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LA Sheriff’s investigators classify Robert Fuller’s death as a suicide
US news Yesterday
The death of Robert Fuller, a Black man who was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California, last month has been classified as a suicide following an investigation. His case garnered national attention after his family said Fuller was not suicidal.
Seoul mayor Park Won-Soon found dead hours after being reported missing
World news Yesterday
The mayor of South Korea's capital city, Seoul, has been found dead. Reports indicate that the mayor, who was considered a presidential candidate for the 2022 election, was accused of sexual harassment by a former secretary the night before his death.
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The search for former Glee star Naya Rivera has turned into a ‘recovery mission’
Celebrity Yesterday
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the Glee singer and actor went missing on Wednesday in Lake Piru. According to local media, officials said they responded to a report of a child alone on a boat and found Rivera’s 4-year-old son. After hours of searching, authorities have shifted the search to a recovery operation.
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Michael Cohen heading back to prison for violating terms of COVID-19 release
Politics Yesterday
President Trump's former lawyer has been remanded back to federal custody for violating the terms of his furloughed prison sentence. Cohen was released from prison nearly two months ago amid COVID-19 concerns and was being allowed to fulfill the remainder of his three-year sentence from home. According to The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Cohen's return to federal custody was not related to photos recently taken of him dining at a New York City restaurant.
Five people arrested in connection with the murder of rapper Pop Smoke
US news Yesterday
Three men and two juvenile males were arrested in connection to the rapper's fatal shooting in February, the LAPD said on Thursday. The arrests come as Pop Smoke's posthumous album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, is poised to go No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
New report shows how COVID-19 has devastated LA's movie, TV industry
The pandemic has been horrible for shooting projects in Los Angeles. We now have numbers that show exactly how bad it has been.
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Parents face many unknowns on coronavirus risks in child care centers
Health officials are providing little detailed information on the spread of coronavirus in Texas child care facilities, and experts aren't sure to what extent children spread the virus.
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These are the top foods of 2020 so far
2020 has been a year unlike any in recent memory. People have had to get their meals in new ways more than ever, giving food-ordering services a new level of relevancy. Here’s what people have been eating so far.
Doctors strike, demand more protection as Covid-19 spreads in Africa
The frustration is palpable as physicians across Africa struggle with the virus in a region that is home to only about 3% of the world’s health-care workers and less than 1% of its financial resources.
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Allow Bill Nye to Reiterate Why Wearing a Face Mask Is So Important
"Everybody, this is a matter literally of life and death."
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George Floyd said ‘I can’t breathe’ at least 20 times in the minutes before his death, according to transcript of arrest
Black Lives Matter Yesterday
A newly-released transcript from a body camera worn by a Minnesota police officer showed that in the last minutes of his life, George Floyd said “I can’t breathe” at least 20 times while being restrained in a neck hold. Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck and is facing a second-degree murder charge, responded to his pleas for air and water by telling him to “stop talking.”
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Supreme Court rules Trump must turn over tax records to New York prosecutors
Politics Yesterday
On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld a subpoena issued by New York prosecutors to access President Trump's tax records. In doing so, the decision rejects Trump's assertion that sitting presidents should be exempt from criminal investigations while in office. Both of Trump's SCOTUS appointees, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, ruled against him.
Brazil is banning Amazon fires — again
Amazon deforestation has surged in the past two years under the government of Jair Bolsonaro Now, Bolsonaro is putting a four-month ban on fires in the Amazon and Pantanal regions to convince international investors that he's against its destruction.
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Former SDNY US Attorney Berman says AG Barr repeatedly pressured him to step down
US news Yesterday
Geoffrey Berman testified to the House Judiciary committee on Thursday, detailing the incidents in which he says US Attorney General William Barr asked him to step down from his post as Southern District of New York's US Attorney. The committee will meet with Barr in a few weeks.
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Political leaders in Bolivia and Venezuela test positive for COVID-19
COVID-19 Yesterday
Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez announced that she has tested positive, while Venezuela's socialist party leader Diosdado Cabello became the highest-ranking leader in the nation to contract the virus. Other Latin American leaders who have tested positive to COVID-19 include Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
Large swath of eastern Oklahoma upheld as a Native American reservation, Supreme Court rules
Politics Yesterday
Much of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, is affirmed as native land for purposes of federal criminal law, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The court ruled in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, finding that federal courts cannot prosecute tribe members for crimes that take place on their native land.
Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?
"Rather than stumble back into car dependency, cities can begin to undo their worst mistake: giving up so much of their land to the automobile," writes @fmanjoo. https://nyti.ms/3fadd4G
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1.3 million Americans file for unemployment as job losses continue
COVID-19 Yesterday
An additional 1.3 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, bringing the fifteen-week unemployment claims total to over 48 million since the COVID-19 crisis gripped the economy in March.
Some UK supermarkets are pledging not to stock chlorinated chicken
UK news Yesterday
Waitrose and Aldi made initial pledges and have been followed by M&S, Sainsbury's and the Co-op in not selling chlorinated chicken, regardless of any trade deal between the UK and the US.