More than 300 black artists and executives are asking Hollywood to make a change. After being shot seven times by rubber bullets in a recent protest, “insecure” actor Kendrick Sampson wrote an open letter “to our allies in Hollywood,” asking Tinseltown to “dispose of the police,” “invest anti-racist. ” content …
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Singapore heads for early elections despite coronavirus pandemic | News
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong dissolved parliament for early elections on July 10, months before its expiration and even as the city-state battles the coronavirus pandemic. The dissolution of parliament late Tuesday came just four days after the city-state lifted most of the coronavirus restrictions, and appeared to be …
Read More »Trump sees an opening in the war of statues
“I don’t like the idea of honoring the losing team with a statue,” said Stephen Miller, conservative media critic and contributor to The Spectator. But protesters have gone further in recent days, defacing monuments of prominent figures who owned slaves or oppressed minority groups, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. …
Read More »Pa. Coronavirus updates: 82,696 cases, 6,464 deaths. The new cases reach a 5-day streak not seen since May. Vaccine planned for early 2021. | Pa. COVID-19 county case map (06/23/20)
Total coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania rose to 82,696 on Tuesday, the fifth consecutive day of more than 450 new cases reported, the first such streak since May. In its daily update, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 510 new cases of coronavirus across the state. Thirty-eight more Pennsylvania residents died, …
Read More »Bill Cosby appealed in Pennsylvania sexual assault case, Andrea Constand reacts – CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave Bill Cosby the opportunity to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction. The 82-year-old man has nearly two years in prison for three to 10 years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, an employee of Temple University, at her home in 2004. …
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