Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom said that the state will effectively end its mask mandate in June when it reopens fully after over a year of COVID-19 restrictions.
In an <a href="https://twitter.com/Elex_Michaelson/status/1392520405374492677">interview</a> with KTTV Los Angeles, Elex Michaelson asked Newsom about what California will look like on June 15th as the state plans to fully reopen.
Newsom said, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to move beyond the blueprint on the 15th of June, so just in a number of weeks. And that world looks a lot like the world we entered into before the pandemic. We&#8217;re not wearing face coverings. We&#8217;re not restricted in any way, shape, or form [inaudible] doing the old things that we used to do.&#8221;
Newsom added that the exception would be &#8220;huge, large-scale indoor convention events like that where we&#8217;ll use our common sense.&#8221;
Michaelson asked Newsom, “Are we looking at masks after June 15th?”
Newsom responded, “No. Only in those settings that are indoor — only in those massively large settings where people around the world, not just around the country, are convening, and when people are mixing in real dense spaces. Otherwise, we&#8217;ll make guidance recommendations, but no mandates, and no mandates and no restrictions on businesses large and small.”
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I ask <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> what CA looks like on June 15th?
&quot;That world looks a lot like the world we entered into before the pandemic, we&#39;re not wearing face coverings, we&#39;re not restricted&#8230;&quot;
The exception? &quot;Huge large scale indoor convention events where we&#39;ll use our common sense&quot; <a href="https://t.co/plORqOwdZJ">pic.twitter.com/plORqOwdZJ</a>
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As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-will-lift-all-covid-19-restrictions-on-june-15-except-mask-mandate">reported</a>, the governor announced plans early last month to lift COVID-19 restrictions on June 15, but the mask mandate was set to remain in effect.
As reported by <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/04/06/covid-california-reopening-june-15th/">CBS San Francisco,</a> Governor Gavin Newsom said at a San Francisco news conference in April, “We are announcing today that on June 15th we will be moving beyond the blueprint and we will be getting rid of the colored tiers. We’ll be moving past the dimmer switch. We will be getting rid of the blueprint as you know it today. That’s on June 15 if we continue the good work.”
“In anticipation and expectation that we do all of the above and I will repeat — to continue to wear face coverings, continuing to access vaccines and continuing to administer vaccines in an equitable framework. If we keep the pace, we are now moving beyond the (reopening tiered) blueprint,” he said at the time.
The Secretary of California’s Health and Human Services Agency, Dr. Mark Ghaly, stated at the time that Californians need to keep wearing masks and staying away from gatherings where they think they may come in contact with COVID-19.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidelines on mask-wearing for fully vaccinated individuals Thursday. The agency announced that people who are fully vaccinated — those who got their final dose of a COVID-19 vaccine more than 14 days ago — do not need to wear masks in most settings.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-fully-vaccinated-can-stop-wearing-a-mask-or-physical-distancing-in-most-circumstances">reported</a> that CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physically distancing. If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that we have stopped doing because of the pandemic.”
She also warned “there is always a chance we may need to make a change to these recommendations” if things were to get worse. “But we know that the more people are vaccinated, the less cases we will have, and the less chance of a new spike or additional variants emerging,” she said.
Dr. Walensky pointed to several recent scientific studies, including one from Israel that showed vaccinated health care workers experienced “97% effectiveness against symptomatic” COVID-19 cases and 86% effectiveness against asymptomatic COVID-19 cases.
“In the United States, vaccines were 90% effective against any infection in nearly 4,000 health care workers, and 94% effective against hospitalizations from COVID-19 in an evaluation across 24 hospitals in 14 states,” she said of two other studies.
Cases of COVID-19 in California have been drastically declining since early January, as reported by the CDC’s COVID-19 tracking <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases">website</a>. According to <a href="https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/blob/master/public/data/vaccinations/us_state_vaccinations.csv">Our World In Data</a>, 36.6% of the California population is currently fully vaccinated and over 34 million doses have been administered in the state.
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Instagram will now allow users to add their preferred pronouns to their profiles on the social media app.
The new development was announced Tuesday and will permit people who have profiles on the social media platform to include up to four pronouns beside their profile name. The feature is optional and users do not have to choose a pronoun if they do not wish to do so.
&#8220;We are giving people more tools to express themselves on Instagram,&#8221; a Facebook company spokesperson told <a href="https://mashable.com/article/instagram-pronouns-profile/">Mashable</a>. &#8220;Sharing pronouns has been widely adopted by our community, and with this feature we hope to normalize the adoption further.&#8221;
In order to add pronouns to someone’s Instagram profile, the person must go to their profile, click “Edit Profile,” then tap “Pronouns.” Once someone starts typing pronouns, he or she will be able to select one from the list.
Instagram’s instructions <a href="https://help.instagram.com/3936623839758564">page</a> regarding pronouns explains the process:
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When having a conversation, people use pronouns to refer to someone without using their name. You can add up to four pronouns to your Instagram profile to help others refer to you.
Pronouns you add will be displayed on your profile and won’t be used to refer to you elsewhere on Instagram.
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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1392176784028749824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1392176784028749824%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https://mashable.com/article/instagram-pronouns-profile/">tweet</a>, Instagram announced the move, saying, “Add pronouns to your profile [star emoji]  The new field is available in a few countries, with plans for more.” Another tweet said, “ICYMI: now you can add pronouns to your profile [heart emoji] Add up to 4 pronouns and edit or remove them any time. You can also choose to display pronouns to only people who follow you.”
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Instagram Comms put out a tweet that said, “We&#8217;ll continue to update the list of terms over time, so that more people around the world can share their pronouns more easily.” The tweet included a <a href="https://help.instagram.com/contact/3827467694039713">website</a> for users to add requests for other pronouns.
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We&#39;ll continue to update the list of terms over time, so that more people around the world can share their pronouns more easily. If you have suggestions you can drop them here: <a href="https://t.co/u0JKBlTqAM">https://t.co/u0JKBlTqAM</a> <a href="https://t.co/9XeKRhZvk8">https://t.co/9XeKRhZvk8</a>
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According to Mashable’s testing, the outlet found that there were over 41 different pronouns to choose from on the social media platform’s list of current available pronouns.
The outlet reported that Instagram worked with multiple LGBTQ organizations when creating its “list of pronouns and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/style/neopronouns-nonbinary-explainer.html">neopronouns</a>, including GLAAD, <a href="https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/07/29/research-brief-pronouns-usage-among-lgbtq-youth/">The Trevor Project</a>, and PFLAG.”
Users can choose to hide their pronouns from people who are not following them, as well. If a user is under the age of 18, this will be the default option.
