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Time for two truths and a lie. Here are three headlines from the past week – but one is fake. Which one? It’s your time to guess!
Kim Kardashian has said she wants to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss “world peace”
A woman in Japan has been arrested for making nearly 3,000 unnecessary emergency calls because she was lonely
Millions of U.S. military emails have accidentally been sent to a Russian ally because of a spelling mistake in a domain name
Answer is in the tidbit!
I've got 10 seconds
The quote
"You know when I say he's brilliant, everyone says 'Oh, that's terrible.' Well he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist: smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There's nobody in Hollywood like this guy." – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping during an interview with Fox News.
The stat
3.5%
The unemployment rate for June, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is a better-than-expected result.
Today in history
1983: The lowest temperature ever measured at ground level on Earth was recorded at a Russian station in Antarctica. It was −89.2 °C.
I've got 30 seconds
Some headlines from this morning:
The Matildas have won their first match of the Women’s World Cup against Ireland in a 1-0 victory. It came after Matildas captain Sam Kerr announced just hours before the match started that she had sustained a calf injury during training, and would miss the first match. She will also miss the next match, before being re-assessed by the medical team.
Australian soldiers have defused a World War II bomb found on the Pacific island of Nauru. The discovery of the 220kg unexploded bomb triggered a state of emergency on the island. Schools were shut down to ensure safety in the area.
I've got 1 minute
Two people and a gunman were killed in a shooting in Auckland yesterday.
Six others, including police, were injured and taken to hospital, according to New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.
The shooting took place in Auckland's CBD just after 7am (local time) yesterday morning.
The gunman moved through a building site, shooting as he went.
The motivation of the shooter remains unknown, but Hipkins said there is no national security risk.
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I've got 2 minutes
U.S. fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger will ban staff from wearing face masks without a medical exemption.
Employees who fail to comply could lose their job.
An internal memo that leaked online said the new guidelines would "show our Associates' smiles" and balance customer service and company standards.
The ban will be enforced in five of the seven states where In-N-Out restaurants are located.
Details of the ban:
From next month, the mask ban will impact employees in over 100 stores across Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.
The memo said the new policy would "promote clear and effective communication" between workers and customers.
The ban will not apply in California or Oregon, where both states have laws ensuring employees can wear face masks at work if they want to.
Exemptions:
Only workers with a valid medical exemption will be allowed to wear a mask.
Those with exemptions will be asked to detail the reason for wearing a mask and for how long they're expected to wear it.
In-N-Out said disciplinary action for workers who wear masks without permission could include "termination of employment", depending on the "severity and frequency" of the mask-wearing.
Some In-N-Out stores in California were temporarily closed during the pandemic for failing to enforce a government requirement to check customers' vaccination status.
In a statement at the time, In-N-Out said they refused to "become the vaccination police for any government", and called the rule "unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe".
Give me some good news
Australian scientists have made a breakthrough discovery for prostate cancer treatment.
Researchers at the University of South Australia are hopeful the discovery of three new genetic factors, called biomarkers, will help identify and differentiate potentially aggressive cases of prostate cancer – a disease that kills more than 300,000 men a year globally.
A TDA tidbit
Kim Kardashian has said she wants to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss “world peace”
This is false.
A woman in Japan has been arrested for making nearly 3,000 unnecessary emergency calls because she was lonely
This is true.
A woman in Japan was arrested last week after making 2,761 fake emergency calls, according to South China Morning Post.
“I was lonely and wanted someone to listen to me and give me attention,” she reportedly said.
Millions of U.S. military emails have accidentally been sent to a Russian ally over the past decade because of a spelling mistake
This is also true.
According to the Financial Times, millions of U.S. military emails were accidentally sent to the West African country of Mali (a Russian ally) because of a spelling error.
The emails were meant to be sent to the military’s ‘.mil’ domain, but were instead sent to the ‘.ml’ domain.
Some of the emails contained sensitive information. It’s been happening for more than a decade.
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