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School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution

In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better. Now the board, led by new conservative board members elected since last year, has revoked that anti-racism resolution and copies of it will be removed from school buildings. The Francis Howell district is among Missouri’s largest, with 17,000 students, about 87% of whom are white. In 2021, the PAC described the anti-racism resolution as “woke activism” and drafted an alternative resolution to oppose “all acts of racial discrimination, including the act of promoting tenets of the racially-divisive Critical Race Theory, labels of white privilege, enforced equity of outcomes, identity politics, intersectionalism, and Marxism.”

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Alabama executes man for the 2001 beating death of a woman, resuming lethal injections after review

Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after two failed executions prompted the state to conduct an internal review. Before he was put to death, Barber told his family he loved them and apologized to Epps' family. The Supreme Court denied Barber’s request for a stay without comment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent from the decision that was joined by Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to execute an inmate Friday morning for the 2001 beating death of a woman, in what would be the first lethal injection since the state paused executions following a string of problems with inserting the IVs. Barber’s scheduled execution comes hours after Oklahoma executed Jemaine Cannon for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center.

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Actors and writers on strike rally in Philadelphia and Chicago as union action spreads

By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) Striking screenwriters and actors held rallies in Philadelphia and Chicago on Thursday as the labor dispute that has halted Hollywood spreads to more cities. “We have the same issues,” said Nikki Izanec, president of the Philadelphia SAG-AFTRA local, on her way to Thursday’s rally. “ And we all have a common goal, and that’s to make living wages in an industry that takes advantage of us,” said Izanec. In Los Angeles, strikers outside Netflix studios included Sarah Silverman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Witaske and Kendrick Sampson.

Actors and writers on strike rally in Philadelphia and Chicago as union action spreadshttps://www.dailyfreeman.com/2023/07/20/actors-and-writers-on-strike-rally-in-philadelphia-and-chicago-as-union-action-spreads/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Children’s cups sold on Amazon recalled for unsafe lead levels. What you should know

The 8 ounce and 12 ounce children’s Cupkin double-walled stainless steel cups were the subject of a July 20 recall, the company said. “After recently receiving feedback from consumer advocates and additional follow-up testing, we discovered that the double walled vacuum 8oz and 12oz cups may pose an unacceptable exposure to lead if the cup bottoms are mistreated,” the company said in the release. The cups, which are primarily sold on Amazon, have since been removed from the site. “We are going to be as transparent and proactive as possible to resolve this ASAP,” the company said in the release. “ Cups may have been purchased in 12 different color combinations, including blue and green, pink and purple, blue and gray, peach and teal, black and white, coral and yellow, green and pink, polignac and potpourri, brown and peach, rust and salmon, aqua and periwinkle and cobalt and mint, according to the CPSC. Lead poisoning and long-term exposure can cause damage to a child’s brain and nervous system leading to learning, behavioral and speech problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Greenland melted recently, says study that raises future sea level threat

Washington (AFP) – A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday. In a dark room, scientists took interior strips of the ice core and exposed them to blue-green or infrared light, releasing trapped electrons that form a kind of ancient clock that shows the last time they were exposed to sunlight, which erases the luminescence signal. “And the only way to do that at Camp Century is to remove a mile of ice,” said Tammy Rittenour, a co-author of the study at Utah State University. " Plus, to have plants, you have to have light." Coastal cities imperiled The Camp Century core was taken only 800 miles from the North Pole, with the study showing the entire region would have been covered in vegetation.

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Greenland melted recently, says study that raises future sea level threat

Washington (AFP) – A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday. In a dark room, scientists took interior strips of the ice core and exposed them to blue-green or infrared light, releasing trapped electrons that form a kind of ancient clock that shows the last time they were exposed to sunlight, which erases the luminescence signal. "And the only way to do that at Camp Century is to remove a mile of ice," said Tammy Rittenour, a co-author of the study at Utah State University. " Plus, to have plants, you have to have light." Coastal cities imperiled The Camp Century core was taken only 800 miles from the North Pole, with the study showing the entire region would have been covered in vegetation.

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Gov. Whitmer signs $24.3 billion state education budget including free school meals, expanded free pre-k

LANSING, Mich. (WLUC) - Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-Michigan) announces large investments for tutoring, free school meals, and support for safety and mental health programs. The budget includes $611 million to increase per-pupil funding by 5%, which is an additional $458 per student. We have increased per-pupil funding by 22% since I took office.” Whitmer also said that the budget now allows every 4th-grade student to take a free field trip to one of Michigan’s state parks. $25.5 million to help students reach their full academic potential, including expansion of existing payments for literacy grants and literacy coaches. $10 million to community colleges and public universities for critical incident mapping to help with campus safety.

Gov. Whitmer signs $24.3 billion state education budget including free school meals, expanded free pre-khttps://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/07/20/gov-whitmer-signs-243-billion-state-education-budget-including-free-school-meals-expanded-free-pre-k/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Grassley releases full FBI memo with unverified claims about Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine

Lisa Mascaro Associated Press Washington — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified document Thursday that Republicans claim is significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden as they probe the financial affairs of the president's son and revive previously debunked claims of wrongdoing. “The American people can now read this document for themselves," Grassley said. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said after lawmakers reviewed a redacted document in June, “Congress thoroughly reviewed and debunked" similar allegations that Giuliani had made. They said they were unaware of the document. Republicans have denounced the agreement with federal prosecutors as a "sweetheart deal."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/20/grassley-releases-full-fbi-memo-with-unverified-claims-about-hunter-bidens-work-in-ukraine/70441483007/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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