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☆ Even wife guy Ben Affleck wasn't sure he wanted J.Lo to make a movie about their relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Making a movie with your own money is the most famous cardinal sin in Hollywood," Affleck says in an off-camera moment in the doc. (Lopez and Affleck famously dated and got engaged in the early aughts, but broke up three days before their wedding. "I did really find the beauty and the poetry and the irony in the fact that it's the greatest love story never told," Affleck says. "If you're making a record about it, that seems kind of like telling it." The movie wasn't about me," Affleck adds.

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In an appearance the same day on the “Guy Benson Show” on Fox News Radio, Ms. Haley blamed the app for sowing sympathies for Hamas on some college campuses and stoking anti-American views. In a statement posted on X, TikTok responded to Ms. Haley by saying that the circulation of bin Laden’s letter violated the platform’s rules that ban support for terrorism, and it was policing related content accordingly. Mr. Trump, her former boss, continues to be the overwhelming front-runner, but Ms. Haley, a former South Carolina governor, is trying to overtake Gov. At a town hall for her campaign in Iowa on Thursday, Ms. Haley continued to press on TikTok and brought up the letter by bin Laden. For them to be here,” Ms. Schroeder said after hearing from Ms. Haley.

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☆ Israelis are arming up in the aftermath of Hamas’ attack. Some are worried it is playing to the far right’s vision for the country
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Tara John | Adi Koplewitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“We saw this in the first days of the war, wherever there were weapons, the scale of the disaster was smaller,” Ben Gvir said in a press release. Critics see it as part of a far-right vision to inflame Israeli-Palestinian relations in the country, especially in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Some in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, such as Ben Gvir and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, support annexing the West Bank. When CNN asked Ben Gvir at the Caesarea event last week whether his actions were inciting violence against Palestinians, CNN was kicked out of the ceremony. He adds that arming people like that “is only showing what he (Ben Gvir) is trying to cause, which is chaos.”CNN has reached out to Eliasi for comment.

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☆ State of the Union takeaways: Biden comes out swinging in a raucous, combative speech despite pleas for bipartisanship
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The speech marks Biden's first address to the new Republican-controlled House. Before diving into the list of bipartisan accomplishments, though, Biden began by congratulating House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In a symbolic appeal to bipartisanship, First Lady Jill Biden wore purple — the color that results from combining blue and red. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump shared his thoughts about Biden's speech on his social media platform, Truth Social. In addition to attacking Republicans on Social Security and Medicare cuts, Biden opened up several other lines of attack.

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