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The Cleveland Browns
organizationThe Cleveland Browns beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 48-37 in the wild-card round. It was the Browns' first playoff win since 1994. Cleveland receive a date next Sunday (3:05 p.m. ET) against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Chris Whitty
personProfessor Chris Whitty has expressed concern that the UK is in the midst of the ‘most dangerous time’ of the pandemic. He warned the new variant is 'pushing things' in a way the old variant was not able to.
Amazon
organizationRight-wing social media app Parler was shut down by Amazon on Monday. Comes just after tech giant Amazon told Parler it would lose access to its servers for its failure to properly police violent content. Parler touts itself as being committed to free speech and has little moderation policy.
Mike Pompeo
personUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brands Yemen's Iranian-linked Huthi rebels as terrorists. Move in defiance of aid groups who fear it will worsen a humanitarian crisis. Unless Congress blocks the decision, the Huthis will be blacklisted on January 19.
Amazon Web Services
organizationGoogle and Apple have removed the far right-friendly Parler from their app stores. Amazon booted it off its web hosting service just after midnight Pacific time early Monday. CEO John Matze decried the punishments as ‘a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the marketplace’
Justin Thomas
personJustin Thomas heard using the derogatory word towards himself. World No.3 is expected to be fined for conduct unbecoming a professional. PGA Tour does not disclose specifics of such punishment.
Apple
organizationApple dropped Parler from its App Store, while Amazon’s cloud unit decided to stop hosting the social media platform from Sunday night. Google, which removed the app from its Google Play store on Friday, said that it created an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat”
Parler
organizationAmazon Web Services has suspended the pro-Trump social network Parler. The move threatens to darken the site indefinitely after its users glorified the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol. Amazon says it has found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence.
Mohammed Siraj
personSix spectators were ejected from the Sydney Cricket Ground for allegedly abusing Indian players on day four of the third Test. Indian fast bowler Mohammed Siraj stopped play and claimed to umpires he was on the receiving end of racist remarks. Incident took place after the Indian seamer pointed it out to the umpire from where the words were being hurled at him.
Amazon Web Services
organizationAmazon Web Services said Parler violated its terms of service due to an increase in violent content. Unless Parler is able to find an alternative hosting platform, the website will go offline Sunday night.
FA Cup
organizationSheffield United beat Bristol Rovers 3-2 to reach FA Cup fourth round. Everton beat Rotherham United 2-1 in extra-time at Goodison Park. Leicester City beat Stoke City 4-0 at the Bet365 Stadium. Crawley Town beat Leeds United 3-0 in FA Cup third round.
Chelsea
organizationChelsea beat Morecambe 4-1 in the FA Cup third round on Sunday. Mason Mount, Timo Werner and Callum Hudson-Odoi on target for Chelsea. PSV Eindhoven planning a move for Tottenham Hotspur's Toby Alderweireld.
LaMelo Ball
personLaMelo Ball scored 22 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out 11 assists. Karl-Anthony Towns played his first game back from a wrist injury. Nikola Jokic had 15 points and 12 assists to lead Denver past Philadelphia. Mikal Bridges scored 34 points and Devin Booker added 25 to lift Phoenix Suns to victory over Indiana Pacers.
FA Cup
organizationManchester United beat Watford 1-0 to reach FA Cup fourth round. Liverpool beat Aston Villa 4-1 thanks to two goals from Sadio Mane. Leicester thrash Stoke 4-0 with James Justin and Georginio Wijnaldum on target. Burnley avoided an FA Cup upset with a 4-3 penalty shoot-out victory over League One MK Dons.
Parler
organizationGoogle banned the far-right social media app Parler from its Play Store on Friday. Google cited 'continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the US' Apple issued a similar notice to Parler, but gave the app 24 hours to address the issue.
Chorley
organizationChorley defeated a Derby side reduced to fielding an entire team of youth players following a Covid-19 outbreak. No fans could watch the match due to coronavirus restrictions. Chorley have reached the third round of the FA Cup for the first time.
US President was banned from the social network on Friday. Twitter believes Mr Trump's tweets could encourage his supporters to plan protests and violent acts. It comes after riots took place in Washington DC on Wednesday. Several lawmakers had called for the social media network to take down Trump’s account.
Google Play
organizationApple also warned Parler on Friday that it will ban the service from its store if it doesn't start to moderate its content better. Parler is favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump Jr.
personTwitter announced on Friday night it has permanently banned the account of Donald Trump. Claimed in a blog post that it was due to the risk of 'further incitement to violence' The account had 88.7million followers, which is nearly half of the company's total base of monetizable daily active users.
Education
organizationAt least 11 of Trump’s aides or officials have quit since Wednesday, according to US media sites CNN, The Daily Beast, Axios, The New York Times and the Washington Post. Education Secretary Betsy Devos is the second Cabinet member to resign. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney also quit.