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Kaya has lived in Ukraine with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, since 2018 when Hayden gave up custody amid her battle with postpartum depression and addiction.

Kaya has lived in Ukraine with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, since 2018 when Hayden gave up custody amid her battle with postpartum depression and addiction.

A creepy South Carolina cop misused the department’s Flock camera system to run an ex-lover’s license plate over 160 times, according to documents.  Officer Ellie Anna Hammond, 24, was fired from the Mauldin Police Department on Aug. 3 over the obsessive behavior, KOCO 5 News reported.  Documents from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy show...

We're taking a closer look at the bride's show-stopping Chopard suite.

We're taking a closer look at the bride's show-stopping Chopard suite.

Reddit's Woke WNBA Forum Just Banned Sophie Cunningham's Name Amid Trans Row

The biggest unofficial WNBA fan forum on Reddit just made it nearly impossible to type the name of one of the league's own players.

On Sophie Cunningham's 30th birthday, users trying to post a simple "Happy Birthday Sophie" on r/WNBA ran straight into an automated brick wall. The community doesn't allow "Sophie" in post titles. Same goes for "Cunningham," "sc," "scunningham," "soph," and a handful of other variations. The Indiana Fever guard's name had effectively been filtered out of the main discussion space.

One user pushed back in a private message to the moderators, asking the obvious: Why ban talk about an actual WNBA player?

The reply was blunt. "We filter content based on Sophi because it tend to bring out trolls and people that aren't fans of the W," a mod wrote. When the user kept pressing, the response got sharper: "We have chosen to filter content. If you want to post freely about Sophie you can go to different sub... You aren't even a contributor to this sub, so I suggest you go back to the other WNBA subs. This is our decision. If you keep messaging about this you will be banned."

Screenshots of the exchange spread fast. Conservative media and sports accounts on X framed it as straight-up erasure. Outlets from the New York Post to OutKick and the Mirror ran with versions of the story, calling it a name ban on Cunningham's birthday.

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— Johnny Connolly (@XJohnnyConnolly) August 16, 2026

Then, there was an 'update' to 'clarify' (i.e. 'we're sorry we got caught and this is going viral') - with mods insisting Sophie Cunningham content is not banned. Basketball-related posts - games, highlights, stats, interviews, injuries - are still welcome. Off-court material can land too. What's getting filtered, they said, are the politics, culture-war debates, and drama that have been attracting brigades and low-effort trolling. The mods also said they had raised the community karma threshold required to post and turned up Reddit's Crowd Control tools to keep the sub from getting overrun.

Cunningham became a culture-war flashpoint after a July 21 ESPN profile published her comments about protecting women's sports. She said she wanted to "protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men," while insisting she doesn't hate transgender people and describing herself as politically "in the middle." Her remarks were about youth sports, not her own league. She doubled down days later: "I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense."

The fight moved to the WNBA anyway. The league's collective bargaining agreement says only players who are women are eligible - and across 409 pages, never defines "woman." Two former NBA players took the opening. Royce White declared for the 2027 WNBA draft on Aug. 4, and Enes Kanter Freedom followed on Aug. 7, both citing the league's own language on self-identification. "If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA," Freedom said. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert responded in a memo to teams and convened a task force of presidents and general managers to review eligibility.

EXCLUSIVE: Former NBA first-round pick Royce White says he's declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, claiming he now identifies as transgender for the purpose of playing professional basketball.

The 6-foot-8 former Houston Rockets draft pick follows fellow former NBA player Enes… pic.twitter.com/yUI8NdoiaX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 8, 2026

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines,
I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect.

If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

My team and I have… pic.twitter.com/msncUZUT1J

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 7, 2026

LFG!!! 

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/17/2026 - 17:20

Derek Jeter didn’t have to worry about following Derek Jeter.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said they aim to protect “public safety while giving deserving Americans a real path to restoration.”

Last week's crackdown comes as a shooting at Hart Park killed one person in early August.

"Please do not get your local jeweler to recreate," the rapper warned on Instagram.

"Please do not get your local jeweler to recreate," the rapper warned on Instagram.

She has described her tats as "the pain that I need to feel" as well as a way to “reclaim” both her identity and body.

Actress and singer Hayden Panettiere tragically died on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the age of 36. Panettiere began acting as a child and she appeared on several soap operas throughout the ’90s. She remains best known for her roles in the long-running series “Heroes” and “Nashville,” as well as her work in films including “Bring...

