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The Atlanta City Council voted overwhelmingly early Tuesday to approve $31 million in funding for the construction of a sprawling $90 million police and fire training complex, backing a project that has provoked nearly two years of sustained protests and further inflamed tensions over law enforcement in the city.

The College for All Act would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street transactions.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer / Getty Images On Wednesday, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) reintroduced a proposal to make higher education free at public schools for most Americans - and pay for it by taxing Wall Street.

Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Race or Class?The Slow Runner Image Credit...via Department of Justice To the Editor: Re U.S. Justice System Put on Trial as Trump Denounces the Rule of Law (news analysis, front page, June 11): Contrary to this analysis of the documents case against former President Donald Trump, what is being tested is not the credibility of the justice system.

What would it be like to hold a piece of outer space in your hand?Some lucky scientists will find out soon when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (shorthand for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) returns from its seven-year mission.The probe will drop off a canister holding about a cup of pebbles and dust from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered his initial speech as a declared presidential candidate in Iowa last week, his first 15 minutes succinctly previewed how Republicans might defeat President Joe Biden next year.The next 30 minutes of DeSantis' speech then demonstrated how Biden might survive despite all the doubts about his performance and capabilities.

A hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances to other hospitals for more than 24 hours because of a cyberattack, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Wednesday in the latest example of a hacking incident complicating health care in the US.The cyberattack took place on Monday and has forced nurses and doctors at Idaho Falls Community Hospital, an 88-bed hospital in the east of the state, to use pen and paper rather than computers for patient charts, hospital spokesperson Brian Ziel told CNN.

Spreadsheets are part of the modern business world, meaning someday you'll have to look at one.The kinds of features you need from your spreadsheet application can vary, though, with many users never coming close to needing the robust features of Microsoft Office's Excel.Must-read big data coverage
For those of us who aren't accountants crunching numbers daily, Microsoft Office, including Excel, can be prohibitively expensive.

Recently, a surprising name popped up in a Washingtonian editor's inbox.It was none other than America's biggest pop star, Taylor Swift.Even more unexpectedly, the email concerned working conditions for staffers on Capitol Hill.Obviously, we were curious to hear the singer's thoughts on this, so we decided to call her up.

With the NFL free agency and draft both in the rear-view mirror, and the final phase of voluntary offseason workouts underway, the New England Patriots are officially "on to 2023."At the moment, the Patriots 88 players on their roster.Only 53 of those players will be able to survive roster cutdowns and ultimately make the active team, with others competing for practice squad spots.

With summer fast approaching, Oregon once again does not have a functional state legislature.The Republican Senate caucus has walked out over objections to bills on abortion rights, transgender rights, and gun safety, and while negotiations to bring the Republicans back are ongoing, the legislative session remains imperiled with less than two weeks to go before it's set to end.

There has been almost no rain in England for the last three weeks, while many rivers in the north and West Midlands are notably or exceptionally low, new figures show.Less than one millimetre has fallen in the South East and North East since May 31, with the rest of England seeing no rain at all.The rivers Mersey, Weaver, Derwent, Till and the Upper Severn are all running at exceptionally low levels.

The Brazilian FA (CBF) president Ednaldo Rodrigues said on Tuesday he expects to meet with Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti or his representative this week to discuss the possibility of appointing him as the new head coach of Brazil.Ancelotti has publicly said he will honour the last year of his contract with Real amid interest from Brazil, but Rodrigues did not rule out waiting until July 2024 in order to appoint the four times Champions League winner.

Less than a third of the Confederation of British Industry's remaining members backed the business lobby group at last week's crunch vote on its survival, it has emerged.The confidence vote followed a series of sexual misconduct allegations that prompted several companies including John Lewis and NatWest to terminate their membership of the CBI.

If and when former President Trump goes on trial, the Classified Information Procedures Act will govern what information gets submitted at trial and in what form.I wrote about CIPA in conjunction with the Igor Danchenko case here.Former National Security Division prosecutor David Aaron wrote about it the other day.

In Verizon's just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway.Verizon's just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report shows the continued effectiveness of business email compromises.The study, which tracked incidents occurring between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022, found that BEC attacks doubled and represented more than 50% of social engineering attacks.

More than 2,600 NHS staff in Scotland have been forced to take time off due to long Covid, new figures show.Freedom of information requests by the Scottish Liberal Democrats revealed at least 2,603 doctors, nurses and midwives were recorded as having taken time off due to long Covid, some for more than two years.

Prosecutors in Atlanta investigating election interference by Donald J. Trump and his allies recently contacted two consulting companies that were hired by the Trump campaign in 2020 to research myriad claims of vote fraud but ended up finding no proof that significant fraud had occurred, according to people with knowledge of the investigation.

Yesterday Dom Smith hit his 2nd home run of the season, putting him on pace for a whopping 5 for 2023 assuming he plays as much as he has so far.Such a number is usually reserved for slick fielding middle infielders and while Dom plays a pretty good 1B, important for a team with a couple of young guys at 2B and SS, even glove first 1B hit with more power than this.

Not everyone in Puerto Rico agrees we are the oldest colony in the world.But as a territory that is neither independent nor a state we have no voice in Congress the tension feeds lack of clarity and an illusion of self-governance that obscures our political reality.It robs us of a defined national identity, an economic road map and political dignity.

Humor is subjective, and not every brand lends itself to comedy.But advertisers that can make people laugh are poised to win and keep customers."Even brands that aren't 'traditionally' funny do have an opportunity to be more playful and to amuse," said Stephen Loguidice, SVP and head of partnerships and advertising at Hartbeat, a media venture owned by actor and comedian Kevin Hart.

Manchester City are setting the standards at the moment and it is down to Manchester United - and the rest - to catch up.At the moment, the gap between City and Erik ten Hag's side feels pretty big.They did well to hang on at 1-0 down in Saturday's FA Cup final and then to come back into the game and equalise, but the best team definitely won in the end.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/1/2023 featuring funding details for MoCaFi, Syllo, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.MoCaFi - $23.5M
MoCaFi, a personal finance infrastructure platform for governments and philanthropic organizations to provide critical services to the underbanked, has raised $23.5M in Series B funding led by Commerce Ventures.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/30/2023 featuring funding details for Stepful, Radformation, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.Stepful - $7.5M
Stepful, an online learning platform for the healthcare industry that provides training to those without college degrees for entry-level roles, has raised $7.5M in Seed funding led by Reach Capital.

Steve Kean has been using the TTC since the early 1990's.He says while the system is significantly more accessible than it was back then, there are still cracks.And, he says, the process to re-register for the service's Wheel-Trans service is one of them."It's putting the onus on us to prove that we're disabled, I don't think that's right," Kean said.

A new airline planning to operate transatlantic flights from London by spring 2024 has bought its first plane.Global Airlines said it has acquired an Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet.It believes it is the first new airline to own one of the double-decker superjumbos in eight years.Acquiring our aircraft rather than leasing showcases our commitment to financial security and resilience from day one James Asquith, Global Airlines The vast majority of A380s around the world were put into storage at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, sparking speculation they would never return due to the existence of more fuel-efficient aircraft.

The warm weather is not expected to relent over the weekend with highs of 24C possible in south-east Wales and around the Bristol Channel on Saturday and Sunday.Other areas around the UK can look forward to temperatures reaching high teens and early 20s.Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said the high temperatures for the bank holiday weekend were a rarity in how dry it was expected to be.