[WGN] CHICAGO — Chicagoans who lived through looting and burning in the late 1960s said many of those communities on the South and West sides have yet to recover. And they worry this week’s rioting in Chicago will set those communities back even further. Pastor Michael Eaddy was a 16-year-old junior at […]
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[FOX NEWS] LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A Black Lives Matter protest in response to the death of George Floyd on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday remained peaceful for several hours before SWAT units used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters. Las Vegas police line the Las Vegas Strip amid […]
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[The New York Times, Getty Images] As China projects its power across Asia, and along the disputed India-China border in the Himalayas, India is feeling surrounded. Both sides insist they don’t want a war, but thousands of troops have been sent. NEW DELHI — High in the Himalayas, an enormous […]
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[CNN] We don’t know about you, but we’re ready to travel. And that typically means flying.We have been thinking through this issue as moms and as an exposure scientist and infectious disease epidemiologist. While we’ve decided personally that we’re not going to fly right now, we will walk you through […]
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[AccuWeather, AP Photo] The same dome of heat that resulted in record-breaking temperatures across the West last week will shift eastward, bringing along summerlike conditions just in time for the start of meteorological summer. The same dome of heat that resulted in record-breaking temperatures across the West last week will shift eastward, […]
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[Forbes, Getty Images] Today the Space X Dragon “Endeavour” launched. It was the first time since 2011 that the U.S. had launched humans into space. The Commercial Crew Development Program was started during the George W. Bush administration, and was expanded through the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, approved by Congress and signed by President Obama. Jim […]
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[CBS SPORTS] The NBA is moving closer and closer to resuming the season, and has even reportedly set July 31 as the target date for doing so, but that does not mean that a consensus has been formed on how exactly the league should go about doing it. As of Friday’s Board […]
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[ABC NEWS] “I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump,” Lightfoot said. “It’s two words. It begins with F, and it ends with U.” Demonstrators took to the streets in Chicago’s Loop to protest in solidarity with those in Minneapolis calling for justice in the death […]
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[CNN] (Mexico City) For months, Latin America watched the rest of the world suffer as the coronavirus spread. It is a spectator no longer. “This is the new epicenter,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases at the Pan American Health Organization. Months after emerging from a relatively obscure […]
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[Bloomberg] Outbreak in Tennessee reveals virus spread across U.S. farms Farmhands work at grave risk and harvests are threatened One farm in Tennessee distributed Covid-19 tests to all of its workers after an employee came down with the virus. It turned out that every single one of its roughly 200 employees had […]
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