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Australia got its facts wrong when it made a "unilateral" decision to cancel a cricket tour to South Africa because of COVID-19, the acting head of the South African board says. Stavros Nicolaou said on Friday that Cricket South Africa was left "puzzled" by Cricket Australia's decision two weeks ago…

To the extent that there is a real national debate about the participation of trans people in sports, it is almost exclusively concerned with teenagers in student athletics programs. This is despite the fact that there are not very many of them; one trans student in Idaho described realizing the…

The Supreme Court’s docket is lighter than usual this term, though it’s hard to blame the justices for it. After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, the pace of new cases slowed as the court revisited its ideological bounds. The pandemic and the presidential election kept the…

(Variety) China’s Lunar New Year holiday brought in a record $1.2 billion (RMB7.8 billion) in ticket sales, making a tenth of the global 2020 box office in just six days.It marked the first time in Chinese film history that the country’s single-day box office exceeded RMB1 billion ($155 million) for five…

(Variety) Chinese video streamer iQIYI managed to cut its losses in the financial year from RMB10.3 billion in 2019 to RMB7 billion ($1.1 billion) in 2020. But its boost from coronavirus lockdowns was short-lived. Annual revenues were RMB29.7 billion ($4.6 billion), representing a 2% increase from 2019.Reporting its fourth quarter and…

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Snow and ice storms have slamming more than 70% of the country, leaving millions without power due to outages and rolling blackouts. Much of the country isn’t used to…

What is writing about sickness for? In the 1990s, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, a professor of humanities at Penn State, undertook a study of what at the time was a new, and burgeoning, genre: illness memoirs. Before 1950, book-length personal accounts of illness were uncommon, she noted; before 1900, almost unheard…

What’s it like to be wrong? We have no idea. On Episode 25 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene discuss being right all the time. TNR staff writers Walter Shapiro and Matt Ford review their spot-on analyses of Trump and the Republican Party; Wired columnist…

Synopsis Though there were CCTV cameras in the house, but the thieves took the digital video recorder (DVR) that contained footage, police said. HTM Station House Officer (SHO) Sukhjit said that the theft case is being probed.HISAR: Jewellery, a licensed revolver, Rs 10 lakh and other valuables were stolen from…