But then Smith read something that took his breath away. The measure, officially titled the Parental Education Bill, would, to some extent, prohibit “class discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity.” Smith, who in 2016 became the state’s first openly gay lawmaker, said he was not exactly surprised the bill was introduced. It was just one of a number of bills that had been proposed before the legislature met on January 11 and which in some way targeted the LGBTQ + community....

Stephanie Grisham, a longtime loyalist to Trump who served as the press secretary to the former president and Mrs. Trump’s chief of staff, resigned a few hours after texting on Jan. 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the his election. defeat. “Do you want to write on Twitter that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no room for lawlessness and violence?” Mrs....

Les chiffres de mardi sont globalement supérieurs à ceux des trois jours précédents en raison de la fermeture des laboratoires et des pharmacies le dimanche et du temps nécessaire à la collecte des données le week-end. Les autorités sanitaires ont dénombré 95 000 cas il y a sept jours et 35 000 cas il y a quatre semaines. Vaccination Covid-19 : Vaccination Covid-19 : le panneau de contrôle en France et dans le monde...

Earlier this month, 50 Calgary residents were summoned by a mall food court at lunchtime and told to go immediately to nearby Calgary Center to participate in the jury selection. This was because the court realized that the panel of jurors was not large enough for an upcoming trial – too many jurors had been excluded, according to a prosecutor in court. So a court issued orders to find more....

Health Canada reports that flu activity remains at levels above what is typically expected for this time of year. The latest national flu report is for the week ending December 3, 2022. It shows that of the roughly 9,800 laboratory-confirmed cases of flu, the vast majority were the influenza A strain. 41 percent of detections in week 48 were among people age 19 and younger. That’s down slightly from 45 percent the previous week....

Inflation is easing, but consumer prices remain nearly eight percent higher than a year ago. For many families, this news is troubling as the holiday season approaches and many evaluate their travel and gift-buying plans in the coming weeks. The current inflationary crisis is not only felt in the United States. Germany has seen prices rise by 10.4% since October 2021 and consumers in Argentina are struggling to keep up with historic inflation expected to be 73....

“We have a saying in America — we say that nations with allies thrive, nations without allies wither, and we’re seeing Russia wither before our eyes right now,” Mattis said at the Seoul Forum 2022 in South Korea, according to CNN. . Mattis, a former four-star Marine general who led the Pentagon during the first two years of the Trump administration, condemned Russia’s “immoral, tactically incompetent, operationally stupid and strategically stupid effort” to invade Ukraine, CNN reported....

Donald Trump dismissed security warnings of armed protesters in the January 6 rally and made desperate efforts to unite with his supporters as they marched on the Capitol, according to a new dramatic testimony before the House on Tuesday. uprising of 2021. Cassidy Hutchinson, a little-known former White House aide, described an angry, provocative president that day as he tried to let armed protesters evade security rallies that morning to protest his 2020 election defeat....

Früher konnte man im Wienerwald regelmäßig Ski fahren und er erinnert sich an den eiskalten Winter 2005/06, der ihn veranlasste, seine Seilbahn zu modernisieren. Ausgerechnet der Winter ist in Österreich wärmer geworden, was sich besonders im Unterland bemerkbar macht. Mehr als zwei Punkte steigen „Die letzten zehn Tieflandwinter waren bereits mehr als zwei Grad wärmer als im Durchschnitt der Jahre 1961 bis 1990“, sagt Marc Olefs, Leiter der Klimaforschung an der Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG)....

Lire aussi BCE : de combien augmenter les taux d’intérêt pour ramener l’inflation à 2 % ? Et doit-on s’accrocher à cet objectif ? Aucune récession n’est signalée La Réserve fédérale américaine s’attend désormais à une inflation de 3,1 % en 2023, contre 2,8 % précédemment, et souhaite la ramener aux alentours de 2 %. Pour 2022, il table sur 5,6 %, contre 5,4 % il y a trois mois....

L’image parle d’elle-même. Avant le coup d’envoi du 8e de finale de la Coupe du monde entre la Suisse et le Portugal (6-1), tous les photographes se sont réunis devant la surface technique de la Seleção das Quinas pour immortaliser l’instant. Remplaçant au coup d’envoi, Cristiano Ronaldo n’avait pratiquement jamais subi un tel traitement lors d’un tournoi majeur. Les Lusitaniens ont peut-être asséné une véritable claque aux Helvètes, le principal sujet de discussion pendant et après la rencontre étant le quintuple Ballon d’Or....

Vladimir Putin still wants to occupy most of Ukraine and the picture of the war remains “quite bleak,” said a senior US intelligence official. “We are still in a position where we are looking at President Putin and we believe that he has essentially the same political goals that we had before, namely that he wants to occupy most of Ukraine,” said Avril Haines, the US director. The National Intelligence Service said at a conference of the Ministry of Commerce....

Nigel Malt, 44, is said to have been “completely overwhelmed with anger” as he allegedly killed Lauren Malt outside her home in rural Norfolk on January 23 this year. The 44-year-old was estranged from his family as the relationship was “marked by alcohol, drugs and the use of anger and violence”, his trial that was heard on Thursday. A jury heard graphic sound clips on Thursday with Lauren moaning as Malt allegedly hit her twice with her black Mercedes sedan around 7....

Cela ne fait plus aucun doute, la France fait face à une forte reprise épidémique. En réponse à la flambée de l’infection à travers le pays, la ministre de la Santé Brigitte Bourguignon a appelé les Français à rétablir le masque dans les transports publics. “Il suffit de voir une salle de gare ou de train pleine pour savoir qu’il faut d’abord se protéger et protéger les autres”, a déclaré le ministre de la Santé à RTL, ajoutant que le port du masque était un “geste citoyen”....

Mission Creek during a flood earlier this month. The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Center canceled the local state of emergency declared in the city two weeks ago. The state of emergency, declared due to local flooding along Mission Creek, Scotty Creek and parts of Mill Creek, ended at 12:01 p.m. this morning. While the local state of emergency is over, emergency officials say they will continue to monitor the weather and advise if further action is needed....

After nine years of sporting minor championships, a battle with shoulder injuries and even retirement, the No. 1 pick in the 2013 draft made his MLB debut on Wednesday at the age of 30. The Philadelphia Phillies called Appel out of the bullpen for the ninth inning against the Atlanta Braves, falling 4-1. It was not a state of high leverage in a game that Atlanta eventually won, but Appel looked fine on an MLB mound while allowing a single key and keeping the Braves out of the standings....

Updated: 17:11, 1 July 2022 A driver fell over and killed a 96-year-old passer-by in a car accident in Great Yarmouth. Michael Irons was trying to drive his car into another vehicle when he hit Ivy Warnes, who was crossing the street. He appeared in the Norwich Crown Court on Friday, where he was jailed for ten and a half years for murder. The subway heard Irons, 26, driving 55 miles / hour along Alexandra Street, which has a 30-mile limit near the Crown Road junction, when he hit the victim as he was helping her cross the road....