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Mexico City – Mexico has elected its first female president, a U.S.-educated meteorologist and former mayor whose landslide victory Sunday reflected the continuing dominance of the country’s ruling party and major strides for women in the country’s political ranks.It is no coincidence that Mexico has a female leader ahead of the United States and most other countries in the world. Mexico has long required political parties to ensure that women make up at least 50 percent of all candidates in federal, state and municipal elections. This has transformed politics: More than half of parliamentarians and almost a third of state…

Sixteen players from the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team partnered with the University of Colorado Boulder to learn ways to improve their performance in the sport. Para-athletes took part in a multi-day study at the University of Colorado Boulder Recreation Center ice rink to test the effect of hockey stick length on performance, including metabolic effort, maximum speed and agility. “There’s a zillion studies on every sport you can think of, but I think it gives sled hockey a lot of legitimacy that there’s serious research being done on the various issues that players face,” team member Declan Farmer said.…

President Biden plans to issue an order on Tuesday that would cut off access to the U.S. asylum system if illegal border crossings exceed a daily threshold, according to four administration officials and a person familiar with the plans.Migrants who exceed the limit will be returned to their home countries or Mexico and will not be eligible for asylum review, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the White House’s pending order.The measure has been under consideration by the administration since the defeat this year of a bipartisan border bill that…

Whenever I complained about the division in American politics, my son Henry would often encourage me to do something. Henry was a poll worker during the 2020 election at age 17. It was his first official job, and he loved the experience so much he even wrote about it in his college essays.After Henry tragically died in an accident on August 29, 2022, I followed his lead and signed up to work on that year’s midterm elections. I fully immersed myself in the work and learned through my son’s example how we can all work in a bipartisan way to…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would allow the U.S. to turn away migrants who enter the country without lawful authorization if there are high numbers crossing the border.The lawmaker, who was briefed by White House officials over the weekend, spoke to USA Today on condition of anonymity about the plans.The closure would be automatically triggered if more than 2,500 migrants enter through any legal port of entry.Biden plans to use Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to carry out the measure. Former President Donald Trump relied on the same…

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Monday that an Atlanta-based venture capital firm should be temporarily blocked from making grants to black women-owned businesses, saying the grants likely amounted to discrimination against business owners of other races.The ruling came after the Fearless Fund, a venture capital firm that focuses on funding companies founded by women of color, was sued last August by a group led by Edward Blum, an opponent of affirmative action. Blum’s lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina culminated in the Supreme Court overturning race-based college admissions…

Astronomers are confident that 1994 PC1 is not on a collision course with Earth and will pass safely.This was a mission that took place in January 2022, but was recently declassified by the Chinese government and made public for the first time.and it is, Chinese satelliteThese are concerns for Western countries, especially the United States. China’s expanding space power It may be used for military purposes.But researchers detailing the 2022 mission said China will continue to hone these technologies to protect humanity.”Additional experiments will be conducted to observe fainter near-Earth asteroids using existing space-based instruments,” the project team, led by…

Pakistan is considered the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change. Studies have shown that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Asian countries. Despite Pakistan having little contribution to climate change, it is one of the most affected countries due to factors such as unplanned urbanization, urban sprawl, deforestation, and melting glaciers due to high temperatures. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has declared April 2024 as the wettest month in the last 60 years. In May, 26 districts were hit by sweltering heat, with the first heatwave lasting till the 30th.Number Two further heat waves…

(Graphic: Business Wire)Laval, Quebec and Frederick, Maryland, June 3, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BIOQuébec and the Maryland Technology Council (MTC) announce a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration and cooperation between the life sciences sectors of Quebec and Maryland. The partnership aims to foster mutual benefits through the sharing of information and opportunities, strengthening the biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in both regions.The MOU establishes a framework for cooperation that will enable members of both organizations to access resources, connect with international markets and participate in special events to foster growth and innovation in the life sciences industry, which may include bilateral…

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