A school district in Southern California has approved changes to a policy that required school staff to notify parents if their child asks to change pronouns at school. The updated policy passed by the Chino Valley Unified School District board removes mentions of student gender identification changes. It requires school staff to notify parents if their child asks to make any changes to their official or unofficial records. The vote comes amid a legal battle with the state in which California Attorney... Читать дальше...
A 21-year-old junior in college is moving on to the general election after narrowly beating an 84-year-old lawmaker this week in the Republican primary for a North Carolina House seat. Wyatt Gable is studying business management at East Carolina University. He has spent much of 2024 phone banking after class and knocking on doors on the weekends. He ousted 10-term incumbent George Cleveland. Gable hopes to inject youthful energy into the Republican Party. He says that "a lot of people were just ready... Читать дальше...
What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? An extreme — and quirky — winter sport called skijoring. It’s a heart-pumping competition in which horses at full gallop tow skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton. Every winter, thousands of people converge on the old Colorado mining town of Leadville to witness one of the most popular skijoring races in the country. Riders and skiers say they are drawn to the sport by the adrenaline rush... Читать дальше...
The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy can now be used to reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other serious heart problems in patients who are overweight or who have obesity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a label change that expands the use of the drug in Wegovy. It was previously approved to treat obesity. The move is expected to change the way many heart patients are treated. The new indication also could broaden coverage of the drug by Medicare, which is prohibited from paying for weight-loss medications. Читать дальше...
Santos made the announcement after attending President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and mingling with former colleagues who had voted to kick him out of Congress.
President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.” The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There’s suddenly fewer pretzels in the bag, less toothpaste in the tube and shorter candy bars. Biden complained in his State of the Union address that people get charged the same but smaller Snickers bars. The president’s focus on shrinkflation is part of a broader strategy to reframe how voters think about the economy before the November election. Читать дальше...
Passengers had to be evacuated from a United Airlines plane after it rolled off a runway in Houston and ended up stuck in a grassy area. United Airlines says no injuries were reported among the 160 passengers and six crew members. Flight 2477 from Memphis, Tennessee, had landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport around 8 a.m. on Friday. The Houston Airport System says the Boeing 737 Max 8 was rolling to a terminal gate when it left the left the pavement. United said it will work with the National Transportation... Читать дальше...
Super Tuesday put former President Donald Trump within reach of clinching his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination. But it may be Republican voters in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington who put him over the top. Trump will need to win the lion’s share of the 161 delegates at stake in contests on Tuesday in order to become the presumptive nominee. President Joe Biden is also competing in presidential contests that day, but the earliest he can clinch his party's nomination is a week later on March 19.
The U.N. human rights office says in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. The report covers the one-year period up to October 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units in existing settlements in the West Bank were “advanced” — the highest number in a year since monitoring began in 2017. The rights office says Israel's transfer of its own population into territories that it occupies amounts to a war crime under international law.
The nation’s economy likely produced another month of healthy hiring in February, once again brushing aside the effects of high interest rates with unexpected ease. When the Labor Department issues the monthly jobs report Friday, economists predict it will show that employers added a solid 200,000 jobs in February. Though that would be down from the blockbuster gains in December (333,000) and January (353,000), it would still be plenty fast enough to outpace population growth and keep the unemployment rate near a half-century low. Читать дальше...
Efforts are ramping up to deliver more desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza, with the United States and Europe focusing on opening a sea route in a signal of the West’s growing frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war. A top European Union official said on Friday that a charity ship will head to Gaza as a pilot operation for a new humanitarian sea corridor. Ursula von der Leyen spoke in Cyprus, where she came to inspect preparations to send more aid to Gaza by sea. Just hours earlier, President... Читать дальше...
China has reported large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year, as leaders showcase the ruling Communist Party's determination to safeguard national security and public order. Top judicial officials presented reports from China's Supreme People's Court and from its top prosecutors on Friday to some 5,000 delegates to the National People's Congress and an advisory body. The report said courts will carry out national security measures and “severely punish crimes that... Читать дальше...
European shares are mostly declining, but Asian benchmarks finished higher after U.S. stocks climbed to records. While shares rose in France in early Friday trading, they sank in Germany and Britain. Benchmarks finished higher in Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said that interest rate cuts will start this year if inflation continues cooling. Oil prices rose. The U.S. dollar was trading below 150 Japanese yen-levels. Investors are also awaiting... Читать дальше...
A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy. The U.N. mission published its findings in the case on Friday. The wide-ranging initial report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council by the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran also found the Islamic Republic employed “unnecessary and disproportionate use of lethal force” to put down the demonstrations... Читать дальше...
France’s leaders will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution. Friday's historic ceremony is open to the public and designed to show support to women across the world on International Women’s Day. France is the first country to explicitly guarantee abortion rights in its national charter with the amendment French legislators approved on Monday. The ceremony is a key event on a day focused on advancing women’s rights globally. Marches, demonstrations and conferences are being held the world over... Читать дальше...
Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., has died at age 92. Family members say she died Thursday in Atlanta. She married Rev. Alfred Daniel Williams King, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader, in 1950. The couple often was at the side of Martin Luther King, Jr., supporting him and his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. In 2008, Naomi King created the A.D. King Foundation, an organization focusing on empowering... Читать дальше...
Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals' routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. The moon's shadow will sweep across North America including from Texas to Maine. In 2017, a team noticed strange animal behavior at a South Carolina zoo in the path of total darkness. This time, scientists will stand by to track how tortoises, giraffes and apes at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas react when day transforms into dusk. It's only in recent years that... Читать дальше...
Recently unsealed court documents show that an Army soldier accused of selling national defense information has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a wide range on charges, including bribery of a public official. According to the indictment, Korbein Schultz allegedly conspired with an individual identified only as “Conspirator A” to disclose various documents, photographs, and other national defense materials since June 2022. The indictment claims that Schultz was recruited by the individual... Читать дальше...
Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening. The first-term Alabama Republican is the youngest woman in the Senate. She gave a stinging election-year critique of the president, arguing that “the country we know and love seems to be slipping away.” She also directly appealed to fellow mothers. Britt’s remarks echo the same dark vision for the future under Biden and Democrats laid out in rebuttals by Arkansas Gov. Читать дальше...
China’s hacking industry, leaked internal documents reveal, is vast in size and scope but also suffers from shady business practices, disgruntlement over pay and work quality, and poor security protocols. China’s state security agencies have contracted large amounts of hacking and espionage work to private contractors to slash costs and expand their reach, allowing Beijing to direct a huge number of hackers to infiltrate systems overseas. But leaked documents from one contractor, I-Soon, show that in China's hackers-for-hire industry... Читать дальше...
Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about the Army reservist who killed 18 people last year in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting. Boston University researchers who analyzed a sample of Robert Card’s brain tissue say they found evidence of traumatic brain injury, including degeneration in the nerve fibers allowing communication between different brain areas. Card is believed to have been exposed to repeated low-level blasts as an Army hand grenade instructor. Читать дальше...
Fake images of Donald Trump surrounded by smiling Black voters are circulating online, highlighting the potential dangers posed by artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 election. The images, which have not been linked back to Trump's campaign, could mislead people about the former president's support among African Americans. Some in Trump's campaign have expressed frustration with the images, which they said could undermine the campaign's outreach to Black voters. Powerful AI programs that can... Читать дальше...
Teammate Amar'e Marshall is on the third team.
Danes host New Jersey Institute of Technology in America East quarterfinal Friday.
The report for the Uvalde City Council on Thursday is just one of several probes into the massacre.
