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This year’s senior class is the first in decades to navigate college admissions without affirmative action. The US Supreme Court upheld the practice in decisions going back to the 1970s, but found it is unconstitutional for colleges to give students extra weight because of their race alone.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Monday night, thanks to a 4-4 split, that Pennsylvania can accept mai-in ballots up to three days after Election Day.
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — In Google's infancy, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the personal computer software market to choke off competition that could spawn better products. Their disdain for Microsoft spurred Google to adopt 'Don't Be Evil' as a corporate motto that remained its moral compass during its transition from a free-wheeling startup to a publicly traded company suddenly accountable to shareholders. That pledge is now a distant memory as Google confronts an existential threat similar to what Microsoft once […]
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Ari Lennox posted a gorgeous bathroom selfie today and is now the top trending topic on social media, simply for being beautiful!
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don't fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday. The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2. Johnson says it's needed to stop hospitals from becoming overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients within weeks. Cabinet minister Michael Gove said it was the government's 'fervent hope' that the lockdown would end on time, but that could not be guaranteed. 'With a virus this malignant, and […]
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Black Friday, the holiday shoppers’ favorite day of the year, is fast approaching and it’ll be here sooner than expected. Some of the world’s largest retail-chains are changing things up this year. Hoping to keep consumers safe from the coronavirus, many companies will be offering holiday sales online before Thanksgiving. Walmart and Target announced Monday … Continued
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British judge will decide Monday whether a tabloid newspaper defamed Johnny Depp by calling him a 'wife beater,' a ruling with huge implications for the careers of both Depp and former spouse Amber Heard. Justice Andrew Nicol is due to deliver his judgement in writing, three months after the end of a trial that exposed stark details of the Hollywood couple's tempestuous marriage. There will be no in-person hearing because of the coronavirus pandemic. Depp sued News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the newspaper's executive editor, Dan Wootton, at […]
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For months as Trump undercut his own medical experts, sidelined scientists and refused to
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ATLANTA, United States (AP) - At 90 years old and living through a global pandemic, Hannah Carson knows time may be short. She wasted no time returning her absentee ballot for this year's election.
Young voters in Florida, a battleground state for the US Presidential elections, think that America faces image crisis during Trump administration for its stance on climate change and handling of coronavirus pandemic. They say Donald Trump has done pretty well in economic front [though some say as continuation of the previous Obama administration's policy], he does not care
The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
The article Three more Region Four women die of COVID, 31 new cases appeared first on Stabroek News.
A majority of U.S. registered voters say climate change will be a very or somewhat important issue when casting their vote for president.
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Dan Mullen showed up after his team's testy victory against Missouri dressed as Darth Vader. Mullen insisted it was the only Halloween costume in the facility, not a conscious decision to play a villain. Nonetheless, it may have been the perfect role given Mullen's past few weeks. Kadarius Toney scored three times, Kyle Trask became the first player in school history with four touchdown passes in four consecutive games and the 10th-ranked Gators returned from a three-week layoff to handle Missouri 41-17 on Saturday night in the Swamp. […]
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California won’t allow any distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the nation’s most populous state until it is reviewed by the state’s own panel of experts, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Vaccinations for the pandemic “will move at the speed of trust,” said Newsom, a Democrat, and the state wants its own independent […]
It happened four years ago when Donald Trump scored an Electoral College victory with
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FRRC is a grassroots, membership based organization run by returning citizens who led efforts in restoring voting rights in FL by passing Amendment 4.
As votes are being counted in Ivory Coast's tense presidential election opposition candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin has called for peace.
\"There have been too many deaths in this country, too much blood spilled on the soil of Félix Houphouët-Boigny,\" the presidential hopeful said.
Voter turnout was low, according to several media reports, as incumbent President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a contested third term sparked violent clashes even before the poll opened.
Official data for voter turnout has yet to be announced.
Electoral coup d'état
Two of the four candidates, Henri Konan Bédié and Pascal Affi N’Guessan, called for a boycott and urged \"civil disobedience\".
