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The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funds from Chicago’s publicschools over a program designed to help Black students do better academically, furthering the White House’s assault on liberal policies in education.The investigation, overseen by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, is based on a complaint from Parents Defending Education, a conservative, Virginia-based group that claims that the Chicago program, the Black Student Success Plan, amounted to racial discrimination. According to the complaint, the school district was “failing students of all races and ethnicities, which makes this racially segregated program all the more egregious.”A spokeswoman for the…
[NEW YORK] Chinese solar manufacturers continue to plunge deeper into the red, and the outlook is getting gloomier as sky-high tariffs on exports threaten to compound domestic oversupply.Five of the biggest names in the industry – JA Solar Technology, Jinko Solar, Longi Green Energy Technology, Tongwei and Trina Solar – published first-quarter earnings overnight, racking up over eight billion yuan (S$1.4 billion) in losses between them. Their combined loss last year was less than two billion yuan, when two of the companies were still profitable. “Prices across the main segments of the solar industrial chain were low in the first quarter,”…
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has yet to achieve conformance with key national cyber security standards for its Gov.uk One Login digital identity system, nearly three years since security concerns were first raised. The One Login team is still working to fully meet National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidelines. Computer Weekly has learned that the team only complies with 21 of the 39 outcomes detailed in the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) – an improvement on the five outcomes it successfully followed a year ago. CAF is designed for “making critical national services resilient to [cyber] attack”, according to…
Marie-Antoine Carême, considered by many to be the father of French haute cuisine, is perhaps most famous for his sweets — he perfected the soufflé, invented the croquembouche and may have developed the modern wedding cake.But was Carême as racy as he appears in the Apple TV+ series that drops on Wednesday? On the show, the master chef — who was born in 1784, died in 1833 and was known as Antonin Carême — is seen sharpening knives, seducing multiple women and selling secrets during the turbulence of Napoleonic France.“Carême is, singularly, the most important individual figure in the birth…
The pelvic floor muscles and tissues are found to be attached to the bones at the bottom of the pelvis. the pelvic organs include the urethra, bladder, intestines, and rectum, and in cases of females, the pelvic floor also includes the uterus, cervix, and vagina. Why do you Need Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Exercises? Any damage or weakening of pelvic floor muscles or tissues directly impacts a person in multiple ways and creates the following issues: Urinary Leakage or Urinary Incontinence, Improper Pelvic Pressure, Lower Back Pain, Pelvic Pressure or Fullness, The Frequent Urge to Urinate, Painful Urination, Constipation, Difficulties…
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SEOUL: Samsung Electronics reported on Wednesday (Apr 30) a small rise in first-quarter operating profit as customers concerned about US tariffs rushed to purchase smartphones and commodity chips, mitigating the impact of its underperforming artificial intelligence chip business. Samsung did not give its earnings outlook for the current quarter, saying “growing macroeconomic uncertainties due to recent global trade tensions and slowing global economic growth” made it “difficult to predict future performance.” The world’s largest memory chip maker reported 6.7 trillion won (US$4.68 billion) in operating profit for the quarter ended in March, up 1.2 per cent from a year earlier…
Published Wed, Apr 30, 2025 · 10:20 AM[BENGALURU] Tesla is hiring more than a thousand new workers in Nevada as the electric vehicle maker looks to ramp up mass production of its much-delayed Semi trucks, Business Insider reported on Tuesday (Apr 29), citing sources familiar with the matter.On Monday, Tesla released a video on YouTube announcing that the first units of its electric trucks will begin production at the Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada, by the end of 2025. The factory will have an annual production capacity of 50,000 units. Tesla has been ramping up operations at its Nevada facility, onboarding new…
A judge has ruled that Pierre Ny St-Amand, 53, was not criminally responsible for the 2023 bus attack on a Laval, Que., daycare that killed two small children and injured six others. Superior Court Justice Éric Downs concluded Ny St-Amand was experiencing psychosis and could not discern right from wrong. He has been ordered detained in a psychiatric hospital. Here’s a look at some other high-profile Canadian cases in which there was a not criminally responsible finding: Blair Donnelly stabbed his 16-year-old daughter to death in Kitimat, B.C., in 2006 and was found not criminally responsible on account of a…
The Reno, Nevada-based company, which manages online gambling segments, has experienced a surge in its digital segment due to growth in retail sports betting. Revenue from its digital unit was at $335 million, up from $282 million a year earlier. Caesars posted a quarterly net loss of $115 million, or 54 cents per share, compared to a loss of $158 million, or 73 cents per share, a year ago.