Quote:...this lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of Plaintiffs … which have been overrun by the City of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large.

Quote:There is no public safety presence. Police officers will not enter the area unless it is a life-or-death situation, and even in those situations, the response is delayed and muted, if it comes at all.

BBC Wrote:A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country.
Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country's mining ministry for the gemstones, which had a combined weight of 15kg (33 lb).
"There will be a big party tomorrow," Mr Laizer, a father of more than 30 children, told the BBC.

BBC Wrote:All charges have been dropped against an indigenous chief who was battered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Video of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam being beaten by an officer on 10 March went viral.
The incident in Fort McMurray, Alberta, began over an expired registration plate. Mr Adam was charged with assaulting police and resisting arrest.
After seeing the clip, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had "serious questions" about the officer's conduct.

BBC Wrote:The US Defense Department has determined that 20 top Chinese firms, including Huawei, are either owned by or backed by the Chinese military.
The list, seen by US media, features video surveillance firm Hikvision, China Telecoms, China Mobile and AVIC.
The determination could lay the groundwork for new US financial sanctions against the firms.
It comes as the US has pressured other countries, including the UK, to bar Huawei for national security reasons.

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BBC Wrote:The US and Saudi governments have made a joint public appeal to the UN Security Council to extend the 13-year old arms embargo on Iran or risk a renewed arms race in the Middle East.

BBC Wrote:Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the European Union's ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours.
Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa's expulsion came hours after the EU placed sanctions on 11 Venezuelan officials.
They were sanctioned for acting against the national assembly headed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

NASA's First Planetary Defense Mission

NASA Wrote:Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon and the binary system was given the name “Didymos”—Greek for “twin,” a loose description of the larger main body and the smaller orbiting moon, which became unofficially known as Didymos B.In 2022, that moon will be the target of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first full-scale demonstration of an asteroid deflection technology for planetary defense. The DART spacecraft will execute a kinetic impact, deliberately crashing into the asteroid to change its motion in space. To mark this historic mission, Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

BBC Wrote:The US House of Representatives has approved new Hong Kong-related sanctions, after Beijing imposed a security law that was condemned by countries around the world.
The measure, which was passed unanimously, penalises banks that do business with Chinese officials.
It will have to be approved by the Senate before going to President Trump.
Critics say China's law ends freedoms that were guaranteed for 50 years when British rule ended in 1997.

BBC Wrote:Garfield County Sheriff's office said the woman had been at a party nearby when she took one of two flags being flown outside Alexander Feaster's home.
Mr Feaster, 44, then reportedly shot her in the back with a semi-automatic rifle as she ran away.
The 26-year-old woman is expected to recover from her injuries and Mr Feaster is being held in custody.

BBC Wrote:People testing negative for coronavirus antibodies may still have some immunity, a study has suggested.
For every person testing positive for antibodies, two were found to have specific T-cells which identify and destroy infected cells.
This was seen even in people who had mild or symptomless cases of Covid-19.
But it's not yet clear whether this just protects that individual, or if it might also stop them from passing on the infection to others.
Researchers at the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden tested 200 people for both antibodies and T-cells.

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Quote:The WHO quietly updated its “Timeline of WHO’s response to COVID-19” on Tuesday following the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans' mid-June Interim Report on Origins of COVID-19 Pandemic (led by ranking member and China task force Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas), which concluded that “despite public reporting to the contrary ... China never notified the WHO about the outbreak in Wuhan.” The change was spotted by McCaul and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

Quote:As Tedros and the WHO publicly praised China’s response, internal recordings show WHO leaders privately complained about China’s opacity.

Attorney Daniel Kaiser Wrote:"Ms. Maxwell was the ringmaster, she was the architect of Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring. She hid it. She maintained it. If not for her, the ring wouldn't have persisted for as long as it did and it would not have victimized as many people as it did, as many young girls, including my client."

