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(Reuters) – Players raised gloved right fists and took a knee before Major League Soccer’s first match in four months on Wednesday in a show of solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ social justice movement. Some players wore t-shirts over their jerseys with the words “Black and Proud” and “Silence…
Something about Stateless doesn’t sit right. Debuting globally on Netflix today (following its Australian broadcasting premiere in March), the six-part limited series paints a moving portrait of immigration detention in Australia. One of the world’s largest refugee safe havens, Australia has long grappled with a human rights crisis similar to…
That Donald Trump rally inside Tulsas BOK Center on June 20 has now resulted in precisely what the president and his re-election campaign were repeatedly warned about, according to Tulsa Countys top health official: a coronavirus spike in the city. Per the Associated Press, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr.…
Stadiums like the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., will be empty this year after the Ivy League canceled fall sports because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jessica Hill/AP There will be no fall sports in the Ivy League this year, officials announced on Wednesday. This is the latest in a…
Wednesday, July 8th 2020, 8:29 pm – Environment Canada issued a Tornado Watch for parts of southern Ontario Wednesday afternoon, including for the City of Toronto, as severe thunderstorms tracked through. Residents across southern Ontario are repairing damages and managing floods after severe thunderstorms tracked through on Wednesday afternoon. A…
Time has warped. Paradoxically, during the pandemic, it seems to be going both slower and faster. The mid-March lockdown feels like an eternity ago. Yet those nearly four months have blurred into speeded up sameness, punctuated by well, nothing. I feel off balance even before the daily death tolls that…
Written by Abhinav Rajput | New Delhi | Published: July 9, 2020 4:10:52 am The houses occupied a 200-metre stretch near Angad Nagar, from the Khureji traffic signal to Chitra Vihar. (Express Photo/Prem Nath Pandey)Around 56 houses in East Delhi were razed in a demolition drive carried out by the…
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is increasingly moving to sideline the opposition led by U.S.-backed lawmaker Juan Guaidó. A string of recent court rulings dismantling three influential opposition parties along with growing citizen disillusionment not to mention the coronavirus pandemic have thrown a new wrench in the oppositions…
