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As countries consider back-to-school strategies for the fall, a coronavirus outbreak at a Jerusalem high school offers a cautionary tale.
In “Caste,” the journalist Isabel Wilkerson looks to other countries’ histories to show how our racial order is founded on a hierarchal structure of hereditary status.
Residents on Minneapolis’s North Side, which has a majority Black population, have mixed opinions on the City Council’s effort to significantly reduce the police force.
At every step in her political career, the California congresswoman had to be coaxed to run for a higher office. Now she’s a top contender to be Joe Biden’s running mate.
Even though coronavirus cases have surged again, craft distilleries say the business of making the disinfectant has become more difficult.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 2020, covering August 4, 2020.
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
The Chicks
Original Broadway Cast
Lil Baby
2020Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.[†]
On 4 August 2020, a major explosion occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, triggered by the ignition of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The chemical, confiscated in 2014 from the cargo ship MV Rhosus and stored at the Port of Beirut without adequate safety measures for six years, detonated after a fire broke out in a nearby warehouse. The explosion resulted in at least 218 fatalities, 7,000 injuries, and approximately 300,000 displaced individuals, alongside property damage estimated at US$15 billion. The blast released energy comparable to 1.1 kilotons of TNT, ranking it among the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded and the largest single detonation of ammonium nitrate.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]