after-the-department-of-education’s-attack-on-civil-rights,-observers-ask:-‘where-does-it-end?’

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When the Delaware Valley School District board voted unanimously last month to reverse policies protecting transgender students that it had adopted a decade ago, some in the audience cried, “Shame!” Others said the board didn’t go farContinue Reading

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As soon as the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran ended without an agreement, President Traitor 47 fired a volley of angry social media posts venting his frustration. As a concrete step to force Iranian concessions, he announced a blockade of Iranian ports along the Persian Gulf. Cut off Tehran’s oil exports, the logic goes, and theContinue Reading

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What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work? Getty Images The Covid inquiry will publish its fourth report on Thursday, on the development and roll-out of the Covid vaccine. The inquiry’s first three reports were extremely critical of the government’s preparations and decision-making across the UK. ItContinue Reading

Talk about long distance! Watch the farthest-ever crew call in space between Artemis 2 and the ISS

What do astronauts near the moon do when it’s time to talk to their colleagues orbiting the Earth on a livestream? ISS crew (top): Christopher Williams, Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot. Artemis 2 crew (bottom): Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman. (Image credit: NASA) It’s hard to translate into metaphors just howContinue Reading

NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday, April 20. What’s called the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage – the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquidContinue Reading

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The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the United States arrived for their countries’ first direct talks in decades., Lebanese, Israeli ambassadors begin direct talks in US NewsFeed The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the United States arrived at the State Department in Washington for their countries’ first direct talks inContinue Reading