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SCOTUS in Action

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a federal appeals court decision that allowed a Black Lives Matter protest organizer to be sued by a police officer who was injured by an unknown assailant during a protest. In a 7-1 vote, the Court sent the suit back to the lower courts.

More: The Court also ruled that correctional officers could be held liable for making an inmate sleep in sewage.

Even More: New Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett heard arguments on Monday for the first time.

Missing Children Found in Virginia

Law enforcement officials found 27 missing children in Virginia during an operation led by the U.S. Marshals Service, the DOJ announced on Friday. The search effort, called “Operation Find Our Children,” is part of a larger initiative by the DOJ to curb human trafficking in the U.S.

More: Last week, federal and state law enforcement officials rescued 109 human trafficking victims in Ohio, including 45 children.

Even More: The U.S. Marshals Service has recovered more than 2,000 missing children over the past fifteen years.

Vatican Clarifies the Pope’s Comments

The Vatican on Monday further clarified Pope Francis’s comments regarding same-sex civil unions that were made public last month in a screening of the documentary Francesco. In a Facebook post, the Vatican said the remarks were taken out of context and do not signal a change in long-standing church doctrine.

Worth Noting: An unconfirmed number of gunmen armed with rifles opened fire at six different locations in Vienna, Austria, on Monday in what officials called a "repulsive terror attack" that left at least three people dead. Dig deeper.

The Mac is Back

Apple sent out invites to the company’s final major tech-reveal announcement of the year on Monday. The event, dubbed “One More Thing,” will be held virtually on Nov. 10, and is expected to introduce the first line of Macs equipped with Apple-designed chips instead of Intel processors.

Scoreboard: Humans 1, Robots 1

🧍 Per the WSJ, Walmart has cut ties with robotics company Bossa Nova, which supplied the retail giant with robots to roam the sales floors and scan shelves for inventory. Walmart reportedly ended the partnership after it found human workers could perform the robots’ job with similar results.

🤖 UK online supermarket Ocado acquired two U.S. robotic startups on Monday: San Francisco-based Kindred Systems ($262M) and Las Vegas firm Haddington Dynamics ($25M). Kindred builds robots used to pick and pack online orders, while Haddington Dynamics creates robotic arms.

Show Business

Theater chain AMC is attempting to raise up to $50M in new capital by selling as many as 20M new shares, according to an SEC filing published Monday. Last month, AMC - which was $4.75B in debt heading into the pandemic - reported $1.08B in revenue through the first three quarters of 2020 (compared to $4.02B in 2019) and warned investors the company could soon file for bankruptcy.

More: Theater industry revenues are projected to decline by ~63% this year due to the pandemic, according to market research firm IBISWorld.

One of a Kind

When nine-year-old Orion Jean of Tarrant County, TX, is not at school, he spends his free time practicing kindness, noting that anyone “can go out and do something kind for somebody today for free.” This summer, inspired by Orion’s compassionate personality, his parents entered the fifth-grader into the National Kindness Speech Contest, an ambitious event that he ultimately won in July.

As the winner of the speech competition, Orion received a cash prize to conduct a kindness project of his choosing. Thus, the benevolent young boy started a series of campaigns known as the “Race to Kindness,” which began with an effort to collect 500 toys for the Children’s Medical Center in Dallas by September 13th. Orion, who successfully donated an impressive 619 toys to the hospital, is now working to prepare 100,000 meals for people in need by Thanksgiving, having already assembled 35,000.

Fight or Flight

The pandemic has plunged pet shelters across the Hawaiian Islands into a crisis, with the overcrowded facilities struggling to provide necessary veterinary care to their animals due to restricted hours of operation and reduced funding. According to Denise Bash, a director at Greater Good Charities – an organization that promotes both animals and humans' health – the shelters are in the dire mode of "disaster response."

Thus, on October 29th, more than 600 adoptable dogs and cats were airlifted from shelters across five Hawaiian Islands to the U.S. mainland in what is being hailed as the most extensive animal rescue flight in history. The rescue operation, which was dubbed "Paws Across the Pacific," was supported by 24 philanthropic organizations and delivered the dispossessed pets to less crowded shelters in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington state.

Just Dance

Five-year-old Izzy Fletcher of Worcester, England, was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia – a cancer that affects her blood and bone marrow – in 2017, subsequently undergoing grueling chemotherapy treatment until May 2019. Earlier this year, the young girl’s cancer relapsed, requiring Izzy to begin a second round of treatment at the Worcester Royal Hospital this fall.

After noticing that Izzy is a ballet fanatic, who reads stories about the artform while she sits for her chemotherapy sessions, Doctors Baylon Kamalarajan and Emma Maunder surprised the young patient by performing a special ballet routine at her most recent appointment. Dressed in rainbow-colored tutus that they wore over their medical scrubs, the doctors danced for Izzy as she excitedly commented on their form. (Video)

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