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The decision comes a few weeks after the school drew some controversy over its name. A pair of high schools in New York cancelled their lacrosse games against Lancaster because of the school’s nickname. These two schools reportedly have large Native American student populations. MORE: Documentary on Daniel Snyder | California congressman goes after name On Monday, school board members gathered to discuss the issue and eventually came to the decision to change the name....

General Manager Masai Ujiri dropped an 'F-Bomb" at a pep rally in downtown Toronto. Drake dissed former Nets owner Jay Z and the Toronto Sun called the matchup "Raptors vs. Dinosaurs." MORE: Playoff schedule | East preview Well, Toronto couldn't back up their talk with play, falling 94-87 in Game 1, and on Sunday morning the New York Daily News took a well-deserved shot back at Toronto. Playoff basketball is the best....

Ivy Lappin, co-owner of the Lappin-Paoli hairdressing salon just a couple of blocks north of the militarily “frozen” disaster zone, says, “Some woman came in the day that it happened, when the first building was burning and everybody was hysterical, and said, ‘Can I still get a trim?’ We told her, ‘I don’t think so’.” And NEWSWEEK’s art critic received a letter, dated Sept. 14, from an artist who saw the disaster out her studio window, requesting he visit her to see a new series of paintings in progress, begun as a “response to this tragedy....

The state has recently surpassed the point of a doubling death rate every day, according to Financial Times’ analysis of available data sources by John Burn-Murdoch. Italy has the highest death count in the world, with at least 17,699 casualties, as of Thursday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. The Lombardy region has reported 9,722 deaths according to the Wednesday report from Italy’s Ministry of Health....

The new Bag Waste Reduction Law took effect in New York State on March 1, 2020, but has not been enforced due to a lawsuit brought by plastics manufacturer Poly-Pak Industries in the New York State Supreme Court. Following the court’s decision to back the new legislation, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) can begin enforcing it from today. The ban means that anyone required to collect New York State sales tax will be banned from distributing plastic bags in most scenarios, even if the sale is exempt from tax....

The New York Times’ Sunday May 24th print edition describes the people in a preface by saying: “They Were Not Simply Names on a List, They Were Us.” The newspaper penned a brief introduction to the names of the deceased before listing their names, age, place of residence and a succinct one-line description about their lives: “Numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on America, whether it is the number of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short....

The New York Police Department told Newsweek that at 1:17 p.m. police officers responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress in front of the food stamp office in the neighborhood of Boerum Hill near downtown Brooklyn. An unidentified 35-year-old male man told police that he was pepper-sprayed in the face by a female while waiting in line with hundreds of people outside of the office. The fight reportedly began when one of them refused to observe the six-foot social distancing rule....

Featuring heavily throughout the franchise in different forms, Kuriboh has become one of the most recognizable Monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh. The small furry Monster first appeared in the original anime, helping to save Yugi from defeat on several occasions and turning the tides of duels. The Monster would later see multiple new iterations throughout the franchise’s many different anime adaptations, including Jaden’s Winged Kuriboh in Yu-Gi-Oh GX and the Link Monster Linkuriboh in Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS....

As per the figures quoted by The Venture beat, Caldweel kick started the campaign to with $500,000 goal and is currently sitting at $595,150. And counting, with 31 hours left. The growing interest of the investors in this new venture has left Mark Zuckeberg worrying as Facebook, which was once the winning horse in the social networking world, has its market value equivalent to Yahoo!. Caldwell announced the launch of his website on his own website....

How New York Is Tackling COVID-19 The announcement broke on the New York State Governor website. The COVID-19 passport app goes by the name " Excelsior Pass" and aims to allow people to move freely with just their phone on them. One big obstacle for re-opening stores and resuming flights is ensuring everyone who arrives is healthy. Different countries have proposed their own way to achieve this, but some have adopted the idea of a COVID-19 passport app that declares the user as vaccinated or recently tested negative....

“A Few Small Tweaks” Raspberry Pi UX engineer Simon Long announced the new release in a Raspberry Pi blog post. Long said that there wasn’t much new in this version. “This time around, it is mostly a wrapping-up of all the bug fixes and new versions of software which have been released since the previous image in April; but there are a few small tweaks to the user experience,” Long said....

Accessible via this website, it has a few questions and variables that you answer and enter in order for it to build the best possible playlist for your style of exercise. You have to pick workout duration, whether you want music, podcasts or both, if you mind explicit content, type of workout, who you’re working out with, your workout vibe, and what genre you’re looking for. You can only pick one thing at each stage apart from the last, when you can pick two....

Samsung’s new M8 monitor wants to replace your USB webcam and smart TV. The 32-inch 4K smart monitor has a webcam that you can remove and built-in apps. And Apple’s recently launched Studio Display has an advanced camera with Center Stage, a machine learning system that adjusts the front-facing camera when using video apps. “Users are looking for technology that meets their new hybrid work, education, and personal lives, including smarter Wi-Fi to help improve connectivity, high-definition cameras to improve video calls, and better security/privacy and device manageability,” Stefan Engel, the vice president, and general manager of tech manufacturer Lenovo’s Visuals Business, told Lifewire in an email interview....

A team of scientists has created a solar-powered self-contained system that not only uses solar panels to generate energy but also uses the excess heat to make water from air. “Improving [the] efficiency of solar power plants is the need of the hour,” Sunil Mysore, founder, and CEO at alternate energy and water conservation startup, Hinren Engineering, told Lifewire via LinkedIn. “This will be a landmark invention in the photovoltaic industry and will go a long way in ensuring sustainability in the water-energy-nutrition cycle....

The new move by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is in line with their commitment towards supporting the digital drive to promote cashless transactions among the Delhi Metro commuters.DMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh said, “This new feature empowers a commuter to get their smart card auto topped up which will help them to have seamless travel without worrying about top-up from time to time.” Read: The Best Way To Stop Pocket Dialing Your Ex...

The Facebook-owned company attempted to reassure users that private messages would still be encrypted and unreadable by itself, Facebook and anyone else, but millions jumped ship to rival messaging apps such as Telegram anyway. WhatsApp then set a date of 15 May to introduce the changes, and said it would start limiting features for those who didn’t accept the new policy. But it walked back on that after various protests (including a letter from the Indian government) and said “We will not limit the functionality of how WhatsApp works in the coming weeks”....