Monday, June 7 top stories
It is Monday, June 7. Here are today’s top stories.
On Friday, Facebook announced it would ban Donald Trump for two years because he is “too dangerous,” as shown by the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol.
The two-year ban means he may be allowed back on Facebook in 2023, which is when the presidential campaigning should begin for the 2024 election.
Trump said in a statement that he was being censored and that the ban is an insult to his supporters.
In a separate news story, Trump said in an interview on Sunday that if he decides to run again for president, it is too early to say if his former vice president Mike Pence will be his running mate again. Trump said he’s disappointed with Mike on one thing.
He did not say what that one thing was, but it is likely Pence’s decision to not block the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 Electoral College before rioters broke into the Capitol, forcing Pence and others to evacuate.
Pence said in an interview last week that January 6 was “a dark day” but “we reconvened the Congress and did our duty.” He said he doesn’t know if he and Trump will ever see eye to eye on that day, but that they still speak to each other many times since they left office.
Jeff Bezos announced he would be going up to space next month in a rocket from his spaceflight company, Blue Origin.
It will be the company’s first passenger flight, on a rocket called the New Shepard. It has already flown 15 straight successful missions to reach at least 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the Kármán Line, an imaginary boundary that defines where outer space begins.
The capsule will come off and parachute back to Earth, while the rocket will attempt to land itself. Again, this is the first time that humans will be on the New Shepard rocket, so Bezos is making a very bold move.
Bezos said his brother Mark and an auction winner would fill three seats on the rocket. They will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and be able to see the curvature of the Earth.
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Simone Biles won a record seventh U.S. gymnastics women’s all around championship. It brings her closer to the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where she will defend her all around gold medal. She will easily be the biggest star from the U.S. delegation.
The silver medal for the U.S. championship went to Suni Lee, who is from St. Paul, Minnesota. She is expected to qualify for the Olympics as well.
In Southern California, two young men were arrested in connection to a road rage shooting that killed a six-year-old boy named Aiden on May 21.
The boy’s mother, Joanna Cloonan, said she was driving to drop off her son at school when a car cut her off. The mother made a hand gesture to the car, which then moved behind her and someone inside fired a shot that went through the mother’s car’s trunk and hit Aiden’s abdomen. The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital.
There was a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The two suspects were arrested outside their home in Costa Mesa.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala and met with their president Alejandro Giammattei to discuss human smuggling and corruption in Central America.
Harris said he hopes to work with Guatemala to identify root problems that cause people to want to migrate from Central America to the U.S.
Harris will visit Mexico next.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
Trump Facebook: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-06-04/facebook-says-trump-ban-may-expire-in-2023-if-conditions-permit
Trump not committed to Pence: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-won-t-consider-pence-110341008.html
Bezos to space: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/jeff-bezos-trip-space-blue-origin
Simone Biles: https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1401723065160159235
Central America: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/harris-meet-guatemalan-leader-steps-tackle-human-trafficking-graft-expected-2021-06-07/