#45: LaBron James on the decline, Alec Baldwin says he didn’t pull the trigger, Whoopi Goldberg Unloads On Supreme Court Over Abortion Case, Roe vs Wade Overturn, Chris Cuomo fired, escape covid camp

Labron James has now missed as many games during his three-plus seasons in Los Angeles (71) as he did in his first 15 combined. This, as much as anything, is what age catching up to a player looks like. Nicks and bruises become harder to play through, recovery times get more protracted, absences beget more absences. LeBron's play when he's been healthy enough to take the floor has also been well below his usual standard. His vertical and horizontal bursts have both looked diminished, and he hasn't displayed the turn-the-corner explosiveness that in past years allowed him to get downhill consistently.

Alec Baldwin said he feels incredible sadness and regret over the shooting that killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set, but not guilt.

“Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me,” Baldwin said in an ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired Thursday night, the first time the actor has spoken in depth on screen about the Oct. 21 shooting on the set of the Western “Rust.” “Honest to god, if I felt I was responsible, I might have killed myself.”

Baldwin said it is essential for investigators to find out who put the bullet in the gun he fired, that was supposed to be empty, that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.

“There’s only one question to be resolved, and that’s where did the live round come from?” Baldwin said.

Baldwin said in a clip from the interview released a day earlier that “I didn’t pull the trigger. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.”

“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out Thursday at the Supreme Court over oral arguments in what could be the next landmark abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Goldberg criticized several of the arguments made but the justices, but reserved the bulk of her ire for Justice Samuel Alito. Alito argued Wednesday that a fetus presumably had the same interest both prior to and after the point of viability — namely, to stay alive.

The Salvation Army is asking for more than donations this year.

The Christian charitable organization is asking all white donors to reflect on their racism this year. The Salvation Army wants its white donors to give it more than just money this Christmas season. Its leadership is also demanding they apologize for being racist.

It’s part of a push by the Christian charitable organization to embrace the ideas of Black Lives Matter, an activist group working to, among other things, “dismantle white privilege” and “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”