After a Major League Baseball season unlike any other, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 to win the best-of-seven series four games to two.
Two GOP lawmakers who supported the Equality Act in 2019 changed their votes this time
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Washington Two House Republicans who voted in 2019 to support the Equality Act flipped their votes Thursday and opposed the legislation, which intends to protect people from being discriminated based on sexual orient...
Doomscrolling can steal hours of your time — here’s how to take it back
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You're mindlessly scrolling on your phone after a long day at work, sifting through miles of negative posts. In what seems like minutes, hours have gone by. Doomscrolling has become a popular word over the past year...
US sprinter Grant Holloway breaks the world record for the indoor 60m hurdles in Madrid
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US track and field athlete Grant Holloway just broke the world record for the indoor 60-meter hurdles. Holloway, 23, set the record Wednesday in Madrid during the indoor track and field World Championships by runni...
In world first, Germany convicts Syrian regime officer of crimes against humanity
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Berlin A German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity, in a first-ever trial of people linked to the government in Damascus. Former intelligence officer Eyad al-Gharib, 44, w ...
Czech free-diver breaks ice-swim world record
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Czech free-diver David Vencl swam nearly 81 metres (265.75 ft) beneath the ice on Tuesday, breaking the world record after braving the freezing water wearing only a swimsuit. "This will do," Vencl said after emerging...
Honderde hommeltuie het Van Gogh se 'The Starry Night' geneem’ tot in die lug — en stel 'n Guinness-wêreldrekord op
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Van Gogh s’n "The Starry Night" het 'n tuiste op baie oppervlaktes gevind. Die onmiddellik herkenbare kunswerk is op plakkate gepleister, koffiebekers en selfs 'n fietspad. Dit het gelyk of die skildery dit elke keer gemaak het ...
Ten minste 1 persoon dood nadat klein vliegtuig in die tuig naby Port of Los Angeles neergestort het
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Minstens een persoon is Vrydag dood toe 'n klein vliegtuig in 'n semi-trekker-sleepwa naby die hawe van Los Angeles in San Pedro vasgery het, Kalifornië, amptenare gesê. 'N Persoon in die trekkerwa is na 'n So vervoer..
Blinken sê die VS is van plan om teen einde maand bydraes aan die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie te betaal
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Die minister van buitelandse sake, Tony Blinken, het Woensdag gesê dat die Verenigde State "van plan is om oor te betaal $ 200 miljoen aan vasgestelde en lopende verpligtinge" aan die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie teen die einde van die maand, maak goed op ...
‘Behind Her Eyes’ is a twisty drama that earns its time in front of your eyes
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The less you know about "Behind Her Eyes" going in the better, and while the Netflix drama feels slow-going at first, patience has its rewards. By the time it's over, this sci-fi-tinged limited series becomes a buzz...
The Los Angeles school board slashes its police force and diverts $25 million to services for Black students
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Los Angeles schools are reorganizing the police agency responsible for school safety to combat systemic racism against Black students. The Board of Education overseeing the Los Angeles Unified School District voted ...
Tot by 90 gesonde vrywilligers om aan Covid-19 blootgestel te word in die eerste wêreldproef
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Die wêreld se eerste Covid-19-studie vir menslike uitdagings sal binne 'n maand in die Verenigde Koninkryk begin, doelbewus bloot te stel aan 90 gesonde jongmense na die koronavirus. Die studie het vandeesweek etiese goedkeuring ontvang, die graaf ...
Die spelwêreld kyk gereeld na spelers van kleur. Hierdie nuwe ateljee is besig om dit te verander
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Op negejarige ouderdom, Nicodemus Madehdou verhuis van Monrovia, Liberië na Philadelphia en ontdek hoe videospeletjies hom met 'n nuwe kultuur kan verbind. Altyd 'n legkaartliefhebber, Madehdou hou van die maniere waarop visuele oefeninge gedoen word..