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Cruises to Cuba are Abruptly Canceled, After New Travel Ban

Carnival Corporation will no longer operate cruises to Cuba, effective immediately, the travel company announced Wednesday. The decision, coming one day after the Trump administration banned cruises, private yachts and fishing vessels from visiting Cuba, has left many travelers frustrated and confused, especially those currently en route to the island nation. “I’m one of hundreds […]

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YouTube updates hate speech guidelines to prohibit videos

Technology / En Sound Media

YouTube is updating its hate speech policies to prohibit videos with white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. Interested in YouTube? Add YouTube as an interest to stay up to date on the latest YouTube news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The video streaming company says it has already made it more difficult to find such

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1 lawsuit dropped accusing soccer star of rape, another active

Sports / En Sound Media

A lawsuit filed last September in Nevada state court accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of rape has been dropped by a woman who alleges the soccer star paid her $375,000 to keep quiet about a 2009 Las Vegas hotel penthouse encounter. But a federal lawsuit filed in January by the same woman is still active, and Las

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Joe Biden Still Supports Hyde Amendment, Which Bans Federal Funds for Abortions

Politics / En Sound Media

Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has shunned today’s Democratic Party orthodoxy on issues from crime to compromising with Republicans, again broke with his party’s base and many of his campaign rivals on Wednesday when his campaign confirmed that he still backs the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion

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Dozens sickened by chlorine gas in public pool in Utah

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Chlorine gas has sickened dozens of swimmers at a Utah public pool in what police called a freak accident. A pump malfunctioned Tuesday and forced too much chlorine out of a jet at Pleasant Grove Veterans Memorial Pool about 36 miles (58 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City, Pleasant Grove Police Capt. Britt Smith said.

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Doctor Who writer axed over transgender tweets

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Roberts’ contribution to Doctor Who: The Target Storybook, has been removed Writer Gareth Roberts has been dropped from an upcoming Doctor Who anthology over “offensive” transphobic tweets, BBC Books has confirmed. Roberts, confirming his dismissal via Medium, said the publisher had “immediately folded” to pressure from the show’s fandom

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Sir Philip Green’s rescue deal hangs in the balance

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Topshop is considered the jewel in Arcadia’s crown A crucial meeting to rescue Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group has been adjourned for a week after landlords initially rejected his plan. Landlords of the troubled group’s stores, which include Topshop and Miss Selfridge, were due to vote on a Company

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Madame Tussauds celebrates a bit of Broadway on Broadway

Travel / En Sound Media

On the ninth floor of the Madame Tussauds building in New York, they’ve built a little piece of Broadway. A new permanent exhibit opened Tuesday that offers visitors an Instagram-ready chance to put on costumes and sing some of Broadway’s most famous show tunes, and also gives a taste of what’s going on backstage, from

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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

Technology / En Sound Media

“This is an important and long-overdue change,” Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at the nonprofit organization Data & Society, said about the new policy. “However, YouTube has often executed its community guidelines unevenly, so it remains to be seen how effective these updates will be.” YouTube’s scale — more than 500 hours of new videos

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Emotional ex-USC basketball coach avoids prison after plea

Sports / En Sound Media

A judge says a former assistant basketball coach for the University of Southern California won’t be going to prison for accepting a bribe to steer young athletes to a manager. Tony Bland dropped his head in relief Wednesday when he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and two years’ probation. Bland was the

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