Gay, who was a carpenter and drywall hanger until four years ago, when he sold his first novel at the age of 57, is blessedly unschooled. He may do a few things writers learn not to do in workshops–such as pile on adverbs–but his prose is as natural and pure as it comes. “You got a look about you like you don’t care whether you live or die, and maybe you’d a little rather die,” says one character....
The car was used by an Ole Miss football player who was not identified in records obtained by the newspaper. The player’s vehicle had been vandalized. MORE: 10 hot spring games | Best college football states Possible No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Laremy Tunsil was suspended seven games last season for the use of three loaner cars over a six-month period. It’s unclear if Tunsil’s use of loaners is what was self-reported by school officials....
London—who identifies as non-binary—has faced backlash on social media over the past several days, after saying on YouTube that they had “transitioned” races and cultures after surgery to resemble their K-Pop idol, Jimin of BTS. And in a video uploaded to Twitter on Monday, London showed off their surgically-enhanced “Korean eyes” while speaking more about their identity. “Now finally, I feel Korean,” said London. “I identify with the Korean community....
At just 18 years old, the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star has received seven Grammy nominations. Now, she is set for global domination with her worldwide “Sour” tour. Joining Rodrigo on the road are Gracie Abrams, Holly Humberstone, and Baby Queen, three up-and-coming female artists. Newsweek has everything you need to know about the “Sour” tour below—including dates, and venue and ticket information. Olivia Rodrigo ‘Sour’ Tour 2022 Dates Olivia Rodrigo will be kicking off her “Sour” tour in San Francisco on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium....
Augusta National chairman Billy Payne, who ran the 1996 Atlanta Games, told a news conference that the men’s gold medal winner in Rio de Janeiro, where golf will make its return to the Summer Game for the first time in more than a century, would get an invitation to the 2017 Masters. The Royal and Ancient announced it would offer similar one-year exemptions to both the men’s and women’s British Opens while the PGA of America and United States Golf Association followed suit with each of their two flagship events....
Doncic knows it. That’s why the Mavericks star is focused on one thing for the final part of the season: He needs to avoid picking up another technical foul. On the season, Doncic has racked up 16 technicals, tied for the league lead with 76ers center Dwight Howard. Normally, players are suspended after their 16th technical foul, but Doncic had one in-game call against him rescinded by the league office....
So when he came into the world — the rigidly, legally segregated world African-Americans functioned in at that time — seeing black players at the highest level of the national pastime was beyond a dream and bordered on reckless fantasy. Everybody knew it, whether they accepted it or not, and that included Robinson himself. “I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime. I began to wonder why I should dedicate my life to a career where the boundaries for progress were set by racial discrimination,’’ he wrote in his 1972 autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,’’ about his decision to play in the Negro leagues in 1944....
In one of the world’s most wretched corners, even the rescuers were at risk: three Zairean Red Cross volunteers died and a fourth fell ill simply because they had handled bodies. By the weekend 97 people in all had perished from massive hemorrhaging, including four Italian nuns, and an additional 31 were confirmed carriers. Experts say a “fourth wave” of deaths is inevitable, as those who were exposed as long as three weeks ago fall ill....
The Texas Republican took to Twitter on Monday to propose doing away with the main federal agency responsible for collecting taxes. Cruz’s tweet isn’t the first time he, or other Republicans, have floated the idea. He also wasn’t the only member of his party to use Tax Day to say it’s time to end the agency and abiding Republican target. “Abolish the IRS,” wrote Cruz in a terse tweet that used the #TaxDay hashtag and offered no further specifics for how his idea would play out....
The B-52 was filmed by a Vietnam culture-ministry official, a recent defector to the United States, who says his film is in Hanoi’s archives. But it was a large cache of 4,800 photos of American prisoners and soldiers killed in action discovered in a Hanoi war museum by U.S. historian Tim Schweitzer and smuggled out last summer, that helped Washington play hardball diplomacy with Hanoi. U.S. officials confronted Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam with the evidence that Hanoi had, in fact, systematically kept track of the fate of Americans....