Actress and singer Hayden Panettiere tragically died on Sunday, Aug. 16, at the age of 36. Panettiere began acting as a child and she appeared on several soap operas throughout the ’90s. She remains best known for her roles in the long-running series “Heroes” and “Nashville,” as well as her work in films including “Bring...

Hearing all of MSG scream “I really f—ed it up this time, didn’t I, my dear?” never gets old.

The Eighth Avenue McDonald's outlet where a teen from Australia was stabbed is known to locals as a dangerous place, especially after hours.

Turmoil inside El Camino Real’s athletic department deepened last week when multiple coaches and teachers were placed on administrative leave amid an investigation involving CPR and first-aid certifications. Parents confirmed that several coaches were escorted off campus Thursday, including decorated baseball coach Josh Lienhard, who has led El Camino Real to five City Section championships....

Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables

Authored by Rashid Hudain Syed via The Epoch Times,

The world is quietly abandoning the fantasy that renewables alone can guarantee energy security.

The U.S.–Israel war on Iran exposed how vulnerable the global economy remains to disruptions in fossil fuel supply chains. Any disruption in the Strait of Hormuz quickly affects global fuel prices, inflation, and energy costs worldwide.

For years, Western governments pushed rapid decarbonization and a transition away from oil and gas. But war and supply disruptions have exposed how difficult that transition really is. Countries are once again looking to stable producers for reliable fossil fuel supplies.

Oil is once again a precious commodity, and producers are benefiting.

Canada is no exception.

Surging global oil prices, the expansion of export infrastructure like the Trans Mountain pipeline, and improving relations between Ottawa and Alberta on carbon pricing and energy policy are helping drive renewed growth and investor confidence in Canada’s oil sector. Massive resource windfalls and record free cash flows are flowing through the industry.

Canada’s vast reserves and political stability are becoming increasingly important as geopolitical tensions grow. Canada holds the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, behind only Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

Policy changes have also made Canada more attractive to long-term investment. Major producers are aggressively returning capital to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks, while benefiting from narrower discounts for Western Canada Select crude relative to U.S. West Texas Intermediate benchmarks.

Oil and gas companies, which have long argued that federal regulations and environmental policies have crippled industry growth, cautiously welcomed the recent agreement between Ottawa and Alberta. Reuters reported that ConocoPhillips Canada president Nick McKenna said the deal significantly improves the risk profile for oil and gas investment in Canada.

The shift is global.

U.S. oil companies are ramping up production as rising prices revive energy security concerns. Companies, including Diamondback Energy and Continental Resources, are expanding drilling operations.

Veteran oilman Harold Hamm, who owns Continental, told the Financial Times he planned to increase capital expenditures by roughly $300 million to $2.8 billion in 2026 because of higher oil prices.

“We don’t expect prices to go back to where they were prior to the Iran war,” Hamm said.

That marks a dramatic reversal. Earlier this year, Continental planned to halt new drilling in North Dakota because oil prices had fallen below US$60 a barrel. Hamm is now reconsidering that decision.

Publicly traded U.S. shale producers increased their capital spending forecasts by nearly $500 million in first-quarter reports compared to projections issued just three months earlier, according to energy consultancy Enverus.

Low oil prices at the start of the year caused U.S. production to slip to 13.53 million barrels per day in the first quarter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But soaring prices are now expected to push production to a record 14.21 million barrels per day by the end of next year.

Even Norway, one of the world’s leading advocates for aggressive climate policy and renewable energy, is expanding fossil fuel production again. Oslo plans to reopen three North Sea gas fields—Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma—by 2028, nearly three decades after they were shut down.

“We will develop, not dismantle, activity on our continental shelf,” Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland recently declared.

Equinor, Norway’s state-owned energy giant, plans to invest US$6 billion annually through 2035 to maintain production levels and prevent output declines.

Norway pumped 2.31 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter, nearly 9 percent more than during the same period last year.

Critics argue the policy undermines Norway’s climate goals and delays Europe’s transition away from fossil fuels. Lars Haltbrekken of Norway’s Socialist Left party condemned the move as “greenwashing through and through.”

But the Iran crisis exposed how deeply the world still depends on fossil fuels. Governments are once again turning to dependable producers to protect their economies.

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/17/2026 - 17:00

On a new episode of “The Show,” Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman are joined by Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer. Jed discusses the Cubs moves at the trade deadline, gives us an inside look at what it’s like negotiating trades with David Stearns, how annoying the Brewers are and how serious the Cubs’...