The team had stopped playing the anthem at the request of owner Mark Cuban, leading the NBA to reiterate that playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" is required under "longstanding league policy."

Labor inspectors found underage youths delivering for Rappi, but the problem extends to Uber Eats and other delivery apps.

Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr. Hasan Gokal said.

Gianforte will issue a directive Friday ending the mask mandate that's been in place since July.

Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands presented a series of previously unseen security videos and audio recordings from the Capitol riot at the impeachment trial.

Health workers are still being forced to ration protective masks, but small U.S. manufacturers can’t find buyers, and some are in a danger of going under.

It is widely recognized that critics of Israel, no matter how well-founded the criticism, are routinely punished by both public and private institutions for their speech. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has documented a pattern by which “those who seek to protest, boycott, or otherwise criticize the Israeli government are being silenced,” a trend that “manifests on college campuses, in state contracts, and even in bills to change federal criminal law” and “suppress[es] the speech of people on only one side of the Israel-Palestine debate.” The Center for Constitutional Rights has shown that “Israel advocacy organizations, universities, government actors, and other institutions” have targeted pro-Palestinian activists with a number of tactics “including event cancellations, baseless legal complaints, administrative disciplinary actions, firings, and false and inflammatory accusations of terrorism and antisemitism” and concludes that there is a “Palestine exception to free speech.” The effort to keep critics of Israel quiet sometimes takes the form of explicit government action—there is an open campaign to criminalize speech critical of Israel and some states even require oaths from government employees promising not to boycott Israel. But as Israeli journalist Gideon Levy notes in the Middle East Eye, it often comes in the form of baseless (and offensive) accusations that criticisms of Israel are definitionally anti-Semitic. In the United States, academic critics of Israel have had job offers rescinded or been otherwise kept from teaching, and CNN fired academic Marc Lamont Hill over his call for a free Palestine. In Britain, there has been a years-long absurd campaign to tar former Labour leader (and critic of Israeli government policy) Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite. Human Rights Watch notes that the United States government has wielded unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism against it and against other human rights groups like Amnesty and Oxfam that have exposed Israel’s shoddy human rights record. Within Israel itself, the free speech rights of Palestinians are brutally suppressed, and even Jews supportive of Palestinian rights are regularly harassed by the state. Abeer Alnajjar of OpenDemocracy wrote last year about how “major, mainstream news media outlets are sensitized against any reference to Palestinian rights or international law, and any criticism of Israel or its policies.” Personally, I had never thought about the question of whether I could suffer consequences for criticizing the government of Israel (and U.S. support for it). I have just about as much “free speech” as you can get in this world. Perhaps I should have thought about it more, though, because as soon as I crossed an invisible line, it was very quickly made clear to me. The moment I irritated defenders of Israel on social media, I was summarily fired from my job as a newspaper columnist.

He’s all alone.

The Lee County school board has taken no action against the Republican member who watched President Trump’s speech in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 but did not storm the U.S. Capitol with fellow supporters. Last month, the board in Sanford voted to have its attorney investigate whether Sherry-Lynn Womack violated policy by attending Trump’s rally and speaking to a reporter from USA Today on the National Mall, where she identified herself as a board member. But after a lengthy meeting Tuesday, members voted unanimously to take no action after attorney Jimmy Love said his investigation turned up no unethical behavior. ‘It’s cancel culture’ “It was ridiculous what they did, to be honest,” Womack said Wednesday. “It spent taxpayer dollars on what never should have been spent. ... It’s cancel culture.”

A nineteen-year-old Phil Lynott photographed for Irish magazine Women’s Way in 1969. In 1969, Thin Lizzy vocalist Phil Lynott was already singing with his fourth band, Orphanage, following his dismissal from the band Skid Row (featuring guitarist Gary Moore). Lynott was pretty laser-focused on making rock and roll his primary profession from a very young age after forming his first group, Black Eagles—a cover band, and his second, Kama Sutra, when he was fifteen. In 1969, during his short time with Orphanage, from which Thin Lizzy would soon spring, he was interviewed by one of the most popular women’s magazines in Ireland at the time, Women’s Way, for a column called “Beat Up” by journalist Heather Parsons. During his youth, Lynott had gone through more than his fair share of difficulties. His father was absent, and the young Lynott was subjected to relentless racially-motivated verbal attacks because of his mixed...

Riders in major cities, especially New York, encounter particle quantities well above safe levels.

Christopher Williams spent three decades in prison before being exonerated in a triple murder as well as a fatal shooting. “Lightning did strike twice,” a prosecutor said, agreeing to drop the case.

