The Daily Populous

FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 to ensure star freshman Deandre Ayton signed with the Wildcats, sources familiar with the government's evidence told ESPN.

According to people with knowledge of the FBI investigation, Miller and Dawkins, a runner working for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller, had multiple conversations about Ayton.

The telephone calls between Miller and Dawkins were among 3,000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins' phone by the FBI. »

A West Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Murray Energy against HBO and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, according to Lawful Masses, a legal website and livestream series hosted by copyright attorney Leonard French.

Oliver revealed in the episode that when the show attempted to contact Murray Energy, it received a cease and desist from the company’s legal team.

The defendants’ attorneys filed a First Amendment-based motion to dismiss, which a West Virginia judge upheld, ruling that the case should be dismissed with prejudice, which keeps the plaintiffs from filing the charges against Oliver and HBO again. »

CNN’s Jake Tapper listens to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) during a CNN town hall meeting Wednesday in Sunrise, Fla. (Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP).

The exchanges roared into the news following Wednesday night’s CNN town hall meeting on gun violence.

The “scripted” remarks acquired their own Internet nutritional system, feeding an attack that CNN was seeking to insert bias into the proceedings. »

Some propose creating a micro-generation for those born on the cusp of the two generations, between 1977 and 1985.

Those born in the early 1980's — call them "Xennials" — had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

We had to bridge the divide between an analog childhood and digital adulthood and we are reminded of this day after day. »