Image copyright PA Media Screenshot Tsitsi Dangarembga has been calling for reforms in Zimbabwe Zimbabwean award-winning author Tsitsi Dangarembga, nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, was arrested in the country’s capital Harare during an anti-government protest. Dangarembga, 61, and another protester were grouped in a police truck while carrying placards. …
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Federal appeals court issues Tsarnaev’s death sentence and orders new trial in sentence
Despite the fact that he and his brother caused a “battlefield-like carnage” when they bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence must be vacated pending a new trial in the criminalization phase a federal appeals court said Friday. The ruling came from the United States Court of Appeals …
Read More »Children and staff at Georgia night camp test positive for coronavirus, CDC says
A coronavirus outbreak was reported at an overnight summer camp in Georgia that did not require campers to wear face masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study on Friday about the outbreak, saying it shows that children are susceptible to the virus and “play an important …
Read More »Tom Thibodeau, Knicks start looking for technical staff
As Tom Thibodeau and Knicks’ office review the names of the new coaching staff in the coming days, an explosion will emerge from Thibodeau’s past and New York’s past. According to an NBA source, Ed Pinckney, the former Villanova star who won an NCAA title and is a product of …
Read More »X-Men producer recounts Michael Jackson release to play Professor X
Before Patrick Stewart was cast as Marvel Comics’ powerful telepath, “King of Pop” Michael Jackson launched into filmmakers to play Professor Charles Xavier in the 2000 film X-Men. That meeting was recounted as part of a The Hollywood Reporter’s biggest exposure about X-Men director Bryan Singer, detailing a long pattern …
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