Why the Grand Slam Tournaments Risked Playing Hardball With Naomi Osaka
Date: 01 June 2021
By Matthew Futterman
Matthew Futterman
Leaders in the game noted that Osaka’s decision to bypass news conferences came as major media organizations had been cutting back on tennis coverage for years, a troubling dynamic for a sport that battles for exposure.
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Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Date: 01 June 2021
By Richard J. Tofel
Richard Tofel
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
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Media Groupthink and the Lab-Leak Theory
Date: 31 May 2021
By Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens
Sometimes the most destructive enemies of science are those who claim to speak in its name.
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Israeli Ultranationalist Aims to Oust Netanyahu
Date: 31 May 2021
By Reuters
Naftali Bennett, leader of the Yamina party, said on Sunday that he would work with the centrist Yair Lapid and other opposition leaders to form a coalition government that would force Benjamin Netanyahu, the longtime prime minister, out of office.
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Watch Live: Biden Commemorates 100th Anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre
Date: 01 June 2021
By The Associated Press
President Biden travels to Tulsa, Okla., on Tuesday to commemorate the 1921 massacre in Greenwood, the city’s African American community that was destroyed by a white mob 100 years ago.
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Biden Memorializes Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Date: 01 June 2021
By The Associated Press
President Biden marked the anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre a century after a white mob destroyed the Black community of Greenwood, torching hundreds of buildings and shooting people in the streets.
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Texas Democrats Block Restrictive Voting Rights Bill
Date: 01 June 2021
By Texas House Of Representatives
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A large group of Democrats walked out of the House chamber in Austin late Sunday, preventing a quorum in order to block the final vote on a restrictive voting bill that would cut back polling hours and reduce access to mail-in voting.
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The World Health Organization authorizes the Sinovac vaccine for emergency use.
Date: 01 June 2021
By Daniel E. Slotnik
Daniel Slotnik
The clearance means that the vaccine could be distributed as part of Covax, the global effort to share shots with hard-hit, undersupplied nations.
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Turkey Claims to Have ‘Captured’ Cleric’s Relative in Kenya
Date: 31 May 2021
By Carlotta Gall and Abdi Latif Dahir
Carlotta Gall
The removal of a Turkish citizen from his home in Kenya is part of the crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on those he sees as connected to a failed 2016 coup.
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From One Child to Three: How China’s Family Planning Policies Have Evolved
Date: 31 May 2021
By Russell Goldman
Russell Goldman
For decades, couples were generally limited to one child to slow population growth. With a potential demographic crisis looming, the government now wants them to have more.
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