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☆ Vanuatu calls on the World Court to recognize climate change harms
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Regenvanu said there was an urgent need for a response to climate change that was rooted in international law rather than politics. Mario Tama / Getty Images filesWhile advisory opinions from the International Court of Justice or World Court are not binding, they are legally and politically significant. Experts say the court’s eventual opinion on climate change will probably be cited in climate change-driven lawsuits in courts from Europe to Latin America and beyond. “As judges of the World Court, you possess the power ... to help us course correct and renew hope in humanity’s ability to address the greatest challenge of our time,” she said. Earlier on Monday, Germany also argued that the obligations of states with regard to climate change were established in the Paris climate agreement.

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☆ States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Annette Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The case could have wide-reaching implications for transgender youth living in states that have passed similar laws. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. While 19 states passed laws banning gender-affirming care for minors last year, 11 states and the District of Columbia passed “shield” laws protecting access to care. So far this year, Ohio, Wyoming, South Carolina and New Hampshire joined the list of states banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Not all laws banning gender-affirming care are currently being enforced.

Persons: Tennessee’s, Katie Hobbs Organizations: CNN, Movement Advancement, The Williams Institute, US, District of Columbia, New Hampshire, Democratic Locations: Ohio , Wyoming, South Carolina, New, Maine, Rhode, Arkansas, Montana ., United States, While Arizona

☆ Village People singer defends Trump's use of 'Y.M.C.A.,' says song isn't a 'gay anthem'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“Y.M.C.A.” singer and co-writer Victor Willis of the band Village People defended President-elect Donald Trump’s use of the song Monday on Facebook. Willis denied that the disco tune was intended as a “gay anthem,” saying he “knew nothing about the Y being a hang out for gays” when he wrote the lyrics. Willis said he wrote “Y.M.C.A.” based on what he knew about the worldwide youth organization at the time, particularly the YMCA branches in the urban areas of San Francisco. Willis said he has received more than 1,000 complaints about the use of “Y.M.C.A” at Trump’s campaign rallies. Data suggests the staple campaign moment drove the song up the charts, with search interest and listenership soaring on Election Day.

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Oxford University Press announced Monday that “brain rot” — the catch-all term for bizarre and semi-unintelligible extremely online language — is its 2024 word of the year. "These communities have amplified the expression through social media channels, the very place said to cause 'brain rot,'" Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl said in a statement. Between 2023 and 2024, the term “brain rot” increased in usage frequency by 230%, according to Oxford University Press. The term is often used in "a humorous or self-deprecating manner by online communities," Oxford University Press said. Just as it has in years past, Oxford University Press said it again enlisted the public’s help in choosing its word.

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☆ Four friends posed for a photo on vacation in 1972. Over 50 years later, they recreated it
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

For the four women in the photo, Marion Bamforth, Sue Morris, Carol Ansbro and Mary Helliwell, the picture is a firm favorite. “It’s always been our memory of Torquay,” Sue Morris tells CNN Travel. Fast forward to 2024 and Bamforth, Morris, Ansbro and Helliwell remain firm friends. “We always said, when we were younger, that one day we would go back to Torquay,” Ansbro tells CNN Travel. “But just make sure that you still make time for your friends,” Morris says.

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☆ Seoul's $322 million gambit to save the city from crushing loneliness won't fix the source of its problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The city glitters, but there's a reason the locals call South Korea "Hell Joseon." Lonely deaths in South Korea increased from 3,378 in 2021 to 3,661 in 2023, per the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare's data. "'Seoul Without Loneliness' is a bold challenge for the city and not an easy path to take," the representative said. In 2023, South Korea recorded a suicide rate of 27.3 out of 100,000 people, the highest rate among OECD countries like the US, UK, and Japan. Kee Hong Choi, a psychology professor at Korea University, said that his country's education system needs to be "changed dramatically" to become less competitive.

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TikTok is defending itself in federal court over legislation President Joe Biden signed in April that would ban TikTok if it doesn’t sell itself to an American owner by the time Trump takes office. Most Trump allies who oppose TikTok have cited claims of Chinese government influence over American users, which TikTok denies. They have both publicly criticized the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok or lead to a U.S. ban. “Don’t be fooled — the TikTok ban is not about China harvesting your data. Vivek Ramaswamy, who Trump has said will work alongside X owner Elon Musk in newly created government efficiency advisory roles, has over 855,000 TikTok followers.

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The Supreme Court will consider a law restricting transition-related health care for minors for the first time Wednesday, and legal experts say the court’s decision could affect access to transition-related care nationwide for both minors and adults for decades to come. The Supreme Court granted the Biden administration’s appeal of a 6th U.S. The court won’t consider the part of the law that bans surgery, which wasn’t covered by the lower court’s injunction. The ACLU and Lambda Legal noted in their petition to the Supreme Court that circuit courts have become split on the restrictions. Many families with trans kids have had to work around care restrictions to continue care for their children.

