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People gather at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, August 28. Jose Luis Magana/AP Updated 2:36 PM ET, Fri August 28, 2020 People gather at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, August … Read More

MGM Resorts is laying off 18,000 people as an unchecked pandemic leaves economic scars across a broad swath of U.S. industries, particularly those that rely on healthy crowds of people … Read More

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Stocks keep ticking higher on Wall Street, and more gains for the S&P 500 Friday have it on pace to close out its fifth straight winning week By STAN CHOE … Read More

MGM Resorts plans to lay off 18,000 workers as the casino company struggles with the fallout from the pandemic By The Associated Press August 28, 2020, 5:00 PM • 2 … Read More

JK Rowling returns human rights award to the Kennedy family after JFK’s niece Kerry Kennedy accused her of ‘transphobia’ JK Rowling will return the Ripple of Hope award from the … Read More

‘They would have killed us had the police not been there’: Senator Rand Paul speaks out after BLM mob attacked him and his wife as they left the White House … Read More

Tory MP Helen Whately is locked in furious row with neighbours who claim trees at her £1.35m Kent farmhouse are blocking sunlight into their homes and shedding leaves into gardens … Read More

Bank Holiday getaway grinds to a halt! Staycationers face 70-MILE traffic jams at start of three-day weekend as police warn tourists don’t travel to Devon and Cornwall without a booking … Read More

“We will meet the moment. We will work toward healing (and) justice … like our lives depend on it, because they do,” US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, told crowds late … Read More