On a day when 11 people were shot, two fatally, amid months of soaring gun violence in Chicago, a memorial honored a police officer who was shot 10 years ago in the back with his own gun and then, as he lay fallen, shot in the head at close range. Chicago Police holds a memorial […]
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Spanish Archaeologists Dig Up Dozens Of Mysterious Tiny Human Figures
Dozens of tiny flint figures were found by scientists working in Jordan, thousands of years after they were likely used in funerals and memorial ceremonies. The dozens of tiny human figures were found by Spanish archaeologists surrounding human remains and are believed to have been used in rituals to celebrate the dead more than 10,000 […]
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WATCH: President Trump wants ‘schools open in the fall’
Florida schools will reopen in the fall, thanks to an executive order signed by that state’s Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. And Florida, where President Trump maintains residency, won’t be the only state where children will head to classrooms if the president has anything to do with it. The order was signed Monday, and says schools […]
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UDC quietly offers to remove Confederate monument as protesters clamor for statues to fall
RICHMOND, Virginia—A large crowd gathered in a heavy downpour to watch history being made: The removal of the monument celebrating Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Church bells rang in the distance as work crews took power tools to the feet of the statue. Once removed, the monument was placed on a flatbed and taken to an […]
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Fight Break Out Over Food Shortage As Refugees Go Hungry
Kampala, Uganda—With food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into a food shortage troubling all of Central Uganda. She braved the early morning chill and walked 16 kilometers, nearly 10 miles, from her home in Ndejje, a village on the […]
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Test Your News Knowledge With Zenger: Another Statue Taken Down
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Driveway Drag Shows and Backyard Violins: Business Takes Off For Performers Who Deliver
Artists are blazing a new path to battle isolation, boredom and sagging spirits: home delivery. Michelle Livigne has been a drag entertainer in Richmond, Virginia, for 12 years, and missed the camaraderie of friends and coworkers. She casually joked on social media about doing driveway drag shows. In less than 72 hours, she had more […]
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African Americans Die More Frequently From COVID-19, But MIT Researchers Say Poverty Isn’t Why
(By pixelheadphoto digitalskillet_Shutterstock) Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research assistant Bora Ozaltun analyzed daily Covid-19 death rates for a nearly two-month period for counties and […]
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Test Your News Knowledge With Zenger: A Royal Birthday Celebration
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WATCH: Lee blasts ‘anti-American’ groups: ‘The mob hates America on America’s dime’
‘ Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah threatened Thursday to pull federal funding away from America’s cities and institutions of higher learning who he claimed have formed an “anti-American, anti-science, anti-establishment, anti-Constitution mob.” In a Senate floor speech before Congress’s Independence Day recess, Lee introduced a non-binding resolution condemning “mob violence and criminal property destruction, […]
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Movie review: ‘The King of Staten Island’
If you haven’t found Pete Davidson funny after six years on “Saturday Night Live,” two hours watching his semi-biographical film “The King of Staten Island” likely won’t change your mind. Prolonged adolescence, arrested development,and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have become cultural mainstays for the generation who have grown up post-9/11, and Davidson is a member […]
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16-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man
Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old man a few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. “I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and schools will never reopen,” she said. Her father explained that an […]