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☆ Chase Strangio: For the first known transgender lawyer to argue before Supreme Court, the mission ‘is not lost on me’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court. With hindsight, Strangio’s career can appear like it’s been hurtling toward this week’s Supreme Court appearance. Esseks often gets asked, he said, whether the ACLU tapped Strangio to present its case before the Supreme Court because he’s trans. The Supreme Court ruling also could be life-altering for physicians like Dr. Izzy Lowell, whose telehealth practice, QueerMed, provides hormone therapy and other services for transgender and nonbinary people. “I think about all of the arguments that have that have been held in the Supreme Court over just the basic dignity of people.

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☆ Why Lululemon Is Thriving in China
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementLululemon has seen sales slide in North America, but it's thriving in China. But in China, changing health habits and a struggling luxury sector are helping to boost sales. China is in its health and wellness era, offering Lululemon a ray of hope as the brand struggles to engage consumers back in the US and Canada, where it was founded. Yet, over in China, Lululemon is on the up and up. Lululemon is resonating with Chinese consumers who are in their health and wellness era.

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☆ Lawmakers in Massachusetts are trying to eventually stop the sale of tobacco
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In 2018, the state raised the legal age to buy tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, and e-cigarettes, to 21. Nearby Massachusetts towns, such as Malden, Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, followed Brookline's playbook and also placed generational bans on tobacco products. In the US, California is trying to ban the purchase of tobacco products by 2073. New Zealand was the first country to impose a generational ban, but the country repealed that ban this year. "This bill will not take away the right to purchase nicotine and tobacco products from anyone who is already legally able to do so," he said.

Persons: wouldn't, Democratic Sen, Jason Lewis, Lewis, —, Brookline's playbook Organizations: Associated Press, Big Tobacco, Democratic, Centers for Disease Control Locations: Massachusetts, Brookline , Massachusetts, Boston, Nearby Massachusetts, Malden, Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, California, New Zealand

☆ Women are playing key roles in protests across South Asia. The backlash they face is often heavily gendered
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Jerome Taylor | Esha Mitra | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The event was part of a wave of increasing participation and leadership from women in protests across South Asia, activists and organizers say. But just as notable is a gendered backlash to that wave, involving tactics seemingly intended to subdue female dissent. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty ImagesBangladeshi women protesters hold candles during a protest against rape in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 17, 2024. Nazifa JannatIn Bangladesh, women deal with daily harassment, says Nazifa Jannat, a student and political activist. According to student-protester Jannat, while women have previously participated in protests in Bangladesh, this time many women, including her, played a leadership role.

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☆ I want my kids to feel connected to relatives who are no longer with us. I'm sharing holiday traditions to help bridge the gap.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementA mother uses holiday traditions to connect her children with their family history. Family gatherings, food, and music help bridge the gap between past and present. Here are other ways I help keep holiday traditions and the spirit of the past alive each year. Related storiesCurating a home full of historyI decorate our home with many holiday items my grandmother passed down to me. Sharing these traditions allows me to give my kids a glimpse of my past.

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Indigenous researchers are up against a ticking clock: Of the 4,000 Indigenous languages worldwide, one dies every two weeks with its last speaker. He leads First Languages AI Reality, an initiative of the Mila-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, where researchers are building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages in North America. However, first, he must overcome a major roadblock: There aren’t enough Indigenous computer scientist graduates — people who know the language and culture — to tackle these language preservation projects. “We only graduate one or two Indigenous Ph.D.s in AI and computer science every year,” he said. That’s where the handful of Indigenous engineers who do exist come in: They are leading organizations like First Languages AI Reality, IndigiGenius, Tech Natives and the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI to train Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian computer science students to preserve Indigenous culture and language.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg leads the way with over 770,000 TikTok followers, while Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has a verified TikTok account with just over 1,100 followers. Of the 353 who supported the bill to force a sale, 13 have verified TikTok accounts, all of whom are Democrats. Luna’s communications director said that her TikTok account was for personal use and is not an official campaign account. Unlike in the House, where elected officials with verified TikTok accounts voted in both directions across party lines, 10 Senate Democrats with verified TikTok accounts voted to force a sale of the platform, while one independent and one Senate Republican with verified TikTok accounts voted against the bill to do so. Senators with verified TikTok accounts have an average of 318,000 TikTok followers, while representatives with verified TikTok accounts have an average of 178,000 TikTok followers.

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☆ 5 big questions about how tech will look under Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-29 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

He sought to swat down legal protections for tech platforms. Many Republicans are eager to see the Trump administration address what they see as “censorship” of right-leaning voices by many mainstream social media platforms. That could mean reforming or reinterpreting Section 230, which shields tech platforms from liability for their users’ posts and allows the platforms to moderate content as they see fit. In essence, Carr could attempt to pass a rule that would make it possible to sue tech platforms under that new interpretation. Ultimately, that could mean hamstringing tech companies’ efforts to reduce hateful or false content on their platforms.

