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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex said the potential of young people of colour will go “untapped” until there is “equality of opportunity” with “their white peers” in an interview with London’s Evening Standard in line with Black History Month (BHM) in the U.K. However, Meghan hailed the success of the Black Lives Matter movement in creating a “reckoning” and described peaceful protest as “a beautiful thing.” She said baby Archie is “so good” and acknowledged the couple “are just so lucky” with the life they have created in California....

The Duke of Sussex appeared to put his back into it when lobbing a handful of confetti during his father’s second wedding. Footage of the moment at their Windsor wedding, on April 9, 2005, was watched 2.9 million times and received over 582,000 likes on TikTok. However, the poster added an extra layer of interpretation by overlaying dialogue from Season 4 of Netflix series The Crown of a fictionalized argument between Charles and Princess Diana about Camilla....

The prince was speaking at the Travalyst event at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Wednesday after returning to the U.K. from Canada to carry out his final engagements as a working royal. Harry would normally be addressed as His Royal Highness but he and wife Meghan will stop using their titles when they step down as working members of the royal family on March 31. Ayesha Hazarika, who was hosting the event, introduced him to the stage as simply Harry, telling attendees that he had asked for just his first name to be used....

The Duke of Sussex announced he was leaving the job he was born into almost two years ago in January 2020. Since then he has signed Netflix and Spotify deals, joined ethical bank Ethic and been named chief impact officer by career coaching app BetterUp. The prince was asked about “burnout and job resignations” in a Q&A with business magazine Fast Company. Prince Harry said: “I’ve actually discovered recently, courtesy of a chat with [BetterUp science board member] Adam Grant, that a lot of the job resignations you mention aren’t all bad....

Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was well-known for his public gaffes and off-the-cuff comments before retiring from royal duties, due to old age, in 2017. Before his death, the duke was the world’s longest reigning consort, with more than seven decades of public service. The couple married at London’s Westminster Abbey in 1947. With the wedding coming so soon after World War II, Elizabeth used ration coupons to buy material for her dress....

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left the media behind as they took the plunge in the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean. After jumping in off the side of a boat, the royal couple saw some colorful fish and got up close and personal with at least one nurse shark. Nurse sharks can be up to 14 feet but are slow moving and not considered dangerous to humans, according to National Geographic....

The Duke of Cambridge will say locking up your emotions is psychologically damaging in a clear break with the royal family and the British aristocracy’s image dating back decades. BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell gave an insight into what the 37-year-old royal will say in the BBC documentary Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health during an interview with the Radio Times. Witchell told the magazine of William’s “belief that too rigid an internalisation of emotions—so often the way in stiff-upper-lip Britain—is damaging to psychological wellbeing....

The footage, posted to the video-sharing network by user diana.supremacy, has been viewed over 325,000 times and gained in excess of 18,000 likes. Captioned “she just wanted to have peace with her boys,” the clips show Diana and Harry attending an event at the Olympia stadium in London’s Kensington neighborhood, a short distance from Diana’s apartments at Kensington Palace. A number of royal fans took time to comment on the video and the princess’ adoration of both Prince William and Harry, who were 15 and 12, respectively, when she died at the age of 36 in a 1997 Paris car crash....

While speaking Monday on SiriusXM NFL Radio, Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker revealed a class of 20 inductees for next year has tentatively been approved. The maximum number of inductees each year currently sits at eight. “It is extremely elite company, and it’s not the Hall of very, very good. It’s the Hall of Fame, and so it should be difficult to make it,” Baker said. “But there’s a lot of guys through the years [who have slipped through the cracks]....

Svyatik Artemenko, 22, had been visiting his home country, which his family left for Winnipeg when he was two years old, for a tryout with F.C. Podylla, a professional team in Ukraine. He was given an offer to join the club, and he had even signed a contract the day before Russia began its attack on Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainians reportedly enlisted in the country’s military in the hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the attack, which has now entered into its sixth day....

