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#1. Earlier this week, The Atlanta City Council approved the funding for construction of this controversial project after nearly 15 hours of fiery public comment from opponents.
It’s The Atlanta Public Training Center.
The vote took place early Tuesday morning while opponents shouted, “The whole world is watching.” The council voted 11-4 in favor of the funding. Councilmembers Keisha Sean Waites, Liliana Bakhtiari, Jason S. Dozier and Antonio Lewis voted no.
#2. For the past year, researchers at this Atlanta-based university have collaborated on what could become a first-ever HIV vaccine.
It’s Emory University.
A vaccine would prevent HIV-negative people from getting infected. A different Emory research team is leading a study for an HIV cure, which would wipe out or put in permanent remission an HIV infection.
#3. For the first time in its 40-year history, the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for which minority group?
It’s LGBTQ.
Sounding the alarm about the current political environment, the nation’s largest organization devoted to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans said advisories warning against travel to dangerous places aren’t enough to help people already living in so-called hostile states.
#4. In order to succeed in receiving a referendum that would allow registered City of Atlanta voters to decide the fate of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, activists will have over two months to garner over __________ signatures.
It’s 75,000.
If successful, Atlanta residents will vote on the referendum in November.
Those living closest to the training center aren’t City of Atlanta residents and won’t be eligible to participate in the petition or vote on the potential referendum.
#5. Late Thursday evening, this controversial political figure announced that they had been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents.
It’s Donald Trump.
The charges are of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, igniting a federal prosecution that is arguably the most perilous of multiple legal threats against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.