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a painful, incurable disease that’s nearly always fatal. But over the past 18 months, thousands of cats have reportedly been cured of FIP by a drug that’s very similar to remdesivir—the antiviral currently under investigation as a promising treatment for COVID-19 in humans. As a recent article in the Atlantic explains, the success of remdesivir turns out to be the main reason you probably didn’t even know a FIP cure existed.

Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.

The legendary whistleblower isn’t done calling out corruption. On February 3rd, 1971, detective Frank Serpico — immortalized by Al Pacino in the gritty 1973 cop drama Serpico — was shot in the face. The bullet pierced him under the eye and lodged in his jaw. Just a year earlier, he had gone public with evidence of shocking corruption within the New York Police Department, humiliating the force and prompting Mayor John Lindsay to launch an investigation and public hearing. Serpico had knocked on a suspected drug dealer’s door, and the door cracked open — when he turned around to beckon to the other cops, expecting their backup, the dealer gunned him down. It’s possible that the other cops set him up, but no one knows for sure. What’s clear is that they left him at the scene as he pleaded for help and he’d probably have died if an elderly man hadn’t called for medics. Despite almost losing his life, he doesn’t have regrets. “I really did not have much of a choice. If I quit, it would have meant denying every principle I believed in,” he tells Rolling Stone. “It would have made a mockery of justice.” Almost 50 years later, police corruption and violence has come under scrutiny like never before, with near-daily reminders, thanks to higher public awareness and the ubiquity of cell phones. Where previously, an abuse case like the Rodney King beating could be chalked up by authorities to “a few bad apples,” the proliferation of visible abuses has prompted calls for drastic systemic reform. And Frank Serpico — who now goes by his given name, Francesco, a late-life revolt against the nuns who made him Americanize it to Frank — has a lot of wisdom to offer.

The feat makes UAE the fifth space agency in the world to reach the planet while it plans for a Mars settlement by 2117. The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars has entered the red planet’s orbit after a seven-month, 494 million kilometres (307 million miles) journey, allowing it to start sending data about the Martian atmosphere and climate. Officials at mission control broke into applause on Tuesday, visibly relieved after a tense half-hour as Amal, Arabic for hope, carried out a “burn” to slow itself enough to be pulled in by the Martian gravity.

A spokesperson with Hennepin Healthcare confirmed that one of the people injured in Tuesday's shooting at a health clinic in Buffalo has died. The victim, who has not yet been identified, was transported to HCMC where they later died. North Memorial Health said four of the Buffalo shooting victims were taken to North Memorial Hospital. A hospital spokesperson said one of the victims had been discharged by Tuesday afternoon, while three others are in critical, but stable, condition. Buffalo Police Chief Pat Budke fought back tears as he gave more details about the shooting at a 2 p.m. news conference. He said initial information shows that the clinic may have been targeted specifically, and that the shooting was an "isolated" incident. Budke said Ulrich has had contact with the health care community in Buffalo and has lived there for a long time. "It's a history that spans several years and there certainly is a history of him being unhappy with the health care that he received," Budke said.

McKinsey & Co., the global consulting giant, agreed to pay nearly $600 million last week to settle allegations by 49 states that its work for large opioid manufacturers helped "turbocharge" sales of the drugs, contributing to an addiction epidemic that rocked the country and has caused more than 400,000 deaths. The settlement is a black eye for the firm, which holds itself out as the preeminent global consultant advising corporations and governments. But because most of the money to be paid by McKinsey will go to state programs funding addiction treatment centers and recovery services, the deal may allow a McKinsey hedge fund affiliate to generate investment gains, an NBC News investigation has found. That's because the firm's wholly owned hedge fund affiliate, called MIO Partners, holds indirect stakes in addiction treatment centers and a maker of overdose treatment products. In addition, investment records show, during the years McKinsey was helping opioid makers propel sales of the drugs, MIO Partners held stakes in companies that profited from increased usage.

Military officials are working to recover high powered explosives that vanished from a Southern California installation, according to ABC 10News' sources with close military ties. The explosives disappeared from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, and now a reward is being offered for their discovery, sources told ABC 10News. Sources report that approximately 10 pounds of Composition C-4 disappeared during a long training exercise two weeks ago. They also believe the manufactured plastic explosives may have been stolen. The unit's commanding officer is considering extending the training exercise until the explosives are found, sources said. They also confirm the commanding officer messaged subordinate commands about a monetary reward for any information leading to the discovery of the C-4.

A virtual courtroom hearing came to an abrupt paws in southwest Texas on Tuesday when an attorney inadvertently appeared on screen as a computer-filter-generated cat. The mundane civil forfeiture hearing took a hilarious turn when Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton arrived in Zoom court in the form of a fluffy white and brown kitten.