Word from the Smokies: Cicada emergence offers rare community science opportunity The Great Southern Brood” is expected to appear in more than a dozen states, including East Tennessee, part of which is home to the Smokies park. 04/26/2024 - 10:08 pm | View Link
18-year-old Bowie High School student shot, killed by another student in Texas, police say Etavion Barnes, an 18-year-old student at James Bowie High School in Arlington, Texas, was shot to death on campus by one of his peers, police say. 04/25/2024 - 6:04 am | View Link
Journal | Discover Nikkei In their vision of the JACCC, “culture” is Japanese high culture and “community” is the multicultural population of Los Angeles. Judged from a contemporary scholar’s point of view, the rhetoric of the Nisei elites around “culture” and “community” seems simplistic at best. Further, their active fetishization of an essentialized ... 04/26/2024 - 12:58 pm | View Website
Best Tech Meetups in Tokyo | Japan Dev Hacker News Tokyo is an international community for tech lovers living in Japan. It was created by the founders of IT company MakeLeaps, Jayand Paul. There are around 2000 users in their Slack Community. It’s a very lively space, with people actively sharing information every day. 04/26/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Website
Jewish Tokyo With a membership of around 100 families, the Jewish Community of Japan, represents the Jewish people residing in and around Tokyo. It's in Hiroo, which is roughly between Roppongi and Ebisu. They offer Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv followed by dinner and a Saturday morning Shachrit service followed by kiddush and lunch. 04/25/2024 - 10:25 pm | View Website
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Tokyo Smart City A “Smart City” is a vibrant city that keeps growing, a city open to the world, a city leading the world in environmental policies, and a global financial and economic center. Smart Tokyo is globally open, eco-friendly, and a global financial and economic center. Firmly implanting the spirit of mottainai. The comfortable city where people ... 04/25/2024 - 12:56 am | View Website
Gretchen McKay | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
When it comes to Chinese comfort food, nothing beats a really good bowl of hand-pulled noodles or a steaming, silky bowl of mapo tofu. Yet our love affair with Chinese food often centers around dumplings.
Whether they’re boiled, steamed or pan-fried, it’s just so easy to eat five, six or even a dozen of the plump and juicy dough bundles stuffed with ground meat and/or vegetables.
‘Safe and Sound’ by Laura McHugh. Random House, 304 pages, $29
Small towns can be a sanctuary, offering the comfort of family, friends, familiar surroundings and an assured future. But for sisters Amelia and Kylee Crow, their small town of Beaumont, Missouri, is a trap, holding only a dismal future, as Laura McHugh explores in her outstanding “Safe and Sound.”
Beautifully written with precise character studies, “Safe and Sound” joins the growing legion of rural mysteries, where everyone thinks they know everything about their neighbors, but that is far from the truth.
Gov. Ron DeSantis scoffed at assertions from Democratic leaders that the political landscape has changed in Florida, giving President Joe Biden a chance at winning the state in November.
Before he said anything in response to a reporter’s question Tuesday, he gave a non-verbal answer: A snort, a laugh and a shaking head.
Clearly, his answer was “no.”
And he suggested it would be great if the Biden campaign spends lots of money in Florida — great for Republicans, that is, because in DeSantis’ view it would be wasted.
Also, he said, the Democrats’ efforts to use the abortion issue — and the state ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy that goes into effect Wednesday — won’t alter the final results.
He first pointed to the significant shift in registered voters in Florida.
Chris Marquette and Michael Macagnone | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
WASHINGTON — A deep unease trickled through Jacob Glick’s entire body. He had started a virtual deposition of Jim Watkins, the large, scruffy QAnon conspiracy theorist who runs 8kun, a website filled with hateful, racist content that included calls for violence at the Capitol on Jan.
Michael Macagnone | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
WASHINGTON — How the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s effort to jettison his federal charges could have some collateral damage: Congress’ impeachment power.
At oral arguments in the case Thursday, Trump attorney D. John Sauer told the justices that the nation’s founders decided impeachment was the check on a president’s behavior in office — and not criminal prosecution.
But several justices and outside experts said Sauer’s arguments, taken together, laid out a diminished version of impeachment power, which normally allows Congress to remove a federal officer for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
That rarely invoked power, used about two dozen times in the nation’s history, should instead have special rules for presidents, Sauer said.
Sauer told the justices that presidents could only face criminal charges once they are impeached and convicted in the Senate.
By COLLIN BINKLEY (AP Education Writer)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law.
A federal lawsuit, led by Tennessee and West Virginia, on Tuesday asks a judge to halt and overturn the new policy.