Inside the Elementary School Where Drug Addiction Sets the Curriculum
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
By CCN Markets: Tron CEO Justin Sun has set July 25 as the date for his $4.6 million lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett. And it’s going to take place in Silicon Valley instead of Manhattan, as originally scheduled. Justin Sun’s Bid Was Record-Setting Sun made the announcement on Twitter, where he revealed that he chose San Francisco to shine a spotlight on the city’s homelessness crisis. The $4.6 million that Sun shelled out was the highest ever paid for the annual charity lunch. “The... Читать дальше...
“Thx for exploiting us for ‘art.’ ”
Volunteers helping to sustain sailing and boating clubs across Northern Ireland Royal Yachting Association More than 960 volunteers are helping to sustain sailing and boating across Northern Ireland
The eldest child of Robin Williams has welcomed his first child - a son called McLaurin Clement Williams
Although he has repeatedly denied allegations of ties between Russia and his campaign in 2016, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he were offered damaging information on an opponent by a foreign government in the 2020 race, he’d probably accept it.
Fond du Lac, Wis. - Looking to open the season series with the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders (8-8). The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters' (8-8) game was rained out... - Northwoods Wisconsin Rapids Rafters
A military lawyer charged with leaking defence documents at the centre of AFP raids on the ABC will appear in court on Thursday. David McBride, 55, is accused of leaking documents that outlined incidents of Australian special forces shooting unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, leading to the 2017 ABC story ‘The Afghan Files’. Mr McBride is charged with theft and three counts of breaching the Defence Act, and, if found guilty, faces an unlimited fine, or unlimited jail time. He has previously admitted... Читать дальше...
Palestinians urged Egypt and Jordan Wednesday to reconsider their attendance at a U.S.-led conference on June 25-26 in Bahrain, voicing concern it would weaken any Arab opposition to Washington’s coming peace plan.
When Palestinian preschooler Aisha al-Lulu came out of brain surgery in a strange occupied Jerusalem hospital room, she called out for her mother and father.
Her desserts are often not at all sweet and she couldn’t give a fig if people complain that they don’t look great on Instagram. But that did not stop Jessica Prealpato being named the best pastry chef on the planet Tuesday by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants ranking - the first woman ever to receive the honor.
It’s a musician’s dream - rehearse alongside a full orchestra, but in your own living room. And the immersive experience is possible because, yes, there’s an app for that, courtesy of a French startup, Digital Music Solutions.
The good news is Dark Phoenix is neither an apocalypse nor is it X-Men: Apocalypse.
For his Beirut solo, Sand Comes Through the Window, Taysir Batniji had to redo pieces from one of his major series from scratch.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census (all times local):
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The Tory wannabes are trotting out their tax plans, and a couple have mentioned looking at VAT (Michael Gove, article by Sam Dumitriu, and Rory Stewart, via @Sam_Dumitriu).
(Wow, Rory Stewart has "land value tax, at least for business and agricultural land" in his 'good' column and "business rates and no land value tax" in his 'current taxes' column. That's his leadership chances flushed down the toilet).
Gove and Stewart are politicians and don't know or care about economics. Читать дальше...
Republican dissident group says it planted device found under police officers car The New IRA has claimed responsibility for an attempt to murder a police officer with a car bomb in Northern Ireland l
Other things to do include movie screenings, a Firestone Walker beer tasting and Market in the Alley.
Hong Kong braced for another day of anti-government protests on Thursday after scenes of violence and chaos shook the normally peaceful global trade and finance center a day earlier.
To live in a small island state today is to reckon regularly with the cruelest irony of climate change. Islands contribute little to global warming, but they are the first to suffer from its devastating effects and the least equipped to manage them.
Demonstrators around the world are demanding that carbon-based energy supplies be curtailed for the sake of the environment. Yet, in Germany, the Energiewende (energy transformation) policy that was supposed to meet those demands is failing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. A big part of the problem is that, in response to long-standing anti-nuclear sentiment, policymakers aim to phase out nuclear energy, while investing in renewables like wind and solar.
In 1859, a Swiss citizen, Henri Dunant, arrived in Solferino following a crucial battle in the Second Italian War of Independence. Dunant was so appalled by the carnage - tens of thousands of dead and wounded soldiers - that he organized a civilian initiative to help the sick and injured on both sides. Today, 160 years later, that example - and the rules, norms and institutions that it advanced - must be reaffirmed.Dunant’s initiative - bearing the motto Siamo tutti fratelli (we are all brothers)... Читать дальше...
President Donald Trump’s aggressive and wildly unpredictable use of tariffs is spooking American business groups, which have long formed a potent force in his Republican Party.
President Donald Trump’s net worth rose to $3 billion, a 5 percent gain over the past year, thanks to a jump in the value of an office-building deal he once sued to prevent.