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After visiting a small, vintage leather store with her cousin, she hit it off with the hospitable store owner, Imad. His store boasted everything from handcrafted leather shoes with colorful detailing, skirts and vests, to handbags featuring intricate, hand-woven tatreez patterns (Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery). But more than pretty pieces, the products have a political meaning.
Cameron Brink and Lexie Hull of Stanford run back to celebrate with teammates after Aari McDonald of the Arizona Wildcats misses a last-second shot in the 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game on April 4, 2021, in San Antonio. (Elsa / Getty Images)
Cameron Brink and Lexie Hull of Stanford run back to celebrate with teammates after Aari McDonald of the Arizona Wildcats misses a last-second shot in the 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament championship game on April 4, 2021, in San Antonio. (Elsa / Getty Images)
“Putting on a grandiose fireworks display to celebrate both our city’s reopening and Independence Day is an excellent way to kick off the summer we’ve all been waiting for,” Lightfoot said in Friday’s statement. “Thanks to the hard work of our residents, who followed public health guidelines and did their part to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19, we are now able to bring back exciting summer traditions like these. As our newly reopened city continues adapting to a new normal, I want to urge our residents to continue getting vaccinated so we can bring back even more of our favorite outdoor events.”
Officials said drinking water is safe for residents to use and consume, and air quality is currently good. Len Zintak, the on-scene coordinator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said his team is sampling the area for environmental impacts in the air and water. The monitoring that has been done has shown “well below action” levels regarding long-term health risks, Grundy County Health Department spokeswoman Michelle Pruim said.
President Joe Biden speaks on gun crime prevention measures at the White House on June 23, 2021 in Washington. Biden pledged to aggressively go after illegal gun dealers and to boost federal spending in aid to local law enforcement. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“If the current rate of vaccination continues through August, coverage among young adults will remain substantially lower than among older adults,” the study concluded. “Efforts to improve vaccination coverage are needed, especially among younger adults, to reduce COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.”
Kelly has been in a tiny cell in the Special Housing Unit since his arrival in New York last month, and must make phone calls from the shower “in a desperate effort to obtain privacy,” his lawyers allege in a motion filed Thursday. COVID-19 protocols make it difficult to get face-to-face meetings with his attorneys. And since Kelly is functionally illiterate, he cannot effectively review evidence and paperwork on his own, his lawyers said.
“It is not clear what record-keeping deficiency of the city would have caused Cole’s repeated detention, since the database that caused the detention is a statewide database, and the entry in said database that led to his detention was not put there by the city of Chicago,” the city wrote in a filing. “Plaintiff alleges circumstances that are unfortunate, but that are not the fault of the defendant.”
“Her basis for filing a protection order is nonexistent, fraudulent, and deliberately omits key facts, information, and her own relevant communications,” Fetterolf said. “Any allegations that the pair’s encounters were not 100% consensual are baseless, defamatory, and will be refuted to the fullest extent of the law.”