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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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Getting rid of pests is big business When construction work disturbed a pack of rats near his commercial kitchen business in County Wicklow, Ireland, Shane Bonner knew he needed a savvier approach to pest control. His existing contract, which used a no-frills bait box and regular site inspections, was
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Cathay Pacific Airways is asking its 27,000 employees to take turns in taking three weeks of unpaid leave while the Hong Kong carrier struggles with plunging revenue due to China’s virus outbreak February 5, 2020, 8:53 AM 1 min read HONG KONG — Cathay Pacific Airways is asking its 27,000 employees to take turns in
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A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches, but life still thrives By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press February 5, 2020, 8:16 AM 3 min read BARCELONA, Spain — A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the
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Willie O’Ree, who broke the color barrier in the NHL, says he is saddened that racism and bigotry still exists in hockey and other sports February 5, 2020, 6:56 AM 5 min read OTTAWA, Ontario — Willie O’Ree is hopeful that one day sports will be free of racism and bigotry, yet thinks it’s still
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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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Alison Brie makes her screenwriting debut this week with the Netflix Film “Horse Girl.” The actor, who also stars as the film’s “horse girl,” is continuing a partnership with the streaming service that includes the series “GLOW” and “BoJack Horseman,” the latter of which just ended last week. You can read more about “Horse Girl”
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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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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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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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