If he was bothered by his diminished position, Wong did not show it. Instead he accepted a new role with the same obsessive approach he’d taken to years of manning street-side political booths in Hong Kong. A dissident diplomat, he traveled to Taiwan, Germany, and the United States, where he …
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Lewis Hamilton has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The seven-time Formula One champion will miss this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain. The Mercedes team on Tuesday (December 1) announced in a statement that Hamilton was tested three times last week and returned a negative result each time. RELATED: Fred …
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President-elect Joe Biden announced his economic team on Dec. 1, which will be tasked with leading America’s economic rebound after the coronavirus pandemic. Biden’s economic team will shoulder the burden of fixing Trump’s coronavirus failures while at the same time helping millions of Americans recover from mass unemployment, widespread hunger, …
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Photo: Goran Vrhovac (Shutterstock) Alright, LLC Twitter, this one’s for you: Nasdaq has announced plans to push for corporations to do the absolute bare minimum in ensuring diversity in their boardrooms. According to ABC News, a proposal submitted Tuesday by Nasdaq to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would require …
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Before the big meal, Joanna Pearlstein and Whet Moser from the COVID Tracking Project cautioned Americans to expect data delays: Public-health officials have mostly implored Americans to stay home for the holiday, but for those who do visit Grandma, a COVID-19 infection acquired this weekend could take more than …
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Ice-T has a message for his followers: Take the coronavirus pandemic seriously. Taking to his Twitter account, the rapper and actor shared a cautionary tale about his wife Coco Austin’s father, who he says refused to wear a mask in public, and is now fighting for his life after catching …
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced their inaugural committee and launched a website in the beginning stages of what will be a different inauguration ceremony. The Biden campaign announced on Nov. 30 that Tony Allen, former Biden speechwriter and the President of Delaware State University, will serve …
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Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Y’all, we all know the Department of Education under Betsy DeVos ain’t shit. The RC Cola version of Dolores Umbridge has decided that nine months into the pandemic and one month before she’s out of a job is the perfect time to start processing discrimination …
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Hubble, the most powerful telescope in orbit, is still producing dazzling observations of targets near and far, from the familiar planets of our solar system to the mysterious suns of other worlds. The mission might be one of the easiest scientific endeavors to maintain in the middle of a plague. …
Read More »Zonnique Responds To Criticism Over Reginae’s Birthday Party
Sunday night (November 29) was a crowded one at Republic Lounge in Atlanta as Reginae Carter threw a ‘99 and 2000s themed birthday party, however the event didn’t go without criticism. Zonnique Pullins, daughter of Tamika ‘Tiny” Harris and stepdaughter of T.I., was in attendance with her boyfriend, Baltimore rapper …
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