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The 7

Monday, November 28, 2022

The 7

The Washington Post

Daily News, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Monday briefing: Mass protests in China; Buffalo shooting suspect’s plea; Houston boil-water order; remote work; and more


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0:00.0

We're going from protest in China about COVID lockdowns to why finding a remote

0:05.8

job may not be as easy anymore. It's the seven from the Washington Post.

0:10.0

I'm Jeff Pierre. Good morning. I hope you had a great weekend. It's Monday, November 28th.

0:16.0

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

0:21.0

At number one.

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A one.

0:25.0

Protest erupted

0:28.0

protests erupted in China this weekend against the country's zero COVID policy.

0:32.0

People are at a breaking point after nearly three years

0:34.6

of unrelenting controls during the coronavirus pandemic.

0:38.4

There are a couple of reasons why tensions around this have escalated recently.

0:42.2

First, the lockdown measures were blamed for

0:44.3

holding up rescue efforts in a deadly fire last week. Also, a huge COVID outbreak has

0:49.9

caused rules to be tightened in some places.

0:52.8

Mass protests are extremely rare in China

0:55.3

and authorities move quickly to try to stop them,

0:57.9

so there's a lot of global attention on this situation.

1:10.0

Number two, the man accused in the Buffalo Supermarket Rampage is set to plead guilty today. The 19-year-old is suspected of

1:14.5

killing 10 people in the racially motivated attack in May. He faces state charges

1:19.6

including domestic terrorism and murder as a hate crime.

1:23.0

A separate federal hate crimes case, which could result in the death penalty, is pending.

1:28.0

On a related note, Democrats have been renewing their calls for a ban on assault weapons after the latest mass shootings

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