A Virginia county school board is now facing a federal lawsuit after it voted last month to reinstate the names of Confederate leaders to two schools against considerable community opposition. The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and five students in the Shenandoah County public school system sued the school board, alleging that the reversal of […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced more than $100 million in investments to protect programs for children — his latest step in reversing unpopular budget decisions that have provided ammunition for his political opponents. Flanked by fellow Democrats, the mayor laid out a plan to spare youth programs from the pending loss […]
DETROIT (AP) — The once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station — for decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline — has new life following a massive six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation to create a hub for mobility projects in the rebirth of the Motor City. The windowless hulking scavenger-ravaged structure that ominously shadowed the city’s Corktown neighborhood is […]
(NewsNation) — A school board in rural Virginia voted to reinstate the names of Confederate generals for two schools four years after the names had been removed, making it the first district in the nation to reverse course after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. On Friday, the Shenandoah County school board voted 5-1 to […]
For her entire life, college student Olivia Cook had only a small degree of central vision. It was as if she was watching the world through a straw hole, and in dimly lit places, she could not make out people’s faces, only their silhouettes. But after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment to one of her […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened. The blanket […]
The US Supreme Court has restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states, without action from Congress first, cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday restored a U.S. legal finding dating back nearly 50 years that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are “illegitimate” under international law. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. believes settlements are inconsistent with Israel’s obligations, reversing a determination made by his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, […]
I held my breath for a moment on Jan. 18, when scientists announced they’d lost contact with the Perseverance Mars rover’s helicopter friend, Ingenuity. Ingenuity had been nearing completion of its 72nd flight — a liftoff far past the threshold of “borrowed time” in this case, as the mighty craft was originally built for a […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Monday restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago and asked the convicts to surrender to the authorities within two weeks. The Hindu men were convicted in 2008 of rape and murder. They were released […]
India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago. The convicts must surrender to the authorities within two weeks. The Hindu men were convicted in 2008 of rape and murder. They were released in 2022 after serving 14 years in […]
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, has restored all of its services both in Ukraine and abroad. Source: Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast Wednesday, reported by Interfax-Ukraine Quote: “We have restored all services 100% throughout Ukraine and abroad. The last service we restored was international roaming. We started on […]