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Weekend Recap: WWE Rocks The Alamodome For The 30th Annual Royal Rumble
Before more than 52,000 members of the WWE Universe inside San Antonio’s Alamadome, hosted the Royal Rumble and it was packed with a massive field of Superstars — including The Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Goldberg and Brock Lesnar as it began the official kick off to the road to WrestleMania 33.
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Using Pop Songs To Teach Kids Math
The company he founded, Make Music Count, uses tunes by artists like Ariana Grande, Sam Smith and 2 Chainz in interactive lessons designed to make learning math concepts easy and fun.
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Outlook uncertain for bill to raise age of criminal responsibility
State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, is not sold on raising the age of criminal responsibility in Texas from 17 to 18.
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MUSC to Spend $52 Million With Small, Women and Minority-Owned Businesses in Construction of New Children’s Hospital
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is on track to spend $52 million in contracts with small, women and minority-owned business enterprises (SWMBEs) during construction of the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion. When construction on the estimated $385 million project is completed and the doors open in 2019, the structure will be among the most well-equipped and technologically advanced facilities in the nation.
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March Massacre: Trump's Budget Plan Is Ruthless
ts often seem impenetrable, packed with a blizzard of numbers too big to comprehend. But budgets are value statements. They tell us what we value and what we discount. President Donald Trump's budget reveals who counts and who does not.
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LUCID AIR Sets New Standard For Electric Vehicles With 517 Mile Range
Independent Verification of This Industry-Leading Range Highlights Lucid Motors’ In-House Engineering of Advanced EV Drivetrains, Battery Packs, and more
Lucid Motors, which seeks to set new standards for sustainable transportation with its advanced luxury EVs, today announced in- dependent range verification of 517 miles on a single charge for its forthcoming Lucid Air all-electric sedan. This new benchmark range was secured with FEV North America, Inc. in Auburn Hills, Michigan, applying the EPA›s Multicycle Test Procedure (SAE J1634 Oct 2012 Standard) with the standard adjustment factor. The results confirm that the Lucid Air is the longest range electric vehicle to date.
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Louisiana hospital staff stayed behind to care for 19 babies as Hurricane Laura hit
Even as Hurricane Laura bore down on a hospital in Lake Charles, Louisiana, someone had to watch the babies.
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Top US health official meets with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in highest-level summit for decades
Alex Azar, the United States Health and Human Services secretary, met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen Monday, the highest-level meeting between Washington and the self-ruled island in decades.
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Stress is Rampant in Our Country: Practical Steps that Can Help Us Survive and Thrive in Any Crisis
Most of us can handle a crisis or two, but now our country is facing four simultaneous crises: Covid-19 that impacts our physical health, an economic recession that impacts our financial security, racial upheaval that impacts our social fabric, and mental health trauma that impacts our emotional well-being. The result of this? Depression, anxiety and stress are up an astounding 800% ̶ and it’s still rising!
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A surprise 'safe-haven' investment has surged 180% since March
Bitcoin is on a tear: The price of one bitcoin is now trading just above $11,500, the highest level in about a year. Bitcoin has surged more than 60% in 2020 and is up more than 180% from its mid-March lows of about $4,000.
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Hello Alice Releases Black Business Report Uncovering Significant Inequities Faced By Black-Owned Small Businesses During COVID-19
The report spotlights the unique challenges that Black-owned small businesses face and identifies opportunities to better serve the Black small business community
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Black History in the Heart of the City
“If race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” said Dr. Carter G. Woodson some sixty-five years ago.
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Premiere Film Release of “Chop Shop: A Community & Law Enforcement Conversation”
A Coalition of San Francisco Organizations, City Agencies, Community Partners and Residents Create a Film Documentary to Foster Dialogue Between Community and Law Enforcement
A coalition of community-based organizations, enterprises, city agencies, and community partners have joined together to create and release, “Chop Shop: A Community & Law Enforcement Conversation”, a film documentary which facilitates and captures constructive dialogue between San Francisco residents of color and law enforcement agencies. The first airing of “Chop Shop” will take place February 16th, at 6:00 PM at the Brava for Women in Arts theatre in the Mission District section of San Francisco.
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Why Bill and Melinda Gates Are Spending a Lot of time in Washington
(CNN Money) -- Bill and Melinda Gates want to keep foreign aid flowing from Washington. But with a president that believes in "America First," they're fighting an uphill battle.
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Here's a little secret about the Texas Senate race
It feels like this past weekend is when the GOP political world finally realized something: Beto O'Rourke isn't going away.
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Bill Cosby will find out his sentence this week on 3 indecent assault charges
The questions have been looming since Bill Cosby was convicted in April of three counts of assault: Will he go to prison, and, if so, for how long?
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Tiger Woods wins a PGA Tour event for the first time since 2013
Tiger Woods says he's "blessed" to be back after winning his first PGA Tour event in over five years following a long and painful return to form from a back injury.
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Chevrolet Studies America's Love of Pickup Trucks
Harris Poll finds how Americans use, adore and even name their trucks
Chevrolet is celebrating this year’s State Fair of Texas in the heart of truck country with a new survey quantifying America’s love of pickup trucks.
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Dow slides more than 500 points after Huawei executive's arrest renews trade fears
Market sentiment is so fragile that news of an arrest is enough to set off a selling wave.
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H-E-B presents Juneteenth Heritage Celebration at Washington on the Brazos State Historic Site
On the 19th of June 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and made a declaration of freedom ending the bondage of approximately 250,000 enslaved men, women and children in Texas. Since that time, Juneteenth has been celebrated and remembered by picnics, parades, family reunions, pageants, barbecues and games. The Brazos Valley has a rich history in celebrating Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth parade in Brenham, TX, which began in the early 1870s and continues to this day.