Time USA - December 11, 2017

(Jacob Rumans) #1

For the Record


‘Geno will start this week.’


BEN MCADOO, New York Giants coach, announcing that Eli Manning won’t start as quarterback for the
first time in 13 years in the Dec. 3 game against the Oakland Raiders; Geno Smith will start instead

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JUSTIN TRUDEAU,Canadian Prime Minister,
formally apologizing for Canada’s program
of interrogating civil servants suspected
of being gay or transgender in the 1950s
through 1990s and offering up to $85 million
to compensate victims in a historic speech
to the House of Commons in Ottawa

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billion
Net worth of Amazon
CEO Jeff Bezos after
Black Friday, making
himthe only billionaire
to have a 12-digit
fortuneas of Nov. 27,
according toForbes

203,
New single-dayrecord
for background-check
requests for gun
purchasers—up from
the previous record
of 185,713 set last
year, according to
the National Instant
Criminal Background
Check System (NICS)

‘THE


INTERNET


IS AT A


CROSSROADS ...


YOU ARE IN THE


DRIVER SEAT.’
DAVID KARP,founder and CEO of Tumblr, announcing he’s
stepping down after more than 10 years, just five months after
Verizon acquired the blogging site’s parent company

‘Similar


reporting


lapses


occurred.’


U.S. AIR FORCEreview into
its procedures for reporting
service members charged
or convicted of crimes to the
federal background-check
database, a few weeks after
it was revealed that the
branch failed to input Texas
church-shooting suspect Devin
Kelley, who had a court-martial
conviction for domestic assault

‘They call her


Pocahontas.’


DONALD TRUMP,U.S. President, repeating an epithet for Massachusetts
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed she is part Native American,
at an event honoring Native Americans who served in World War II

Beer
Budweiser
is launching
barley samples to
the International
Space Station on
Dec. 4

Vodka
Thieves made
off with 1,800 gal.
from an L.A.
distillery

GOOD WEEK
BAD WEEK

SOURCES: BLOOMBERG; NBC LOS ANGELES; NEW YORK TIMES

969
Number of flights
handled by the Mumbai
International Airport
on Nov. 24, thought to be
a world record for most
flights handled on one
runway in 24 hours

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