Tag: Media
EPL club drops shirt sponsor after fans’ backlash
NORWICH, England — English Premier League club Norwich ended its new shirt sponsorship deal with a gambling operator on Thursday after a fans' backlash...
Homicides are up, but GOP misleads with claims about blame
WASHINGTON — “SKYROCKETING MURDER RATES,” claimed the National Fraternal Order of Police. “An explosion of violent crime," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Democrat-run...
Russia fines Facebook, Telegram over banned content
MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Thursday ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay steep fines for failing to remove banned content, a...
Jewish House Democrats, Rep. Omar tangle anew over Israel
WASHINGTON — A group of Jewish House Democrats have accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of likening the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban...
Mystery over claim world’s 1st ‘decuplets’ born in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has been gripped by the mystery of whether a woman has, as has been claimed, actually given birth to 10...
Gucci digitally outfits Gen-Z in metaverse foray with Roblox
MILAN — Anyone whose virtual alter ego is wandering around the Roblox online game platform these days might run into other avatars sporting Gucci...
Report claims Russian agents tailed journalist who fell ill
MOSCOW — The investigative organization Bellingcat claimed Wednesday that Russian agents who had tailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his poisoning also shadowed a...
EU report: Illicit drug sales moved online during lockdowns
MADRID — Illegal drug production on European soil increased during the coronavirus pandemic last year as lockdowns helped move drug sales from streets to...
Newspaper gunman weighed ‘Timothy McVeigh-style’ attack
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper told a state psychiatrist he wanted to destroy a building “Timothy...
Bob Glauber wins pro football writers’ achievement award
Bob Glauber, who has covered the NFL since 1985 and has been with Newsday since 1989, has been selected as the Career Achievement Award...