21 Savage, Wack 100 & Tekashi 6ix9ine Received Into An Argument

At the height of the pandemic, everyone and their mamas were trying to get on the Clubhouse application. The app, by invite only, quickly became one of the most poppin’ and sought-after social media applications while people were trying to stay inside and entertained last year and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The platform, which gained popularity for having the audio feature and several rooms, which discussed several topics, was on top, but as of late, since folks have been outside, it seems like people have backed away from the app until tonight.

Whew, it looks like it went down, and words and threats were exchanged. Things got tense after a disagreement between 21 Savage, Wack 100, and Tekashi 6ix9ine after 21 said Wack was lame to agree with anything Tekashi says. 21 also said he feels that a gangsta and a rat can’t agree on anything in life.

After the men went back and forth, Wack threatened 21 and said he would beat him up. He stated they could “get down” and offered to go to Atlanta or have 21 come to Los Angeles. In return, 21 said, “Say, Less.” The news took everyone by surprise, even Clubhouse. They stepped into The Shade Room and left a heated face emoji. They weren’t the only ones to step in. Some of the Roommates agreed with 21’s comments. One commented, “First of all, 21 Savage isn’t wrong. Second of all, Wack is WAY too old to be threatening fights on the internet.”

Tekashi seemed to have been reading the comments and stepped in to share his opinion on the situation. He commented, “Lmao ya love defending 21. HE ASKED to fight, and when WE SAID where u wanna meet, he said Mann, I’m not arguing.”

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Biden blocks elimination of Hong Kong residents, cites China repression

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers on remarks in the East Room of the White House on July 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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President Joe Biden signed an order on Wednesday blocking the enforced removal of many Hong Kong residents from the United States for 18 months, giving them a “temporary safe haven” from ongoing repression by China in that region, the White House said.

The order will allow Hong Kong residents whose U.S. visas are expired and who are otherwise legally removable to remain in the United States.

Biden on Wednesday also directed the Homeland Security Department to move to allow Hong Kong residents subject to the order to work legally in the United States.

“Given the politically motivated arrests and trials, the silencing of the media, and the diminishing space for elections and democratic opposition, we will continue to take steps in support of people in Hong Kong,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a written statement.

The memorandum signed by Biden imposing the order also says China “has undermined the enjoyment of rights and freedoms” in the Hong Kong special administrative region, including ones protected under the so-called Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration.

Since June 2020, when China unilaterally imposed its national security law on Hong Kong, police in the semi-autonomous region have taken into custody at least 100 opposition politicians, activists and protestors on charges under that law, the memo noted.

Police also have arrested more than 10,000 people in connection with anti-government protests.

The crackdown by China came in response to anti-government protests that began in Hong Kong in 2019.

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“There are compelling foreign policy reasons to defer enforced departure for Hong Kong residents presently in the United States,” the memo said.

“The United States is committed to a foreign policy that unites our democratic values with our foreign policy goals, which is centered on the defense of democracy and the promotion of human rights around the world,” the memo said.

“Offering safe haven for Hong Kong residents who have been deprived of their guaranteed freedoms in Hong Kong furthers United States interests in the region.”

Biden’s order applies to Hong Kong residents who are currently in the United States, with certain exceptions.

Those exceptions include people who under immigration law are inadmissible to the U.S. or are deportable, those who have been convicted of a felony or multiple misdemeanors in the U.S., and those whose presence is deemed not in the interest of the U.S.

Sen. Ben Sasse, the Nebraska Republican who last year introduced a bill that would automatically grant asylum to Hong Kong residents in the U.S., said Biden’s order “is a solid step, but we need to go further.”

“We need to offer full asylum to Hong Kongers who flee Chairman Xi’s brutal oppression,” Sasse said, referring to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jingping.

“America needs to stand firmly behind victims of communism and show the world that we will always stand for freedom across the globe.”

Spirit Airways will cancel half of its flights on Thursday

Passengers queue up in LAX Terminal 5 on Tuesday morning as Spirit Airlines canceled 313 flights on Monday, 40% of its scheduled flights and 210 flights are delayed.

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Spirit Airlines has canceled nearly 400 flights – half of its Thursday flight schedule – as the airline tries to end the disruptions that have angered customers since the weekend.

The airline blamed a combination of bad weather, staff shortages and technology problems for the disruptions, which have resulted in more than 1,700 cancellations since last weekend.

Angry and confused passengers complained about long waits at customer service and long waits at crowded airports.

The topic tests the advances made by low-cost carriers in recent years to improve reliability and customer service.

Spirit said the problem was made worse by the surge in summer travel demand, which was recovering from a pandemic slump faster than the U.S. aviation industry expected.

As of Thursday morning, about 80% of all U.S. flight cancellations came from Spirit, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.

