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A stricken plane is seen making a heart-stopping emergency landing in broad daylight on this busy highway in the United States. Dashcam footage filmed by a passing police car captured the dramatic moment when the tiny KR2 propeller aircraft comes into view overhead. The incident took place on State Route 7 in Spanaway, about 40 miles (64km) south of Seattle on August 1 during morning rush hour. A Washington State Patrol trooper turns around to witness the one-seater plane's bumpy impromptu landing. Oncoming cars are forced to veer out of its path as it speeds down the packed state highway. Footage shows how the plane comes into view overhead ( Image: Trooper Johnna Batiste/Twitter) The plane speeds past stunned motorists ( Image: Trooper Johnna Batiste/Twitter) It eventually come to a halt at a set of traffic lights. The pilot of the plane, apparently unharmed, then …

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Published 1 June 2020 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics George Floyd death Washington DC has seen some of the worst violence overnight, as protests continued in the US capital and cities around the country over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in the state on Minnesota. George Floyd, 46, died in police custody shortly after a white officer was seen kneeling on his neck to pin him down. All pictures copyright Related Topics Police brutality Washington DC Donald Trump George Floyd death United States More on this story In pictures: Violence breaks out amid US protests Published 31 May 2020 Clashes as protests over death spread across US Published 30 May 2020 In pictures: Unrest spreads across US …

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Thousands of high school students, many still far from voting age, are streaming out of schools across the country today to protest against gun violence in the wake of last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people. “I’m just mad there’s no action by our government representatives,” Daniel Rogov, a junior in Brooklyn, New York, said today. “It’s all thoughts and prayers; it’s all talk,” he told ABC News. “After a gun violence tragedy there’s a speech talking about how we need change but there never is change.” The event, which began at 10 a.m. across every time zone, was officially scheduled to last 17 minutes -- one minute for each of the victims gunned down in the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But many students are rallying for much longer. To the students at Stoneman Douglas, Daniel's message is, “Keep making your voices heard. While the politicians might stop talking about this, …

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Five months ago, stepping onto the March For Our Lives stage this past spring in Washington, D.C., 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Delaney Tarr emerged from her four-minute speech as one of the most poised and vocal leaders in the reinvigorated culture war against gun violence. "This is more than just a march," she said at the podium, her cadence picking up. "This is more than just one day, one event. This is a movement. This is a movement reliant on the persistence and passion of its people." Tarr is a survivor of the Feb. 14 shooting at her Florida high school, in which 17 students and teachers were gunned down in only six minutes. "We are not here for breadcrumbs. We are here for real change," she declared. Tarr’s mother, Jen, echoed that spirit, telling ABC News during a March interview that her daughter will "move mountains." Alongside her classmates and other young individuals affected by gun violence, Tarr personified both the fear many students …

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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The White House on Friday said it will lift COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign nationals effective Nov. 8, ending historic restrictions that barred much of the world from the United States. Restrictions on non-U.S. citizens were first imposed on air travelers from China in January 2020 by then-President Donald Trump and then extended to dozens of other countries, without any clear metrics for how and when to lift them. Curbs on non-essential travelers at land borders with Mexico and Canada have been in place since March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Reuters first reported Friday's announcement of the Nov. 8 starting date earlier in the day. U.S. airline, hotel and cruise industry stocks rose on the news, including American Airlines (AAL.O) , up 1.9%; Marriott International Inc (MAR.O) , up 2.2%; and Carnival Corp (CCL.N) , up 1.3%. The United States had lagged many other countries in lifting such …

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Thousands of students across the country will come together again this week to rally against school gun violence -- an event the teenage organizers hope will empower students to continue their momentum in a push for common-sense gun reform. The event -- called the National School Walkout -- focuses on high schools and will take place on April 20, the anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, where two students opened fire in 1999, killing 12 of their fellow students and a teacher. Who is participating? The event was organized by 16-year-old Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut , along with three of her classmates. More than 2,000 events are registered across the country, with at least one in every state and several globally, according to the organizers. When will it start? The walkout begins at 10 a.m. in each local time zone. When students head outside, they will first take part in 13 seconds of silence to honor …

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L ONDON —Sharing the internet with America is like sharing your living room with a rhinoceros. It’s huge, it’s right there, and whatever it’s doing now, you sure as hell know about it. This month, Twitter announced that it would restrict retweets for a few weeks, and prompt its users to reconsider sharing content that has been flagged as misinformation. The reason for this change, of course, is the U.S. presidential election. The restricted features will be restored when its result is clear. Anything that makes Twitter fractionally less hellish is welcome, as is the recent crackdown by Facebook and YouTube on QAnon conspiracy groups and Holocaust denial. But from anywhere outside the borders of the U.S., it is hard not to feel faintly aggrieved when reading this news. Hey guys! We have elections too! After all, according to an anguished 6,000-word memo by Sophie Zhang, a departing Facebook data scientist, the political situations in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, …

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When the news began circulating on social media, many couldn’t believe it was true––that the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California would remove a longtime professor from a class because a Mandarin word he used correctly in a lesson sounded sort of like a racial slur. One skeptic warned that the “ridiculous sounding story” seemed like a “fabricated Reddit meme.” Another was suspicious that it so neatly fit a narrative of “wacky campus leftists repressing free speech.” Then angry faculty and alumni began confirming the story: During a Zoom class on August 20, Greg Patton, a 53-year-old professor, told students that in business settings they should avoid filler words such as um or er . Then he gave another example of a filler word that—I learned—he added to his lecture perhaps five years ago to be more inclusive of international students. “Like in China, the common word is that — that , that , that , that ,” he explained. “So in China …

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Johann N. Neem was born in India. Before he turned 3, his parents immigrated from Mumbai to San Francisco, part of the first wave of newcomers admitted to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. He didn’t feel any conflict between his immigrant identity and his American identity. He grew up surrounded by other recent immigrants, joining their families for trips into Berkeley to eat masala dosas . But he and his friends also “rode bikes, played football on our muddy lawn …  and pretended to be motorcycle officers Ponch and Jon from the TV series CHiPs ,” as he wrote in a recent essay in The Hedgehog Review . “Together, we made up games and celebrated birthdays. We grew up knowing about our differences but caring about what we shared. What bound us together was America.” Now a professor at Western Washington University, where he specializes in early American history, he feels as though he is losing his country––as though he is being stripped of …

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