The US Labor Department’s statistical agency emailed a group of analysts about a key factor behind the jump in January’s consumer price index before trying to take it back, raising questions about the validity of the figures. A Tuesday email to data “super users,” seen by Bloomberg, suggested a surge in a measure of rental […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has submitted a discrimination complaint on behalf of Hajur El-Haggan, a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, reported CNN. El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher at Argyle Middle School within the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was placed on administrative leave on November 20 due to […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has submitted a discrimination complaint on behalf of Hajur El-Haggan, a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, reported CNN. El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher at Argyle Middle School within the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was placed on administrative leave on November 20 due to […]
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Nicholas Burns testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Ambassador to China, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 20, 2021. CNN —
A top adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health admitted that he used a personal email account in an apparent effort to evade the strictures of the Freedom of Information Act, according to records obtained by congressional investigators probing the origin of Covid-19. The official also expressed his intention to delete emails […]
By Harm Verhuizen, AP / Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Black and Hispanic voters in Wisconsin’s largest city say a Republican election commissioner publicly applauding GOP strategies he credits with depressing minority turnout are a public admission of a conservative strategy in place for years. “He’s proudly telling Hispanic and Latino voters, ‘I’m […]
MONACO — United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Tuesday that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025, meaning he’ll be ineligible for the Paris Olympics in 2024. […]
A group called Black Reward demanded prisoners of Iran protests be released, threatening to release documents on Tehran’s nuclear programme A group called Black Reward demanded prisoners of Iran protests be released, threatening to release documents on Tehran’s nuclear programme Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said Sunday an email server of its subsidiary was hacked in […]
FDA bans men who have had sex with men in the previous five years from becoming anonymous sperm donors. A gay man was surprised to find this out when he was rejected from donating sperm, per The Washington Post. A 26-year-old gay man was shocked to receive a rejection email from a sperm bank after […]
By Zoe Han Indigenous communities are underserved by broadband internet providers, research shows Sammy Matsaw knows all about isolation in the digital era. Matsaw, 46, was about to graduate with a Ph.D. in water resources when the coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020. A member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Matsaw lives . . .