Than 108,000 new cases per day. Florida the virus is raging. The sevenday average is showing 19,000 new cases per day and the hospitalization rate for florida more than triple the national rate but the governor there ron desantis is going to take a stand against measures that can stop the spread before its innocent kids who before it hits innocent kids that can t be vaccinated and hits them where? it hits them in their schools. He feels so strongly about this, so strongly school boards not take steps that they and medical experts say are needed to protect the kids that tonight he is threatening to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts. Previously he threatened to cut funding to school districts that require masks. Seriously? he s declaring war on local school officials who may feel it s necessary for children in their districts to wear masks? is making kids sick somehow a winnin
Seemingly twisted in knots. With the benefit of hindsight, mr. Rosen has now come forward and offered hours of testimony to the justice department s inspector general and to congress. From the new york times, they write this. Jeffrey rosen, who was acting attorney general during the trump administration, has told the justice department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former president trump subvert the results of the 2020 election. That s according to a person familiar with the interviews. He had a twohour meeting on friday with the justice department, and provided closeddoor testimony to the senate judiciary committee on saturday. Jeffrey clark is described as trump s man inside the doj working to overthrow the will of the people. The times adding the investigations opened after an article that detailed efforts by jeffrey clark to push leaders to falsely cast doubt on the electoral college results. That prompted trump to consider ousting
beaten a record set by open air chat app, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. now, it was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores in 100 countries. meta boss mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast, but it feels like lots of people are already on it. well, that s partly because it s connected to instagram. meta, remember isn t creating an app from scratch. it s benefiting from its two billion instagram followers, and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similarweb, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior. that s in the days immediately after threads launch. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the micro blogging app, but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social, well, they all remain still pretty small right now. as histor
england s euro 2024 qualifying campaign begins this week but without in form striker marcus rashford. he s one of three players to have withdrawn from the squad for the qualifiers against italy and ukraine. the 25 year old is having the best goal scoring season of his career for manchester united, with 30 goals in all competitions so far. but he s withdrawn from gareth southgate s squad after picking up a knock during the 3 1 fa cup quarterfinal win against fulham. mason mount and nick pope will also miss the start of england s qualiying campaign. fraser forster has been added as goalkeeping cover. meanwhilejonny evans has withdrawn from northern ireland s qualifiers against san marino and finland. the leicester centre back has 100 caps for his country but misses out due to a hamstring injury. the new wales captain aaron ramsey is urging his young team mates to make their own history . they begin their qualifying campaign against croatia on saturday. wales then take on l
of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in yourfinal year you received a scott trust bursary from the guardian to study journalism. and i think you were quite clear at that point that you wanted to be a columnist. why? because i had been very politically involved and my entry into writing was partly because i d studied languages and studied to be an interpreter and i like to manipulate words, but it was also because i had been very involved politically, almost precociously, and that i thought i had things to say. and what i didn t realise at the time was the degree to which reporting, running out, talking to people, finding out, all of that, is the nuts and bolts of everything, including column writing. so as someone who hadn t done an awful lot ofjournalism and heriot watt didn t have a student new