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| While America was still recovering from a series of mass shootings, an attacker in California turned to a knife. Also Thursday: ICE released hundreds detained in Mississippi, and the United Nations delivered a grim report about our food supply. |
| But first, "water bears" on the moon: A lunar lander crash-landed, carrying 10,000 tardigrades – tiny, nigh-indestructible creatures known as "water bears" that are capable of surviving just about anything. The lander was part of an effort to preserve human knowledge and DNA, enabling us to "back up Earth." |
After three shootings, a knife rampage |
| After a brutal weekend of mass shootings in America, a suspect described as "pure evil" is accused of killing four people and injuring two in a stabbing and armed robbery rampage Wednesday in California, police said. The unidentified 33-year-old man was arrested at a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana, where he allegedly killed a security guard after stabbing two people to death at his apartment building and a fourth victim at a Subway restaurant. As the two-hour crime spree unfolded, the suspect allegedly almost cut off a man's nose at a service station. He is also accused of robbing a bakery, a check-cashing business and an insurance business. |
Climate change threatens our food supply |
| Humans will need to change the way they eat and farm to help save the planet as global warming on land continues at a rapid rate, a new United Nations report says. The review says climate change threatens our food supply "through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events." Shifting our diets to healthy and sustainable ones full of grains, fruits, vegetables and nuts could reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Meat is identified as "the single food with the greatest impact on the environment" in the report, which estimates that a third of all food produced is lost or wasted. |
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Kids in school. Their parents detained. |
| ICE released 300 of the 680 people detained in a mass raid at food processing plants throughout Mississippi on Wednesday, ICE spokesman Bryan Cox confirmed Thursday. The federal raids took place in small towns near Jackson, Mississippi, targeting their largely Latino immigrant workforce. Reports said many of the detainees' children were in school when the arrests took place. The raids, a result of President Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants, were "dehumanizing and ineffective," Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Matthew Albence told The Associated Press that the raids could be the largest in any single state. |
 | | A young woman cries outside the Koch Foods plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday when immigration authorities raided several food processing plants in the state. | | Rogelio V. Solis/AP | |
What everyone's talking about |
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'You do feel like you have a target on your back' |
| After U.S. shootings in Gilroy, California; Dayton, Ohio; and El Paso, Texas – where investigators linked the suspect to an anti-immigrant screed – questions have been raised over whether victims were targeted for their race as America wrestles with white nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric from the president and others. Amnesty International on Wednesday warned those traveling to the USA after the shootings that they "may be at higher risk of being targeted with gun violence," depending on "race, country of origin, ethnic background" and more. Systemic violence against minority groups is part of American history. " As a brown person, a Latino in a mixed-race marriage, you do feel you have a target on your back," said Jaime Casap, a Phoenix education consultant. |
| After President Donald Trump's visit to a grief-stricken Dayton, Mayor Nan Whaley lamented his "very divisive" talk. Trump said Thursday that Whaley was "misrepresenting" his Dayton trip. |
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High-end fitness? It's canceled (for now) |
| For the trend-driven and athleisure-obsessed, Equinox and SoulCycle are perhaps the pinnacle of high-end fitness brands. But after news broke that Stephen Ross – chairman of the company that owns the two boutique fitness brands – will host a reelection fundraiser for President Donald Trump on Friday (ticket prices start at a cool $100,000), social media took Ross to task. A deluge of people, including model and culinary influencer Chrissy Teigen and "Lion King" star Billy Eichner, called for a mass cancellation of memberships to the luxury fitness clubs. Here's where things get dicey: SoulCycle and Equinox don't want to be associated with the chairman, either. "Mr. Ross is a passive investor and is not involved in the management of either business," they said in a combined statement. |
 | | Equinox and SoulCycle members boycotted gyms over Trump reelection fundraiser. | | Getty | |
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Tucker Carlson takes a break after denying white supremacy |
| Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson doubled down on his claim this week that white supremacy is "not a real problem." In a broadcast Wednesday, Carlson acknowledged racism but denied America is "a white supremacist country." Carlson stated he would take a break from his program at the end of his broadcast. Fox anchor Shepard Smith responded to his remarks, calling white supremacy "without question a very serious problem" in his coverage Wednesday. |
 | | Fox News host Tucker Carlson plans to take a break from his program of conservative commentary. | | Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images | |
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