In this episode of Influencers, Andy is joined by Aflac Chairman & CEO, Dan Amos, as they discuss Aflac’s record on diversity and inclusion, how the pandemic has affected the insurance business, and the origin story of the famed Aflac duck.
A satellite image of ocean heat shows the strong Loop Current and swirling eddies. Christopher Henze, NASA/AmesThe Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes. It’s called the Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks. When the Loop
The fall of Mariupol to the Russians appeared imminent as Ukrainian soldiers abandon the Azovstal steel mill. Live Ukraine updates.
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Tuesday's primary election results in Pennsylvania and more highlight the limits and the reach of former president Donald Trump in the 2022 midterms.
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Concord Police Department, New Hampshire Attorney GeneralPolice in New Hampshire are searching for a brown-haired white man in his twenties or thirties who was seen in the area where a middle-age couple was brutally murdered on April 18 while out on a hike near their home in Concord. The bodies of Stephen, 67, and Djeswende Reid, 66, who were avid hikers and former international aid workers, were found on April 21 after their family reported them missing. Both had been shot on the trail multiple
‘Thank you for loving him so much that through that love for Chris you have loved us too,’ Vicky Cornell addressed her late husband’s fans
You can now grab Apple's third-generation AirPods at Amazon for just $150, a significant 16 percent ($29) off the regular price
A student listens to a U.S. history lesson in a New Mexico classroom. AP Photo/Cedar AttanasioThe founders of the United States were intentionally building a nation based on the ideals of the Enlightenment, a movement centered on individual happiness, knowledge and reason. This new approach to defining a country – rather than basing it on language, ethnicity or geographic proximity – meant the new United States would have to educate its citizenry with the ideas, skills and values necessary to bu
Menthol cigarettes were responsible for an estimated 377,000 premature deaths in the U.S. during the past 40 years. BAKERLY/iStock via Getty ImagesThe FDA has opened the public comment period for the agency’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. Epidemiology and global health professor Rafael Meza studies data modeling in disease prevention and cancer risk. David Mendez, who studies smoking cessation and tobacco control policies, is an associate professor of health management and policy. These Un
Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application such as a calculator or Tic-tac-toe game. Programming also requires substantial debugging skills, which easily frustrates new learners. The study time, effort and experience needed often stop nonprogrammers from making software from scratch. No-code is a way to program websites, mobile apps and games without using codes o
In 1970, a 16-year-old Laotian boy drew a picture of his school being bombed. 'Many people' died, he wrote, 'But I didn't know who because I wasn't courageous enough to look.' Legacies of War, CC BY-SA“They still draw pictures!” So wrote the editors of an influential collection of children’s art that was compiled in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later, war continues to upend children’s lives in Ukraine, Yemen and elsewhere. In January, UNICEF projected that 177 million children
Signs belonging to anti-abortion protesters sit in front of a fenced U.S. Supreme Court building on May 16, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe U.S. Supreme Court is set to announce a decision that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion. The court is currently considering a case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which questions the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pr
Keeping families that are enduring hard times together is hard but usually benefits children. Westend61 via Getty ImagesAlthough government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is available, it’s still failing to meet all children’s needs because of overwhelming demand. Abuse and neglect investigations, foster care and the other activities and services that comprise the child welfare system can harm children and the rest o
The preference for lighter skin has its roots in colonial histories. STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP via Getty ImagesRonald Hall is a professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. He has written over 200 books/articles/monographs, etc., on colorism – discrimination on the basis of skin tone, often among the same ethnic or racial group. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Ronald Hall speaks about his experience r
The American flag flies at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 14, 2022, after President Biden ordered flags lowered to commemorate 1 million American dead due to COVID-19. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisCOVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1 million Americans – a grim milestone made worse by the fact that probably a third of those fatalities could have been avoided. Estimates suggest that more than 318,000 deaths from the disease occurred among individuals who had access to v
The U.S., several global development banks and other groups unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan Wednesday meant to address a worldwide food security crisis exacerbated by Russia's war in Ukraine. The Treasury Department announced that several global development banks are “working swiftly to bring to bear their financing, policy engagement, technical assistance” to prevent starvation prompted by the war, rising food costs and climate damage to crops. Tens of billions will be spent on supporting farmers, addressing the fertilizer supply crisis, and developing land for food production, among other issues.
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A former NFL and Georgia Bulldogs star hopes his sports stardom and Trump's endorsement can help unseat a Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
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