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"Like, when you wear pink and wear smiley faces," one student answered.

FDA regrets that it was unable to publish this notice 15 days prior to the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting due to technical issues

During a Wednesday press conference in Jamaica, Rubio called it forced labor, saying the Cuban “regime does not pay these doctors, takes away their passports.”

(e.g., removing current Register of Copyrights)

State law currently allows teachers to have a moment of silence in the classroom, so this bill would change one word in the law — from may to shall, creating a new mandate. The bill leaves the implementation up to the teacher. 

Coming from the Metaverse idea, are NFTs close?

You’re hearing “catchphrases” that raise cautionary flags. For example, you find yourself refocusing the discussion when someone says, “The problem is we need more (sales staff, revenue).”

unlike public universities

This move from Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty council comes after FBI and Department of Homeland Security agents raided the homes of Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese national and cybersecurity professor who taught at the university for 20 years.

Columbia has largely accepted the administration’s requirements to restore funding, including placing an academic department under outside oversight.

 The accreditors’ job is to determine which institutions provide a quality education — and therefore merit accreditation.  Unfortunately, accreditors have not only failed in this responsibility to students, families, and American taxpayers, but they have also abused their enormous authority.

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, and has become a major global media broadcaster.

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, and has become a major global media broadcaster.

Samuel Alito,

The other six justices all graduated from private Catholic schools.

While she has left her job as an oral surgeon to home-school her daughter, she notes that many parents can’t do that and can’t afford private school

“These are topics that I’m just not ready to start on down the road with her.”

On the other side is the notion that public schools should accommodate religious objections to some materials by allowing parents to opt their kids out of some classes.

ata from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), for instance, show racial disparity in infant deaths even when the socioeconomic factor of level of education is controlled for

Trump’s minions presented his 180-degree pivot as proof of his preternatural sophistication, cunning and farsightedness. People who are not his employees cited First Corinthians: “For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?”

In it, he said Japan and other nations had been taking advantage of the US for decades. He claimed "the Japanese, unimpeded by the huge costs of defending themselves (as long as the United States will do it for free), have built a strong and vibrant economy with unprecedented surpluses".

The rule applies to students who choose an alternative name because of a change in gender identity, as well as those who might want to use a nickname.

Chris Krebs,

At around the time of the expo, the US supreme court ruled that the Trump administration may continue using the law to deport alleged gang members.

ppomattox Day timeline

1985,

In an unsigned order, the court's conservatives threw out a lower court order that prevented the administration from continuing its deportations under the controversial Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Publications in high-impact journals

Rosenbaum also noted that Williams does not have a serious medical condition.

. I personally believe age is irrelevant

Rosenbaum sentenced Williams to 55 years in prison, with three years of credit for time already served in custody. Williams will be required to serve 100% of his remaining sentence.

It would be difficult to say with a straight face that the international standards system is truly anti-capitalist

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., crafted a resolution calling for the extension of presidential term limits, which would allow Trump to seek another term in office.

saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

"To our LGBTQ community, I know that recent legislation has been difficult," Cox said. "Politics can be a bit of a blood sport at times, and I know we've had our disagreements. I want you to know that I love and appreciate you and I am grateful that you are part of our state. I know these words may ring hollow to many of you, but please know that I mean them sincerely."

after its Republican governor said he was allowing a ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature

It goes on to say: "Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."

Driving the news: The federal government must stop issuing paper checks by Sept. 30 in favor of direct deposit, prepaid cards, or "other digital payment options," per an order Trump signed yesterday.

but the governor and the legislature haven't shown much interest in making that happen on the state's dime.

The database served as the backbone for Sen. Cruz’s October 2024 investigative report, which revealed how the Biden administration politicized scientific research. The report discovered multiple extreme research projects that were spearheaded by professors who were also promoting antisemitic protests on college campuses.

