Yet nobody who has lived in Lagos for long can feel astonished at last week’s tragedy, which may have killed 1,000 people. As I end my three-year tour of duty, I can remember what stirred in my gut on that first trip through the grinding traffic, past giddying crowds and the menace of beggars brandishing wounded body parts like weapons: the feeling that in Lagos you lose all control of your destiny....
Advocates are more confident than ever that H.R. 40 will pass the House of Representatives, which they describe as a welcome but long overdue milestone for the bill’s 32-year history on Capitol Hill. “It’s a sad, sad commentary on this country that it has taken this long,” Nkechi Taifa, a human rights attorney and decades-long reparations advocate, told Newsweek. “Reparations are an issue whose time has come.” Named after the broken 1865 promise to redistribute Confederate land to former slaves—popularized as “40 acres and a mule”—H....
Northam also asked the state’s National Guard for assistance because of the risk posed by a second winter storm so close to the first, in a series of moves state officials hope will make drivers more comfortable after the administration was battered for its slow response Monday. State lawmakers, local officials, two members of Congress, and many residents have called for action in the days since the traffic jam, as state officials have said they will review the policies that led to the situation....
Final Pre-Caucus Polling Average: First Place, 37.8 percent (4.0 ahead of Obama) Current National Polling Average: First Place, 41.3 percent (8.1 ahead of Obama) If Obama has the most to gain tonight in Nevada, Clinton has the most to lose. With the Illinois senator already leading by ten in South Carolina, a slip in the Silver State would likely doom Hillary to a 1-3 record heading into Super-Duper Tuesday on Feb....
“The Congress will continue our work to rid the Capitol of homages to hate, as we fight to end the scourge of racism in our country,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said in a statement Monday. “There is no room for celebrating the bigotry of the Confederacy in the Capitol or any other place of honor in our country.” Each state is given the opportunity to place two bronze or marble statues of prominent citizens in the U....
The decision will hold the Russian National Team from the upcoming 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 World Cup. Russia was first banned from the Olympics in 2018 after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) discovered they were doping during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Despite the ban, 168 Russians were allowed to compete in the games as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.” As a condition of their reinstatement, Russia was required to provide WADA with data from their anti-doping laboratory, but the data was found to be tampered with by Russian officials, leading to the most recent ban....
Public sector workers, including 180,000 represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), responded heroically to this pandemic. They put their lives at risk and jeopardized the health and well-being of their loved ones while working long hours as demand for emergency services escalated. Even today, they continue to go above the call of duty in the service of others. Unfortunately, despite their heroic contributions throughout this unprecedented crisis, the pandemic has revealed how years of cutbacks have created gaping holes in the social safety net for workers across America....
Barr told the AP that the FBI and U.S. attorneys have been investigating allegations of fraud since the November 3 voting but have not uncovered evidence that would change the outcome of the race between President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP. Major news networks and the AP called the race for Biden on November 7, but Trump has yet to concede....
On Thursday, James released a press statement detailing the victory and what it means for New Yorkers and their families. “Every New Yorker — especially children living in our most disadvantaged communities — has a right to live a healthy life without the threat of lead paint poisoning,” said James. “As a landlord to thousands of children and families, Chestnut failed to safeguard its tenants, but, today, we are ensuring their health will be protected moving forward....
Conspiracy theories have long existed on the internet about the legitimacy of the couple’s relationship after they met on the music video set for “Slumber Party” in 2016. One theory was that Asghari was planted by Spears’ family and conservators to woo the singer and ultimately act as a spy for them. Spears was placed in a conservatorship in 2008 on advice from her father, Jamie Spears, and then business manager, Lou M....
“You have to appreciate all that the NBA has done in this situation, what Adam Silver and the other owners are trying to do,” one prominent agent said, requesting anonymity because of possible future interactions with the team. “They came down hard on the guy, as they should have. "But I know I have players who just won’t go there now, not until Sterling is gone completely. If there is even a chance that you’re going to help that guy make even one dime, a lot of guys are not going to go play there....
In History Laid Bare (463 pages. HarperCollins. $20), Richard Zacks (not a pun) exposes “love, sex and perversity from the ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding.” Excerpted sources range from a Hittite law tablet (1400 B.C.) that proscribes bestiality-except with horses or mules-to a series of letters in which author Lewis Carroll unsuccessfully attempts to wheedle permission to photograph an acquaintance’s three young daughters in the nude. Tasty anecdotes abound....
Sao Paulo striker Lucas Pratto will partner captain Lionel Messi in attack, with Juventus’ Gonzalo Higuain one of four players suspended after collecting a yellow card during last week’s 1-0 win over Chile. Centre-back Nicolas Otamendi and midfielders Javier Mascherano and Lucas Biglia suffered a similar fate to Higuain, while full-backs Gabriel Mercado and Emmanuel Mas sustained respective hamstring and knee injuries. Raul won’t rule out Barca move It means Aguero is the only alteration to the starting line-up based upon tactical considerations after he struggled in an unfamiliar number 10 role against Chile in Buenos Aires....
Aguero has scored 30 times in all competitions for newly crowned Premier League champions City despite recently spending a month on the sidelines with a knee problem. He returned to action as a substitute in the derby defeat to Manchester United on April 7, and was on the receiving end of a strong challenge in the penalty area from Ashley Young that went unpunished by referee Martin Atkinson. Aguero made another brief cameo appearance during City’s vain attempt at a Champions League comeback against Liverpool last week, but manager Pep Guardiola ruled the 29-year-old out of Saturday’s 3-1 win over Tottenham, citing Young’s challenge as the cause of the injury....
Researchers think Aicardi syndrome is caused by an X chromosome gene mutation. Symptoms of this condition may appear as early as 4 months of age. Aicardi syndrome is named after Jean Aicardi, a French neurologist who first described the condition in 1965. Keep reading to learn more about Aicardi syndrome, its prevalence, symptoms, causes, and treatment options. Prevalence Aicardi syndrome is very rare, affecting one out of 105,000 to 167,000 newborns in the United States....
Until a few years ago HIV seemed invincible. Once it infects a person’s cells it replicates wildly, quickly generating billions of genetically varied offspring. A single drug such as AZT may paralyze most of those variants, but a few inevitably prove resistant. As the survivors multiply, the drug loses its effect. This grim scenario changed dramatically a few years ago with the arrival of the protease inhibitors. Researchers found that when previously untreated patients combined the new drugs with older ones, the amount of virus circulating in their blood often fell to undetectable levels....
Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) are the independent auditors who go through the bid documents of each interested party and place their thoughts in front of the Bid Evaluation Committee. Although earlier the meeting was to convene on the 15th of this month, an AIFF official informed that PwC received the documents only earlier this week and hence, would need more time to evaluate. Bengaluru-based Ozone FC, Gokulam FC (based in Manjeri) and a Rajasthan-based group have submitted the bids for a spot in the league....
This trend has been highlighted by a new report published by Swiss company IQAir looking at ten key global cities that normally suffer from high levels of pollution: Los Angeles, New York City, London, Madrid, New Delhi, Mumbai, São Paulo, Wuhan, Seoul and Rome. The report compared measurements from ground-based monitoring stations regarding a type of pollutant known as PM2.5—tiny inhalable particles measuring 2.5 micrometers or smaller that are emitted by various sources such as vehicles and power plants....
