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Megan Thee Stallion partnered with apparel retail company Fashion Nova to donate $100,000 to the Breonna Taylor Foundation on the first anniversary of her death. The rapper showcased her initiative on Instagram, saying the core mission of the foundation is to support economic, social and racial justice through police reform. “A year ago today Breonna
Continue ReadingMillions of television viewers around the world are in a state of frenzied anticipation on Sunday, as they await the broadcast of Oprah Winfrey’s set-piece interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The primetime event, which will be shown on Sunday evening in the United States, has been relentlessly promoted by network CBS
Continue ReadingWhen Kezia Fitzgerald’s 1-year-old daughter Saoirse was fighting a stage four neuroblastoma tumor, Kezia knew she wanted to do everything in her power to make Saoirse’s treatment as comfortable as possible. So when Saoirse’s catheters and vascular access lines started getting in the way while she played, Kezia put her sewing hobby to the test.
Continue ReadingHillary Clinton weighed in Monday on Oprah Winfrey’s explosive interview with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and her husband, Prince Harry, offering support for Meghan and decrying the tabloids and bureaucracy that often targeted her. “I found it so heart-rending to watch,” Clinton said during a Washington Post Live event on Monday, noting that she had
Continue ReadingIn Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview Sunday with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, one takeaway was that help for mental health is still hard to get — even if you’re part of the British royal family. In Meghan’s first public comments since she and her husband, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, stepped down as senior
Continue ReadingOprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attracted a blockbuster audience when it was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Monday. The 110-minute interview on ITV attracted an average of 11.1 million viewers between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m., according to the broadcaster. Viewership peaked at more than 12.4 million
Continue ReadingProminent journalists in the United Kingdom have dismissed claims by one of their own industry bodies that the British press does not have a problem with racism. The objections, including a rebuke from the Guardian newspaper, come after the Society of Editors rejected allegations made by Prince Harry that racism had played a role in
Continue ReadingThree small earthquakes shook the Wichita, Kansas, area early Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The USGS measured a 3.4 magnitude quake at 7:29 a.m. ET, with a 3.5 magnitude quake following at 7:31 a.m. A third quake measured at 3.0 was reported at 8:02 a.m., according to USGS.
Continue ReadingDuke University officials issued a stay-in-place order for all undergraduate students through next Sunday as the school tries to combat a rapidly escalating number of Covid-19 cases. In a letter sent to students on Saturday, officials at the Durham, North Carolina, university said that more than 180 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and are
Continue ReadingThe day before the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker III filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the officers involved in last year’s fatal raid that seeks damages for violations of his constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday and obtained by CNN. The lawsuit
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The head of a UK media industry body has resigned after the group claimed that racism played no part in coverage of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, prompting a rebuke from more than 160 journalists of color. Ian Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, on Wednesday said he would step down so the organization
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview Sunday morning that women should be believed but stopped short of calling for New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s resignation amid sexual harassment allegations against him. “The governor should look inside his heart, he loves New York, to see if he can govern effectively,” Pelosi said on
Continue ReadingTottenham’s Erik Lamela produced an outrageous piece of skill to score a rabona goal but was later sent off in the North London Derby, as Arsenal beat its rivals 2-1 on Sunday in the Premier League. The Argentina international squirmed the ball through the legs of an opponent and into the bottom corner to give
Continue ReadingA 14-year-old suspect was arrested after a 6-year-old girl was found deceased Friday night in Indiana. The girl was reported missing from the area of Chapman St. in New Carlisle, Indiana, around 6:30 p.m. and was found deceased about two hours later, according to a press release from St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit Assistant
Continue ReadingDisturbing video clips show students kidnapped from a college in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state being held at gunpoint and beaten with a whip by their abductors emerged on Saturday. In the footage, which has been widely shared on Facebook, some of the students appeared visibly distressed. In one video, an abducted student calls on the
Continue ReadingTesla has expanded its “full self-driving” software to roughly 2,000 Tesla owners, but some drivers were revoked access for not paying close enough attention to the road, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “FSD Beta has now been expanded … we’ve also revoked beta where drivers did not pay sufficient attention to the road, Musk
Continue ReadingISIS militants were behind Thursday’s brutal killings north of Baghdad where they shot dead eight people in three separate attacks, including six family members, according to an Iraqi military statement released Friday. The attack took place in Albu-Dour’s predominantly Sunni village in Salah al-Din province, about 84 miles north of the Iraqi capital. The area
Continue ReadingWhat was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to
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Gun sales in the United States reached a record level last year, with the biggest increases in background checks for firearms overlapping with months of social and political unrest, according to industry and government data. Industry data and firearms background checks show nearly 23 million guns were purchased in 2020, according to Small Arms Analytics,
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After savoring the passage of his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package in the Rose Garden last week, President Joe Biden begins the tough work of enacting what he called a “transformational” piece of legislation, while also trying to sell Americans on the progressive goals the bill embraced. As stimulus checks are rolling into the bank
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