Monday,  Sept. 21st, 2020

Jacob Gardner, a Omaha, Nebraska bar owner who was charged for fatally shooting James Scurlock during a George Floyd protest in the state, dies from suicide. (New York Times)

Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for $7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry. (Bloomberg)

he number of cases in Iran rises by 3,341 in the past 24 hours, the highest daily tally since early June. The number of total cases in the country reaches to 425,481. (Reuters)

The government raise its COVID-19 alert level from 3 to 4, meaning transmission is “high or rising exponentially”. It comes after the government’s scientific adviser warned there could be 50,000 new cases a day by mid-October without further action. (BBC)

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lifts all remaining lockdown restrictions in the country except for Auckland, which maintains its lockdown until at least October 7. (AP)

BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists release the FinCEN files, a collection of 2,657 documents relating to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. (BuzzFeed News) (BBC)

A federal judge blocks the Commerce Department from requiring U.S. app stores to remove WeChat downloads. (NBC News)

 

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