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Jul 12, 2020

Inside the Horrifying Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Court Case

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have only been in court for a few days, as Depp’s libel case against the publisher of British tabloid The Sun unfolds—but the details are already very dark. Depp sued News Group Newspapers for a Sun article that called him a “wife-beater.” NGN’s defense rests on allegations of

Jul 11, 2020

Teens Revolt Against Trump TikTok Ban Threats

Teens are fighting back against the Trump administration’s tough talk about potentially banning TikTok, and the official Trump app is a casualty of war. “Why are you banning TikTok?” asks a one-star review on the iOS App Store from “YEETERQUEEN” posted yesterday. “There are so many things that are more important than an

Jul 11, 2020

Two arrested over killing of popular political singer in Ethiopia

Ethiopian authorities have arrested two suspects over the killing of a popular political singer, whose death last week sparked protests in which people were killed. The shooting of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, a musician widely revered among his Oromo ethnic group, ignited protests in Addis Ababa and the surrounding Oromiya region. The prime minister, Abiy

Jul 11, 2020

Jack Charlton: 1966 England World Cup winner dies aged 85

Jack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England and former Republic of Ireland boss, has died aged . The former Leeds defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and also had dementia. One of English football s most popular characters, he was in the team that won the World Cup

Jul 11, 2020

Coronavirus: Ireland’s Covid Tracker app is out

Image caption Ireland and Germany have launched apps based on Google and Apple s technology, but England remains wary This morning I installed Ireland s just-released contact-tracing app on my phone, where it joined Germany s Corona Warn-App, which was released three weeks ago. The Republic s Covid Tracker software is also the

Jul 11, 2020

Trump commutes sentence of longtime confidant Roger Stone

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president s own conduct. The move came Saturday, just days before Stone was to begin serving a -month prison sentence

Jul 10, 2020

Lessons from the 1918 pandemic: A U.S. city’s past may hold clues

Coronavirus infection rates continue to rise, with the number of new cases climbing in dozens of states and the U.S. reporting record numbers of cases on individual days. Hospitalization across the U.S. has dramatically jumped; some cities are seeing surges that threaten to overwhelm their health care systems. Meanwhile, the demonstrations over the

Jul 10, 2020

Rishi Sunak: The ‘whatever it takes’ chancellor

He’s been dubbed Dishy Rishi , Britain’s economic Jedi and Santa Claus in hazmat in recent months, but most often he is referred to as a possible future prime minister . Rishi Sunak s star has been rising steadily since he became chancellor in February. Within weeks he found himself tackling the greatest

Jul 9, 2020

Black workers at NASA reflect on Mary Jackson’s legacy

NASA recently announced that it would be renaming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the trailblazing first Black female engineer at the space agency made famous by the film Hidden Figures. Current NASA staff say that she remains an inspiration in both the day-to-day operations and the broader overarching goals