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Biden to announce new steps to close racial wealth gap while marking 100th anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre The President will deliver remarks to memorialize the hundreds of Black Americans who were killed by a White mob that had attacked their neighborhood and burned dozens of city blocks to the ground. He will meet with surviving members ...
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Japan rallies to support Osaka after French Open withdrawal Japan joined leading figures in tennis in rallying around Naomi Osaka on Tuesday after the world number two withdrew from the French Open in a row about post-match media duties, saying she had been suffering from "depression" and "anxiety." One of the ...
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Have Three Children? No Way, Many Chinese Say Women worried that the move would only exacerbate discrimination from employers reluctant to pay maternity leave. Young people fumed that they were already hard-pressed to find jobs and take care of themselves, let alone a child (or three).
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Sri Lanka's burning cargo ship on track to become its 'worst environmental disaster' (CNN) A huge cleanup operation was underway for a sixth day in Sri Lanka Tuesday after a container ship laden with chemicals caught fire 12 days ago, inundating the country's western coastline with microplastic pollution and potentially hazardous waste.
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After Decades-Long Fight, Nevada Lawmakers Raise Mining Tax By SAM METZ, AP / Report for America. CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — In a state that produces more gold than all but four countries, lawmakers voted to reform how the state taxes the mining industry, passing a measure that will effectively double the amount of ...
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Vaccinated Americans Get Back To BBQs, But COVID-19 Still Ravages Latin America Government officials in Peru announced on Monday the country's official COVID-19 death toll had been far lower than the real number. Instead of 69,342 Peruvians perishing from COVID-19 as of May 22, as the Peruvian government previously reported, more ...
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Manhunt continues for gunmen after 2 killed, 20 injured at Miami-area concert MIAMI — Three gunmen in ski masks and hoodies ambushed a crowd leaving a rap album release concert at a club in Northwest Miami-Dade early Sunday morning, unleashing a barrage of gunfire that killed two and injured 20 others in what police said was ...
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Slightly Wetter Monsoon Season Possible This Year, Suggests IMD's Updated Forecast; Rainfall to be 101% of the LPA Tuesday, June 1: June 2021 is here, and in a 'normal' year, the magical monsoon should have set foot over India. Termed as the 'Real Finance Minister' of the country by former President Pranab Mukherjee, the monsoon rains over the next four months are ...
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The Latest: Chinese City Locks Down 2 Areas as Cluster Grows BEIJING — China's southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou has imposed lockdowns on two neighborhoods after an additional 11 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the city. The surrounding province of ...
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Cincinnati Reds get huge effort from a pair of unlikely players in 11-1 win over the Phillies The Cincinnati Reds haven't had a player hit for the cycle since 1989. But on Monday at Great American Ball Park, two players finished the game one hit away from that milestone. Shortstop Kyle Farmer and second baseman Max Schrock each had the best ...
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The Future of Afghanistan Hinges on American Dollars, Not Troops The key to the war in Afghanistan is not American soldiers but American dollars. The Biden administration should couple the withdrawal of soldiers with a long-term commitment to monetary aid which prioritizes sustainability, avoids unrealistic conditions, and ...
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Biden set for G-7 boost in bid for all nations to impose minimum global corporate tax Finance ministers from Group of Seven nations meeting in London on Friday are expected to back President Biden's call for a global minimum tax on corporate profits, giving him an early win in a grueling diplomatic campaign that is just beginning. Support our ...
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Fact check: No, the CDC did not release data showing 7 in 10 Americans are declining COVID-19 vaccine The claim: The CDC released data showing seven out of 10 Americans are declining a COVID-19 vaccine. As the vaccine rollout continues across the United States, posts emerged on social media claiming the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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New Zealand Latest Nation to Sign Space Agreement With NASA Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said New Zealand was one of only a handful of nations able to launch rockets into space. "New Zealand is committed to ensuring the next phase of space exploration is conducted ...
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China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu He was diagnosed as having the H10N3 avian influenza virus on May 28, it said, but did not give details on how the man had been infected with the virus. The man was stable and ready ...
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Giants hit 3 more homers to back Cueto, beat Angels 6-1 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Johnny Cueto danced and dazzled on the mound like the entertainer he is, and the Giants gave him three home runs to take a little pressure off — and take back first place in the tight NL West after a magnificent May. Evan Longoria ...
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WHO Gives Virus Variants New Names, Drawing From Greek Alphabet With coronavirus variants sweeping the globe, the World Health Organization has devised a less technical way of describing them than their scientific, number-heavy names -- using the Greek alphabet. Deploying letters like Alpha, Beta and Gamma -- instead ...
