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...

New EPA guidance says spending items greater than $50,000 must get approval from DOGE

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

By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new guidance directing that spending items greater than $50,000 now require approval from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The guidance, issued this week, escalates the role that the new efficiency group, known as DOGE, plays in EPA operations. “Any assistance agreement, contract or interagency agreement transaction (valued at) $50,000 or greater must receive approval from an EPA DOGE team member,? the EPA guidance says, according to documents obtained by The Associated...

Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 7, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics, World News.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed uncertainty that NATO would come to the U.S.’s defense if the country were attacked, though the alliance did just that after Sept. 11 — the only time in its history that the defense guarantee has been invoked. Related Articles National Politics | Judge orders Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in USAID and State Dept. debts National Politics | Trump slashed teacher training, citing DEI. Educators say the grants fought staff shortages ...

FAU study reveals how narwhals, the ‘unicorns of the sea,’ explore and play

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 7, 2025. Posted in Environment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Many details have remained unknown about narwhals, the elusive tusked whales that dive in the icy waters of Canada’s High Arctic. But a new study from Florida Atlantic University is shedding light on the narwhals’ many explorations, the way they use their tusks to seek out fish, and how they like to play. Greg O’Corry-Crowe, an FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute research professor, spent the summer of 2022 in the High Artic, participating in a team effort to observe the narwhals under the midnight sun. The study, done in partnership with Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans,...

From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being a designated survivor is like

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

By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — They start the day often as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. They end it that way, too, God willing. But, when the rest of the government is gathered together for a big event, like President Donald Trump ‘s joint congressional address Tuesday night, a designated survivor is kept away to ensure someone in the line of presidential succession stays alive. Picking a failsafe in case of a cataclysmic event that wipes out everyone else dates back to the Cold War. It’s been dramatized in novels and an ABC series starring Kiefer Sutherland that...

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...

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