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Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 1. As more migrants arrived, the city's existing services were strained. Chicago began using the city's two international airports as temporary shelters as the number of migrants arriving by plane increased. At O'Hare, migrants have spread out beyond the curtain for more space, sleeping along windows. At Boston's Logan International Airport, migrants who arrive overnight are given cots for a few hours before being sent elsewhere.

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☆ Ukrainian orphans taste freedom after fleeing Russian occupation
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Stefaniia Bern | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"There was no ping pong in occupation, children don't even play soccer in the stadiums. Last month, their father finally died of AIDS, the same illness that killed their mother a decade ago, leaving them orphans. Moscow says it has gathered hundreds of thousands of orphans and vulnerable children there, taking them to Russia for their safety. Children whose parents die are the most urgent cases, because the Russian-installed occupation authorities will swiftly impose legal guardianship, said Save Ukraine's founder, Mykola Kuleba. Once they have Ukrainian passports sorted, they will go stay with their late father's ex-wife, now a refugee in Slovakia.

Persons: Ilona Pavliuk, Maksym, Ilona, didn't, tugging absentmindedly, haven't, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Mykola Kuleba, Peter Graff, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS, KYIV, Valera, International Criminal Court, Save, Ukraine, Dnipro, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Belarus, Vladyslav, Nova Kakhovka, Pishchane, Dnipro, Russia, Russian, Moscow, Hague, Save Ukraine, Slovakia, Ukrainian

☆ 'My call sign is 'Grandad.'' The retirees who are frontline fighters for Ukraine against the Russian invaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some volunteer fighters in Ukraine are considerably older than the average age of a typical soldier. 63-year-old Leonid Onyschenko, for example, is fighting for Ukraine near the city of Bakhmut. While the classic image of a soldier in battle evokes a fit young person with a chiseled jawline, the diverse volunteer fighters in Ukraine defy this expectation. The Territorial Defense Forces (TDF) — a volunteer military reserve — said that Onyshchenko had been serving the country for nine years since Russia's invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. Many of the older volunteers the news outlet spoke to appeared eager to stay in eastern Ukraine at the time.

☆ 'Truth serum' drugs do exist. Here's how medicines like sodium pentothal and scopolamine can manipulate the brain.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Numerous accounts and scientific reports suggest that you're more prone to tell the truth under the effects of truth serum drugs, but the drugs have other side effects. Furthermore, not only are truth serum drugs not all that useful, they are illegal under certain circumstances, including interrogation. A truth serum experimentTo find out if truth serum works, TV journalist Michael Mosley experienced it for himself in 2013. To investigate sodium thiopental, one of the more popular truth serum drugs, Mosley took two different doses of it. The future of truth-telling drugsThere may be a more powerful truth serum drug out there that researchers have yet to discover.

☆ A millennial who got laid off from her dream job says she doesn't feel betrayed: 'The company has already moved forward and you need to do so too'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Michelle Valera, 28, got laid off from her "dream job" a few weeks ago. But she says she doesn't feel "betrayed" because the company is not her family. But despite all this, she says she doesn't feel "betrayed" by her former employer and thinks others shouldn't feel this way either — at least for too long. "Feel angry, feel sad, feel betrayed for a day, for two days maybe, but then let it go and move forward because the company has already moved forward and you need to do so too for your own financial benefit." With anger towards the company, it doesn't help them move forward."

☆ Dealing with a layoff? There's a TikTok community for that
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

It's kind of like more unfiltered (and sometimes messier) version of the LinkedIn layoff post that gained steam throughout the last year. And it's a sharp turn from viewing a layoff as something to be embarrassed about and keep private. Young workers aren't staying quiet. Many young workers are using the platform to process their feelings, especially when they receive the news at while working from home and don't have colleagues or friends nearby to vent with. If not for connection, viewers may flock to these layoff reaction TikToks hoping to calm their own anxieties about layoffs.

☆ Pickleball popularity explodes, with more than 36 million playing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Jessica Golden | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The latest numbers unveiled in the 2023 APP Pickleball Participation report, via a study conducted by YouGov, shows that 14% of Americans played pickleball at least once in that 12-month period. The real dillAcross the country, tennis courts and being replaced, and pickleball courts are moving in as other investors are shoring up big money. Since 2022, Life Time has constructed indoor and outdoor pickleball courts at a rate of five new permanent courts each week. "Pickleball participation [at Life Time] in a given month has risen from about 16,000 people to like 160,000. Major League Pickleball and the Professional Pickleball Association took notice and they have partnered with Life Time to host multiple tournaments across the country this year.

☆ INTERVIU cu Jăka Banditu’: Motivul emigrării în S.U.A., rapul de acasă, noul album, hateri și influenceri
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-13 | by ( Redacția Regional | Pentru Că Știrile Contează | ) regional.md time to read: +5 min

Eugeniu Cheptănaru, cunoscut de mulți ca Jăka Banditu’, este un vlogger și un rapper originar din satul Mașcăuți, raionul Criuleni. În interviul ce urmează am discutat cu Jăka despre rapul moldovenesc, noul album și despre influenceri. Jăka Banditu’: Am plecat în America pentru că soția mea era însărcinată și chiar nu știam cum să mă descurc acasă. Nu am plecat cu gândul că aș rămâne mai mult de o perioadă și apoi aș reveni, și apoi aș pleca iar. Nu vreau să lansez un album decât atunci când voi simți că e gata și că este ca un film.

Persons: Eugeniu Cheptănaru, cela, Kroll, Valera Leovskii . Valera, Valera, Ivan White, Nostradamus, Vanga Organizations: Artistul, M9 Locations: Criuleni, american Las Vegas, S.U.A ., America, Republica Moldova, Moldova, România, Amaru, american, Republicii Moldova

A continuat cu o campanie electorală în care atât Maia Sandu, cât și Igor Dodon au depus semnăturile la CEC pentru a fi înregistrați. Luni, 21 septembriePreședintele Igor Dodon a început săptămâna printr-un pas excelent de îmbunătățire a relațiilor Moldovei cu China. Decizia a fost luată de un judecător pe nume Roman Pascari. Acesta a fost numit recent, în luna august, judecător pe viață, de către Igor Dodon. Persoana este un profesor de educație fizică, tehnologică și de geografie (asta spune mult despre existența suficientă a cadrelor didactice în sistemul educațional) și a comis marele păcat de a numi pensionarii idioți și de a îndemna tinerii să participe la vot.

Persons: Igor Dodon, Maia Sandu, Luni, China . Dodon, Aizin, Oleg, Andrei Năstase, Siegfried Mureșan, Andrzej Halicki, Aceștia, ., Ion, Renato Usatîi, Dodon, Eugeniu Nichiforciuc, Totul, Facebook ., Valera, Președintele, Serghei Organizations: CEC, . Miercuri, Canal Chișinău, Facebook, Statistică Locations: Moldovei, China, Moldova, Roman, Moscova, Bălți, Chișinău

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