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‘It Is a Battle for Facts.’ What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen
If Maria Ressa long has been known to people who follow the news, she has become absolutely essential to anyone grappling with why the news has gotten harder and harder to follow. Born in Manila and raised in New Jersey, Ressa, who is 58, worked for CNN for years, then...
Assassin’s Creed producer speaks about new game with PlayStation
Jade Raymond, the producer of the beloved action game franchise Assassin’s Creed, spoke about her new studio Haven’s first game since forming a partnership with PlayStation. In an interview with GI.biz, Raymond said that the decision to join hands with PlayStation proved to be the right one as it gives...
9 Pandemic Words That Almost No One Gets Right
One of the best and toughest parts of being a science writer is acting as a kind of jargon liaison. Weird, obscure, aggressively multisyllabic words appear in scientific discourse; I, wielding nothing but a Google Doc, a cellphone, and the Powers of the Internet™, wrest these terms from their academic hidey-holes and try to pin them down with some endearing yet accurate analogy. If I do my job well, sometimes readers never even need to see the original word, because there’s a more approachable way to describe it.
What’s The Next ‘High School Musical’ Series? Four Streaming Shows That Could Produce Music Stars
Since its premiere on Disney+ in November 2019, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series has reinvigorated a new generation of Wildcat mania — and helped establish the music careers of its two young leads. While the original High School Musical trilogy — Disney Channel Original Movies-turned-big screen musical extravaganzas...
TWICE Announces Release Date for Third Album ‘Formula of Love: O+T=
TWICE are gearing up for their next era, fresh off the release of their first English single “The Feels.” The K-pop group announced Friday (Oct. 8) via Twitter that their third full album, Formula of Love: O+T=<3, will arrive on streaming platforms Nov. 12. The girl group shared new imagery...
Adele, The Kid LAROI, Coldplay x BTS, Kacey Musgraves & More of the Week’s Biggest Winners (Oct. 8)
Billboard revealed this year’s 21 Under 21 list on Friday (Oct. 8), which is led by our current cover star The Kid LAROI. And one of the honorees, Billie Eilish, will be making history across the pond next summer when she becomes Glastonbury’s youngest headliner. Speaking of the U.K., one...
Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Mexican President López Obrador
The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador today in Mexico City. Secretary Blinken was joined by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland. President López Obrador was joined by Foreign Secretary Ebrard, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodriguez, Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Secretary of Defense General Luis Crescensio Sandoval. Secretary Blinken and President López Obrador discussed the importance of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship and progress towards advancing our shared security interests through the High-Level Security Dialogue. Secretary Blinken thanked President López Obrador for Mexico’s coordination on a range of security and economic issues, as well as Mexico’s contributions to coordinated migration management in the region.
Employers Are Starting to Adopt ‘Menstrual Leave’ Policies. Could It Backfire?
As a municipal employee of five years in the Catalan city of Girona, Spain Miriam Requena has an array of benefits: sick leave, personal days and paid vacation time. When menstrual leave was added to the list, she was initially surprised. “I had never realized that we needed this kind...
Does College Really Pay off? 16% of High School Grads Earn More Than Many Workers With Bachelor’s Degrees
Workers with lower levels of education occasionally can out-earn those who’ve gone on to get advanced college degrees. That’s the surprising conclusion of a new study released this week. Lifetime earnings do typically rise with each additional level of education. But researchers from the Georgetown University Center on Education and...
Muted stock markets today, but decline evident in October
The FTSE 100 index inched up by a marginal 0.2% in today’s trading. The FTSE 250 index on the other hand, was marginally down by 0.1%. This is a continuation of the trend seen earlier during the week as well, which is, that the FTSE 250 index is weakening more compared to the FTSE 100.
Why Dmitry Muratov’s Nobel Peace Prize Matters for Russia’s Journalists
Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was named alongside Maria Ressa as a Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday in recognition of his efforts to defend freedom of expression. Muratov has less of an international profile than Filipino journalist Ressa, who was one of the “Guardians” of the free press TIME named as Person of the Year in 2018, but journalists and critics of the Russian government have widely welcomed his selection.
The Nobel Committee Sent a Message That Freedom of the Press Is Essential for Peace
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two fighters for a free press: Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited their fight for freedom of expression, stressing that it is vital in promoting peace. “Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves...
5 Workplace Trends Job Hunters Need to Know Right Now, According to Career Experts
It’s a strange time to be applying for jobs. Millions of people lost work in 2020 when COVID-19 hit the U.S. Just a little over a year later — amid an impressive economic recovery — employers are now having trouble getting workers back. Businesses are so desperate that on top of the usual perks like more money and flexibility, they’re offering up free college tuition and child-care benefits, and are even eliminating drug tests.
Life Insurance Costs Could Soon Increase for People Who Have Battled COVID-19
At the moment, having had COVID-19 isn’t a threat to getting life insurance or a reason to be charged more for a policy. But those breaks will end, possibly soon, and lead to denials of coverage or higher rates for some survivors of the virus. So say life insurance experts,...
The Weeknd Named Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations World Food Programme
The Weeknd was appointed the newest Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme at a formal reception on Tuesday (Oct. 7) in Los Angeles. Hosted at West Hollywood’s Ysabel restaurant, the board members of the U.N. World Food Programme were joined by major music executives such as Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Lucian Grange, Universal Music Publishing Group chairman/CEO Jody Gerson, Motown Records chairman/CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam, Columbia Records co-head of urban music Shawn Holliday, and The Weeknd’s manager Wassim “Sal” Slaiby as well as his wife Rima Fakih Slaiby, who was appointed to the WFP’s USA division board of directors in April. Upon arrival, attendees were given a colorful pinwheel brooch that represented the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals established in 2015. The mustard yellow-colored portion, representing goal No. 2, is for “zero hunger.” The U.N. World Food Programme provides life-saving food assistance to more than 100 million people living in more than 80 countries every year.
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