The last star to walk this family path is also one of the platform’s first success stories. Shane Dawson, who has been active on YouTube for 12 years and whose main channel has 22.6 million subscribers, recently posted a video apologizing, among other things, for using blackface and saying the …
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The New York Times announced today that it is pulling out of Apple News, as the service does not “align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.” Starting today, articles from The New York Times It will no longer appear in the Apple News app. The news …
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If you took a mandatory distribution from a legacy retirement account this year, the IRS will allow you to return the money. The CARES Act, which became law on March 27, allowed people to omit the minimum distributions required for 2020. This is the annual withdrawal you must take from …
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Image copyright © Christie’s Images Ltd, 2020 Screenshot The wooden objects, a man and a woman, represent deities of the Igbo community. Nigeria is “saddened” by the sale of two sculptures belonging to the southeastern Igbo community, said an official with the Nigerian National Commission of Museums and Monuments. A …
Read More »As San Quentin’s coronavirus cases rise to 871, protesters want prisoners to be released
Called into action by the catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak inside the San Quintín state prison, protesters spread almost along the village’s main street to the prison gates on Sunday. Hundreds of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, interfaith religious groups, family members of inmates and former prisoners filled the picturesque …
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