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Hooliganism

Ranking soccer’s all-time 39 worst kits

After compiling and ranking the best 101 soccer kits ever, it was only fair that we once again enlisted ESPN's soccer writers and editors from around the globe to help rank the worst designs ever to grace a football pitch.But 101 of them? Come on, no one deserves that, no…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 28 Aug 2020

Banksy finances boat to rescue refugees in the Mediterranean The street artist Banksy has funded a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa. Named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, the boat set off on 18 August from the Spanish seaport of Burriana, near Valencia,…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

The RNC was pure propaganda designed to sanitize Trump’s damning record on race, immigration, women, and the pandemic

The 2020 RNC sought to sanitize Trump's record on an array of issues, going all-in to convince Americans he's not racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic. The convention painted an alternate reality for Americans, particularly in terms of Trump's bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The underlying message of the convention was fundamentally contradictory…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Climate Change

How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change

Climate change occurring shortly before their disappearance triggered a complex change in the behaviour of late Neanderthals in Europe: they developed more complex tools. This is the conclusion reached by a group of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Università degli Studi die Ferrara (UNIFE) on the basis of finds…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Huawei

Huawei said to be frantically stockpiling phone parts before US ban

Huawei might be changing its story from defiance to one of defeat by this time next year if things don’t start looking up for it. Whereas last year it stood proud and proclaimed it could still conquer the smartphone market despite US export bans, it is now silently and chaotically…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Propaganda

Critics Rip Trump For ‘Desecrating’ White House With RNC Speech

Critics slammed President Donald Trump’s use of the White House for a political stunt on Thursday as both unethical and illegal. Trump spoke to a crowd on the South Lawn as he accepted his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, one of several purely political events done on government…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Impeachment

Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC was an exercise in misinformation that didn’t stack up with reality

President Donald Trump speaks at the first day of the Republican National Convention on August 24, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump tore into Democratic nominee Joe Biden on the final night of the Republican National Convention, portraying Biden as weak on critical…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Christchurch

Australia PM ‘open’ to repatriating NZ mosque gunman

SYDNEY — Canberra is open to the idea of New Zealand sending the Australian-born gunman behind the Christchurch mosque massacre back home to serve his life sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday (Aug 28). White supremacist Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life without parole on Thursday for the…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Impeachment

Huge crowds gather to both watch and protest Trump speech

Updates and analysis from Day 4 of the Republican National ConventionThe convention concluded with President Donald Trump's acceptance speech.President Trump and his daughter Ivanka will be the keynote speakers on the last night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday.Chelsea Stahl / NBC NewsBreaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Impeachment

Ex-Democrat Van Drew, who voted against Trump’s impeachment, makes RNC debut

Updates and analysis from Day 4 of the Republican National ConventionThe convention concluded with President Donald Trump's acceptance speech.President Trump and his daughter Ivanka will be the keynote speakers on the last night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday.Chelsea Stahl / NBC NewsBreaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and…

bubmagAugust 28, 2020

Ranking soccer’s all-time 39 worst kits

Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 28 Aug 2020

The RNC was pure propaganda designed to sanitize Trump’s damning record on race, immigration, women, and the pandemic

How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change

Huawei said to be frantically stockpiling phone parts before US ban

Critics Rip Trump For ‘Desecrating’ White House With RNC Speech

Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC was an exercise in misinformation that didn’t stack up with reality

Australia PM ‘open’ to repatriating NZ mosque gunman

Huge crowds gather to both watch and protest Trump speech

Ex-Democrat Van Drew, who voted against Trump’s impeachment, makes RNC debut

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