\"The vast majority of our compatriots have been very reluctant to participate in the operation that Alassane Ouattara attempted today,\" said N'Guessan-
\"His constitutional and electoral coup d'état was a failure.\"
Ouattara, 78, was supposed to step aside after his second term to make way for a younger generation, but the sudden death of his chosen successor led to a change in plan.
The Ivorian leader says a constitutional court ruling approved his third term, allowing him to bypass two-term presidential limits after a 2016 legal reform.
Bedie, 86, and other opposition leaders accuse the electoral commission and the constitutional court of favouring the government, making a fair and transparent vote impossible.
The constitutional court rejected 40 other candidacies, including those of former president Gbagbo, 75, and former rebel leader turned prime minister Guillaume Soro.
Voters cast their ballots in Ivory Coast's heated presidential election on Saturday and now they wait eagerly to see who will be the next leader of one Africa's fastest-growing economies.
The vote is seen as a test of stability as two opposition candidates called for a boycott and civil disobedience, calling the vote a \"failure\" of power.
President Alassane Ouattara is running for a contested third term, which the opposition says is \"unconstitutional\".
The president's move sparked deadly pre-election clashes, killing around 30 people, reinvoking the memories of the 2010 presidential vote, which unleashed a brief civil war that saw over 3,000 deaths.
Despite the call for a boycott, Ouattara's ruling Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace party said the vote was a success.
\"October 31 was not the day of the flood as predicted by all the opposition leaders, but better, Ivorians have appropriated this election by going to vote massively this morning,\" said Adama Bictogo, executive director of ruling RHDP.
Reports of violence
Saturday's vote was largely calm and there have been no official reports of deadly clashes.
But opposition leader and presidential hopeful Pascal Affi N'Guessan said 12 were killed.
\" We deplore, yet another time, deaths where there have been clashes, a dozen deaths for the moment, including four in Goh and two in the sub-prefecture of Niablé,\" N'Guessan said.
Police dispersed protests that broke out in Abidjan and other towns and fired tear gas, according to an AFP reporter.
The ruling party said there were \"attacks\" by \"violent elements organized by the opposition\"
Ouattara has urged peace and for the opposition to end its call for civil disobedience.
BY Garikai Mafirakureva CHIREDZI residents last week called on government to reduce military expenditure in the 2021 national budget and channel more resources towards social services. The residents were speaking during a 2021 national budget consultative meeting led by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development chaired by Zaka North legislator Rabison Mavhenyengwa. Human rights monitor, Marko Shoko said Zimbabwe was not at war, hence the Finance ministry should channel more resources towards education, health as well as social welfare and stop burdening the country with unnecessary military expenditure. Patricia Zunga said morale in schools was low and the government should seriously look into the plight of teachers and pay them a salary commensurate with the work they do. She also said there was no need for government to continue to allocate huge amounts to the Defence ministry. “Government should consider allocating more money towards the construction of new schools in Chiredzi,” Zunga said. United Chiredzi Residents and Ratepayers Association programmes officer Constance Chikumbo said public hospitals were in a sorry state with no medicine, burdening the poor who could not afford to get treatment at private hospitals. “Immobility of police officers is making countless criminals unaccounted for because most police stations have no vehicles to track down reported cases,” Chikumbo said. “This is an impetus to spiralling cases of corruption by our police force which is now taking bribes in order to open an investigation. Our hospitals need to be stocked with medicine so the government should give more resources to the Health and Child Care ministry.” Other residents said more resources should be allocated to cater for people living with disabilities and other vulnerable members of the community.
BEIJING/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech appeared to be safe in providing protection against the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus, preliminary results of a late stage clinical trial conducted in Brazil showed yesterday.
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Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique didn't have much to say about Netflix getting the license to stream "The Parkers." That may have a lot to do with the fact that Mo'Nique is currently suing the streaming network for racial and gender discrimination. But she does have a message for her long-time on-screen daughter.
The White House on Saturday unleashed on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious disease
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