Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 01/20/2023 - 3:00am
He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger. And across the nation, people ... didn't quite know how to react.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 4:00am
To many people, the notion that cellphones or cell towers might present a health risk long ago receded into a realm somewhere between trivial concern and conspiracy theory. For decades, the wireless industry has dismissed such ideas as fearmongering, and federal regulators have maintained that cellphones pose no danger. But a growing body of scientific research is raising questions, with the stakes heightened by the ongoing deployment of hundreds of thousands of new transmitters in neighborhoods across America.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 3:00am
I started 2021 by buying an 1885 hulk of a home, sight unseen, with visions of restoring its earlier grandeur. In almost two years, I've restored three of many rooms and tackled multiple smaller projects, by myself.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 1:00am
It was one day during coffee as a woman shared her courageous story to Sandy Spady that an idea was born. “Would you share your story to other women?” Spady prompted her coffee-mate.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 2:00am
Knowing if you're being paid fairly for the work you do is a mystery shrouded in a lack of information. That may be changing, though, and pay transparency may be the catalyst. It's a growing trend for companies to reveal what a job opening or current position pays — whether voluntarily, or because governments mandate it.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 4:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will come "perilously close" to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies — the United States, Europe and China — the World Bank warned on Tuesday.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 01/11/2023 - 3:00am
In 2017, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill coined the name “longtermism” to describe the idea “that positively affecting the long-run future is a key moral priority of our time”. The label took off among like-minded philosophers and members of the “effective altruism” movement, which sets out to use evidence and reason to determine how individuals can best help the world.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 01/11/2023 - 1:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023.
The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of a whipsmart detective — which has even ensnared Enola Holmes — will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle's last Sherlock Holmes work.