Politics Mohammad Murtaza Zaidi, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Adam Andrzejewski for RealClearInvestigations Topline: The United States Agency for International Development plans to give up to $1.5 million in grants to U.S. universities to study the relationship between “gender and climate change” in Pakistan. Key facts: USAID is asking universities to submit three-page research proposals that will set guidelines for a new Water, Climate and Gender Activity fund for Pakistan. The fund will potentially be used to make climate and water management policies more “gender-sensitive” and to address the “gendered impacts of natural disasters,” among other objectives. The project…
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Posted: 2/19/24 | February 19th, 2024 Famous for its chaotic streets, friendly people, cheap and delicious street food, and wild nightlife, Bangkok is one of my favorite cities in the world (I even spent two years living here). It just has a contagious energy that can’t be beat. I never ever ever get tired of coming here. A city of eight million people, Thailand’s capital is huge. Choosing where to stay in Bangkok can be overwhelming, especially for first-time visitors, as there is a ton to see and do here and the city is very spread out (luckily with a…
TL;DR: As of February 25, get this Apple Watch charger keychain for just $18.99, or get two for $38.99 and four for $76.99 — a savings of 60%. It’s so convenient that electronic devices allow us to remain in contact anytime we want. On top of that, smartwatches like the Apple Watch have changed the way we live, giving us access to messages, calls, and notifications, as well as all sorts of personalized health info. But keeping all of these handy devices charged can be a lot. Charging woes are the very reason we see charging solutions popping up all…
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Wide receiver Mecole Hardman has won three Super Bowls with the Kansas City Chiefs. He was the hero of Super Bowl LVIII, hauling in the game-winning TD in overtime. Andy Reid should’ve won Super Bowl MVP for his overtime management Now Hardman, 25, is set to hit the open market, and there is already one team he has crossed off his list — the one he originally started the 2023 season with. “No,” Hardman told NFL Total Access when asked about a Gang Green reunion. “I won’t go back to the Jets.” Hardman signed a one-year, $4 million contract…
De-risking is in vogue. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, both European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke of the dangers of “overdependence” on global supply chains. Policymakers may now speak of de-risking rather than de-linkage, but the goal is unchanged—self-reliance within the global value chain (GVC). A goal that may come at a price. The pursuit of security within the supply chain is understandable, especially with geopolitical tensions, particularly the rivalry with China, and international supply chain disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The key is…
Mahmoud Fattouh dies from starvation as UN warns of an ‘explosion’ in child deaths due to a lack of food and water. A two-month-old Palestinian boy has died from starvation in northern Gaza, according to media reports, days after the United Nations warned of an “explosion” in child deaths due to Israel’s war on the besieged enclave. The Shehab news agency said Mahmoud Fattouh died at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Friday. Footage, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the emaciated infant gasping for breath in a hospital bed. One of the paramedics who rushed the boy to the…
Opinion By Casey Harper (The Center Square) One Wisconsin mother is blasting a school policy allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their chosen gender identity without public discussion from parents. Parents have filed a legal challenge to that policy in Doe v. Bethel Local School District Board of Education, which is now being considered by a federal appellate court. The controversial case could make its way to the Supreme Court given the growing national attention on this topic and the flurry of similar policies, and the challenges to them, at schools nationwide. Alliance Defending Freedom,…
The NFL officially set its salary cap at a record high of $255.4 million for the 2024 season. With that number comes the difficult task of cap clearing. Creating cap space is the top priority for teams until the new league year starts in a few weeks, and with it comes the loss of jobs. Here are the most likely cap casualties from some of the biggest names in the NFL. All cap and contract info comes courtesy of OverTheCap.
Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting face recognition data without their consent. The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, “Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,” displayed after the machine failed to launch a face recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine. “Hey, so why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?” SquidKid47 pondered. The Reddit post sparked an investigation from a fourth-year student…