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Texas GOP Opens Up a New Front in Genocidal Anti-Trans Campaign

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

The transgender community and LGBTQ+ activists rallied at the Texas Capitol in Austin in response to a string of anti-transgender bills on March 27, 2023.Photo: Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via APThe Texas Senate passed a first-of-its-kind bill last week that would make it virtually impossible for a trans person of any age to access gender-affirming care in the state. All those invested in trans liberation have known from the jump that this has been the Republicans’ end game; the relentless attempts to ban trans children’s medical care were simply an opening salvo to a wider attack on all trans existence. Texas Senate Bill 1029 makes this genocidal agenda abundantly clear, while introducing an insidious new strategy for expanding trans health care bans to adults: financial liability.Many trans adults already lack access to transition-related health care in the seven states, including Texas, where Medicaid coverage of such care is prohibited. Missouri’s recent “emergency rule,” while ...

Recall effort against Arizona election denier fails

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

Organizers of an effort to remove a rural Arizona county supervisor for skepticism over the results of last year’s election announced that they have fallen short of the legal requirement to proceed with a recall effort that would have given voters the option of removing him from office.The campaign to recall Tom Crosby in rural Cochise County said Wednesday night that it fell short of collecting the 4,865 signatures required to place the recall on the ballot for voters later this year. Crosby is one of two Republican supervisors on the three-member board who refused to certify the 2022 election in the county. They pushed for hand counting ballots instead of relying on more accurate voting machines and gave oversight of elections to the county’s elected Republican recorder instead of nonpartisan staff. The recorder then hired a new election director who shared memes echoing former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.“This will ...

Jury finds British singer Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t copy Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury finds British singer Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t copy Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.”Source

Handbells ring true in keeping seniors sharp, engaged and learning something new

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

Members of Bronze Unlimited perform a song on handbells. Music To Free is a nonprofit organization that brings handbell programs to low- and fixed-income senior living centers, veteran rehabilitation programs, and addiction treatment programs. (Courtesy Music to Free)Learning to play an instrument can be fun, entertaining, and rewarding for anyone, but it can also serve a very important purpose as you get older.“Playing handbells is a way to help our senior population stay engaged, making music, which is a huge brain stimulation,” said Alan Payne, founder of Music To Free, a nonprofit organization which brings handbell programs to low- and fixed-income senior living centers, veteran rehabilitation programs, and addiction treatment programs. “It helps to release dopamine and elevate mood, and improve cognitive abilities.”During COVID, Payne began thinking of teaching handbells to seniors, when he saw their reactions to performances that involved ringing the br...

Sports on TV for Friday, May 5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, May 5AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL5:30 a.m.FS2 — AFL Brisbane at Carlton12 a.m. (Saturday)FS2 — AFL: Adelaide at Geelong2:30 a.m. (Saturday)FS1 — AFL: Melbourne at Gold Coast5:25 a.m. (Saturday)FS2 — AFL: Hawthorn at FremantleAUTO RACING2:25 p.m.ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Miami International Autodrome, Miami5:55 p.m.ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Miami International Autodrome, MiamiBASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE9 a.m.NBATV — Petro de Luanda vs. Al Ahly, Cairo, EgyptCOLLEGE BASEBALL8 p.m.ACCN — Boston College at Wake ForestSECN — Vanderbilt at Alabama11 p.m.PAC-12N — Washington at Washington St.COLLEGE BEACH VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)10 a.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD vs. UCLA, Dual 1, Gulf Shores, Ala.11 a.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Long Beach St. vs. California, Dual 2, Gulf Shores, Ala.12 p.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: FIU vs. Florida St., Dual 3, Gulf Shores, Ala.1 p.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: FAU vs. LSU, Dual 4, Gulf Shores, ...

