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Creditors urge Sears to shut down all its stores, calling its plan for survival ‘wishful thinking’ (SHLD)
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Sears‘ unsecured creditors are urging the company to shut down all of its remaining stores. In a bankruptcy filing, the creditors slammed Sears’ plan to stay in business as “nothing more than wishful thinking” and “an unjustified and foolhardy gamble with other people’s money.” Sears has proposed cutting its store count to roughly […]
Ted Cruz suggested sending the National Guard to thwart the migrant caravan at the border, calling it a ‘serious threat’
Gary Williams/Getty Images US Sen. Ted Cruz suggested mobilizing the National Guard to the southern border where thousands of Central American migrants are making their way toward the US. Cruz suggested sending the National Guard or amassing more Border Patrol agents, citing former presidents. A United Nations spokesman said more than 7,000 migrants have joined the caravan. Trump […]
This Model Is Calling Time on Racism in Fashion
“Leomie, these people are not your friends.” Leomie Anderson’s mother spoke these blunt words to her daughter when she was 14 years old, just beginning her foray into modeling. Though she was young then, Leomie’s never been naive: In her TEDx talk, she speaks about how modeling is no fairy-tale ride. Particularly as a Black […]
French imam under investigation over sermon calling for ‘Muslims to fight Jews’
A French imam is under scrutiny over a controversial sermon, which says that Muslims will be told to fight and kill Jews on Judgement Day. The cleric is now being investigated for inciting hatred. The probe into “public provocation to hatred or violence” was opened against Mohamed Tatai, the imam of the newly inaugurated Grand […]
Gary Cohn rips into Wall Street-critic Elizabeth Warren, calling her attacks on banks ‘naive’
REUTERS/Ruben Sprich Gary Cohn, the former top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, responded to some of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of Wall Street banks and the Trump administration on Monday. At a Reuters event, Cohn disagreed that the tax cuts enacted earlier this year primarily benefitted the wealthy. He also said Warren’s argument that […]
British journo Michael Crick caught on video calling Corbyn’s son his ‘minder’
A senior British political journalist has been caught on camera labelling one of Jeremy Corbyn’s sons as his “minder,” while doorstepping the Labour leader, leading to accusations of unfair treatment. Channel 4’s Michael Crick made the error while filming the Labour leader outside his home, a tactic known as “doorstepping.” Video footage posted on social […]
Trump says Google, Amazon, and Facebook may be ‘very antitrust,’ but stops short of calling for a breakup of the firms
Drew Angerer/Getty Images US president Donald Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg that Google, Amazon, and Facebook could be a “very antitrust situation.” It follows Trump’s repeated attacks on Google in recent days over what he perceives as liberal bias in the company’s search engine. He stopped short, however, of saying the tech companies […]
The UN is calling on China to ‘immediately release’ one million Muslim Uighurs who may be held in detention centers
Kevin Frayer/Getty The United Nations has called on China to end the detention of up to one million Uighurs in the far western Xinjiang province. The committee also called out China’s practice of racial and ethnic profiling and heavy-handed restrictions that disproportionately target the Uighur community. Xinjiang has become one of the most intrusive police states in […]
America calling for Australia’s next boxing superstar
A WORLD title fight and a potential world champion will headline a massive boxing card at Eveleigh in Sydney on Friday week. Billy “The Kid” Dib (43-4) will fight Tevin “American Idol” Farmer (24-5-1) for the IBF-mandated super featherweight title, while rising bantamweight star Brock Jarvis will attempt to continue his surge up the boxing […]
