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Byron-Bergen Elementary welcomes award-winning author Grace Lin On Wednesday, May 1, Newbery and Caldecott Award-winning author Grace Lin visited Byron-Bergen Elementary School. Lin presented to students in kindergarten through grade five. She shared her creative ... 05/12/2024 - 1:55 am | View Link
'Being bilingual is a gift for life': Latina author wants more families to talk about books Cuban American author Meg Medina is visiting the Nashua Public Library this Sunday, May 12, to encourage families to have more conversations at home about literature, whether it's about an article, ... 05/7/2024 - 10:14 am | View Link
'It's a good creative energy': Artists join forces in Augusta's 5th Street Mural Festival It's not every day that one project will result in Augusta receiving more than a dozen new pieces of public art, but here it is. Augusta's 5th Street Mural Festival has brought together artists ... 04/26/2024 - 12:38 am | View Link
Best Portraits from the Festival of Books: John Green, Henry Winkler and more The 29th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returned to USC with a first-ever livestream of activities. Many of the participants and guests stopped by our portrait studio: John Green, Henry ... 04/20/2024 - 3:54 pm | View Link
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — Downhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can’t race until December.
The U. S. Anti-Doping Agency published its decision late Monday for Johnson’s failure to comply with the whereabouts rules. They oblige athletes to detail where they can be found for one hour each day to give a sample with no advance notice.
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Athletes have been banned for up to two years if they have three violations in a 12-month period, such as missed tests or failures to update accurate details of their location.
Johnson’s whereabouts failures were on Oct.
There was a joke I heard a lot growing up about people who get their periods. I won’t repeat it here, but believe me when I say it was disgusting, cruel, and harmful. It makes my blood boil when I think of it now, but when I was a teenager under constant pressure to be pleasant and agreeable, all I could do was try to laugh it off.
GENEVA — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five years and roughly doubled in the past decade.
The Biden Administration has announced new tariffs on Tuesday for Chinese made electric vehicles, quadrupling the current tariff from 27.5% to 102.5%, as well as new tariffs on solar cells, steel, and aluminum.
These tariffs are expected to raise $18 billion in imports from China.
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Currently, China exports very few electric vehicles to the U.
Twenty-eight-year-old Thai activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, also known as “Bung,” died in a hospital in Bangkok on Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized following a hunger strike she started in January to protest the country’s judicial system and imprisonment of political dissenters like herself.
Bung’s death comes amid waves of similar hunger strikes initiated by pro-democracy protesters detained in Thailand, which has come under criticism for its ironfisted treatment of activists at odds with the country’s conservative establishment.
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“The death of Ms.
For decades, economic policy in most liberal democracies has been premised on two core beliefs: that free markets would maximize economic growth, and that we could address inequality through redistribution.
The recent revival of industrial policy, championed by President Biden, is a clear repudiation of the first of these beliefs. It reflects a growing recognition among economists that state intervention to shape markets and steer investment is crucial for fostering innovation, protecting strategically important sectors like semi-conductors, and tackling the climate emergency.
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But we must also reassess the second belief—that taxes and transfers alone can address the vast inequalities that have brought American democracy to such a perilous juncture.