A wayward duckling was rescued from a sewer with the help of firefighters after it fled down a drain. Unlike its siblings, it could not be…
Month: April 2021
Which is better: The same boring ad or an analysis of something you care about? The answer is obvious, and it hints at why thought leadership…
Workers restoring a gothic palace discovered the sarcophagus of a 5-year-old girl who was buried there up to 800 years ago. The archaeologists were restoring unique…
A Brazilian police officer helped an expectant mother give birth at home when there was not enough time to get her to a hospital. The birth…
With 212,339 deaths from COVID-19, Mexico has thousands of families in mourning. “I lost my father almost a month ago,” said Miriam Vallejo Suárez, a 26-year-old…
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020, Oliver Kellman’s heart and kidney failed. He required two transplants to survive. When…
As the world tries to manage and control the growing cases of Covid-19, there is still an illness that continues to be an issue, HIV/AIDS. The AIDS Walk and Music Festival was cancelled in 2020 due to the influx of Covid-19 cases. This year’s comeback festival was sponsored by AHF and Wells Fargo. The event took place on Fort Lauderdale South Beach. The entertainment for this year was handled by Deep Fried Funk Band, Trina, and Hip-Hop Queen Lil Kim was the headliner.
Eight Democratic lawmakers have taken exception to the use of algorithms that automate policing decisions, raising their concerns with the U.S. Department of Justice this week. U.S. Reps. Yvette D. Clarke, D-N.Y., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Edward Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., wrote a letter asking the DOJ to help ensure that any predictive policing algorithms in use are fully documented.
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The entire internet, it seems, is calling for the arrests of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in her Louisville, Kentucky, home. The viral meme goes like this: take any subject and insert a reference to Taylor. For example, on the first day of the delayed baseball season the Tampa Bay Rays tweeted: “Today is Opening Day, which means it’s a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor.” On Friday, Oprah Magazine began erecting some 26 billboards in Louisville making the same plea for arrests.