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Alex Peebles Anchor

Straight To It: Gwen’s Friday, June 25 recap

Jun 26, 2021

Alex Peebles Anchor

By Alex Peebles (Anchor)

Gwen’s Friday picks include:

A judge sentencing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22 1/2 years in prison
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison calling for passing of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Search and rescue efforts in Surfside: interviews with a former Miami-Dade police major and member of the local Jewish community
VP Kamala Harris comments after traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border

Politics

Republicans block Right to IVF Act, Democrats have done the same to them

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DeWine orders Ohio state troopers to Springfield schools after 33 bomb threats

Senate may subpoena DHS for ‘stonewalling’ Trump assassination probe

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U.S.

National Zoo gets 2 new giant pandas with $10M from David Rubenstein

12 hrs ago

Miss America, Miss World pageants challenged over rules excluding mothers

Ohio gives taxpayer money to private religious schools for construction

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International

In face of hunger crisis, Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants

12 hrs ago

Sweden to offer immigrants $34k to voluntarily return to home countries

Over 1,000 injured in Lebanon from exploding pagers in widespread attack

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Tech

Oracle’s Larry Ellison sees AI supervision keeping citizens on ‘best behavior’

Yesterday

Flappy Bird returns without original creator’s involvement

New ChatGPT model designed to break down problems, ‘think’ before responding

Oracle