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After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — The first time the College Board bumped up against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts to inject conservative ideals into education standards, it ultimately revamped the Advanced Placement course for African American studies, watering down curriculum on slavery reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement — and a nationwide backlash ensued.Now, faced with altering its AP Psychology course to comply with Florida’s limits on teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity, the nonprofit College Board is pushing back. It advised the state’s school districts Thursday to not offer the college-level course to Florida’s high school students unless it can be taught in full.By late Friday, statements from both sides suggested students in Florida would be able to take the full course after all. In a letter to state superintendents, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said the state believed the psychology course could be taught “in its entirety.” The Coll...

AL East-leading Orioles rout Mets 10-3 in Showalter’s return to Camden Yards

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez, left, attempts a tag on Baltimore Orioles' Ramon Urias as he scores on a two-run double by James McCann in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Baltimore. Orioles' Colton Cowser also scored on the double. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)(AP/Julio Cortez) New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez, left, attempts a tag on Baltimore Orioles' Ramon Urias as he scores on a two-run double by James McCann in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Baltimore. Orioles' Colton Cowser also scored on the double. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)(AP/Julio Cortez) BALTIMORE (AP) — James McCann had three hits and five RBIs and Jordan Westburg hit a three-run home...

Jones, Díaz help Colorado Rockies knock off St. Louis Cardinals 9-4

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Jones had four hits and three RBIs, and the Colorado Rockies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 on Friday night in a matchup of last-place clubs.Elias Díaz had two hits and drove in two runs as Colorado won for just the third time in nine games. The Rockies finished with 15 hits.Nolan Gorman hit two solo homers for St. Louis, which has dropped six of eight. Gorman, who has 24 homers on the season, missed Thursday night’s 5-3 to Minnesota with a sore foot.Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright (3-6) was tagged for seven runs and nine hits in three innings. He remains stuck on 198 career wins in his final season.Wainwright entered with a 12-1 record and a 1.38 ERA in 18 career outings, including 14 starts, against the Rockies. St. Louis, last in the NL Central, dropped to 48-63. Colorado, in the NL West basement, is 43-66.The Rockies kicked off a 10-game trip by earning their first win in St. Louis since July 31, 2018. They snapped a 12-game losing streak at...

Couple recovers custom motorcycles stolen from hotel parking lot

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A couple, who said their expensive motorcycles were stolen outside of a Denver Hotel, has recovered them.Brian and Taren Donnelly were on their way to South Dakota, for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Thursday night, they stopped to stay the night at a hotel near Denver International Airport.Early Friday morning, they discovered their truck, and the trailer carrying the motorcycles were gone. More Lyft drivers come forward as scammers continue to target accounts Late Friday night, the couple was tipped off that their property had been found near the Aurora-Denver border. They said the truck, trailer and three motorcycles were located. Only their luggage had been taken.The Denver Police Department is checking to confirm the good news.Brian Donnelly estimated each motorcycle is valued between $60,000 to $80,000.

School psychologist: Locked door on seclusion room 'not normal'

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) -- There's a function for seclusion rooms though it is not a common practice at every school according to school psychologist and University of Northern Colorado professor, David Hulac."I don't know what the factors were," Hulac said of seclusion rooms. "I would just say as a general best practice I don't recommend and don't prefer it."A whistleblower reported an "incarceration room" at McAuliffe Middle School in the Denver Public Schools system."It's typically not normal, what I would say, to have a lock on a seclusion room," Hulac said. Police investigating ‘incarceration room’ at Denver middle school As a disciplinary measure, seclusion is a practice exercised by some educators and school systems."Being put into a separate room for a timeout is always going to have effect on a kid," Hulac said.That effect is meant to be balanced with support from educators for the student in a quiet space, Hulac said, but a lock on the door could affect the process."What t...