Airlines will often cancel large numbers of flights to get planes and crews in place and avoid further disruption that could strand employees and customers at airports.

“After going through yesterday’s proactive cancellations, we’ve implemented a more thorough network restart that will allow us to reassign our crews more efficiently and restore the network faster,” Spirit said in a statement on Wednesday. It was said that the flight cancellations would “progressively” decline in the coming days.

Only eight Spirit flights scheduled for Friday have been canceled.

American Airlines passengers faced snowball-like cancellations and delays earlier this week caused by storms at the Dallas / Fort Worth international airport hub on Sunday and the resulting staff shortages. Those delays have largely subsided with only 43 cancellations on Thursday.

Spirit Airways CEO on the explanations for the airline’s meltdown

People wait in line at a Spirit Airlines counter at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on August 5, 2021 in Houston, Texas.

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The causes of the massive flight cancellations by Spirit Airlines, which this week ruined the summer vacation of tens of thousands of customers, have been around for more than a month, said CEO Ted Christie.

A combination of July flight delays, staffing bottlenecks, technology issues and a surge in travel that surprised most airlines culminated in more than 1,700 canceled flights since Sunday, some days of which made up more than half of Spirit’s flight schedule.

And for travelers, the trouble is not over yet. Christie said the airline would have to cancel additional flights in the next few days to get back on track.

“There are definitely some angry people out there,” he told reporters Thursday night. “At the moment I can only say that we are very sorry about what happened.”

The chaos enraged stranded customers at airports and sparked angry news online that presented Christie with one of his biggest tests since he took office as CEO on New Year’s Day 2019.

“That’s a punch in the heart for everyone,” said Christie.

Chronic delays in July piled up, causing staff shortages as crews timed out and reached the maximum time they could legally work each day, he said. It got dramatically worse over the weekend and the days that followed.

“We couldn’t stand in front of it,” said Christie. He estimated “tens or hundreds of thousands” of customers were affected by the disruption at Spirit and said it was too early to assess the financial impact on the company.

On Thursday alone, 446 Spirit flights were canceled, 56% of operations.

A sharp recovery in summer travel has been a headache for summer travelers as airlines and their contractors have faced staff shortages associated with the usual annoying summer storms.

Headquartered in Miramar, Fla., Spirit has improved its reliability over the past few years, turning to Walt Disney’s executive and professional training subsidiary, the Disney Institute, in 2017 to improve customer service.

“We will do everything we can to regain the trust of our guests and the traveling public. We believe we can do that,” Christie said on the call on Thursday. He said the airline is giving cash refunds to affected customers.

In hindsight, Spirit should have canceled more flights earlier to allow time for recalibration, Christie said. Instead, the airline tried to maintain flights to serve large numbers of customers, many of whom were flying for the first time since the pandemic began.

The airline forecast last month that it would fly nearly 11% more flights in the third quarter than in the same period in 2019, a much stronger rebound than most airlines.

Christie said he and other executives are looking at ways to deploy more backup staff, faster response to disruptions, and better technology.

“We’re starting to turn the corner and get our legs under us so we can start going back to where we were before,” Christie said.

Correction: This story has been updated to correct a headline.

Charts present how far delta variant has unfold around the globe

A sign warning people to stay apart due to Covid-19 is seen on July 29, 2021 in Mevagissey, United Kingdom.

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More than one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is grappling with a highly transmissible delta variant that has caused a renewed surge in infections in countries from the U.K. and the U.S., to those in Africa and Asia.

The delta variant, which was first detected in India last October, has been found in more than 130 countries globally, according to the World Health Organization.

Delta is the most transmissible variant of the coronavirus that first emerged in China in late 2019, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist and technical lead for Covid-19 at the WHO.

“The virus itself, as it starts, is a dangerous virus, is a highly transmissible virus. The delta variant is even more so — it’s doubly more transmissible than the ancestral strain, it’s 50% more transmissible than the alpha strain,” she said at a WHO media briefing last week.

The alpha variant was first detected in the U.K.  

Globally, the number of reported Covid-19 cases crossed 200 million on Wednesday and more than 4.2 million people have died from it, data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed.

Prevalence of delta variant

Delta is one of four “variants of concern” listed by the WHO. Such variants are deemed to be more contagious, more resistant to current vaccines and treatments, or could cause more severe illness.

The delta variant has become the dominant strain causing Covid-19 in many countries.

Around 65 countries detected Covid cases caused by the delta variant in the four weeks to Aug. 5, according to genetically sequenced coronavirus samples collected by GISAID.

GISAID is a platform for scientists to share information on viruses, and its data is widely used by the global scientific community, including the WHO.

Data on the prevalence of the Covid delta variant likely underestimates the actual situation because some countries don’t share sequenced samples with GISAID, while others may lack the capability and resource to do viral sequencing.

