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Meng Wanzhou: Huawei executive suffers US extradition blow
A Canadian court has ruled that the case of senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is fighting extradition to the United States, can go forward.
Coronavirus: From ‘We’ve shut it down’ to 100,000 US dead
The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan – over an aggregate 44 years of fighting is almost exactly the same as the number of Americans who’ve now lost their lives to coronavirus in just three months of America’s war against the hidden enemy, as Donald Trump likes to refer to Covid-19.
NYC woman in viral Central Park video is fired: ‘We do not tolerate racism’
The white woman walking her dog in New York City who called police to report she was being threatened by “an African-American man” has been fired by investment firm Franklin Templeton.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-woman-in-viral-central-park-video-is-fired-we-do-not-tolerate-racism
TV host Jimmy Fallon ‘very sorry’ for 2000 blackface skit
NBC’s Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has apologised for wearing blackface in a Saturday Night Live skit from 2000.
What we know about the death of George Floyd
Government officials and Minnesota locals alike expressed outrage after a video surfaced showing a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man and ignoring his pleas for help until first responders put him, unresponsive, on a stretcher.
Larry Kramer: Playwright and Aids activist dies at 84
May 28, 2020
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Hubert Boles
Kramer wrote the landmark 1985 play The Normal Heart, about the early years of Aids, and 1992’s The Destiny of Me.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52821957