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Brittney Griner didn’t take the floor for the national anthem during the Phoenix Mercury’s debut in the WNBA bubble on Saturday. Don’t expect her to do so moving forward. The Mercury center and 2019 league MVP runner-up told reporters on a video call Monday that the WNBA should stop playing the anthem this season. “I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season,” Griner said, per The Arizona Republic. “I think we should take that much of a stand.” Players… Source link

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Stock futures opened slightly higher Monday evening, with developments on the Covid-19 vaccine front, stimulus talks in Washington and corporate earnings results front and center. Developments in the race to create a Covid-19 vaccine picked up again on Monday. Shares of Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX) rose in late trading, after the two companies announced they would be beginning a Phase 2/3 study of their Covid-19 vaccine candidate. The announcement after market close came following… Source link

WASHINGTON — Andrew Yang, the New York entrepreneur who became famous nationally thanks to an otherwise quixotic campaign for president, just might find a job in a Joe Biden administration.  “I’ve been talking to his team about taking on some kind of role in the administration,” Yang told Yahoo News. “I’m on the record saying if I can help solve some of the problems I land on, then I’d love to.”  In the meantime, Yang has been hitting the virtual campaign trail for the former… Source link

Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump, on Monday filed a new lawsuit against Oath, Inc., the corporate parent of Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post.  The suit, filed in Delaware, names the same defendants and makes similar claims to a suit Page filed in federal court in New York in 2017.  The New York case was dismissed because the claims failed as a matter of law, a federal judge wrote. The new lawsuit alleges defamation and… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Oil was propped up by a weaker dollar and stronger U.S. equities with speculation growing around the Federal Reserve reinforcing its dovish message. U.S. crude futures climbed 0.8% on Monday. Equities strengthened on the possibility that a resurgence in global coronavirus cases will push Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to signal rates will stay near zero for longer. Meanwhile, the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index weakened for a second straight session. “You’re going to have the… Source link

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump campaign aide Carter Page is suing Yahoo parent company Oath Inc. over “false and defamatory statements,” claiming the outlet “portrayed him as a traitor to America” who illegally conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. The suit – obtained by Fox News — was filed Monday in Delaware Superior Court and accuses Oath’s Yahoo News and HuffPost of publishing stories about Page “with actual knowledge of falsity or with a reckless… Source link

News Item Yahoo Finance featured Dyson Professor Darrin Porcher in “American cities need proactive policing: Former NYPD lieutenant” 07/27/2020 Yahoo Finance featured Dyson Professor Darrin Porcher in “American cities need proactive policing: Former NYPD lieutenant” Former NYPD Lieutenant Darrin Porcher discusses managing rising violence against law enforcement in American cities. Source link

Major League Baseball is reportedly not considering canceling its season after a coronavirus outbreak on the Miami Marlins has infected a third of the team, affected three other teams and postponed at least two games this week. MLB owners met on a conference call Monday afternoon after the Marlins news broke, and according to Scott Miller of Bleacher Report, canceling or pausing the season wasn’t talked about. Instead, the league’s plan is to double down on its already-in-place safety… Source link

The Toronto Raptors arrived to the NBA campus at Disney World with “BLACK LIVES MATTER” written on their buses: Warriors forward Draymond Green had some questions about that. Appearing on TNT, Green asked Raptors president Masai Ujiri about the buses. TNT: Green: You have on your bus Black Lives Matter. As a Canadian team, it doesn’t directly impact your team, because you’re in an entire different country. What made you guys take the stand and put it on your bus? I think one of 22 teams… Source link