29 Jun

United States: Newspaper Shooting in Maryland

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United States
Newspaper Shooting in Maryland
Thursday afternoon, a gunman entered the Capital Gazette headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland and shot and killed 5 people. Employees of the newspaper hid under desks while the gunman fired on them with a shotgun and smoke grenades. The shooter, Jarrod Ramos, had a longstanding grudge against the paper and had filed a defamation suit against the columnist and paper that had covered his criminal harassment case. Two other employees were injured and taken to the hospital. The journalists of the Capital Gazette worked in the parking lot this morning to put out Friday’s paper, which featured the faces of the 5 victims on the front page.  This map depicts the location of the Capital Gazette offices in Maryland. Click on the map to learn more.

Graphic Source: New York Daily News
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United States
New Privacy Laws
On Thursday, California enacted one of the nation’s toughest data-protection laws in an effort to protect consumers against data misuse by tech-giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon.  Under the new law, California consumers will have a right to know all of the information collected on them, a right to delete their data and a right to know why data is being collected.  Additional protections are written into the law that protect minors under 16 and allow consumers to effectively control how their personal data is collected and used.  The law will go into effect in 2020.  Other states are looking to pass similar privacy-protection measures. This map depicts strength of privacy laws by state. Click on the map to learn more and explore your own state.

Graphic Source: Comparitech
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United Kingdoms
Sex Trafficking
A London-based nurse, Josephine Iyamu, has been found guilty of human sex trafficking. After performing “voodoo” rituals on 5 Nigerian women, Iyamu lead them into Germany to work as prostitutes. The National Crime Agency said Iyamu had put the women through various “juju” ceremonies designed to exert control over them, and forced them to take oaths of loyalty. Iyamu is the first person to be convicted under the the U.K.’s Modern Slavery Act laws passed in 2015. Investigations into her unusual amount of spending in 2017 led to exposure of the crimes. She will be sentenced on July 4th.

This interactive map depicts destinations of human sex trafficking out of Nigeria. Click on the map to learn more and explore other countries.

Yesterday’s Answer

Q: What percent of the Earth’s population lives in the Northern hemisphere? 

A: 88%
88% of all humans live in the Northern hemisphere. This is largely due to the fact that the Northern hemisphere has vastly more land than the Southern hemisphere.

Source 

Today’s Question

 

Q: Where is the Giant’s Causeway, an area of 40,000 hexagonal rock columns? 

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