It’s been a year since NBA player Rudy Gobert smeared his hands on reporters’ microphones at a press conference and then tested positive for the coronavirus. A year of lockdowns and masking and handwashing and flouting mask-wearing protocols. Read more…
The truce means a pause on tariffs levied against aircraft, wine, food and other products, many of which stem from the Trump era trade war. Read More
Scottish whisky producers got pulled into Trump’s trade war in 2019 as part of a 17-year-old trade dispute that had nothing to do with the famed cocktail. Read More
Enlarge Facebook will lift a ban on political advertising imposed after the US election to curb the spread of misinformation, and it has pledged to investigate whether its political ads systems need a further overhaul. Advertisers would be able to resume running political ads on March 4, Facebook said in a blog post on Wednesday. […]
It’s the return of Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH awards, as we continue to cull the newswires for idiots from all over the sports world. Fresh of the smash hit The Top 50 Idiots of 2020, and the idiots of January, we bring you February’s Idiot Kings. Read more…
U.S. futures are rebounding on Monday morning, led by Big Tech. Read More
Lady GaGa has finally spoken out after this unbelievable crime. If you haven’t heard, the A Star Is Born star’s two beloved French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were kidnapped on Wednesday. Even more disturbingly, the perpetrators nearly killed her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, to get them! Fischer, who survived four gunshot wounds to the chest, is […]
We don’t actually know the number of hate crimes that are taking place in America because the United States Government isn’t known for keeping an accurate tally. What we do know is that there are hate crimes in America, and in the age of coronavirus, an increasing amount of them have been toward Asians. Read […]
For decades, the powers that rake in that sweet college sports cash have been claiming the unpaid labor force is made up of students who just happen to be athletes. Never mind that professional sports leagues use colleges to develop talent, and that those schools rely on the millions that come in from bowl appearances… […]
U.S. futures are sinking on Monday morning as Treasury yields continue to gain ground. Read More