Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis invests $10.6 million in federal funding to spur economic recovery and tourism in St. Louis The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (RACSTL) received $10.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding from the city of St. Louis last summer. 04/30/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
Celebrating International Jazz Day: A Tribute To Legendary Black Musicians Who Broke Down Racial Barriers Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, these Black musicians were fighting discrimination and segregation on the bandstand. 04/30/2024 - 6:16 am | View Link
Drink driver banned from roads and handed £2,500 fine A man from Bures, near Sudbury in Suffolk, has been fined almost £2,500 after driving at nearly double the alcohol limit. 04/28/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Big Sean helps kick off NFL Draft festivities with set of Detroit hip-hop hits Big Sean was in his element Thursday night, whipping up a festive hometown performance to kick off NFL draft festivities in downtown Detroit. 04/25/2024 - 1:36 pm | View Link
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Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.