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Let’s Hear it for the Boy! Deniece Williams plays Bethesda Blues & Jazz

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

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El mundo puede tardar 131 años en cerrar la brecha de género, revela un informe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

(CNN) — Los avances para lograr la igualdad de género en el mundo se han debilitado.Un nuevo informe del Foro Económico Mundial calcula que las mujeres no alcanzarán la igualdad con los hombres hasta dentro de 131 años. En otras palabras, hasta 2154.La brecha de género global, una medida de la igualdad en los ámbitos de la economía, la política, la sanidad y la educación, se redujo apenas un 0,3% en comparación con el año pasado, según el “Informe mundial sobre la brecha de género 2023” del FEM, publicado el miércoles.El “tibio progreso” en el cierre de esas brechas y los indicios de que la igualdad está retrocediendo en áreas como la economía crean un “caso urgente para una acción renovada y concertada”, escribió Saadia Zahidi, directora gerente del FEM, en el informe.“Los últimos años han estado marcados por importantes retrocesos en la paridad de género a nivel mundial, con avances interrumpidos por el impacto de la pandemia del virus cov...

‘Shocking’: Officials say 32-year-old woman fraudulently enrolled at 3 Boston high schools

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

A 32-year-old former social worker has been ordered to stay away from Boston Public Schools property after officials say she used forged documents to fraudulently enroll in three different Boston high schools.In a letter to families, Boston Public Schools officials say the woman attended Brighton, English, and Jeremiah Burke high schools under different names throughout the 2022-2023 school year. The Department of Children and Families has confirmed the woman periodically worked for them as a social worker between 2016 and this year but is not longer employed by the agency.Eugene Vanburea, a student at Brighton High School, said, “That’s kind of crazy I don’t know , that’s crazy, I don’t know why they want to act like they’re a student when they’re in their 30s.”A police report shows officers became concerned about the possibility of human trafficking but Boston Mayor Wu said there has been no evidence of that so far. “I’m very thankfu...

Car goes up in flames on I-93 in Somerville

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

A vehicle fire on I-93 in Somerville forced the closure of several lanes on the northbound side of the highway early Wednesday morning.Video from the scene showed the vehicle engulfed in flames.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

OBF: Jack Jones’ attorney comes out swinging, boxes Pats into a corner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

It wasn’t the guns.Or the bullets.It was the Tweets.Jack Jones?Victim.The legal system?Rigged.Criticism of Jones’ alleged actions concerning those unregistered, loaded handguns that showed up at Logan Airport security Friday night in a bag with Jones’ name on it?Racist.Those who express criticism of his alleged actions?Bigots.That is the summation of the public defense offered by Jones’ attorney Rosemary Scapicchio Tuesday. “He had no intention of bringing any guns into Logan Airport that day,” she added of her client.Scapicchio’s defense of Sean Ellis, whose 1995 first-degree murder conviction was overturned after spending 22 years in prison, was featured in the Netflix “Trial 4” docuseries.She attended Suffolk Law School at the same time as Mrs. OBF.She’s good.Jones pleaded not guilty to several firearms-related charges Tuesday and remains free on $30,000 bail. Jones will be back in court on Aug. 18.If only Jones was a member of the Biden family.For now, the real crime here ...

Stock market today: World shares mixed after Wall Street retreat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following the S&P 500’s rise to its highest level since the spring of last year. London, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai declined while Tokyo and Frankfurt edged higher. U.S. futures and oil prices slipped. This week has few potentially market-moving events. Investors are awaiting congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell this week. Market players worry the the Fed may have to keep rates higher for longer, which would pressure the economy and potentially bring on a recession. The Bank of England will meet on interest-rate policy Thursday. Central banks around the world are heading in diverging directions as they battle inflation amid worries about a pressured global economy.Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 16,121.68 and the CAC 40 in Paris slipped 0.1% to 7,284.01. Britain’s FTSE 100 also fell 0.1%, to 7,562.54. The futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

Windrush scandal rumbles on 5 years after UK government’s apology

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

LONDON (AP) — When Thomas Tobierre’s wife, Caroline, died in 2021, he didn’t know how he was going to pay for her funeral. That’s because he had drained his savings while caught up in a U.K. immigration crackdown that improperly targeted legal residents largely from the Caribbean and other parts of the former British Empire. While a government compensation program eventually covered the cost of his wife’s funeral, Tobierre is still fighting for reimbursement of the 14,000-pound pension ($17,891) he cashed in to make ends meet when no one would hire him because of his disputed right to work. He isn’t alone. Five years after the U.K. government apologized and promised to compensate those who were affected in what became known as the Windrush scandal, thousands of people who had their lives upended are still battling for what they consider fair settlements.“They’ve got no compassion,” Tobierre told The Associated Press, referring to the slow-moving compensation claims...

Daughter of California man on death row in Iran files criminal complaint against Tehran in Germany

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — The daughter of a California-based man sentenced to death in Iran has asked authorities in Germany to open criminal proceedings against members of the Iranian judiciary.The family of Jamshid Sharmahd, who is a German-Iranian citizen, says he was abducted by Iran while staying in Dubai three years ago. Iranian authorities accused him of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others. He was sentenced to death earlier this year.German and European diplomats have condemned the verdict, which comes amid an increase in executions by Iran.Germany follows the principle of universal jurisdiction, under which authorities can investigate serious crimes committed elsewhere in the world.Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle Sharmahd , filed a criminal complaint with the German federal prosecutor’s office against eight high-ranking members of Iran’s judiciary and the intelligence service, alleging crimes against humanity.The Berlin-bas...

Israel beefs up troop presence in West Bank after Palestinian attack that killed 4 civilians

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday deployed additional forces across the occupied West Bank and prepared to demolish the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who killed four Israelis in one of the worst attacks in the past year of violence. The families laid to rest the victims in the deadly shooting in the West Bank settlement of Eli, in which two Palestinian militants opened fire at a gas station restaurant.Israeli media identified the four killed as Harel Masood, 21, Ofer Fayerman, 64, and Elisha Anteman, 18, Nahman-Shmuel Mordoff, 17. An Israeli civilian killed one assailant at the scene, while Israeli troops chased and killed the second shooter after he fled. The shooting came a day after seven Palestinians were killed in a daylong battle against Israeli troops in the militant stronghold of Jenin. The worsening violence has created a test for Israel’s far right government and prompted calls for a widespread military operation in the West Bank.The army said it was bee...

The Biden-Modi relationship is built around mutual admiration of scrappy pasts and pragmatic needs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:51:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — No one would mistake them for best of friends.But U.S. President Joe Biden, the son of blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose from tea seller’s son to premier, have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and a pragmatism about the shared challenges their two countries face.Biden is hosting Modi for a state visit this week as he looks to tighten his relationship with the leader of a nation of 1.4 billion that the U.S. administration sees as a pivotal force in Asia for decades to come. The pomp-filled visit will mark the two leaders’ 10th in-person or virtual engagement since Biden became president in 2021. They’re expected to meet again in September in India at the Group of 20 summit.The U.S.-India relationship is complicated. There are deep differences over Russia’s war in Ukraine and India’s human rights record. But the frequent engagement between th...