Volunteer firefighter Mike Bruno climbs 110 flights every year to honor the firefighters who lost their lives at the World Trade Center on 9/11 🙏🇺🇸 #NeverForget
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The chime of a bell echoing in lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. began the somber remembrance of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
But annual tributes to victims and first responders looked very different than years past because of a global pandemic.
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Another 963,000 Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis -- the lowest number of weekly initial claims since the pandemic shut down the US economy https://t.co/nE9aEbPF9L
Noses in the trough. Yesterday it was well connected construction companies wining and dined each other with Tohoku reconstruction funds, today it's the extraordinary (and wasteful) way tax payers money is distributed to companies hit by Covid.
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"There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang"
China's ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming challenged over drone footage that appears to show Uighur Muslims being blindfolded and led to trains
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Japanese home-goods retailer Muji U.S.A. has joined the ranks of retailers seeking bankruptcy protection to reformat their businesses under the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/SADndp6hxz
Dr. Anthony Fauci: “You have an individual responsibility to yourself. But you have a societal responsibility. Because if we want to end this outbreak ... we’ve got to realize that we are part of the process.”
Language barring non-white people from owning or living on a property was woven into tens of thousands of deeds in Minneapolis — carving inequity directly into its map and setting the stage for one of the biggest racial wealth gaps of any major U.S. city. https://t.co/MWWsUTqG68