The state is trying to recover tens of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits that it mistakenly paid thousands of Texans, many of whom have already spent the money and are struggling to return it. The Texas Workforce Commission sent 46,000 notices to unemployed workers seeking reimbursement of unemployment benefits …
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Hong Kong: Chinese Ambassador Warns UK of ‘Interference’
Screenshot Ambassador Liu Xiaoming said the UK had made “irresponsible comments” China warned the United Kingdom not to interfere with Hong Kong after the imposition of a new national security saw, as a pro-democracy activist called for international support. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming said the UK offer of a path to …
Read More »Shattered Frederick Douglass statue in Upstate New York Park
A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was downed and destroyed in upstate New York, on the 168th anniversary of his most famous anti-slavery speech. Rochester police said the statue of the former slave was taken Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the subway where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped …
Read More »Chinese officials suspect possible cases of bubonic plague
As if the new coronavirus wasn’t enough to worry about, a disease that caused the Black Death and killed about 50 million people in the 14th century may have raised its ugly head again, according to a report. Officials in China are on high alert after a suspected case of …
Read More »Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Pirates’ first days at camp were ‘dirty’, with mash chats and rash
TribLIVE’s daily and weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and the information you need, right to your inbox. The Pittsburgh Pirates opened their second training camp (aka The Deuce) on Friday at PNC Park, but closed it to the media in an effort to follow a late Allegheny …
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