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On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man, was pursued and fatally shot while jogging near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
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Trapped passengers on various cruise ship hoping in vain for a place to port.
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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange recorded their worst day since 1987.
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Italy is put under a total lockdown as Covid 19 spreads across the country. First country to feel the effects of Covid 19.
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Olympic flame is displayed in Japan after the 2020 Tokyo Games were postponed.
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USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship, arrives in New York City to take pressure off medical facilities in the city. New York City was the epicenter for Covid 19.
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A big, yellow-and-black insect found dead in a roadway near Custer, Wash., has been identified as the Asian giant hornet. It was “probably a queen,” from a brood in a 2019 nest and now ready to found a colony of her own. It is now called the murder hornet.
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Marco and Laura, two hurricanes threaten the US coast. Marco weakened but Laura became the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Louisiana.
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Massive explosion in Beirut. 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate blew killing 157 people and injurying thousands. The ammonium nitrate was being stored in a warehouse near the city.
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On August 12, Joe Biden announced that he has chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate. Harris is a strong advocate for diversity and equality.
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Since the start of 2020, wildfires in California have burned over 3.2 million acres of land -- an area almost the size of Connecticut. 16,500 firefighters have been battling 28 major wildfires in the state, which have left 24 people dead and over 4,200 structures destroyed.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center.
