“Don’t turn your back on racism,” Nike said in the video. San Francisco: Nike has taken a stand against racism with a “Don’t Do It” campaign, a twist on its famous phrase, as protests against police brutality spread across the United States. “For once, don’t do it … don’t pretend there’s no problem in America,” the American sportswear giant said …
Read More »Trump is not killing the bull market. This is why
More and more Wall Street business leaders and strategists are voicing concerns about what protectionist policies and the unpredictable nature of President Donald Trump could do to markets and the economy. But we all know that action speaks louder than words. What investors are really doing is in stark contrast to what people are saying. The Dow, S&P 500 and …
Read More »China’s coronavirus campaign offers a look at the surveillance system
BEIJING – The coronavirus outbreak in China has given an unprecedented insight into how an extensive surveillance camera system works, as monitoring stations are renowned epidemic “war rooms” that help control people’s movements and stifle the illness. China is trying to build one of the world’s most sophisticated surveillance technology networks, with hundreds of millions of cameras in public places …
Read More »Homecoming review: Janelle Monae stars in a new chapter of Amazon’s mysterious thriller
For those who lost the first flight – based on the Gimlet Media podcast and produced in concert with “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail – the series focused on a secret operation that experimented on soldiers, playing with their minds and memories. Again, it’s a low-key version of a 70s paranoid conspiracy thriller, broken into half-hour installments. Here, Monae’s character …
Read More »Bill Belichick as coach of the Giants is the first of many Big Blue that such
In a weeklong series, The Post is looking at alternative realities in New York sports. Today’s edition looked at whether the Giants would have won a second consecutive Bowl if wide receiver Plaxico Burress hadn’t shot himself in 2008. Below are other great Giants events from the past 30 years: What if Bill Belichick was the successor to Bill Parcells …
Read More »Mizoram Prime Minister Zoramthang tweeted a video of Shramik passengers offering food in Bihar
The clip shows the villagers walking with food packages towards the train. A special train for workers stranded due to national restrictions stopped briefly in a village in Bihar recently and the train’s passengers were overwhelmed when large numbers of locals came to offer them food. The video was shared on Twitter by Mizoram Prime Minister Zoramthang, who found the …
Read More »Louis Vuitton Launches Free Mother’s Day 2020 E-Cards
This year, the coronavirus pandemic not only distances moms from their loved ones, but makes blocking a physical card worthy of the woman who raised you a little more complicated. A last-minute (and free) solution? Louis Vuitton has released a series of electronic cards called #WELVMOMS just in time for Mother’s Day 2020, which is celebrated on May 10. Cards …
Read More »India’s Coronavirus Enclosure: A 1,250-Mile Man’s Agonizing Journey Home … On Foot
But he didn’t stop walking. Could not. The 26-year-old migrant worker was in the heart of India and only halfway home. With no way to survive in the cities, and the great rail network of India was closed for the most part, many made the extraordinary decision to walk thousands of miles back to their families. Many failed. In one …
Read More »College Football Hall of Fame Plundered in George Floyd Atlanta Riots
The College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta was smashed and looted Friday as part of the riot in response to the death of George Floyd. The windows of the hall of fame were smashed and the gift shop was ransacked, according to local police. It is not known whether the museum portion of the building was destroyed and …
Read More »Palantir CEO Joins Elon Musk in Considering Leaving CA
Silicon Valley-based software company Palantir is following the example of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and is openly considering abandoning California’s “growing bigotry and monoculture”, its co-founder said. Speaking during an appearance on Monday in “Axios on HBO” CEO Alex Karp said the company was “getting closer” to deciding whether to leave Golden State. Karp was interviewed by conference call from …
Read More »George Floyd’s brother said Trump “didn’t give me a chance to speak” during a phone call
Speaking to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, George’s brother Philonise Floyd said his conversation with President Trump was “very quick.” “It didn’t give me a chance to speak,” Floyd said. “It was difficult. I was trying to talk to him, but he just rejected me, like ‘I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.’ “And I just told him that I …
Read More »‘Hannah Gadsby: Douglas’ review: Comic book feels the pressure of its success in following ‘Nanette’
The Australian comic begins essentially by summarizing the phenomenon that was “Nanette” – a deep and personal presentation of his life experience – joking about wisdom, with the benefit of hindsight, of having exhausted all that revealing material and trauma in one big bang. He then mockingly proceeds to precisely delineate where the latest show will go and how various …
Read More »Internal obstacles that were removed
Rick Schosberg begins his Mondays at 4:15 a.m., when he arrives at Belmont Park to train his horses and help the nearly 600 back-stretching workers who call the track home to stay safe during the coronavirus era. The races will finally return to Belmont on Wednesday, but the horse training and care work never stopped, even as the pandemic began …
Read More »The repression of visas puts these rural doctors at risk
In his pediatric practice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Dr. Alaa Al Nofal cares for up to 10 patients per day. He knows some of them since they were born. Others, he still tries after they have graduated from high school. “I treat these children for type 1 diabetes, thyroid problems, thyroid cancer, puberty disorders, and diseases of the adrenal …
Read More »Protests over George Floyd’s death: They would have been greeted with vicious dogs, weapons: Trump over American protesters
Donald Trump said protesters were protesting the death of a black man who died in the United States. WASHINGTON (Reuters): United States President Donald Trump said Saturday that protesters protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been “greeted with the most vicious dogs and the most sinister …
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