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Chicago Sun-Times: Migrant day laborers claim off-duty CPD officers detained, beat them while seeking work by Kaitlin Washburn
Migrant day laborers allege off-duty Chicago police officers targeted, illegally detained and beat them while they sought work outside a Southwest Side Home Depot.
The allegations are detailed in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of five Venezuelan and Colombian laborers and Latino Union of Chicago. The suit names two Chicago police officers who work second jobs as security guards for the home-improvement store. Defendants also include two named Home Depot employees, several unnamed employees and officers, the city of Chicago, Chicago Police Department and Home Depot.
The laborers, while soliciting homeowners and contractors for jobs outside the store, allege they were choked, punched, slapped and thrown to the ground after they were handcuffed and taken inside the Home Depot at 4555 S. Western Blvd.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by Raise The Floor Alliance and The People’s Law Office, was announced Tuesday morning outside the Dirksen Federal Building in the Loop.
USA Today: 'Resurrected from the dead': Harris pick of Walz caps complete shake-up of 2024 race by Joey Garrison
It wasn't even three weeks ago when Trish Callahan, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said her co-workers had to check to see if she was OK.
Then President Joe Biden withdrew from the election on July 21, and Vice President Kamala took his place as the Democratic nominee.
“I was preparing myself for the worst," said Callahan, 63, who works in fundraising at Temple University. "And as soon as Biden stepped down and endorsed Kamala, it was like I was resurrected from the dead. I donated. I volunteered."
It's been a night-and-day turnaround from the downward vibes of the Biden campaign to Harris' surge. And no scene captured the drastic shake-up as vividly as Harris' raucous rally in Philadelphia Tuesday night debuting her running-mate pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Callahan was among the 14,000 supporters in attendance, the largest crowd of the still-young Harris campaign.
New York Times: Historically Black Medical Schools Land a $600 Million Donation by Anemona Hartocollis and Alan Blinder
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York City mayor, is giving $600 million to the country’s four historically Black medical schools, which account for a significant percentage of all medical degrees awarded to Black doctors.
Through his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mr. Bloomberg is giving $175 million each to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and Howard University College of Medicine in Washington. These donations are believed to be the largest ever to any single H.B.C.U., surpassing the $100 million gift that Spelman College in Atlanta announced in January.
The foundation is also giving $75 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and an additional $5 million to help start a new medical school at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans.
Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, president and chief executive of Meharry Medical College, said in an interview that the gift was “just a major, major investment that will have generational impact.”
The Washington Post: San Bernardino fire engulfs houses, forces evacuations by Andrew Jeong and Sarah Raza
A fast-moving fire has engulfed several homes and forced evacuations in a hillside community in San Bernardino, Calif.
The Edgehill Fire, which began at 2:38 p.m. local time Monday, was 75 percent contained as of Tuesday morning, according to Cal Fire. The blaze has dwindled to 54 acres from 100 as firefighters took advantage of lower overnight temperatures to increase containment, San Bernardino police said on social media.
There were no fatalities, police spokesman Sgt. Chris Gray said.
Local news cameras showed a hill that had been scorched and several homes ablaze in an area known as Little Mountain. Fire officials had ordered residents in the hillside neighborhood to evacuate. The fire consumed three to five homes, Gray said, though the damage assessment is ongoing.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of an interim government in Bangladesh, the president's office has announced.
The decision was made at a meeting between President Mohammed Shahabuddin, military leaders, and the heads of the Students Against Discrimination group, the presidency said.
It comes a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced from power and fled the country, following weeks of student-led protests that spiralled into deadly unrest.
Student leaders had been clear they would not accept a military-led government and had pushed for Mr Yunus to lead the interim administration.
AlJazeera: Lebanese grapple with fear and tough choices as regional war looms by Mat Nashad
On July 27, Loubna El-Amine was waiting to board a connecting flight from Romania to Lebanon’s capital Beirut, having travelled from her family’s home in the United Kingdom.
As boarding started, El-Amine received news that a projectile had killed 12 Druze children and young people in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel blamed the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which denied responsibility for the incident.
Fearing how Israel would respond, El-Amine, a Lebanese-American, discussed with her husband whether to board with their three children or not.
Moments later, they got on the plane.
Shortly after they arrived in Beirut, Israel assassinated one of Hezbollah’s top commanders, Fuad Shukr, by launching a rocket into a residential building in Dahiyeh, a district in southern Beirut. They then killed Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital Tehran during the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Guardian: Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia by Dan Sabbagh
Moscow has said about 300 soldiers from Ukraine launched a cross-border attack into a hitherto quiet part of the front on Tuesday, with reports of fighting at a town as deep as six miles (10km) inside Russia.
Moscow’s ministry of defence said late on Tuesday that up to “300 Ukrainian militants” from Ukraine’s 22nd mechanised brigade launched the attack at 8am, supported by “11 tanks and more than 20 armoured fighting vehicles”.
Fighting took place throughout the day between the border villages of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region, and as far inside Russia as the fringes of Sudzha, 10km from the frontline – where two strikes on Russian trailers loaded with tanks were photographed from overhead.
Though Russia said it had repelled the incursion, reports from Russian military bloggers and imagery on social media indicated that the Ukrainian attack was substantial, though it was unclear how far it could be sustained.
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