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On May 24, 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos opened fire inside the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and fatally shot 19 students and two teachers in one of the deadliest school shootings to ever occur in the United States. After the attack, local police faced significant backlash over their delayed response. Arredondo was elected to the city council on May 7, just weeks before the shooting, and was privately sworn in on May 31....

Demonstrators included city workers with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), Emergency Medical Services (EMS), the Sanitation Department of New York (SDNY) and the New York Police Department (NYPD). Photos and videos show a large crowd gathering at the FDNY’s headquarters in downtown Brooklyn. Protesters are expected to rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge over to City Hall. Most of the city’s workers have less than a week to get their COVID-19 vaccines or go on unpaid leave....

PSG are reportedly ready to meet Neymar’s €222 million release clause at Barcelona as they look to win back the league title and finally secure an elusive Champions League crown. Get PSG 1/4 to win Ligue 1 According to reports in Brazil, Neymar is open to making the move to Paris despite signing a five-year deal at Camp Nou in October and scoring more than 100 goals since arriving from Santos in 2013....

PSG bounced back from their humiliating Champions League exit to Barcelona with a 2-1 victory over Lorient in Ligue 1 action on Sunday. Memphis on road to redemption in France After suffering a 6-1 second-leg capitulation on Wednesday as the French champions bowed out 6-5 on aggregate, a first-half own goal by Benjamin Jeannot and Christopher Nkunku’s maiden league goal gave PSG all three points. The away win ensured PSG stayed within three points of leaders Monaco and head coach Emery said: “The team dominated throughout the 90 minutes of the game....

Emilio Estevez, who starred as coach Gordon Bombay in the “Mighty Ducks” movies, is tweeting out his support as the Ducks take on the Blackhawks in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. MORE: An inside look at the Ducks’ logo | Must-see Western Conference finals photos Through the first period, Estevez seems to be a lucky charm for Anaheim. The Blackhawks did get a goal from Teuvo Teravainen, but the Ducks still held a 3-1 lead halfway through the second period....

The highest level of NFL success hasn’t changed the 29-year-old wide receiver. It’s made him even more focused on football. “I try to keep training harder,” Sanders said. “I know I’ve got a small window to be in the National Football League. it seems big, but it’s small compared to your life span. I’ve got the rest of my life to travel the world, do other things. I’m just locked and loaded into working out....

An anonymous worker circulated the video Thursday on Reddit’s “Antiwork” forum, where it has garnered 9,000 votes. The employee, posting under the username u/Patient-Tackle5935, showed the rolled-up poster planted in an inconspicuous corner of their alleged office. The video then panned to the wall where another poster was left pasted alone. “Management took down OSHA poster when workers [started] asking questions about labor law,” said the employee’s caption. Federal law requires employers to post a notice from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), a regulatory agency of the U....

The Germany international’s contract expires at the end of 2017-18 season and there has been no breakthrough in talks over an extension. Juve director general Giuseppe Marotta confirmed this week that the Serie A champions want to sign the player, who is allowed to reach a pre-contract agreement with a club outside the Premier League. Although it looks likely his future lies away from Anfield, Can says he will give his all to help Liverpool achieve their goals this term....

The study, which was published in late July in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, analyzed 19 studies that included 1,243 teens with pelvic pain. The researchers found that 648 of the 1,011 patients (64%) who had a laparoscopy were diagnosed with endometriosis. What Is Endometriosis? Endometriosis is a painful condition that occurs when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows in other parts of the body, according to the U....

People have different motivations for drinking energy drinks. Athletes, students, and anyone else in search of a boost in body and brain function may turn to these popular beverages. Despite their popularity, the jury is still out on how safe these drinks and their components are for consumption. When it comes to your brain health, energy drinks have been considered a possible cause of mild problems such as dizziness and jitteriness as well as more serious medical issues such as seizures and strokes....