"It remains unclear whether funding for existing grantees will continue, and whether new grants will be available in the future."

resident Trump has appointed Keith E. Sonderling as the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

who gave birth to her second child

Those discussions ended last Friday, when Jackson and DOGE agents Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh showed up at the USIP door with two others who said they were FBI agents but did not further identify themselves

along with the smaller Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation, which provide small business and farming grants and loans. They were both taken over by DOGE this month.

USDA’s subscription cancellations, which an internal email says were carried out under the supervision of the Elon Musk–led Department of Government Efficiency, eliminated all journals produced by any of 17 publishers, according to a list circulated internally at USDA on Friday and obtained by Science

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While I may no longer be able to hang a “rectangular piece of fabric” in my office

however, said he's asked supporters of Pride flags in schools how they would feel about MAGA flags there--and said they told him they're against that.

“Dismantling the Department of Education may sound bold,” Cox concluded in his piece. “But it’s also common sense. Washington doesn’t have all the answers. It’s time to trust states and local communities to do what they do best.”

This bill simply ensures that all employees — not just union representatives — have a direct voice in workplace discussions, creating more opportunities for concerns to be heard and addressed.”

I’m disappointed that in this case, the process did not ultimately deliver the compromise that at one point was on the table and that some stakeholders had accepted,” Cox said in a statement after signing the legislation.

t aligns with the America First agenda

"America loses, as does the success of democratic AI.

as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market

“experts”

which must remain free from political bias.

an objective measure

This decision will have no negative effect on veteran health care, benefits or other services and will allow VA to focus more effectively on its core mission of serving veterans, families, caregivers and survivors. We cannot discuss specific personnel matters due to privacy concerns.”

Fewer than 300 people live there, but it has a place in the dataset—because no city is too small for data

U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move

Earlier, he said this digitizing arm of the company aligns with the “drive to be more efficient” within the federal government

“There’s a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork...This mine looks like something out of the ’50s, because it was started in 1955, so it looks like it’s, like, a time warp,” said Musk, who went on to explain that the mine’s elevator speed determines the pace at which the government can process the retirements of federal employees.

The United States spends almost twice per capita what other wealthy countries spend on healthcare

Prior to COVID

Within 180 days, the Commission will produce a strategy, based on the findings of the assessment, to improve the health of America’s children.

"We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," Trump said as Netanyahu looked on. "Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out, create an economic development."

a one-time non-cash tax benefit of $5.9 billion.)

they would be exempted from return-to-office requirements instituted under President Donald Trump’s new administration.

a concept that racial bias is baked into U.S. institutions

federal aid to public schools that teach critical race theory

Secret Service said they were investigating a threat, and responded to a house. They said they were then told the person they wanted to talk to was at Hamline Elementary School, but they did not enter the school, the Secret Service told the I-Team.

arguing a child born in the United States to an undocumented mother cannot receive citizenship unless his or her father is a citizen or green card holder.

King found the phrase attractive and included it in several of his speeches.

exposed a deep, ugly resentment against private health care companies as social media feeds were flooded with posts celebrating — or at least justifying — Thompson's slaying.

identity politics

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies—both with upper-division significations

They seek to disqualify general education courses based on identity politics

Sometime later, however, some of these patients are likely to have had a code included in their healthcare record that was associated with unintended weight loss and cancer

“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”

arguing that the effort doesn’t specify what a professor should be teaching in class.

Instead, to find Green copy, the reader will need to rely on other citation information and conduct a search via one or more search engines,

the Green open access approach not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers, prolonging the inequities that open access aims to address.

The commissioners also created another committee to review and revise library policy, including the rules around the citizens reconsideration group

catholic view and include such services as Project Muse and HighWire Press in their review.

This data thus reflects the FDA’s removal of a requirement for three in-person doctor visits.

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Previously, there was an advisory committee comprised of five librarians and five community members. As a result of the change, the librarians were removed from the Committee, and the determinations of the new Committee, which consisted of five non-librarians, became binding

The decision was made after the government of Montgomery County, under pressure from right-wing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing children's books and replaced them with a "Citizens Review Committee."