The platform is only allowing certain pronouns to be listed, and users can put a different pronoun that is currently unavailable for selection in their bio. The move comes after actress Gina Carano received backlash last year for posting “Beep/Bop/Boop” in her Twitter bio.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mandalorian-actress-hits-back-after-fans-demand-firing-for-mocking-trans-people">reported</a>, after Carano was asked to show “solidarity” with trans folks by adding her “preferred pronouns” to her Twitter bio, she added “Beep/Bop/Boop” in lieu of the pronouns, triggering leftists to blast the actress as transphobic. Carano made it clear that she would not be putting “preferred pronouns” in her bio, but emphasized that she stands “against bullying.”
For now, Instagram users can reportedly choose from a list of pronouns, including:
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<li class="p5">co / cos</li>
<li class="p5">e / ey / em / eir</li>
<li class="p5">fae / faer</li>
<li class="p5">he / him / his</li>
<li class="p5">she / her / hers</li>
<li class="p5">mer / mers</li>
<li class="p5">ne / nir / nirs</li>
<li class="p5">nee / ner / ners</li>
<li class="p5">per / pers</li>
<li class="p5">they / them / theirs</li>
<li class="p5">thon / thons</li>
<li class="p5">ve / ver / vis</li>
<li class="p5">vi / vir</li>
<li class="p5">xe / xem / xyr</li>
<li class="p5">ze / zie / zir / hir</li>
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McDonald’s announced that it will be raising its employees’ wages at 650 of its stores that are owned by the company in the United States in an effort to bring on additional workers. 
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-a5bf50cebade50e921e8db2473610458">reported</a> that the fast-food chain is also encouraging those who own franchises to increase workers&#8217; wages. Franchisees of the company reportedly compose 95% of its restaurant base.
Other food chains including Chipotle, which said Monday that it will increase employees’ pay to an average of $15 per hour by the end of June, have raised wages in recent months. Darden Restaurants, the owner of Olive Garden and other chains, said earlier this year that it will give workers $12 per hour including tips by 2023. Amazon, Costco, and other big companies have also said they will increase pay in recent weeks, per the outlet.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chipotle-says-menu-prices-could-increase-if-minimum-wage-hike-imposed">reported</a> last month, Chipotle previously said that it might need to increase the prices of its menu options if there is a mandatory increase to the minimum wage.
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-will-raise-burrito-prices-if-a-15-minimum-wage-passes-2021-4">Business Insider,</a> Jack Hartung, Chipotle’s CFO, spoke of the effect of a $15 minimum wage during the <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/chipotle-digital-sales-doubled-first-quarter-earnings-2021-4-1030330611">company’s quarterly earnings call</a>. “He said hourly employees’ average minimum wage is about $13 per hour, while <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Chipotle-Crew-Member-Hourly-Pay-E15228_D_KO9,20.htm#:~:text=How%20much%20does%20a%20Crew,estimated%20based%20upon%20statistical%20methods.">Glassdoor</a> indicated that a starting hourly wage at Chipotle is about $11,” the outlet reported. 
“We’re not that far off of, for example, a $15 number. But let’s say, for example, that there’s going to be an across-the-board 10% increase in our wages,” Hartung said. “And that would, to offset that with menu pricing, take us 2% to 3% price increase,” he explained. 
McDonald’s said Thursday that its hourly wages will go up an average of 10% over the next couple of months to $13 per hour, increasing to $15 per hour by 2024. Workers at the entry level will earn at least $11 per hour, while employees with higher-level roles, such as shift managers, will earn at least $15 per hour.
Fight for $15 and a Union, a labor group that is attempting to unionize fast-food employees, said McDonald’s corporate&#8217;s changes aren’t enough.
“We’ve showed up to work day after day in the middle of a global pandemic, risking our lives without proper P.P.E. or paid time off to keep your stores open and corporate profits flowing,” Doneshia Babbitt, a McDonald’s employee, and union leader said in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/business/mcdonalds-wage-increase.html">statement</a>. “You’ve called us essential for over a year, but your announcement today proves that you’ve seen us as disposable all along.”
The move comes as businesses fight to get workers in the door after many employees are potentially opting to stay home as they receive unemployment funding from the government. 
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-producer-price-index-skyrockets-registers-twice-as-high-as-expected-for-april">reported</a>, President Joe Biden has repeatedly received bad economic news over the last week starting with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-unemployment-rate-increases-numbers-way-worse-than-expected-talk-of-inflation-grows">disastrous</a> jobs report on Friday and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-inflation-skyrockets-to-highest-levels-since-great-recession-follows-disastrous-jobs-report">soaring inflation</a> rates on Wednesday.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-producer-price-index-skyrockets-registers-twice-as-high-as-expected-for-april">reported</a>:
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The black unemployment rate <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006">increased</a>, 18,000 manufacturing jobs were <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001?output_view=net_1mth">lost</a>, <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES2000000001?output_view=net_1mth">no construction</a> jobs were added, unemployment for <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14027660">Americans without</a> any <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14027659">college education</a> increased, and women had a <a href="https://twitter.com/TCPigott/status/1390669328928940034">net loss</a> in jobs in the report that was released on Friday. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">said</a> that nearly 10 million Americans, 9.8 million to be exact, remained unemployed in Biden’s economy. The April jobs report missed projections for the number of new jobs expected by more than 700,000 jobs. 
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Restaurant chains are making adjustments to their wages as lawmakers have tried to increase the minimum wage across the country over the past several months. Last month, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-executive-orders-biden-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-federal-contractors-including-tipped-workers">issued</a> an executive order to raise the minimum wage to $15 for federal contractors and expanded a previous Obama-era executive order to apply the minimum wage to tipped employees working on federal contracts.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-executive-orders-biden-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-federal-contractors-including-tipped-workers">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, conservatives have pushed back on raising the minimum wage to $15, citing it as a move that will ultimately harm workers and businesses.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-debunking-the-15-minimum-wage">Daily Wire&#8217;s Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro’s “Debunked”</a> piece explained the $15 minimum wage. Shapiro discussed Thomas Sowell’s concept that the true minimum wage is zero, not what the government says the minimum wage is, due to the fact that artificially raising the minimum wage can put people out of work and minimize the jobs that are available. 
Shapiro wrote, “The Congressional Budget Office recently evaluated Joe Biden’s plan for a $15 federal minimum wage, and what they found is that over the course of the next few years, it would improve the salaries for some 900,000 people, but it would put 1.4 million people out of work.”
Jobs that pay a minimum wage are also often the first job that a person takes when they are getting started in life. As Shapiro noted, “A quarter of minimum wage workers are under the age of 25. In fact, 8% of all teenagers are working for minimum wage.”
These jobs typically lead to other jobs and provide a pathway for people to improve their quality of life. Conservatives point to a forced minimum wage as a policy that will directly result in fewer beginner jobs for people, which ultimately harms businesses and their employees.
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McDonald’s announced that it will be raising its employees’ wages at 650 of its stores that are owned by the company in the United States in an effort to bring on additional workers. 

