NEW YORK (AP) — It started with a Black man slapping another Black man on live television at the globally televised Oscars, presumably in defense of a Black woman who was being ridiculed over her hairstyle.
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Imran Khan on way out? Pakistan PM cancels address to nation after meet with Army, ISI chiefs
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U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced his administration’s new website, COVID.gov, designed to be a clearinghouse for the latest pandemic information, as well as a means of providing access to vaccines, tests, treatments and masks on a single site. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden also asked Congress to approve an additional $22 billion in emergency funding to help continue the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden said the nation was entering a new moment in the pandemic. Читать дальше...
It’s almost time to get fired up for “The House of the Dragon.” The “Game of Thrones” prequel series, based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” will premiere Aug. 21 on HBO, the network announced Wednesday. “House of the Dragon” is set 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and focuses on House Targaryen, ancestors of Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen character. The series stars Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Fabien Frankel, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best and Sonoya Mizuno. Читать дальше...
The growing season on the tundra is starting earlier as the planet warms, but the plants aren’t sequestering more carbon, a new study finds.
From inducting his wife into the WWE Hall of Fame to sitting on the Kickoff shows panel, the legend has a busy 'WrestleMania' week ahead.
Two decades after the release of Rodriguez's "Spy Kids," Netflix announced the franchise will be reimagined by the writer-director.
Two Caribbean islands that belonged to financier Jeffrey Epstein hit the market for $125 million last week, raising eyebrows in the small community of private island real estate brokers.
Extended reality, commonly referred to as XR, is becoming a prevalent technology many companies use in various industries. XR consists of immersive technologies that have proven their capabilities in the gaming industry, for example. It’s expected that XR headset shipments will increase to 105 million by 2025. Aside from implementation in the gaming industry, XR […]
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The Chosen One prophecy implies the Force has a will in Star Wars - and the High Republic era is hinting how dramatically that can influence events.
All right All right, I made the executive decision today to forgo the usual Top 25 Rankings really because not much as changed so far this spring and as drafts are winding down, I've noticed some players that should be going higher in my humble opinion. You are going to need to grab them sooner than later as spring training winds down and I want you guys to be on the cusp of recent trends and news. I used current ADP from March 14-March 29 in a 12 team NFBC format. First Up I present you a 3B who's... Читать дальше...
US sanctions Iran’s ballistic missile programme after strikes in Iraq, Gulf
Media group’s share price falls by a third following statement
Bradley Cooper is a triple threat at the Academy Awards, being nominated a total of nine times in the acting, producing and writing categories. However, he has yet to take home the golden statuette. His most recent bid was for producing the Best Picture nominee “Nightmare Alley,” which lost to “CODA” at the 2022 Oscars […]
As comets approach the Sun, they release gas and dust known to astronomers as cometary activity. For comets passing near or inside Earth's orbit, this activity slows over successive orbits. University of Oklahoma astronomer Nathan Kaib has found this same comet-fading phenomenon occurs as comets make repeated passages through the more distant region beyond Saturn.
The Apple Studio Display hasn’t been as well-received by critics as the company might have liked. Here are five other 5K monitors to consider.
World War Two ordnance belonging to "Dad's Army" was discovered in a village on Monday.
More than 60 college students have died from hazing over the past two decades. And while their lives ended abruptly and tragically, their abusers served almost no jail time for those crimes.Our collective judicial response to their deaths has...
Leeds vs Southampton should be a pulsating clash at Elland Road on Saturday as both teams always go all-out for the win.
Feeling unhappy? Go find a city park—the bigger the better—and try taking a walk outdoors.
We interview Infinite Storm director Malgorzata Szumowska about working on the inspirational survival drama and biggest challenges during filming.
The majority of commercial chemicals that enter the market in the United States every year have insufficient health and safety data. For pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency uses a variety of techniques to fill data gaps in order to evaluate chemical hazard, exposure and risk. Nonetheless, public concern over the potential threat that these chemicals pose has grown in recent years, along with the realization that traditional animal-testing methods are not pragmatic by means of speed, economics or ethics. Читать дальше...
“The problem is that tampons are $7 or $8 a box,” one advocate said.
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