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Satya Nadella, Shantanu Narayen among prominent investors in USA's first T20 league

NEW YORK: In a significant push to popularise cricket in the US, a USD 120 million funding has been secured from prominent Indian-American business leaders, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to launch the first professional T20 league in the US.

The Times of India · May 20, 2022

Ramesh Ponnuru: Great replacement theory is a grand delusion

When a killer expounds on his derangements, it poses a special challenge. We have to take his words seriously without, at the same time, taking them seriously; to understand their import without paying them respect. In the case of the mass murderer of Buffalo, New York — I see no…

Tribune News Service · May 20, 2022

Commentary: Fight hate with speech, not with censorship

The man accused of killing 10 African Americans at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was virulently antisemitic as well as a racist. Indeed, he blamed Jews for the so-called “great replacement” — a belief based on a racist conspiracy theory that nonwhite people are being used to replace white people.

Chicago Tribune · May 20, 2022

Pete Alonso's walk-off blast in 10th powers Mets to dramatic win

NEW YORK — Pete Alonso’s 10th-inning leadoff, walk-off, two-run homer gave the Mets a 7-6 victory over the Cardinals on Thursday afternoon at Citi Field.

Newsday · May 19, 2022

The Aristocrats: Consumer Online Reviews Are on "Issue[s] of Public Interest" for N.Y. Anti-SLAPP Purposes

From Aristocrat Plastic Surgery, P.C. v. Silva, decided today by a New York intermediate appellate court, in an opinion by Justice Julio Rodriguez III: The primary issue on this appeal is the scope of "public interest" as defined in the 2020 amendments to New York State's anti-strategic lawsuit against public…

Reason · May 19, 2022

New York State passes bill limiting use of song lyrics as evidence

"Creative expression" will no longer be allowed as sole evidence.

Mic · May 19, 2022

After Buffalo, civil rights leaders pitch anti-hate plans

The nation’s oldest civil rights organization said it will propose a sweeping plan meant to protect Black Americans from white supremacist violence in response to a hate-fueled massacre that killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, last weekend

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022

Max Scherzer diagnosed with oblique strain, will miss six to eight weeks

NEW YORK — Max Scherzer’s official injury diagnosis is in.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022

Census misses may have cost Florida and Texas in redistricting

WASHINGTON — Census miscounts in Texas and Florida may have been big enough to cost those states a congressional seat this decade, and may have helped states such as Rhode Island keep a seat, according to data in a Census Bureau report released Thursday.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022

Armageddon Time review – Hopkins and Hathaway can’t save this stagy tale of a quasi-Trump

A middle-class boy capitalises on his privilege in Reagan-era New York in James Gray’s uncharacteristically syrupy movie

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2022