New York Yankees drop ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner
TAMPA. Fla. (AP) — The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George ...
Siena men's basketball faces 'big weekend"
Siena men's basketball coach Gerry McNamara hopes team could be peaking at the right time with only five games left in the ...
Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
Luciane Mengual, 22, a mother of two from the Wayuu community, lives with her 47-year-old mother, Nelly, in an informal ...
Alert: New York Yankees announce change to strict facial hair policy, will allow players to wear 'well-groomed beards'
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees announce change to strict facial hair policy, will allow players to wear 'well-groomed beards.' ...
Survey shows immigrants in Florida – even US citizens – are less likely to seek health care after passage of anti-immigrant laws
SB 1718, signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2023, imposed sweeping restrictions aimed at discouraging unauthorized immigration. Among its provisions, it requires hospitals that accept ...
Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better
(THE CONVERSATION) On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment ...
Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms − studying them will help scientists monitor future space weather
Scientists have an expansive network of space- and ground-based observatories, such as the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and others, available to monitor the ...
We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants
Mass surveillance is the widespread monitoring of civilians. Governments typically target specific groups – such as religious minorities, certain races or ethnicities, or migrants – for surveillance ...
Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease and harm crops
(THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these ...
From ancient emperors to modern presidents, leaders have used libraries to cement their legacies
Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including the Forum of Peace in Rome, dedicated by Emperor Vespasian; the Library of ...
Their mosque burned down in LA-area wildfire. They're still determined to gather for Ramadan
The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in one of the Los ...
How puppetry makes 'Life of Pi' tiger a scene-stealing star
How a team of talented puppeteers turned 'Life of Pi' tiger, Richard Parker, into a scene-stealing, award-winning star.