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* Almost 100,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Here is that tragic story in figures

!!! A state-by-state breakdown of US coronavirus cases !!!

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(Mon) Snap removes Trump account from curated promotional section
스냅챗, 트럼프 계정 홍보 중단

U.S. President Donald Trump's account will no longer be promoted on Snapchat.Parent company Snap announced the decision Wednesday, saying the president's inflammatory comments over the Minneapolis protest - made on another platform last week - made his account ineligible for the curated section of their app. In a statement, the company said, "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover." Snap said its decision to pull the president's content from the Discover tab was made over the weekend , becoming the latest social media company to take a stance against the president - after he shared a message on Twitter and Facebook, saying "when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” He was referring to protests that have gripped the nation over the death of George Floyd. Twitter placed a warning label on the tweet, saying it violated its rules on glorifying violence. Though Facebook has taken no action, triggering an employee backlash against CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This week - a group of employees at the company took part in a virtual walkout to protest Zuckerberg's decision not to challenge the posts.

(Tue) Polestar ramps up battle with Tesla in China
폴스타, 중국에서 테슬라와의 경쟁 대비

Tesla could face stiffer competition in the world’s biggest car market. Local champions are gearing up to take it on in China. Reuters sources say luxury electric vehicle brand Polestar - owned by Chinese automaker Geely - is planning a big expansion of its sales network. Right now it has just one showroom there, in Beijing. Now 20 are planned, with most opening in the third quarter of this year. Like Tesla, it plans to sell direct to customers, not through third-party dealers. That means an upfront cost developing showrooms. But gives it more control over retail prices . Based in Sweden, Polestar is closely associated with Geely-owned Volvo. It started producing sedans earlier this year in China, and will export them to Europe and the U.S. Right now Tesla has over 50 showrooms in the country. And Polestar isn’t its only competition. Rival Xpeng plans to have about 200 outlets by the end of the year. And with backing from online commerce giant Alibaba it’s got the financial firepower to compete. Meanwhile China’s government wants 25% of all domestic car sales to be electric vehicles by 2025. That leaves a lot to play for.

(Wed) China orders firms to stop buying U.S. farm goods
중국, 기업들에게 미국산 농산물 구매중단 명령

China is striking back at the U.S. over Washington's punitive actions on Hong Kong. Sources tell Reuters Beijing has ordered state-owned firms to stop buying soybeans and pork from the U.S. Also put on hold : large volume purchases of U.S. corn and cotton. The sources said Beijing is ready to expand that list if Washington takes more action on Hong Kong. And under a worst case scenario , a source said Beijing will scrap the Phase 1 trade deal. Under that agreement signed in January, China had pledged to buy an additional $32 billion of U.S. agricultural products over two years. In the first quarter, China bought more than $1 billion worth of U.S. soybeans and nearly $700 million of pork. But tensions between the world's two largest trading partners have been escalating for months, with U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of mismanaging the pandemic and threatening to hold Beijing to account. Then on Friday, Trump vowed to end the U.S.' preferential treatment for Hong Kong. That was in response to China's plans to impose a new national security law over the former British colony. The source said Chinese importers canceled up to 20,000 tons of American pork shipments after Trump's announcement Friday. That's equivalent to one week's worth of orders.

(Thu) NASA crew climb aboard ISS, after a 'slick' space flight
나사 우주비행사들, '매끄러운' 비행 후 국제우주정거장 안착

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on Sunday climbed aboard the International Space Station after a 19-hour flight aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The first time U.S. astronauts have launched from American soil since NASA's space shuttle program was terminated in 2011. The launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida was carried out one day earlier by SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The two Americans received a warm welcome from the current crew on board the ISS, after executing an hours-long critical spacecraft docking. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine from mission control in Houston checked in on them after their long journey. Bridenstine: "Did you get any sleep on the 19-hour flight?" Behken: "We managed to get 7 hours...The first night is always a little bit of a challenge, but the Dragon is a slick vehicle and we had good airflow so we had an excellent evening." The mission is part of NASA's commercial spacecraft program that allows U.S. companies to compete for NASA contracts to send U.S. astronauts to space and drive down costs. The weekend SpaceX launch was attended by U.S. President Donald Trump, after being scrubbed earlier in the week due to inclement weather.

