Makur Maker, a star basketball recruit, chose Howard University over offers from U.C.L.A. and Kentucky, and said he hoped other athletes would consider programs at historically Black institutions.
Damion Tillman, 23; Keven Springfield, 30; and Brandon Rollins, 27, were killed Friday in Frostproof, Florida.
Russell Westbrook, who announced last week that he had tested positive for COVID-19, is OK to return to practice with the Rockets.
Downing Street today appeared to try to distance itself from Mike Pompeo’s alleged claim that the boss of the World Health Organisation had been ‘bought’ by China.
A group of young Afghan women have taken up Japanese jujitsu, a martial arts form that dates back centuries
A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s southern coast has jolted some coastal communities and forced some residents to briefly scramble for higher ground over fears of a tsunami
Women hit the streets and take to social media after ex-partner reportedly confesses to killing Pinar Gultekin, 27.
At least 15 people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago funeral home on Tuesday, police say, as mourners attended a memorial event for a man who was fatally shot last week. The victims include at least 10 women ranging in age from 21 to 65, two of whom are in serious condition, the…
Amazon and Apple are facing more antitrust accusations. This time, Italy is investigating. Authorities want to know whether the two companies agreed to prevent retailers who are not part of Apple’s official program to sell Apple products and Beats he…
Shares of Atossa Therapeutics (ATOS) have done what shares of most companies in the hunt for coronavirus solutions have done in 2020 – appreciate. Since the turn of the year, there has been 171% of upside for the Seattle-based biotech firm.Despite the impressive gains, the micro-cap still has a market cap of only $39 million. Going by his revised outlook for […]
Facebook Messenger will introduce new privacy controls that will give users the ability to limit who can send them messages. The app will soon begin testing new settings that will users “decide who can message or call you directly, who goes to your r…
The news: Facebook says it is setting up new internal teams to look for racial bias in the algorithms that drive its main social network and Instagram, according to the Wall Street Journal. In particular, the investigations will address the adverse effects of machine learning—which can encode implicit racism in training data—on Black, Hispanic, and…
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