Quote:Prosecutors are expected to ask that Maxwell remain behind bars, with a detention memo describing her as having a "strong incentive to flee" and posing "an extreme" flight risk. The document revealed that Maxwell had three passports, access to over $20 million and international connections.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea Wrote:“It’s bail reform. It’s covid. It’s emptying out prisons. One of the most frustrating pieces right now, is a criminal justice system that just is not working and I’m calling on Albany to fix it. Fix it now. People are dying on the streets of New York City.”

Quote:Durkan’s emergency order booting protesters from the six-block cop-free zone makes mention of the “narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity” within the CHOP since it first emerged in early June.

Quote:Seattle saw a staggering 525 percent spike in crime as a result of the violence that swept through the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, according to Mayor Jenny Durkan.

BBC Wrote:Ex-Green Beret Michael Taylor and his son Peter were held in Massachusetts in May, several months after Japan had issued warrants for their arrest.
The US authorities confirmed a formal extradition request was submitted.

BBC Wrote:Nathan Law, a one-time student leader and local legislator who spent time in prison after 2014's "Umbrella Protests", said he would continue his advocacy work from abroad.
He announced he had left two days after China brought in its new security law.
Activists say it erodes freedoms but Beijing has dismissed the criticism.

AP News Wrote:Confederate Army symbols within the military, including prominent Army bases named for rebel generals, are divisive and can be offensive to Black people in uniform

AP News Wrote:Johnny Depp said Thursday that his relationship with Amber Heard was “a crime scene waiting to happen,” but denied assaulting her during a drug-fueled rampage in Australia while he was filming a “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie.
The Hollywood star was giving evidence for a third day in his libel suit against a U.K. tabloid newspaper that called him a “wife-beater.”

BBC Wrote:China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uighurs and others.
The sanctions target the US-connected financial interests of regional Communist Party boss Chen Quanguo and three other officials.

BBC Wrote:Up to now, food and other aid for millions of people have come through two crossing points to Aleppo province and to rebel-held Idlib.
A Belgian-German draft resolution was a last-ditch attempt to prolong the deal, which expires later on Friday.
Russia wants one crossing to be open, and a vote on this is now expected.
Moscow argues that aid for Syria should be channelled through its ally there, the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

BBC Wrote:A bus driver has died in France, five days after he was attacked by passengers who reportedly refused to wear face masks, his family says.
Philippe Monguillot, aged 59, had been left brain dead after the assault in the south-western city of Bayonne.

BBC Wrote:So far, facilities across the US have reported over 126,400 confirmed Covid-19 cases leading to the death of 35,517 residents and hundreds of staff to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

BBC Wrote:at the White House, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue said Mr Trump's leadership was a blessing.
Goya Foods - sold in the US and many Latin countries - is the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the US.
But now many of its loyal customers and some high-profile Democrats are calling for the firm's products to be shunned.
On Thursday, Robert Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods, attended an event at the White House where President Trump signed the Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, which was described as an effort to improve access to educational and economic opportunities.

BBC Wrote:IUCN says global warming, industrial development, light pollution and plantations may be possible causes.
The IUCN says that in the 20th Century, a female hamster would give birth to an average of 20 baby hamsters a year, but this has dropped to only five or six a year.
There are 33 species of lemur which have been named by IUCN as critically endangered, with 103 of 107 types of lemur threatened with extinction.
This is mainly due to deforestation, although some species are also threatened by hunting.
The North Atlantic whale is said to be "one step from extinction", with fewer than 250 mature individuals believed to have been alive at the end of 2018.

Steve Bannon in the Article Wrote:He claimed: ‘They are not talking to the media yet, but there are people out of the Wuhan lab and other labs that have come to the West and are turning over evidence of the culpability of the Chinese Communist Party. I think people are going to be shocked’.

Quote:‘You essentially had a biological Chernobyl in Wuhan, but the centre of gravity, the Ground Zero, was round the Wuhan lab, in terms of the casualty rates. And like Chernobyl, you also had the cover-up – the state apparatus reports to itself and just protects itself.’