Politics

June 15, 2020
WNBA plans to play 2020 season in Florida starting late July

The WNBA has announced plans to play a reduced season, with a 22-game schedule that would begin in late July without fans in attendance. The league is still finalizing a...

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June 15, 2020
WNBA plans to play 2020 season in Florida starting late July

The WNBA has announced plans to play a reduced season, with a 22-game schedule that would begin in late July without fans in attendance. The league is still finalizing a...

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June 15, 2020
WhatsApp starts payments in Brazil: sign of things to come?

Facebook's WhatsApp chat platform is launching mobile payments in Brazil, a country often used to test out new services because of its large online population. WhatsApp said in a blog...

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June 15, 2020
Bring back Obama! Why Joe Biden’s perfect pick for vice president is not a black female, but the former US leader

Choosing Barack Obama as his running mate makes sense for Biden – and America. And it gives the ex-president a shot at redemption for his past failure to tackle the...

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June 15, 2020
Academy delays 2021 Oscars ceremony because of coronavirus

For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd...

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June 15, 2020
If even the BBC’s ‘bias investigator’ is biased, it’s time they admitted what they are: A British CNN

The BBC bringing in Richard Sambrook, an old employee turned university professor, to advise them on impartiality is the broadcasting equivalent of having Roy Keane referee the Manchester derby. The...

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June 15, 2020
Can job market sustain its gains? Uncertainties cloud future

Layoffs are slowing, unemployment is declining and hiring is gradually rising, suggesting that a steady rebound may be afoot in the U.S. job market. Or is it? So many uncertainties...

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June 15, 2020
Trans Mountain pipeline has oil leak at Canadian station

The Trans Mountain pipeline suffered an oil spill at a Canadian pump station that caused a temporary shut down. The pipeline leaked at the Sumas Pump Station in Abbotsford, British...

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June 15, 2020
Feds: Ex-eBay staff sent spiders, roaches to harass couple

Six former eBay Inc. employees have been charged with waging an extensive campaign to terrorize and intimidate the editor and publisher of an online newsletter with threats and disturbing deliveries...

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June 15, 2020
N.C. highest court makes history with remote video arguments

North Carolina's highest court made history on Monday by hearing oral arguments using video conferencing as the court system continues to attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The state...

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June 15, 2020
Diack at corruption trial: I should have been more vigilant

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack said at his corruption trial on Monday that he should have kept a tighter rein on the athletics governing body that prosecutors allege became a...

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June 15, 2020
Jamaica welcomes back tourists, nationals amid coronavirus pandemic

Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett talks about the need to reopen tourism in the country, despite COVID-19, and the measures put in place to keep visitors and Jamaicans safe. …...

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June 15, 2020
Musk and Bezos are locked in a 21st century space race, but together they could take humanity to the stars

Two of the biggest figures in the tech industry are battling it out to lead humans to space. SpaceX's Elon Musk has taken a big lead from Amazon's Jeff Bezos...

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June 15, 2020
Oregon, Arizona St athletes challenge NCAA in federal court

Attorneys filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in federal court Monday that seeks to prevent the association from limiting the amount of money athletes can make off their names, images...

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June 15, 2020
Spike Lee’s new movie Da 5 Bloods is dreadful, but virtue-signaling mainstream critics lack the courage to tell the truth about it

There's only one good thing about this film: it exposes liberal film critics for their self-serving racial paternalism and their pandering to fellow woke elites. Spike Lee's new movie ‘Da...

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June 15, 2020
Could potential for conflicts influence review of Miami’s powerful zoning code?

Should three prominent Miami developers' attorneys be permitted to participate in a new task force that's revising the city's much-lauded Miami 21 zoning code? That's the question that kept the...

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June 15, 2020
Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative...

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June 15, 2020
Roommate of woman accused of hacking pleads to having guns

The former roommate of a woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing firearms, according to federal prosecutors. Park Quan,...

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June 15, 2020
‘Anonymous UC Berkeley professor’ REFUSES TO SERVE THE PARTY, calling out the hypocrisy of Democrats and #BLM

An anonymous letter, purportedly by a UC Berkeley professor, is calling out things impossible to openly discuss on campus, including the Democratic Party co-opting Black Lives Matter and the suppression...

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June 15, 2020
Driller charged over contamination in ‘Gasland’ town

An energy company faces felony charges for polluting residential water wells in a Pennsylvania community that has long been a battleground in the national debate over natural gas drilling and...

