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and the realization of an impossible dream,” said the family. “We thank the UAE for their great support in arranging the reunion. This is an example of the UAE’s humanitarian approach, as well as of its noble values of tolerance and coexistence.”

Ears Will be OK

If you were concerned that your ears would become a bit too protruded after wearing a face mask for so long, have no fear. A group of Israeli plastic surgeons have come out to assure the public that wearing masks will not cause any permanent change to a person’s ear, even though there may be some physical, short-term discomfort.

According to the doctors, the ear canal stops developing at age six and therefore there is no reason for “its structure to change following the pressure of a rubber band or lanyard.”

In Israel, residents are required to wear masks in public areas. Those flouting the law can face a fine of up to NIS 500. There is no requirement to wear a mask with ear straps; a bandana or scarf is still considered OK.

Even so, wearing a mask for long periods may not be healthy. In an article published by Technocracy News, Dr. Russell Blaylockwrote that the side effects from prolonged wearing of a face mask “can vary from headaches to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation and hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.”

The side effects vary depending on whether they are cloth or paper surgical masks or N95 respirator masks, because the N95, being a more effective filter, also limits breathing to a greater degree, and is therefore more commonly associated with headaches, he reported.

Trump Bans TikTok

President Donald Trump issued two executive orders over the weekend effectively banning the use of the popular social media apps TikTok and WeChat throughout the United States. The order came a week after Trump announced that he would outlaw TikTok due to concerns that the Chinese-owned video app was a conduit for a Beijing spying operation. Owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok currently has an estimated 80 million users in the U.S. and is the fastest growing app in the world.

The pair of executive orders Trump signed on Friday outlaws any transaction with TikTok, WeChat, and any other app developed by ByteDance for 45 days. The order means that Apple and Google would be prohibited from listing TikTok on their mobile apps store without running afoul of the ban.

The ban would likely not apply should TikTok be bought by a non-Chinese firm. ByeDance is said to be in talks to sell parts or all ofTikTok to Microsoft.

Upon announcing the ban, Trump said that apps such as TikTok that are owned by Chinese firms “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” He pledged to further crackdown on Chinese spying. The order maintains that the Chinese firms are exploiting the app’s popularity to illegally collect user data and transfer it to Beijing’s ruling Communist Party.

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The order added that the two apps “capture vast swaths of information from its users,” noting that “this data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information.” Trump also alleged that the data collected by TikTok was being used to blackmail U.S. government employees and carry out corporate espionage.

TikTok denied the allegations and threatened to pursue legal action against the U.S. following the twin executive orders. In a statement, TikTok vowed to “pursue all remedies available” to “ensure the rule of law is not discarded.”

BLM: Looting is Reparations

On Monday, just hours after Chicago was shattered by riots, members of the Black Lives Matter movement in the city held a rally in front of the police station is support of the morethan-100 people who had been arrested during the looting and rioting the night before.

At least 13 police officers had been injured in the melee, and there was at least $60 million in property damage.

“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,” said Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, according to NBC Chicago. “That makes sure that person has clothes.

“That is reparations,” Atkins added. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.”

Police had been pursuing a man, Latrell Allen, with a gun in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago on Sunday afternoon. The 20-year-old then “turned and fired shots” at officers. He was then shot and was taken to a local hospital. A video posted on Facebook falsely claimed that police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy. Riots then ensued.

Hundreds of people descended on downtown Chicago with vandals smashing the windows of dozens of businesses and making off with merchandise, cash machines and anything else they could carry.

“This was not an organized protest. Rather, this was an incident of pure criminality,” Police Superintendent David Brown said. “This was an act of violence against our police officers and against our city.”

Black Lives Matter Chicago issued a statement, saying, “The mayor clearly has not learned anything since May, and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the [Chicago Police Department] is abolished and our Black communities are fully invested in.”

A Tiff between Trump and Adelson?

President Donald Trump may be on the outs with mega donor Sheldon Adelson. According to reports, a recent phone call between America’s top elected official and the casino mogul dissolved into shouts over Adelson’s declining financial support for Trump.

Adelson has given Trump tens of millions of dollars in donations in recent years and is one of the biggest donors to the Republican Party. Yet, in a recent phone call between the two, Trump pressed him why he had stopped giving to his reelection effort, leading to raised voices between both men.

Adelson had wanted to speak about the coronavirus bill that would help his casino business, which has been devastated by the pandemic. But Trump repeatedly asked why Adelson wasn’t doing more to keep him in power, apparently unaware how much the billionaire had helped him in the past.

After the phone call ended, Trump’s aides rushed to smooth things over between Adelson and Trump.

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