By Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine, Scott Bronstein and Bob Ortega | CNN “Trump or war. Today. That simple.” “If you don’t know how to shoot: You need to learn. NOW.” “we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount.” […]
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Trump administration Sunday to enact a ban on travel from the U.K. or require mandatory testing as a new, significantly more dangerous strain of the coronavirus emerges there. The new variant in the U.K. could be “up to 70% more transmissible” than […]
You get the bad news, and you move on. That’s what Michigan State men’s basketball did late Tuesday night when getting word about 11:15 that Virginia had to cancel the next day’s game. The Spartans flew back from Charlottesville to East Lansing on Wednesday morning, and were back practicing Wednesday […]
When house-bound experts appear on TV interviews via Zoom, they are almost always seated in front of a large bookcase studiously purged of the usual trash. Whether an expert is deploring executive-office overreach or dissecting the baffling enigma of structural unemployment, you will usually see a gargantuan biography of Ulysses […]
A blogger who traveled with American Airlines has found the airline’s wheelchair policies confusing and restrictive, but his story has inspired American to take another look at its rules. John Morris, a triple amputee, has traveled to 46 countries in a wheelchair and started the blog Wheelchair Travel, where he shares […]
A union has called on universities to move more teaching online amid England’s lockdown (Getty Images) A leading union has called on universities to push teaching online amid England’s new lockdown. The University and College Union has written to vice-chancellors to ask them to stop all non-essential in-person activities, and […]
A video presentation startup called Mmhmm began during the coronavirus pandemic with a simple observation about most video calls: they’re boring. Founder Phil Libin, onetime CEO of Evernote and now the head of the digital product studio All Turtles, which developed Mmhmm, says that as he saw himself and others […]
Rachel Luna/Getty Images; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Sacha Baron Cohen has responded to criticism aimed at him from President Donald Trump following the release of the new Borat sequel, which features the president’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani. On Friday, Trump told reporters that he thought Cohen was a “phony […]
Courtesy of Amazon Studios Early reviews for the new Borat film are, as the outlandish titular character would say, very nice! On Friday, Amazon Prime Video will debut the highly anticipated sequel to the 2006 original, with star Sacha Baron Cohen reprising his role in the heavily improvised political satire. […]
It may soon be illegal to make discriminatory, racially biased 911 calls in San Francisco. The “CAREN Act” (Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was introduced in July at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Shamann Walton. The ordinance is one step closer to becoming a law. On […]