Public health experts and social media researchers are concerned that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus.
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From the start, VMI’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have been derided by some donors and alumni deeply wedded to the school’s traditions and 183-year history. Some have assailed VMI’s first chief diversity officer, Jamica Love, the college’s highest-ranking Black woman, and accused VMI of embracing critical race theory — a suggestion Wins blasted this year as “categorically false.”
If DEI efforts challenge your institution’s traditions, it might be a cause to pause and exam those traditions.
A wide swath of Mississippi, as well as smaller sections of Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee, are being impacted by strong thunderstorms with the potential for large hail and tornadoes.
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A federal jury has found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other defendant guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view “are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.”
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The U.S. had to beat Iran to advance in the World Cup. Iran had to just tie in order to move on.
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A Walmart employee who survived last week’s mass shooting is suing the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — “who had known propensities for violence.”
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The change could calm widespread protests, and would ease the impact to a world economy already struggling with high inflation, an energy crisis and disrupted food supply.
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Extraordinary street protests in some Chinese cities and campuses over the weekend put Xi Jinping’s controversial approach to the pandemic under the spotlight.
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In his first big interview since March, the blockbuster actor said he “just lost it” over Rock’s joke about his wife’s hair. “That was a rage that had been bottled for a really long time,” he said.
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