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Knicks rookie president Leon Rose said he had “no timeline” to break the seven-year playoff drought but feels he’s hired a coach smart in player development that will hasten their journey. Thibodeau touted their two young bedrock pieces in RJ Barrett and Mitchell Robinson and admitted two other young prospects, Kevin Knox and Frank Ntilikina, …
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) dismissed President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday to delay the November elections because of possible voter fraud, along with a number of additional high-ranking Republican officials. McConnell said this year’s election would go forward as planned on November 3 in a call to Kentucky’s WNKYTV. The majority leader mentioned …
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday accused Google and Facebook of being responsible for the demise of journalism in the US. Directly addressing Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, Nadler said that the two Silicon Valley titans “have gravely threatened journalism,” and described the news industry as being in “economic …
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Big Tech will be under the spotlight once again on Wednesday, as the CEOs of the largest companies in the industry will face a grilling before Congress. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple chief Tim Cook are scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust …
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Holocaust survivors are demanding Facebook remove posts denying that the genocide they escaped ever happened. The survivors are speaking out in a social-media campaign launched Wednesday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which argues that Facebook has been too lenient towards Holocaust deniers. The Claims Conference plans to post a new video …
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Nick Cannon paid a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in response to backlash over anti-Semitic remarks he made on his podcast last week. According to a press release from the center, the “America’s Got Talent” alum spoke with senior officials and heard stories from Holocaust survivors on …
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It’s not clear yet whether someone in a New York baseball uniform will kneel during the pregame playing of the national anthem. What stands clear right now, however, is Aaron Judge’s support of anyone who wants to do that. “That’s the beauty of America, is freedom of speech,” Judge said Tuesday after the Yankees completed …
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Days after making anti-Semitic statements on his podcast, Nick Cannon is sitting down with Rabbi Abraham Cooper to discuss what happened. “I made a lot of people mad,” Cannon, 39, told Cooper on the latest episode of “Cannon’s Class.” “[I made] your community mad. I made my community mad by apologizing.” Cooper replied that the …
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he is in favor of a second round of direct stimulus payments to Americans after months of uncertainty within about the next coronavirus-relief bill. “Speaking of building on what worked in the CARES Act, we want another round of direct payments, direct payments to help American families …
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Beverley Mitchell has welcomed her third child, a baby girl, after suffering a miscarriage in 2018. “Happy to share with the world our sweet little girl, Mayzel Josephine,” she captioned a photo of her adorable newborn on Sunday. “”[She] has captured our hearts and we couldn’t love her more … We are over the moon …
Knicks rookie president Leon Rose said he had “no timeline” to break the seven-year playoff drought but feels he’s hired a coach smart in player development that will hasten their journey. Thibodeau touted their two young bedrock pieces in RJ Barrett and Mitchell Robinson and admitted two other young prospects, Kevin Knox and Frank Ntilikina, …
