Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams will have to be quarantined for 10 days inside the Orlando bubble after picking up food at an Atlanta strip club during a family-excused absence, the NBA ruled, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Williams is already back inside the bubble in Orlando, and …
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Twitter ‘stoppage’ planned after British rapper Wiley’s anti-Semitic tweets
LONDON – Celebrities, politicians and other high-profile Britons have vowed to join a 48-hour Twitter “strike” to protest what they say is an inappropriate response to a rapper’s anti-Semitic tweets. Wiley, who is considered a key figure on the London grime music scene, faces a police investigation after a series …
Read More »Schlumberger is cutting staff as virus hits revenue
Text size David McNew / Getty Images Oil services company Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs after a disastrous quarter. Analysts are optimistic. Schlumberger’s (ticker: SLB) second-quarter results, released Friday morning, were grim at first glance: a 35% year-over-year revenue decline and a plan to cut a quarter from staff. But …
Read More »What if more of us have fought COVID-19 than we think?
So-called serological research looks for antibodies in the blood that fight the disease and how many of us have them. Other research looks at how long these antibodies last. The latest results from these studies are said to show us two kinds of bad news: that immunity after exposure to …
Read More »Yankees Giancarlo Stanton impacting in multiple ways
WASHINGTON – The Invisible Man of the 2019 Yankees has been their most visible player of 2020. Aaron Boone’s crew suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday as James Paxton, sporting a diminished fastball, scored just three outs in a 9-2 loss to defending champion Nationals at Nationals …
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