A federal appeals court temporarily halted the scheduled executions of two Oklahoma inmates on Wednesday. John Marion Grant was scheduled to die on Thursday, while Julius Jones’ lethal injection was scheduled for November 18. According to the ruling from the 10th Circuit Appeals Court, the three-judge panel found a stay …
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Only half of Southwest Airlines’ 56,000 employees have reported their vaccination status or applied for accommodation, said CEO Gary Kelly, with little more than a month to go before the Biden administration’s deadline for airline staff to do so. The airline risks losing its federal contracts should staffers not be …
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Two fathers were found guilty in a Boston federal court on Friday for their roles in the college admissions scandal. John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz were the first of nearly 60 people charged in the case to go on trial. Wilson, an executive of a private equity firm in Massachusetts, …
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The grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson was shot and killed Sunday night, police said. No suspects were in custody. CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO-TV reported that the grandson, Frank Q. Jackson, 24, was shot near an intersection at about 9:10 p.m. Shortly before the shooting, a third party had dropped …
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The United States Football League was the most popular spring league in football, emerging as a viable competitor to the NFL in the early to mid-1980s. Nearly 40 years later, the USFL is planning to make a major comeback. The USFL announced its re-emergence Thursday with a return in the …
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Rapper T.I. and his wife Tiny Harris have been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple people, according to a lawyer who is now calling for criminal investigations into the allegations. The alleged incidents took place in several states between 2005 and 2018. Attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn sent letters to …
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Dustin Johnson has won the 2020 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, scoring 20 below par, setting a new record on Sunday. The 36-year-old is the 12th player to win without ever trailing at the end of any round. Sunday’s tournament was postponed this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson tapped in for …
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared virtually at an LGBTQ+ themed fundraiser on Monday that was headlined by music icon Cher. The 30-minute virtual fundraiser featured openly-gay politicians including Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who announced at the beginning of the event that …
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NBA star Kyrie Irving announced Monday that he has created a $1.5 million fund to help pay the salaries of WNBA players who are sitting out of the 2020 season. The league allowed players who were deemed high-risk by a panel of doctors to sit out the season and still …
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Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks‘ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died. He was 98. Reiner’s …
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