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After a team member tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team decided to not stay in Tokyo’s Olympic Village for safety reasons. According to NBC News, USA Gymnastics stated that the squad had always intended to stay at a hotel instead of the sealed-off, a waterfront section of Tokyo reserved for the 11,000 […]
Let the games begin. The Olympic games kicked off yesterday and some rule adjustments were made on the rights of athlete protests. Currently, the rules on expression pertain to Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter: “No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.” […]
Large fires have been actively burning for weeks across the Western U.S, such as California and Oregon, and in Canada. The largest fire in Oregon has now burned more than 600 square miles of land. The fire has become so large that it has created its own weather. Smoke has drifted over major cities nearly […]
Yesterday, the School of the Arts was presented with surprises that include bringing a boost to their classrooms. AdoptAClassroom.org and Burlington teamed up to provide much-needed funds to classrooms, and this year’s partnership is raising more than $75,000 to be donated to the School of the Arts. Each classroom will receive about $750 to help […]
A local healthcare organization, Common Ground Health, is calling attention to the impacts of structural racism and inequity on the state of healthcare for communities of color. Specifically, their new report, titled “The Color of Health” focuses on the toll of racism on Black lives in the greater Rochester area. According to Common Ground CEO […]
About 36 states, including New York, are accusing Google of operating as an illegal monopoly. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against Google, the attorneys general wrote in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; “Google uses anti-competitive barriers and mandates to protect its monopoly power.” States are accusing Google […]
For this Fourth of July, Vanessa Williams (the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America) faced backlash from conservatives after she performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” at the televised Capitol Fourth celebration. Critics were fuming at PBS’s holiday broadcast event. According to the New York Post, critics were calling it divisive and un-American. […]
Late last night, crews used explosives to demolish the remains of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fl. This had caused the tower to fold and crumble, sending dust and debris over a section of the beachside community, where local community members were encouraged by Miami-Dade County to stay indoors during this time. According to […]
Over the weekend, a box truck exploded when returning from a firework show in Akron. Inside of the box truck included a large number of packed fireworks. The truck burst into a ball of flames when heading south on South Lake Road in Pembroke. Thankfully the Pembroke Assistant Fire Chief Edwin Mileham had heard the […]
More than 150 people are still unaccounted for in Surfside, Fl., after a 12-story condo building partially collapsed Thursday. As rescuers continue to explore the damage, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava stated that yesterday evening rescuers had identified another four victims in the collapse of the Chaplain Towers South building. The number of people […]