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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a Republican and reported contender for Donald Trump’s Vice President pick in the 2024 election, has received pushback after admitting to killing her dog in her new memoir. After obtaining a copy of No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward ahead of its publication next month, the Guardian reported that Noem wrote she shot dead Cricket, a 14-month-old dog she had intended to train for hunting pheasant, after the canine ruined a hunt, killed another family’s chickens, and moved to bite her. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Noem said Cricket had an “aggressive personality” and was “untrainable,” per the Guardian’s report.

The dorks at The Grading The Week offices have few commandments, but we’re kind of worried that the Broncos just broke Rule No. 8: If thou winneth a majority — or all — of thy championships in a particular uniform, thou must not change or mothball that uniform, lest thou land on the wrong side of karma. Why hello there, Damani Leech! Team GTW doesn’t fear change but we’re also suckers for tradition.

The thing about the Nuggets as champions: They never need to say, “We are the best.” Everybody knows it. Contrast them with the Lakers, who are like the kid in high school who gives himself a nickname. All the Nuggets do is win. All the Lakers do is whine. And the Lakers don’t discriminate.

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Most GOP senators have fallen in line with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to return to the White House, starting from the top with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They’re with him despite everything, including Jan. 6 when he unleashed a mob on the Capitol that threatened their physical safety, if not their lives.

Dear Amy: My brother and I are both in our 70s. We’ve only spoken once in the last three years. We lived miles apart for much of our lives, but still kept in touch. After our father passed, our mother sold their home. My father had previously told my brother that when they sold the house, he wanted to give a certain amount of money to each of us. Our mother did not honor our father’s wishes, but did give us each a smaller amount.