BY Hugo Gurdon and Christopher Tremoglie

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EEOC to probe MLB over alleged discrimination in Pride Night hat controversy: Dhillon

The Department of Justice asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday to investigate MLB over its alleged discrimination against three Christian baseball players who inscribed Bible verses on their Pride Night hats during a game last week. In a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said […]

Labour’s Andy Burnham’s special election win could spell doom for Starmer as prime minister

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won a special election in the United Kingdom on Thursday. The Labour Party candidate defeated Rob Kenyon of the Reform U.K. party to return to Parliament in the seat for Makerfield, a small area in Greater Manchester county in northwest England. He received 24,927 votes to Kenyon’s 15,696, earning 54.8% […]

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Knicks owner takes swipe at Mamdani in victory speech

New York Knicks owner James Dolan took a jab at Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a victory speech after his team clinched the NBA championship. “I don’t need your vote,” said Dolan, who spoke directly after Mamdani at a Thursday event. “I don’t need to quote to you about what happened here, because if you’re real […]

Bipartisan backlash thwarts Trump administration’s attempt to dissolve Ocean Observatories Initiative

National Science Foundation officials said Thursday that they would no longer move forward with plans to remove underwater equipment used to collect data on weather events, marine ecosystems, and climate change after a Trump administration plan to cut the program received bipartisan pushback. The Ocean Observatories Initiative was on the chopping block in President Donald […]

‘American flag blue’ coating apparently peeling off in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

The new paint job at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool appears to be peeling just two weeks after reopening, according to video footage from the Washington Examiner. The latest blunder on the National Mall comes after the pool turned from the intended “American flag blue” to bright green due to algae blooms this week. The […]

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