Uno por uno: los 10 deportistas mejor pagados del mundo, según Forbes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

LOS ÁNGELES, California – Cristiano Ronaldo es el deportista mejor pagado del mundo en 2023, según el listado de la revista Forbes que sitúa en segunda y tercera posición a Leo Messi y Kylian Mbappé, respectivamente.El portugués lidera este ránking — que analiza el negocio mundial de las estrellas del deporte del 1 de mayo de 2022 al 1 de mayo de 2023 — con unos ingresos de $136 millones gracias, en gran medida, a los $75 millones que cobra al año como sueldo en el Al Nassr de Arabia Saudí.CRISTIANO RONALDO – $136 MILLONESRonaldo ganó 90 millones con sus patrocinios y otros negocios fuera de los terrenos de juego mientras que recibió $46 millones por su desempeño en el campo (Forbes consideró para su cálculo lo que obtuvo en el Manchester United y en el Al Nassr además del tiempo que estuvo sin equipo).LIONEL MESSI – $130 MILLONESCristiano arrebató así el número uno de Forbes a Messi, que había sido el deportista mejor pagado en 2022 con 130 millones y ...

NASCAR 75: Fan growth, new stars among looming challenges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

NASCAR is crumbling. That is the image being presented to the casual fan early in this injury-plagued start to NASCAR’s 75th anniversary season. Through the first 11 races this season, NASCAR has handed down massive penalties, some of which have been overturned by appeal panels.Team owners are in a stalemate with NASCAR leadership over a new revenue model and drivers have been unhappy with the second-year Next Gen car’s performance at certain tracks. Most alarming, as NASCAR is in the thick of negotiating a new television contract, was the dramatic drop in TV ratings when Chase Elliott was sidelined earlier this season. Elliott has been voted NASCAR’s most popular driver by the fans the last five years; when he spent six races recovering from a broken leg suffered in a snowboarding accident, ratings dropped by roughly 500,000 viewers. And when he returned? NASCAR saw back-to-back ratings increases. As part of the celebration of NASCAR’s 75th season, The Associated ...

Caught on camera: 'Road rage' shooting in Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A driver was caught in the middle of a shooting on Monaco and Evans and captured it all on a dashcam. Now, police are looking for the suspects.The shooting took place Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Monaco Street Parkway and Evans Avenue in the Goldsmith neighborhood.Dashcam footage obtained by FOX31 shows a dark-colored SUV and a white pickup truck swerving in and out of traffic for nearly 40 seconds. Bullet narrowly misses toddler in car seat in road rage shooting The video shows the white truck trying to get away from the SUV, and once the two vehicles pass through the intersection the driver in the SUV fires shots at the truck. Immediately, the truck swerves onto the wrong side of the road to escape the SUV.More shots can be heard as the truck turns back onto the right side of the road and drives towards incoming traffic. Did you know you could get caught speeding by an aircraft? The person filming the shooting can be seen exiting the roadway ...

Denver and Colorado both rank second for women-owned businesses

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Centennial State is among the best in the nation for female entrepreneurs, part of a broader economic trend in which Colorado's business climate performs well in women's opportunities.Small business loan broker OnDeck crunched U.S. Census business owner data and found Colorado, and particularly the Denver metro area, has some of the nation's highest concentrations of female-owned businesses. Caught on camera: 'Road rage' shooting in Denver Colorado cities already score highly for women's professional outcomes. The Boulder and Denver metro areas have some of the nation's highest payscales for women who work full time. In the 50 largest statistical metro areas, the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro ranks second in the nation, with 24.8% of its businesses founded by females. The Denver area only has a shade smaller share of women-founded businesses than St. Louis, which claims the highest percentage in the U.S. with 24.84%. The Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami met...

Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries, autopsy shows

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:56:54 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries to the head after he was beaten by Memphis police during a January arrest, an autopsy report released Thursday showed.The autopsy said the manner of death was homicide. It described multiple contusions, brain injuries, cuts and bruises to the head and other parts of the body.Nichols was Black, as were the five police officers fired and charged with second-degree murder and other counts after his death. They pleaded not guilty Feb. 17.Nichols was stopped by police Jan. 7 for an alleged traffic violation and was aggressively pulled out of his car by officers. An officer shot at Nichols with a stun gun, but Nichols ran away toward his nearby home, according to video footage released by the city of Memphis and other police records.Officers who were part of a crime-suppression team known as Scorpion caught up with Nichols and punched him, kicked him and slugged him with a baton as he yelled for his mother.After the beating, ...