The Boston Celtics center, who is now officially known as Enes Kanter Freedom following a change to his legal last name, became an American citizen on Monday after swearing his oath of allegiance. He also changed his Twitter handle to @EnesFreedom. Born in Switzerland but raised in Turkey, the 29-year-old told Fox host Tucker Carlson that his teammates jokingly called him “Mr. Freedom” after he started a vocal social media campaign in October against the Chinese government and especially General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping....

The hosts led 24-6 at half-time and piled on the points in the second, with the Brave Blossoms having simply no answer to England’s electric attack as the hosts crossed four more times, once via a penalty try, either side of Naoto Saito’s consolation. England flew straight out of the blocks in the first half, with two early penalties followed up by the opening try, which Freddie Steward glided his hulking frame through the defensive line to score....

Despite Carlos Queiroz’s side setting out their rigid defensive shape from the start, England’s young stars lit up the Khalifa International Stadium, with Jude Bellingham heading home his first international goal to get things started. The Borussia Dortmund midfielder has emerged as a key player in Southgate’s plans and he expertly nodded home Luke Shaw’s cross after 35 minutes. That eased England’s nerves ahead of the break, as Bukayo Saka volleyed home his first ever World Cup goal, and Raheem Sterling stabbed away his 20th England goal....

The reef was found on October 20 during an underwater mapping expedition of the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef seafloor. After the initial dive, researchers with the Schmidt Ocean Institute carried out another expedition to the site to confirm the discovery. “This unexpected discovery affirms that we continue to find unknown structures and new species in our ocean,” Wendy Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Ocean Institute, said in a statement....

When people are immunocompromised (have a weakened immune system) or have an underlying disease, E. faecalis can become pathogenic (disease-causing). For this reason, E. faecalis is considered an opportunistic pathogen—one that takes advantage of the body when immune defenses are low. E. faecalis can enter the body during surgery, insufficiently cleaned medical devices and equipment, improper hand hygiene, or ingesting contaminated foods and fluids. Of the many species of Enterococcus, E....

Global warming is Exxon’s fault? The Stop Esso campaign, a coproduction of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, doesn’t go that far. But it assigns Exxon part of the blame for the decision by U.S. President George W. Bush not to sign the 1997 Kyoto agreement on global warming, which called on industrialized nations to reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Exxon has run advertisements criticizing the Kyoto accord, and the Stop Esso campaign says people connected to the company contributed more than $1 million to Bush’s Republicans during American elections last year....

In a statement, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, wrote, “Governor Newsom’s response to the drought is too little, too late. Restore the Delta and our coalition partners began warning state agencies and the Newsom Administration at the end of 2020 to plan for these drought conditions.” The statement goes on to say that senior management at the California Department of Water Resources and the California Natural Resources Agency, gave Newsom “bad advice....

Plants in Indiana, Iowa and Ohio are forced to shut down their coal ash ponds months if not years ahead of schedule after the EPA denied their extension requests because of inadequate monitoring of groundwater, clean up and other issues. Coal ash is what’s left behind after coal is burned to create energy. It’s composed of a toxic mixture of mercury, arsenic and other heavy metals. On average coal plants in the U....

Antonio Arredondo and his brother Diego shared an epic round in the “Keep-up Balloon League” that has been viewed more than 6 million times on TikTok as of Friday. Antonio, 21, Diego, 18, and their sister Isabel, 15, have been playing the game, a spin on the traditional game “Keep it Up,” since January 2019, when Antonio shared the first highlight clip on Twitter. The goal is to keep the balloon off the ground while making it harder for his/her opponent to do so without any spikes, double touches or light taps....

Epsom salts aren’t really “salt.” They’re crystals of magnesium sulfate and they’ve been used as a home remedy for hundreds of years. Many people with these conditions say that Epsom-salt soaks are more helpful and more effective than a hot bath by itself. However, that’s not something we can prove or quantitatively measure on our own. It’s not hard to find skeptics who believe any improvement is due to the placebo effect....