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Google has turned the logo on its homepage black in the United Kingdom to coincide with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Internet users in the UK woke up to an all-black version of the Google logo to mark the Queen’s funeral on 19 September, which was attended by dignitaries from around the world. The logo, which is usually blue, red, yellow and green, was accompanied by a black ribbon along with the text “Thank you, Ma’am” as well as a link that led visitors to a webpage that… Source link

Former Raiders and MLB star Bo Jackson revealed this week that he had donated to help cover funeral costs for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year. Jackson, who doesn’t have a real connection to the city other than having driven through it in the past while on hunting trips, said he just felt compelled to help after 19 students and two teachers were killed in May. “I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old. It’s just not… Source link

The parents of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins say they will not attend his funeral services on Friday. “We have never met or spoken to the wife, and we didn’t want our son’s funeral service to be the place we met her for the first time,” said Dwayne Sr. and Tamara Haskins in a statement to USA TODAY Sports. Haskins was killed April 9 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when he attempted to cross an interstate and was hit by a dump truck. He was 24. The Florida Highway Patrol… Source link

An obscure COVID stimulus benefit will pay you up to $9,000 for a funeral The nation’s massive pandemic rescue plan includes one kind of funding that gets less attention: a funeral assistance program, offering families of those who have died of COVID up to $9,000 to cover burial costs. Part of the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan signed in March, the funeral expenses program extends much-needed help to families who may have gone into debt or lost wages in the… Source link

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters A Florida family of an unvaccinated man will hold a vaccine and testing site at his funeral. Marquis Davis wanted to get the vaccine after he was hospitalized but it was too late, his wife told WFTV. The family, along with their church, will offer the… Source link

A 20-year-old suburban Detroit woman who was declared dead only to be found alive at a funeral home in August has died, the attorney representing her family said on Monday (local time). Timesha Beauchamp died on Sunday at Children’s Hospital in Detroit, Geoffrey Fieger said in a news release. Ms Beauchamp’s family, who live in Southfield, called 911 on August 23 because she appeared to be suffering from serious breathing problems. Emergency medical technicians and paramedics responded, and a… Source link

Former President Barack Obama will eulogize the late Rep. John Lewis at his funeral in Atlanta on Thursday, the sixth and final day of memorials paying tribute to the Democratic congressman from Georgia and civil rights icon who died earlier this month. “John’s life was exceptional,” Obama said in a statement following Lewis’s death. “But he never believed that what he did was more than any citizen of this country might do. He believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity… Source link