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A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.
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Featuring interviews with leaders and emerging voices, we look at the last 50 years of NPR, examine its historical weak spots and hear how change is being made in the present and decades ahead.
The new ceiling for refugee admissions will be 62,500 far above former President Donald Trump s cap of 15,000. Advocates had been concerned Biden was not moving fast enough on a campaign promise.
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Eli Broad died last week, leaving behind memories of an “unreasonable,” yet beloved, risk taking billionaire behind the home building giant KB Home. Broad found success in financial services as well, but it was his work with KB Home that left an impact on the city of Los Angeles. The
Los Angeles Times says Broad had a reputation for being difficult, but it only came as a result of high standards, and even he believed being unreasonable was the foundation of his success. Broad’s first success came in the late 1950s when he opted out of constructing homes with basements. Though unheard of at the time, it made more homes affordable to growing families.
Many people in the art world wish that contemporary art were taken more seriously by the rest of society, by people in different fields who are not even drawn to art. They dream about politicians, policy makers, educators and philanthropists alike recognising its value. They have been dreaming, maybe without ever realising it, about Eli Broad, the self-made homebuilding billionaire who was, until his death on 30 April, Los Angeles’s most prominent arts patron without exhibiting any particular affinity for or sensitivity to visual art.
To be fair, he was a dedicated art collector, buying thousands of works by major artists over the course of several decades and ultimately building a museum in Los Angeles, the Broad, to showcase them. He clearly appreciated contemporary art as a financial investment, as a philanthropic tool and as a public good that could play a dynamic role in revitalising cities, including his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
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“If each and every person in the United States gave up meat and dairy products on one or more days of the week, ideally, all days of the week, we would save the environment from thousands of tons of carbon emissions,” wrote senior health dietitian Dana Hunnes for UCLA Sustainability.
“We have a pandemic right now, and that is going to lead us to have a mental health syndemic,” says Vickie Mays, Ph.D., a professor in psychology and health services at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, using a term that refer to two interrelated epidemics, or “synergistic epidemics.” “We have to think about what’s necessary to get us back to a place where we’re opening, we’re vaccinated, but that, in addition to those two things, we’re healthy mentally as well,” explains Mays.
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Dallas teachers take pay raise demands to school board May 3, 2021 10:49 AM CDT By Stu Becker
Members of the Alliance/AFT at the 2019/20 Dallas ISD School Board meeting. | Stuart Becker / People s World
DALLAS Members of Alliance/AFT, the local American Federation of Teachers union in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), took its demand for pay raises to the city’s school board on April 22. The union is demanding 7% pay raises for teachers and a 5% increase for support staff, along with a $1,000 bonus in January 2022.