Monday June 14 top stories
Hello, it is Monday June 14. I am taking Alex’s place this week. Ready for today’s top news?
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Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the Israeli Prime Minister after 12 years in power. The new leader is Naftali Bennett.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted to approve Bennett on Sunday. Bennett was a former ally of Netanyahu but then turned into his rival.
News reports said Netanyahu views his ouster as illegitimate, that he feels “cheated” and would work hard to defeat Bennett’s new government.
World leaders, including the U.S., have congratulated Bennett and the new Israeli government.
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On Saturday, during an Euro 2020 soccer match between Denmark and Finland, a star player for the Danish team, Christian Eriksen, suddenly collapsed on the field. He had a cardiac arrest — meaning his heart stopped functioning normally.
The team’s medical staff was able to resuscitate him with CPR and a defibrillator. His teammates stood in a circle to give him privacy. Many fans were in tears. He was taken to the hospital and is still there and recovering.
A team doctor said Eriksen was “gone” before the intervention with the defibrillator.
The game was delayed for about two hours with Finland winning 1-0. Eriksen was honored as the player of the match.
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Darnella Frazier and Mitchell Jackson were both honored with Pulitzer prices on Friday evening for their coverage on the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
Frazier, now 18-year-old, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her courage in filming Floyd taking his final breaths. The Black teenager was the only witness at that moment, video recording the whole incident. “Even though this was a traumatic life-changing experience for me, I am proud of myself.”
Jackson won a Pulitzer Prize for his “Twelve Minutes and a Life” essay about Ahmaud Arbery’s killing - an article Jackson freelanced for Runner’s World. “Oh. My. God!!!!!!!” Jackson quote tweeted to the official announcement from the Pulitzer Prize account.
Both will receive a $15,000 award for their contributions.
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Michael Packard of Massachusetts said the incident occurred early Friday morning while he was lobster fishing off Cape Cod.
He jumped into the waters and headed toward the bottom of the seafloor to grab lobsters when he was suddenly engulfed in darkness. “I could sense I was moving and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
He thought to himself. There is no way I am getting out of here. I am done, I am dead. After 30-40 seconds, the whale surfaced and let him out of its mouth, he said.
People in the fishing industry are finding Packard’s story “hard to believe.” The emergency room doctor said, “if Packard really had been swallowed by the whale, he would have had more injuries. He reportedly ascended from a 45-foot depth in 20 to 40 seconds and didn’t have any evidence of barotrauma. Barotrauma means the injury to your body because of changes in air or water pressure.
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That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/us/humpback-whale-lobster-diver-cape-cod.html