The Daily Shaarli
August 6, 2020
"Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam halt an earlier contagion, but it is now racing to control infections in the central city and beyond after a new outbreak ended a run of more than three months without domestic transmission."
"Sanders’s involvement in the race itself became a contentious issue, with one member of the Congressional Black Caucus calling his endorsement “political trespassing.” In their only public statement since Tuesday’s election, the Clay family even blamed “outside money from sources associated with Bernie Sanders” for their son’s defeat."
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.” Tamura Snider describes her harrowing journey through a shattered city, suffering radiation sickness following the attack, and her message to President Trump.