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Former NFL star Michael Oher has broken his silence about the lawsuit he filed last year accusing Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy of deceiving him into a conservatorship and unfairly profiting from the book and movie “The Blind Side,” which centered on the couple’s relationship with him.In an interview published in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, Oher lamented that the movie, released in 2009 just two months into his first NFL season, stripped his true identity.“That’s my heartbreak right there,” Oher said. “It was as soon as I got there, I was defined.”In a lawsuit that made headlines…

Kamala Harris’ big weekAs the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago on Monday, the party will be looking to introduce Kamala Harris to the many Americans who still know little about her, with just 11 weeks until Election Day. A mad scramble is underway to roll out her biography as Trump works to villainize her.The DNC speakers this week will include former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former first lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Monday night, President Joe Biden will deliver a speech at the event that just weeks ago was expected…

A Missouri woman with a long history of small-time scams and fraud was arrested Friday morning on federal charges in connection with a scheme to extort Elvis Presley’s family out of millions and steal their ownership interest in the music legend’s former Memphis home, Graceland, prosecutors announced.Lisa Jeanine Findley, who is also known by Lisa Holden and a slew of other aliases, 53, was charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday, prosecutors announced. Findley made her initial appearance Friday afternoon before Magistrate Judge David Rush at the United States Courthouse in Springfield, Missouri.…

A white woman with a history of harassing children and using racial slurs was convicted of manslaughter on Friday in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor last year in Ocala, Florida.Susan Louise Lorincz, 60, killed Ajike “AJ” Owens with a single shot from a .380-caliber handgun as Owens knocked on her apartment door on June 2, 2023.The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said at the time Lorincz and Owens were in a long-standing “feud” over Owens’ children playing.The all-white, six-person jury found Lorincz guilty of manslaughter despite the 60-year-old asserting that her actions were in self-defense. Lorincz, who showed no…

Five people have been charged in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry. Kamala Harris will lay out economic policy proposals in a North Carolina speech. And a viral but unsubstantiated rumor claims Americans’ Social Security numbers were leaked.Here’s what to know today.Matthew Perry’s addiction was spiraling out of control before his death, prosecutors allege“Friends” actor Matthew Perry was experiencing an out-of-control ketamine addiction in the weeks leading to his death, injecting the drug six to eight times a day and paying at least $55,000 for it in the month before he died, prosecutors say in court documents.Prosecutors announced…

The president of Columbia University announced her resignation Wednesday after a little more than a year on the job, following months of criticism over protests on the Manhattan campus over the war in Gaza.Nemat “Minouche” Shafik had been criticized by anti-war protesters and by House Republicans in Congress, but for different reasons.In a letter to the Columbia community, Shafik said that while she was president “we have made progress in a number of important areas.””However, it has also been a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community,” she said. “This period has…

A former Kansas police chief linked to the Aug. 11, 2023, raid of a local newspaper was formally charged with one count of interference with the judicial process.Gideon Cody, who resigned from the Marion Police Department less than two months after the raid, is accused of inducing a witness to withhold information in a felony case, according to a complaint filed Monday. The charge comes a year after the offices of the Marion County Record were searched in a raid that also targeted the homes of its publisher and a co-owner, Eric Meyer and City Council member Ruth Herbel.Meyer’s 98-year-old…

USA Gymnastics said Monday it can prove that a coach’s appeal that put gymnast Jordan Chiles on the podium for a bronze medal in Paris was by the book, but the effort may be futile because the governing court said its rules don’t allow for reconsideration in this case.USA Gymnastics, the governing body for the sport in the U.S., indicated through a statement that it will be difficult to press for a different outcome after the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or CAS, found that the inquiry that led to Chiles’ elevation from fifth in floor exercise to third was…

A glorious farewell to the 2024 OlympicsIt’s time to say au revoir to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. During the spectacular closing ceremony, the indie group Phoenix and the R&B singer H.E.R. rocked out for the crowds. Tom Cruise, symbolizing the handover to the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, rappelled down into the stadium, accepted the Olympic flag and sped away on a motorcycle.The performance then transitioned back to a live feed in Los Angeles, where the Red Hot Chili Peppers played “Can’t Stop” at Venice Beach. They were followed by performances by Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg,…

An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew members crashed in Brazil on Friday, killing everyone on board, the airline operating the flight said.The Voepass Linhas Aéreas flight took off from Cascavel and was headed to the São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport when it crashed, according to an earlier statement from Voepass Linhas Aéreas. Cascavel is in the state of Paraná, southwest of São Paulo.The airline confirmed Friday afternoon that all 61 people on board were killed. It had previously said the aircraft was carrying 62 people. The airline released the names of the passengers and crew Friday evening. The airline said…