Johns Hopkins to slash nearly 2,000 jobs after losing $800 million in federal grants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 14, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

More than 2,000 positions related to global health are being cut from the Johns Hopkins University after the Baltimore institution saw $800 million in federal grants disappear, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Hopkins’ medical school; the Bloomberg School of Public Health, including its Center for Communication Programs; and JHPIEGO, the university’s health initiative that focuses on global public health, will be affected by the cuts. USAID was the main funder for both JHPIEGO and CCP. “This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID...

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, World News.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day on Saturday. Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political — and at times violent — rooted in women’s efforts to improve their rights as workers. Women watch a concert while they participate in the flash mob “Beautiful secular outing” by wearing hats to a...

Gene Hackman’s dog was misidentified as other mysteries persist around actor’s death

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 5, 2025. Posted in Celebrities, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By MORGAN LEE, Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — While investigating the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, authorities misidentified a deceased dog, which resolves one of the mysteries of the case. The couple’s German shepherd, named Bear, survived along with a second dog named Nikita, but their kelpie mix, Zinna, died, according to Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility that is involved in the surviving dogs’ care. The dog that died “was always attached to Betsy at the hip and it was a beautiful relationship,” Padilla said in an...

‘I’m Still Here’ from Brazil wins Oscar for best international film

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 3, 2025. Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Music and Concerts, National News, Network, News, Things To Do, TV and Streaming.

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — “I’m Still Here,” a Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar on Sunday for best international film. The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971, was taken from his family’s Rio de Janeiro home and never returned. The focus of “I’m Still Here,” based on the memoir by Paiva’s son Marcelo, is Eunice, the mother of five...

‘No Other Land’ wins Oscar for best documentary

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “No Other Land,” the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday. The collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers follows activist Basel Adra as he risks arrest to document the destruction of his hometown, which Israeli soldiers are tearing down to use as a military training zone, at the southern edge of the West Bank. Adra’s pleas fall on deaf ears until he befriends a Jewish Israeli journalist who helps him...

‘El Mal’ from ‘Emilia Pérez’ wins Oscar for best original song

By MARIA SHERMAN, Associated Press French composer duo Clément Ducol and Camille took home the original song award at the Oscars on Sunday for their track, “El Mal.” In January, “El Mal” also earned the pair a Golden Globe in the same category. The musical “Emilia Pérez” is a lot of things — a musical, a transgender parable, endlessly controversial and frequently criticized for its depiction of Mexican culture. “We are so grateful,” Camille said in her acceptance speech. “We wrote ‘El Mal’ as a song to denounce corruption.” The award was presented by Mick Jagger. “I wasn’t the first...

Iowa’s governor signs a bill removing gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 1, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, LGBTQ, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By HANNAH FINGERHUT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code on Friday when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender people and other Iowans to discrimination in all aspects of daily life. The new law, which goes into effect July 1, follows several years of action from Reynolds and Iowa Republicans to restrict transgender students’ use of such spaces as bathrooms and locker rooms, and their participation on sports teams, in an effort to protect people...

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on February 22, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks. Related Articles National Politics | Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs National Politics | The Supreme Court won’t allow Trump to immediately fire head of...

IRS layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax dodgers, experts say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on February 21, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers beginning this week likely mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collections, experts say. Related Articles National Politics | Trump administration is flouting an order to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid, judge says National Politics | Senate ready to stay up all night to pass GOP budget over objections from Democrats National Politics | ‘Venal...

What’s going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump?

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on February 20, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was its annual celebration of notable American artists. That has changed since the return of Donald Trump. In the first month of his second term, the president has ousted the arts institution’s leadership, filled the board of trustees with his supporters and announced he had been elected the board’s chair — unanimously. In a statement this week to The Wall Street Journal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “The Kennedy Center learned the hard way...

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