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Human Rights Watch has said comedian Aziz Ansari’s performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia was no laughing matter—and has refused his proposed donation. The top international rights organization has stated that it “cannot accept” money from Ansari or any of the other “over 50 global stand-up legends” who appeared on stage in the Middle Eastern kingdom. Instead, …

Editor’s note: Tony Grossi is a Cleveland Browns and NFL analyst for TheLandOnDemand.com and 850 ESPN Cleveland. He has covered the Browns since 1984. The Joe Flacco trade story is getting weirder and weirder. On Tuesday, the club’s announcement of the trade with the Cincinnati Bengals included no quote from a team official. I mean, Flacco took the team to …

When the Browns traded Joe Flacco to the Bengals on Tuesday, one question popped up for many: Does this mean Shedeur Sanders is now Cleveland’s backup quarterback? The team listed Sanders behind fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel as QB2 on its unofficial depth chart. But Sanders isn’t the only other healthy quarterback in the building, as the Browns also have Bailey …

Changes are coming to the Play Store in spite of a concerted effort from Google to maintain the status quo. The company asked the US Supreme Court to freeze parts of the Play Store antitrust ruling while it pursued an appeal, but the high court has rejected that petition. That means the first elements of the antitrust remedies won by …

Judge Declines to Immediately Block National Guard From Illinois Deployment After Pritzker, Johnson File Suit  WTTW News Illinois sues the Trump administration over National Guard deployment to Chicago  NBC News Texas National Guard deploying to Chicago on Monday  Military Times Donald Trump, Texas National Guard Illinois news: Troops traveling from TX to IL Monday, Department of Justice lawyers confirm  ABC7 Chicago White House mocks …

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals a noticeable change in how Earth reflects sunlight. Over the past two decades, the planet has shown a decline in its reflectivity, with significant regional variations. According to the research team, led by Norman Loeb from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, this trend could have …

Nearly four years ago to the day, someone ran Jon Gruden out of a job. Gruden now has the NFL on the run. After the NFL won a preliminary, three-judge ruling in the Nevada Supreme Court regarding the knee-jerk effort to divert any lawsuit against the league to the secret, rigged, kangaroo court of arbitration, Gruden persuaded the full seven-judge …

The business activity in the US service sector stagnated in September, with the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) declining to 50 from 52 in August. This reading came in below the market expectation of 51.7. The Employment Index of the PMI survey edged higher to 47.2 from 46.5 in August, while the Prices Paid Index, …

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin declined on Tuesday a lifetime achievement award he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago’s office of human dignity and solidarity. Cardinal Blase Cupich during a 2017 Chicago prayer walk. Credit: Simone Orendain/VOA. public domain. Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich issued an announcement on the subject at the same time senior leaders at the U.S. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined again in September as Americans’ pessimism over inflation and the weakening job market continued to grow. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell by 3.6 points to 94.2 in September, down from August’s 97.8. That’s a bigger drop than analysts were expecting and the lowest reading since April, when …