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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said he is resigning from his post after only three months with the short-form video app, as the company seeks to sell off its American operations before September 20 or face being banned in the U.S. As President Trump has cracked down on TikTok and other Chinese apps over security concerns, …
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Looters descended on Minneapolis’s Nicollet Mall on Wednesday night after false rumors spread that the police had shot an African American man. At around 6 p.m. a man who is suspected of committing a homicide walked by Nicollet Mall in the city’s downtown area. Police spotted him and approached, but the man shot himself before …
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President Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen in six swing states over the last two weeks as voter concerns about the coronavirus have waned, a new poll shows. While the boost still leaves Trump trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — Biden is leading Trump 49 percent to 46 percent across the six states — …
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A California judge denied Roman Polanski’s bid to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars. The controversial director sued the Academy in April 2019 after it expelled him in May 2018, alleging he had been thrown out without any warning or fair process. The director behind “Rosemary’s …
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“Stranger Things” star Noah Schnapp has denied using the N-word while singing along to the tune “Freaky Friday” in a resurfaced video from last year. The 15-year-old actor said on his Instagram story Tuesday that he actually said the word “neighbor,” insisting that he has never used the racial slur. “Hi guys. recently a video …
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A new national survey of 2,000 Americans I conducted at the Cato Institute finds that 62 percent of Americans say the political climate these days prevents them from saying what they believe because others might find it offensive. This share is up from 58 percent in 2017. Notably, self‐censorship is not a partisan issue. Majorities of Democrats (52 percent), Independents …
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US Virgin Islands authorities will issue subpoenas to Leon Black and his private-equity giant Apollo Global Management, demanding that they fork over details of their ties to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Black, a billionaire buyout king who is chairman of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, has come under scrutiny for maintaining ties with Epstein …
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway announced Sunday that she is leaving the White House at the end of the month, citing a need to focus on her children. Her husband George Conway also said he will be stepping back from The Lincoln Project. “I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of …
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Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he doesn’t “know anything about” the QAnon conspiracy theory and that he dismisses it “out of hand” while denying having heard President Trump’s recent embrace of its followers. On Friday morning CNN’s John Berman questioned the vice president on the conspiracy theory, which claims Trump and his allies …
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has been receiving his full monthly salary, though he pledged to take a pay cut in May in solidarity with state workers who saw a 10 percent cut in pay as a result of budgetary fallout of the coronavirus. While elected state officials are exempt from such pay cuts, Newsom promised …
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said he is resigning from his post after only three months with the short-form video app, as the company seeks to sell off its American operations before September 20 or face being banned in the U.S. As President Trump has cracked down on TikTok and other Chinese apps over security concerns, …
