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Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday as the government braced for reprisal shootings after an attempt on a gang leader’s life, officials said. The dual-island Caribbean nation off the coast of Venezuela will use the emergency to launch an anti-gang crackdown, authorities said. Though there will be no curfew, the declaration will come with increased police …

Facing a public relations checkmate, the International Chess Federation surrendered and allowed world champ Magnus Carlsen to wear jeans Monday at the World Blitz Championship in New York City. “I sincerely regret that this situation escalated without a resolution being found by both sides in time to prevent Magnus’s withdrawal,” Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the chess federation, which uses the …

After the sophomore-season premiere of Netflix’s wildly popular thriller series “Squid Game,” many viewers are criticizing the South Korean show for casting a straight, cisgender male actor as a transgender woman contestant in the deadly games.  The new season, which debuted Thursday, features actor Park Sung-hoon, known for playing villains in the television series “The Glory” and “Queen of Tears,” as …