Two federal judges in Tennessee have dealt blows to Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order that allows families to opt out of school mask mandates, ruling in separate cases on Friday that local districts could require face coverings to protect disabled children while legal challenges progress through the courts. It was the third time in the […]
When the Texas Rangers learned that a woman had died in a jail south of Dallas, they put Adam Russell on the case. He found that there had been a struggle between the woman, Kelli Leanne Page, 46, who was being held on drug charges, and two guards, who entered her cell because they said […]
They call it Liberty Village, a tent city that grew almost overnight to where it is now has a population larger than half of the towns in New Jersey. It fills an expansive field at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a military installation in central New Jersey where about 8,500 Afghans displaced by the longest war in […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The White House said on Friday (Sept 24) that millions of federal contractors must be vaccinated against Covid-19 by Dec 8 and that the administration will add clauses to future government contracts mandating inoculations. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sept 9 requiring federal contractors to mandate vaccinations, but many […]
For months, Pedro Martinez has been locked in a political battle over the safety of schools in Texas. As the superintendent in San Antonio, he defied Gov. Greg Abbott by issuing a mask mandate in schools. He was the only superintendent of a major Texas school district to require school employees to be vaccinated, prompting […]
UNITED NATIONS (REUTERS) – The United States on Friday (Sept 24) further paved the way for aid to flow to Afghanistan despite US sanctions on the Taliban, who seized control of the country last month, issuing general licences amid concern that Washington’s punitive measures could compound an unfolding humanitarian crisis. The US Treasury Department said […]
I was stuck trying to write in my Brooklyn apartment, overthinking a sentence as usual. In these moments I turn to my records. For inspiration, I tend to need music from some faraway place and time. Perhaps an underground spiritual jazz reissue from 1974 or an Afro-disco record from ’80. Something with noticeable ringwear and […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Tropical Storm Sam was expected to become a “major hurricane” by this weekend after it formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday (Sept 24), the fourth named storm to develop in less than a week and the 18th overall in a busy 2021 hurricane season. As of 11pm […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Seven countries have signed a pledge to stop building new coal power plants initiated by the United Nations, which aims to gather more signatures before the global climate summit COP26 in Glasgow next month. The No New Coal agreement is the latest attempt to try and piece together a global phase-out […]
Fossilised footprints found in the US could hold the answer to a question that has intrigued scientists for many years: When did the first people arrive in the Americas after dispersing from Africa and Asia? The footprints were found in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, by researchers who dug a trench in the gypsum […]