Celebrities with political opinions outside the ‘safe’ range dictated by the media establishment should keep their mouths shut and their Twitter fingers still, Abdul-Jabbar declared, in a shockingly tone-deaf op-ed in the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. The sports star warned his fellow famous people that expressing unorthodox political opinions risked …
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s influential sister has not made any statements or public appearances for some time, triggering reports of her political downfall or even death in South Korean and Western media. Such rumors routinely appear during prolonged periods of silence from any of the top Pyongyang officials. Kim …
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Clement Beaune, France’s European Affairs Minister, told Europe 1 radio on Friday that Paris is not willing to accept a UK-EU trade deal on bad terms. I still hope that we can have an agreement, but we will not accept a bad agreement for France. If there was an agreement …
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Nasdaq revealed its plan to turbocharge diversity on its exchange in a proposal filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday. Under the proposed new rules, not only will all listed US companies be required to “publicly disclose consistent, transparent diversity statistics regarding their board of directors,” but …
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The USS John S McCain, a specialist combat ship designed to hunt submarines, was operating in the Sea of Japan (also called the East Sea), off the coast of the Russian Far Eastern capital, Vladivostok. Authorities say it was more than two kilometers inside Russia’s internationally recognized maritime border. A …
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Iranian government spokesperson Ali Rabiei vowed to punish any unprovoked US aggression in a streamed broadcast on Tuesday, following reports of a calculated attack by the Trump administration. The remarks were a reaction to reports in the New York Times (NYT) on Monday. The paper claimed that US President Donald …
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“The US government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House,” Biden’s director of rapid response, Andrew Bates, told Fox on Friday, declaring that “the American people will decide this election.” Bates’ statement came after Biden pulled ahead in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, leading some …
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“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela told Fox News on Monday. While providing no evidence that such arms transfers have already occurred …
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Stahl, a veteran interviewer for the CBS show, was at the White House on Tuesday to interview Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for this weekend’s election special. She had already taped interviews with Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. The first sign something might have …
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Multiple videos and photos shared on social media showed a man dangling on a rope around 16th floor of the 98-story Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday night. The man is said to be in his 20s and has been dangling from the balcony in a climbing harness since around 5:30pm, demanding “to …
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