STORM ADVANCES TOWARD U.S. GULF COAST
NEW ORLEANS» A re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the Gulf Coast on Saturday, spawning a tornado in Florida and bringing the heavy rains that caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America.
After weakening to a tropical depression while moving over land in Mexico’s Gulf coast, Cristobal headed back into the southern Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatan Peninsula on Friday and powered up into a tropical storm. Forecasters said it would arrive on U.S. soil late Sunday but was not expected to grow into a hurricane.
Virus exposes sharp economic divide: college vs. non-college. BALTIMORE» For an American workforce under continuing threat from the coronavirus, the best protection might just be a college degree.
Friday’s jobs report for May delivered a major pleasant surprise, with lower unemployment and 2.5 million added jobs, instead of the darkening picture that had been expected.
Yet the damage inflicted on the job market since February has highlighted a widening line of inequity based on education. In a nation in which a majority of workers lack a degree, college graduates are far more likely to be inoculated from the pain.
In May, the overall unemployment rate was 13.3%, down from 14.7% in April. For workers with only a high school diploma,
Fox News says graphic about black deaths, stock market was insensitive.
LOS ANGELES» Fox News apologized Saturday for how it displayed a chart correlating the stock market’s performance with the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd, Martin Luther King Jr. and Michael Brown.
The graphic that aired Friday to illustrate market reactions to historic periods of civil unrest “should have never aired on television without full context. We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously,” the cable channel said in a statement.
The chart included on “Special Report with Bret Baier” illustrated gains made by the S&P 500 index after King’s assassination in 1968; the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014; and the May 25 death of Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. It also measured the financial yardstick against the 1991 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
It was shown as part of a segment with Fox News and Fox Business reporter Susan Li focusing on the market rally that followed an unexpectedly lower number of jobless claims.
Other business publications and TV channels in recent days have compared the market’s performance to current and historic social upheaval, but with significant background and explanation.
Scientists call on Zuckerberg to rein in Trump on Facebook. BOSTON» Dozens of scientists doing research funded by Mark Zuckerberg say Facebook should not be letting President Donald Trump use the social media platform to “spread both misinformation and incendiary statements.”
The researchers, including 60 professors at leading U.S. research institutions, wrote the Facebook CEO on Saturday asking Zuckerberg to “consider stricter policies on misinformation and incendiary language that harms people,” especially during the current turmoil over racial injustice.
The letter calls the spread of “deliberate misinformation and divisive language” contrary to the researchers’ goals of using technology to prevent and
Seradicate disease, improve childhood education and reform the criminal justice system. The scientists have grants from a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative program working to prevent, cure and treat neurodegenerative disorders .