New World Encyclopedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications

Indiana University has School of Medicine located in Purdue University West Lafayette campus.

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held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of the agency must "deviate from government rules" to achieve those results.

suggests there is bipartisan support for preventing agencies from limiting authors’ control over their work.

Opponents of the proposal, including some major academic publishers, say it would infringe on authors’ rights to choose how their work is published and what others may do with it.

Promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity throughout the University.

Service credit toward length of Notice of Nonreappointment is to be given to an academic professional staff member for previous employment in which several concurrent part-time, non-visiting, related academic appointments add up to full-time academic employment.

Another contract stipulation: Artists can no longer sign their work

The contract stipulated they could not contact Chewy employees. It's unclear whether this stipulation also meant that those artists were not allowed to contact each other, but many of the artists who responded to the email or spoke with Insider said they believed this was the case.

After the Carlyle group bought the Manor Care chain, leaving the nursing homes — not Carlyle — responsible for $5 billion in new debt, it extracted $6.1 billion for investors by selling off the nursing homes’ land and buildings.

Private equity firms

some top journals, including The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal

So-called open-access journals, which publish online and don’t charge for subscriptions, are proliferating, as are websites that allow researchers to post their results before they have been externally vetted.

even a few years ago.

This is a very rare condition that is an aberration, but not a separate sex or gender itself,” wrote Bedrick

especially with former President Obama encouraging an open nomination process

10-day supply of antiviral prescription medication.

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traditional standards of data sharing

The company’s unusual decision to publish its sole peer-reviewed article in a journal unrelated to neural engineering — and list the authors as Elon Musk and Neuralink — deviates from the norms of scientific publishing

I’m also tired of trying to defend a woman that some people may not like because of racism, sexism and others simply because there is just something about her.

but women like me are not the majority and Hillary Clinton didn’t win the presidency

by an estimated 34,000 women.

it routinely awards very high rankings to publications with no international relevance whatsoever.

In one committee, a lawmaker suggested that a subcommittee be formed “to study whether a faculty member should be a human?”

Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?

Also, someone just reminded me of how Voltage did their entire Lovestruck team dirty by ending the app, right when the writers were trying to unionize. That was dirty AF.

After the success of their Japanese otome game ports in the West, publisher Voltage Inc launched a US based division that specialized in original English language otome titles. The new brand, Lovestruck, put out a number of otome titles until 2021 when Voltage Inc announced they were terminating the service.

he complaint notes that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist”.

he defendants are also accused of obtaining and using credentials of a member library to access WorldCat Discovery Services.

. Having a copy of the data publicly available through Anna’s Archive is a direct threat to its business

all previously scraped data should no longer be distributed. Instead, it should be destroyed in full, including all the torrents that are currently being offered.

In addition to monetary damages, the non-profit also seeks injunctive relief

Adding up all the extra charges brings total damages to over $5 million; OCLC says the harm is ongoing, so that number continues to rise.

an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract that helps to protect the service against malicious outside attacks.

This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. However, OCLC wasn’t pleased and responded with a lawsuit at an Ohio federal court, accusing the site and its operators of hacking and demanding damages.

Since Vampire Diaries was one of these series that provided a license to Amazon, the original creator was then able to start writing and publishing fan fiction about her very own series. S

“When he wants something, he gets it. He is the big man on campus. He might as well be the king of the University of Illinois.”

Shannon’s attorney performed cross examination of the witness, attacking the credibility of her statements on the basis that she had altered her story multiple times since the alleged incident occurred, including in statements to the police and at the May 10 preliminary hearing.

may now be a core constitutional right.

Van Der Mark suggested setting up a homeschooling section in the library and noted that the proposals helped her come up with new ideas for programs.

proscribe all eligible references to be made by libraries and municipalities in California. When we asked, the City declined to modify that geographic limitation.”

