Category: United States
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Anitta Nominated for ‘Best Latina’ for the Second Consecutive Year at the VMA
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MTV announced the nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2023, the main award for music videos. Brazilian singer Anitta has received another nomination in the ‘Best Latina’ category for the music video of ‘Funk Rave’. She is competing against Shakira, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, and Karol G. This is not the first time that…
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Supreme Court Allows Federal Regulation of Homemade Firearms
On Tuesday (8), the Supreme Court of the United States temporarily revived the Biden administration’s regulation on so-called “ghost guns” – kits for assembling untraceable homemade firearms that can be purchased online. In defending the rule, government officials stated that the popularity of these weapons has increased in recent years, particularly among criminals who are…
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Pill for Postpartum Depression Approved by FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill specifically to treat postpartum depression, a potentially fatal condition that affects hundreds of thousands of new parents in the United States each year. The manufacturers Sage Therapeutics and Biogen Inc. say that the drug, Zurzuvae (zuranolone), will be commercially available in the fourth quarter of this…
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DeSantis’ Policy: People, Events, and Businesses Are Leaving Florida
One thing is true: in a war, there are casualties. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “woke war” is no exception. DeSantis, who promises that if elected president, he will make the United States more like Florida, has been promoting a wave of extremist legislation in his state. He has restricted academic freedom and banned diversity and…
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American Credit Card Debt Hits Record $1 Trillion
American credit card debt has just reached a new and undesirable milestone: for the first time, it exceeds $1 trillion, according to data released on Tuesday (8) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. During the second quarter, credit card balances surged by $45 billion, or nearly 4.6%, to $1.03 trillion, according to the…
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Federal Government Expands Access to Credit for Small Businesses
On August 1, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) began implementing changes aimed at expanding small businesses’ access to capital. The improvements to the 7(a) and 504 loan programs will increase small businesses’ ability to access financing to start and grow through a broader network of lenders with streamlined procedures. The SBA has also made…
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New Netflix Documentary, “Poisoned”, Reveals How Shockingly Contaminated Your Food Is
You’re hungry and want to eat something healthy. Maybe a salad. Whoa, be careful! Romaine lettuce and spinach are prolific carriers of foodborne pathogens. How about a chicken sandwich? Watch out: it’s still common practice in the industry to sell raw chicken infected with salmonella. What about a healthy peanut butter sandwich? Well, peanuts also…
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Summer Vacation in the Northern Hemisphere, Europe and Asia
And since the autumn and winter seasons can be quite harsh, people like to take advantage of the good weather. That’s why school and academic vacations last all summer, in the middle of the year. It’s Summer Vacation! Its start marks the end of the school year. In other words, when you return to university,…
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From Train Tracks to Cycling Trails
The United States has thousands of miles of abandoned railway tracks that trains no longer use. Rails to Trails, a non-profit organization, works with local and state governments to develop extensive park systems coast to coast along former railway lines converted into trails. So far, they have created 56,327 kilometers of new trails and have…
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¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today at the Museum at FIT
The exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today, at the Museum at FIT, examines the work of 21st-century Latin American and Latinx fashion designers. The exhibition features over 60 objects from the museum’s permanent collection, including many new acquisitions, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, and supplementary fashion media. It highlights designers…