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Reuters
Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up
A social media site launched on Sunday by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, was briefly hacked, and more than 500,000 people have registered to use the site, Miller said. GETTR, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, has advertised itself on the Google and Apple app stores as “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.” A writer for Salon posted screenshots on Twitter of several GETTR profiles, including those of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that were altered to read “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :)”.
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Reuters
Rural India sinks deeper into debt as COVID-19 wipes out work
Asha Devi doesn’t remember how many meals she has skipped as she struggles to feed her family of seven in a remote corner of northern India where the novel coronavirus is compounding old problems of rural debt and poverty. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has promised free foodgrains for the poor but the rations are limited and not enough for the family, Devi said. Interviews with 75 households in a cluster of eight villages in India’s most populous state showed household incomes have slumped nearly 75% on average.
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Reuters
NHL-Montreal beat Tampa Bay to keep alive Stanley Cup hopes
(Reuters) -Montreal netminder Carey Price kept alive his team’s slim hopes of winning the Stanley Cup as the Canadiens emerged with a 3-2 overtime victory over the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in Game Four on Monday. Price made 32 saves, including several key stops in overtime, before Josh Anderson’s second goal of the game sealed victory for the Canadiens, who now trail Tampa Bay 3-1 in the NHL’s best-of-seven championship series.
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Reuters
Athletics-Anti-doping ban leaves Russia’s Lysenko out of Olympics
Lysenko, 24, had been provisionally suspended since 2018 for failure to provide his location and tampering with the test results management process. However, two years were suspended due to his help to the global Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), enabling charges against ex-Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) officials Dmitry Shlyakhtin and Artur Karamyan. As well as the Tokyo Games, Lysenko will miss next year’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene because of the ban, which is due to end on Aug. 3, 2022.
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Reuters
GM expands China design studio to focus on EVs, smart cars
General Motors Co said on Monday it expanded its design studio in China, which will focus only on developing electric and connected cars and no longer design petrol vehicles. The move comes as the largest U.S. automaker prepares to cut out petrol and diesel vehicles from its fleet by 2035 and underscores its efforts to gain a bigger foothold in China, the world’s largest electric car market. It also plays into GM’s ambitions of adding a recurring revenue stream from software and services long after the initial product is sold, a la Apple Inc, by selling EV battery charging and swapping services for example.
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Associated Press
German man surrenders to Italian police in boat crash probe
A German businessman returned to Italy to surrender himself on Monday to police investigating a boating accident that killed two Italians last month on Lake Garda, Italian authorities said. A man, 37, and a woman, 25, were killed in the June 19 night-time collision on the lake, a popular tourist destination. Brescia Prosecutor Francesco Prete told state TV on Monday that the suspect is being investigated for two counts of manslaughter.
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MLB.com
CG: LAD@MIA – 7/5/21
Condensed Game: Trevor Rogers compiles eight strikeouts and Jorge Alfaro smashes a go-ahead homer in the 8th in the Marlins’ 5-4 win