Chill vibes and rice wine: Shōjō’s Dojo, new Westchester brewery, aims to draw sake lovers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

A trip to Japan costs a pretty penny, but sake lovers don’t need to cross the Pacific for some freshly brewed drinks. Head to Shōjō’s Dojo in Westchester and learn from the senseis while sipping some premium product.Sake to me! Miami’s got its first sake brewery.Haidar Hachem, founder, Shōjō’s Dojo: “We want a date night spot, a chill spot, a place to hang out with your friends. Just chill vibes all around, is what we really want.”Experience Shōjō’s Dojo’s premium grade rice wine on-site.Haidar Hachem: “We got our rice from Isbel Farms over in Arkansas, and they make their own Japanese-grade tamanishiki rice.”This new spot comes from a true love of the beverage and production process.Haidar Hachem: “We started with a brewery, Shōjō Beer Co. What got me into sake was the same thing that got me into beer in the brewing portion. I just loved beer, and I was like, ‘Hey, let’s make it.’ I just really started loving sake, a...

Why Big Pharma might think twice about running away to America

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

Is Big Pharma crying wolf?In the six months since the EU’s plans to reform its rules for medicines were leaked, CEO after CEO has lined up to warn that the legislation will sabotage the European pharma market and force companies to invest elsewhere. Their threat, not always veiled, is that they’ll take their business to America. But with the United States undergoing its own radical clampdown on drug pricing, things aren’t quite that simple.New measures, contained within the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), are set to cut the prices of medicines in the government’s Medicare services for older and vulnerable patients by at least 50 percent, says industry — dramatically cutting into companies’ bottom lines. Medicare accounts for a third of U.S. spending on retail prescription drugs, at some $126 billion.“This is an incredible squeeze that’s happening right now. This is not a marginal change in a small market. It’s a ma...

5 real-life impacts of the EU’s foot-dragging on chemicals law reboot

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

For months, European lawmakers, NGOs and scientists have been calling on Brussels to set out a long-awaited revamp of the bloc’s chemicals rules before the summer break.But as the corridors of the EU institutions empty out and policymakers head off on vacation, those hopes are being dashed. With next year’s European election looming, many now worry the proposal will come too late to be scrutinized and signed off by lawmakers before the end of the Commission’s mandate, kicking the can even further down the road. The revamp of the legislation — known as REACH — was initially due to be presented in November of last year, before the deadline was pushed back to March. Amid internal disagreements over whether the revision should come at all and heavy lobbying from industry, the Commission again pushed back the revision, saying it would come by the end of this year. The delay is likely to affect countless sectors and millions of consumers across the bloc. REACH isn’...

Editorial: GOP should continue to pursue Hunter Biden probe

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

For the second time in a week, Donald Trump has been indicted. Perhaps he’s Hunter Biden’s lucky charm.The latest Trump charges — filed Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith — stem from the former president’s failure to go quietly after he lost the 2020 election. The charges allege that Trump enlisted six co-conspirators in “his criminal efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and retain power.”Trump lashed out in typical fashion, calling it a “fake indictment.” It’s an approach that his ardent supporters relish. As of yet, there’s no evidence that Trump’s legal troubles will cripple his efforts to compete for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.What his legal troubles are doing, however, is obscuring the burgeoning Hunter Biden scandal.On Monday, Hunter Biden’s former business partner told a congressional hearing that Joe Biden would “would occasionally put his father on speakerphone at business dinners and in other situations,” The Wall Street...

Graham: Pence says Trump lying about VP’s role in electoral vote count

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:11:22 GMT

As his former boss was standing before a Washington judge pleading not guilty to four criminal counts of conspiracy, Mike Pence was pleading his case to New Hampshire GOP primary voters.Pence’s pitch: “President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution, and I always will.”In an interview with a local radio host, Pence declined to pre-judge the president’s case.“I can’t say whether the government can make a criminal case,” Pence said, adding that “like every American,” Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence. However, Pence also repeatedly said Trump was “wrong” about how the electoral votes should have been handled on Jan. 6, 2021, and the vice president’s role in it.“I had no right to overturn the election. I had no right to reject or return votes, and the president was wrong to ask me to do it,” Pence said. “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks some...