(Fri) TikTok owner ByteDance side-steps China -sources
틱톡 모회사 바이트댄스, 중국과의 거리를 두려는 움직임

TikTok, the latest video-sharing social media craze, and its Chinese parent ByteDance are feeling the heat as global tensions rise with China, leading the app owner to quietly shift power away from its home country, several people familiar with plans exclusively told Reuters. The most visible shift in power: The recent hiring of former Walt Disney head of Streaming Ken Mayer to head up TikTok from Los Angeles. He's also been given additional leadership roles once spearheaded in China, sources revealed. And that's not all: ByteDance has beefed up TikTok's engineering, as well as research and development operations in Silicon Valley, sources said. In addition, it has hired a person in New York to smooth over investor relations. The decision to move away from China not only impacts TikTok, which can't be viewed inside that country, but also ByteDance's other non-China properties. There is heightened scrutiny of Chinese-owned entities as the White House trades barbs with China over a number of things, including complaints over the handling of global health issues and a political crackdown on Hong Kong. And ByteDance is under a further watchful eye since the U.S. is one of TikTok's biggest markets, having grown wildly popular with American teenagers. That success has caught the attention of U.S. authorities worried about personal data collection and a potential risk to national security.

** Other Latest Headlines **

* Ahmaud Arbery attacker used racial slur as jogger lay dying, court hears

A state investigator in Georgia on Thursday alleged that the white man accused of killing jogger Ahmaud Arbery was heard saying a racial slur as he stood over the mortally wounded man, moments after hitting him with three shots from a pump-action shotgun. The lead Georgia bureau of investigation agent in the murder case testified that Greg and Travis McMichael, a father and son duo who were in a truck, and a third man in another pickup, William “Roddie” Bryan, repeatedly used their trucks to chase down and box in Arbery, an African American man who was jogging through a predominantly white neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia, in February. Arbery repeatedly reversed directions and even jumped into a ditch in a desperate attempt to shake off his pursuers, the Glynn county court heard on Thursday. Travis McMichael then got out of his truck and confronted Arbery. He told police he shot him in self-defense after Arbery refused his order to get on the ground, GBI special agent Richard Dial said.

* Jordan giving $100 million for racial equality, justice

Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand are giving $100 million to organizations dedicated to promoting racial equality and social justice. In a joint statement Friday on social media, Jordan and the Jordan Brand said money will be paid over 10 years with the goal of “ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” “Black lives matter,” the statement said. “This isn’t a controversial statement. Until the ingrained racism that allows our country’s institutions to fail is completely eradicated, we will remain committed to protecting and improving the lives of black people.”

* Inter-Korean tension heightening as North Korea shuts communication channels

Inter-Korean relations are again returning to the era of constant tension, with North Korea cutting all communication lines with the South and defining the country once more as an "enemy." Experts think that the North may take further measures as it has vowed, including military provocations. The tension-stoking move came days after Pyongyang strongly complained about Seoul failing to stop North Korean defectors and activists from flying anti-North leaflets across the border tethered to balloons. "The disgusting riff-raff has committed hostile acts against North Korea by taking advantage of the South Korean authorities' irresponsible stance and with their connivance. They dared to hurt the dignity of our supreme leadership and mock the sacred mental core of all our people. This was a sign of hostility to all our people," the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported early Tuesday. "They should be forced to pay dearly for this." As a first step, the Kim Jong-un regime said it would cut off all cross-border communication lines at noon ― a decision made by Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader's sister and first vice department director of the committee.

* S. Korea to ban corporal punishment at home by law

The Ministry of Justice is pushing to revise a law to effectively prohibit corporal punishment at home as cases of child abuse, which sometimes resulted in death, continue to be reported. The move comes after legal experts, including Seoul National University Law School Prof. Yoon Jin-soo, said the standing law, which allows parents to take "necessary disciplinary action" to teach their children, could be misinterpreted as allowing physical abuse as a legitimate punishment. Yoon said discipline should be within boundaries that can be accepted as social norms, noting that action causing emotional and physical distress should not be included. A committee of 10 legal experts, including Yoon, advised the ministry in April to remove from the civil law the clause regarding parents' rights to take disciplinary action against their children and replace it with the right to educate the children on acceptable behavior.