Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, allowing spoilers to slip through and upsetting those who want to watch the games later in prime time. Here are some ways you can try to block the news. - 9 mins ago 29 Jul 21, 5:30pm -
More than 12,000 parents signed a petition asking TikTok CEO Vanessa Pappas to introduce "mirror" accounts so parents can track how their kids are influenced on the platform. - 21 mins ago 29 Jul 21, 5:18pm -
The USS Bonhomme Richard burned for more than four days and later was scrapped. Estimates to replace it ran up to $4 billion. The name of the sailor who was charged was not released. - 1 hour ago 29 Jul 21, 4:33pm -
For the first time since 2004, there will be no Usain Bolt scorching the track. That means a new generation of speed demons is looking to make its mark. - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 4:00pm -
The Israeli firm is under scrutiny after reports its products were used by countries seeking to spy on dissidents and leaders - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:39pm -
Weinstein's lawyers had asked a judge to throw out three of the sexual assault charges against him. The judge let two stand but agreed that a third should be amended and sent back to the grand jury. - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 1:56pm -
Listen: It is well known that white women suffer from Black woman envy. In Kim Kardashian’s America and on Bhad Bhabie’s internet, there is no doubt about this. But that white woman melanin-vy doesn’t always manifest itself in appropriation and Black-fishing—sometimes it’s just a white wom… - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 4:00pm -
In recent years, we’ve seen NBA superstar Chris Paul do plenty to put on for HBCUs. He regularly pays tribute with his attire, led an early voting march and unveiled an “HBCU Sneaker Tour” in October, and currently attends Winston-Salem State to complete his bachelor’s degree in communicati… - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:00pm -
White folks and hoteps listen up: You aren’t courageous or a patriot or an abolitionist because you don’t wear a mask; you’re just a maskhole. And now the Capitol Police are going to arrest your ass.Read more... - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:00pm -
The third annual African American Film Critics Association TV Honors has announced the recipients for the 2021 season!Read more... - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 1:12pm -
A few days ago, between news of GOAT-level USA gymnast Simone Biles pulling out of some events at the 2020-in-2021 Tokyo Olympics for mental health reasons, and DaBaby literally sounding dumber and dumber with each sentence, you might have also seen slow news day fodder in the form of comments made… - 6 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 12:00pm -
The Wisconsin man who killed five family members — four teens and one adult, has been sentenced to 205 years... View ArticleThe post Wis. man who murdered five family members sentenced to 205 years in prison appeared first on TheGrio. - 54 mins ago 29 Jul 21, 4:45pm -
Get ready for a spooky revival from Disney. According to recent reports, Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield are in talks... View ArticleThe post Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield to star in Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ revival appeared first on TheGrio. - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:50pm -
After being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Lovers & Friends Music Festival is officially going to happen next... View ArticleThe post Lovers & Friends festival with Usher, Lauryn Hill, Ciara and more to return in 2022 appeared first on TheGrio. - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:10pm -
Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore has revealed that she has an aggressive form of brain cancer months after she tearfully... View ArticleThe post Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore reveals brain cancer diagnosis appeared first on TheGrio. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:07pm -
Monday, Issa Rae kicked off the week by pleasantly surprising her fans with the news that she had run off... View ArticleThe post The Queen of Low-key: What Issa Rae can teach us all about avoiding TMI appeared first on TheGrio. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:55pm -
Texas Deputy Attorney General Aaron Reitz has apologized for calling Simone Biles a “national embarrassment” after she pulled out of... View ArticleThe post Texas deputy AG apologizes for calling Simone Biles ‘national embarrassment’ appeared first on TheGrio. - 5 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 12:28pm -
The Trump administration desperately wanted to cut government benefits, and it had outside help to do so. But very few of its new rules held up. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 7:00am -
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina hoped to be the face of a post-Trump GOP. She soon learned there is no such thing. - 7 days ago 23 Jul 21, 4:00am -
Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Majorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Louie Gohmert (Texas) on Thursday were turned away from the D.C. Department of Corrections where they tried to visit accused Jan. 6 rioters.... - 1 hour ago 29 Jul 21, 4:17pm -
Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor in protest of the Capitol physician's decision to reinstate a mask mandate in the lower chamber but not in the upper chambe... - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:05pm -
First lady Jill Biden will undergo a procedure Thursday to remove an object from her left foot, her office announced.She stepped on the object, which her office did not identify, on the beach in Hawaii last week an... - 5 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 1:07pm -
President Biden on Thursday called on state and local governments to use funds from his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to offer $100 payments to individuals in order to incentivize coronavirus vaccinations.The... - 6 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 12:06pm -
An Illinois woman on Tuesday was charged with disturbing wildlife after a video was posted online of her approaching a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park with her phone.According to court documents, Samantha... - 6 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 12:05pm -
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday repeated his claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats should be faulted for the violent insurrection carried out by a pro-Trump mob.I... - 7 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 10:17am -
He exposed wrongdoing by public officials while working at the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today and other outlets. - 9 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 8:49am -
Basilico's Pasta e Vino in Huntington Beach, Calif., has posted a sign saying it requires customers to provide "proof of being UNvaccinated" against covid-19. - 12 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 6:05am -
With the extra-contagious delta variant spurring some renewed restrictions, governments are under new pressure to get shots into reluctant arms. - 13 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 5:01am -