In 55 of those countries, the delta variant accounted for over half the virus samples submitted, data compiled by GISAID showed.

Vaccine effectiveness

The Covid delta variant has not spared countries with some of the highest vaccination rates globally.

Israel, where more than 62% of the population have been fully vaccinated, reported an increase in daily cases over the past month as delta became the dominant strain in the country.

As the delta variant spread in Israel, the health ministry found that the effectiveness of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine dropped to just 39%, even though protection against severe illness remained high. The country has started to administer booster shots to people over age 60.

But a study in the U.K., where the delta variant is also fueling a rise in infections, found that two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech or the vaccine by AstraZeneca-Oxford University were nearly as effective against delta as they were against the alpha variant.

The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine used real world data, and found that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were 88% effective against the delta variant. That’s compared to 93.7% against the alpha strain, it said.

The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was found to be 67% effective against delta, compared to 74.5% effectiveness against the alpha variant, according to the study. 

But vaccination progress has remained uneven across the world. Many poorer developing countries are lagging behind due to their lack of access to Covid-19 vaccines.

On Wednesday, the WHO called on rich nations to stop distributing booster shots, citing vaccine inequity around the world.

Beyond getting more people inoculated, the WHO’s Van Kerkhove said there are steps individuals can take to better protect themselves from the delta variant. That includes wearing a mask, keeping hands clean, and spending more time outdoors than indoors, she said last week.

“This will not be the last virus variant that you hear us talking about,” she added. “The virus will likely become more transmissible because this is what viruses do — they evolve, they change over time and so we have to do what we can to drive it down.”

Meet seaside volleyball gamers April Ross and Alix Klineman

“We both have a drink or two, you know, and we’re listening to music,” said Klineman to set the scene. “And she says, ‘By the way, I need a partner for the next Olympic Games.’ And she just looks at me. ”

It wasn’t a firm proposal, even though Klineman had prepared everything for her (“Of course I’ll play with you as if you’re better than me. I’ve only just started on the beach”), but it was a strong maaaaaaaybe.

“She says, ‘I mean, not now, you have to keep working, keep getting better, but maybe we could play together someday or something,'” said Klineman. “I remember thinking the next day, ‘Did I drink too much? Am I really imagining this to happen?'”

Olympic monitor and area legend Carl Lewis strikes a system that fails relay athletes

Olympic track and field legend Carl Lewis told CNBC that he was “100 percent” on his criticism of Team USA’s 4X100m relay after finishing sixth in the semifinals on Thursday and not voting for that Could qualify for the final.

He stressed, however, that his anger was not directed against the athletes, but against the US relay program that brings the teams together.

“The federation sets up the teams, the coaches and the system, and they fail the athletes,” said Lewis, who won two 4×100 Olympic gold medals and seven other gold medals.

“That’s why I was so emotional and angry because these athletes work their whole lives, they run fast and they do whatever it takes to make the team and then you put them in a position where it is impossible to be successful. “

The Americans Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker and Cravon Gillespie were eliminated from the tournament as China, Canada, Italy, Germany and Ghana qualified. Lewis told The News with Shepard Smith that he spoke to one of the athletes on the American team who also expressed his frustration with the current system.

“They are frustrated because it’s the same, wrong, wrong system and making the same mistakes, and it’s like why don’t we change the system and put the other system that is successful and let some people help us with it.” set up? on so we can have the chance, “said Lewis.

The US has not won the men’s 4 x 100 meter relay since 2000 in Sydney.

Lewis told host Shepard Smith that the issue boils down to the lives of athletes and that he will always stand up for them.

“My passion is to support the lives of athletes and these athletes work their whole lives to be Olympic champions and you know what, the United States is the best team in the world for the relay, no question about it, but we don’t “Even on the starting line,” said Lewis.

USA Track and Field, the national governing body, did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

If youngsters do not go to highschool within the fall, it is due to anti-Vaxxers and Republican governors

The delta variant of COVID-19 reacts very differently than the original version of the disease. It seems to be a lot more contagious and children seem to be more affected.

Still the Republican governors making it difficult for people to get vaccinated. And people like Ron DeSantis say they do this to protect children and give parents freedom of choice. During a segment on Thursday, Nicolle Wallace noted that if the kids are out of school this fall, these people will be responsible.

Real Clear Politics AB Stoddard noted: “And that, politically, is this White House – this government and the Democratic Party, I believe, are going to get beaten up if we get into a situation where people are mostly back online and Republicans are the Biden government for the mental Blame state’s decline of the nation’s children. So if they continue to wage political war against it, even if it looks like the Delta variant is much more dangerous for children than what we were up against last year. “

Nicolle Wallace says if kids don’t go to school this fall, it’s because of anti-Vaxxers and Republican governors. https://t.co/k4GkSpxIuupicture

Wallace countered: “I want to tick the idea that the Republicans blame the Biden administration for kids out of school. If kids don’t go to school, it’s because Republicans haven’t been vaccinated and Republican governors have stood in the way of masked mandates that would make it possible.