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The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is asking members of Congress not to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s human rights abuses against the ethnic minority Uyghur population in the country. 
In a <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000179-634d-d9cd-af7f-67ffbe9d0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f91513e50001&amp;nlid=630318">letter</a> obtained by Politico, Sarah Hirshland, CEO of the committee, wrote, “There may be no more important Olympic and Paralympic Games than the ones ahead. The world spent more than a year isolated, quarantined, and afraid. Watching the world’s Olympians and Paralympians compete at both the upcoming Summer and Winter Games will be an inspiring human achievement. Thousands of competitors from around the world standing before the Olympic and Paralympic flame will mark the world’s emergence from the past year’s troubles.”
Hirshland noted how some members of Congress have called for a boycott of the Olympic Games and “have raised valid concerns about China’s conduct, including the oppression of the Uyghur population which the United States has designated a genocide.”
The letter continued, “We too are troubled by the situation in China. The USOPC does not condone actions that undermine the core values of the Olympic movement—values that include diversity, peace, and respect for human dignity.”
Hirshland stated, however, that “an athlete boycott of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is not the solution to geopolitical issues,” citing a recent Morning Consult poll that showed that “roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose a boycott of the 2022 Winter Games.”
Hirshland noted that the history of Olympic boycotts is not an encouraging one. She wrote, “In 1980, the U.S. government called for an athlete boycott of the 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow as a way of pressuring the Soviet Union into leaving Afghanistan. As a result, 461 American athletes…qualified to compete in Moscow only to have the opportunity taken from them. Many never had the chance to compete at the Olympic Games again.”
Hirshland added that “their sacrifice had arguably no diplomatic benefit: The Soviet Union stayed in Afghanistan for another decade”
Hirshland argued that the Games “are a chance for the United States to showcase the values that make our country strong and respected: Our belief in fair competition; our commitment to the dignity of all people; and our support of the hard work and lifelong commitment of athletes from every state in the nation.”
New <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-dramatic-decline-in-birth-rate-among-ethnic-minorities-in-xinjiang-largest-in-recent-history">information</a> about the Xinjiang region was recently revealed after the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that the populations of ethnic minorities in the area had seen a drastic decrease in birth rates over the past few years. 
The <a href="https://www.aspi.org.au/report/family-deplanning-birthrates-xinjiang">report</a> found that in April 2017, Chinese Communist Party officials in Xinjiang began “strike-hard” campaigns against “illegal births” with the main goal to “reduce and stabilize a moderate birth level” and lower the birth rate in southern Xinjiang by at least 4.00 per thousand from the levels in 2016. Before this move, there had been exceptions from family-planning efforts for indigenous nationalities. 
The report stated, “The crackdown has led to an unprecedented and precipitous drop in official birth rates in Xinjiang since 2017. The birth rate across the region fell by nearly half (48.74 percent) in the two years between 2017 and 2019.” The most intense drops have occurred in places where Uyghurs and other indigenous people are located. Throughout counties that are populated by a majority of indigenous people, the birth rate dropped, on average, by 43.7% in one year between 2017 and 2018. The birth rate in counties populated by 90% or more indigenous people dropped by 56.5%, on average, in that same year.
Last month, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson in China <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-warns-of-robust-chinese-response-to-possible-u-s-boycott-of-olympics">pushed back against allegations</a> that there are human rights violations taking place against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. He warned of a nonspecific “robust Chinese response” to a potential boycott of the Olympics, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-winter-olympics-boycotts-beijing-2020-tokyo-olympics-a0defdcf7468519da87255c2a383d6fd">The Associated Press</a> reported. 
“The politicization of sports will damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter and the interests of athletes from all countries,” said the spokesperson, Zhao Lijian. “The international community including the U.S. Olympic Committee will not accept it.”
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The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is asking members of Congress not to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s humans rights abuses against the ethnic minority Uyghur population in the country. 

