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United States
Over 50 Looters Arrested in Philly
Forty-nine adults and three minors have been arrested after a group of looters targeted stores in Philadelphia. Included in the looted stores were 18 Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations, the rest of which have temporarily closed to protect the safety of employees. Police say that the lootings have nothing to do with peaceful protests after Tuesday’s dismissal of charges against a former police officer who fatally shot 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry at a traffic stop in August. This looting event in Philadelphia is a standout representative of rising rates of retail crime across the country. Nationwide, retail crime accounts for a bulk of industry losses, a loss of $122.1 billion in 2022, and makes up 65% of retail shrink, or loss of inventory.
This map depicts the locations at which stores were looted in a mass event on Tuesday night. Click on the map to learn more.
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Uzbekistan
Airport Explosion Kills One
A teenage boy has died and at least 160 people are injured following a massive explosion at Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan. The overnight fire and subsequent eruption that destroyed a warehouse full of electric cars and batteries was blamed on a lightning strike by the Uzbek Interior Ministry. Video footage from the explosion shows a column of fire reaching hundreds of feet into the sky. Twenty-four victims required hospitalization. The 15-year-old boy was reportedly killed by a falling window frame.
This map depicts the location of Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport, where a massive explosion destroyed a warehouse full of electric vehicles and batteries. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Daily Mail
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World
New Supercontinent Predicted
Scientists have predicted 92% of the planet will desertify in 250 million years, becoming uninhabitable to mammals once the present-day landmasses come together to form Pangaea Ultima. This new supercontinent will drive up volcanic activity and carbon dioxide levels, which will leave much of the planet’s surface unlivable. Researchers expect the equator as the starting point of Pangaea Ultima’s formation, with the Atlantic Ocean becoming smaller and the African and European continents merging with the Americas. Professor Alexander Farnsworth and his team at the University of Bristol in the UK have been able to model the climate of Pangaea Ultima, stating that its surface temperature will be at least 104° Fahrenheit (40° Celsius). Furthermore, it is also predicted that only 8% of the surface will be livable, at the coastal and polar regions.
This map depicts Earth in 250 million years, dominated by a supercontinent called Pangaea Ultima with exceedingly high heat. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Hip Hop, celebrating its 50th anniversary, was born in the 1970s Bronx from the interaction of African American culture and what island diaspora?
A: Puerto Rico
Many Puerto Ricans began to arrive in New York City following the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act on March 2, 1917, which granted U.S. citizenship to virtually all Puerto Ricans. The “Gran Migración” accelerated migration from Puerto Rico to New York during the 1940s and 50s. Puerto Ricans have been involved in hip hop since the beginning, when it first emerged in the streets of Harlem and the South Bronx. The original b-boys were inner-city teenagers from the poorest neighborhoods, which in 1970s New York meant overwhelmingly Black and Puerto Rican. Without denying the enduring presence of West Indian and other African American communities or the lively interplay between rhythm-and-blues and reggae traditions, it is Puerto Ricans who most directly shared with young African Americans the demographic base and creative stage of hip hop in its origins. As a result of conflicting pressures within the world of rap, the situation of Puerto Ricans in early rap contexts was typically one of camouflage. Timing was of the essence with the use of Spanish in rhymes or the splicing of Latin rhythms into the more accepted registers, until both became mainstream in the 1990s.
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Q: What country hosts the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan, originally encouraged to fill labor shortages on coffee plantations?
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