First ever CMgAys celebrates inclusion in country music
As CMA Fest comes to a close and with National Pride Month still well underway, artists took to a different stage across town in Nashville.
As CMA Fest comes to a close and with National Pride Month still well underway, artists took to a different stage across town in Nashville.
Nearly three in four Jewish college students in the United States who responded to a survey said they have experienced or witnessed antisemitism during the current school year, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said on Wednesday. The finding comes amid rising tensions at some U.S. college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war and a proliferation of protests in support of either Israel or the Palestinians. Some 73% of over 500 Jewish college students surveyed said they were exposed to antisemitism since the 2023-2024 school year started, the ADL, which fights antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, said.
The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed it and laid off its staff earlier this month. In an announcement on its website, Paste said it “moved quickly to try and save" Jezebel after learning of its closure, calling the site “a beloved platform with a strong focus on women’s issues, pop culture and social commentary.”
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California's new CARE Courts are aimed at helping treat the mentally ill and solving homelessness, but it raises concerns about civil rights.
Indictment released by DoJ also provides new evidence unnamed agent ordered murder of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Wednesday of a "dangerous" spike in attacks on Jews since the October 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel -- urging Americans not to allow defense of Palestinian rights to creep into anti-Semitism."This problem has been steadily worsening in recent years, but after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, hate crimes against Jewish Americans have skyrocketed," Schumer said.
Hamas reportedly ready for a four-day extension as tensions rise between Israel and the US over strategy
Kevin McCarthy suggested for House Speaker Mike Johnson to "bring in a psychiatrist" for fractured House Republicans.
China on Wednesday presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower. China has had little role in negotiations over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which have been largely monopolized by the United States for decades. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the council that the war shows the urgent need for a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Adina Moshe, who witnessed her husband being killed by Hamas on the Oct. 7 attack, has returned home after being held hostage in Gaza.
An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed pieces
After a career in the shadows, spent in Israeli prisons and the internal security apparatus of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar rose to lead the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip.Known for his secrecy, Sinwar is a security operator "par excellence", according to Abu Abdallah, a Hamas member who spent years alongside him in Israeli jails.
The video was captured in Lebanon and posted online as early as 2018.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., blasted Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on X after the lawmaker called him a “little Moskowitz jumping up and down."
Pope Francis presided over his weekly audience Wednesday despite the flu that caused him to abandon his attendance at UN climate talks in Dubai, but asked an aide to deliver his reading for him.Parolin said he himself would attend the first part of the UN talks, as he had all the COP meetings since Paris, while a Vatican team would remain the whole time.
GM chair and CEO Mary Barra talks with Yahoo Finance about the road ahead after the UAW contract deal.
A Black former delivery driver in Mississippi who says two white men shot into his work van and then pursued him in a high-speed chase last year has filed a new lawsuit against the men and his former employer, FedEx. This is the second civil suit on behalf of D'Monterrio Gibson, and it seeks at least $5 million. Gibson was not wounded during the encounter on Jan. 24, 2022, in Brookhaven, about an hour’s drive south of Jackson.
Deutsche Bank viewed Donald Trump as a “whale” of a client, was eager to land him and eagerly cultivated a relationship that grew from $13,000 worth of revenue to $6 million in two years, according to documents presented Wednesday at the former president's civil fraud trial. The bank's dealings with Trump are a key issue in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, which accuses Trump, his company and some executives of hoodwinking lenders and insurers by presenting them with grossly inflated statements of his asset values. “We are whale hunting,” then-bank managing director Rosemary Vrablic wrote colleagues in November 2011, after she had been introduced to Trump's son Donald Jr. but had yet to meet the elder Trump.
European Commission lawyers initially opposed sending a warning to Amazon over its $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The Commission's legal service did not think a statement of objections regarding the deal was warranted, in contrast with antitrust officials handling the case, the people said. Without such a charge sheet, the deal would have been cleared unconditionally.
Six exoplanets have been spotted in a perfectly synchronised dance around a nearby star, offering clues about the formation of our own Solar System, astronomers said on Wednesday.More than 5,000 exoplanets, planets outside our Solar System, have been discovered since the first was spotted in 1995 -- but this system is the first to have so many planets acting in such harmony.