Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows struck a deal to cooperate with the congressional probe into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and plans to appear for a deposition, the House select committee announced Tuesday. The move marks a sharp turn in Mr. Meadows’ stance toward the committee after failing to…Continue Reading
Former Vice President Mike Pence leaned into the culture wars on Tuesday, calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade on the eve of oral arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. Mr. Pence has been picking and choosing his political fights since leaving office, and pounced at the opportunity to show that his…Continue Reading
While a senior at Tennessee State University (TSU) in 2002, Keeda Haynes agreed to receive multiple packages for her then-boyfriend. He told her that the deliveries were for a cell phone and pager business. As it turned out, the packages actually contained marijuana. Unbeknownst to Haynes, her boyfriend was being watched by the police. By…Continue Reading
As businesses across the country start imposing strict COVID-19 vaccine and testing requirements, some employees are claiming religious exemptions to avoid getting vaccinated—putting human resources departments on the frontlines of a fraught political issue that has already proven fertile ground for lawsuits. The task before HR leaders is tricky: they have to figure out whether…Continue Reading
The contemporary fashion landscape owes much of its sensibility to the relentless creativity of Virgil Abloh. The designer, who died from cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, at the age of 41 on Nov. 28 in Chicago, was often hailed as the future of fashion, but there was no denying that his work profoundly…Continue Reading
It’s the news that the HIV community has been waiting four long decades for: the hint that maybe, just maybe, HIV can be cured. Dr. Xu Yu, a principal investigator at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, as well as an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, had to…Continue Reading
BRUSSELS (AP) — New findings about the coronavirus’s omicron variant made it clear Tuesday that the emerging threat slipped into countries well before their defenses were up, as two distant nations announced their first cases and a third reported its presence before South African officials sounded the alarm. The Netherlands’ RIVM health institute found omicron…Continue Reading
Quiz Test your understanding of this English lesson Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions. You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz. What is another name for a contraction?abbreviationamendmentampersandapostropheasteriskWhat is the punctuation symbol which represents a missing letter or letters?abbreviationamendmentampersandapostropheasteriskA contraction is a combination…Continue Reading
Nov. 30, 2021 The logo for Twitter appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform, the company announced Monday. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal.Richard…Continue Reading
A major section of California highway near Sacramento was closed overnight and was still shut off to cars Monday morning.Interstate 5 southbound over Interstate 80 near Sacramento shut down due to crash involving a big rig and a car fire, KCBS said. All traffic is being diverted on to westbound 80. The closure is causing…Continue Reading