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A two-member advance team of the World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched to Wuhan to probe the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak will undertake preliminary work with local scientists, the agency’s emergencies chief has said. The team is currently under mandatory quarantine, the WHO’s Mike Ryan said at a press briefing […]
The Washington Redskins have announced it will be dropping its team moniker, which is widely considered a slur against Native Americans. The head coach and team owner are developing a new name. (Image credit: Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) Source link
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Fans sit in the stands before the start of a game between the New York Giants and Washington Redskins at FedEx Field in 2019 in Landover, Md. The Redskins, and other teams, are reviewing their names. Patrick McDermott/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Fans sit in the […]
Critics have described the Black Lives Matter movement as a “scam” and questioned the point of a move by a Major League Soccer team which has replaced player names with the names of black victims of police brutality. Philadelphia Union players wore the names of victims on the backs of […]
The Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), is a project set to go where no telescope has gone before, tasked with studying the sky at radio wavelengths in unprecedented detail to figure out how galaxies and our Universe evolved into what we see today; it’s expected to produce spectacular discoveries. […]
Coinbase has hired Paul Grewal, former U.S. magistrate judge and Facebook legal alum, to lead the cryptocurrency exchange giant’s legal team. Source link
The Justice Department on Tuesday produced more evidence to General Mike Flynn’s legal team. Former FBI counterintel chief Peter Strzok and Special Agent Joe Pientka conducted an ambush-style interview of General Flynn on January 24, 2017 at the White House. Flynn didn’t have any lawyers present and Comey bragged about […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump will hold an outdoor campaign rally in New Hampshire on July 11, his team announced amid a continuing spread of the coronavirus in the US. “President @realDonaldTrump will host an outdoor #MAGA [Make America Great Again] Rally on Sat., July 11 at 8:00 […]
Last weekend hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters broke through the gate on Portland Place, a private street in St. Louis. Mark and Patricia McCloskey were eating dinner when the criminal mob marched down their street, painted the street and protested in front of Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home. […]
The NFL franchise announced Friday that recent events have pushed it to examine its controversial name. In recent days, corporate sponsors and investors have put pressure on the team to take action. (Image credit: Nick Wass/AP) Source link
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US President Donald Trump’s re-election team has ridiculed the most recent attempt to tie the commander in chief to Nazism after critics compared a campaign T-shirt graphic to a logo commonly used in the Third Reich. Responding to the allegation that the T-shirt ripped off the emblem of the Nazi […]
George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to accept the integration of black players into the league, is to have his name removed from Washington Redskins “Ring of Fame” and website, the team has announced. Marshall, who died more than fifty years ago, was a noted segregationist didn’t agree to […]
The Israeli government’s decision to open up the country was way too hasty, believes an expert from the state’s largest healthcare organisation, adding that mistakes could have been avoided if politicians listened to professionals instead of pursuing their own agendas. After almost three months of restrictions imposed in response to […]
Decentralized lending platform Cred has welcomed former National Security Agency computer scientist Bethany De Lude and Western Union executive Daniel Goldstein as chief information security officer (CISO) and chief technology officer (CTO) respectively, the firm announced Monday. Dan Schatt, Cred’s chief executive, told CoinDesk the crypto community stands to benefit […]
Rep. Eliot Engel and President Barack Obama didn’t always see eye-to-eye on issues of foreign policy. The New York congressman, as staunch a Middle East hawk as there currently is in the Democratic Party, was the most high-profile House Democrat to oppose Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the biggest foreign […]
In celebration of Russia Day, an aerobatic team took to the skies over Moscow Region, sending a patriotic message to all Russians to stay strong and united in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The Perviy Polet (First Flight) aerobatic team took to the skies on Friday to mark the […]
VT’s overall poor relationship with the Trump presidency has moved up a notch. The report Trump is referencing went, not unnoticed, but rather totally censored in the Western press, as has so much else until VT sought out the facts and published them. Now, for the second time, Trump has […]
Conor McGregor teammate Dillon Danis has publicly vowed to take revenge on Khabib Nurmagomedov’s camp after rewatching footage of the scrap that saw both sides heavily sanctioned following their clash at UFC 229 in October 2018. The incendiary post-fight brawl after the headline fight between lightweight champ Khabib and Irish […]
Bell and Boeing, which together make the V-22 Osprey, recently delivered its 400th tiltrotor aircraft, a CV-22 for U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. U.S. aerospace team said the first production V-22 was delivered on May 24, 1999, and today deliveries occur under the Multi-year Procurement III contract valued at […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved Friday to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million. Unsealing its complaint against Utah resident Daniel F. Putnam, his businesses MMT Distributions and R & D Global and associates Angel […]
US 20:51 GMT 05.06.2020Get short URL Video footage emerged on Thursday showing police officers in the city of Buffalo pushing to the ground a 75-year-old unarmed man who subsequently hits his head and, remaining motionless, begins to bleed onto the concrete. City authorities responded to the incident condemning the officers’ […]