The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week.
1. Donald Trump won the required number of delegates–1,237–to effectively be the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential race. A few days later, former candidate Marco Rubio apologized for a “below the belt” comment in March.
2. This week, President Obama visited the atomic bomb site at Hiroshima, Japan, becoming the first sitting American president to visit the site. On the same trip, he announced that the US would begin selling arms to Vietnam for the first time since the rise of the Communist government after the Vietnam War.
3. Alan Pulido, a soccer player for the Mexican national team, was kidnapped and later rescued in Ciudad Victoria after attending a party late Sunday night.
4. On Memorial Day weekend, 49 people were injured and 4 people were killed in a spurt of gun violence in Chicago.
5. A Pennsylvanian woman was found to be infected with a strain of completely drug-resistant E. coli, greatly alarming CDC Director Tom Friedan, among other researchers.
6. At least 700 refugees in the Mediterranean, on three separate boats, are believed to have drowned in the past week. Their deaths bring the total fatality rate to more than 2,000 people.
7. The former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, was sentenced to life in prison due to his many crimes against humanity. Habré has been called “The African Pinochet” in part due to the murders of 40,000 enemies of the state.
8. After Baylor football coach Art Briles and president Ken Starr were fired and demoted in light of an enormous coverup of a sexual harassment scandal, former Wake Forest football coach Jim Grobe was named the interim football coach at Baylor University.
9. 6 people have died in the torrential thunderstorms and floods that hit Central and Southeast Texas this week, which also featured two tornadoes in the Bryan-College Station area.
10. Former US Attorney General Eric Holder commented that Edward Snowden’s actions were a “public service” by raising awareness about secretive United States surveillance.
