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
Read More »Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit Extra Asia LIVE studies the paradigm shift brought by cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance and the great virtual migration
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
Read More »Moderna, BioNTech Plunge As EU Studies Possible Side-effects Of mRNA Shots
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
Read More »Google studies Mill Valley fire evacuation routes
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
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