January 2020

Shaq To Donate Super Bowl Event Proceeds To Kobe And Vanessa Bryant Foundation

Retired NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal says he will donate the proceeds of his upcoming Super Bowl event to honor former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant and eight others killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash. O’Neal on Wednesday said he’d be “dedicating and donating” funds raised by his Shaq’s Funhouse Super Bowl Party in Miami on Friday in memory of

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Bloomberg’s $11 Million Super Bowl Ad: Gun Violence and a Grieving Mother

DES MOINES — After the dazzle and pop of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday, Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is hoping to “stop people in their tracks” with an emotional ad featuring a mother who lost her son to gun violence. In the minute-long ad, which the campaign released on

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Europe evacuates citizens from China, Russia shuts border

LISBON, Portugal — European countries stepped up efforts Thursday to contain the virus sweeping through central China, sending a chartered plane there to evacuate hundreds of citizens, scrapping more commercial flights to Chinese destinations and closing Russia’s long border with the Asian giant. Italian authorities kept some 7,000 people on board a cruise ship for

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ABC News Suspends Reporter Matt Gutman For Wrong Kobe Bryant Crash Report

ABC News has suspended chief national correspondent Matt Gutman for his erroneous report that all four of Kobe’s Bryant’s children were onboard in the helicopter crash that killed the Los Angeles Lakers great, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, outlets reported Wednesday.  Gutman’s on-air report on Sunday came at a time when speculation and misinformation

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