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Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey is representing parents who are demanding an online schooling option for families

By Neil DeVotta*

While the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (Sri Lanka Freedom Front or SLPP) led by Mahinda Rajapaksa was expected to win the country’s 16th parliamentary election on 5 August, few envisaged that the party would approach a supermajority. Yet by capturing 145 seats in the 225-member parliament, the SLPP and its allies now enjoy a two-thirds majority.

The impressive victory followed last November’s presidential election that Mahinda’s younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa won. Читать дальше...

What They're Saying: Shane Lyons

The running back has not practiced since opening training camp on PUP

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• As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the United States between January and July 2020, the Associated Press reported Friday.
• The death toll, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest COVID-19 is killing more people than officially registered.
• People of color make up 40% of the US population but 52% of "excess deaths," according to an analysis by the AP and The Marshall Project.
• Over 175,000... Читать дальше...

Back in June, Google announced that it would pay publishers for content as part of an upcoming feature in Google News and Discover. Google yesterday provided an update on the news licensing program, including priorities and who it’s working with.

A first-year undergrad told BuzzFeed News she's received "a couple hundred dollars" from people who watched her depressing TikToks.

Russian spy Christopher Metsos, right, swaps information in a “brush pass” with an official from the Russian Mission in New York in 2004. The image from a video is part of a trove of documents, photos, and surveillance released by the FBI as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. The arrests of 10 …

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Saratoga Shakespeare Company tomorrow night will premiere the audio performance of Testament, a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven in a moment of crisis: grappling with the loss of his hearing, and emerging from his suffering to write one of the greatest symphonies of all time, the “Eroica.”

The Blackhawks' season ended Tuesday with a loss to the Las Vegas Golden Knights in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. General manager Stan Bowman and coach Jeremy Colliton addressed the state of the team Friday. Here are three takeaways from their video conference call.

'Widespread corruption'

For almost 70 years, the United States has never explicitly committed itself to the defense of Taiwan against Chinese invasion. Now, with U.S.-China relations at a historic low, worries over a Chin

As CERB payments are set to end next month, here is what the federal government's new plan for assisting Canadians during COVID-19 means to current and future qualifiers.

A former Army Green Beret has been charged with providing information about US national defenses to Russian agents, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.

The rapper shared that he has tons of music of himself rapping over other artist's beats.
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Lance Bass has shared some sad news about his surrogate. The 41-year-old musician and husband Michael Turchin have been trying to have a baby and after multiple attempts, their surrogate has bowed out the process. “We’re two and a half years in and we keep running into a lot of different hiccups,” Lance shared with [...]

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - A former Louisiana prosecutor has been released from federal prison and will finish the rest of his sentence on public corruption charges at home.

Ever Banega felt mixed emotions after Sevilla's Europa League triumph over Inter brought the curtain down on his stay with the club.