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PBS’s favoritism in the vice-presidential debate began beforehand, in a political roundtable on Tuesday evening’s PBS News Hour in which their White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez rolled out a list of Harris-Walz talking points: Laura Barron-Lopez: And sources told me that Gov. Walz is essentially trying to exit this debate the same way he entered it, which is with a higher favorability on average across polls than JD Vance has. I'm also told that Gov. Walz is expected to try to make moments and hit JD Vance on abortion, on Project 2025, as well as on Trump's past comments saying that he has -- quote -- "a concept of a plan" for getting rid of the Affordable Care Act. But even though Walz is very much liked by progressives, Amna, the Harris campaign is hoping that his everyday dad persona, his relatability, can speak to centrist Republicans, specifically Nikki Haley voters, which the campaign is aggressively courting. And they got a boost today, Amna, from a specific group of former Nikki Haley voters who voted for Haley in the Republican primaries in their states. And this is a PAC that's called Haley Voters For Harris. And they launched a seven-figure digital ad campaign today. They shared the details first with News Hour. And I spoke to Craig Snyder, chair of the group, who said that the goal of these new ads is to create a permission structure for Republicans who may be considering voting for a Democrat for the first time in their life. [Clip: Craig Snyder, Chairman, Haley Voters For Harris: Our argument is pretty simple. And that is that the vice president is a candidate of the center of American politics. [!] She may be center-left, and these voters may be center-right. But the key word in that sentence is center. This is a pragmatic individual who is seeking in this campaign a coalition with people across the aisle.] Barron-Lopez: These ads are featuring lifelong regular Republicans who voted in the primary and who are intending to vote for Kamala Harris come the November election…. After the actual debate, which aired on CBS (simulcast on PBS), PBS reporters shied away from admitting Vance’s clear win over Walz, focusing on Vance refusing to say that Trump lost in 2020. Later, during PBS’s livestream on YouTube, hosted by Deema Zein, Barron-Lopez and congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins chatted about the debate and took viewer questions. Predictably, Barron-Lopez embraced pro-Democratic journalistic “fact-checking” and defended the partisan fact-checking at last month’s ABC presidential debate, claiming “ABC’s way of doing it was a bit more beneficial to the American public.” She also fiercely defended CBS violating its own debate rules by breaking in twice last night to fact-check Vance. After Vance had talked about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, moderator Margaret Brennan felt compelled to jump in. CBS’s Margaret Brennan: “And just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, Temprary Protected Status.” But when O’Donnell tried to pivot to the economy, Vance challenged Brennan on her fact-check, which he noted accurately was against the agreed-upon debate rules. So much for those rules. JD Vance: The rules were that you guys were not going to fact-check. And since you’re fact-checking me, I think it's important to say what's actually going on. So, there is an application called the CBP1 app, were you can go as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. It's not a person coming in and applying for a green card and waiting for ten years. Brennan: Thank you, Senator. Barron-Lopez defended CBS’s fact check as vital, given that the rhetoric of Trump and Vance endangering Haitian migrants: Barron-Lopez: Now the other fact-check came when they were talking about Haitian immigrants, because JD Vance has even said out loud, ‘Sure, I don’t really care that they’re legal,’ and has said that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are legal. He has acknowledged that they are, and he still continues to talk about them as though that they’re illegal or undocumented immigrants, and they’re not, and so clearly CBS felt that it was important, given all the things that have happened in Springfield, Ohio, given that there have been bomb threats, given that children have not been able to go to schools, that Haitian immigrants living there have felt as though they can’t really go about their daily lives and are fearful of some of the threats they are receiving because of the statements made by Donald Trump and JD Vance, the moderators felt that it was important to state that those Haitian immigrants are legal immigrants. Besides blaming all threats on the Republican ticket, Barron-Lopez skipped the fact that Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, hailed by the press for refuting his own presidential ticket on migrants “eating pets,” said the threatening calls were predominantly coming from an unnamed foreign nation, which amounts to election interference.

