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close Video Manhattan DA may indict Trump to fulfill a 'political vendetta': Joe Tacopina Former President Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina and former FEC Chairman Brad Smith discuss reported dissension in the Manhattan DA's office. Former President Donald Trump’s number of attacks against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has far outweighed his attacks against the Biden administration in the past week, even after suggesting his possible grand jury indictment this week was directed by the president himself. Trump launched into a rant on his Truth Social website Thursday saying DeSantis is a "sinking ship" in the 2024 presidential race, even though the Republican governor has yet to formally announce a run. "Ron DeSanctimonious is the most overrated politician in America," he wrote. "His Numbers on COVID, Crime, and Education are terrible, but nobody knows it—Now they do. He shouldn’t even be running!" "Ron DeSanctimonious’ Political Consultants … [Read more...] about Trump attacks DeSantis 4 times more than Biden, as 2024 race heats up

“Purity of heart is to will one thing,” wrote the early 19th-century Danish philosopher and poet Soren Kierkegaard, his one willed thing being knowledge of — meaning faith in — an absolute, sometimes called God. Certain Danish artists of his time espoused a will to purity too, purity of eye and hand, a way to see and know the world, factually or emotionally, as it really is. Work by a handful of these artists, most of them trained in Kierkegaard’s home city of Copenhagen, comes together in a crystalline exhibition called “Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And from the moment you enter the galleries holding some 90 paintings, oil sketches and notebook-size drawings of breath-on-glass translucency, you’re in for an experience of slow-down, move-close looking and thinking. Kierkegaard was forthright in declaring that his philosophy was designed to ameliorate, or at least manage, existential unease — “fear and … [Read more...] about The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal

In the Season 2 finale of “ Ted Lasso ,” Toheeb Jimoh’s character, Sam Obisanya, stands in front of the vacant storefront he has just bought. “What’s it going to be?” asks the woman who has handed the soccer player his keys. “A Nigerian restaurant,” he says, a broad smile on his face. This moment is a turning point of sorts for Sam, a mark of his ambition and growth from the young man viewers met in the “Ted Lasso” pilot who had recently arrived in Britain. So it’s fitting that Jimoh, 25, chose Enish, a West African restaurant in Brixton, in South London, a stone’s throw from the actor’s childhood home, for an interview. Dressed in a black sweater and matching cargo pants and tucking into rice and ayamase, a spicy meat stew, Jimoh said that Sam has had a “beautiful arc” over the past two seasons. “If you had told me at the start of Season 1 that Sam would be a business owner, one of the stars of the team, and dating the boss, I wouldn’t have believed you,” he said. Sam has also … [Read more...] about On and Off ‘Ted Lasso,’ Toheeb Jimoh Has Stepped Out of the Background