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The recently launched satellite will provide a global view of methane emanating hot spots, and make its data open to the public. Earlier this week, a new satellite launched to track methane as it emanates from oil and gas fields across the world, hoping to expose major producers of the greenhouse pollutant and hold them accountable... “Data from this satellite will help us to better measure methane emissions and target their sources, bringing more transparency to the problem, giving companies and investors the information they need to take action, and empowering the public to hold people accountable,” Michael Bloomberg, United...

Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday...

....Police shot Goodlow in his bedroom on Feb. 3 at the Villagebrook Apartments at 260 E. St. Charles Rd., after responding to a reported domestic violence incident. This past Friday, Carol Stream police released body camera footage from all six officers who entered the one-bedroom unit after speaking to an alleged domestic violence victim who said she was injured in a physical altercation with Goodlow....

A federal appeals court Monday rejected restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers placed on addressing race-related issues in workplace training — part of a controversial 2022 law that DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act. The workplace-training part of the law listed eight race-related concepts and said that a required training program or other activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts As an example of the concepts, the law targeted compelling employees to believe that an “individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or...

Although the United Auto Workers (UAW) union voiced their support for Biden as an organization, some current and retired members claim they’re leaning the other way. "Donald Trump speaks our language. He came in and speaks directly to us," one UAW member told FOX Business’ Grady Trimble outside the union headquarters in Detroit. "I would say, among the people I work with across all demographic spans, really, there's a lot of support for Trump," a second member added on "Varney & Co." on Friday.

A fraternity at the University of Miami is under investigation for an alleged hazing incident that occurred on campus. According to a Thursday article from The Miami Hurricane — the university's campus newspaper and the first to report it — a leaked video that been circulating around...

....Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a press conference on school safety measures Tuesday and called for the replacement of Florida's surgeon general -- as the measles outbreak in South Florida continues to expand. She called for the termination of Dr. Joseph Ladapo and for Governor DeSantis to replace him...

The eagle has landed. President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance Monday on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" alongside comedian Amy Poehler, who he joined on stage to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Meyers' show.... ...Poehler left the stage and just Biden and Meyers got to more serious subjects. Addressing criticism about his age, the 81-year-old president noted former President Donald Trump is also older, while taking a dig at his Republican rival's own mental acuity and policy ideas.

....When their eleventh studio album The Works - produced by Queen and Mack - was released in the UK on February 27th, 1984, fans and critics alike hailed it as Queen's return to their rock roots and to the traditional Queen sound absent from the previous album. Record Mirror described it as ‘Another jewel in the crown’. For the first time the band started the new recordings in Los Angeles in August 1983 and finished at Musicland studios in Germany early the following year. The album cover was conceived by Queen and features an image from a photographic session with...

Florida's controversial surgeon general is drawing criticism for his handling of an elementary school's measles outbreak... ...Dr. Joseph Ladapo, nationally known for his outspoken skepticism toward the COVID-19 vaccine, sent a letter this week to parents at Manatee Bay Elementary School near Fort Lauderdale after six students contracted... The letter notes that when a school has a measles outbreak, it is “normally recommended” that unvaccinated students...be kept home for three weeks “because of the high likelihood” they will be infected. But the letter then says the state won't turn that recommendation into a mandate, at least for now. The Broward...

Prosecutors in Broward County have dropped charges against a Ukrainian refugee family accused of an anti-gay hate crime in 2022. Five members of the Makarenko family had been implicated in the alleged homophobic beating in Pompano Beach. Authorities...

They're about to break a major record. And fans of legendary rock band Queen will feel it's justified, as they prepare to sell their music catalogue for over a billion dollars. During the pandemic, some of the most influential artists to ever grace our radios began selling over their life's work for a hefty sum...

A dancer in Madonna’s Celebration Tour fell while dragging the star in a chair mid-concert in Seattle on Sunday, sending the chair and the pop goddess tumbling to the floor. Madonna, 65, didn’t miss a note or a beat. Landing on her back, she quickly flipped onto her stomach, singing all the while,

Billy Currington’s song [People Are Crazy] recounts a chance encounter in a bar between the narrator and an older man. The conversation that day ranged widely, covering politics, women, personal brokenness and the difficulty of transformative change, along with the reality of God’s grace in the midst of life’s messiness. When the two finally separated at 2 a.m., the older man’s conclusion was, “God is great, beer is good and people are crazy”. The narrator thought no more about the meeting until he read in the paper that a rich man had donated his entire fortune to a virtual stranger:...

Raised as a Muslim in Iran—one of the most dangerous places to be a Christian—Dilara* is well-acquainted with the harsh reality of persecution. She has spent the past eight years in Lebanon, where some Christian friends in this largely Muslim country invited her to church. Dilara took them up on their offer... she discovered free, online discipleship courses through the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s internet evangelism ministry, Search for Jesus. Eager to continue exploring Christianity, she decided to enroll and was paired with a trained online discipleship volunteer to lead her through it. As she poured through the course material,...

... Five years after allowing churches to leave with their properties if they disagreed with the direction the denomination was heading on issues of gender and sexuality, the results of the split are in, and they reflect larger political patterns to a substantial degree. A new study by the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary finds that the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination lost a quarter of its total churches between 2019 and 2023. Leading the way were churches in the South — the same area of the country that tends to be the most politically conservative and...

First up: aid workers as terrorists? As you just heard, members of the U.N. agency putatively responsible for Palestinian refugees have been linked to the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. That agency is UNRWA, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees... EICHER: Joining us now to talk about it is Richard Goldberg. He’s a Senior Advisor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was previously a National Security Council official and has submitted testimony to the House as part of today’s hearing... Richard, good morning. RICHARD GOLDBERG: Good morning. EICHER: Let’s start with the basics. What...

Alexander Lukashenko (born August 30, 1954, Kopys, Vitebsk oblast, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. [now in Belarus]) Belarusian politician who espoused communist principles and who became president of the country in 1994.

Charles Barkley shares his thoughts about a moment during Donald Trump's New Hampshire primary victory speech when Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he "loved" and showed his support for the former president despite being appointed to the Senate in 2012 by Trump's rival Nikki Haley.

...Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building, where the 2018 shooting — the deadliest in Florida — took place, and spoke with some of the survivors and victims’ relatives about ways to improve school safety nationally. “To say that this morning was one of the most impactful moments of my life is an understatement,” said Cardona, 48, during a round table Monday at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention...