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Disney begins laying off 7,000 employees, CEO Bob Iger announces
Disney CEO Bob Iger on Monday said his company will begin laying off staff starting this week, the first of three rounds of expected cuts following his announcement in February that the company would axe 7,000 jobs.
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CHILDREN AT RISK releases Growing Up In Houston - most critical issues impacting children - March 28, 10:00a
In 2022, 73.1% of Texas youth with Major Depression remained untreated, up from 65.4% in 2020, with Texas ranking 51st for mental health work force availability. Now is the time for Texans to stand up for our children. This new data point and others are revealed in Growing Up In Houston: Accessing the Quality of Life of our Children. Thanks to the support of United Way of Greater Houston, CHILDREN AT RISK will release the new publication Tuesday, March 28, at 10:00 a.m.
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28-year-old woman kills 3 students and 3 adults at private Christian school in Nashville, police say
A 28-year-old woman fatally shot three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville before she was shot and killed by police, authorities said.
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Houston Rapper Don Toliver takes the Toyota Center stage for McDonald’s All American Games Halftime Performance on March 28
Critically acclaimed Houston rapper Don Toliver is returning to his H-Town roots to perform at the McDonald’s All American Games 2023 halftime show at the Toyota Center on March 28.
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Célébrez en Rosé Wine & Music Festival Returns to Houston this Spring
The nation’s largest wine and music festival announces second annual Houston event on April 29
Organizers of the nation’s largest wine and music festival, Célébrez en Rosé, have announced the event will be making its highly-anticipated return to Houston this spring on Saturday, April 29, at a new venue in the Houston Botanic Garden.
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MacArthur ‘Genius’ Kiese Laymon to serve as Jackson State University’s 2023
Spring undergraduate commencement speaker
Jackson State University is pleased to announce award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Kiese Laymon as its 2023 undergraduate commencement speaker on Saturday, April 29, at 9 a.m. CST at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium.
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US to send Patriot missile systems and tanks to Ukraine faster than originally planned
US Patriot missile defense systems and Abram tanks are set to be deployed to Ukraine faster than originally planned, US defense officials said on Tuesday.
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School Workers Strike in Nation's 2nd Largest District
A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff launched a three-day strike Tuesday, effectively stopping classes for more than a half million students in the nation's second-largest school district. United Teachers LA, a union representing about 30,000 teachers, kick off a solidarity strike to support the workers union.
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Cuban catcher defects after World Baseball Classic, report says
After being eliminated from the World Baseball Classic by the US team in Miami on Sunday, the Cuban team landed in Havana on Monday without one of its players.
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Japan Prime Minister Kishida makes surprise visit to Ukraine to meet Zelensky
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise trip to Ukraine to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- a day after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
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Credit Suisse's gold bars, hats and bags are cropping up in online stores
Hats, bags and gold bars emblazoned with Credit Suisse's logo are being sold on resale sites, having popped up mere hours after the 167-year-old bank was saved from collapse by rival UBS.
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Video shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor in the moments before his death
Surveillance video released by a prosecutor Tuesday shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor by multiple security officers at a Virginia state mental health facility in the moments leading up to his death earlier this month.
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Dominion wants Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify at trial, court filing shows
Dominion wants to put Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch on the witness stand at next month's expected defamation trial against Fox News, according to court filings.
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Home prices fell in February, breaking a decade-long streak of year-over-year increases
The median price of a US home was lower this February than it was in February 2022, ending more than a decade of year-over-year increases, the longest on record, according to a National Association of Realtors report released Tuesday.
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Teacher allegedly shot by 6-year-old can't forget the look on student's face, she tells NBC in first interview since the shooting
The first-grade teacher allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student in her Virginia classroom can't forget the look on the student's face as he aimed the gun at her and moments later "thought I had died," she told NBC in her first interview since the January incident.
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Google begins rolling out its ChatGPT rival
Google is opening up access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT.
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Steps have dropped since Covid-19 and the trend is worrisome, study says
Americans took fewer steps during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they still haven't gotten their mojo back, a new study found.
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Sleep starts: Why your body 'hiccups' as you fall asleep
Ever drift off to sleep and suddenly feel like you're falling, forcing you to wake with a start? Some people say they are startled alert by a loud snapping noise or a blinding light coming from inside their head, while others describe their muscles twitching involuntarily from a sudden electric shock.
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Asteroid forms a debris cloud after intentional hit from spacecraft
Telescopes around the world were watching when a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid in September 2022.