Beyoncé and Michelle Obama's Complete Friendship Timeline Is So Inspiring Jay Z and Beyoncé hold a fundraiser for President Obama. According to the Washington Post, Bey introduced POTUS by saying “I can’t tell you how proud we are to host tonight’s event with ... 04/7/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Michelle Obama Praises Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ and Her ‘Ya Ya’ Call to Vote Michelle Obama is part of the BeyHive, too. On Tuesday, the former First Lady shared a tweet thread celebrating Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter, describing the musician as a “history-maker” who has ... 04/2/2024 - 1:43 pm | View Link
Michelle Obama Loves Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' as Much as You Do Former First Lady Michelle Obama shared the album cover — which captures Bey sitting on the side of a white horse while carrying an American flag — on Instagram to simultaneously applaud the ... 04/2/2024 - 7:04 am | View Link
I worked closely with Michelle Obama, and she gave me the push I needed for my second act — entrepreneurship This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chynna Clayton, a 35-year-old entrepreneur from the outskirts of Liberty, Florida, about her experience working with Michelle Obama and ... 04/2/2024 - 12:06 am | View Link
‘The Gracies’ Complete Winners List: Michelle Obama, Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Nicole Kidman Among Women Honored With Awards This year’s winners include Michelle Obama, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Glennon Doyle, Rachel Brosnahan, Maria Shriver, Gayle King, Angela Yee, and Nicole Kidman, among many others. Some of the shows ... 03/27/2024 - 6:59 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.