Abortion rights defenders and scientists expressed deep concern after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remarks about mifepristone, a key medication used to end pregnancies, at a Wednesday congressional hearing. During the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) inquired about the secretary’s previous pledge to...
Southampton goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale visits a wellbeing project for male fans at St Mary’s. Read full article at source...
“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Donald Trump said during last September’s presidential debate. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.” Such disavowals were common on the campaign trail. But just 100 days into his second term, Trump has enacted many of the...
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The funding will allow solar panels to be installed at many of the trust’s sites More than £5m has been awarded to help Devon Partnership NHS Trust (DPT) decarbonise its sites. The money will fund two major decarbonisation energy projects, aimed at enhancing sustainability and reducing energy costs across its sites. The trust said...
South Hams Council Proposals include increasing the size of the pool and heating it A village swimming pool could reopen as part of £88,000 plans to transform a leisure site. South Hams District Council’s executive committee will on Thursday review proposals for the Meadowbrook Park pool in Dartington, which has been closed since 2022 and...
HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — Eleven days after the massive smokestacks and cooling towers of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant came down in a dramatic fashion in this Indiana County village, causing both emotional and economic distress and a sense of hopelessness, Homer City Redevelopment announced that an even bigger natural gas...
Plymouth City Council The project to improve drainage and create two new ponds in Central Park began at the end of 2022 Plymouth City Council has diverted almost £1m of cash from other projects into a scheme to tackle flooding in Central Park. The Central Park ponds scheme is the third phase of £9 million...
Jake Wallace The building on Cathedral Green which dates back to 1769 was destroyed by fire in October 2016. Developer Nooko, plans to build a combination of residential and commercial units, that honour the building’s “elegance and cultural heritage”, on the site. Company director Max Sayers said the project was about returning “a piece of...
Hattie McCann BBC News, Devon Nicholas Horne for Tamar Crossings The stories will be compiled into an exhibition about the Tamar Bridge A social history project is aiming to tell the stories of people who work in the toll booths on the Tamar Bridge. Fotonow CIC, based in the Royal William Yard in Plymouth, want...
An international group of scientists have taken action across the world to challenge a major extractivist project that’s set to endanger the health and livelihoods of local communities in southwest Peru. To mark World Water Day 2025 on 22 March, activists from Scientist Rebellion mobilised a range of global actions in solidarity with communities fighting...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start dismantling her agency, although it cannot be formally shut down without congressional approval. Since returning to office in January, Trump has already slashed the Education Department’s workforce in half and cut $600 million in grants. Education journalist Jennifer Berkshire...
When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged “inroads with the incoming Trump administration,” abandoned Meta’s founding ethos of open innovation, and dramatically realigned how the tech giant will now do business, as critics like Bärí A. Williams, former...