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June 15, 2020
Miami21 zoning code gets a review

Planner/architect Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, principal author of the city of Miami's Miami 21 zoning code, which is 10 years old is part of a task force looking at revisions and updates,...

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June 15, 2020
Durant joins ownership group of MLS’ Philadelphia Union

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant has joined the ownership group of Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union. Durant, a 10-time NBA All-Star, has a 5% ownership stake, with an option for...

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June 15, 2020
Slavoj Zizek: Greta and Bernie should be leading in these troubled times, but they are NOT RADICAL ENOUGH

With everything that's plunging the world into chaos right now, one thing surprising me is, why are Greta Thunberg and Bernie Sanders comparatively quiet? Make no mistake, racism, climate issues...

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June 15, 2020
Grains mixed,livestock mixed.

Grain futures were mixed on Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery was was up .60 cent at $5.0020 a bushel; July corn...

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June 15, 2020
Justices revive permit for pipeline under Appalachian Trail

The Supreme Court sided with energy companies and the Trump administration Monday in reinstating a critical permit for a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cross under the Appalachian Trail....

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June 15, 2020
Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court. The court...

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June 15, 2020
America’s disintegration no longer sounds like a crazy prediction, but no one will like the consequences

As someone who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union, I find some images and reports coming out of the United States these days eerily familiar. But should anyone...

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June 15, 2020
Report details how woman without ticket boarded Delta flight

A woman without a ticket or government-issued ID walked past a Transportation Security Administration agent and entered a terminal at Orlando International Airport in October by blending in with a...

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June 15, 2020
Hundreds of unpaid soccer players seek help from FIFA fund

A $16 million FIFA fund to pay soccer players whose clubs disbanded leaving wages unpaid has had 441 applications. FIFA said Monday 89% of cases, more than 390 players, involved...

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June 15, 2020
What virus? Parisians pack cafes as city gets its magic back

Paris is rediscovering its joie de vivre, as cafes and restaurants reopen for the first time since the fast-spreading coronavirus forced them to close their doors on March 14. Many...

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June 15, 2020
What virus? Parisians pack cafes as city gets its magic back

Paris is rediscovering its joie de vivre, as cafes and restaurants reopen for the first time since the fast-spreading coronavirus forced them to close their doors on March 14. Many...

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June 15, 2020
Many young men are shunning sex. Is it because feminism and #MeToo are constant reminders of the inferiority of male identity?

Celibacy is becoming the new normal, as surveys show that the number of sexually inactive young Americans is increasing, particularly among males aged between 18 and 24. Once upon a...

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June 15, 2020
HOAs, condo boards should brace for a slowdown in dues – and tread carefully

The forced business closures and layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic have taken a massive toll. With the unemployment rate now predicted to surpass 20%, community associations are bracing for...

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June 15, 2020
More millennials are leaving Miami than moving in, study finds

More millennials are leaving Miami than moving in. That's been the case for the past three years, according to a study recently published by the personal finance website SmartAsset. The...

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June 15, 2020
South Florida real estate calendar for the week of June 15

The pandemic takes a back seat this week on most agendas. Webinars are dedicated to condo associations, climate change and Opportunity Zones. June 16 ▪ The Hollywood-based Eisinger Law will...

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June 15, 2020
Cancel these: 12 problematic things our new CULTURAL COMISSARS should address ASAP

Colston and Columbus have already fallen, and Rhodes doesn't look to be far behind, but why stop there? For the revolution to succeed, we must erase all problematic history –...

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June 15, 2020
Shaken by protests, Bayside Marketplace tries to keep rolling

On a recent Wednesday, just after noon, a smattering of tourists drifted through Bayside Marketplace, the venerable outdoor shopping and dining complex perched against the eastern rim of Biscayne Bay....

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June 15, 2020
Toys, books and clothes: Stores reopen doors across England

The hand sanitizing stations are ready, the social distance markings in place. After a three-month shutdown under coronavirus restrictions, London's Oxford Street is ready to spring back to life —...

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June 15, 2020
Kentucky Bourbon Festival postponed 1 month due to virus

A festival that shows off one of Kentucky's iconic products is being postponed this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Kentucky Bourbon Festival was pushed forward a month and...

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June 15, 2020
Companies like Tesla won’t report coronavirus cases. Why aren’t the numbers public?

According to Tesla, more than 10,000 people work at its electric-car assembly plant in Fremont, Calif. How many have been infected with COVID-19? Tesla won't say. Neither will the Alameda...

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