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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Why is Kid Rock shooting Bud Light cans? Explaining the latest anti-trans boycott.  Yahoo News Source link

NFL agents from around the country, ones who often compete tooth and nail against each other for clients, are coming together to discuss what they plan to do with their draft prospects when the NFL scouting combine begins next week. The most likely road they could take — assuming combine boarding conditions don’t change — is to encourage their clients not to perform the on-field workouts at the combine, according to conversations Yahoo Sports has had with multiple agents, as well as from… Source link

The NFL scouting combine is scheduled to begin on March 1, but whether or not the 2022 NFL draft’s top players participate is apparently a question mark at this point. Due to discontent over the NFL’s bubble rules at the combine, agents representing more than 150 of the draft’s prospects are organizing a boycott of all testing, on-field workouts and interviews at Lucas Oil Stadium, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. The players’ main priority is reportedly the NFL softening its… Source link

Hours after Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 and warned of stiffer consequences for shirking French Open media responsibilities, her older sister shed light on what prompted the tennis phenom’s press boycott.  Mari Osaka posted a message on Reddit Sunday afternoon explaining that Naomi’s refusal to speak with media started with criticism over her performance on clay surfaces. Mari, a retired tennis player, deleted the post after it gained traction on social media, but not before The New York… Source link

The French Open, plus the three other Grand Slam tournaments, issued a joint statement Sunday announcing that world No. 2 Naomi Osaka has been fined $15,000 for skipping her media obligations following her Round 1 win against Patricia Maria Țig at Roland-Garros. Osaka was also warned about the consequences of continuing to skip media sessions, which could be a whole lot worse than a $15,000 fine. Osaka said last week that she would not participate in any of her contractually mandated media… Source link

By Hilary Russ    NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) – Religious leaders in Georgia on Tuesday will call for a boycott of Home Depot Inc because of its silence on the state’s new voting curbs that activists say make it harder for Black people and other racial minorities to vote.    Other Georgia-based corporations – including Delta Air Lines Inc and Coca-Cola Co – have been meeting with the activists for weeks and issued statements opposing the voting restrictions.    Coca-Cola also hosted a… Source link

Exiled Tibetans protest the 2022 Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) The United States Department of State said Tuesday that a “joint boycott” of the 2022 Beijing Olympics “is something that we certainly wish to discuss” with allies. State Department spokesman Ned Price made the statement to reporters amid ongoing concerns about China’s human rights abuses and calls for action around what some activists have termed the “Genocide Games.” The Winter Games begin Feb. 4, 2022. White House… Source link

The Conversation Brazil’s president rejects COVID-19 vaccine, undermining a century of progress toward universal inoculation The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several COVID-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is not. “I’m not going to take it. It’s my right,” he said in a Nov. 26 social media broadcast. Bolsonaro, who came down with COVID-19 in July, has also criticized face masks. He and his more faithful supporters oppose any suggestion of mandatory… Source link

Turnout is predicted to be low as opposition supporters are urged to stay at home Votes are being counted in Venezuela’s legislative elections, which are set to hand socialist President Nicolás Maduro control of the only official body still controlled by the opposition. Most opposition parties are boycotting the polls for the National Assembly. The boycott is being led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó who has been in a two-year power struggle with Mr Maduro. The US and more than 50 other… Source link

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden in a statement that indicated he will drop his three-year political boycott of the White House. Abbas had ended all political dealings with President Donald Trump’s administration after the U.S. leader’s 2017 decisions to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the U.S. Embassy there. “I congratulate President-elect Joe Biden on his victory as President of… Source link