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☆ US urges Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds to solve manpower shortages on the battlefield
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Hannah Abraham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementUS wants Ukraine to lower the conscription age to 18 amid a manpower shortage. The White House said aid to Ukraine will not be tied to the conscription age. The current minimum conscription age is 25, but an anonymous US administration official told reporters on Wednesday that reducing it would help Ukraine keep up with Russia's military. The White House clarified that US aid to Ukraine will not be dependent on whether the conscription age is lowered. In the months he has left, Biden has been scrambling to push measures to aid the war effort in Ukraine.

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☆ I uprooted my life and moved across the world to teach at a Japanese high school. These are the 3 things I learned, and why I'd do it again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-28 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementNic Lim, a New Zealand author, uprooted his life in New Zealand to become a school teacher in Japan. AdvertisementYou may think you know Japan from the touristy photos people post on Instagram. I wanted to capture the feeling of the best days of one's high school life. Nic LimOf course, life in Japan wasn't perfect — no country is perfect — but I take the good with the bad. But I came out of it with beautiful memories of life in high school, too.

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☆ Ohio governor signs bill restricting trans students' school bathroom use
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Mike DeWine signed a bill Wednesday banning transgender students from using school restrooms that align with their gender identities. The bill also mandates that Ohio schools cannot have restrooms or locker rooms that are open to all genders, excluding family facilities or single-occupancy facilities. Instead, it will make trans people less safe and fail to increase the safety of all students,” Antonio wrote. Ohio House Republicans attached the legislation about restrooms to proposals regarding report card data for Ohio’s college credit program for high school students. “Extremist politicians are panicking because transgender students exist," Willingham-Jaggers said.

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☆ Australia nears social media ban for children under 16 after heated debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The planned law would force social media platforms to take reasonable steps to ensure age-verification protections are in place. The ban was first announced during an emotionally charged parliamentary inquiry into social media, which included testimony from parents of children who had self-harmed due to cyberbullying. “I understand that using social media a lot is not a good thing and I’m working on it,” said Sydney high school student Enie Lam, 16. Australian media, from the publicly owned Australian Broadcasting Corp. to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., also support the ban. Let’s try and reduce the incidents we’re hearing involved with social media and young people in Australia.”

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☆ Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say injects the state into family medical decisions and overrides parental rights. Tennessee, and many conservatives who support the state’s position, argues parental rights aren’t a factor in the case. Conservative groups have lined up in federal courts to make nearly identical parental rights arguments in other cases. That separate lawsuit specifically asked whether the state law violates the “fundamental right of parents” to make decisions about the medical care of their children. In allowing the Tennessee ban to take effect last year, a divided 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside the parental rights arguments.

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Walmart on Monday confirmed that it’s ending some of its diversity initiatives, removing some LGBTQ-related merchandise from its website and winding down a nonprofit that funded programs for minorities. Walmart’s DEI changes were first reported by Bloomberg News. Among the changes, Walmart will no longer allow third-party sellers to sell some LGBTQ-themed items on Walmart’s website, including items marketed to transgender youth like chest binders, company spokeswoman Molly Blakeman said. It’s also moved away from using the term “diversity, equity and inclusion” or DEI in company documents, employee titles and employee resource groups. Walmart’s DEI changes were first reported by Bloomberg News.

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☆ She went on vacation to Southern Italy and never returned to the United States
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —With plenty of sunshine, beautiful beaches and a slow-paced lifestyle, it’s little wonder that Southern Italy is such a sought-after vacation destination, with most visitors looking back wistfully over their stay as they finally head home. The Baroque “jewel” of Southern Italy, full of elegant palazzos and cozy piazzas, bewitched her. Blackmon had previously gained experience of life in Northern Italy, all thanks to a Hollywood movie. Courtesy Michele BlackmonHowever, for Blackmon, Florence represented an extension of her lavish LA lifestyle, with the high prices to match. Now, having established her new life in Lecce, she says she’s still dabbling as a lifestyle consultant, helping foreigners who want to relocate to Southern Italy.

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☆ Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Jeremy W. Peters | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism. When J.K. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex and biology was “deeply misogynistic and regressive,” a prominent L.G.B.T.Q. group accused her of betraying “real feminism.” A few angry critics posted videos of themselves burning her books. allies last year to discuss new limits on the participation of transgender student athletes, one activist fumed on the call that the administration would be complicit in “genocide” of transgender youth, according to two people with knowledge of the incident. Now, some activists say it is time to rethink and recalibrate their confrontational ways, and are pushing back against the more all-or-nothing voices in their coalition.

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☆ Walmart pulls back on DEI efforts, removes some LBGTQ merchandise from website
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart on Monday confirmed that it's ending some of its diversity initiatives, removing some LGBTQ-related merchandise from its website and winding down a nonprofit that funded programs for minorities. Those companies include Tractor Supply , which said in June it was eliminating DEI roles and stopping sponsorship of Pride festivals. Among the changes, Walmart will no longer allow third-party sellers to sell some LGBTQ-themed items on Walmart's website, including items marketed to transgender youth like chest binders, company spokeswoman Molly Blakeman said. It's also moved away from using the term "diversity, equity and inclusion" or DEI in company documents, employee titles and employee resource groups. Walmart's DEI changes were first reported by Bloomberg News.

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