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NEW YORK — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the NFL’s Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday evening to show their support for Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback who drew controversy last season for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racial disparity. Kaepernick, who took his San Francisco […]
Federal regulators said Wednesday they don’t plan to block Amazon.com Inc.’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc., clearing the way for the biggest retail deal of the year so far. The Federal Trade Commission said it would no longer pursue an investigation into whether the mega-deal would lessen […]
The Army has suspended an undisclosed number of drill sergeants at Fort Benning in Georgia amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving trainees. The scandal came to light after one female trainee alleged she was sexually assaulted by a drill sergeant, the base said in a statement. “Initial review of the […]
Samsung debuted its long-awaited Galaxy Note 8 smartphone on Wednesday, showing off a 6.3-inch screen with an edge-to-edge display, packing more real estate into a smaller form factor. While the screen may be big, the phone is designed to make it still easy to hold in your hands. It’s the […]
Brendan Rodgers’ men were drawn in Group B and face glamour ties with European heavyweights Bayern Munich, big-spending French cracks Paris Saint-Germain and Belgian champions Anderlecht. Davies knows the financial power of PSG – who smashed the transfer record to land Brazilian superstar Neymar from Barcelona for £198m – and […]
With Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain reported to be meeting with the Arsenal hierarchy this afternoon, Wenger refused even to confirm the appointment let alone the subject matter. “We all have our agendas that are quite busy but we do not publish them,” he said. “Some people look better informed than I am! […]
AMSTERDAM — A bus with Spanish license plates and containing gas bottles was found near a concert hall where earlier on Wednesday a rock concert was canceled due to a threat, Rotterdam’s mayor said. Ahmed Aboutaleb told a news conference it wasn’t clear whether the threat and the bus were […]
Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue […]
A State Department science envoy quit Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump’s “attacks on core values of the United States” in a scathing resignation letter that also featured an acrostic poem spelling out “IMPEACH.” Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley who’d been appointed as a […]
As the violence in Charlottesville has reignited a national debate over monuments dedicated to Confederate-era and other controversial figures, New York City is conducting its own review over “symbols of hate” and possibly taking aim at Christopher Columbus. New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a 90-day […]
ISIS released a propaganda video Tuesday that features a boy who claims he is the American son of a U.S. soldier and moved to Syria with his mother two years ago. The child, who speaks in fluent English with what sounds like an American accent, is identified only as Yousef, […]
Alexa, who? Two of the country’s biggest companies, Google and Walmart, are teaming up to mount a challenge against their common foe — Amazon. Beginning in late September, Walmart shoppers will be able to do their shopping via the Google Home virtual assistant. All they’ll need to do is link […]
Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue of the Confederate general […]
Arsenic-contaminated groundwater may threaten the health of 50 to 60 million people in Pakistan. This is shown by a study in which data from 1,200 groundwater samples was analyzed and combined with hydrological parameters to generate a hazard map. This reveals for the first time the full extent of the […]
A new study concludes that conserving old-growth tropical rainforest is ‘highly recommended’ to prevent new outbreaks of viral and parasitic mosquito-borne diseases.
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MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department expanded its travel advisories Tuesday to warn of dangers in parts of Mexico, like the Caribbean coast, that previously hadn’t been covered by such alerts. The new travel advisory doesn’t mention the Caribbean resorts of Cancun or Playa del Carmen by name, but […]