2020

Jay-Z explains his and Beyonce’s Super Bowl ‘protest’: ‘It just happened’

Image copyright Getty Images Jay-Z says he and Beyonce were not staging a protest when they stayed seated during the US national anthem at the 2020 Super Bowl. He says the couple were in “artist mode” when they didn’t stand while Demi Lovato sang The Star Spangled Banner. It lead to speculation they were sending […]

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Beyond the Partisan Fight, a Wealth of Evidence About Trump and Ukraine

A reconstructed transcript of the call, made public by the White House in October, makes clear that Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to pursue investigations into the Bidens and into one element of his belief that Ukraine worked against his election in 2016: a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine rather than Russia was behind

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‘The Daily Show’ Curates ‘SOTU Edition’ Of Trump’s Dictionary Of Non-Words

The president, who once said, “I know words. I have the best words,” added “stankchuary” and “dersault” to the collection during his 80-minute State of the Union address Tuesday. The late-night show regularly curates supercuts of Trump’s creative vocabulary, and it delivered a compilation of his “best words” of 2019 in December. Here’s the latest on

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Gambling in football: Bookmakers considering ban on shirt and pitchside advertising

10 clubs in the Premier League are currently sponsored by gambling firms Bookmakers are “considering” a voluntary ban on football shirt sponsorship and pitchside advertising, a parliamentary committee has heard. It would expand on the whistle-to-whistle ban on television gambling adverts introduced last year. Half of Premier League clubs and 17 of 24 Championship clubs

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Coronavirus: Australian evacuated from China to Christmas Island for quarantine

Daniel Ou Yang is one of many Australians being evacuated from Wuhan in China. The student, who was in the city visiting family when the coronavirus outbreak happened, documented his experience on TikTok as the city was put on lockdown. He has since been put on a flight to New Zealand, where he would then

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