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WASHINGTON — Florida’s ban on teaching an advanced placement course on African American history is “incomprehensible,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday, in the latest dispute between the Biden administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely presidential nominee who has energized conservatives with his eagerness to engage in the culture wars. Jean-Pierre’s statement comes a day after the public release of a letter Florida’s education department… Source link

Pioneers, creators, and industry forerunners unveil Five trends to Watch amidst the Paradigm Shift towards a Virtual Economy HONG KONG, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit Extra Asia returns to Hong Kong! Since its event last year, the global economy has been on a rollercoaster ride as new technologies have shifted the way we interact, transact, and live in both real and virtual worlds. Keynote speaker_John Tsang, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR and… Source link

By Dhirendra Tripathi Investing.com – Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and BioNTech stocks (NASDAQ:BNTX) slumped by 15% each Wednesday on a report that Europe’s drug regulator is studying three new conditions reported by a small number of people after vaccination with Covid-19 shots to assess if they may be possible side-effects. The conditions were reported in patients who took the mRNA vaccines made by either Moderna or BioNTech-Pfizer. Pfizer stock fell 3%. Expenses and profit from the Covid… Source link

A Google computer program that simulated a wildfire evacuation in Mill Valley is offering solutions to ease traffic congestion in an emergency. Researchers Yu Chen, Yusef Shafi and Yi-Fan Chen compared Mill Valley’s infrastructure issues to the town of Paradise, which was nearly leveled by the Camp wildfire in 2018. In their report, researchers built a traffic simulation to explore how to avoid the bottlenecks that happened in Paradise, where at least 85 people were killed. “We apply the… Source link