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that it is creating a new social justice award named after former professional basketball player and career activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The Social Justice Champion Award will honor players who are making efforts to promote social justice. Each NBA team will be able to nominate one of its players to be considered for the award. Five finalists and one winner will be chosen from the list of people. 
The award will consist of a trophy with Abdul-Jabbar’s name on it, as well as $100,000 that will go to a charity of the player’s choice. The remaining top four finalists will get $25,000 each, which will also go to charity. 
“I’m really proud of what the NBA has been doing all along in terms of activism and their efforts for equality and inclusion,” Abdul-Jabbar said in an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-nba-entertainment-sports-61d7f27674ce867620ac074fa14de2c1">interview</a> with The Associated Press. “I think they’ve done a great job. I’ve always felt that was something important and teaming up with them to be involved in this award is very meaningful.”
“In addition to being one of our greatest players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has devoted much of his life to advocating for equality and social justice,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a release announcing the creation of the award. “With this new award, we are proud to recognize and celebrate NBA players who are using their influence to make an impact on their communities and our broader society.” 
Abdul-Jabbar was involved in activism at a young age and met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was 17 years old. AP reported that Abdul-Jabbar’s great-uncle was a doctor during World War I in England and developed a reputation as the “Black Doctor of Paddington” as he provided treatment to war veterans at no charge. 
“I think it’s just really a family tradition and something that makes sense,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “When you see something wrong you have to speak out about it and try to effect some change.” 
The outlet reported that Abdul-Jabbar praises NBA players for attempting to effect change now as many players have spoken out against the perception of police brutality.
“All of these needs, they have to start with small steps,” he said. “I mean, we can’t just take a big, huge giant step. That usually ends up being a step in the wrong puddle. So, we’ve got to take our time and understand that we need to take all these little steps to get to where we need to go — where there’s justice. We don’t want to make policemen’s jobs impossible. But we don’t want police just arbitrarily killing people. It’s going to take some effort, but we can get there.”
As professional sports players have weighed into social issues over the past year, many have begun to see pushback against their actions. Pro-basketball player Lebron James recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-fueled-the-wrong-conversation-about-makhia-bryant-lebron-james-avoids-responsibility-portrays-bryant-as-a-victim">tried to walk back</a> his actions after posting a tweet that appeared to dox the Ohio police officer who shot Ma’Khia Bryant while in the process of saving another girl’s life. 
“I fueled the wrong conversation about Ma’Khia Bryant and I owe it to her and this movement to change it,” James wrote on Twitter. “Thank you to @fabiolacineas for educating us about Ma’Khia and her story and why this needs to be about her.”
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I fueled the wrong conversation about Ma’Khia Bryant and I owe it to her and this movement to change it. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/FabiolaCineas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fabiolacineas</a> for educating us about Ma’Khia and her story and why this needs to be about her. <a href="https://t.co/Owh1vDJWXi">https://t.co/Owh1vDJWXi</a>   <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sayhername?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sayhername</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Blacklivesmatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Blacklivesmatter</a>
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that it is creating a new social justice award named after former professional basketball player and activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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A southern Michigan school district is currently keeping students at home through Friday due to a shortage of bus drivers who are quarantining following exposure to COVID-19.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-4bc445f86ed4f8ef48fb56457c77868d">reported</a> that Superintendent Randy Davis said drivers have been quarantined and there aren’t enough substitutes to take their place.
“Because of our commitment to making sure that everyone has equal access to quality education, we’re going to go ahead and do virtual for everyone at this juncture to get through this period of time,” Davis said.
“We always bring on new drivers, new subs. There’s attrition that happens normally in normal circumstances, let alone during a COVID year. I think every district is struggling with that,” <a href="https://www.woodtv.com/news/calhoun-county/bus-driver-shortage-pushes-marshall-schools-virtual/">Davis told WOOD-TV</a>. “Historically, we’ve been able to ask our neighbors for assistance with additional drivers, additional buses. We’ve leant buses out to our neighboring districts when they’ve been in a pinch. We all support each other. At this point, nobody has the flexibility to do that.”
He learned about the situation late Tuesday night and also noted that families had to find child care options with short notice.
“There’s no good timing with these things,” Davis <a href="https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2021/05/12/bus-driver-shortage-sends-marshall-schools-virtual-through-may-14/5057574001/">told</a> the Battle Creek Enquirer.
The Biden administration has received criticism for the delay in schools resuming in-person education around the country. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/100-days-biden-administration-how-department-education-has-helped-more-schools-safely-reopen-and-meet-students-needs">reported</a> that around &#8220;half of elementary and middle schools were open full-time in person, according to the Institute of Education Sciences (49 percent as of February 2021).&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-defends-cdc-consulting-teachers-union-over-school-reopening-guidelines">defended</a> the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after it received criticism for appearing to tailor its guidance on schools reopening toward the desires of teachers unions.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-nations-second-largest-teachers-union-influenced-cdc-on-school-reopening-guidelines-delayed-return-to-classrooms">reported</a> that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), led by Randi Weingarten, appears to have lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic and “even suggested language for the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February,” according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons">a report from the New York Post</a>, based on emails between the AFT and CDC.
“The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT, and White House officials show,” the Post reported.
The CDC later admitted that “science” was not the sole driving factor in establishing its school reopening guidelines and that officials coordinated with “outside groups” to make its recommendations on the subject, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-admits-its-not-just-science-that-affects-our-guidance-on-opening-schools">per a report from The Daily Wire</a>.
As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/551743-white-house-defends-cdc-outreach-to-teachers-union-in-developing">reported</a> by The Hill, Psaki said in a statement, “It’s actually longstanding best practice for the CDC to engage with organizations, groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency.”
She added, “It doesn’t mean they are taking everything they want, or even a percentage of what they want.”
“But it’s important to understand the implementation components,” Psaki continued. “They do so to ensure that recommendations are feasible and that they adequately address the safety and well-being of the individuals the guidance is aimed to protect. So, the CDC engaged with around 50 stakeholders that are on the front lines in this pandemic and have requisite perspective for the guidance.”
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Michigan School Children Forced To Stay Home Due To Bus Driver Shortage Over COVID-19 Quarantines

