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The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn.
The pro-democracy figure is the most high-profile person detained under the sweeping legislation imposed by Beijing. “It’s hard to believe this is Hong Kong,” said a journalist.
Several Black City Council members have lashed out at progressives, comparing calls to defund the police to “colonization” and “political gentrification.”
A fear of hospitals is leading many Mexicans to delay treatment for coronavirus until it is too late for doctors to help them.
Usually during an economic downturn, people tend to spend less on health care for pets. This time, the opposite is happening.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2020, covering August 10, 2020.
Taylor Swift
Logic
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
Original Broadway Cast
2020Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.[†]
The 2020 Midwest derecho was an unusually destructive and extremely powerful progressive derecho that devastated much of the Midwestern United States, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some areas reported torrential rain and large hail.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]