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Ask HN: Small indie game studio Twitter account blocked from ads
All I did was announce we won a grant to make our first game in Arabic, and promoted that post. Go banned for “Unacceptable business practices such as deceptive or misleading or false claims”. To be clear it’s not associate with anything crypto either. Just a standard indie game studio making a game in Arabic, …
Transgender medication law in Alabama blocked by judge
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke issued a preliminary injunction to stop the state from enforcing the medication ban, which took effect May 8, while a …
New Zealand Prime Minister says nations must treat each other like ‘another state’; Nearly half of new US virus infections are in just five states; EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link; Eu denies it blocked vaccines to Australia
By Mark Saunokonoko 22:55 Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to go quietly after being dumped from a NSW climate change board, accusing the state government of being swayed by global warming deniers and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Speaking on Today, Mr Turnbull claimed the Berejiklian government “couldn’t take the heat” from “thugs and …
Evergreen truck, like the Evergreen ship, blocked a Chinese highway
No, you’re not imagining things. Evergreen, whose container ship Ever Given was just extracted from the Suez Canal Monday morning after blocking traffic through the vital Middle Eastern artery for days, was at the center of yet another bottleneck. A truck bearing one of its containers blocked a highway in China after what appeared to …
Suez Canal Blocked After Container Ship Gets Stuck
CAIRO — An enormous container ship became stuck while traversing the Suez Canal late Tuesday, blocking traffic through one of the world’s most important shipping arteries and threatening to add one more burden to a global shipping industry already battered by the coronavirus pandemic. The ship, which was heading from China to the port of …
BREAKING: 14th Street Bridge Blocked By Protests
(Updated at 4:55 p.m.) A large group of demonstrators blocked the outbound 14th Street Bridge between D.C. and Arlington during the evening rush hour. Protesters were sitting down across the main southbound bridge span, according to D.C. police, but then started marching towards Arlington. The group — said to number in the hundreds — previously …
Senate stimulus bill blocked again as talks continue
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, left, speaks to members of the media in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Democrats and Republicans on Monday continued negotiations over a massive stimulus funding package that failed to get enough votes in …
TikTok says sorry to US teenager blocked after sharing Xinjiang videos | Technology
TikTok has apologised for blocking a US teenager from the Chinese-owned video sharing platform after she posted videos highlighting Beijing’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang. A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a makeup tutorial to avoid being …
The Health 202: A judge has blocked the Trump administration’s ‘conscience protection’ rule
THE PROGNOSIS Roger Severino, director of the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) The Trump administration argues it needs better tools to investigate a growing pile of complaints from medical providers that their religious freedom has been violated. A federal judge dismissed its claims yesterday, in a ruling that blocks a new “conscience …
WATCH: Kansas defeats Texas Tech after Red Raiders clumsily fumble away blocked field goal attempt
Sometimes, Les Miles magic seems to come out of nowhere, for no reason whatsoever, other than to make the impossible, possible. If this late-game series of events between Kansas and Texas Tech isn’t a sprinkle of that magic, I don’t know what is. To set the scene, the Jayhawks and Red Raiders were tied at …