Thousands gathered in freezing downtown Minneapolis Saturday to protest against the killing of Amir Locke, the 22-year-old Black man shot by police earlier this week. A memoir from the former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, about his time in the Trump administration will move forward after a legal battle attempting to block him from publishing allegedly classified information. One Navy SEAL candidate died and another was hospitalized just a few hours after both sailors completed "Hell Week," the grueling milestone of early SEAL training, the Navy announced on Saturday. The actress and comedian Awkwafina took to Twitter for the first time in two years on Saturday to address criticism of her use of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), or a "blaccent." Queen Elizabeth on Saturday backed a plan to call her son's wife Queen Camilla in a decision that will affect the future of the British monarchy. The man accused of kidnapping a housekeeper at the Colorado ranch owned by former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was seeking the billionaire's daughters, prosecutors said. Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Oram has died after spending four days trapped inside a well, the country's state-run media reported on Saturday. Canadian truckers have descended on Ottawa and other cities for the second weekend of protests against the country's COVID-19 restrictions and mandates. A mentally ill detainee held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, should be transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Saudi Arabia after two decades of imprisonment, a Pentagon board announced Friday. U.S. Secret Service agents have arrested a Home Depot employee for an alleged scheme involving nearly $400,000 in counterfeit money. The planned launch of an Astra Space rocket from Florida was scrubbed Saturday after the failure of ground equipment needed to launch. Music streaming giant Spotify has quietly removed 70 episodes of "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast amid a weeks-long exodus from the platform started by Neil Young. Queen Elizabeth II held a reception Saturday at her private residence ahead of her Platinum Jubilee. A beachfront house in Truro, Massachusetts, that was quite literally on the edge of collapse after being pounded by the wrath of last week's bomb cyclone has been safely relocated further inland on Cape Cod. HBO has announced it renewed its Zendaya drama, "Euphoria," for a third season. Apple TV+ has scheduled the premiere of "Shining Girls," its new thriller series starring Elisabeth Moss, on April 29. The soundtrack to the animated movie "Encanto" is the No. 1 album in the United States for a second week. A shooting spree in Corsicana, Texas, overnight killed four people including a child, and injured three people, before the gunman took his own life, police said Saturday. U.S. bobsledding star Elana Meyers Taylor, the lone woman to win three Olympic bobsled medals for the Americans, said Saturday she recorded two negative COVID-19 tests and was cleared to compete at the Winter Games. A Greek court has delayed the trial for three protesters who were arrested in October for disrupting an Olympic flame lighting ceremony. Irene Schouten of the Netherlands broke an Olympic record that stood for two decades to win the gold medal in the women's 3000m speedskating event Saturday at the Winter Games in Beijing. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Saturday that he and his wife, Emine Erdogan, have tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Sweden's Walter Wallberg turned in the biggest run of his career to upset defending Olympic champion Mikael Kingsbury of Canada in Saturday's men's moguls final at the Winter Games in Beijing. The Biden administration has restored an Iran sanctions waiver amid negotiations to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. The United States women's hockey team improved to 2-0 at the Winter Games in Beijing with a dominant 5-0 win over the Russian Olympic Committee on Saturday. |
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