Climate Pledge Arena Representation Source: Amazon Amazon has bought the naming rights to the downtown Seattle stadium, which will house a new team from the NHL and Seattle Storm from the National Women’s Basketball Association, the company announced Thursday. The KeyArena will now be renamed the Climate Pledge Arena, referring …
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Brad Parscale, another Trump staff, in near quarantine after the Tulsa COVID cases
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign director Brad Parscale is one of the campaign staff members in near-quarantine after attending a rally in Oklahoma last weekend, where eight campaign aides tested positive for the new coronavirus. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh announced in a conference call Thursday that “as a precautionary measure,” …
Read More »Amazing time lapse video showing 10 years of the sun’s history in 6 minutes
What do 10 years mean for our 4.6 billion years? Sun? Probably as much as the last millionth of a second meant to you. Still, every decade our old sun burns is a decade of turbulent, sometimes violent change, a fact that becomes wonderfully evident in a new time-lapse video …
Read More »America’s most famous horse race, the Kentucky Derby, will be attended by fans
The Kentucky Derby, the most famous horse race in the United States, which draws 150,000 spectators to the venerable Churchill Downs track, will be held this year with fans in the stands, officials said Thursday. “The Run for the Roses,” which is normally held on the first Saturday in May, …
Read More »Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell leave voice roles as black characters
Two white actresses who voiced black characters on popular animated television shows announced they would resign on Wednesday, extending a season of soul searching for systemic racism that has plagued multiple industries in the wake of the recent police killings of African-Americans. In a couple of statements shared on social …
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