Tag: Social media
Cher’s star power helps rescue the ‘loneliest elephant’
LOS ANGELES — Cher’s rescue of an elephant long held in dismal conditions is a one-of-a-kind story, as would be expected from the singular...
Heavyweight champs Fury, Joshua trade blows on social media
With their fight in the balance, world heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are trading blows on social media instead of the ring.
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Report says Myanmar internet a ‘virtual battlefield’
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military rulers are seeking to limit access to the internet to an internal network of only “whitelisted” sites to quash opposition...
Drenching rains flood homes, swamp cars in south Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Heavy rains that swept across southern Louisiana flooded homes, swamped cars and closed a major interstate on Tuesday. The brunt...
Webby Awards go to Fauci, Oprah, DuVernay and Pharrell
NEW YORK — Dr. Anthony Fauci, Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Riz Ahmed, Dua Lipa, Andra Day and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson all won honors...
A Facebook food group comes together to make a cookbook
NEW YORK — The pandemic gave them lemons. So they made lemon rosemary chicken.
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Russia won’t block Twitter, but partial slowdown to continue
MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Monday backed away from threats to block Twitter, saying that the social media platform deleted most of the banned...
Alabama judge handling domestic cases accused of stalking
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama judge who handles domestic relations cases used fake social media accounts to harass people with cases before her, verbally...
UK police probe video of antisemitic abuse hurled from cars
LONDON — British police were investigating videos posted on social media Sunday that appeared to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy...
Indian police find bodies on riverbank amid raging COVID-19
PRAYAGRAJ, India — Police are reaching out to villagers in northern India to investigate the recovery of bodies buried in shallow sand graves or...
