Pro-Palestine demonstrators met with occasional tension Friday Pro-Palestinian demonstrators joined forces with several organizations to stage a demonstration near Washington University Friday. 05/3/2024 - 3:09 pm | View Link
Man sentenced for obstructing justice in the murder of transgender woman A South Carolina man was sentenced for obstruction an investigation into the murder of a transgender woman back in 2019. 05/3/2024 - 9:35 am | View Link
South Carolina man sentenced for obstructing justice in the murder of Allendale transgender woman A South Carolina man was sentenced Thursday for obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of transgender woman Dime Doe.Xavier Pinckney, 24, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for ... 05/2/2024 - 11:14 am | View Link
SC man sentenced after pleading guilty to obstructing investigation in transgender woman’s murder A South Carolina man has been sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in October 2023 to obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of a transgender woman. According to the U.S. 05/2/2024 - 10:10 am | View Link
‘Live my truth’: Transgender woman fights for rights inside Leavenworth men’s prison Now 49, she lives in a cell at the men’s prison in Leavenworth not much larger than that closet. Satyagrahi is one of an estimated 2,170 transgender people under the supervision of the Federal Bureau ... 05/2/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
WASHINGTON — A top U. N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.
Cindy McCain, the American director of the U. N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.
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“It’s horror,” McCain told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview to air Sunday.
Houston — Heavy storms slammed the Houston area again Friday, widening already dangerous flooding in Texas and leading to numerous high-water rescues, including some from the rooftops of flooded homes. Officials redoubled urgent instructions for residents in low-lying areas to evacuate, warning the worst was still to come.
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“This threat is ongoing and it’s going to get worse.
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.