Those lawsuits are now the forums for a last-minute blitz by the select committee to obtain new tranches of sensitive documents ahead of their public hearings in June. And each of those court challenges are reaching key inflection points this week. “Further delay in obtaining… Read More »Behind the Jan. 6 panel’s last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits
More than 200 women were harmed when a rogue surgeon carried out operations on them unnecessarily, an NHS inquiry has found. Some of the women were left with life-changing physical problems or unable to work, while many also suffered trauma and serious psychological harm as… Read More »Bristol surgeon ‘harmed’ 203 women with unnecessary operations | NHS
This week’s mass shooting of elementary schoolers in Texas (just 10 days after a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store) has reignited the gun debate in Washington, DC, and around the country. But the political disagreements over guns and their… Read More »KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A (nother) very sad week
The US Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at a landmark South Carolina law that was touted as a way to protect rivers, but in reality has allowed massive water withdrawals from rivers by industrial-scale “mega-farms. ” In a May 20 letter and report to… Read More »Water law that goes easy on mega-farms not scientifically sound, EPA says
Photos courtesy of University of Hawaiʻi. Two financial organizations are focused on the future of agriculture in Hawaiʻi and investing in those who will steward it – the next generation of farmers. American AgCredit and CoBank, in support of beginning and small farmers, are providing… Read More »$ 1M Matching Grant Program Helps Kickstart Hawaiʻi’s Next Generation of Farmers: Kauai Now: Kauai News & Information
A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantum to classical transition. “By applying balanced energy gain and loss to an open quantum system, we found a way… Read More »Finding coherence in quantum chaos – ScienceDaily
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shopliftersthe Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is back on the Croisette with his latest film, the South Korea-set Brokerwhich, very much like Shopliftersconcerns foundling children and cobbled together families living on the outskirts of the law. Broker premiered… Read More »Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker Enters the Gray World of the Black Market
WEST WARWICK – When Giselle Rivera decided to study Spanish in school, it was with the hope of coming closer to her own Hispanic roots while connecting with the world beyond her hometown. “I think that, as the world is evolving, it’s important to know… Read More »47 students get inducted into WWHS World Languages Honor Society | Kent County Daily Times
The union that represents more than 1,500 health-care workers, including LPNs and RCWs, says many of its members are being denied their vacation requests. Karen Jackson, president of the Union of Public Sector Employees, said the union has filed a grievance, after Health PEI failed… Read More »Staffing shortages result in vacation denials for some health-care workers