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“Just Cancel The Whole School Year”: NYC Parents, Students, And Teachers React To Delayed In-Person School Start

“It didn’t have to go down like this. I may have a panic attack processing this last-minute change.” Parents bring their children to participate in an outdoor learning demonstration to display methods schools can use to continue on-site education during the coronavirus pandemic, at P.S. 15 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn.

P.S. 15 in the Red Hook.

“It didn’t have to go down like this. I may have a panic attack processing this last-minute change.” [ more › ]

Los Lobos, Kesha & More To Perform on Joe Biden’s Online Weekly Concert Series ‘Team Joe Sings’

Launching tonight (September 18) is a concert series benefitting the Biden-Harris campaign, and the mix of artists in what PR says is only the first installment of Team Joe Sings is a stylistically varied bunch. The debut show includes new performances from pop star Kesha and Grammy winner Anthony Hamilton, plus previously posted performances from […]

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Puerto Rico Is Set To Receive Biggest Relief Package of $13 Billion in FEMA Funds

Congress originally approved $42.5 billion in aid post-Maria, but just $16.7 billion has been spent, Bloomberg reports. Another $25.5 has been “obligated” to the U.S. colony. The total estimated damage was counted at around $90 billion.

Source: Puerto Rico Is Set To Receive Biggest Relief Package of $13 Billion in FEMA Funds

TikTok deal still has a chance but WeChat ‘dead’ in the U.S., says senior administration official

Guess MoneyGram, Paypal, Nerdwallet, Western Union and Xoom will profit from banning WeChat. Wonder how much they are contributing to Trump campaign or how much stock his family has in these companies? In short, all companies collect and sell your information – and US NSA tries its best to get information from them – Spy v Spy game to heighten disagreements with China for profit of Trump supporters – ya think?

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A senior Trump administration official told CNBC there is still a chance for a deal that would allow Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to remain operating in the U.S.

German glassmaker holds key to COVID-19 vaccine supply

As the world waits anxiously for a COVID-19 vaccine, a German company is doing its bit to ensure that the shot reaches you with its potency intact. Ashutosh Pandey reports from its Mainz headquarters.

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As the world waits anxiously for a COVID-19 vaccine, a German company is doing its bit to ensure that the shot reaches you with its potency intact. Ashutosh Pandey reports from its Mainz headquarters.

No, a Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Didn’t Partner With a Pro-Communist Chinese Group – The New York Times

On Thursday, an article from The Daily Signal, the blog of the conservative Heritage Foundation, claimed to show a damning link between an organization started by a Black Lives Matter co-founder, Alicia Garza, and a nonprofit with ties to the Chinese government. The article went viral.

But the article conflated two nonprofits with the same name, and it made incorrect claims about the links between Ms. Garza’s organization and the Chinese government.

Computing Pioneers Endorse Biden, Citing Immigration – The New York Times

Two dozen award-winning computer scientists, in a rebuke of President Trump’s immigration policies, said on Friday that they were endorsing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in November’s presidential election.

The scientists, including John Hennessy, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, are all winners of the Turing Award, which is often called the Nobel Prize of computing.

In a group interview, four of the scientists said the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration rules were a threat to computer research in the United States and could do long-term damage to the tech industry, which for decades has been one of the country’s economic engines.

“The most brilliant people in the world want to come here and be grad students, but now they are being discouraged from coming here, and many are going elsewhere,” said one of the scientists who organized the endorsement, David Patterson, a Google distinguished engineer and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley.