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Tim MacMahonESPN Staff Writer4:29 PM ET4 Minute Read DALLAS — San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich’s pregame media availability Sunday opened with the NBA’s all-time wins leader declining to discuss whether he would consider retirement this offseason and ended with an unprompted, passionate speech lobbying for gun control legislation in America and criticizing “cowardly legislators […]
The Biden administration is criticizing an announcement by OPEC+ members that they will cut oil production, arguing it is not advisable. “We don’t think cuts are advisable at this moment given market uncertainty — and we’ve made that clear,” a spokesperson for the National Security Council said. Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and other OPEC+ […]
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank criticized efforts in some states, like his home of Georgia, that are seeking to restrain diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Blank, when asked at the NFL annual owners’ meeting Tuesday about efforts in some southern states to restrict DEI, said: “DEI covers all of us, whether you’re White or Black […]
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized what she said was a “self-loathing” taking over the U.S. and dismissed accusations that the country is racist during her campaign launch Wednesday in Charleston, S.C. “A self-loathing has swept our country. It’s in the classroom, the boardroom and the backrooms of government,” Haley said, speaking to supporters. “Every […]
The White House on Monday criticized Beijing’s zero Covid strategy as ineffective and said the Chinese people have a right to peacefully protest. “We’ve long said everyone has the right to peacefully protest, here in the United States and around the world. This includes in the PRC,” a spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s National Security […]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — America’s top diplomat on Tuesday criticized a decision by FIFA to threaten players at the World Cup with yellow cards if they wear armbands supporting inclusion and diversity. Speaking alongside his Qatari counterpart at a news conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was “always concerning … when we […]
Oct 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge in New York on Friday called it “troubling” that a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) policy makes people who settle charges of fraud, insider trading or other allegations agree not to deny them later. Under the decades-old policy, defendants who settle without admitting to allegations must agree […]
ISLAMABAD — India has sharply criticized the United States and Germany for recent, but rare, back-to-back moves related to a long-running territorial dispute with neighbor and archrival Pakistan. The controversy erupted when Donald Blome, Washington’s ambassador to Islamabad, made a three-day visit to the Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir, in the divided Himalayan region. Pakistan refers […]
Container ships, San Francisco Bay. Photo: NOAA Financial Times writers Polina Ivanova, Roman Olearchyk, Henry Foy, and David Sheppard yesterday that, “Vladimir Putin has criticised a grain deal signed with Ukraine that unblocked agricultural products trapped in the country by his government’s military assault, threatening an agreement that had eased a growing global food crisis. “In a speech on Wednesday . […]
Nations that have refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risk accelerating a global food crisis, the United States international aid agency’s chief said on Monday, singling out China for hoarding fertilizer and grain while millions of people in East Africa face starvation. Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, also […]