The politics of COVID will decide the mid-term elections in 2022. It will be up to the Democrats to get their messages across.

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Todd Neikirk is a New Jersey-based policy and technology writer. His work has been featured on psfk.com, foxsports.com and hillreporter.com. He enjoys sports, politics, comics, and spends time with his family on the waterfront.

Past Meat (BYND) Q2 2021 earnings

Packs of Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties are displayed for sale.

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Beyond Meat on Thursday reported a wider-than-expected loss as higher costs and investments in its business weighed on margins.

The company also expressed caution for the second half of the year, citing the delta Covid variant.

Shares of the company fell more than 4% in extended trading.

Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:

  • Loss per share: 31 cents vs. 24 cents expected
  • Revenue: $149.4 million vs. $140.8 million expected

In the fiscal second quarter, Beyond said its net loss widened to $19.7 million, or 31 cents per share, from a loss of $10.2 million, or 16 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting a loss per share of just 24 cents.

The company said losses accelerated due to investments it is making to support its expansion efforts, such as adding to its workforce and spending more on marketing, as well as higher freight costs.

Net sales rose 31.8% to $149.4 million, topping expectations of $140.8 million.

In the United States, which accounts for two-thirds of Beyond’s revenue, grocery demand fell as the company faced tough comparisons with a year ago, when consumers were stockpiling food in the face of lockdowns. Grocery outlets still account for roughly three-quarters of Beyond’s U.S. sales.

U.S. food service sales more than tripled compared with a year ago as diners returned to restaurants. However, the company said that it saw a significant reduction in the number of Dunkin’ locations that carry its Beyond Sausage. CEO Ethan Brown said the company is still engaged with Dunkin’ about new products and distributing its sausage alternative to locations in the western U.S.

Outside the U.S., both grocery and food service saw sales more than double. The company has been looking to Europe and China as key parts of its plan to become a global supplier of meat alternatives and has been investing in expanding production capabilities in those regions. Beyond launched its meatless meatballs in Europe for the first time during the quarter.

Looking ahead to the third quarter, Beyond said it expects revenue of $120 million to $140 million, falling short of Wall Street’s estimates of $153.3 million. The company said that it expects food service sales growth to moderate because restaurants and cafeterias restocked their bare refrigerators and freezers during the second quarter.

Brown told analysts on the earnings call that some restaurants are being more conservative about how much they order because of the rise of the delta variant and a shortage of willing workers. He also said that labor issues delayed at least one of its food service launches, which has been postponed to early next year.

The delta variant has become the dominant form of Covid in the United States, leading to a surge of new cases in recent weeks, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates. While many restaurant companies say so far they haven’t seen a material impact to their sales, some localities are beginning to impose restrictions. New York City, for example, will require proof of vaccination for some indoor activities, such as eating inside, which could hurt restaurant sales.

“I’m optimistic about what lies ahead,” Brown said in a statement. “That said, given the recent uptick of Covid-19 cases, which could disrupt demand patterns, we believe caution for the balance of the year generally remains appropriate.”

Tekashi 6ix9ine denies claims of failing to supply Sara Molina for his baby

Tekashi 6ix9ine took the time to talk about his relationship with five-year-old daughter Saraiya and her mother Sara Molina, including in the debut episode of DJ Akademik’s podcast “Off The Record”. In the over 1 hour episode that fell on Wednesday, Tekashi denied Sara’s claims that he was a dead father.

It has been tense with Tekashi and Sara for some time. Last year Sara was on an episode of the podcast “No Jumper” and aired the rapper “Zaza” for failing to take care of his daughter and another child he doesn’t claim. In addition, Sara alleged that he and his family tried to use their daughter in court to gain compassion from a judge while facing multiple charges.

However, during the podcast, Tekashi responded to Sara’s previous claims and closed them. While speaking to Wack 100, a guest on the show, Tekashi held up his phone and showed several pictures of his daughter while telling Wack about the items he had bought. As the podcast continued, Tekashi said his mother sees his daughter every week, even though it’s an escort visit.

He further detailed his non-existent co-parenting relationship with Sara, saying that he deserves to have his child whenever he wants and that he will not be a father on anyone else’s terms. In the past, Sara has made it public that she doesn’t want her daughter anywhere near Tekashi for security reasons because of his online trolling. In an Instagram video, she said, “Now my daughter is being put in some shit that has nothing to do with her, and it’s understandable that I’m not in any way saying shape or shape is okay? to call someone’s child by name, but her hand was forced, brother, and all I can do is understand. Do you feel me? “

At this time Sara hasn’t responded, but we’ll keep you updated when she does.