descriptions of what a Christian conservative woman is,” she adds.

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A teacher who claimed his adopted baby had accidentally drowned in a bath has been convicted of sexually assaulting the boy before murdering him.

Jamie Varley, 37, took time off work in order to adopt Preston Davey with his partner, 32-year-old John McGowan-Fazakerley, according to the Lancashire Constabulary in the U.K.

‘For the first nine months of his life, Preston was a happy and healthy child, but by the end he was a broken shell.’

In July 2023, the boy was found dead only 13 months after he was born.

Preston had been placed into emergency foster care just days after he was born and was adopted by Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley when the boy was 9 months old.

Prosecutors said the couple subjected the child to sexual and physical abuse before his death four months later.

Police grew suspicious about Varley’s story about an accidental drowning after a post-mortem examination found 40 injuries on the body of the child. At trial, prosecutors said the boy’s hair was dry, he was wearing a diaper, and there was no evidence he had swallowed any water, the BBC reported.

They found instead that he had died of acute upper airways obstruction, police said, likely from having an object or objects forced in his mouth, the BBC noted. He also suffered a cardiac arrest.

Before he died, Preston suffered regular abuse, even after medical staff noticed suspicious injuries to the boy during the three times he was taken to the same hospital for treatment. The couple was able to explain away the incidents. Social workers had also seen the boy.

Police said indecent photographs and videos of the victim were found on Varley’s phone, and one indecent video had been shared with his husband via Snapchat.

A jury found both men guilty on all counts. Varley was found guilty of murder, sexual assault of a child, taking incident child images, and child cruelty, among others. McGowan-Fazakerley was found guilty of allowing the death of a child, child sex assault, and cruelty to a child.

They will be sentenced Thursday.

Sky News published police camera video of Varley pretending to be distressed after calling police about the boy’s death. He was wearing a Jurassic Park shirt at the time.

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Detective Chief Inspector Andy Fallows described the couple as “pure evil” in comments about the case.

“Almost from day one, they set about abusing Preston and making his short life a harrowing tale of misery and pain,” Fallows said.

“For the first nine months of his life, Preston was a happy and healthy child, but by the end he was a broken shell,” he added. “This was due to the sordid and wicked acts of Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley.”

Officials are reviewing “the handling of Preston’s safeguarding,” the BBC reported.

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President Donald Trump has been highly critical this week of Israel’s conduct in Lebanon — especially after deadly Israeli airstrikes in Beirut over the weekend nearly blew up the U.S.-Iran peace deal.

“Too many people are being killed,” Trump said at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday. “And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they’re not all Hezbollah.”

‘The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.’

Between March 2 and June 14, at least 3,783 people were killed and 11,699 were wounded during Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah on Lebanese soil, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. At least 28 Israeli soldiers have reportedly perished in the conflict, and four civilians were killed in Hezbollah attacks.

The Lebanese government estimated that by late April, over 21,000 Lebanese homes had been destroyed and over 40,000 housing units had been damaged.

After Israel launched new strikes in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday, Trump resumed his criticism, stating both that “the Lebanon piece is something we’ll have to work on a little bit” and that Israel could “do a much better job on it.”

Trump further marveled that there still is a Lebanon “with all they have been through” and emphasized that there must be an end to the war in the country.

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After multiple outlets published what was alleged to have been a leaked draft of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, a senior Trump administration official read in a briefing with reporters a transcript of the actual “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” which apparently states in the first of 14 points:

The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.

The deal also requires, among other things, that:

the U.S. and Iran respect one another’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs; the U.S. and Iran commit to negotiating and securing a final deal within the next 60 days;the U.S. remove its naval blockade within the next 30 days and remove its forces from the proximity of Iranian territory within 30 days of the final deal;Iran make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days “only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa”;the U.S. will work with regional partners “to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran”;the U.S. will take steps to terminate all types of sanctions against Iran;Iran reaffirm that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons, and the two parties will further discuss the matter of enrichment and related matters “based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal”;the U.S. Department of Treasury will, upon the signing of the MOU, issue waivers for the exportation of Iranian oil, petroleum products, and derivatives and all associated services until sanctions are fully terminated;the U.S. will take steps to “make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU.”

While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have reportedly already signed the MOU digitally, a formal signing is scheduled to take place on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The World Cup fans from Scotland acquitted themselves with dignity and class after drinking the town dry, according to at least one Boston city worker.

Thousands of soccer fans from Scotland swarmed into Boston to march in their kilts to the stadium for the World Cup, visited a Boston Red Sox game, and then emptied the bars of beer.

‘We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it.’

Some taverns in Boston told WBTS-TV that the “Tartan Army” drank so much beer they ran out of certain brands.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Billy DeCain of the Sam Adams Boston Taproom, which had to place emergency calls for beer supplies.

“Pretty much everything. We ran out of everything,” said Paul Morris of the White Bull Tavern.

“The White Bull Tavern, there was no beer,” Scottish fan Dave Orr said. “The Scottish fans just drank the place dry, and all they had was Bud Light.”

Hennessy’s Bar said it tripled the sales they got for St. Patrick’s Day and completely ran out Saturday.

“We’ve been here for over 30 years, and we’ve never seen anything like it,” said Noelle Somers, Hennessy’s COO.

The Tartan Army cheered on its team to victory against Haiti on Saturday with a score of 1-0. Afterward, about 5,000 fans marched in a victory lap to Fenway Park, where they cheered on the Red Sox to win 6-3 over the Texas Rangers.

And then they cleaned up after themselves.

Boston Parks and Rec worker Dana Bell told WBTS he was astounded by the Scots’ drinking and their cleanliness.

“They deep, man! And they can drink too! What? Are you kidding me, man? They must not got no water over there in Scotland!” he joked.

“After they’re gone, I’m one person cleaning up after them, man, and it ain’t that bad,” he continued.

He added: “They came, conducted themselves with class, dignity, man. And they like our city, so … I’m happy they came, man.”

A Scottish man named John told WBTS they wanted to be respectful to their hosts.

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One Scottish fan did gently chide Americans for their lack of imagination in their lone soccer chant.

“Scotland’s got a million songs; we’ve got loads,” Brian Davidson said. “I think you need to get some new songs, though. You seem to only have one song, ‘USA! USA!’ You need some more imagination. What’s happening?”

Scotland will play Morocco in Boston on Friday. Hopefully the bars have prepared.

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