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Election Day may lead to some public facilities being closed in certain areas of the United States. Find out if schools will be among those closures. Image Credit: AFP via Getty Images The Presidential Elections Are Here! The race to the White House between Democratic candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Republican candidates Donald Trump and J.D. Vance will come to an end tonight, November 5, 2024, as polls begin to close. In the weeks leading up to Election Day, many votes were cast both in person and by mail. As the nation reaches Election Day, many public facilities are…
Queen Camilla will miss Britain’s annual remembrance weekend events to honor fallen service personnel while she recovers from a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. The wife of King Charles III was due to join the royal family at a “Festival of Remembrance” at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night. The 77-year-old was also scheduled to honor the war dead at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial, a major event for Britain’s royals, the next day. Queen Camilla at Salisbury Cathedral on February 8, 2024. Kirsty Wigglesworth / Getty Images “Following doctors’ guidance to ensure a…
WASHINGTON — Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans, while Florida defeated a similar constitutional amendment, leaving in place a law barring most abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy.Those were perhaps the most impactful results on an election day when abortion amendments were before voters across the U.S. Abortion rights amendments also passed in Colorado and Maryland. Another that bans discrimination on the basis of “pregnancy outcomes” prevailed in New York.The Missouri and Florida results represent firsts in the abortion landscape, which underwent a seismic shift in 2022 when the…
Imagine if the Super Bowl audience dropped by 25%. That’s what happened on Tuesday when Nielsen tallied the viewership for TV networks that provided coverage of former President Trump’s historic electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House.But election night was just the grand finale of a political season that showed how legacy media organizations are struggling to maintain relevance while alternatives in the digital universe chip away at their influence. Young viewers are getting information from TikTok, YouTube and Elon Musk’s X, skipping the evening news broadcasts and cable shows as they go without pay TV…
By Kate Ruder, KFF Health NewsDuring cheerleading practice in April, Jana Duey’s sixth-grade daughter, Karter, sustained a concussion when she fell several feet headfirst onto a gym floor mat. Days after, Karter still had a headache, dizziness, and sensitivity to light and noise.Karter rested for a week and a half at home in Centennial, Colorado, then returned to school when her concussion symptoms were tolerable — initially for just half-days and with accommodations allowing her to do schoolwork on paper instead of a screen and take extra time to get to and from classes. Karter went to the nurse’s office…
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Seoul — North Korea fired a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles early Tuesday, Seoul’s military said. It was Pyongyang’s second launch in days and it came just hours before Americans were set to vote for a new president. The nuclear-armed North last week test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). That was Kim Jong Un’s first weapons test since he was accused by U.S. and Ukrainian officials of sending soldiers to help support Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. North Korea, which has denied the deployment, is under growing international pressure to withdraw its…
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Hitting the road for a matchup at Boston College on a short turnaround, the Louisville football program was able mount an incredibly unlikely comeback, storming back from a 20-point deficit to capture a 31-27 win on Friday night at Alumni Stadium.The Cardinals (5-3, 3-2 ACC) gave up 20 unanswered points to the Eagles (4-4, 1-3 ACC) to start the game, and trailed 27-10 midway through the third quarter. With their backs against the wall, Louisville was able to score three unanswered touchdowns of their own in the final 20 minutes of the game.Tight end Nate Kurisky…
By Kit Maher | CNN(CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges.“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class white parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can…
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