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After four days of waiting, the U.S. finally has a new president. The Associated Press has called the election: President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. crossed the threshold for necessary electorate votes winning Pennsylvania and Nevada, and current electorate votes total 290 (270 were needed). His most recent voting total at time of printing is 74,857,880 […]
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
President Trump’s Wish To Paint His Border Wall Black Will Cost $1.2 Million Per Donald Trump has pushed for his border wall to be painted black to make the barrier scarier and hotter to the touch.
According to Mic, the Army Corps of Engineers has awarded the Fisher Sand and Gravel construction company a $1.28 billion contract to build just over 40 miles of the black-painted fence through southern Arizona.
The contract includes a $1.2 million price increase per mile in order to fulfill Trump’s demand for the wall to be painted black.
Thompson criticized this contract, saying the Trump administration should pause construction until the audit concludes.
“It speaks volumes to the administration’s lack of transparency that they didn’t announce this award—the largest ever—and we continue to learn about contracts to companies without a proven track record from the media,” Thompson said in a released statement.
John William Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina.
ESPN’s docuseries the “The Last Dance” may be teaching a younger generation of basketball fans a lot about Michael Jordan.
The Associated Press published an interview with Jasmine Jordan on Thursday, May 14, where she gave her thoughts on the 10-part docuseries that focuses on her father’s career and his final season with the Chicago Bulls, 1997-1998.
There’s also episodes of the “The Last Dance” that delve into Michael Jordan’s personal life, like his penchant for gambling and the 1993 murder of his father James Jordan.
“Seeing the documentary unfold and he’s getting emotional and he’s sharing his insight and perspective, it’s been incredible to really see, and I love it because it gives him that human nature that I think people forget,” Jasmine Jordan explained.
Jasmine Jordan had more to say about the docuseries in a clip that was shared with the interview, where she admitted to Googling her father to find out why he’s so famous.
Amadou Toumani Touré , byname ATT (born November 4, 1948, Mopti, French Sudan [now in Mali]), Malian politician and military leader who twice led his country. He served as interim president (1991–92) after a coup and was elected president in 2002. In March 2012 he was deposed in a military coup. He officially resigned the next month.
Touré studied to be a teacher and later joined the army in 1969, receiving military training in France and the U.S.S.R. At one time he was a member of the Presidential Guard in Mali, but he had a falling out with the president, Gen. Moussa Traoré, and lost this position.
Touré first came to international prominence on March 26, 1991, as the leader of a coup that toppled Traoré (who had himself come to power in 1968 in a coup against Modibo Keita). Touré’s coup was generally welcomed because of Traoré’s repressive policies, which had led to popular unrest, often manifested in violent riots, in 1990–91. It was after days of such rioting that the coup took place, and it seemed to many that Touré had acted in the name of the people and brought stability and democracy to the country. Be this as it may, the pro-democracy forces in the country lost little time in organizing the 1992 presidential election, in which Touré did not stand, and he retired as president on June 8, 1992.
For the next decade Touré occupied himself with nonmilitary activities, mostly concerned with public health. In 1992 he became the head of Mali’s Intersectoral Committee for Guinea Worm Eradication, and he was associated with campaigns to eliminate polio and other childhood diseases as well as working for the control of AIDS in Africa, often collaborating with the Carter Center, the nonprofit humanitarian organization run by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Touré also was active in trying to resolve disputes in the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of the Congo) and served as a United Nations special envoy to the Central African Republic after a coup occurred in that country in
Why is there so much concern about the potential for lower voter turnout in communities of color, particularly among Black and Latino men? A good portion of the answer lies in the results of the 2016 Presidential Election, when, for the first time in twenty years, the nation saw a drop in the turnout rate for Black voters.
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Huawei has been barred from fully using Android for at least another 12 months, after Donald Trump extended his executive order banning US firms from working with companies deemed a national security risk.
This resulted in Huawei not being able to use all of Google’s Android operating system on future devices, meaning no access to the Google Play app store, and no direct availability of popular apps such as YouTube and Google Maps.
Newer handsets, like the Mate 30 and P40, have relied on a modified operating system using Huawei’s own app store, AppGallery
The order was set to expire on 15 May 2020.
Newer handsets, like the Mate 30 and P40, have relied on a modified operating system using Huawei’s own app store, AppGallery.
‘Serious legal issues’
Huawei responded saying it is “ready and willing” to engage with the US government and come up with effective measures to ensure product security.
The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the case.
This sentiment is shared amongst many young Black voters who are weary of the Democratic Party’s unfulfilled promises as a whole.
Still, other young Black voters aren’t impressed with the pool of choices, and the disdain for Biden is so much that they would risk another four years of Trump.
“I hate to say it, but between Biden and Trump, I’d still vote Trump,” says one young Black woman.
There seems to be no guarantee that the Democratic party will achieve its intended end if Biden chooses a Black woman to run alongside him.
