Image copyright Getty Images Rihanna’s confirmed she turned down the Superbowl halftime show to support Colin Kaepernick. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback was dropped from the NFL for protesting social injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. In this month’s cover story with Vogue magazine, Rihanna said she did it to take a stand. […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Apple has removed an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements and tear gas use, saying the app violated its rules. The company said the app, HKmap.live, had “been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents”. Apple initially rejected the app – which uses
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In a vast expanse of the South stretching from Texas to Maryland, there are growing concerns for the cattle, cotton and corn amid a worsening drought fueled this past summer by record high temperatures. One of the bullseyes marking the nation’s driest areas is Bartow County, Georgia, where extreme drought conditions have kicked up buckets
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Jimmy Garoppolo just wins. Garoppolo is 12-2 as a starter, including 4-0 this season as the San Francisco 49ers lead the NFC West. He’s a win away from tying Dan Marino, Kurt Warner, Philip Rivers, Mike Tomczak and Dak Prescott for third-most wins through 15 starts. Only Roger Staubach (14) and Ben Roethlisberger (15) had
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Bernie Sanders acknowledged on Wednesday that he knew he had suffered a heart attack three days before his campaign released that information, but he defended the decision to keep those details private. Mr. Sanders’s campaign had been inundated with questions from the news media last week as he recovered at a hospital in Las Vegas,
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Millions of Californians played a waiting game with the winds Thursday as Pacific Gas & Electric watched the weather before deciding whether to restore power to an enormous portion of the state blacked out on purpose. The state’s largest utility pulled the plug to prevent a repeat of the past two years when wind-blown power
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Lorraine Denman: ‘I am the voice for Ellie now… I can encourage people to speak up and share’ On Lorraine Denman’s left forearm is a tattoo depicting her daughter. Ellie Soutter stands with her arms aloft, the waters of a French lake lapping around her legs – looking out into the distance. “It was one
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Diana Ross has had 27 UK top 10 singles, both solo and in The Supremes Soul icon Diana Ross is the first artist to be confirmed for the 2020 Glastonbury Festival. The Motown star, who first found fame in The Supremes, will play the coveted “legend slot” on Sunday
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Image copyright AFP China and the US are set to resume trade talks in Washington on Thursday against a backdrop of heightened diplomatic tension. This week the US government blacklisted 28 Chinese entities it said were “implicated” in human rights abuses. The US also imposed additional visa restrictions for Chinese government officials. Without progress, the
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app late Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track police, a day after facing intense criticism from Chinese state media for it, plunging the technology giant deeper into the complicated politics of a country that is fundamental to its business. Apple said it was withdrawing the app,
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