Over 750 faculty at Georgia Tech signed a letter to the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents saying that the school’s plan to reopen campus without facemask requirements is dangerous and not based on science. “We are alarmed to see the Board of Regents and the University System of Georgia mandating procedures that do…… MORE
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Girl, 7, and teens among the victims in Chicago’s violent July 4 weekend
A 7-year-old visiting a relative on Chicago’s West Side was fatally shot while playing with a group of kids — among the victims of a violent holiday weekend, the Chicago Police Department said Sunday. A 14-year-old was killed in a separate shooting, police said. The violence comes amid an uptick in shootings and homicides in…… MORE
Formula One drivers divided as several choose not to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter movement
The Formula One grid was divided ahead of the sport’s return as several drivers, including Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, chose not to kneel in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. All 20 drivers congregated on the start line before the Austrian Grand Prix, the first race of the season following the three-month delay…… MORE
Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Trump’s ‘priorities are all wrong’
Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s divisive message at Mount Rushmore over the weekend, saying his “priorities are all wrong” and adding that he has failed in his response to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump on Friday delivered a message that stoked racial and cultural division in the US, instead of unifying…… MORE
Seattle protester who was struck by a car has died
A 24-year-old activist who was struck by a vehicle during a protest in Seattle early Saturday morning has died, a spokesperson for UW Medicine told CNN. Summer Taylor, the protester, was fatally injured when a man drove onto the closed Interstate 5 freeway into a crowd of protesters. Another protester, 32-year-old Diaz Love, was also…… MORE
FDA commissioner refuses to defend Trump claim that 99% of Covid-19 cases are ‘harmless’
The commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration on Sunday declined to defend President Donald Trump’s unfounded claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” and repeatedly refused to say whether Trump’s remark is true or false. “I’m not going to get into who is right and who is wrong,” Dr. Stephen Hahn,…… MORE
The pandemic could expose more Wirecards
The coronavirus pandemic has already seen one major accounting fraud. There could be more to come. The implosion of digital payments company Wirecard has set off a huge scandal in Germany, where financial regulators, auditors and the firm’s supervisory board are being asked how they missed a $2 billion fraud. Journalists, whistleblowers and skeptical investors…… MORE
These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era
The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 years ago, when Civil Rights-era reforms were enacted to expand opportunity and limit outright racial discrimination. Like the protests in the 1960s, the recent waves of rallies following Black…… MORE
They envisioned a world without police. Inside Seattle’s CHOP zone, protesters struggled to make it real
In Wednesday’s early morning hours, Seattle police cleared the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, a relatively quiet end to a demonstration that had evolved into an art party, a garden, a tourist attraction, a tent city, a presidential fixation and the scene of multiple shootings, two of them fatal. “This is like being rescued by…… MORE
This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It’s worked for over 30 years
Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn’t necessarily require police intervention. In the town of 172,000, they were the first responders for mental health crises, homelessness, substance…… MORE
