A marcher dressed as a rainbow gestures for the camera during the New York City Pride Parade on Sunday. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Tens of thousands of marchers paraded through New York streets Sunday in a huge LGBTQ pride parade, with many proudly carrying rainbow flags or carrying signs.
On foot, astride motorcycles or riding on flatbed trucks, participants slowly covered the 2-mile route from Midtown Manhattan to Greenwich Village, where the movement for gay rights was born after the so-called Stonewall riots of 1969.
Under a brilliant sun, hundreds of police officers and some of New York’s most prominent politicians — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Chuck Schumer, both Democrats — marched cheerfully alongside participants, some of the latter in the scantiest of outfits. (AFP)
Participants are ready with rainbow colored flags for a hot day at the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People wait for the start of the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
The Heritage of Pride march the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Women ride motorcycles during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People dance with rainbow flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People wave rainbow flags on top street posts during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Women ride motorcycles during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
The Heritage of Pride march the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Women riding motorcycles waved rainbow colored flags during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A marcher carries a sign in support of gay rights during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Supporters of Pride for Orlando march the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 25, 2017. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Marchers wave rainbow flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
The rainbow color flag is draped over 5th Ave. during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Performers entertain crowds during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A man waves a rainbow flag during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People wave rainbow flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
New York Senator Chuck Schumer marches in the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Confettii is shot into the air to at the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
The Italian LGBTI Association carry a banner and wave flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People wave rainbow flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Members of Nordics for Equality march in the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A performer in drag entertains crowds during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A marcher dressed as a the Statue of Liberty gestures for the camera during the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo marches in the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
People wave rainbow flags during the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
Attorney General Letitia James marches in the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
A declassified version of a U.S. intelligence report expected to be released on Thursday finds that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, four U.S. officials familiar with the matter said. The officials said the report, for which the CIA was the main contributor, assessed that the crown prince approved and likely ordered the murder of Khashoggi, whose Washington Post column had criticized the crown prince’s policies. President Joe Biden, a Democrat who succeeded the Republican Donald Trump five weeks ago, told reporters on Wednesday he had read the report and expected to speak soon by phone with Saudi Arabian King Salman, 85, father of the crown prince, the country's 35-year-old de facto ruler.
This wild sheep had a much-needed shearingrelieving him of over 78 lbs of fleeceThat's nearly half the weight of an adult kangarooBaarackLocation: Lancefield, AustraliaRescuers say he used to have an ownerbut was found wandering in a forestBaarack is now settling in with other rescued sheep in a farm sanctuary
Twenty20 specialist Mohammad Hafeez has declined a central contract offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board. The allrounder “politely turned down” a contract offer in category C for 2020-21, the cricket board said Wednesday. “While I am disappointed, I fully respect his decision,” PCB chief executive Wasim Khan said in a statement.
[FORMER CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF STEVEN SUND]: “These criminals came prepared for war. They came with their own radio systems to coordinate the attack, and climbing gear and other equipment to defeat the Capitol’s security features. I am sickened by what I witnessed that day.” Gripping testimony Tuesday from former security officials and other witnesses to the January 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol, as two Senate committees tried to unravel where the breakdowns in planning and response occurred that allowed the unprecedented violence to unfold. A key point of contention: Whether authorities rejected calling in the National Guard ahead of a rally by Donald Trump supporters out of concerns that doing so might look bad. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said in written testimony that he had requested National Guard troops two days before the event, but that the then-House of Representatives’ sergeant-at-arms, Paul Irving, told him he was concerned about the "optics" of having the National Guard there. Irving, however, on Tuesday appeared to refute that account:"Let me be clear: ‘Optics’ as portrayed in the media played no role whatsoever in my decisions about security. And any suggestion to the contrary is false.”If “optics” didn’t play a role in the planning stages, it did during a phone call that took place as the attack was happening, testified Robert Contee, the acting police chief in Washington, D.C. “Chief Sund was pleading for the deployment of the National Guard. And in response to that, there was not an immediate, ‘Yes, the National Guard is responding. ’ The response was more, asking about the plan. What was the plan for the National Guard? The response was more, in addition to the plan, the ‘optics’ – how this looks with boots on the ground on the Capitol. And my response to that was simply, I was just stunned.” The FBI also says it warned law enforcement agencies one day ahead of the siege that extremists were planning to commit violence.Sund told the Senate committees he did not see this report himself at the time. Irving also said he did not see the report – but said he was confident a proper plan was in place.PAUL IRVING: “We now know that we had the wrong plan.”Both Sund and Irving have since resigned from their posts. Five died in the Capitol siege. Over 200 police were injured.Senators next week plan to call witnesses from the FBI, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
The White House says it continues to stand by Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, despite the opposition of a growing number of Senators, throwing her nomination increasingly into doubt. (Feb. 23)
A 22-year-old Russian social media influencer is facing heavy criticism online for posing naked on top of an endangered elephant in Bali, Indonesia for her 553,000 Instagram followers. Alesya Kafelnikova received backlash for the short video she posted on Feb. 13, where she was filmed lying naked on top of a “critically endangered” Sumatran elephant, according to The Sun. In a follow-up post, Kafelnikova shared an image presumably with the same elephant and said in the caption, “To love nature is human nature.”
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin will throw his support behind Congresswoman Deb Haaland to lead the Biden administration's Interior Department, he said in a statement on Wednesday, likely securing her confirmation to become the first Native American in a cabinet position. Manchin's "yes" vote is seen as crucial to Haaland's confirmation because he is a supporter of fossil fuel development who wields significant power in a U.S. Congress split 50-50 among Democrats and Republicans, meaning every Democratic backer counts.
The White House on Wednesday announced that it plans to deliver more free cloth masks to 1,300 community health centers as well as 60,000 food pantries and soup kitchens beginning next month.