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However, the reasons why Patient 4, who is mentioned in several places in the article, was excluded are not made clear and the context in which complications arose is not knowable either…

more than half of the patients studied were women. Only men have prostate glands.

Congress could not use federal funding provided to a private hospital to neutralize a state ban on abortion because the state of Idaho must also consent to having its law altered in this way.

which would permit states to ban abortions even when a patient will die if they do not receive one

But according to Parker and other abortion foes, that’s because black women are being “preyed upon” to believe that abortion is a good solution to the tough problem of unintended pregnancy. “It’s a very vulnerable community,” she said.

Sonmez was briefly placed on administrative leave in January 2020 after tweeting in the hours after NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death about the criminal charges of rape, later dropped, he had faced years earlier.

“The federal government has abdicated its responsibilities and states can and must act,” Republican Iowa state Rep. Steven Holt said.

(The same-sex-wedding website request she claimed to have received, as The New Republic reported last June, came from a same-sex couple who do not exist.)

According to Bannon, what’s coming up next for the airport is a major plan to expand its TSA checkpoint from one lane to two.

The introduction of this new route has been delayed due to obstacles such as the nationwide shortage of pilots and difficulty finding a slot but is hoped to be added next.

substitutes for standardized tests are relatively easy to find: Transcripts brim with advanced courses, teachers are accustomed to praising students’ unique classroom contributions, and activities lists are full of enrichment opportunities,” he said in the statement. “Increased emphasis on these elements, we found, has the effect of advantaging the advantaged.”

ironically, the freedoms that we enjoy.

Skop assured Zurawski that her doctor could and should have provided her a legal abortion, given the condition to which she had degenerated, and that her physician simply misunderstood the relevant Texas law. Then, Skop filed a declaration in Cox’s case attesting that her doctor could not provide a legal abortion under Texas law.

High capital costs, clunky design and maintenance challenges were obstacles for widespread adoption, experts say.

Paxton’s office also said none of the physicians who have treated Cox in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have recommended an abortion.

The high court also released an opinion, saying Cox’s doctor did not establish or attest that Cox’s symptoms were life-threatening and noting it should be up to doctors – not judges – to decide whether to provide an abortion.

DogsBite.org is a public education website about dangerous dog breeds, chiefly pit bulls

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16% (68) of all dog bite fatalities involved a babysitter, grandparent or relative watching a child, or the dog being "watched" by a person other than its owner when the canine inflicted a deadly attack.

5% (6) included both statuses

Whatever the reason, the numbers don’t lie – Rottweilers are still one of the most dangerous dog breeds.

For example: the city of Los Angeles has more criminal cases than the suburb of Pasadena, CA. Well, of course. If you’re comparing a city of 4 million people to a suburb of 150,000 people, the larger city is bound to have a lot more cases despite being considered “safer.”

ighlights: Courageous, Proud, Loyal

The story is in the data.

Along with the daily active user metrics, Yaccarino also shared that X now has a record 550 million monthly active users. This would be up from the 541 million "monthly users" metric that Musk shared in a post in July.

ow to protect ourselves, and how to protect our students.

“The ALA has allowed this political point of view to infiltrate every aspect of their training,” Bear said in an interview

Tom Burnett said that their oath of office forbade them from being associated with a group led by a Marxist

that the government investigate the organization for allegedly advising librarians to discriminate against a Christian book publisher

Right-wing activists have asserted that librarians following the ALA’s lead have been captured by a “woke” ideology, have labeled the organization “radical” and accused it of pushing a sexual agenda on children

First, the number of U.S. citizens moving from Puerto Rico to Florida has been huge. "The migration of hundreds of thousands of Latinos from Puerto Rico to Central Florida is reshaping the contours of Latino life in the state," reports the Hispanic Federation, "creating the most important demographic development since the arrival of Cubans in the 1960s."

as concerns participant recall

Following a takeover of underperforming Houston schools by the state of Texas, Superintendent Mike Miles described the repurposing of the libraries as part of a “new education system” that will improve reading levels and test scores.