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Miami—Three people are dead and at least six others injured following a shooting at a Florida graduation party, the latest in a string of such violence in the Miami area, police said Sunday. One of those killed was a state corrections officer, Miami-Dade police Director Freddie Ramirez told news outlets. He said the party at a strip mall lounge was ending when one or more vehicles “pulled up and began to fire into the crowd.”(Snip) Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she was “horrified” by this latest shooting. “We will not allow a small group of violent actors to terrorize our community,
Washington Times,
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Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis for a third straight night over the death of a Black man who was shot and killed after firing at officers who sought to take him into custody for a felony firearms violation. Demonstrators blocked streets Saturday night in the Uptown neighborhood where the shooting occurred following a Friday candlelight vigil that spiraled into unrest, resulting in Minneapolis police making 27 arrests on rioting and weapons charges, according to media outlets.(Snip) The Uptown Association reported that several businesses, including a CVS, Walgreens and T-Mobile store, were looted and vandalized in the Thursday night unrest,
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew boos and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was formally censured at the state's GOP convention Saturday for what critics say were their roles in former President Donald Trump's loss in the pivotal state last November. Kemp has been criticized by the former president and his supporters for his certification of the state's election results that favored Joe Biden, while Raffensperger was chastised for his allowing the use of absentee ballots this past election, which backers of Trump's stolen election claim say allowed for widespread voter fraud.(Snip) The jeers drowned out Kemp's speech for about 30 seconds
Guardian [U.K.],
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Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, says the latest round of conservative attacks against him are "nonsense" attacks on science. The doctor appeared on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC to discuss a trove of emails of his that were obtained by BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post that are at the heart of the recent criticisms. "Dr Fauci is the subject—in a negative way—of every hour on Fox News prime time now, where they think he can somehow be blamed for causing Covid or something, since he's the country's lead scientist on it. Or maybe he's a secret Chinese communist.
New York Post,
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Samuel Chamberlain
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The Nigerian government announced Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s operations in the West African country—but drew mockery for posting its statement about the ban on Twitter. Minister for Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the country had “suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria.” The statement, posted on the ministry’s official Twitter account, cited “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.”
The suspension came two days after the social media giant deleted a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.
Daily Mail (UK),
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University graduates have designed a women's urinal they claim is six times more efficient than the traditional lockable toilet. Amber Robyn and Hazel McShane, who graduated from the University of Bristol last year, designed the hands-free Peequal when they were asked to solve a 'real life problem' for their masters project.(Snip) Not wasting time on opening and closing doors and cleaning toilet seats, or laying toilet paper out over the seat, are also ways the design improves efficiency. A prototype of the urinal, which is semi-private so others waiting to use the Peequal can't see anything from the waist down,
New York Post,
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John Mac Ghlionn
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In 2019, Google embarked on a mysterious-sounding venture. Called Project Nightingale and carried out in secret, the tech giant teamed up with St. Louis-based Ascension, one of the largest private health-care companies in the country. Google was granted complete access to 50 million patients’ names, lab results, diagnoses and hospitalization records, as well as their home addresses and places of employment. Even more worryingly, at no time did Ascension or Google make an attempt to inform the patients or ask for their consent.(Snip) Now, hungry for even more medical data, Google has signed a multiyear deal with HCA, an American for-profit operator
Daily Mail (UK),
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Ariel Zilber
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A 21-year-old Amazon delivery woman viciously beat another woman, 67, who had called her a bi**ch after the San Francisco-area driver told her to 'check her white privilege' when she'd complained about a delayed package. Itzel Ramirez, the Amazon driver, was arrested after she was filmed assaulting the woman in Alameda County, the sheriff’s office said on Friday.(Snip) ‘I believe the Amazon driver said something about “your white privilege,” and my tenant said, “You don’t need to be a b***h about it,” turned around and walked away,’ Smith told KTVU-TV. Ramirez was so enraged that she began punching
New York Post,
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Conor Skelding
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The Dr. Anthony Fauci email dump includes a puzzling image—a March Madness-style tournament bracket of fatal diseases, in which coronavirus emerges as champion. The image is titled “Dr. Fauci’s March Madness Bracketology Picks.” It is dated March 11, 2020, and signed “—Tony F.” In the morbid pool, coronavirus—top-seeded out of the East region—defeats a field that included such dreaded diseases as Ebola, H1N1, Zika, herpes, and measles.
Whether it was a weak attempt at gallows humor among Fauci and his friends, or a published cartoon being forwarded around, isn’t clear. But the image did generate shock on social media.
Washington Times,
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David Sherfinski
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President Biden on Thursday issued a memo that establishes anti-corruption efforts as a core U.S. national security interest and that is intended to get federal agencies to step up efforts on tackling corruption and illicit financing schemes. Mr. Biden said the U.S. plans to lead by example in what he described as a worldwide mission. “Corruption is a risk to our national security, and we must recognize it as such,” the president said in a statement. “Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It is self-defense. It is patriotism. And it’s essential to the preservation of our democracy and our future.”
New York Post,
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Samuel Chamberlain
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology was awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars more in federal grant money than chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci indicated to lawmakers last week, newly released emails show. The messages, obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, show that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) allocated $826,277 to the lab over a six-year period ending in 2019 via the New York City-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance.(Snip) Between fiscal years 2014 and 2019, EcoHealth received approximately $3.75 million in grant money to carry out its study titled, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergency.”
New York Post,
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Gabrielle Fonrouge
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The man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis cops Thursday had been wanted in connection with a felony arms conviction and been involved in at least 20 previous run-ins with authorities, according to records and a report. Winston Boogie Smith, 32, was gunned down in the Midwest city around 2 p.m. when he “produced a handgun” as members of a US Marshals task force tried to take him into custody on the state warrant, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department said. Smith—who once posed with civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and posted about the George Floyd trial—was wanted in neighboring Ramsey County for failing
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