🏆 Harini Logan of San Antonio, Texas, wins Scripps National Spelling Bee in first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker
The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a way none of the 93 competitions before it did, a spell-off. The final two competitors, Vikram Raju and Harini Logan, could not decipher any of their spelling attempts between Round 13 and 18. The bell rang 10 consecutive times. At that point, judges opted to institute the first spell-off – 90 seconds to spell as many words as possible correctly.
Logan – an eighth-grader from Texas – spelled 21 words correctly, compared to Raju's 15, to become the 2022 champion. She took home the $50,000 cash prize and Scripps Cup trophy on top of awards from Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica.
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The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a way none of the 93 competitions before it did, a spell-off. The final two competitors, Vikram Raju and Harini Logan, could not decipher any of their spelling attempts between Round 13 and 18. The bell rang 10 consecutive times. At that point, judges opted to institute the first spell-off – 90 seconds to spell as many words as possible correctly.
Logan – an eighth-grader from Texas – spelled 21 words correctly, compared to Raju's 15, to become the 2022 champion. She took home the $50,000 cash prize and Scripps Cup trophy on top of awards from Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica.
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🍎 Apple attempts to appease union efforts with scheduling improvements
Apple will make a number of changes to scheduling rules for its retail employees that the company believes will result in more flexible working hours. The changes will include changes to limits on the number of late shifts worked, consecutive days worked and the minimum amount of time that must pass before an employee is eligible to work a new shift.
The company expanded benefits earlier this year, increasing the number of paid sick days and offering paid parental leave. It also set a new floor of $22 per hour for its retail employees last week. Still, Fruit Stand Workers United — the group in the midst of organizing Apple’s Grand Central Store — is pushing for a $30 minimum wage, tuition reimbursement and more options for retirement plans.
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Apple will make a number of changes to scheduling rules for its retail employees that the company believes will result in more flexible working hours. The changes will include changes to limits on the number of late shifts worked, consecutive days worked and the minimum amount of time that must pass before an employee is eligible to work a new shift.
The company expanded benefits earlier this year, increasing the number of paid sick days and offering paid parental leave. It also set a new floor of $22 per hour for its retail employees last week. Still, Fruit Stand Workers United — the group in the midst of organizing Apple’s Grand Central Store — is pushing for a $30 minimum wage, tuition reimbursement and more options for retirement plans.
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⚡️ Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk People's Republic 44 times in 24 hours, two civilians injured, DPR says
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⚡️ EU suspends broadcasting of Rossiya RTR/RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24 and TV Centre International
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⚡️ SWIFT ban on Sberbank, Credit Bank of Moscow, and Russian Agricultural Bank included in new EU sanctions
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📹🎞 A resident from the Kharkov region recalls how two Russian soldiers risked their lives bringing her to a safe place
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⚡️ RT and Reuters reporters come under fire from Ukrainian forces in Donbass, several people Injured, RT journo says
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Minsk is ready to help US with baby formula supplies, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says.
🗣 "If they want, we could start tomorrow"
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🗣 "If they want, we could start tomorrow"
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⚡️ ⚡️Anti-Russia sanctions left Africa without access to grain and fertilizers, Senegalese President says
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⚡️⚡️ Train derails in southern Germany injuring several people, media report
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❗It makes no sense talking about Putin-Zelensky meeting even in theory, Russian Foreign Ministry says
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🎞📹 The Russian Ministry of Defence has published footage of the aftermath of a Ukrainian Tochka-U strike on the village of Svatovo in the LPR
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❗The EU has published a new package of sanctions against Russia entering into force today
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📹🎞 A resident of Mariupol talks about how she ran in front of bullets to take food from her kitchen and bring it to a church to help other people
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📹🎞 Ukrainian forces blew up a railroad tank car with poisonous substances in Rubezhnoye in early April. The explosion was so powerful that it blew away residential houses and only ruins remained of them
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❗The EU has published a new package of sanctions against Russia entering into force today
Who is included in the new EU sanctions list?
▪Arkady Volozh (co-founder of Yandex);
▪Andrei Lipov (head of Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor);
▪Tatiana Navka, Nikolay Peskov, Elizaveta Peskova (Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's wife and children);
▪Marina Mordasheva (wife of Alexey Mordashov, chairman of the company Severgroup);
▪Alina Kabaeva (chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the National Media Group);
▪Russian enterprises on the sanctions list are: Voentorg, Kamaz, Tatneft-Neftekhim, Remdiesel,
Oboronenergo, UAZ, and Voentelecom;
▪Sberbank, Credit Bank of Moscow, and Russian Agricultural Bank will be disconnected from the SWIFT system
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▪Arkady Volozh (co-founder of Yandex);
▪Andrei Lipov (head of Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor);
▪Tatiana Navka, Nikolay Peskov, Elizaveta Peskova (Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's wife and children);
▪Marina Mordasheva (wife of Alexey Mordashov, chairman of the company Severgroup);
▪Alina Kabaeva (chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the National Media Group);
▪Russian enterprises on the sanctions list are: Voentorg, Kamaz, Tatneft-Neftekhim, Remdiesel,
Oboronenergo, UAZ, and Voentelecom;
▪Sberbank, Credit Bank of Moscow, and Russian Agricultural Bank will be disconnected from the SWIFT system
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❗Russian Foreign Ministry adds 41 Canadians to its travel ban list
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