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Hockey player Akim Aliu gets apology for blackface incident from his former team
Ex-National Hockey League player Akim Aliu got a public apology from his former team for “wrongdoing” by an equipment manager who was photographed in blackface. The Colorado Eagles, a minor league hockey team affiliated with the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, apologized Wednesday to Aliu for a 2011 incident in which head equipment manager Tony Deynzer was…… More
America in microcosm: the parallel realities of a fateful impeachment debate
The House Judiciary Committee, on a sprint to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as early as Thursday, is a perfect metaphor for America’s estranged political moment. Meeting under the eye of history in a rare evening session Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers spoke past one another, unable to coalesce even on a…… More
Trump’s anti-Semitism executive order, explained
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday expanding his administration’s interpretation of race and national origin to include Judaism — a move that extends certain civil rights protections to Jews in education settings. The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to combat what it considers anti-Israel and anti-Semitic movements on…… More
White House budget office defends Ukraine aid freeze in new legal memo
The White House budget office asserts in a new legal memo that it withheld aid to Ukraine this summer — an issue at the heart of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry — to “engage in a policy process.” “It was OMB’s understanding that a brief period was needed, prior to the funds expiring, to engage in a…… More
Speech or silence: Which serves democracy best on Election Day?
If today were Election Day in the US, rival candidates would be blasting out hours-long TV and radio blitzes to drive every last vote to the polls in key battlegrounds. But this Thursday, after the most bitter election campaign in decades, a spectral silence will cloak the British isles — at least until 10 p.m.,…… More
‘We’ve moved on’ from Colin Kaepernick, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday the league has “moved on” from former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who changed the venue last-minute for an NFL sponsored workout and held his own workout last month. Goodell was addressing the New England Patriots’ video recording violation of the Cincinnati Bengals sideline on Sunday when he…… More
