2019

NBA Player Urges Referee To Call Technical On His Father, Who’s The Opposing Coach

Sports /

Houston Rockets guard Austin Rivers said Thanksgiving is going to be weird this year with his father. He can probably forget about the father-son picnic, too. The sight of Rivers urging a referee Wednesday to give his dad Doc Rivers, the coach of the opposing Los Angeles Clippers, a technical foul during their game in […]

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Deval Patrick Joins the 2020 Race: ‘This Won’t Be Easy, and It Shouldn’t Be’

Politics /

Former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts officially entered the presidential race on Thursday, adding an 18th candidate and an 11th-hour twist to a turbulent Democratic primary with less than three months to go before the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Patrick’s announcement, which he had signaled this week, came in the form of a video he released

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Privacy, consumer groups seek to block Google-Fitbit deal

Lifestyle /

Nine privacy, social justice and consumer groups are calling for the U.S. federal government to block Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness-gadget maker Fitbit, citing antitrust and privacy concerns November 13, 2019, 5:11 PM 1 min read Nine privacy, social justice and consumer groups are calling for the U.S. government to block Google’s $2.1 billion

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Manus Island refugee author Behrouz Boochani arrives in New Zealand

Entertainment /

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Behrouz Boochani was held in detention after trying to claim asylum in Australia An asylum seeker who wrote a book via Whatsapp from inside a detention centre has finally left the island where he was held for six years by Australia. Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurd, arrived in New

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Michael Bloomberg Has a History of Demeaning Comments About Women

Politics /

Still, Mr. Bloomberg’s boorish reputation in the 1980s and 1990s was a potential stumbling block even in 2001, when he first took a run at political office. Biographies of Mr. Bloomberg, along with contemporary news reports, have described the company in those days as a hotbed of brusque talk that was often demeaning to women.

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Trump Impeachment Hearings Gives Late Night Plenty To Laugh About

Entertainment /

The comedians of late-night television predictably had plenty to say about Wednesday’s first day of the public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump and the latest twists and turns in the inquiry. “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee explained why it was “not a good start for Republicans.” “They didn’t manage to throw the kind of

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