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❤️ Heartbreakingly, beloved actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead in their home on Sunday. Beyond his iconic films, Reiner will be remembered for his advocacy on issues he cared about, like same-sex marriage rights and early childhood education.
🩸 More than 20,000 people — the most in a decade — across Australia made an appointment and showed up to wait for hours to donate blood after the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
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Thousands of GoFundMe donors raised $1.5 million for the hero who disarmed a Bondi Beach attacker
Over the weekend, attackers opened fire at a Jewish celebration at Sydney, Australia’s Bondi Beach, killing 15 people. Police say they may have caused much more devastation had Ahmed el Ahmed not intervened.
El Ahmed is an Australian citizen, a fruit vendor, and a father who immigrated from Syria in 2006. He had been drinking coffee with a friend near the beach when he heard gunshots and leapt into action, running toward the gunman and disarming him, sustaining gunshot wounds himself in the process.
He’s being praised as a hero for helping bring an end to the country’s worst terrorist attack in decades, and over $1.5 million has been raised by more than 27,000 donors to honor his bravery and support his recovery.
Why is this good news? At great personal risk, el Ahmed prevented countless more people from being killed or injured at Bondi Beach. He’s also notably a Muslim man, who “wasn’t thinking about the background of the people he’s saving … He doesn’t discriminate between one nationality and another.”
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In a major milestone, Los Angeles has officially stopped receiving coal-powered electricity
The entire city of Los Angeles is now completely coal-free, as the city officially stopped receiving coal-powered electricity from its last remaining coal source. It’s a major milestone as the city aims to reach 100% clean energy by 2035.
More than 60% of the city’s energy supply is now coming from renewable sources, including from one of the largest solar-plus-battery power plants in the nation.
It’s a significant transformation from just two decades ago, when renewables provided about 3% of the city’s energy, and more than 50% came from coal.
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