The WNBA is looking into an obscenity-laced speech that included racial epithets made by Los Angeles general manager Penny Toler in the locker room after the Sparks lost Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals in Connecticut. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said on ESPN on Thursday “we understand the heat of the moment and that the […]
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Senator Bernie Sanders, recovering in a Las Vegas hospital from a procedure to treat a clogged artery, should be able to return home by the end of this weekend and will participate in the next Democratic debate, his wife, Jane Sanders, said Thursday. “Bernie is up and about,” Ms. Sanders said in a statement on
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Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, MGM Resorts International reached a settlement that could pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys announced Thursday. It will resolve hundreds of lawsuits in
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Image copyright Press Association / Rui Vieira Image caption The county’s main A&E looks set to be based at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital A hospital is set to lose its acute A&E department after a major shakeup of services in Shropshire won the backing of health secretary Matt Hancock. The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will be home
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Who knew that a couple breaking up in an apple orchard could be so funny? After Portman provided some seemingly innocuous words — like knees, Kim Kardashian, scuba divers and fart — the two performed the autumnal scene. They couldn’t stop laughing, but nobody can be expected to keep a straight face with a line
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A handful of popular Instagram influencers are facing backlash online after taking part in a sponsored ad campaign for Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s tourism board and a program called Gateway KSA have given supervised trips to popular travel bloggers as the country prepares to expand its visa program. Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that it
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LONDON — Europe’s top court said on Thursday that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos not only in their own countries but elsewhere, in a ruling that extends the reach of the region’s internet-related laws beyond its own borders. The European Court of Justice said Facebook could be forced
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The Latest on the track and field world championships (all times local): 9: 25 p.m. There are now two bronze medalists in the men’s 110-meter hurdles. Spanish hurdler Orlando Ortega will be awarded an extra bronze medal after Jamaican Omar McLeod collided with him during the hurdles final Wednesday. Ortega had been third when McLeod
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“I do this for a living, and I’d never heard anyone say the servers were in Ukraine,” she said. In the 27 months between Mr. Trump’s two citations of the CrowdStrike-Ukraine conspiracy theory, it has survived despite many denials from CrowdStrike, the F.B.I. and people directly involved in the investigations. It has survived despite the
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Since the 19th century, when suffragists were forced to ditch their pantaloons and strictures in the U.S. Senate forbade women’s pants, women in politics have been obstructed in their pursuit of self-expression. It isn’t unusual for dress codes to be used as a form of control over women. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was
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