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Missouri reports 33 new COVID-19 deaths, making total 771
(State News ~ 05/31/20)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri reported another 33 COVID-19-related deaths Saturday, up 4.5% in a single day, increasing its total for the coronavirus pandemic to 771. The state Department of Health and Senior Services also said the number of coronavirus cases rose by 1.3%, up 167 cases to 12,962 as of Saturday. The department said 718 people infected with the novel coronavirus have been hospitalized...
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Gov. Parson activates National Guard following violent protests in Missouri
(State News ~ 05/31/20)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters blocked a downtown St. Louis interstate, set a fire in the road and broke into trucks during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee onto Floyd's neck during an arrest. One St. Louis protester died early Saturday...
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'Back in the game': SpaceX ship blasts off with 2 astronauts
(National News ~ 05/31/20)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from home soil for the first time in nearly a decade...
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A Fresh Perspective
(05/31/20)
In the past few months, we’ve acquired a new vocabulary — COVID-19, self-quarantine, social-distancing, etc. But it’s not just new words we’ve discovered; we’ve also experienced a new way of life. I’ve learned from personal conversations and social media that many people have spent quite a bit of time pondering the typical pre-COVID American lifestyle and, more specifically, their own. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/31/20)
Today is Sunday, May 31, the 152nd day of 2020. There are 214 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 31, 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent black district of Greenwood over reports a black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; hundreds are believed to have died...
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