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social distancing

Family Caught on Video Attacking a Teen Chili's Hostess for Enforcing COVID Rules
The Baton Rouge incident is another in the spate of attacks on retail employees trying to do their jobs as businesses reopen.
Trone Dowd
8.14.20
Coronavirus

I Lost My Place at Oxbridge Due to England's Exam Results Algorithm
Yesterday's A-Level results fiasco resulted in 40 percent of grades being marked down. We spoke to one of the many students impacted.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
8.14.20
Tech news

A 'Violent Clash of Opposing Wills': How the U.S. Is Defining Space Warfare
'Spacepower: Doctrine for Space Forces' is our clearest window into the Space Force's mission yet, and it's not pretty.
Matthew Gault
8.14.20
Politics

Black Lives Matter Isn't Going to Just 'Shut Up and Vote' for Kamala Harris
Refusing to account for her "top cop" record risks squandering the energy and enthusiasm of the BLM criminal justice reform movement.
Chris Roberts
8.14.20
Tech news

Facebook Abandoned Drilling Equipment Beneath the Ocean Floor
A Facebook subsidiary abandoned drilling equipment, broken piping, and 6,500 gallons of bore gel off the Oregon coast while constructing an undersea cable. The tech giant says that's fine, but environmental experts disagree.
Maddie Stone
8.14.20
Cocaine

Cops Are Seizing Massive Amounts of Cocaine in Honduras During COVID-19
It’s a huge uptick from 2019 in this key transit nation where the president has been implicated by drug traffickers.
Deborah Bonello
8.14.20
qanon

QAnon Is Now Involved in an Alleged Child Kidnapping Case
A woman in Douglas County, Colorado, allegedly plotted a raid to kidnap her son from foster care with the help of QAnon.
Paul Blest
8.14.20
Belarus

Detainees Say They Were Stripped and 'Sadistically' Beaten by Belarusian Authorities
Police officers are accused of threatening women with rape and indiscriminately beating prisoners.
VICE News
8.14.20
police

Irregular Periods and Horrible Headaches: How Tear Gas Is Making Portland Sick
“It just felt like a bomb went off on the city,” said one Portland resident, who’s planning to move.
Abe Asher
8.14.20
Coronavirus

Airbnb to Ban Some Under-25s from Renting Holiday Homes
Restrictions from the rental website are intended to clamp down on "unauthorised parties".
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
8.14.20
Politics

The USPS Just Admitted Mail-in Ballots in Pennsylvania Might Not Be Delivered in Time
Pennsylvania was decided by less than 1%, or 44,292 votes, in 2016.
David Gilbert
8.14.20
the mail

Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting
'This will slow mail processing,' a union official wrote on one of the documents announcing the machine removals.
Aaron Gordon
8.14.20
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