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President Biden’s choice of University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to be U.S. ambassador to Germany is spurring new controversy – and not just over quid pro quo concerns about her decision to pay Biden $911,000 in salary for an ambiguous professorial role at the prestigious college. Gutmann is the second-highest-paid Ivy League president, receiving…
A severely paralyzed man has been able to communicate using a new type of technology that translates signals from his brain to his vocal tract directly into words that appear on a screen. Developed by researchers at UC San Francisco, the technique is a more natural way for people with speech loss to communicate than…
Organizations must answer an important question: How will they restructure their workplaces to truly advance racial equity and inclusion? HR has a pivotal role to play in answering that question. Originally found on SHRM Read More
The State Department defended its head of Cuba policy, saying both the U.S. and Cuba are better for her service despite Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., claiming she was responsible for the Biden administration’s “weak” response to how the Cuban government is treating its people. In a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Rubio called on…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Education is passing along $44 million in federal Unified School Improvement Grant funds to support 149 struggling public schools, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday. The funds will support school improvement initiatives in the lowest-performing 5% of schools in Florida. Twenty of those schools are in Duval County, one…
Will COVID-19 vaccines work if I have a weak immune system? Probably not as well as they do in healthy people, but the shots should offer some protection. It’s why vaccinations are still recommended for people with immune systems weakened by disease or certain medications. It’s also important that your family, friends and caregivers get…
Bird has launched a new in-app safety check feature meant to keep users under the influence from unlocking its scooter rentals at night. The new feature, called Safe Start, will ask riders attempting to unlock a Bird rental scooter between 10PM and 4AM local time to type in a keyword within the app. That will…
LAGOS, Nigeria, July 15, 2021 (Newswire.com) – Paxful, the leading global peer-to-peer fintech platform, announced that it will be donating to the Friends of Nigerian Basketball Foundation (FONB), a non-profit corporation with a mission to amplify and support the global sport of basketball at all levels of engagement and competition. Additionally, Paxful’s Co-Founders Ray Youssef…
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is the senior liberal-leaning member of the court, and at least for now he intends to keep it that way. The 82-years-old jurist has said that he does plan to retire at some point, but in an interview with CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic, Breyer made it clear that…
