By Marianne Garvey Rapper Shock G, also known as Humpty Hump of the hip-hop group Digital Underground, has died at age 57. When not using his stage name, he was known as Gregory Edward Jacobs. His Digital Underground groupmate Chopmaster J. posted the news Thursday night to Instagram: “34 years ago almost to the day
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By Chris Isidore Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast ever and one of the world’s greatest athletes, is leaving endorsement powerhouse Nike for a deal with Athleta, the athletic clothing unit of Gap Inc. Biles is a significant signing for Athleta’s marketing efforts. She’s the first woman to capture five all-around gymnastic world championship titles,
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Oscar Holland | Megan C. Hills At a pandemic-era Oscars, it was never going to be business as usual on the red carpet. But with a scaled back ceremony, organizers tried their very best to recapture the glamour that the showpiece event is known for.And the stars in attendance did their part, too, wearing an
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By Steven Poole She laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her exclusion. Over a half
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By Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Kate Sullivan President Joe Biden is preparing to outline the next step of his economic agenda during a joint session to Congress next week and his proposal to pay for it is expected to include new taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Multiple sources familiar with the discussions underway tell
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By Veronica Stracqualursi Former President George W. Bush wrote in the name of his former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his 2020 presidential ballot rather than voting for his own party’s nominee Donald Trump for reelection, he told People magazine. “She knows it,” Bush told the magazine, referring to Rice, one of his closest
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Analysis by Stephen Collinson After a hyper-politicized year, a crop of this year’s nominees for best picture at the Academy Awards on Sundayresonate with conflicts and divides that define modern American life. None of the nominees directly address the Donald Trump era. But the American film industry is clearly grappling with societal fault lines that
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By Paul LeBlanc Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will juggle a slate of competing priorities this week as both parties wrestle with tense negotiations over infrastructure and police reform. Deliberations will play out during a week set to be defined by President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, which will
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By Emma Tucker The fight in Congress to reform how the nation’s police officers go about their jobs has reinvigorated a discussion over so-called “qualified immunity,” a controversial federal doctrine that protects officers accused of violating the Constitution while on duty. While abolishing the more than 50-year-old doctrine remains one of the main sticking points
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By Christina Maxouris Covid-19 vaccination efforts may begin to slow down as more Americans get vaccinated, one US official told CNN on Sunday. More than 42% of the United States population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 28.5% of the
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