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NetherRealm Studios has officially ended support for Mortal Kombat 11, bringing more than two years of updates, character releases, and additional story content to an end. The studio says it is now fully focused on its next project, which has yet to be announced. Mortal Kombat 11 launched in March…

LAUREL, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people were being evacuated from villages around a rumbling volcano near the Philippine capital Friday, but officials said they faced another dilemma of ensuring emergency shelters will not turn into epicenters of COVID-19 infections. The alert was raised to three on a five-level scale…

Every major international tournament unearths new stars and talents and propels them into the football stratosphere.  In the 2014 World Cup it was James Rodriguez, in Euro 2016 it was Renato Sanches, and in the 2018 World Cup it was Denis Cheryshev of Russia. All three of these players made…

Coronado High School was stripped of its 4A boys basketball championship Thursday following a racist act from players directed at opponents from Orange Glen High School in Escondito, a largely Latino school. Coronado players were captured on film throwing tortillas in the air at the opposing team during their June…

In a 6-3 decision that broke down along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling that two election laws in Arizona were racially discriminatory. But the case has implications far beyond Arizona: The ruling also seriously limits the power of the Voting Rights Act…

The Supreme Court narrowed Americans’ ability to fight racial discrimination in election laws on Thursday, upholding two Arizona measures that had been challenged under a key provision in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a 6–3 ruling along the traditional lines, the court’s conservative majority gave states more flexibility…

On September 3, 2019, Abdul Samad Amiri, the acting head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s office in his home province of Ghor, posted a reflective message on Facebook. He was just shy of thirty. He had grown up amid “the trauma of more than 40 years’ civil war…

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 5:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting 61 new cases of COVID-19 and four new deaths. The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 5:45 p.m. Alberta is reporting 61 new cases of COVID-19 and four new deaths.…

THE GOVERNMENT’S PLAN to limit indoor activities to those who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 has been described as “discriminatory and “unenforceable” in the Dáil. During Leaders’ Questions, Labour leader Alan Kelly called on the Government to rescind its decision, describing it as “absolutely bananas” and “shocking…

In the past month, we’ve seen a second wave of interest in the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a lab leak. Last spring, the media accurately reported the scientific consensus that Covid (also known as SARS CoV-2) is a natural virus that probably evolved much the same way…