Hong Kong and Macau—the two semi-autonomous regions of China—are the only places in the country that have been allowed to mark an event the Party has tried to scrub from the national memory: the killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pro-democracy activists by Chinese soldiers. But this year, for the first time, Hong Kong authorities refused permission for the Victoria Park event. They cited concerns about the coronavirus. For pro-democracy activists, though, the cancellation is a portent of Hong Kong’s dark future, one in which Beijing extends ideological control over the former British colony despite mass protests and international condemnation....
This road for myself and all those I have been fighting alongside has not been simple or easy, and for those in frontline communities, the decades-long fight for climate justice has meant continued exposure to toxic pollution and severe climate disasters. Despite the challenges, our commitment to a just transition has finally set us on course to deliver the largest climate bill in our history. Does it include all that we require?...
After getting delayed due to COVID-19 protocols, Kryklia will defend his ONE Championship kickboxing belt in an interesting tale of the tape. Right off the bat, you see the major height and reach differences between the two. Champion Kryklia stands over 5 inches taller than Aygun with a wingspan that can pepper the challenger from a distance. What makes Aygun so dangerous, however, is his toughness and aggression inside the pocket....
Whitehurst, a respected expert in the chemistry of bomb-blast residues, played no part whatsoever in the Simpson case, and prosecutors will argue he should not be allowed to testify. Still, Whitehurst has already appeared for the defense in another high-profile case-the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants in the alleged plot to blow up U.N. headquarters and other targets in New York. He has been waging an internal war of cranky principle against the FBI lab since 1989....
“Keeping wickets is no longer the sole criterion for selection now. The game has evolved. One has to contribute handsomely with the bat, too. It’s as good as an all-rounder’s job now,” he reasoned. In case you didn’t know… Parthiv started out as a 17-year-old on the tour of England 16 years ago, thus making him the youngest wicket-keeper in Test cricket. However, he soon lost his place to first Dinesh Karthik and then Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who even went on to lead the team, thus making it virtually impossible for Parthiv – or any other wicketkeeper – to sneak in....
“Done,” Phelps said. “I am not going four more years and I’m standing by that.” What began in Sydney in 2000, when Phelps was just 15 years old, ended here in Rio at age 31, older by 16 years but exponentially wiser. It ended as it should have ended, with Phelps registering a decisive anchor leg of the men’s 4x100m medley relay, one lap in Lane 5 that stretched a tightening U....
So now, senators hovered at their desks. TV news channels were taking C-Span’s “feed” live. Galleries were jammed. As the “long bell” rang in the hallways to signal the start of the day, phones were ringing in the cloakrooms. Hustling through Capitol corridors or parking their cars, straggler senators were calling in. Their plea: wait for me! The chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, a distinguished Presbyterian who spent 20 years tending a flock in Hollywood, knew to speak slowly....
Turkmenistan’s government has reportedly banned the word coronavirus, while also arresting people wearing face masks or talking about the pandemic in public, according to Reporters Without Borders. The country’s state-controlled media are not allowed to say or publish the word, and information about coronavirus has also been removed from government health brochures distributed in workplaces, hospitals and schools. “The Turkmen authorities have lived up to their reputation by adopting this extreme method for eradicating all information about the coronavirus,” Jeanne Cavelier, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, said in a Tuesday statement....
According to a study published in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters, recent activity has destabilized the western flank of Tungurahua—whose name means “Throat of Fire” in the language of the indigenous Quechua peoples. The volcano—located around 85 miles south of Ecuador’s capital in the Andes mountains—has been frequently active since 1999, when eruptions forced the evacuation of around 25,000 people from the surrounding areas. Another ancient eruption around 3,000 years ago led to a partial collapse of Tungurahua’s western flank....
RELATED: One Piece: Characters Who Deserve Higher Bounties When it comes to combat in One Piece, different members of the crew shine at different things. The heavy hitters of the crew rely more on their strength and endurance to get around their enemies. Similarly, there are those who rely on speed to get the better of their opponents in battle, in a different but equally effective way. 10 Franky Franky is the shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates and an incredible fighter who has only become stronger with time....
