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Rapper Kanye West denounces Bush response, American media at hurricane relief telethon

9 December, 2020

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Saturday, September 3, 2005 Grammy award-winning rapper/producer Kanye West appeared on a live on-air telethon simulcast on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and PAX for Hurricane Katrina victims. Live on air, West said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” after saying “America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as […]

Category:Featured article

9 December, 2020

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Shortcut:WN:FA Featured articles are selected by the community to represent the best of Wikinews. See the Featured Article Candidates page for nominations and discussions of candidate articles for this page. Or, subscribe to the RSS feed! [edit] Pages in category “Featured article” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Featured_article&oldid=2870736”

GitHub re-enables public access to youtube-dl after EFF sends a letter challenging the DMCA takedown

9 December, 2020

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2-year-old dies in car in 100ºF heat with windows rolled up

9 December, 2020

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Friday, August 24, 2007 A two-year-old girl was found dead inside a car yesterday in Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio The car was parked outside the Glen Este Middle School with all windows rolled up. High temperatures in the area reached 100ºF (~38ºC). Police said that the girl had been inside the car for hours […]

U.S. judge orders release of President Trump’s tax records, appeals court issues delay

9 December, 2020

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Thursday, October 10, 2019 On Monday, United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero issued a ruling against President Donald Trump finding that New York City prosecutors could view his tax records after a subpoena issued by a grand jury. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating Trump over alleged hush money paid to two women […]

Chinese stock markets plunge after tax increase

9 December, 2020

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 In trading Wednesday, the Chinese stock markets plunged after the government tripled a tax on securities transactions. The so-called stamp tax was raised from 0.1% to 0.3% in an effort to cool the rapidly rising market. The Shanghai Composite Index of A-shares fell 6.5%. The CSI 300 fell 6.8%, with over […]

Chef who appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ commits suicide

9 December, 2020

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Joseph Cerniglia, a chef who had appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s television show Kitchen Nightmares, has commited suicide. Cerniglia was the owner of Italian restaurant Campania. He jumped off a bridge into the Hudson river on the New York–New Jersey border. At the time of filming in 2007, Cerniglia owed suppliers $80,000. […]

Amazon dips into memory hole to retrieve Orwellian works

9 December, 2020

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Saturday, September 5, 2009 American-based online retailer Amazon.com has backtracked from its July decision and actions to remotely delete George Orwell‘s classic dystopian novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, from customers’ Kindle e-book readers. Late Thursday, Amazon emailed owners of Kindle readers who had previously lost copies of these novels, offering a new copy of […]

Wikinews’ overview of the year 2008

9 December, 2020

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Also try the 2008 World News Quiz of the year. What would you tell your grandchildren about 2008 if they asked you about it in, let’s say, 20 years’ time? If the answer to a quiz question was 2008, what would the question be? The year that markets collapsed, or perhaps […]

News briefs:August 2, 2010

9 December, 2020

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Wikinews Audio Briefs Credits Produced By Turtlestack Recorded By Turtlestack Written By Turtlestack Listen To This Brief Problems? See our media guide. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=News_briefs:August_2,_2010&oldid=1451857”