In Miami Spanish is heard everywhere. In stores, the pubs and the restaurants. At the doctor’s office or at the bank. An omnipresence that is changing the way in which language is spoken English in the American city. A study led by Phillip Carter, a professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University (FIU), […]
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The United States rejoins UNESCO, despite opposition from Russia and China
USA It rejoined UNESCO on Friday, from which it had left under the presidency of Donald Trump, with the support of a large majority of the members of this UN agency, but with the opposition of Russia and China. The request for readmission was approved during an extraordinary general conference of the organization dedicated to […]
Supreme Court ends affirmative action in US universities.
The United States Supreme Court ended this Thursday, June 29, the programs of discrimination positive in universities, in a historic ruling one year after the setback to the right to abortion. Contrary to the opinion of three progressive judges, six conservative judges ruled that admission procedures to colleges based on applicants’ skin color or ethnic […]
The US accuses a Pfizer employee of using inside information to gain on the stock market
The Securities Market Commission of USA denounced this Thursday, June 29, a former employee of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for allegedly using privileged information about the pill against the COVID-19 to multiply your stock market gains. According to a statement, Amit Dagarone of the statisticians in the clinical trial of the Paxlovid drughe learned that […]
SB 1718 has thousands of Florida immigrants at a crossroads
At 42 years old and after 15 years working in Florida To support his family, Honduran Edwin Franco, a heavy equipment operator, has had to face the dilemma of moving to another state or facing the risk of being deported, like many thousands of other undocumented immigrants in Florida. This Saturday, July 1, a law […]
Alex Morgan says FIFA did a “good job” in raising the prize pool at the Women’s World Cup
Summoned by the United States for the Women’s World Cup, American striker Alex Morgan, currently at San Diego Wave FC, valued the measure taken by Fifa to increase the prize pool offered by the tournament. “FIFA has really done, and it’s surprising that this is coming out of my mouth, a good job of increasing […]
Ford will cut jobs in the US and Canada in bid to reduce costs
Ford Motor Co. said on Tuesday it will begin layoffs this week, affecting mainly engineering jobs in the United States and Canada, as part of the Detroit automaker’s move to exit unprofitable locations and trim its workforce. The news comes after the company said in May that it expects to undertake restructuring costs of between […]
Blinken talks to G7 and EU about Russia situation and reiterates US support for Ukraine
The Secretary of State for USA, Anthony Blinkenspoke in a phone call this Saturday with the foreign ministers of the G7 and the European Union (EU) to discuss “the current situation in Russia” after the declaration of armed rebellion by the mercenaries of Wagner against Moscow and reiterate US support for Ukraine. “Secretary Blinken spoke […]
Wagner’s boss rebels against Vladimir Putin, who promises to avoid a civil war
The head of the mercenary group WagnerYevgueni Prigozhin, today took control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and threatened to march on Moscow, in an armed rebellion that the leader of Russia, Vladimir Putindescribed as treason and that, he assured, will be put down to avoid a new civil war. The international community from […]
Is chicken? This is what the first bite of meat “cultured” from cells tastes like
When I told my friends and family that I was doing a report on the first chicken meat grown from cells animals, his first comments were something like: “Gross”. His second comment was: “What does it taste like?”. The short answer, and you’ve probably heard this phrase before in other contexts, was: It tastes like […]