Opinion | The Journalists They Silence Around the world there were 547 journalists in jail at the end of 2023, according to Reporters Without Borders. In Iran, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been jailed for her fight ... 05/3/2024 - 11:05 am | View Link
Campus Protests Over Gaza Spotlight the Work of Student Journalists Columbia University’s radio station and other student-led news outlets have provided some of the most detailed coverage of the turmoil engulfing university campuses. 05/3/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link
Columbia University student journalists had an up-close view for days of drama Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building. 05/3/2024 - 8:09 am | View Link
Pitch-Perfect Choice To Lead Voice of America Today is the 30th annual World Press Freedom Day, and it comes at a precipitous time. Journalists are being killed at an appalling rate in Gaza and Ukraine. Around the globe, more than ... 05/3/2024 - 6:27 am | View Link
The Latest | Arrests top 2,000 as protests against Gaza war roil college campuses The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against Israel's war in Gaza has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools ... 05/2/2024 - 7:52 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.