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Colin Kaepernick is encouraging players to keep kneeling despite the league's numerous social-justice initiatives, fueling debate over whether the protests have become less about oppression and more about getting the multimillionaire quarterback an NFL job.

The 29-year-old was a free agent after being released by Marseille.

At long last, we can say for sure that dogs love the fine arts.

Earlier this month, a group of service dogs attended a theater performance of Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. After the show, a photo of some of the dogs sitting up diligently in their seats made the rounds on Twitter. This makes sense: The photo is so cute that it does not even seem real.

ICYMI: We had some pawsitivly adorable audience members from K-9 Country Inn Service Dogs during last weeks Relaxed Performance of #sfBillyElliot. Читать дальше...

Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are the star names on the 10-player short-list announced on Monday by FIFA for its Puskas award for goal of the year.

The move is the latest fallout over Mr. Epstein’s death at a chronically understaffed federal jail.

The rules of a highly unequal society extend even to the highways, where have-nots are far more likely to be killed than haves.

Mr. Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement.

Facing a federal rule that restricts referrals for abortion, the organization decided to reject government funding for family planning for low-income women.

1. College football rankings: Five takeaways from the 2019 preseason AP Top 25 poll  CBS Sports
2. Clemson atop AP preseason Top 25 for 1st time  ESPN
3. Ohio State opens at No. 5 in AP preseason college football poll  Buckeye Extra
4. Clemson tops AP college football preseason poll for first time ever  WYFF4 Greenville
5. Georgia lands in top 5 in first 2019 AP college football poll  WSB Atlanta
6. View full coverage on Google News

Some people are fans of the Seattle Seahawks. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Seattle Seahawks. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Seattle Seahawks.

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate New York church with historical ties to Harriet Tubman caught on fire during a storm.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's non-banking financial firms and listed companies that issue debentures will no longer have to maintain a certain level of redemption reserves against them, the government said on Monday, in an effort to increase the availability of money for lending. The non-banking finance companies, also known as shadow lenders, have been battling a credit crunch since IL&FS, or Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services, collapsed in late 2018 amid fraud allegations.

By Aditi Sebastian and Soundarya J (Reuters) - Estee Lauder Cos Inc on Monday forecast full-year revenue and profit above Wall Street expectations, putting to bed concerns of slowing demand in China due to trade tensions and Hong Kong protests as sales of its luxury skin care products soared, propelling its shares to a record high.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced a first-of-its-kind biennial international landscape architecture prize that includes a $100,000 USD award. The Prize features two years of related public engagement activities to honor a living practitioner, collaborative or team for their creative, courageous, and visionary work in the field […]

It took him almost half an hour to plan out his most technically difficult shot, which involved hitting a target more than 25 football fields away.

• Snipers are defined, at least in part, by their ability to put precision fire on a target at great distances, sometimes extreme distances.
• Staff Sgt. Hunter Bernius, a veteran Marine Corps scout sniper who runs an advanced urban sniper training course, walked INSIDER through his most technically difficult shot, which involved shooting at a target 2,300 meters away, or roughly 1.4 miles.
• At that distance, it takes the bullet roughly six to eight seconds to reach the target... Читать дальше...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices were up more than 1% on Monday after a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility by Yemen's Houthi forces and as traders looked for signs that top economies would take measures to counteract a global slowdown. Prices were limited by a downbeat report by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that stoked concerns about growth in oil demand. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, was up 71 cents, or 1.2%, at $59.35... Читать дальше...

One key change made by United boss from Chelsea win...

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Mexico City protest turns violent.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A Philadelphia man charged with murder in the beating death of his younger brother in an Atlantic City casino hotel room has been extradited back to New Jersey.

Latest Liverpool news: Wijnaldum claims Adrian’s reaction to Saints mistake is more important for the keeper Adrian reached the high of helping Liverpool win the UEFA Super Cup, but he was brought back down to earth at St. Mary’s this weekend. The former West Ham goalkeeper will feature in the starting XI until Alisson returns […]

“Aside from the appearance of a tree by day or night, is it not kin of the human family with its roots in the earth and its arms stretching toward the sky as if to seek and to know the great mystery?”<p>Walt Whitman considered trees the wisest of teachers. Hermann Hesse found in them sweet consolation …

The show will be headlined by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and it will feature numerous company air, ground and space assets.

Bayern Munich presented Philippe Coutinho on Monday, who acknowledged his time at Barcelona was something of a disappointment.