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  • Josh Hawley’s viral transphobic comments briefly

    Hawley invoked transphobia during an abortion rights hearing in an apparent attempt to rile up the GOP base. Hawley, in his line of questioning, asked one of the witnesses — UC Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges — why she kept using the term “people with a capacity for pregnanc...
  • Children’s Maps of the American Empire: A Conversation with Mah

    MAHSHID MAYAR is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of British and American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is co-editor, with Marion Schulte, of the essay collection Silence and Its Derivatives: Conversations across Disciplines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and is currently wor...
  • Novak Djokovic defeats Nick Kyrgios to win seventh Wimbledon ti

    LONDON -- Novak Djokovic used his steady brilliance to beat the ace-delivering, trick-shot-hitting Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday for a fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship and seventh overall. "It's weird. I felt like he didn't do anything amazing today,'' said the unseeded Kyr...
  • Nick Kyrgios topples No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in wild

    WIMBLEDON, England -- Stefanos Tsitsipas labeled Nick Kyrgios as a "bully" after he was beaten by the Australian in a volatile "circus" of a third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Kyrgios won 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7) to reach the fourth round at the All England Club for the first time since ...
  • Technoblade: Minecraft YouTuber dies from cancer aged 23

    Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade has died aged 23, his family have confirmed in an emotional farewell video posted on his behalf. The video, entitled "so long nerds" and posted to his 10 million followers, showed his father calling him "the most amazing kid anyone could ever ask for". The US interne...