7:08 PM ET National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts expressed outrage over the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday and how it reflected on racial double standards in America. Roberts told ESPN that her contact with multiple NBA players throughout the afternoon kept returning to the contrast between the
Month: January 2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely via videoconference in this screengrab made from video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,? on Facebook and Twitter’s content moderation practices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2020. Reuters Twitter on Wednesday placed restrictions on President Donald
A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol building in Washington has described the moment a woman was shot dead by security forces. Video of the incident shows the man standing next to the victim at the moment the fatal shot is fired. He is then seen trying to help her as she falls to the
A 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm in connection with the death of 13-year-old Olly Stephens. The trio, all from Reading, have been remanded in custody to appear in Reading Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. Two other boys, both aged 13,
It’s often said that the first rule of politics is to be able to count. (It was Lyndon Johnson who first said it. And while it seems to have been forgotten by some in the US right now, it applies in the UK too.) The numbers will show that lockdown three in England was backed
January 6th, 2021 by NRDC Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Kit Kennedy Part of NRDC’s Series Reviewing 2020 Climate & Clean Energy Developments It was the year that never seemed to end. The 2020 blows kept coming as the inter-related crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial brutality, climate upheaval, and economic recession inflicted hardship and loss
January 6th, 2021 by The Beam By Rebecca Cooke In one of Caleb Clarke’s earliest memories, he runs down to the creek near his grandfather’s house to fetch casks of ale for his grandfather and his friends. The icy mountain water keeps the bottles cool for them as they sit out on the porch in
US President Donald Trump has turned on his deputy, accusing him of lacking courage after Mike Pence said he would not intervene in the election result. In a tweet, the president wrote: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a
MPs have approved England’s third coronavirus lockdown – but the government has been urged by leading Conservatives to allow further votes on the measures both this month and next month. Following a four-hour debate in the House of Commons, MPs approved the newest lockdown by 524 votes to 16, a majority of 508. Their approval
The FTSE 100 has hit its highest level in ten months, building on a recovery that has lagged its peers during the coronavirus crisis to date. The blue-chip index added 229 points, or 3.5%, on Wednesday to close at 6,841. When points are converted to pounds, it meant almost £61bn was added to its collective
Tesla sold out the first quarter of Model Y electric SUVs in China after just a few days of taking orders, according to an update to its website. Tesla Model Y in China As we previously reported, Tesla is using a new vehicle introduction strategy for Model Y. Unlike previous vehicle programs, which were launched
Oil markets are in for more struggles this year despite a more than 5% boost to prices this week on news from OPEC+. The oil producer group, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, announced that members would keep production largely steady rather than raising it, with Riyadh later revealing voluntary cuts of an extra 1
10:38 AM ET BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns‘ training facility remained closed Wednesday as the team and NFL continued to conduct contact tracing and wait for additional COVID-19 test results. The Browns announced Tuesday that head coach Kevin Stefanski tested positive for COVID-19, making him unavailable for Sunday’s playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A customer exits after picking up Apple’s new 5G iPhone 12 that went on sale, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, at an Apple Store in Brooklyn, New York, October 23, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Apple‘s App Store customers spent a record $540 million on New Year’s Day alone, marking a 40% increase
OpenAI has unveiled DALL-E and CLIP, two new generative AI models that can generate images from your text and classify your images into categories respectively. DALL·E is a neural network that can generate images from the wildest text and image descriptions fed to it, such as “as an armchair in the shape of an avocado”,
Jeremy Darroch is to step down as chief executive of Sky, the parent company of Sky News, after 13 years. Mr Darroch, 58, is one of the UK’s longest-serving chief executives. His successor will be Dana Strong, currently president of consumer services at Comcast Cable, the largest broadband and pay TV provider in the United
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