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UPenn President Resigns After Backlash Over Congressional Testimony UPenn President Resigns After Backlash Over Congressional Testimony
UPenn President Resigns After Backlash Over Congressional Testimony Moments after it was announced that University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill was resigning, Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Bok followed suit. Magill, whose testimony to Congress on antisemitism earlier this week sparked widespread outrage, resigned on Saturday, Dec. 9. Bok later announced his resignation, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Magill remains a faculty member at Penn Carey Law and will stay on as president until an interim president is appointment, UPenn Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Bok said in announcing the news Saturday evening. And Liz Magill has resig…

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COVID-19: Radio Reporter Says She Infected Others At 90th Birthday Party In Westchester COVID-19: Radio Reporter Says She Infected Others At 90th Birthday Party In Westchester
Covid-19: Radio Reporter Says She Infected Others At 90th Birthday Party In Westchester A New York City radio reporter who covered the initial novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Westchester infected several people at her mom’s 90th birthday party, some of whom later died, according to reports. Alice Stockton-Rossini, a journalist for 710 WOR, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that she caught the virus while doing on-mic interviews in New Rochelle, which was at the epicenter of the initial outbreak in New York. Days later, on Sunday, March 8, she threw a birthday party for her elderly mother and about two dozen friends at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on Long Beach Island…

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