A new study released in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that it is safe for schools to open with 3 feet for social distancing as long as students, teachers and staff wear masks.
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The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday to renew the lapsed Violence Against Women Act, landmark legislation championed by President Joe Biden. A bipartisan bill to reauthorize the VAWA, as it is known, was introduced in the House earlier this month by Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and House Judiciary
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The House is pushing forward with a joint resolution to remove a deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, after a recent federal court ruling said the deadline for the ERA expired long ago. Proponents of the ERA believe the court ruling signaled that it’s now up to Congress to validate their argument
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President Joe Biden said he is still making a decision on withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan ahead of a May 1 deadline set by former President Donald Trump, saying it “could happen, but it is tough.” “I’m in the process of making that decision now as to when they’ll leave. The fact is, that
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Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — A group of actors is putting a twist on a Shakespearean classic as they prepare for Hamlet Under the Bridge. “This unused space kind of like a dead area in Saginaw and I consider one of the more beautiful real arts areas of Saginaw
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers Wednesday that the US-Mexico border is secure and repeated that it is “not open,” as the administration faces an ongoing influx of migrants. His appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee comes as the Biden administration struggles to accommodate the growing number of children crossing the US-Mexico border
Continue Reading The Senate confirmed Katherine Tai to serve as US trade representative on Wednesday, giving her a key role to smooth supply chains shaken by the pandemic, implement a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada and address a multitude of challenges with China. Tai, the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan, is the first woman of
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Food choices can make all the difference when it comes to getting a good night’s rest. If you struggle with falling and staying asleep, or wake up feeling tired, it might be time to take inventory of what you’re eating and when. These eight diet habits can cause you to toss and turn, so avoid
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The SPAC market is so hot that this year’s fundraising haul has already surpassed all of 2020’s. And it’s not even April. Understandably, the world’s largest asset manager worries the SPAC boom is overdone. “If you look at the SPAC market, there’s some really attractive new companies and new technologies coming to the market that
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Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the recent lethal shootings at a series of spas in the Atlanta area, marking her most formal remarks about the ongoing issue of violence against the Asian American community. “It is tragic. Our country, the President and I and all of us, we grieve for the loss,” said Harris, the
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Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — It’s critical work, truly tasked with stopping the spread of COVID-19. “So, really anywhere that patients go, we follow right after, so whether it’s to the doctor’s office or surgical unit, or units with ICU’s, we clean the common areas, public spaces, patient rooms,
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Sharon Osbourne says she’d like to turn her argument on “The Talk” into a teachable moment. “I very much want to listen to the youth,” Osbourne told “Entertainment Tonight” in an exclusive interview which aired Tuesday. “Do I have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on, with the Black situation in this country?
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Canada has expanded its rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, reversing an earlier recommendation that it not to be given to seniors, even as more European nations moved to suspend its use. Citing recent real-world evidence from the United Kingdom, a Canadian expert advisory panel on Tuesday updated its recommendation on the vaccine to now include
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — This week has brought joy and comfort into the lives of many seniors, who’ve been able to have family to their rooms for the first time in almost a year. The last time Leonard Dunaway’s family visited him at Homestead of Olathe Memory Care
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“We’re just tired,” Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. “We’re tired of being scapegoated.” Ham’s sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attacks on their communities. For many in the AAPI community, just leaving home requires a new routine
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It’s a first for one major local beauty pageant: a transgender person is now the reigning titleholder. Kataluna Enriquez won Miss Silver State USA, the biggest preliminary competition for the Miss Nevada USA pageant. Enriquez has won transgender pageants before and entered other cisgender
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After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing unabashedly tall among the nation’s governors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight. “Everyone told me I was wrong,” DeSantis, a Republican, said in a fundraising appeal on Tuesday, drawing attention
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the Iditarod dogsled race. The event is named after the Iditarod Trail, an old mail and supply route, traveled by dogsleds from Seward and Knik to Nome, Alaska. March 15, 2021 – Dallas Seavey wins his fifth Iditarod. March 18, 2020 – Thomas Waerner wins his first Iditarod. Facts The race
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WSMV) — It was in the parking lot of Parkview Flats on Bradyville Pike Monday morning in Murfreesboro when Latoya Moore’s car was stolen. She was about to drive her daughter to school when she turned the car on and noticed she forgot her wallet. So
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London is fighting to maintain its standing as the best city outside New York for bankers and traders to do business. The British capital lost significant ground in the first Global Financial Centers Index published since the United Kingdom completed its exit from the European Union, barely holding onto its No. 2 spot in the
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