Thursday, June 24 top stories
Hello, it is Thursday, June 24. Here are today’s top stories.
One side of a 12-story condo building in Surfside, Florida — near Miami — collapsed this early morning, trapping many people. At least one person was confirmed dead. There are 99 people that are missing and feared dead.
A local reporter tweeted surveillance video from a neighboring property that showed the moment the building collapsed. You will see that the middle part of the building goes down first, and then a few seconds later, one side of the building goes down.
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A witness told CNN that he was walking his dog nearby around 1:30 in the morning when he felt the ground shake and heard the collapse. He said he saw a little boy’s hand sticking above the rubble and helped to save him, but that his mother was still trapped.
Officials said they are concerned there will be more fatalities because the building “pancaked.” CNN explained that the condo was built in the 1980’s and has 136 units.
Singer Britney Spears was in court yesterday to ask a judge to end her conservatorship, which is an arrangement in which her father, James Spears, has control over her life and finances. The conservatorship has been in place since 2008, when Britney was going through several personal struggles.
Britney said she just wants her life back. She said “this conservatorship is abusive” and that she wants the judge to allow it to end without her having to go through an evaluation.
Fans of the singer protested outside of the courthouse with signs that read, “Free Britney.”
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A 49-year-old woman from Indiana became the first person to be sentenced on criminal charges for being a part of the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Her name is Anna Morgan-Lloyd and she is a grandmother of five. On January 6, she posted that it was the “best day ever.” In court, she told a judge that she realizes she made mistakes and nowaccepts that Joe Biden is president.
She was sentenced to three years probation, complete 40 hours of community service, and pay $500 in restitution.
The federal judge who sentenced her warned that others who are awaiting sentences may receive harsher consequences. There have been about 500 people charged for attacking the Capitol.
In Saskatchewan, Canada, an announcement was made that 751 unmarked graves were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children. The Cowessess First Nation made the announcement.
A few weeks ago news broke that 215 unmarked graves were found at a former indigenous residential school in British Columbia.
Researchers say in the late 1800’s up to the 1990’s, almost 150,000 Indigenous children were separated from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run boarding schools in an attempt to strip them of their identities and languages and assimilate them into Canadian society. Many were subject to physical and sexual abuse and it is believed that over 3,000 died. Many school leaders chose to bury the bodies nearby instead of sending them back to their families.
Axios reported that Rudy Giuliani has been “suspended from practicing law in the state of New York due to his false statements about the 2020 election.”
A court in New York made the decision in response to a complaint. They said Giuliani made “demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump.”
John McAfee, who founded a very successful antivirus software company, was found dead in a prison in Spain. He was 75. CNN explained that he was awaiting extradition to the U.S. to face very serious tax-related charges. The extradition was approved this week and now McAfee is dead. Prison officials in Spain said it seems like McAfee died by suicide.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://apnews.com/article/miami-building-collapses-25ee9ff94dd07d2a0ae3da742a6cb8dd
https://twitter.com/AndySlater/status/1408051917964595202
https://www.axios.com/capitol-riot-attack-sentencing-9eec9477-5039-4177-8dab-5f75171a2171.html
https://www.axios.com/rudy-giuliani-new-york-law-license-48095707-332d-4b4d-9670-b10ad0a165d4.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/23/canada-cowessess-residential-school-graves/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/tech/john-mcafee-death/index.html