By MARK LORENZANA The relationship between NBA superstar guard Kyrie Irving and sports-equipment giant Nike “is likely over,” according to Nike co-founder Phil Knight in an interview with U.S. cable news channel CNBC on Thursday, Nov. 10. Irving has been under fire recently for tweeting, on Oct. 29, a link to an anti-Semitic film, and refusing to apologize immediately after.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Aug. 25, the international streaming platform Netflix released a controversial true-crime series titled “A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair,” which tried to clear the name of the French citizen Florence Cassez and her longtime Mexican boyfriend Israel Vallarta Cisneros, both of whom were arrested in 2005 and charged with possession of illegal firearms, involvement
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON During his daily morning press conference held on the morning of Thursday, June 30, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) referred to Mexican advertising executive Carlos Alazraki as “a follower of Adolf Hitler’s thought” in spite of Alazraki being Jewish and an active member of Mexico’s Jewish community, sparking criticism over AMLO’s alleged antisemitism. Implying
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