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March 19, 2024

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  • President Joe Biden signs a set of executive actions during a Women’s History Month reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 18, 2024. President Biden on Monday announced executive actions to expand the federal government’s research into women’s health, including midlife conditions like menopause, arthritis and heart disease, as well as issues specifically affecting women in the military.
    Biden signs executive order to expand research on women’s health
    President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order to expand the federal government’s research into women’s health, including midlife conditions such as menopause, arthritis and heart disease, as well as issues ...
  • What the data says about pandemic school closures, four years later
    Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic.
  • Clark County School Board trustees listen to public comment during a school board meeting at the CCSD Greer Education Center on East Flamingo Road Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
    Teachers’ health insurance trust reports it will pay off $35M debt to CCSD in June
    The health insurance trust for local teachers and their families will have little left in reserves after it repays its $35 million loan from the Clark County School District as planned this summer, but it will be clear of the major debt that has dragged down its recent audits, trust officials say.
  • Girl’s death used to play politics
    Laken Riley’s killing at the hands of an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela is sad.
  • Vegan lifestyle can save money
    Many of us are feeling the sting of high prices at the grocery store, as described in Steve Lopez’s March 13 column “Cereal for dinner? It’s one way to beat inflation.”
  • Jan. 6 could’ve been even worse
    I have a question for the pro-Trumpers who continue to support their leader despite his many character flaws and his long history of bad behavior.
  • Have Democrats finally stopped wimping out?
    For years now, the single most common complaint I’ve heard from Democrats is that their party doesn’t fight as hard, and never dirty, like Republicans do.
  • Through America’s looking glass
    It probably hasn’t dawned on you yet. But it will. Because what happened to Alice is happening to us all.
  • Israeli flags decorate rooms of Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon, in kibbutz Ginosar hotel, northern Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home. Hezbollah began launching rockets towards Israel one day after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7.
    Israelis evacuated from the Lebanese border wonder if they'll ever return
    For four years, Sivan Shoshani Partush recruited families for Kibbutz Malkiya, a community of around 400 that she calls her “little slice of heaven.” It wasn’t a hard sell: spacious homes, beautiful nature, paths winding through manicured lawns, and a slower pace of life than in Israel’s frantic cities.
  • Howard Seth Towns (31) reacts to a foul against Delaware State with less than a minute left in the game. Howard defeated Delaware State 70-67 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in Norfolk, Va., on Saturday, March 16, 2024.
    March Madness kicks off with First Four games and teams looking to do some bracket busting
    A year ago, Fairleigh Dickinson landed in the First Four and by the following weekend became one of the most improbable bracket-busters in NCAA Tournament history. After routing Texas Southern in Dayton, the 16th-seeded Knights — one of the shortest teams in the tournament facing the tallest — upset No. 1 seed Purdue 63-58, only the second time a No. 16 seed had beaten a top-seeded team. “Anybody has a chance. Anything can happen, no matter what’s going on,” said Donald Copeland, the coach of an injury-depleted Wagner team that opens this year's First Four against Howard on Tuesday night. ...
  • The Spotify app is displayed on an iPad in Baltimore, March 20, 2018. Since late last century and the early days of the web, providers of digital media like Netflix and Spotify have had a free pass when it comes to international taxes on films, video games and music that are shipped across borders through the internet. But now, a global consensus on the issue may be starting to crack.
    Spotify paid $9 billion in royalties in 2023. Here's what fueled the growth
    Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report.
  • From left; Emerson Howard and dog Dixie enjoy a walk along with Destiny Porter and her children, 2-year old Merrick Mercer and 4-year old Maxton Mercer at the Kitselman bridge connecting the Cardinal and White River Greenway trails in Muncie, Ind., Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The Cardinal Greenways pathway born from eastern Indiana's abandoned railroad tracks will become a central cog in the Great American Rail Trail — a planned 3,700-mile network of uninterrupted trails spanning from Washington state to Washington, D.C.
    Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails across the US
    When Mike O’Neil opened his bicycle repair shop in Muncie, Indiana, the Cardinal Greenway trail just outside its window stretched only 2 miles south of the shop.
  • Elon Musk addresses the European Jewish Association's conference, in Krakow, Poland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.
    4 things to know from Elon Musk's interview with Don Lemon
    Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon’s new talk show on X, formerly known as Twitter, at least until Musk canceled the show shortly after the interview was recorded.
  • This combination of photos shows, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield appearing at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Miss., Aug. 14, 2023. Two Black men who were tortured for hours by the six Mississippi law enforcement officers in 2023 called Monday, March 18, 2024, for a federal judge to impose the strictest possible penalties at their sentencings this week.
    6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men
    Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.
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