The Daily Populous

Wednesday July 17th, 2024 morning edition

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YouTube star MrBeast revealed that his TeamSeas initiative has successfully removed over 34 million pounds of trash from the ocean since the campaign was first started in 2021.

In October 2021, MrBeast kicked off the TeamSeas project, an endeavor designed with the goal of raising $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of trash from the world’s oceans.

On July 16, MrBeast announced that TeamSeas has finally completed its long-term goal, successfully removing 34,080,191 pounds of trash from oceans across the globe.

The influencer also stated that this number had been verified by a third party, blowing past their initial number by over four million pounds thanks to their partnered organizations, The Ocean Cleanup and Ocean Conservancy.

This massive victory follows another initiative from MrBeast, TeamTrees, where the YouTuber aimed to plant 20 million trees before 2020 — another goal that he successfully smashed.

MrBeast is known for his charitable endeavors, having paid for people’s cataract surgeries, funding their cochlear implants, and even helping build homes for unhoused individuals in Jamaica.

This latest news comes just after Donaldson became the first YouTuber to reach 30 million subscribers and published his biggest video to date. »

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes

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The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to make substantive changes to the high court.

“I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court.

The next week, Biden called Tribe again, and the two discussed a Guardian opinion piece he wrote endorsing reforms to the Supreme Court. »

Sen. Bob Menendez guilty of taking bribes in cash and gold and acting as Egypt’s foreign agent

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I have never, ever been a foreign agent,” Menendez said before a collection of microphones before walking briskly to a waiting car.

He said gold bars found in his New Jersey home by the FBI belonged to his wife, Nadine Menendez.

AP AUDIO: Menendez found guilty AP correspondent Julie Walker reports Senator Bob Menendez found guilty on federal charges including accepting bribes. »

Baby ‘saved from traffickers’ was borrowed by charity for photos

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An ex-police officer who claims to save children from human traffickers has faked stories to raise money for his charity, the BBC has discovered.

Adam Whittington, founder of Project Rescue Children (PRC) says he has helped more than 700 children in countries including Uganda, Kenya and The Gambia.

PRC has described our allegations that it does not support children as being “completely without merit, misleading and defamatory”. »