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| Good morning Daily Briefing readers! I'm Jane Onyanga-Omara, bringing you the news you need to know this Friday Eve. It did not make the true Daily Briefing cut, but scroll to the bottom of the page to see the "major news" people are talking about in Nebraska. 🍗 |
| Today, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, as tensions simmer following the shooting of Jacob Blake, and President Donald Trump will make a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Thousands of people in Belize are stocking up on food and other supplies in uneasy anticipation of Hurricane Nana. And some cinematic relief from the coronavirus pandemic is on the way as Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller "Tenet" finally hits those movie theaters that are open. |
| Here's today's news: |
Biden to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin; Trump heads to Pennsylvania |
| Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday. His visit comes just two days after President Donald Trump toured the destructive aftermath of the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times in the back by a police officer as he was trying to get into a vehicle. Biden's visit is also his first to Wisconsin, a key swing state which narrowly voted for Trump in 2016. Trump will head to Pennsylvania for a campaign stop at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe. Both Trump and Biden have targeted the Keystone State — a key swing state that narrowly went for Trump in 2016 — in the first week of campaigning since the Democratic and Republican conventions. (Biden visited Pittsburgh on Monday.) |
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Coronavirus likely to leave legacy that holds back economy for decades |
| The nation is awaiting a vaccine that can halt the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, allowing life — and the battered U.S. economy — to return to normal. But a new study suggests the crisis has generated fears that are likely to dampen risk-taking and economic output for decades by increasing the "perceived probability of an extreme, negative shock in the future." The study, titled, "Scarring Body and Mind: The long-term belief-scarring effects of COVID-19," attempts to quantify such long-term economic losses by assessing the toll taken by other economic upheavals, such as the Great Recession of 2007-09. "While the virus will eventually pass, vaccines will be developed, and workers will return to work, an event of this magnitude could leave lasting effects on the nature of economic activity," says the paper, which was released at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual conference last week. |
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Nana strengthens into hurricane, rushes toward landfall in Belize |
| Hurricane Nana is expected to slam Belize Thursday where thousands of people were stocking up on food, water and construction materials. The fifth named hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season is forecast to bring a "dangerous" storm surge and heavy rain capable of producing flash flooding and mudslides, according to AccuWeather. Drenching rains were expected in Belize, as well as in northern Honduras and throughout Guatemala as the storm crosses the isthmus Thursday. Nana follows Laura, Marco, Isaias and Hanna in an especially active Atlantic season that has also included 15 tropical storms. |
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A Black man pinned to the ground by NY police died two months before George Floyd |
| A Black man, Daniel T. Prude, died of asphyxiation after police officers in Rochester, New York, who tried to take him into protective custody pinned him to the ground while restraining him . The incident occurred in March, two months before George Floyd's very similar death in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests. Yet it didn't become public until now. The curtain was lifted on the death of 41-year-old Prude at a news conference Wednesday at which Prude's family and local activists called for the officers involved to be fired and charged in his homicide. |
| In Los Angeles, Sheriff's deputies fatally shot another Black man, Dijon Kizzee, in a confrontation that followed their attempt to stop him over what they called an unspecified "code violation" as he rode his bicycle on Monday. The death immediately attracted the attention of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, which organized protests, and of attorney Ben Crump, who said along with two other attorneys that they will be representing Kizzee's family in civil claims against the sheriff's department. |
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'Tenet' finally arrives in U.S. theaters |
| The first wave of big new movies released since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic will continue Thursday when director Christopher Nolan's time-bending sci-fi spy thriller "Tenet" finally heads into the U.S. theaters that are permitted to be open after being delayed three different times . John David Washington and Robert Pattinson star as secret agents dealing with the rules and details of time inversion and an end-of-the-world scenario led by a villainous Russian oligarch (Kenneth Branagh). Critics who have already seen "Tenet" have given it mixed reviews, from one calling it "big, brashly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable" to another comparing it to a "savior who speaks exclusively in dour, drawn-out riddles." |
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| Kids everywhere, rejoice because Walmart's annual list of the most popular toys is out! The retail giant released the "Top Rated by Kids Toy List" early Thursday with "36 of the hottest toys for the 2020 holiday season" that were tested and selected by kids. |
| And now for that Nebraska news: A Lincoln man has made a viral plea to his local city council and wing connoisseurs everywhere: Please stop using the phrase "boneless chicken wings." Instead, Ander Christensen suggests the bite be renamed "Buffalo-style chicken tenders," "wet tenders," "saucy nugs," or "trash." |
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