Miami Dolphins to admit 13,000 fans for NFL opener in ‘risky’ plan

Profit first, health a poor third?

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  • South Florida has been a hotspot for Covid-19 cases recently
  • Decision has divided politicians and upset opposition coach

The Miami Dolphins will allow up to 13,000 socially distancing fans to attend their home opener against Buffalo on 20 September, a decision that divided political leaders and upset Bills coach Sean McDermott.

The same plan will be in place for the University of Miami’s home opener against UAB at the Dolphins’ stadium on 10 September.

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Bolsonaro’s attempt to shut down debate over mystery payments backfires

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After Brazilian president threatens journalist over questions about family’s financial dealings, reporters flood social media with the same question

Brazil’s social media-savvy leader is facing perhaps the most severe online backlash of his presidency after unsuccessfully trying to snuff out questions about his family’s financial dealings by warning a journalist he wanted to “smash his face in”.

Jair Bolsonaro issued the threat on Sunday, after a reporter from one of Brazil’s leading newspapers asked him to explain why a former policeman with alleged links to Rio’s mafia had paid thousands of pounds into the bank account of his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro.

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LeBron James Launches A Campaign to Push for More Poll Workers – The New York Times

The project, a collaboration with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, aims to recruit young people to serve at polling locations in Black communities in swing states, including Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio. The effort will involve poll worker recruitment, a paid advertising campaign and a corporate partnership program that will encourage employees to volunteer as poll workers.

Election officials throughout the country have reported a shortage of poll workers to staff in-person voting sites amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has upended every facet of American life — including the electoral process.

Thousands of Palestinian homes in occupied al-Quds face demolition threat: PA official | PNN

Israeli officials have issued nearly 650 demolition orders against Palestinian-owned structures in Jerusalem since the beginning of the current year.

Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes and structures in occupied Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank are part of a plan by the regime to expand settlements and force Palestinians from their homes and land.

Israeli officials say demolition orders are carried out because the Palestinian-owned structures have been built without the required construction permits.

Palestinians, on the other hand, argue such authorization is routinely denied, forcing unlicensed building.

According to Israeli rights group B’tselem, Israel has demolished hundreds of houses over the years as part of Israel’s “collective punishment” policy, leaving thousands of Palestinians homeless.

Source: Thousands of Palestinian homes in occupied al-Quds face demolition threat: PA official | PNN

Ending This American Darkness — The Weekly Sift

Love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment. This is our mission. May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight as love and hope and light joined in the battle for […]

Ending This American Darkness — The Weekly Sift

Two opposition leaders arrested in Belarus after day of protest

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Factory strike leader and Tikhanovskaya aide held as Lukashenko releases video of himself armed with rifle

Belarusian authorities arrested two opposition leaders on Monday, as a showdown between the authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, and a broad coalition of protesters continued into a third week.

Police detained Sergei Dylevsky, a factory worker who has become a prominent strike leader, and Olga Kovalkova, an aide to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the opposition politician who stood against Lukashenko in elections earlier this month but was forced to flee the country after the vote.

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