In late June, Arizona was confronting a dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases, forcing officials to reimpose a slew of coronavirus restrictions about two months after the state started reopening its economy. Today, that decision appears to have paid off. A CNN analysis of Covid-19 data from Johns Hopkins University shows that on July 8, Arizona…… MORE
Nearly 150 Vermont inmates housed in a private prison in Mississippi have tested positive for Covid-19, according to a release from Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC). Testing was ordered after six inmates returning from Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility (TCCF) in Tutwiler, Mississippi tested positive when they arrived at a correctional facility in Rutland, Vermont on…… MORE
Daisy Coleman, whose allegation of sexual assault and ensuing harassment was chronicled in the Netflix documentary “Audrie and Daisy,” died by suicide on Tuesday, her mother confirmed on Facebook. She was 23. “She was my best friend and (an) amazing daughter,” Melinda Moeller Coleman wrote. “I think she had to make it seem like I…… MORE
Three teenage boys were arrested after they fled police and ended up at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle in a backpack, according to a Palm Beach Police affidavit. The 15-year-old boys were arrested and taken into custody shortly after midnight on July 31, but CNN has only…… MORE
One of the pandemic’s best-performing new companies took a hit Thursday because of — you guessed it — TikTok. Fastly, a cloud computing service provider, has risen 364% in the Nasdaq in 2020, and has even outpaced Zoom during the pandemic. Yet President Donald Trump’s recent threats to outlaw TikTok — which accounted for 12%…… MORE
Here’s another casualty of Covid-19: E! News The entertainment news show, launched in 1991, was canceled in response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, a representative for NBC Universal confirmed with CNN Business in an email. In addition, E!’s seven-month-old celebrity news shows, “Pop of the Morning” and “In the Room,” a celebrity interview series hosted…… MORE
As the pandemic continues to surge across the country, colleges and universities are making multiple changes to try to keep students and staffers safe. So far, about 350 four-year colleges in the United States have decided to operate primarily online, according to data from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative.…… MORE
Hasbro says it is pulling a Trolls doll from store shelves after a petition with over 150,000 signatures accused the toymaker of promoting child abuse by placing a button on the doll’s “private area under her skirt.” The “DreamWorks Trolls World Tour Giggle and Sing Poppy” has a button on her stomach that when pressed…… MORE
Three Bon Appétit journalists of color said Thursday they will no longer participate in the Condé Nast-owned food brand’s popular video series. Priya Krishna, Sohla El-Waylly and Rick Martinez posted simultaneous announcements on social media about their decisions following their unsuccessful contract negotiations with the company. Krishna and Martinez alleged in their posts they were…… MORE
For more than a hundred years, the fossil of the Tanystropheus has puzzled scientists. The strange reptile — resembling a real-life Loch Ness Monster or a prehistoric crocodile crossed with a giraffe — was first described in 1852 and first reconstructed in 1973. Palaeontologists have long known that the species once lived in Switzerland’s Monte…… MORE