“The conduct of Mr. Wood, albeit not in my jurisdiction, exhibited a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication and surprising incompetence,” Judge Craig Karsnitz wrote. Karsnitz said that he is required to “ensure that those practicing before me are of sufficient character, and conduct themselves with sufficient civility and truthfulness,” particularly when out-of-state counsel is selected. Wood is based in Georgia. Noting Wood’s involvement in the Trump campaign’s unsuccessful efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, the judge wrote that he became concerned after reviewing the decisions made in lawsuits Wood filed in Georgia and Wisconsin courts....

Rioters, some of them armed, swarmed the Capitol as members of Congress were certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. Trump had encouraged the mob to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” to the Capitol building during a Wednesday rally. Police at the Capitol were initially outnumbered by the mob, allowing some rioters to enter the building. While some Congress members were either evacuated or sheltering in place, Richard “Bigo” Barnett of Arkansas found himself inside Pelosi’s office....

OR MAYBE it’s a town so committed to optimism–every Congress a fresh start, every presidency a new dawning–that somber contemplation of mortality is alien to its very nature. In Washington, even the darkest cloud must be found to have a silver lining–and the protocols of power demand that the discovery of this silver lining must be attributed to the president’s inspiring leadership. The starkest events are thus diminished even as they are remembered....

One possible complication of a knee replacement is stiffness after the surgery has been performed. People with a stiff knee after knee replacement may experience an inability to fully straighten the leg, to bend the knee, or both. This article explains what problems can occur after knee replacement surgery. It also discusses possible treatments for knee stiffness after you have this type of procedure. Assessing Risk Before Surgery When trying to predict the likelihood of stiffness after a knee replacement, the most important thing to consider is how well you can move your knee before having surgery....

Several of the symptoms of these conditions can combine to make you go straight from the shower and back to bed for the rest of the day. How’s that possible? Exertion Especially for those with ME/CFS, even small amounts of exertion can be too much. That’s due to a symptom called post-exertional malaise, which is a defining characteristic of this disease. People with fibromyalgia don’t have post-exertional malaise, but some have a similar type of exercise intolerance....

Geoffrey Girnun, an associate professor of pathology and Director of Cancer Metabolomics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in Long Island, has been charged with a seven-count indictment for theft of state and federal government funds, wire fraud and money laundering. According to the unsealed indictment, Girnun is accused of creating two sham companies that claimed to provide research items and equipment. Girnun submitted invoices from these companies, named Atlas Metabolomics, LLC and Empyrean Biosciences, LLC, to the university for research equipment that was never provided....

All the latest transfer rumours Rangers’ Europa League campaign was brought to a humiliating halt in the first qualifying round with a 2-1 aggregate defeat at the hands of Progres on Tuesday. And former Rangers midfielder Barton, who left Ibrox in acrimonious fashion last season, is not convinced the side from Luxembourg could cut it in the fifth-tier of English football, now known as the National League. “You can’t get away from it, it is a terrible result,” Barton said to talkSPORT....

Progressive lawmakers on Friday warned Democratic leadership that they could withhold their vote for the legislation if the Senate removes the wage increase. Their opposition could send the package back to be renegotiated, which would further stall the passing of the bill. “There are progressive Democrats that have that muscle in the House. If we as a party decide to stand down on our promise of elevating the minimum wage, I think that’s extraordinarily spurious and it’s something that as a party we could have a further conversation about how to fight for it,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, after suggesting that progressives should pressure party leaders by withholding their votes in the same way that moderate Democrats have done in opposing the package....

On Thursday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) urged President Joe Biden to enact changes in line with their policies by recommending that he issue a series of executive orders that would lower health care costs, cancel student loan debt and advance immigrant rights among other ideas. The 55 recommendations chosen by the caucus also aim to raise wages, expand police reform, address the climate crisis and implement tax changes—all before November, when the Democrats could potentially lose the majority and their chances at delivering the promises they’ve made their constituents....