close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Zach LaVine is an All-Star for the first time, and he wants more. Same for the rest of the surging Chicago Bulls . LaVine scored 35 points against his original NBA team, helping the Bulls beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-126 in overtime Wednesday night. Chicago shot 59% from the field and had seven players score in double figures. Coby White had 20 points, and Wendell Carter Jr. finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds. The Bulls (15-16) won for the fifth time in six games, but felt they should have played better against the lowly Timberwolves (7-26). Looking for the franchise's first playoff appearance since 2017, just winning isn't enough anymore. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "These guys have worked really, really hard, but I don't think that we played to the level of standard that we want to play to," coach Billy Donovan said. LaVine, named an All-Star reserve Tuesday night, made 14 of 21 shots in his 16th game this season with at least 30 points. The dynamic guard was selected by Minnesota in the first round of the 2014 draft and spent three seasons with the Timberwolves before he was traded to the Bulls in June 2017. "You always want to go and play good against the team that traded you, but also have love for them as well," LaVine said. Minnesota lost for the 10th time in 11 games despite a gutsy second-half rally while playing for the second straight night. New coach Chris Finch is winless in two games since taking over after Ryan Saunders was fired Sunday night. Malik Beasley scored 25 points for the Timberwolves, and Karl-Anthony Towns had 24 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Anthony Edwards added 21 points, and Jarred Vanderbilt matched his career high with 16. Towns fouled out on a questionable call with ...
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Music Industry Leaders Pledge to Participate in ‘Blackout’ to Show Solidarity with the Black Community
Leaders of the music industry have pledged to "disconnect" from business to support communities fighting against racial inequality as part of "Black Out Tuesday." In response to a massive wave of outrage following the death last week in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of George Floyd in police custody, major record labels denounced racial injustice on social media. They are calling for a "day of action" on June 2 to reflect and promote accountability, contemplation and change. "We stand together with the black community against all forms of racism, bigotry, and violence. Now, more than ever, we must use our voices to speak up and challenge the injustices all around us," Ron Perry, chairman of Columbia Records , a subsidiary of Sony Corporation America, said Thursday night. Warner Records made a similar announcement, pledging that activity at their labels will not continue to operate as usual, and committing to help Black Lives Matter and other organizations battling injustice. Universal Music, part of Vivendi, said on its Twitter account that they "stand with the black community," under the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused. Interscope Geffen A&M, part of the Universal group, said it would release no new music this week. #TheShowMustBePaused pic.twitter.com/Qf15vCbMQU — Universal Production Music US (@UniversalPM_US) June 1, 2020 Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge issued a memo to staff over the weekend outlining plans for a task force to "accelerate our efforts in areas such as inclusion and social justice." "This week, yet again, we saw our society's most painful realities about race, justice, and inequality brought — cruelly and brutally — into the harsh light of day," he wrote in the note, according to Reuters. Protests were ignited by a video showing white police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating Floyd, a black 46-year-old man, by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes shortly before his death May 25. Chauvin has been fired ...
US Race Solidarity Protests Erupt in Cities Worldwide
LONDON - Protests have erupted in cities around the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the United States. The protests follow the death in Minnesota of George Floyd, a 46-year old black man, last week in police custody. In central London, demonstrations turned violent Sunday as police tried to clear a road junction outside Parliament. Police made 23 arrests. Protesters accused the police of triggering the violence, an accusation that authorities denied. “We came out here peacefully to protest the injustice in the U.K.,” one demonstrator told reporters. “It's now a global issue with the murder of George Floyd, everything that's going on in the world.’ Hundreds of people also gathered in central London’s Trafalgar Square chanting, “George Floyd, Say His Name.” Demonstrators also chanted, “I Can’t Breathe” as they marched on the U.S. Embassy — the words spoken by Floyd as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd lay handcuffed and prone on the ground after he was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bank note. He was pronounced dead later that day. Chauvin was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Smaller protests broke out in the south London suburbs, home to many ethnic minority communities. “Can you imagine, we are in a whole world pandemic, and people are still brutalizing innocent people,” said a protest organizer named Aba. “When they stop, when police stop brutalizing innocent black people, then we'll stop.” The U.S. protests resonate with minority communities in Britain, said lawyer and activist Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. “Police brutality exists in the United Kingdom. Racial profiling exists in the United Kingdom, and it’s existed for the longest time,” Mos-Shogbamimu told VOA in an interview Monday. “And it means for a lot of black people, particularly young black men, that they are targeted simply because of the color ...
Trump Calls for Tougher Action Against Protesters
U.S. President Donald Trump lambasted the nation’s governors as “weak” on Monday, demanding they crack down on protesters and arrest them after six nights of chaotic demonstrations in dozens of American cities in the wake of the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis. The U.S. leader told the governors in a video conference that they “have to get much tougher” with demonstrators after watching as Sunday night protests that often started peacefully devolved into clashes with police and other authorities clad in riot gear. Police in several cities fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters to disperse them, even as some demonstrators torched police cars and also ransacked and looted stores. “Most of you are weak,” Trump told the governors. “You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again.” One of the protests unfolded just across the street from the White House in Washington where Trump has his residence. But protester clashes with police unfolded from coast to coast, perhaps the country’s most widespread uprising since the extended unrest spawned by opposition to the Vietnam war in the 1960s. The protests stemmed from anger over the death a week ago of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, who was pinned face down on a Minneapolis street by a white policeman, Derek Chauvin, who held a knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes even as Floyd said he could not breathe. Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the case. WATCH: Washington DC protesters explain why they are in the streets Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Download File 360p | 11 MB 480p | 16 MB 540p | 23 MB 720p | 62 MB 720p | 94 MB Original | 86 MB Embed Copy Download Audio Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