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A southern Michigan school district is currently keeping students at home through Friday due to a shortage of bus drivers who are quarantining following exposure to COVID-19.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/michigan-school-children-forced-to-stay-home-due-to-bus-driver-shortage-over-covid-19-quarantines/

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki weighed in on House Republicans’ decision to remove Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership position Wednesday, echoing words that President Joe Biden said last week.
“Our democracy was attacked and six people lost their lives,” Psaki <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-on-liz-cheney-disturbing-to-see-her-attacked-for-speaking-truth-181941066.html">said</a> at a press briefing. “It’s disturbing to see any leader, regardless of party, being attacked for simply speaking the truth. And as the president said last week, it is hard to understand.”
&#8220;But our belief, [President Biden&#8217;s] belief, is the American people will have to make their own decisions about whether the reaction by the people they elected to represent them should be embracing and elevating conspiracies and attacks on our democracy, or whether it should be standing up for ideals that have historically been owned by both Democrats and Republicans representing the country throughout history,&#8221; she <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-on-liz-cheney-disturbing-to-see-her-attacked-for-speaking-truth-181941066.html">added</a>.
Biden was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-comments-on-liz-cheney-drama-i-dont-understand-the-republicans">asked</a> about the escalating tensions between Cheney and Republican leadership last week.
According to a <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1389979431033311237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1389979431033311237%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/551936-biden-on-cheney-drama-i-dont-understand-the-republicans">tweet</a> put out by CSPAN, Biden was asked, “Do you have any comments on the efforts to oust Liz Cheney from the House Republican leadership post?”
Biden responded, “I don’t understand the Republicans” before ducking into his Secret Service vehicle.
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President Biden: &quot;Tacos and some enchiladas.&quot;
Q: &quot;Do you have any comments on the efforts to oust Liz Cheney from the House Republican leadership post?&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;I don&#39;t understand the Republicans.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ZWrOcPhlsb">pic.twitter.com/ZWrOcPhlsb</a>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-house-republicans-reveal-their-feelings-on-ousting-gop-conference-chair-liz-cheney">reported</a> in an analysis by The Daily Wire, Cheney reignited calls for her resignation from GOP leadership after <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1389225154639695881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1389225154639695881%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-house-republicans-reveal-their-feelings-on-ousting-gop-conference-chair-liz-cheney">tweeting</a> about the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system,” she tweeted.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-begins-mccarthy-writes-letter-to-house-republicans-about-liz-cheneys-future-in-leadership">reported</a> that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wrote a letter to Republican House members on Monday informing them that there would be a vote to remove Cheney from her position as Conference Chair because change is “need[ed],” since Cheney, who is in charge of the party’s messaging, is focused on “relitigating the past.”
In the letter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-begins-mccarthy-writes-letter-to-house-republicans-about-liz-cheneys-future-in-leadership">obtained by The Daily Wire</a>, McCarthy said that he is humbled and honored to lead Republican House members and that those in leadership need to put the interests of the team above their own interests.
Cheney was removed from her position on Wednesday by voice vote.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cheney-booted-from-gop-leadership-not-even-her-allies-defend-her-reports-say-trump-responds">reported</a>:
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“We must go forward based on truth. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution,” Cheney proclaimed. “The nation needs it. The nation needs a strong Republican Party. The nation needs a party that that is based upon fundamental principles of conservatism. And I am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that’s how this party goes forward. And I plan to lead the fight to do that.”
When asked how concerned she was that former President Donald Trump might end back up in the Oval Office and what she was prepared to do to prevent that, Cheney responded, “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.”
“We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language,” Cheney continued. “We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution. And I think it’s very important that we make sure whomever we elect is somebody who will be faithful to the Constitution.”
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Psaki Weighs In On Cheney Removal, Calls It ‘Disturbing,’ ‘Hard To Understand’

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki weighed in on House Republicans’ decision to remove Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership position Wednesday, echoing words that President Joe Biden said last week.

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A new <a href="https://www.aspi.org.au/report/family-deplanning-birthrates-xinjiang">report</a> by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that the birth rate among indigenous populations and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has dropped dramatically in recent years, providing possible evidence of the Chinese government’s forced sterilization and birth control policies among those groups.
The report found that in April 2017, Chinese Communist Party officials in Xinjiang began “strike-hard” campaigns against “illegal births” with the main goal to “reduce and stabilise a moderate birth level” and lower the birth rate in southern Xinjiang by at least 4.00 per thousand from the levels in 2016. Before this move, there had been exceptions from family-planning efforts for indigenous nationalities.
The report stated, “The crackdown has led to an unprecedented and precipitous drop in official birth-rates in Xinjiang since 2017. The birth-rate across the region fell by nearly half (48.74 percent) in the two years between 2017 and 2019.” The most intense drops have occurred in places where Uyghurs and other indigenous people are located. Throughout counties that are populated by a majority of indigenous people, the birth rate dropped, on average, by 43.7% in one year between 2017 and 2018. The birth rate in counties populated by 90% or more indigenous people dropped by 56.5%, on average, in that same year.
The group found that in 2017, the Chinese government’s birth control method among minority nationalities changed from “reward and encourage” to a more intense control of reproduction. The report stated, “Hefty fines, disciplinary punishment, extrajudicial internment, or the threat of internment were introduced for any ‘illegal births.’ Family-planning officials in Xinjiang were told to carry out ‘early detection and early disposal of pregnant women found in violation of policy.’”
The group noted that the steep decline in birth rates in Xinjiang “is proportionally the most extreme over a two-year period globally since 1950. Despite notable contextual differences, this decline in birth-rate is more than double the rate of decline in Cambodia at the height of the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975-79).”
As <a href="https://apnews.com/article/beijing-china-race-and-ethnicity-health-religion-5aab6b4b99263b535ff1d0e9ae890b8f">reported</a> by The Associated Press, &#8220;The ASPI report corroborates <a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c">an AP story</a> and <a class="" href="https://jamestown.org/product/sterilizations-iuds-and-mandatory-birth-control-the-ccps-campaign-to-suppress-uyghur-birthrates-in-xinjiang/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a report </a>by German researcher Adrian Zenz last year that found the Chinese government was systemically slashing Uyghur birthrates with sterilizations, abortions and intrauterine devices, and fining and detaining people with three or more children.&#8221;
The Chinese government has come under intense scrutiny and criticism from nations around the world over its human rights abuses against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. The United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/us-and-allies-impose-sanctions-on-officials-in-china-over-human-rights-offenses-in-xinjiang">announced</a> sanctions on officials in China over the human rights offenses taking place in the region.
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-independent-report-on-uyghur-treatment-finds-china-in-breach-of-1948-u-n-genocide-convention">March</a>, the first independent, non-governmental legal <a href="https://3y4moi335jqc3hdi6ss66vpc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC.pdf">examination</a> of China’s human rights offenses against the Uyghur population was conducted by Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy. The think tank found that the Chinese government is responsible for “committing genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-independent-report-on-uyghur-treatment-finds-china-in-breach-of-1948-u-n-genocide-convention">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, the group found that there is evidence of “High-level statements of intent and general plan” from President Xi Jinping’s declaration of the “People’s War on Terror” focusing on a majority of Uyghur-populated regions, with top authorities then making commands to “round up everyone who should be rounded up,” and “wipe them out completely…destroy them root and branch.”
The specific acts in Article II of the Genocide Convention that the group found China guilty of violating include: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The Australian group called on the Chinese government to allow journalists, researchers, and human rights personnel to have full access to Xinjiang in order to carry out further research to see if the government is guilty of committing genocide.
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Report: Dramatic Decline In Birth Rate Among Ethnic Minorities In Xinjiang Largest In Recent History

