[ad_1] Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., brought Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to tears Wednesday with an impassioned speech hearkening on the plight of Black Americans and the efforts of their forebears that led Booker and Jackson to be sitting together in the same Senate hearing room. “It’s hard for me not to look at…
[ad_1] Reuters will remove all the content of the Russian state news agency TASS from its business-to-business service Reuters Connect, reports Camille Gijs of Politico. Gisj reports, “The well-known news wire service said that ‘making TASS content available on Reuters Connect is not aligned with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.’ “The move follows growing criticism of how…
[ad_1] Philip Ella Juico —TRISTAN TAMAYO Under fire for its long-running rift with pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena, the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) will seek the counsel of World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following its suspension from the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). The POC executive board dropped the Patafa…
[ad_1] Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, has died at 74; Wilhite worked on the GIF while employed by CompuServe in the 1980s — It’s pronounced ‘jif’ — Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age…
[ad_1] Shanna Moakler explained how she ended up with a ‘false positive’ pregnancy test after her time on the reality TV series ‘Celebrity Big Brother 3’ and how it affected her result. Shanna Moakler, 46, revealed that she isn’t actually pregnant after initially announcing that she was expecting her fourth child. It turns out the model’s…
[ad_1] Parkinsonism is a term for a group of neurological conditions that cause movement problems including tremors, slowed movement and stiffness, with Parkinson’s disease being one of the better knowns causes. A new study suggests that older people taking statin drugs have a lower chance of developing parkinsonism later compared to people who were not…
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[ad_1] 1. A teenager’s education decisions are also high-stakes economic choices. Yet adults aren’t giving young people the information they need to navigate life after high school—nor really hearing what young people need and want from postsecondary pathways. Economic data makes it pretty clear that most people would benefit from learning or training beyond 12th…
[ad_1] Recent tests of 13 lots of the skeletal muscle relaxant Orphenadrine Citrate 100 mg Extended Release (ER) found unacceptably high levels of a nitrosamine impurity in the tablets, leading manufacturer Sandoz (Princeton, New Jersey) to announce a voluntary recall of the lots on March 21. The nitrosamine impurity detected (N-methyl-N-nitroso-2-[(2-methylphenyl)phenylmethoxy]ethanamine [NMOA or Nitroso-Orphenadrine]) may…
[ad_1] Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state and one of the most influential stateswomen of her generation, died Wednesday of cancer at age 84, her family announced. Albright, who came to the United States as an 11-year-old political refugee, rose to serve as the country’s top diplomat under president Bill Clinton from…