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CHAMPIONS!!!

Knicks win first NBA championship since 1973, topping Spurs in Game 5

By Joe Vardon © The Athletic
June 13, 2026

As if a 53-year wait wasn’t long enough, the New York Knicks needed to be the conqueror of comebacks before they could again be kings of the NBA.

Mission accomplished.

The Knickerbockers, residents of the world’s most famous arena, an original NBA franchise founded in 1946, named for the city’s Dutch settlers, are champions for the first time since 1973 and for just the third time in team history. They stunned the San Antonio Spurs, again, with another come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the 2026 NBA Finals, 94-90.

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We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

-Marco Rubio

Trump’s name is gone from the Kennedy Center’s facade, according to a top official at the arts venue

By Steven Sloan © Chicago Tribune
June 13, 2026

The curtain may have come down for President Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center but the tarp stays up for now.

Matt Floca, executive director and chief operating officer of the performing arts venue, told a federal court Saturday that the institution had complied with an order to remove Trump’s name

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What Washington needs is adult supervision.

-Barack Obama

Florida Care Packages Save Cuba From Plunging Into the Abyss

By Deborah Acosta © WSJ
June 12, 2026

Cuban-Americans are sustaining a Cuban population facing economic collapse, sending a flood of food and medicine to counter a tightening U.S. pressure campaign against the island’s communist government.

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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

-Barack Obama

The Beautiful Game Meets the Border Guard

Peter Bach © Counterpunche
June 12, 2026

I know Pete Hegseth put his foot in his mouth and took his eye off the ball on a beach in Normandy the other day when, during a D-Day anniversary gathering, he declared: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.”

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