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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 […]
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 […]