State Department ends travel advisory for Americans, but only 4% of the world remains open to US passport holders | New Europe

The United States remains a Level Four: do not travel, so-called ‘red zone, country along with Russia, India, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Haiti, Iran, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Honduras, and Libya.

Source: State Department ends travel advisory for Americans, but only 4% of the world remains open to US passport holders | New Europe

More than 100,000 cast absentee ballots in Tennessee primary

Tennessee officials say that a record number of voters submitted absentee ballots for the state’s primary elections on Thursday.

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Tennessee officials say that a record number of voters submitted absentee ballots for the state’s primary elections on Thursday.Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s (R) office …

Massachusetts governor pauses reopening, reimposes some coronavirus restrictions

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) announced Friday he would pause some reopening measures and reimpose some COVID-19 pandemic restrictions amid an uptick in cases….

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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) announced Friday he would pause some reopening measures and reimpose some COVID-19 pandemic restrictions amid an uptick in cases….

Trump administration covers full Guard costs for just some states, frustrating governors

The Trump administration’s decision to single out a handful of states that will not be required to pay a portion of National Guard costs amid the coronavirus pandemic has frustrated some governors who see politics at play…

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The Trump administration’s decision to single out a handful of states that will not be required to pay a portion of National Guard costs amid the coronavirus pandemic has frustrated some governors who see politics at play…

Banning TikTok: Are We Reproducing the Chinese Internet in America? – BIG by Matt Stoller (Facebok’s role in all this)

Facebook is in fact the reason we have a TikTok problem to begin with. When Twitter launched a TikTok-like product Vine years before, Facebook actively killed the product by refusing to let Vine access its APIs on the same terms other corporations got. Mark Zuckerberg personally made the call to shut off access to Vine, and Twitter eventually shut the product down. Then, Facebook allowed TikTok to advertise massively on its platform, at a time Zuckerberg was currying favor with the Chinese Communist Party to try to get into the Chinese market. In other words, Zuckerberg killed an American competitor using anti-competitive means, and promoted a Chinese competitor for his own business interests.

Now we have a TikTok problem, but that’s because policymakers refused to enforce anti-monopoly rules against tech giants. Or as Republican Congressman Ken Buck put it to Gilad Edelman in Wired on his worries about big tech monopolies being slothful,

“The reality is, the way we got to a dominant position in the tech sector is because we encouraged innovation. And if we stop encouraging innovation, we may dominate for the next five or 10 years in particular areas, but 20 years down the road, we won’t be dominant.”

 

Source: Banning TikTok: Are We Reproducing the Chinese Internet in America? – BIG by Matt Stoller

Lebanon Ambassador to Jordan Tracy Chamoun Resigns over Govt ‘Negligence’

Lebanon’s ambassador to Jordan Thursday announced her resignation, following a cataclysmic blast that ravaged central Beirut, saying ‘total negligence’ by the country’s authorities signalled the need for a leadership change.

It is the second resignation by a Lebanese official since Tuesday’s blast killed nearly 150 people, wounded at least 5,000 and destroyed entire districts of the capital. W140

Lebanon’s ambassador to Jordan Thursday announced her resignation, following a cataclysmic blast that ravaged central Beirut, saying ‘total negligence’ by the country’s authorities signalled the need for a leadership change.

It is the second resignation by a Lebanese official since Tuesday’s blast killed nearly 150 people, wounded at least 5,000 and destroyed entire districts of the capital.

Seething Volunteers Oust Ministers from Ravaged Beirut Districts

Two Lebanese ministers who tried to visit Beirut neighborhoods ravaged by the deadly blast at the city’s port were chased out by seething volunteers clearing up debris in the days after the cataclysmic explosion. W140

Two Lebanese ministers who tried to visit Beirut neighborhoods ravaged by the deadly blast at the city’s port were chased out by seething volunteers clearing up debris in the days after the cataclysmic explosion.

Nord Stream 2: US senators threaten German port with ‘crushing’ sanctions

They conveniently forget that Senators can’t conduct foreign policy – Even if the President is asleep, it’s the President’s job not, not theirs.

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Three Republican senators have ordered Murkan Port on the island of Rugen to stop assisting Russian vessels constructing the final sections of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

A Child Care Center Followed The COVID Safety Guidelines. It Still Had An Outbreak: LAist – (But there are still governors who want to force kids to go to unready schools!)

But despite all of their best efforts, five teachers at Centro Alegria have tested positive for coronavirus in recent weeks. And while the center’s prevention efforts meant it didn’t have to shut down entirely, it was left scrambling to figure out how to continue to operate safely.

The outbreak illustrates the difficulties child care providers face in interpreting and implementing differing guidelines from state and local agencies that they often find confusing. Providers say they’re overwhelmed by the amount of information out there.

“When everything got shut down, I had a lot of providers calling me. And they were like, ‘so what are we supposed to do?'” said longtime child care provider and union organizer Tonia McMillian. “And I told them I don’t know.”

 

Source: A Child Care Center Followed The COVID Safety Guidelines. It Still Had An Outbreak: LAist

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