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Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., are seen during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Examining Best Practices for Incarceration and Detention During COVID-19,” in Washington, U.S., June 2, 2020. Tom Williams | Reuters Top congressional Democrats will unveil a bill to overhaul police practices Monday as Americans mass daily to protest excessive use
Play video content Breaking News Tekashi 6ix9ine found himself his first musical ally outside of prison — and it’s already proving to be fruitful … with a remix on the horizon that’ll get your 2000s taste buds tingling. The rapper just posted a video of himself with none other than Akon, and it looks like
In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life under past Chilean political oppression and living under recent worldwide quarantines due to Covid-19, this Cortazarian story marks the author’s English-language debut. Let the tall ferns sleep,silent as a secret,let them
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker skipped out on a saga tradition as evidenced by some recently released concept art. The sequel trilogy as a whole is divisive amongst Star Wars fans, with The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker being placed under the microscope more so than the first installment. Regardless, Lucasfilm and
What’s a little trashy TV without a whole lot of mess? And a mess is what you found on the first half of the Before the 90 Days: 90 Day Fiance Tell-All that brought some of the season’s couples and their friends together to spill all the details. Many of the couples reunited, and we
Ice T is seen on set of ‘Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’ on March 06, 2020 in New York City. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin After months of production shutdowns, Hollywood is eager to get the cameras rolling again. But that’s easier said than done in as coronavirus continues to spread. While several states have issued proposed
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, participates in a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were scheduled to be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from
WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit and the British government are continuing efforts to begin flights of the company’s air-launch system from an English airport by early 2022 despite challenges on both sides of the Atlantic. Virgin Orbit and the U.K. Space Agency, along with Spaceport Cornwall, held an online suppliers conference June 4 to provide an
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Calling a video of western New York cops pushing a 75-year-old man to a sidewalk “fundamentally offensive and frightening,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo applauded the resulting suspension of two Buffalo police officers on Friday. Cuomo told reporters that he spoke on the phone with the man, who “is thankfully alive” after being knocked to the ground
Beyoncé was among the speakers for Barack and Michelle Obama’s YouTube “Dear Class of 2020” virtual graduation ceremony today. During her commencement address, she discussed the protests surrounding the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. Watch her entire speech below. “Thank you for using your collective voice and letting the worlds know
Dear Class of 2020 LivestreamYouTube President Barack Obama gave his third virtual commencement speech today for YouTube’s Dear Class of 2020 graduation special. The former U.S. president urged the grads to get involved, vote, and to use this time during a global pandemic to “think about the values that matter to [them] most.” The former
A view of the fearless girl wearing a mask in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 25, 2020. John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty Images U.S. stock futures rose slightly on Sunday night following last week’s sharp gains amid optimism over the economy reopening. Dow
ISOLDE’s CRIS: the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy on ISOLDE at CERN. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice/CERN) The first spectroscopic study of radium monofluoride suggests that the radioactive molecule could be used to perform high precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics. The study was done by an international team of physicists working in the ISOLDE
Elmer Fudd no longer holds a rifle while hunting wascally wabbits. HBO Max has launched their new version of Looney Tunes and it shares a lot of similarities to the original. However, the gun violence is something that the studio won’t do anymore, even though fans are a little angry about the situation. For now,
Michaela Coel has created something pretty special with I May Destroy You. Her exploration of a sexual assault in may different incarnations is deeply personal to Cole, whose story sounds very similar to Destroy’s protagonist, Arabella, played by Coel. Arabella is a force of nature. She and her friends live on the edge with a
The question of whether to reopen schools in the fall has a “complicated answer” and the decision will depend on the coronavirus’ transmission in certain regions of the U.S., White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday. “It has to be a bit of a — and I don’t mean lengthwise — a bit of