Author: Michelle Korhonen
A social worker prepares to roll out with an officer at Denver Police District 5 on December 21, 2017. Denver has been a model for other cities, including Philadelphia, trying to create new ways to respond to emergency calls involving mental illnesses or drug addictions. AAron Ontiveroz/AAron Ontiveroz/Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AAron Ontiveroz/AAron Ontiveroz/Denver Post via Getty Images A social worker prepares to roll out with an officer at Denver Police District 5 on December 21, 2017. Denver has been a model for other cities, including Philadelphia, trying to create new ways to respond to…
“We’ve become a party of losers,” the conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy declared during the opening minutes of tonight’s Republican primary debate in Florida. He bemoaned the GOP’s lackluster performance in Tuesday’s elections, and then he identified the Republican he held personally responsible for the party’s defeats. Was this the moment, a viewer might have wondered, that a top GOP presidential contender would finally take on Donald Trump, the absent frontrunner who hasn’t deigned to join his rivals on the debate stage?Of course not.Ramaswamy proceeded to blame not the GOP’s undisputed leader for the past seven years but Ronna McDaniel, the…
A furious newsagent has delivered a blistering rant at Optus management as small businesses reel from the telco’s crippling network collapse.While many businesses were forced to turn away customers during Wednesday’s phone and internet blackout, the $15million mansion owned by Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was being adorned with luxury items ahead of a photoshoot. The photo session was intended to showcase the architectural work behind the $700,000 facelift she had done at her Great Gatsby-style period home in Sydney‘s ritzy eastern suburbs.But in the city’s west on Thursday, Bankstown Plaza Newsagent owner Vivian Vo was still having to turn customers away…
Elections wrapped up across the country Wednesday night with some stunning results. Abortion showed its salience once again, more than a year after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Yesterday’s elections in states like Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky have Democrats feeling good. More than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion rights continue to be a key issue. Increasingly conservative Ohio voted to protect them in the state’s constitution, and abortion was a key theme in Virginia’s legislative races as well. For more on what we can make of the results and what they…
In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like.Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people flapping about the skies or echolocating to find the best burger in town. The point is “not to live like a bat,” Wang told me, but to take inspiration from their very weird physiology in order to boost the quality, or even the length, of human life. They might not look it, but bats, Wang said, are “the healthiest mammals on Earth.”That thought might be tough to square with bats’…
Hillary Clinton has made a direct comparison between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler as she claimed the former president winning in 2024 would lead to ‘almost unimaginable wreckage’ for America.She drew parallels between how the Nazi leader became a dictator and what she claimed were Trump’s ‘dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies’ which would lead to the ‘end of our country as we know it’.During an appearance on The View, Clinton accused Trump of wanting to throw opponents in jail and shut down a free press if he regains the White House.Clinton lost to Trump when she was the Democrat presidential nominee in…
Ohio votes to amend state constitution to enshrine abortion rights. Five candidates will face off in third GOP debate. The number of babies born with syphilis is ten times what it was a decade ago.
In 2006, the School District of Philadelphia, in partnership with Microsoft, opened the School of the Future. The idea was simple enough: Establish a learning environment centered on technology—no textbooks, just laptops and Wi-Fi—that would provide students in relatively poor districts the same benefits that those in wealthier areas enjoyed. The district built a handsome, well-lit building and filled it with state-of-the-art trappings including electronic lockers and Italian-marble bathrooms. It was heralded as a path-defining achievement for public-private partnerships in education.Two years later, Michael Gottfried, now an economist at the University of Pennsylvania but then a graduate student there, was…
A student who was mistakenly given £850,000 instead of her usual £85 monthly university food grant and blew £50,000 of it in a 73-day spending spree has escaped jail.Scholar Sibongile Mani, 32, who had to rely on benefits to pay for her to study, could not believe it when a government aid scheme sent her 10,000 times too much money.When she checked her bank account in South Africa the impoverished student saw she had become an overnight multi-millionairess, with 14 million rands credited to her.Deciding not to look a gift horse in the mouth, the delighted accountancy student embarked on…
A European surgeon with the International Committee of the Red Cross describes what he’s seen in 11 days at a Gaza hospital. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A British surgeon with the International Committee of the Red Cross recently crossed into Gaza. NPR’s Aya Batrawy spoke with him about what he has seen as hospitals overflow with people injured by Israeli airstrikes. And a warning – this report includes graphic descriptions of their injuries.AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: Dr. Tom Potokar tells me he’s seen a catastrophic situation since entering Gaza on October 27 the scale of which he’s never seen before.TOM POTOKAR:…