Bubble

Kendall Jenner Malibu Doggy Run with Devin Booker ... Post-Bubble Couple!!! 8/18/2020 6:32 AM PT Breaking News The bubble life is over -- so it's back to the couple life for Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker. The two have been inseparable since Devin's Phoenix Suns were bounced from the NBA…

The government has been pretty kind to fossil fuel companies these last few months. Recent disclosures from the Federal Reserve’s secondary bond-buying program show that it has now bought $17 billion worth of ExxonMobil debt and $28.5 million from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. Private…

The Phoenix Suns completed their perfect NBA bubble season on Thursday, cruising to a 128-102 win over the shorthanded Dallas Mavericks. It just wasn’t enough for the playoffs.As the Suns played the Mavericks across the NBA’s Disney World campus, the Grizzlies rolled to a 119-106 win over the Milwaukee Bucks…

Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images When two employees at Polaroid discovered their company's technology was being used by the South African government to help enforce apartheid, they protested and called for an international boycott of their employer until it withdrew from that country. It was one of the first anti-apartheid…

Crystal Cox/Business Insider More than two hundred years ago in Napoleonic France, the business world was walled off to women, and champagne was a luxury reserved for the ruling class. So then how did a young widow take over her husband's struggling wine business and turn champagne into an international…

Edie, the 23-year-old resident of a mouse-infested Bushwick walkup and the narrator of Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster, has an editorial position at a children’s book publisher until she loses it by sleeping with one too many of her colleagues. Like Meursault, the protagonist in Camus’s The Stranger, she seems…

Lakers coach Frank Vogel, right, and forward Anthony Davis talk to a referee during the Lakers' loss to the Indiana Pacers on Saturday.  (Kim Klement / Getty Images)A month in the NBA bubble has presented the Lakers with some mental hurdles, causing them to get what center JaVale McGee described…

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The WNBA has dedicated its 2020 season to social justice, supporting "Black Lives Matter" on shirts and courts, stitching "#SayHerName" onto the backs of jerseys, and giving players a platform to speak up for an urgent cause. In June, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, wrote to…

Kim Klement/Associated PressSome NBA players have acclimated immediately to the Orlando bubble, quickly adjusting to life without fans of the non-virtual variety.For LeBron James, it's still taking some time."I am getting more and more used to being out there. It's a very weird dynamic. I haven't played in an empty…