Seattle police announced Wednesday that they would begin the process of evacuating the city’s CHOP — the Capitol Hill Organized Protest that became the epicenter of Seattle’s George Floyd protests — following a string of violent incidents in the autonomous zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan also issued an executive order …
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit on Friday, asking fellow board members to replace him with a black candidate. “I’ve resigned as a member of the Reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate [and] I will use future gains …
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Over the past weekend, activists across the country have joined together to protest against police brutality and mourn the brutal death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. In the midst of the protests, another police killing of a black man …
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Patton Oswalt recounted his earliest experiences of Star Wars and Comic-Con — as well as the unconventional confidence boost Jason Alexander gave him during a guest appearance on Seinfeld — in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.” Oswalt said he was eight years old when his parents …
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Bing Liu, a University of Pittsburgh research assistant professor studying COVID-19, was found shot and killed in his townhouse on Saturday in what was apparently a murder-suicide, authorities say. Officials found Liu in his home in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, with gunshot wounds to his torso, neck, and head. Local police …
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Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, in his first year of eligibility, will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA announced Saturday. “He was one of the greatest competitors who stepped on the court and made sure his impact was felt on both sides …
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UPDATE: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the International Olympic Committee have agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics, likely until next year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Abe said he spoke with IOC President Thomas Bach and they agreed upon a delay of “about one year,” though no exact …
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Mart Crowley — best known for penning The Boys in the Band, a play about a group of gay and bisexual friends in New York City — has died at age 84. The playwright died Saturday night in Manhattan of complications from heart surgery, according to friend David Cuthbert, via …
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Vanessa Bryant took to Instagram on Wednesday to express gratitude for the outpouring of support her family has received in the wake of her husband Kobe Bryant and 13-year-old daughter Gianna’s untimely deaths in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Sharing a photo of their family, Bryant addressed the devastation she …
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Conservative lawmakers in South Dakota are proposing a bill that would criminalize doctors treating gender dysphoria patients under the age of 16 with hormones, puberty-blocking medications, or gender transition surgeries. Democrats and libertarians who oppose the bill argue that it would prevent gender dysphoric teenagers from accessing needed treatment like …
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