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DeSantis signs bill banning trans girls from women’s sports – Axios

DeSantis signs bill banning trans girls from women’s sports  Axios Florida’s DeSantis signs law prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in female sports  Fox News DeSantis signs bill banning transgender females from competing in girls’ sports  WESH 2 Orlando Coincidence? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

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Global Shortages During Coronavirus Reveal Failings of Just in Time Manufacturing

Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories.

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Biden To Visit Tulsa To Mark The 1921 Race Massacre That Wrecked ‘Black Wall Street’ – NPR

Biden To Visit Tulsa To Mark The 1921 Race Massacre That Wrecked ‘Black Wall Street’  NPR Biden to announce new steps to help communities of color while honoring Tulsa Race Massacre  CBS This Morning Tulsa Massacre: What happened in 1921? – BBC

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French publisher releases new Mein Kampf edition to ‘confront’ Nazism

French publisher Fayard releases a new translation of Mein Kampf on Wednesday after years of delay due to the controversy over publishing Adolf Hitler’s racist, anti-Semitic screed. But historians behind the project say it will perform a valuable service in

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Sprinklr’s IPO filing shows uneven cash flow but modest growth

Another week, another unicorn IPO. This time, Sprinklr is taking on the public markets. The New York-based software company works in what it describes as the customer experience market. And after attracting over $400 million in capital while private, its

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Slavery Wasn’t ‘Long Ago:’ Writer Exposes The Disconnect In How We Tell History

In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and Louisiana’s Angola prison. (Image credit: Carletta Girma/Courtesy of Broadside)

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UK’s Heathrow Airport opens terminal for high-risk travelers

A terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport that was mothballed because of the coronavirus pandemic reopened Tuesday to serve passengers arriving from high-risk countries — an action that critics said was long overdue.

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Indivisible is training an army of volunteers to neutralize political misinformation

The grassroots Democratic organization Indivisible is launching its own team of stealth fact-checkers to push back against misinformation — an experiment in what it might look like to train up a political messaging infantry and send them out into the

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Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

If you’ve experienced parenthood, you’re well versed in the surprisingly small world of disposable diapers. Help may be on the way. Kudos, a startup that is looking to reinvent the disposable diaper with sustainability in mind, announced the close of

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WHO renames coronavirus variants with ‘non-stigmatising’ Greek letters – The Washington Post

WHO renames coronavirus variants with ‘non-stigmatising’ Greek letters  The Washington Post Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names to avoid stigma  The Guardian COVID-19 variants to be labeled as Greek letters, WHO says  ABC Action News WHO’s new naming system for coronavirus

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