The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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1 Flights return: Yeager Airport is resuming a nonstop flight to Atlanta that was put on hold earlier this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the airport said Thursday. The Charleston airport said Delta will restore a second flight to HartsfieldJackson International Airport starting July 3.
Official quits: South Korean 2 President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration.
3 Twitter warning: Twitter has slapped another label on a tweet by President Donald Trump, this time warning that a video he shared was doctored and escalating the social media company’s crackdown on one of its most widely followed users. After Trump tweeted the video late Thursday, Twitter took the rare step of adding a warning that it was “manipulated media” and linked to a page that said multiple journalists confirmed the clip was edited to make it look like a CNN broadcast. The video remains visible in Trump’s timeline.
4 NYC holiday: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that Juneteenth will be an official holiday for city workers and schoolchildren next year, and the city will form a new commission to examine its history of racial discrimination.
5 Promotion ends: A Louisiana tourist commission is abandoning a 19-year-old promotion touting “New Orleans Plantation Country,” effective immediately. The River Parishes Tourist Commission, representing an area just up the Mississippi River from New Orleans, had already planned to drop the plantation reference by the end of this year .