A First For Cleveland, Hunger and Displacement
Monday, June 20, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 172
Believeland: The Cleveland Cavaliers rebounded last night to become the first NBA team to win the championship after losing three games. And it’s the first championship in the franchise’s 46-year history.
Golden State had an eight-point lead early in the third quarter, but then Cleveland had an eight-point run. LeBron James, who returned to his hometown with hopes of leading it to the championship, scored 27 points. “The game always gives back to people that are true to the game,” James said. “I’ve watched it. I know the history of the game, and I was just calm. I was calm.”
The Hunger Games: Food riots have broken out in oil-rich Venezuela. Grocery stores and food warehouses have been ransacked while food shipments have had to travel under armed guard. The collapse in oil prices has left the already-troubled country unable to feed itself.
A survey by Simón Bolívar University found that 87 percent of Venezuelans say they don’t have enough money to buy food.
Displaced: More people in the world are displaced by conflict than at any time since World War II, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that by the end of 2015 there were 65.3 million displaced people. That’s about one out of every 113 people on Earth
Nation: The owner of a gun shop in Monroe Township, Ohio, was killed when a student in a concealed-carry permit class accidentally fired his gun. James Baker, 64, was sitting in another room while 10 students were doing an exercise in what to do when their gun malfunctions.
>The Senate today is expected to take up four competing gun control bills that would change the system for background checks and restrict gun sales for people on terror watch lists. Republicans and Democrats are expected to block each other’s bills and nothing is likely to pass.
>Remington Arms is expected to argue in court today that it should not be held liable for making the assault rifle used to kill 26 children and adults in the Sandy Hook School massacre in Connecticut.
The Obit Page: Russian-born actor Anton Yelchin, best known for playing Chekov in the new series of “Star Trek” movies, was killed early Sunday in a freak car accident in Los Angeles. He was 27.
Yelchin was supposed to meet with friends and didn’t show up. They went to his home and found him dead, pinned against a brick mailbox pillar by his own car as it rolled backward down his driveway in Studio City, the police said. The biggest role for the handsome, curly-haired actor had been as Pavel Chekov, navigator of the Starship Enterprise. His latest movie, “Star Trek Beyond,” is to be released in July.
Heat: A Southwest heat wave is being blamed for the deaths of four hikers in Arizona who collapse on trails and died. Phoenix hit 118 degrees; Tucson, 115; Flagstaff, Yuma, 120. Southern California also has been hit by and early heat wave bringing temperatures to 106 in Pasadena and Lancaster, Calif. and feeding wildfires.
Something Fishy: The movie “Finding Dory” has broken the record for the opening of an animated film, raking in 136.2 million. It’s a sequel to the 2003 “Finding Nemo.” We didn’t see it, but we’re guessing they found Dory.
Berned Out: Here’s why Bernie Sanders will never be president. Yesterday he tweeted, “Infrastructure does not get better by itself. We can all agree that if you don’t invest in repairs, it’s just not going to get better.”
Name the inspiring quote by any politician living or dead that includes the word “infrastructure.”
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