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A new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that the birth rate among indigenous populations and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has dropped dramatically in recent years, providing possible evidence of the Chinese government’s forced sterilization and birth control policies among those groups.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/report-dramatic-decline-in-birth-rate-among-ethnic-minorities-in-xinjiang-largest-in-recent-history/

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Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres will end her show in 2022, according to a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ellen-degeneres-show-end-1234951571/">report</a> by The Hollywood Reporter.
After its nineteenth season on the air, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will end. THR reported that the decision was years in the making and employees of the show were told about it on May 11. Degeneres will discuss the show’s end with Oprah Winfrey in an episode that will air on May 13.
After 180 shows broadcasted per year, Degeneres said she is ready for something different. “When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged – and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore,” DeGeneres told THR. 
Degeneres had considered leaving the show in the past and ultimately decided to stay on for a few more seasons. Warner Bros.’ Unscripted TV President Mike Darnell was encouraging Degeneres to keep going with it as recently as late last month, but she is ready to step away.
Darnell said, “Although all good things must come to an end, you still have hope that truly great things never will.” He called her show “an absolute phenomenon,” having positioned itself over almost twenty years on television “as the premiere destination for both superstars and incredible heartfelt human-interest stories.”
Degeneres told THR that her wife, Portia de Rossi, encouraged her to quit the show though her brother wanted her to continue. 
“[My brother has] always been my biggest advocate and, not that Portia isn’t, but she’s also selfish and wants me to do things that I’m challenged by, and she’s watched me come home every day saying, ‘I just feel like there’s something more I could be doing,’” Degeneres said. 
“I care about the environment. I care about animals. I care about design and furniture … So, definitely, people have been saying, ‘Why don’t we just try to go a little longer?’ But 19 years is a long time to do anything.”
NBCUniversal Local president Valari Staab, whose stations air the show, described the series as “an iconic American TV program” and Degeneres as “a trailblazer and a one-of-a-kind talent.”
Although light-hearted in nature, the show was not without controversy. Degeneres received criticism last year over reports about a toxic workplace surrounding the talk show. 
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebrities-tend-to-give-their-celebrity-friends-cover-kimmel-slammed-for-not-asking-ellen-about-toxic-workplace-claims">reported</a> that in July 2020, one employee and 10 former employees of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” came forward with accusations that the environment of the show behind the scenes was far from the show’s motto, “Be Kind.” 
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebrities-tend-to-give-their-celebrity-friends-cover-kimmel-slammed-for-not-asking-ellen-about-toxic-workplace-claims">reported</a>:
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The employees spoke to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ellen-employees-allege-toxic-workplace-culture">Buzzfeed News</a>, which delineated various charges that were made. One former employee asserted, “That ‘be kind’ bulls*** only happens when the cameras are on. It’s all for show. I know they give money to people and help them out, but it’s for show.” Another bitter comment, “I think it is a lot of smoke and mirrors when it comes to the show’s brand. They pull on people’s heartstrings; they do know that’s going to get likes and what people are going to go for, which is a positive message. But that’s not always reality.” 
Some of the accusations included insensitive comments about race, being fired after returning from a month-long absence at a mental health facility, and receiving a warning after creating and publicizing a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for medical costs that weren’t covered by the show’s health insurance.
At the end of July, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ex-ellen-show-employees-sexual-misconduct-allegations">Buzzfeed News</a> reported, “According to dozens of men and women who work behind the scenes, the office is a place where sexual harassment and misconduct by top executive producers runs rampant.” 
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“The claims cost DeGeneres 1.1 million viewers who stopped watching the show over the last year, according to Nielsen data released in March. Her viewership was up to 2.6 million at one point but is now down to 1.5 million viewers,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9494295/Jimmy-Kimmel-fails-ask-Ellen-claims-toxic-behavior.html">the Daily Mail</a> reported.
Degeneres discussed the allegations with THR. She was asked about how that chapter impacted her, the show, and the decision to call it quits. 
Degeneres said, “It almost impacted the show. It was very hurtful to me. I mean, very. But if I was quitting the show because of that, I wouldn’t have come back this season. So, it’s not why I’m stopping but it was hard because I was sitting at home, it was summer, and I see a story that people have to chew gum before they talk to me and I’m like, ‘Okay, this is hilarious.’ Then I see another story of some other ridiculous thing and then it just didn’t stop. And I wasn’t working, so I had no platform, and I didn’t want to address it on [Twitter] and I thought if I just don’t address it, it’s going to go away because it was all so stupid.”
Degeneres went on to say, “My whole being is about making people happy. And with the talk show, all I cared about was spreading kindness and compassion and everything I stand for was being attacked. So, it destroyed me, honestly. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t. And it makes me really sad that there’s so much joy out there from negativity. It’s a culture now where there are just mean people, and it’s so foreign to me that people get joy out of that. Then, on the heels of it, there are allegations of a toxic workplace and, unfortunately, I learned that through the press.”
Degeneres said there was an internal investigation where the team “learned some things but this culture we’re living is [is one where] no one can make mistakes. And I don’t want to generalize because there are some bad people out there and those people shouldn’t work again but, in general, the culture today is one where you can’t learn and grow, which is, as human beings, what we’re here to do.”
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Ellen Degeneres To End Talk Show, Blasts Culture Where People Can’t ‘Learn And Grow’ From Mistakes

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Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres will end her show in 2022, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter.

