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Dorri McWhorter, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago CEO, joins Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous to discuss YWCA’s partnership with Impact Shares to provide the Women’s Empowerment Index.
Dorri McWhorter, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago CEO, joins Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous to discuss YWCA’s partnership with Impact Shares to provide the Women’s Empowerment Index.
“Madison had some issues that came out,” Ronna McDaniel said of his defeat.
The singer died from terminal brain cancer in March
Ashish Jha said he doesn't expect monkeypox will become a particularly big threat.
Presenter previously called children’s author a ‘treacherous piece of work’
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was about 6 a.m. when Venique Moïse flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people running — their children in one hand and scant belongings in the other — as gunfire intensified. Minutes later, she joined the crowd with her three kids and fled their neighborhood in Haiti’s capital as fires burned nearby, collapsing homes where hours later the bodies of nearly 200 men, women and children shot or mutilated with machetes by warring gangs were found alongside skulls and bones of victims set ablaze in late April. Gangs are fighting each other and seizing territory in the capital of Port-au-Prince with a new intensity and brutality.
Even at 74, the musician (whose new memoir is titled "Still Alright") sounds as youthful as his songs, which have a habit of making us feel young, too.
Fractions, probabilities and statistics govern the outcomes of our daily lives but as James Zimring explores in his new book, Partial Truths, numbers can lie.
Davos — the hub of an elite annual gathering in the Swiss Alps — is back, more than two years after the coronavirus pandemic kept its business gurus, political leaders and high-minded activists away. There’s no shortage of urgent issues for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting to tackle. With their lofty ambition to help improve the state of the world, forum organizers have their work cut out for them: there are soaring food and fuel prices, Russia's war in Ukraine, climate change, drought and food shortages in Africa, yawning inequality between rich and poor, and autocratic regimes gaining ground in some places — on top of signs that the pandemic is far from over.
Built in the 1930s, high above the Santa Barbara coast, the home made famous in the bestselling "Empty Mansions" was a summer residence of Huguette Clark, who didn't set foot on the property for several decades, and instructed her staff to never change a thing.
A U.S. Forest Service employee using a drop torch during a planned burn in Arizona's Coconino National Forest. USFS/Ian Horvath, CC BY-SAAs spring settles in across the United States, western states are already preparing for summer and wildfire season. And although it may seem counter-intuitive, some of the most urgent conversations are about getting more fire onto the landscape. Winter and spring, before conditions become too hot and dry, are common times for conducting planned and controlled b
Brown poop can indicate good health. Vitalii Barida/iStock via Getty Images Plus Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why is my poop brown? – Ethan J., age 9, Potomac, Maryland Three-quarters of your poop consists of water and most of the rest is food your body didn’t digest. Once it exits the digestive system, poop is usually a shade of brown, regardless of the appearance of whatev
Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer receiving Charles X's decree recognizing Haitian independence on July 11, 1825. Bibliotheque Nationale de FranceMuch of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the United States and the United Kingdom should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today. But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti. I’m a specialist on colonialism and slavery,
In downtown Jackson, Wyo., a small plot of land, 30 by 150 feet, produces 100,000 pounds of locally-sourced produce a year, thanks to a farm that soars in the air.
With prices across the economy — from food, gas and rent to cars, airfares and hotel rooms — soaring at their fastest pace in decades, you might think Americans would tap the brakes on spending. It was a reassuring sign that consumers — the primary drivers of America’s economy — are still providing vital support and helping allay concerns that a recession might be near.
For an interior decor alternative to hanging photographs or artwork, "green walls" are alive with plants that bring color and oxygen indoors – and they water themselves.
Prepare to be knocked sideways. Famous for being so rarely performed, passionately admired by its advocates and resolutely ignored by most of the operatic world, Ethel Smyth’s pioneering 1903 opera The Wreckers has finally come to Glyndebourne. The totally committed staging is by Melly Still: it makes the best possible case for the piece. But does it establish it as a classic?
Epicurious senior editor Emily Johnson on the history of the kitchen gadget that is indispensable – the can opener.
She also voiced her support for the reality TV star’s relationship with Travis Barker
Russia has destroyed thousands of buildings since the war began. Ukraine's troops say they foiled an attempt to cross key river. Live updates.
The city on California's southern coast would evolve dramatically over four centuries, from home of the Chumash people to a Spanish settlement and mission, to an oceanfront jewel whose architecture and lifestyle have become the epitome of the California Dream.