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This article was originally published in Chalkbeat.Nearly 5,000 Detroit high school students have earned at least one $200 incentive for perfect attendance since early January.High school students in the Detroit Public Schools Community District can earn $200 gift cards for each two-week period in which they have perfect attendance, from Jan. 6 through March 21.There have been two cycles so far for which students have received the gift cards and, in addition to the 4,936 students who had perfect attendance in at least one of two-week periods, 2,028 have had perfect attendance in both cycles, according to data Superintendent Nikolai…
The militant group has released the remains of an infant and his brother, but Israel says a third body is not their mother’s Israel has accused Hamas of releasing an “unidentified body” instead of the remains of a mother who died in captivity in Gaza alongside her two young children. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the body of Shiri Bibas was not handed over alongside those of her sons Kfir and Ariel.Hamas released four bodies on Thursday that it claimed were hostages, including the remains of Shiri and her sons. The fourth body released as part of the…
Big Brother Starmer has gone too far. As the Labour leftist Government of Keir Starmer continues to establish a dystopia in the United Kingdom, it now arises that Apple is removing the most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK. This is a shocking turn of events and also a public rebuke of Starmer’s regime’s demands, after it ordered the company to build a ‘backdoor’ for accessing user data. Bloomberg reported: “The company said Friday that Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature that adds end-to-end encryption to a wide assortment of user data, is no longer available…
A movie still from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ starring Gary … [+] Lockwood.Getty Images The 1960s were a decade of change in America and around the world. Minority rights were expanded, space travel became more than Science Fiction, and counterculture gained momentum. In many ways, cinema reflected this changing world. The Hollywood studio system had been crumbling since the late 1940s, and by the 1960s, audiences were introduced to independent cinema, the rise of New Hollywood and the end of strict censorship laws. The 1960s were also an excellent era for international films. In…
A migrant from Algeria has been arrested after a person was killed with a knife and five police officers were injured in the French city of Mulhouse on Saturday. The 37-year-old suspect, an Algerian national, was known to police prior to the attack and was on France’s Watch List for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalization (FSPRT), Mulhouse prosecutor Nicolas Heitz said. According to Le Figaro, at least one person died as a result of the stabbing attack on Saturday. Two municipal police officers were also seriously injured, with one suffering an injury to the thorax and the other to the carotid artery.…
President Donald Trump on Friday evening fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, who was put in place by former President Joe Biden and pushed diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Air Force. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social: I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family. Brown’s first term…
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei emboldened an enthusiastic crowd of conservatives gathered outside Washington to keep supporting measures to shrink the size of government, explaining his methods are similar to those started by President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk.Milei is the man behind the chainsaw waved effusively onstage by Musk becoming the most memorable part of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, this year.In a Saturday speech in Spanish, Milei expressed support for the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying it is out of line with…
When Dr. Bill McGuire proposed installing a “Welcome to the Midway” sign along St. Anthony Avenue, he recalled city officials telling him “we don’t like signs.” That’s one fight he won’t bother with as he digs in his planning heels elsewhere around the neighborhood.“If somebody wants to take on that crusade, speak to me,” said McGuire, addressing a few dozen neighborhood residents and elected officials at the Allianz Field brew hall on Thursday evening.The owner of the Minnesota United soccer team is no longer pulling punches as he talks up plans — again — for the land surrounding St. Paul’s…
A Polish-American company has unveiled androids that move using muscles and bones An android that mimics human anatomy with over 1,000 artificial muscles attached to a fully modeled skeleton and has an intricate “nervous system” has been unveiled in a viral video by a Polish-American robotics company.The video of Clone Robotics’ ‘Alpha’ prototype, released on Wednesday, has quickly racked up tens of millions of views. It features a faceless white android suspended in mid-air, twitching as its synthetic muscles engage.While it resembles other humanoid robots like Elon Musk’s Optimus and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, its design principles set it apart.The model…
Credit: Rawpixel Pope Francis’s condition is now “critical,” the Vatican has announced. In a statement on Saturday, the Vatican revealed that Francis was suffering from a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen. “The Holy Father continues to be alert and spent the day in an armchair although in more pain than yesterday,” the statement read. ”At the moment the prognosis is reserved.” The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis is in critical condition after experiencing a severe asthmatic respiratory crisis this morning. Though still in danger, the Pope has spent the day resting in an armchair.…