The fall surge has ushered in daunting rates of Covid-19 spread, with 29 states reporting at least one record high day of new cases since October began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The record spread has brought the national total to more than 8.7 million infections and 226,723 deaths. And with this spike…… MORE
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Philadelphia police ask residents to stay indoors as spurts of violence erupt during protests over the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
The Philadelphia Police Department requested that residents in seven districts stay indoors as demonstrators took to the streets for a second night following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. Spurts of violence popped up during protests Tuesday, police said, including bricks being thrown at officers. Looting of retail stores in the city have…… MORE
Qatar ‘regrets any distress’ after women from 10 flights subjected to compulsory medical examinations at Doha airport
The government of Qatar has said it “regrets any distress or infringement on the personal freedom of any traveler” after it was revealed that more than 18 women from 10 different flights were subjected to compulsory intimate medical examinations following the discovery of an abandoned infant at Doha international airport. Speaking at a hearing in…… MORE
Antarctic fossil could have been the biggest flying bird ever, study finds
In the 1980s, paleontologists at the University of California Riverside visited Seymour Island, part of an island chain in the Antarctic Peninsula. They brought home a number of fossils — including the foot bone and partial jaw bone of two prehistoric birds. For decades, the fossils sat in a museum at the University of California…… MORE
Vanessa Guillen’s sister says ‘we still don’t know the truth’ about her death
Months after the remains of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen were found in Texas, her family says there are still many things they don’t know about her killing. The latest episode of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans” features Guillen’s mother and sisters in conversation with Grammy-winning music legend Gloria Estefan, her daughter and fellow musician Emily…… MORE
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Los Angeles Dodgers win World Series for the first time since 1988, defeat Tampa Bay Rays in six games
After a Major League Baseball season unlike any other, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 to win the best-of-seven series four games to two. Los Angeles has waited 32 years for this moment — and it came during a pandemic, in front of a…… MORE
Trump uses outdated thinking in attempt to woo suburban women: I’m ‘getting your husbands back to work’
President Donald Trump offered his latest appeal to suburban women Tuesday evening, promising to get their husbands “back to work” if he’s reelected. Claiming he was “saving suburbia” at a campaign rally in Lansing, Michigan, the President pitched himself as the candidate for suburban women voters because he’s “getting your kids back to school” and…… MORE
‘This is Us’ veers into current events, while introducing a new twist
“This is Us” pivoted directly into current events, tackling the pandemic and, more pointedly, the fallout from the killing of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. Yet the show also closed its two-hour premiere with another major twist in the Pearson family history, potentially adding a new long-lost relative to its ranks. Series…… MORE
LeBron James, CNN Films to produce documentary on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
LeBron James is hoping to shed some light on a tragedy that has been largely absent from American history books. James’s SpringHill Company is collaborating with CNN Films to create a documentary that examines the history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, according to news release. Dubbed “DREAMLAND: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall…… MORE
