Fishing nets and other equipment floating in the ocean for years are responsible for damaging reefs and harming ocean animals. Researchers are trying to find out where it comes from.
How Tulsa Massacre Not Learned for Nearly 100 Years
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June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the destruction of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
But that day with hundreds of Blacks killed, and houses and businesses burned to the ground did not become part of the American story.
Instead, it was ignored, unlearned and untaught until many years later. Even this year, the Tulsa
massacre is still unknown to many Americans.
The massacre in Tulsa began when white anger built over a Black man accused of stepping on a white girl’s foot. Blacks came with guns to the jail in Tulsa where the man was held to prevent his killing. White people answered with deadly force. For the next two days, on May 31 and June 1, mobs of white people terrorized and burned the Black neighborhood of Greenwood. The attackers killed up to 300 Black people and forced survivors into
Growing Mystery of Suspected Energy Attack
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The United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba is seen here in this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo. The U.S. government is facing new pressure to find out whether American diplomats were attacked with microwaves or radio waves. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)
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The United States government is facing new pressure to solve a mystery: Are American diplomats and officials being attacked with
microwaves or radio waves?
Syndrome,” because the first cases affected officials in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba.
India Battles Deadly Fungus as Virus Deaths Pass 300,000
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A health worker takes a mouth swab sample of a boy to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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fungus that is infecting COVID-19 patients and those who have recovered from the new coronavirus.
The dangerous infection, called mucormycosis, is rare. But doctors say its sudden increase could make India’s fight against COVID-19 even more difficult.
India has reported almost 27 million cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Almost half of that number has been recorded in the past two months.