One of the governor’s top advisers referred to the “transparent political motivation of the attorney general’s review.” Tish James, Cuomo’s office insists, wants to be the next governor of New York. - 5 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 12:12pm -
The Democratic state lawmakers are in their third week in D.C. after fleeing Texas to block a Republican bill changing election rules. - 14 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 4:01am -
Despite that show of Democratic harmony, Congress is likely to fail again to pass new spending totals before the next fiscal year starts Oct. 1. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 5:38pm -
Those close to the former president say he remains miffed that Senate Republicans didn’t move a bill when he was in office. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 8:59am -
He is working remotely because he was in contact with a department official who later tested positive for the disease, a spokesperson said. - 2 days ago 27 Jul 21, 12:25pm -
The money for the Capitol — including for police salaries, the National Guard and to better secure windows and doors around the building — comes more than six months after the insurrection by former President Donald Trump’s supporters. - 1 hour ago 29 Jul 21, 4:25pm -
More than 7 million American households were behind on their rent at the start of the summer, according to a Census Bureau survey conducted between June 23 and July 5. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:45pm -
Federal workers who can't show proof of vaccination or submit to regular testing and stringent social distancing, masking and travel restrictions. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:38pm -
Svetlana Lipyanskaya, the CEO of the medical campus that includes the new Coney Island hospital, said it was like an “ah-ha moment” when Ginsburg’s name first came up in conversations last year about what to name the building. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:32pm -
Johnson, who lost in his bid to become the city’s next comptroller and whose Council term ends Dec. 31, told reporters Thursday he’s not sure what he’ll do once he’s no longer speaker — and that’s just fine with him. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:31pm -
The Trump administration desperately wanted to cut government benefits, and it had outside help to do so. But very few of its new rules held up. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 7:00am -
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina hoped to be the face of a post-Trump GOP. She soon learned there is no such thing. - 7 days ago 23 Jul 21, 4:00am -
Omar’s bill would fund guaranteed income pilots in hundreds of communities, then launch a national program to send $1,200 monthly to people making up to $75,000 a year. - 2 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 3:30pm -
Texas Democrats who fled their state want Senate leaders to work through the August recess and speed up efforts to pass federal voting rights legislation. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:26pm -
Under pressure from conservative groups, GOP senators refused to strengthen IRS enforcement to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure deal. - 3 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 2:20pm -
Andrew Taake was arrested for pepper-spraying and attacking police officers with a whip at the U.S. Capitol. Here's how a Bumble dating app user reeled him in. - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 1:30pm -
Chief Judge Beryl Howell questioned whether allowing defendants to plead guilty to low-level offenses would deter people from storming the Capitol again.View Entire Post › - 4 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 9:25pm -
The Olympics offers a showcase for the overwhelming and complicated ways in which the discourse is fluid and interconnected now.View Entire Post › - 39 mins ago 29 Jul 21, 6:18pm -
ICE deported the unaccompanied children in November, 10 minutes after a federal judge ordered that they remain in the US.View Entire Post › - 21 hours ago 28 Jul 21, 8:51pm -
The DOJ would not say whether it plans to take any action against Arizona and other states pursuing partisan audits.View Entire Post › - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 4:25pm -
President Joe Biden stands with the bipartisan group of senators working on the infrastructure deal on June 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe bill would genuinely impact many people’s lives. Not many people wake up thrilled at the possibility of a federal bill on infrastru… - 7 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 10:50am -
US Attorney General Merrick Garland exits his aircraft at Midway International Airport on July 22, 2021, in Chicago. | Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesThe debate over the attorney general’s reckoning with Trump’s legacy, explained. Trump critics’ anxiety over Attorney General Merrick Garland is mount… - 8 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 9:40am -
Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev celebrate after ringing the bell for the Robinhood IPO on July 29, 2021, in New York City. | Cindy Ord/Getty Images for RobinhoodRobinhood is setting out to capitalize on the day-trading boom it helped create. Robinhood helped usher in the latest day-trading wave. Now,… - 8 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 9:35am -
Demonstrators opposed to taking the Covid-19 vaccine and vaccine mandates by governments rally in New York City on July 2. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesAge, race, income, and, of course, politics. Vaccines are the strongest bulwark against the Covid-19 pandemic. They’re highly effe… - 9 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 8:30am -
Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesA tiny insect is transforming the western US — with a little help from climate change. This story is part of Down to Earth, a Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis.Extreme drought. Soaring tempera… - 10 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 7:40am -
Medical debt in states that expanded Medicaid has fallen 44 percent, a dramatically bigger drop than was seen in states that refused to expand the program. | Getty Images/iStockphotoNon-expansion states saw a much smaller drop in new medical debt over the same period. Medicaid expansion doesn’t ju… - 10 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 7:10am -
The Catholic Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface in Manitoba has banned the priest from publicly preaching after he spread falsehoods about the residential school system. - 9 hours ago 29 Jul 21, 8:56am -
Salzman testified about helping confine a woman to a room for nearly two years at “sex cult” leader Keith Raniere’s trial in 2019. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 9:58am -
Indigenous water protectors, experts, and officials have been warning about the links between violence against women and pipelines for years. Now, they worry there'll be more. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 9:51am -
A woman whose followers are convinced she's the current Queen of Canada waging a secret war against the elites pumped $50K into her campaign to raise money for wildfire victims. - 1 day ago 28 Jul 21, 6:40am -