Wednesday, June 24 top news briefs
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Hello, welcome to The Daily Moth. It is Wednesday, June 24. Here are top news briefs.
The governors of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut announced that travelers who come from states with spiking Covid-19 infections may be required to quarantine for 14 days with potential fines if they don’t self-isolate. The “line” is the number of infections per 100,000 residents on a 7-day rolling average. CNBC said as of today, the states that are above that level are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah, and Texas. If someone violates a quarantine order, there will be a $2,000 fine for the first violation, $5,000 fine if there is a second violation, and up to $10,000 if they cause harm.
An update on the Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was fired yesterday for “blindly” firing 10 bullets into Taylor’s apartment during a no-knock warrant. The police department’s interim chief said Hankison was never trained to use deadly force in this fashion and that his actions have brought discredit upon himself and the department. So far, no criminal charges have been announced.
A federal judge upheld a policy that says hospitals and health insurers must publish their negotiated prices for health services, which are usually kept secret. The Trump administration is the one who pushed for the prices to be revealed, and the American Hospital Association is the one who sued the Trump administration to block it, saying it would have negative effects. The New York Times said the price transparency rule is scheduled to go in effect in January, but the hospital association plans to appeal.
Yesterday several states held primaries. Here are two highlights. Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as known as AOC, won her first re-election campaign by a huge margin, 72% of the vote in her district in New York City. In North Carolina, a 24-year-old Republican named Madison Cawthorn won a GOP seat over a candidate that President Donald Trump endorsed. Cawthorn is partially paralyzed from a car crash in 2014 and uses a wheelchair. If he wins the election in November, he would be the youngest member in Congress and take that designation from AOC.
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A grand jury in Georgia has indicted three men with murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February 23. Arbery was seen in a video trying to run around a truck when he was confronted by two men holding firearms. He was shot and killed. There was almost no action on the case (no updates on investigations or arrests) until the video was released. The three indicted men said they suspected Arbery was a burglar, but videos showed that the only thing Arbery did was to enter and look around the inside of a house under construction. One of the men indicted will have his hearing this Friday.
There was a series of events in Wisconsin at their state capital in Madison. A Wisconsin state Senator Tim Carpenter (D) said he was attacked by protesters. The protests started in the Madison area after police officers arrested a Black man and activist named Devonere Johnson after he spoke through a megaphone while holding a baseball bat inside of a restaurant. Someone called the police, and the officers struggled to arrest Johnson. Several officers picked him up by his body and legs and carried him to a police car. It was filmed by onlookers. Johnson managed to escape and run before officers tackled him on a street. The video stirred some people and about 200 to 300 protesters marched in the downtown area and some tried to enter the Capitol building. Two statues were toppled. Some government buildings’ windows were broken. Someone threw a molotov cocktail. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said the incidents at the Capitol was unacceptable was prepared to activate the National Guard to protect state properties.
There is a huge plume of dust from the Sahara Desert that is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 5,000 miles long and those along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas and Louisiana might notice a difference in the sky and air quality in the next two days. There might be brown rain. People in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean have posted images of the dust causing a milky, grayish looking sky. The dust plumes does happen from time to time, but this is one of the largest in recent years. The dust travels at an altitude between 2,000 feet to 20,000 feet.
Thank you for watching “The Daily Moth.” See you tomorrow and stay with the light!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/new-york-new-jersey-and-connecticut-impose-14-day-quarantine-on-travelers-from-coronavirus-hotspot-states.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/primary-results-highlights-kentucky-new-york/index.html
https://www.axios.com/breonna-taylor-police-fired-7eb99167-5005-4887-a297-4b3eabe2abb0.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/upshot/hospitals-lost-price-transparency-lawsuit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/tim-carpenter-wisconsin-senator-protest.html
https://apnews.com/e32097aa4318b3eabf00f785d30c4d26
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-grand-jury-indictment/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-3-georgia-men-indicted-by-grand-jury-on-murder-charges
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