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Barcelona to bring defender Eric Garcia home from Man City Barcelona said Garcia's five-year contract will begin July 1 after his City deal expires. A buyout clause in his contract is set at 400 million euros ($490 million). Garcia joins Sergio Agüero in ...
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Báez goes deep twice as Stewart, Cubs beat Padres 7-2 CHICAGO (AP) — Javier Báez popped out of the dugout for a curtain call, acknowledging the continued chants of "Ja-vy! Ja-vy!" from the crowd at Wrigley Field. For the dynamic shortstop, it was just like old times. Báez and Patrick Wisdom each homered twice ...
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Israel's FM in Cairo discusses Gaza truce, possible prisoner exchange While Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Tel Aviv with Egyptian intelligence service head Abbas Kamel.
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How the 'Wandering Meatloaf' Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth The dentition of the gumboot chiton, a lumbering mollusk, contains a rare mineral never before seen in a living animal.
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Euro 2020: Gareth Southgate to break news to England's unlucky players Gareth Southgate will tell six players on Tuesday that their hopes of representing England at Euro 2020 are over, after deciding to wait until the last possible training session to finalise his 26-man squad. The England manager has until 11pm BST to submit his ...
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It's here: June 1 officially kicks off predicted above-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic But, for the seventh year in a row, hurricane season started early with the formation of Subtropical Storm Ana on May 21. The storm did not have much of an impact on the United States, but did increase the rip current risk along the North Carolina coast for that ...
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Bullpen implodes in 9-4 loss to Dodgers But when he pitched, the Cardinals won, because the offense scored a lot of runs. And then the Cardinals faced the White Sox and Lucas Giolito. That game did not go well. And now the Dodgers and Trevor Bauer. It's as if baseball was laughing at Flaherty's ...
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San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputy dies after Monday pursuit shooting Deputies attempting to pull over a motorcyclist in Yucca Valley on Monday engaged in a high-speed chase and shootout, with one deputy fatally shot and the motorcyclist killed in the gunfight. Late Monday, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said ...
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Man accused of plotting Walmart attack arrested in Texas Authorities searched his home and found firearms, ammunition, and more, including what officials called "radical ideology paraphernalia" such as books, flags and handwritten documents. Jail records didn't list an attorney ...
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Sputnik V vaccine: Consignment of 30 lakh doses from Russia land in Hyderabad Amid attempts of ramping up Covid-19 vaccination across the country, a consignment of three million doses of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Tuesday. A GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo ...
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Top Republican on House Foreign Affairs Committee calls Covid-19 origin 'worst cover-up in human history' The comments from McCaul follows a directive from President Joe Biden ordering the intelligence community to redouble its efforts in investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and to report back to him in 90 days. A US intelligence ...
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Russian police pull Kremlin critic off Warsaw-bound flight Kremlin critics have accused authorities of launching a campaign of arrests and intimidation against opponents of President Vladimir Putin ahead of parliamentary elections in September. Political activist Andrei Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound plane ...
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1.4m lower-income Singaporeans to receive GST Voucher cash payouts from June 23 In addition, some 950,000 Singaporean households in Housing Board flats will receive their quarterly GST Voucher - U-Save rebates and special payment in July, added MOF in its statement.
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Canterbury floods: Adverse event declared, funding unlocked for flood-hit farmers Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor has declared a medium-scale adverse event for Canterbury, unlocking $500,000 of Government support for farmers and growers affected by flooding. "The funding will help speed up the recovery of farming businesses, ...
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Blackpool RNLI volunteers save young person during busy bank holiday Blackpool's RNLI volunteers saved the life of a young person during a bank holiday period that saw them respond to eleven emergencies in five days. D class lifeboat in foreground and busy beach in the background. RNLI/Blackpool. Busy weeked for RNLI ...
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49 people killed in attacks on eastern Congo villages KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Armed attacks on two different villages overnight in Congo's eastern Ituri province killed at least 49 people, local government officials said Monday. Armed men besieged a camp for displaced people in the Bahema-Boga chiefdom ...
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Recovery effort underway for hiker near Telluride > Video above: Family of missing hiker launches campaign to help mountain rescue organizations, published May 23, 2021. Eells apparently fell while hiking alone on the Dallas-Gilpin ridge about 3 1 ...
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Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of full-scale civil war Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country's parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to protect themselves from a relentless campaign of military violence. Conflict has raged for decades in ...
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We must improve refugee camps through resilient infrastructure development War, conflict, disaster, displacement, disease, death, and devastation — all ominous words that we have come to collectively associate with settings of socio-political turmoil. From the growing insurgency of Boko ...
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