Ellen Degeneres To End Talk Show, Blasts Culture Where People Can&#039;t ‘Learn And Grow’ From Mistakes

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its inductees for this year, noting that it is the most diverse class in its history.
Rolling Stone <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tina-turner-jay-z-foo-fighters-go-gos-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-2021-1168001/">reported</a> that joining the class of 2021 in the Performers category are Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren, and Tina Turner.
“This is our most diverse class in the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” said chairman John Sykes, who is also IHeartMedia’s President of Entertainment Enterprises. “It really represents the Hall’s ongoing commitment to honor the artists that have created not only rock and roll but the sound of youth culture.” 
Dave Grohl, Tina Turner, and Carole King will enter the Hall of Fame for the second time. Rolling Stone reported, “King was inducted along with her former songwriting partner Gerry Goffin in 1990 as a non-performer, Tina Turner entered in 1991 as half of the Ike &amp; Tina Turner duo, and Grohl was brought in as Nirvana’s drummer in 2014.”
“It’s very difficult to get inducted twice and we have three this year,” said Sykes. “It’s also a rare year where three of the six inductees are women: Tina, Carole, and the Go-Gos. It just shows the continued power and relevance and recognition of women in music.”
This year, there are more inductees outside of the Performers category than the event usually includes. The outlet reported that while most years there are two or three of those inductees, this year will have seven.
“That’s because we’ve really created, for the first time this year, special committees that actually nominate and induct artists,” said Sykes. “These are very diverse committees that actually include artists themselves like [Run-DMC’s] Darryl McDaniels, Little Steven, and Tom Morello.”
LL Cool J, Billy Preston, and Randy Rhoads will get the Musical Excellence Award while Kraftwerk, Gil Scott Heron, and Charley Patton will receive the Early Influence Award. Sussex Records founder Clarence Avant will get the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
Rolling Stone said that LL Cool J and Kraftwerk were both nominated six times in past years, but did not get through with the regular procedures. Giving them the Musical Excellence and Early Influence awards allows them to go around the voters.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are eager to get back to in-person events after the world adapted to a mostly virtual environment over the past year. Induction ceremonies in the past have taken place at the Public Hall, which seats 10,000 people. This year, however, the event is being moved to the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse which seats 20,000 people.
“We just needed more room,” said Sykes. “Tickets go so fast and we wanted to have as many people from the Cleveland area be able to attend the show as possible.”
Sykes discussed the ceremony in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and a return to normalcy. “I think we’re going to see this fall as the very beginnings of the reopening of live music in America,” said Sykes, who noted that the event will comply with COVID-19 guidelines. “An event like the Rock and Roll of Fame induction ceremony will be a precursor of what we’re all looking forward to getting back to in 2022.”
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Announces ‘Most Diverse Class’ In Its History

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its inductees for this year, noting that it is the most diverse class in its history.

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On Tuesday, two separate grand juries indicted a man accused of killing eight people at spas in the Atlanta area on murder charges as one prosecutor said she will seek hate crime charges and the death penalty. 
As <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-spas-massage-business-shootings-shootings-8b4fa8d0217180eef6f02111d5354345">reported</a> by The Associated Press, the 19-count Fulton County indictment includes charges of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and domestic terrorism.
The domestic terrorism charge said the shooter committed multiple illegal acts “which were interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, with the intent to cause serious bodily harm and to kill individuals and groups of individuals, and with the intent to intimidate the civilian population of this state and of its political subdivisions.”
Six of the eight victims in the shootings were of Asian descent and the shooter is white. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she will seek a hate crime sentence enhancement and the death penalty against the man. AP reported, “The hate crime charges are based on the actual or perceived race, national origin, sex and gender of the four women killed, the notice says.”
At a news conference Tuesday, Willis said that her decisions to seek out such charges “send a message that everyone within this community is valued.”
In a news release, Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace said, “Today we have taken another step forward in seeking justice for the victims of this crime and for their family members.”
The arraignment has not yet been scheduled, but Wallace said she will decide whether or not to seek the death penalty before it takes place. 
Willis changed her previous pledge to not seek death penalty charges as district attorney. At a 2020 candidate forum during her campaign for district attorney last year, Willis was asked “Will you commit to refuse to seek the death penalty?” Willis answered yes to the question. 
“Last year I told the voters of Fulton County that I could not imagine a circumstance where I would seek (the death penalty),” Willis said during the recent news conference. “Unfortunately, a case has arisen &#8230; that I believe warrants the ultimate penalty and we shall seek it.”
AP reported that the killings are eligible for the death penalty because each was done while the shooter was in the act of carrying out another capital offense, namely the killings of the other victims, Willis’ notice of intent said. Each killing was also “outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved depravity of mind” and was done during an act of domestic terrorism, the notice says.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive">The series of shootings</a> at Atlanta-area massage parlors in March left eight dead, and after an extended manhunt, police arrested a 21-year-old man. 
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgia-mass-shooting-kills-8-media-races-to-speculate-on-motive">reported</a>:
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Although a motive was not immediately apparent, media, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/atlanta-shootings-massage-parlor.html">including The New York Times</a>, began to speculate that the suspect’s decision to target the massage parlors, staffed largely by Asian females, was indicative of an anti-Asian hate crime and connected the shooting spree to recent attacks on elderly individuals of Asian descent in places like San Francisco, California, and New York City (though even the most high-profile of those attacks do not appear to have been motivated specifically by racial animus). 
The suspect, however, spoke directly to police shortly after capture and took “full responsibility” for the attacks, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-shooting-suspect-police-attacks-not-racially-motivated-sex-addiction">per Fox News</a>. Authorities said in a news conference that, based on his confession, they believe the shootings were “not racially motivated” and that “[the shooter] instead allegedly opened fire because he saw the locations as ‘an outlet for him’ to succumb to purported sex-addiction temptations.”
“According to police, [the shooter] claimed his attacks were not racially motivated, but rather sees the massage parlor locations as allowing him to feed ‘a temptation’ that he was trying ‘to eliminate,’ police said,” per Fox. The shooter also intended to carry out further attacks, and had planned to drive from Atlanta to an unknown location in Florida. He reportedly “made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past,” the police noted. </blockquote>
AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-shootings-georgia-ahmaud-arbery-coronavirus-pandemic-cd68207150500f76e248fdc899717cd5">reported</a> in March that Georgia&#8217;s new hate crimes law does not allow for a standalone hate crime, but is rather a sentence enhancer. &#8220;A hate crime charge can be included in an indictment or added at some point before trial,&#8221; per the outlet. A jury can decide whether it was a hate crime after someone is convicted, resulting in an extra penalty. Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed the bill into law last summer. 
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Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty And Hate Crime Charges in Atlanta Spa Shootings

