A roundup of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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BREAKING: Paul Hodgkins, 38, has become the first Capitol rioter to be sentenced for a felony.
He was sentenced to 8 months in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding. https://t.co/4MA2jlvZIL
NEW: The American Academy of Pediatrics calls for schools to enforce universal masking mandates because so many kids won’t be protected by fall and schools have no way of verifying COVID vaccine status yet.
BREAKING: Biden administration blames China for massive Microsoft Exchange email hack, discloses other cyberthreats from Beijing. https://t.co/2P439J1VAJ
Breaking News: Claude Joseph, the acting prime minister who immediately took control of Haiti’s government after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse this month, is stepping down, the elections minister said. https://t.co/rVhtz1hCyo
BREAKING: The Biden administration transfers a detainee out of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for the first time. Abdullatif Nasser was cleared for repatriation to Morocco in July 2016 but remained at Guantanamo during the Trump presidency. https://t.co/672HP7MwV0
Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota pulls Olympics TV ads and neither the carmaker’s president nor other top executives will be attending the opening ceremony later this week. https://t.co/OCDVMIgea7
There have been about two dozen reports of symptoms of mysterious health incidents similar to the "Havana syndrome" among US diplomats, intelligence officials and other government personnel in Vienna, sources say https://t.co/mHUlNmqhc3
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