Trump's corruption on full display at RNC
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NBA teams boycott playoff games after Kenosha police shooting |
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The NBA postponed all playoff games on Wednesday night in response to several teams’ decisions to not participate over the recent police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which has resulted in days of unrest.
The Milwaukee Bucks initially staged the walkout during Wednesday’s NBA playoff game against the Orlando Magic. The Bucks players formalized the decision not to play before tipoff in Orlando, sources told The Athletic and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The decision was followed by the cancellation of the Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder game, and the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Portland Trailblazers game. “The NBA and the NBPA today announced that in light of the Milwaukee Bucks’ decision to not take the floor today for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, today’s three games - MIL-ORL, HOU-OKC and LAL-POR have been postponed,” the NBA tweeted. “Game 5 of each series will be rescheduled.”
The Bucks are geographically the closest team to Kenosha, where a police officer recently shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back over the weekend while his children were nearby.
Video of the shooting that surfaced Sunday night has prompted nightly protests in Kenosha that turned violent last night when armed white vigilantes arrived. |
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| WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING | Donald Trump's corruption was full display at the RNC on Tuesday night. Eric Trump, his son, is running the president’s company and is under investigation in New York, but spoke at the convention Tuesday. And that was only the beginning. | |
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Joe Biden spoke out Wednesday against the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin, saying footage of the incident makes him “sick.” | |
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One of President Donald Trump’s newest appointees to the board overseeing the U.S. Postal Service has extensive business ties to a global investment firm that rents giant warehouses to the USPS and to most of its top competitors. | |
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Join HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Amanda Terkel and senior politics reporters Shirish Dáte and Kevin Robillard, in conversation with Executive Editor Hillary Frey, Friday, Aug. 28 at 1:00 pm, as they look back at what happened at the 2020 Democratic and Republican conventions, and what to expect between now and November. |
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