(Reuters) – The following is a brief summary of some of the latest scientific studies on the new coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication in conjunction with Trinity College in …
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Employees at a Jimmy John sandwich shop in Georgia were recorded playing on a rope made from dough, and all were fired. A 16-second clip posted on Twitter Sunday shows a Jimmy John’s employee in Woodstock poking his head into a knot tied up by another worker. A third employee …
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(Reuters) – A predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Saturday, calling for the removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism. FILE PHOTO: A woman speaks in front of the …
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Despite public outrage and calls for its removal, the world’s largest Confederate monument has reopened just in time for the July 4 celebrations. Featuring a nine-story bas-relief stone of the Confederate “heroes” and slave owners, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial …
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – Some statues of figures from the past slave owner of the United States have been demolished by protesters, others dismantled by order of governors or city leaders. But the largest Confederate monument ever created, colossal figures carved out of solid rock on the side of a …
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