Amazon is reportedly in talks to license and offer a new premium music subscription service by the end of 2019 with high definition content. This could give Amazon’s music streaming service a major advantage over Apple Music and Spotify which have been gaining millions of subscribers every quarter. Amazon is talking to a number of […]
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CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes breaks down the game of the newest Washington Redskin: Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins USA TODAY Sports As the first round of the NFL draft approached, the Washington Redskins heard their name linked to one rumor after another as some league insiders predicted that the franchise would exhaust […]
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John Havlicek, who won eight NBA championships with the Boston Celtics and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984, died Thursday. He was 79. Havlicek suffered from Parkinson’s disease, and the team confirmed his death in a statement. “His defining traits as a player were his relentless hustle and wholehearted commitment to […]
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The New York Giants took a bit of a gamble with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2019 NFL draft, selecting Duke quarterback Daniel Jones. Jones is a tall pocket passer who can make some decent throws and is a good runner, but he didn’t exactly have a great career at Duke, and was […]
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CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes breaks down the game of the newest New York Giants: Duke quarterback Daniel Jones. USA TODAY Sports Eli Manning finally has an apparent successor. The New York Giants drafted Duke quarterback Daniel Jones with the No. 6 overall pick in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft, positioning him […]
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CLOSE The queen of cryptic clues keeps fans guessing about new music ahead of her April 26 reveal Time, Time At midnight Eastern time, it’s all about “ME!” That’s the name of Taylor Swift’s new song, which will be released at the stroke of midnight Friday. Also at midnight, Swift will simultaneously release a music video […]
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John Havlicek, a relentless force for the Boston Celtics over two decades and two championship eras and one of the greatest clutch stars in N.B.A. history, died Thursday in Jupiter, Fla. He was 79. His death was announced by the Celtics. No cause was given, but the team said that he had suffered from Parkinson’s […]
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A federal judge on Thursday issued a nationwide injunction temporarily blocking a controversial Trump administration rule that would bar organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money. Judge Stanley A. Bastian of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington State said in his order that the rule would […]
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Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a tweet Thursday after she attempted to call out “older male” Republicans for posing next to a cardboard cutout of her. The lawmaker wasn’t a Republican, though. He was a fellow Democrat. The Republican Party of Kentucky on Thursday tweeted a photo […]
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More than 200 university students and employees in Los Angeles were given quarantine orders on Wednesday and Thursday, just days after a measles outbreak was declared in Los Angeles County. U.C.L.A. and California State University, Los Angeles, have been working with county health officials to identify and contact students and employees who may have been […]
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CLOSE We love Chip and Joanna Gaines even more than shiplap. USA TODAY Food and decorating guru Martha Stewart apparently doesn’t keep up with HGTV network because she had no idea who Chip and Joanna Gaines are. The former “Fixer Upper” hosts were thrilled to meet Stewart at the Time 100 Gala in New York Tuesday, and let’s just […]
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CLOSE Problems felons encounter when they get out of prison (and that often cause them to return) are the same ones that got them incarcerated: lack of safe housing, drug addiction and food insecurity. Address those, Kerman said, before incarceration. USA TODAY Opinion On its face, news that the incarceration rate in the U.S. decreased […]
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One day after a district attorney in Kansas declined to press charges against all-pro Kansas City Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill and his fiancée related to a child abuse investigation, audio has emerged that a local TV station alleges implicates both parties. On Thursday, KCTV5 aired excerpts of an 11-minute audio recording of a conversation allegedly […]
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that China’s president, Xi Jinping, would be coming soon to the White House, fueling anticipation that the world’s two largest economies may be close to finishing a trade deal. Mr. Trump, in remarks to White House staff, parents and children gathered on the lawn for Take Your Children […]
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Regulators on four continents are preparing for a long-awaited showdown with Facebook, after years of disinterest and half-steps. They largely have the same goal: changing the social media company’s behavior. Figuring out how is the hard part. Members of the Federal Trade Commission in the United States are weighing what sorts of constraints they would […]
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A woman in the United Arab Emirates has regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a vegetative state, according to her family and doctors. Omar Webair told Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that his mother, Munira Abdulla, began making strange sounds after an argument occurred in her hospital room. A few days later, she spoke for […]
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CLOSE Nick Bosa spoke with media before the NFL Draft and explained why he deleted controversial tweets. USA TODAY Sports Analysis of all 32 first-round picks of the 2019 NFL draft, which kicked off Thursday night in Nashville: 1. Cardinals — Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma: The rumors, misdirection and assumptions can finally be put to bed — […]
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How can I describe the fine of between $3 billion and $5 billion that Facebook is likely to pay to the Federal Trade Commission — which will doubtlessly be touted as its largest ever — to settle the government’s inquiry into what the social networking giant called “our platform and user data practices”? How about: […]
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CLOSE The CDC said Wednesday that measles in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in 25 years. Roughly three-quarters of those cases are in two ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in New York. (April 24) AP, AP Hundreds of students and staff at two Los Angeles universities have been impacted by quarantine orders due to possible […]
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