A parent at Westwood High School in Austin, Texas is attempting to remove Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi from the school’s reading list. His grievance was dismissed at the first two levels within the The Round Rock Independant School District (RRISD). However, at the encouragement of some Trustee
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A team of World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan are visiting a laboratory that has been the focus of conspiracies and speculation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO investigators began research in the central Chinese city last week, after a 14-day quarantine and bureaucratic delays. Their work has been subject to intense
During a week in which the entire football focus is squarely on the biggest game of the NFL season, EA Sports called a trick play few were expecting: the publisher is developing a new college football game for the first time since 2013. All of a sudden, buzz shifted from whether Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay
Three men were critically injured Tuesday afternoon by an explosion at a Santa Clarita industrial park that also sparked a small brush fire, authorities said. A fourth man injured in the blast had driven himself to a hospital emergency room, but the extent of his wounds was not known, said Jonathan Matheny, a spokesman for
The remains of a police officer killed when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol last month have been taken to the building’s historic rotunda to lie in honour. Brian Sicknick was on duty when rioters, angry over US president Donald Trump’s election loss, stormed the building on 6 January, and was hit in
Boris Johnson has vowed to “do everything we need to do” – including an attempt to override post-Brexit arrangements with the EU – in order to “ensure there is no barrier down the Irish Sea”. Having held talks with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster on Wednesday morning, the prime minister later raised the prospect
New details have emerged about a vast network of rogue extensions for Chrome and Edge browsers that were found to hijack clicks to links in search results pages to arbitrary URLs, including phishing sites and ads. Collectively called “CacheFlow” by Avast, the 28 extensions in question — including Video Downloader for Facebook, Vimeo Video Downloader,
Samsung Galaxy A50 is receiving the February 2021 Android security patch, as per a report. The over-the-air (OTA) update is based on Android 10, and said to be rolling out to smartphones in Thailand. The report says that the update will be rolled out to the Galaxy A50, which made its India debut in 2019,
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pledged to focus on “new products and early initiatives” after announcing he is to step down as chief executive later this year. Mr Bezos is to hand over the role to Andy Jassy during the summer but will stay on as executive chair of the company he founded nearly three
Streaming audio giant Spotify said fourth quarter podcast consumption nearly doubled, premium subscribers hit 155 million and monthly active users jumped 27% to 345 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 — helping drive a 17% increase in revenue. Premium subs were up from 144 in the third quarter and 124 the year before. In
It’s early, but Morgan Wallen has been the biggest thing in country music this year. His double album, Dangerous, has been at the top of the Billboard charts since its release three weeks ago, the first time a country album has pulled off three straight weeks at #1 in 8 years… and it’s not even
Luke Bryan‘s latest single, “Down to One,” is a mellow love song tinged with R&B, reminiscent of his early-to-mid-2010s catalog, and the track now has a music video that adds visuals as lush and spine-tingling as the tune’s lyrics. In the video, Bryan takes a backseat to a young couple who wander in and out
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become well-known for quite a lot of things, but one aspect of the franchise that fans love the most is its interconnected nature. At any moment, in any of the MCU’s movies or TV shows, any character from the greater universe can pop in for an appearance. Doctor Strange will
Shazam! and Tangled star Zachary Levi is about to bring another family-friendly tale to life. On Monday, it was announced (via The Hollywood Reporter) that Levi will be starring in Sony’s live-action adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Levi’s exact role in the project, which is based on the 1955 children’s book from Crockett
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Instagram Live, as she frequently does to address her followers directly, to speak publicly in detail for the first time about her experience being barricaded in her office during the January 6th Capitol insurrection. On her Live, she recounted in terrifying detail how rioters were stalking the
With the overwhelming success of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Bridgerton, and the lukewarm success of many other Netflix titles, it holds true that fake dating plots will continue to dominate the romcom space. Luckily for movie and television developers, there are a ton of amazing fake dating romance novels to draw
The Xbox team’s recent announcement that Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age will be added to Game Pass in February means that we’re this much closer to being able to experience every main entry into the RPG franchise via Microsoft’s subscription service. It also means that we have a chance to revisit Final Fantasy 12‘s
A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration. “Hum” by Tom Teller Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter
As of Tuesday, Feb. 2, California had fully vaccinated 1.5% of its population. According to the California Department of Public Health’s Vaccine Dashboard about 6.25 million doses have been shipped and of those 3.64 have been administered. Los Angeles (917,491), San Diego (365,205) and Orange (301,433) counties have administered the most doses to date. About