Virginia College Forfeits Basketball Game After Suspending Players For Kneeling During Anthem

Bluefield College, a small Baptist liberal arts school nestled in the Appalachian mountains in Bluefield, Virginia doesn’t seem to be a likely place to make national news. But when players on the men’s basketball team took a knee during the playing of the national anthem — after being warned several times it was against school policy — the school president promptly suspended the players and forfeited a game.

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You’ll never guess which major European country’s scholars and political officials are attacking woke identity politics

If you’d asked me to identify which major European country was seeing powerful intellectual and political forces attacking woke racial ideology and the American campuses pushing it, I would have guessed Poland or Russia. Nope, it’s a country American conservatives generally mock and resent: France. The very same France that conservatives regularly deride as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” picking up a line from The Simpsons that was popularized by Jonah Goldberg (who has since gone full NeverTrump).

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Muslim prayer app ‘sold users’ tracking data’ to contractor linked to US government agencies: report

A Muslim prayer app has sold user location data to a company linked to a US government contractor that has then went on to supply sensitive personal information to federal agencies, a report by Vice’s Motherboard has revealed, raising more questions about the tracking and monitoring of Muslims via mobile technology.

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Capitol protesters mostly peacefully loot, vandalize Nancy Pelosi’s office

WASHINGTON — Rioters vandalized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s suite of offices in the US Capitol on Wednesday, flipping tables and rummaging through desks after a large mob of Trump supporters stormed the building.

One man was photographed reclining with his feet on a desk in Pelosi’s office while other men in “Make America Great Again” hats horsed around with desk phones and streamed the incident.

Another demonstrator was seen grinning as he walked away with Pelosi’s podium as unprecedented scenes of looting and chaos engulfed the Capitol after rioters overpowered police and trapped lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives chamber, leading to a tense armed standoff.

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Hungry like the rabbit

Hungry like the rabbit

Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd

In the darkest hour, there emerged a new light. It was 1940 when the double-barreled shotgun of the world first took aim at a little hole called home. At first, it seemed as if the hole’s inhabitant would be taken in by the old carrot trick. At least he would be careful enough not to stick his neck out. With an unblemished, white-gloved, four fingered hand, he feels around his immediate borders and takes the carrot.

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Scotty WAS beamed up! Star Trek actor James Doohan’s ashes were smuggled on board the International Space Station

Star Trek’s James Doohan had his ashes smuggled onto the International Space Station, it has been revealed.

Mr Doohan, who played Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, asked for his ashes to be beamed to space when he died at the age of 85 in 2005.

The Canadian’s remains have now traveled more than 1.7 billion miles in orbit through space in secret.

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