TARC workers hold May Day rally in downtown Louisville to protest service cuts in agency's budget For three hours, people shouted and held signs, making sure those driving downtown knew why they were protesting. 05/1/2024 - 6:39 am | View Link
RealTruck VP Lee Riser Takes Her Off-Road Skills To The Rebelle Rally Riser is part of a growing number of female off-road enthusiasts who have transitioned to racing, and she takes part in the annual women-only off-road competition. 04/29/2024 - 3:59 pm | View Link
Australian prime minister describes domestic violence as a 'national crisis' after protests Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described domestic violence as a national crisis after thousands rallied around the country against violence toward women. Thousands rallied in cities a ... 04/28/2024 - 8:45 pm | View Link
Thousands rally in Australian capitals to demand gender violence justice Prime Minister Albanese said he would be part of a rally in the national capital Canberra on Sunday. "I will walk with women across Australia to say enough is enough," Albanese said on social ... 04/28/2024 - 3:58 am | View Link
Thousands march in Melbourne rally against gendered violence ‘national disgrace’ The march was one of many held across the country in recent days to remember women who died due to domestic violence. Protesters rally in the Melbourne CBD against gender-based violence.Credit ... 04/28/2024 - 12:28 am | View Link
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.