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On Tuesday, two separate grand juries indicted a man accused of killing eight people at spas in the Atlanta area on murder charges as one prosecutor said she will seek hate crime charges and the death penalty. 

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The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it approved the Vineyard Wind project, a mega clean energy development and “the first large-scale, offshore wind project in the United States,” according to the <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-approves-first-major-offshore-wind-project-us-waters">U.S. Department of the Interior</a> (DOI), a decision that received backlash from the fishing industry.
“Today’s offshore wind project announcement demonstrates that we can fight the climate crisis, while creating high-paying jobs and strengthening our competitiveness at home and abroad,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. “This project is an example of the investments we need to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s ambitious climate goals, and I’m proud to be part of the team leading the charge on offshore wind.”
The Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-approves-first-major-offshore-wind-project-us-waters">announced</a>:
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Today’s <a href="https://www.boem.gov/vineyard-wind">Record of Decision</a> (ROD) grants Vineyard Wind final federal approval to install 84 or fewer turbines off Massachusetts as part of an 800-megawatt offshore wind energy facility. The project is expected to create 3,600 area jobs and will power up to 400,000 homes. Turbines will be installed in an east-west orientation, and all the turbines will have a minimum spacing of 1 nautical mile between them in the north-south and east-west directions, consistent with the U.S. Coast Guard recommendations in the Final Massachusetts and Rhode Island Port Access Route Study.
The ROD adopts mitigation measures to help avoid, minimize, reduce, or eliminate adverse environmental effects that could result from the construction and operation of the proposed project. These mitigation, monitoring, and reporting requirements were developed through input, consultation, and coordination with stakeholders, Tribes, and federal and state agencies.
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“A clean energy future is within our grasp in the United States. The approval of this project is an important step toward advancing the Administration&#8217;s goals to create good-paying union jobs while combatting climate change and powering our nation,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. “Today is one of many actions we are determined to take to open the doors of economic opportunity to more Americans.”
Some members of the American workforce are unhappy with the approval. National Fisherman <a href="https://www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/biden-administration-clears-way-for-vineyard-wind">reported</a> that some advocates of the fishing industry are concerned that the decision to approve such a project “sets the stage for privatizing the public resource on which their livelihoods rely.” They also pushed back on the lack of consideration of their proposals in the decision, which included concerns over fishermen safety. 
The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a membership-based group of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, said in a <a href="https://rodafisheries.org/press-release-05-11/">statement</a> that it “condemns in the strongest possible terms the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) issuance of a <a href="https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/files/documents/renewable-energy/state-activities/Final-Record-of-Decision-Vineyard-Wind-1.pdf">Record of Decision</a> for the previously terminated Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project.[The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management] continues to abdicate its responsibility to the public and leave all decision making to large, multinational corporations, including this decision which includes effectively no mitigation measures to offset impacts to critical ocean ecosystems and commercial fisheries.&#8221;
The group continued, &#8220;To the best of our knowledge BOEM did not even consider any mitigation measures recommended by RODA or any fisheries professionals, scientists, or natural resource managers, despite having clearly defined requests available to them.
“In one pen stroke, BOEM has confirmed its scattershot, partisan, and opaque approach that undermines every lesson we’ve learned throughout environmental history: the precautionary principle, the importance of safety and environmental regulation, the scientific method and use of the best available data, and adaptive management policies.”
National Fisherman reported that one of the main points of concern for fishermen was the spacing for vessel transit lanes. Commercial fishermen, alongside the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, had pushed for 4-nm-wide transit lanes, which they said would create a safer environment.
The outlet reported, &#8220;In its decision document, BOEM reasons that 1-nm spacing will be sufficiently safe, while dedicated transit lanes could increase congestion and potentially collisions by funneling vessel traffic.&#8221;
Using advice from the Coast Guard, agency personnel said that the “uniform grid pattern will result in the functional equivalent of numerous navigation corridors that can safely accommodate both transits through, and fishing within, the WEA (wind energy area) and provide the USCG with adequate SAR (search and rescue) access.”
The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance pushed back on the move, saying that traffic lanes were not the only suggestion by the fishing industry that was not included in the decision.
“For the past decade, fishermen have participated in offshore wind meetings whenever they were asked and produced reasonable requests only to be met with silence,” said Anne Hawkins, executive director of RODA. “From this silence now emerges unilateral action and a clear indication that those in authority care more about multinational businesses and energy politics than our environment, domestic food sources, or U.S. citizens.”
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Fishing Industry Pushes Back On Biden Admin Mega Wind Project

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The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it approved the Vineyard Wind project, a mega clean energy development and “the first large-scale, offshore wind project in the United States,” according to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), a decision that received backlash from the fishing industry.

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