President Obama has scrapped the long-standing "wet foot/dry foot" policy for Cubans effective immediately, according to the AP.
Why this matters: It's one of Obama's last major moves as president, and it's a massive step for the normalization process with Cuba that he began two years ago. Cubans will now be treated like immigrants from any other nation — there's no fast track to U.S. residency just by reaching American soil.
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Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.
Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.
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An "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation has helped cripple the response to the novel coronavirus.
Why it matters: High-powered social media accelerates the spread of lies and political polarization that motivates people to believe them. Unless the public health sphere can effectively counter misinformation, not even an effective vaccine may be enough to end the pandemic.