April Ryan’s Race in America Panel: Winter 2019

Published on 16 Apr 2020The coronavirus pandemic has confronted NHS workers with an extraordinary challenge. A BBC team reports from the frontline — with medical teams fighting to save patients at Imperial College Healthcare in London.Meanwhile there’s concern about a sharp fall in the number of people attending accident and emergency departments in England. Some…

By Nicole Gallucci2019-08-22 13:46:26 UTC Does Elizabeth Warren remind you of anyone? Your first thought may be of her doppelgänger, Stephanie Oyen, but if you’re a Harry Potter fan you may also notice that Warren has Big McGonagall Energy. On Tuesday, Gabe Bergado (a former Mashable intern) tweeted that Warren running for president has “the…

Unlike many celebrities who are stuck at home in their Hollywood mansions or New York City penthouses, it seems Matt Damon has chosen to hunker down and weather the storm of the global coronavirus pandemic in a remarkably more quaint locale.Damon — along with his wife, Luciana, and their three children — is currently self-isolating…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, is the latest of more than a dozen women to publicly accuse President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct in the years before he entered politics. [L2N23Y0G9] E. Jean Carroll is seen in an undated photo released on June 25, 2019. Courtesy E.…

Italy’s general election resulted in a badly hung parliament, with none of the three main political groupings close to a majority. Populist parties did better than expected, winning more than half the vote. Weeks of uncertainty lie ahead, though either one of the two big populist parties—the Five Star Movement and the Northern League—looks sure…

William Gibson, visiting CNET to tour our labs in October. Sarah Tew/CNET I’ve read every William Gibson book. I no longer remember when or where. But Gibson’s work has been a companion since the mid-’90s. Sometimes his work has blazed ahead of my timeline. Sometimes it’s ridden alongside. Sometimes he’s taken me backward, made me…

(CNN)It wasn’t soccer as we usually know it but games were finally played again on Saturday in Germany, bringing high-profile sporting competition back during the coronavirus pandemic. While fans weren’t allowed — the most obvious difference to normal match days — the Bundesliga’s six games no doubt boosted morale among those watching on television around…

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EasyJet says it plans to resume a small number of flights next month with strict safety protocols for passengers and crew alike.Top of the measures, the no-frills carrier said, would be the wearing of face masks for all those aboard its aircraft. The company said it would likely operate domestic flights within the UK and…

ITV Report 13 May 2020 at 2:12pm Commuters packed on to trains, tubes and buses as they made their return to work. Credit: PA Commuters and passengers have packed on to Tubes, trains and buses as the lockdown in England begins to ease. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s road map out of the lockdown encourages employees…

Representative Ted Lieu couldn’t contain himself after hearing his colleagues in Congress whinge to Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the search engine was biased against conservatives.”If you want positive search results,” the Democrat from California said earlier this week, “do positive things. If you don’t want negative search results, don’t do negative things.”At any…

Amazon’s first-quarter earnings results, announced after the market closed in New York yesterday, confirmed that the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated trends that were already benefiting the giant company. Net sales for the first quarter increased by 27 per cent on last year to $75.5 billion. The company as a whole is taking in $9,602 per…

Super Bowl hero Von Miller of the Denver Broncos has tested positive for the coronavirus after having come down with flu-like symptoms, the player and the team said Thursday.Miller, 31, a superstar linebacker, “elected to share his diagnosis publicly to emphasize that anyone can be afflicted with coronavirus,” according to a team statement.Full coverage of…

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Matthew Tom, SFGATE Updated 10:09 pm PDT, Thursday, April 16, 2020 Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry smiles on the bench as players warm up before an NBA basketball game between the Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Curry wrote an essay for Time where he discussed being tested…