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Last month saw another extreme weather milestone with the world’s hottest day on recent record registered on 22 July – yet another indication of the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are changing our climate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Wednesday.
Leas Hollen distributed food and donated clothing to people living at the homeless camp along East 33rd Avenue in Midtown Anchorage on Thursday, August 8, 2024.
Graves for young women, girls and infants who died while detained at the New York House of Refuge for women and the New York State Training School for Girls, which operated on this Hudson, New York, property between 1887 and 1975.
During a MDMA therapy session, a blindfolded patient is wrapped in a blanket and lays on a couch.
Last Monday, to be exact, when State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues reportedly directed the system’s 12 public university leaders to conduct an urgent and sweeping review of faculty syllabi, textbooks, and test banks for evidence of “antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias”…. in follow-up communications Friday, Rodrigues and Emily Sikes, the system’s interim vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, clarified that universities should first conduct keyword searches of all course descriptions and syllabi for the words: Israel, Israeli, Palestine, Palestinian, Middle East, Zionism, Zionist, Judaism, Jewish, and Jews. Then, any fall courses using one or more of those terms are to be reported to the System Board of Governors, alongside a list of “related instructional materials,” by August 16.
Staff in social care teams across Lancashire walked out Friday in their second bout of strike action over pay this year.