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Rumors about Apple releasing the Apple Watch Ultra 2 in black started to ramp up a little before the company unveiled last year's Apple Watch Ultra 2. Similar things happened with other products, such as the famous iPhone X in Gold, which later became the new color for the XS. Then, during its iPhone 16 event, instead of announcing the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple added a new color option to the Ultra 2: Black Titanium. My first reaction to this product was, "I wish I had waited for this version." Then, I tried to convince myself that the Natural Titanium option I already had was fine and was holding up very well. However, after trying the Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black Titanium, I have to say that it's fantastic. While I wouldn't encourage anyone with an Ultra 1 or, god forbid, an Ultra 2 to upgrade only for the color, I have a few thoughts on this update. Image source: José Adorno for BGR Personally, I think the Black Titanium option feels more premium and also more discreet. Even though the watch still has a massive 49mm display, it doesn't feel as provocative as the other version since, most of the time, the black frame matches the bezels and the Always-On display. I also enjoyed the new Trail Loop in Black, a versatile band for practicing sports and hanging out. Over the past year, even though I have religiously continued wearing my Apple Watch Ultra, I switched it more often for classic watches, as they would go well on social occasions. Image source: José Adorno for BGR Despite that, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 remains a solid upgrade, as it still has a brighter display, better speakers, and microphones, and it will soon get a feature introduced with Apple Watch Series 10, sleep apnea detection. The most rugged Apple Watch available to date also adds several new features with watchOS 11, including new apps, smart experiences, and exclusive watch faces, as previously highlighted by BGR. Don't Miss: Everyone’s getting the Apple Watch Ultra 2 right now – here’s why The post Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black Titanium is an extravagance that’s totally worth it appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Early Prime Day sales, $189 Apple Watch SE, Philips OneBlade 360, Crest 3D Whitestrips, more Today’s deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $50 DASH air fryer, $4.50 iPhone chargers, $99 DEWALT drill bundle, more Today’s deals: $50 off Eureka E20 Plus robot vac, $1,100 off LG C4 OLED TV, Blink cameras from $20, more Today’s deals: Pitaka iPhone 16 cases, $10 off Starbucks coffee, $199 iPad 9, $36 Dreo space heater, more

Centuries before carmaker Ettore Bugatti put his brother Rembrandt’s rampant elephant sculpture as the hood ornament on his luxury flagship, the Bugatti Royale, baroque master sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini decorated his carriage with four of his own works: a set of gilded bronze grotesque screaming heads. The four heads were all cast from the same model and have wide-open mouths, arched eyebrows over bulging eyes rolled upwards, windswept hair in pointy sections and beards to match. They each have a hole at the nape of the neck in which tall plumes were inserted to add even more drama to the carriage in movement. From his earliest days as a professional sculptor, Bernini was a fan of exaggerated open-mouthed grotesques. His first one, The Damned Soul (1619), he made when he was only 20, and was still collaborating with his father before striking out on his own a year later under the patronage of the wealthy and powerful Cardinal Scipione Borghese. When he was commissioned to restore the Ludovisi Ares, a 2nd century A.D. Roman copy of a 4th century B.C. Greek sculpture of a youthful god of war that had been unearthed in Rome in 1622, he added an entirely incongruous sword hilt with a screaming grotesque as the pommel. Bernini cast the four screaming heads between 1650 and 1655 and placed them on his personal carriage. A design he made for the carriage of the King of Spain has similar grotesques on the corners of the canopy, but those are reliefs rather than stand-alone sculptures. At some point, Bernini removed his screaming heads from his carriage and had them mounted to black and white Marquina marble bases. They decorated the piano nobile salone (formal reception room) in his palace at Via della Mercede 11 in Rome. After Gian Lorenzo’s death in 1680, his grandson Prospero Bernini inherited the palace and the bulk of the collection. The four bronze heads are noted in the inventory of 1681. Incredibly enough, the set has been in the Bernini family this entire time. The last direct male heir, another Prospero Bernini, died in 1858, but the bronzes passed to his daughter and continued down through her line culminating in the current owners who have now decided to sell them. The screaming heads have been consigned for sale to art dealer Flavio Gianassi, but they have been declared objects of exceptional historical and artistic interest so they are not allowed to leave Italy. The set is priced at €1.6 million ($1,771,000), a high price for pieces that cannot be exported to the deep-pocketed buyers of the international market.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Qatar on Wednesday for bilateral talks and a summit at which he said he hopes to enlist Asian countries' help in preventing what he called "Israeli crimes" in the Middle East.Starting his first trip to Qatar as president,...

President Joe Biden will join a call with Group of Seven (G7) leaders on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, a U.S. official said.