Tokyo — Police in the city of Myoko, in Japan’s central Niigata region, said Wednesday that an American man in his 30s was killed by an avalanche in a backcountry area of Mount Mitahara. Local police received calls on Wednesday afternoon that three or four people had been caught in an avalanche in the area. According to Myoko city police, …
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Archaeologists working on a site in Mexico found ancient skulls and bones stacked on top of each other, offering a glimpse into the practices of how some funerals might have been carried out in the region and era, officials said. The discovery was made in Pozo de Ibarra, a small town in the state of Jalisco. Personnel from the National …
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Credit card debt forgiveness has been a hot topic as of late. With the federal funds rate target frozen at a 23-year high, credit card interest rates have risen significantly in recent years. And since interest makes up a sizable portion of credit card minimum payments, many are dealing with higher monthly payments today than they were just a couple …
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Becky G will be performing “The Fire Inside” from the film “Flamin’ Hot” at the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced. The singer, who turns 27 this weekend, is among the list of performers revealed Wednesday for the 2024 Academy Awards. The best original song nod for “The Fire Inside” is the only nomination for “Flamin’ …
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Three Mississippi prisons that house about 7,200 people are controlled by gangs and rife with violence, violating the constitutional rights of people incarcerated at all three facilities, a scathing Department of Justice report said. The report found violence, gang control and trafficking of contraband had been happening inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, South Mississippi Correctional Institution, and Wilkinson County …
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Billie Eilish will be performing “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie” at the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced. Eilish, along with her brotherFinneas O’Connell, joins several other performers announced Wednesday for the 2024 Academy Awards. Written by Eilish and O’Connell, “What Was I Made For?” is one of two tracks from “Barbie” nominated for …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency braces for a potential shortage of those shots this year. Doctors should switch from using the so-called Td vaccine – the immunization that protects against both tetanus and diphtheria infections – to giving the broader Tdap vaccine instead …
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A list of accomplished performers will take to the Oscarsstage tonight. They’ll be performing the nominated songs for the 2024 Academy Awards. Who is performing at the 2024 Oscars? The performers on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ list for this year’s award showare: Jon Batisteperforming “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony” Becky G performing “The Fire …
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Washington — OneSenate Republican on Wednesday scuttled a Democrat-led effort to pass legislation that would safeguard access to IVF nationwide. The bill aims to preempt state efforts to restrict access to the fertility treatments since a ruling earlier the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law. Thedecisionmade it possible …
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Small business owners are feeling better about the U.S. economy as inflation cools and recession fears subside, according to a new survey. Indeed, economic optimism among smaller employers is at a 22-year high, PNC Financial Services Group found in polling small and midsize business owners. A majority of respondents – 55% – said they are “highly optimistic” about the national …
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