CTA Red Line trains stopped near 35th Street; CTA cites medical emergency CTA Red Line trains have been stopped near 35th Street in Armour Square on the city’s South Side due to what the CTA is calling a medical emergency. A number of emergency-response ... 06/5/2024 - 12:54 am | View Link
Part of MBTA Green Line shut down due to power issue on train Part of the MBTA Green Line was shut down for more than two hours Monday afternoon due to a train that had a power issue related to a pantograph problem.A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Bay ... 06/3/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Power problem forces service shutdowns along MBTA Green Line Shuttle buses replaced trains along part of the Green Line for a couple hours on Monday due to a “pantograph problem,” the 06/3/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
MBTA sets June maintenance shutdowns on Orange, Red lines, six commuter routes The Orange and Red lines will be the focus of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s ongoing track repair work for its rapid transit lines in June, while six commuter rail lines will also ... 05/21/2024 - 1:56 pm | View Link
MBTA service changes will impact Orange Line, Red Line, commuter rail riders in June The MBTA has announced a range of upcoming repairs that will affect service on the Red and Orange lines and the commuter rail in June.Here’s what you need to know.Red LineSubway service will be ... 05/21/2024 - 6:45 am | View Link
Tracking screen time is like counting calories: It is partially accurate but misleading. The World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics provide time-based guidelines for screens in young children: For babies and toddlers, keep the screens to Facetime family and friends. For younger kids, 1 to 2 hours, and from ages 6 to 12, keep it to roughly 2 hours.
For those who are not raising children, the guidelines seem straightforward.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.
The filmmakers behind Netflix’s latest documentary—How to Rob a Bank— do not want viewers to take its title literally. Although the film, out June 5, features accounts from real bank robbers who explain how they got people to hand over cash, directors Seth Porges and Stephen Robert Morse hope nobody gets ideas after watching it.
Despite the countless documentaries, movies, TV shows, and books on World War II, 63% of American millennials and Gen Z do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a 2020 state-by-state survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
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Netflix hopes to change that with Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, an ambitious new World War II documentary out Wednesday that’s geared towards younger audiences.
BEIRUT — A gunman was captured by Lebanese soldiers after attempting to attack the U. S. Embassy near Beirut on Wednesday, the military said.
The attack took place as tensions continued to simmer in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border, following years of political deadlock and economic hardship.
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Read More: Militant Group Hezbollah Is on the Sidelines of the Israel-Hamas War.
NEW YORK — Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime.
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When the editors refused the request and published the piece Monday morning, the board—made up of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school—shut down the law review’s website entirely.