Fox News,
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Joshua Q. Nelson
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A magazine editor explained on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday why he's reconsidering whether to hire Ivy league graduates. "I would just say that 10 years ago I would have seen that as a big positive on their resume and now I see it as a negative that they have to overcome in the interview because obviously there is going to be great kids all over in higher [education]at different schools," said the editor of "First Things" magazine Rusty Reno. Reno said back then, the negative tendencies of Ivy League graduates was that they had a "sense of entitlement" and "arrogance."
NBC News,
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Antonio Planas
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6/8/2021 11:25:52 PM
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Tina Hailey spent hours this week at a Detroit cemetery where several of her relatives are buried, hoping their remains were actually in their graves as a backhoe excavated caskets in response to complaints that some of cemetery's deceased may have been misplaced. (Snip) The cemetery received the first complaint in April, according to the Detroit Free Press. The family sought to have the body exhumed in May and found that there were four bodies buried at the loved one's gravesite, but none of them belonged to the family. The cemetery created a hotline for families who had suspicions that
KSTP-TV [Minneapolis-St Paul MN],
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Rebecca Omastiak
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St. Paul Public Schools announced Tuesday classes at all schools in the district are canceled due to hot weather. The announcement states schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday, which is also the remainder of the school year. Students will not transition to distance learning, according to SPPS, but will have the opportunity to turn in any remaining assignments. Schools will also remain open through the week and next Monday for students to pick up and drop off materials. Athletics and graduation ceremonies will continue as planned, officials stated. "We are very sorry to have to end the school year
CNN Business,
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Chris Isidore
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Lordstown Motors, the startup electric truck maker, warned Tuesday it is close to running out of cash and may be forced out of business in the next year. The news, which sent Lordstown shares down nearly 8% in after-hours trading, is a blow to not only the company but also to the gritty industrial town from which it gets its name. For 53 years, Lordstown, Ohio, was home to a massive General Motors plant, which GM closed in 2019. (Snip) But Tuesday the startup said it no longer has enough money to start commercial production. It warned there is n
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Tim Harlow
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Minneapolis city crews returned to George Floyd Square early Tuesday to remove debris and makeshift barriers for the second time in an attempt to open the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue S to traffic. Crews moved in with front-end loaders and brooms just before 5 a.m. to move objects out of the way. (Snip) But as soon as workers were finished, protesters began parking cars and piling pallets in the streets again. George Floyd Square became a primary gathering place for grief and remembrance almost immediately after the 46-year-old man's death under ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's knee.
Washington Examiner,
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Katherine Doyle
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Vice President Kamala Harris compared her decision not to visit the southern U.S. border to not yet visiting Europe, arguing her task to stem migration to the southern U.S. border is about addressing root causes of the immigration surge. "We're going to the border. We've been to the border," Harris told NBC News's Lester Holt in an interview from Guatemala City when asked whether she planned to visit the U.S.-Mexico border. (She was referring to other Biden administration officials who have been there.) (Snip) Harris appeared to grow frustrated. "And I haven't been to Europe," she retorted. "I don't understand
Agence France-Presse,
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Staff
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When his father lost his job last year, Togi, then 16, wasted little time before looking for work to support his family, even though he knew it could put him at risk of contracting Covid-19. He ended up working at a fast food restaurant in a suburb of Washington, juggling the job with attending school held online as the world's largest Covid-19 outbreak tore through the United States. "It's exhausting," Togi said, describing long days spent between school and work, leaving little time for the teenager, who was born in Mongolia, to socialize. The twin health and economic crises caused
KMGH-TV [DENVER, CO],
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Gary Brode
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THORNTON, Colo. — A carousel horse at a park has been removed after the city was made aware of it's insensitive imagery. Over the weekend, M.J. Jimenez was riding the park's carousel with her 8-year-old niece. That's when she noticed the horse in front of her. "My mouth dropped open when I realize it was a Native American head in a saddle bag," said Jimenez of the carousel. The carousel was made in the 1920s. It was purchased by the City of Thornton from a local store that went out of business. It was moved to Carpenter Park in 2013.
Politico,
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Adam Cancryn
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6/7/2021 10:38:20 AM
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The Biden administration knew the key to a successful Covid vaccination campaign would be reaching the most vulnerable populations. But more than five months in, even a blueprint that’s worked with other ethnic and racial groups isn’t doing enough to win over Black Americans. Less than a quarter of Black Americans had received their first Covid-19 shot as of June 7 based on available federal data, amid a weekslong stagnation that has defied the government’s ramped-up effort to accelerate vaccinations and reach the nation’s most vulnerable communities. The slowdown has put Black Americans behind the pace set over the past
New York Times,
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Lisa Lerer
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6/7/2021 10:30:30 AM
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Is Kamala Harris drawing the shortest straws in the White House? This week, President Joe Biden announced that Harris would lead the administration’s effort to protect voting rights, a task he immediately said would “take a hell of a lot of work.” (Snip) Yet for a history-making politician with big ambitions, Harris has adopted an early agenda that has left some Democrats fretting about the future of a politician who is already positioned as a presidential-nominee-in-waiting. Both immigration and voting rights are politically fraught problems with no easy solutions. Democrats’ expansive election legislation has faltered in the Senate, with moderate
Power Line,
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Scott Johnson
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6/7/2021 9:38:44 AM
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Who can take a city, burn it to the ground? Umbrella Man can, at least according to the search warrant application/affidavit filed by Minneapolis police officer Erika Christensen in the summer of 2020. Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany told me he came across Christensen’s affidavit in a routine review of court filings. Libor reported on the allegations of Christensen’s affidavit in his July 28 story “Minneapolis police say ‘Umbrella Man’ was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting.” The story made waves around the world. According to Officer Christensen, Umbrella Man is a white supremacist who set off
The Week,
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Tim O'Donnell
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6/6/2021 5:47:11 PM
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Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), a progressive Democrat, had some harsh words for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) on Sunday after the latter made it clear he won't support Democrats' sweeping H.R. 1 voting rights bill. Manchin wrote an op-ed explaining his decision, which stemmed from his belief that a such a bill needs bipartisan support in combination with the fact that the For the People Act has no Republican backers. Jones was not impressed, tweeting that The Charleston Gazette-Mail, which ran the piece, should've titled it "Why I'll vote to preserve Jim Crow." (Tweet) Jones later appeared on MSNBC and elaborated
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Must be nice - just shut it down 3 days early. I wonder if they'll still get paid. /s off