According to the US market research company Morning Consult, 53 per cent of adult Americans identify as fans of the country singer turned pop powerhouse, who opened her latest tour with a 3 hour, 15 minute 44 song concert in Arizona on Friday night. (Austin, The Times UK)
Read MoreEarth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from overheating dangerously beyond that level, according to a major new report released on Monday. (Plumer, The New York Times)
Read MoreDr Aaron Edwards, 37, a father of five, was dismissed last week for misconduct by Cliff College, a Methodist college in Derbyshire, after he allegedly brought the college “into disrepute" on social media, The Telegraph has learnt. (Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph)
Read MoreStudents and organizers in the Bay Area… are pushing the San Francisco Board of Education — which earlier this month agreed to shift next year’s spring break to accommodate Eid celebrations — to close in observance of the Islamic holiday. (Molina, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThe scrutiny, distrust and hostility on display here — between members of the opposing parent groups, between parents and the school board, and among board members, some of whom won election in 2021 by running partisan races — is emblematic of a fissure over public schooling that has cracked America into pieces since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when politics and societal upheaval sharpened existing divides. (Natanson, The Washington Post)
Read MoreWyoming on Friday became the first state to explicitly ban the use of pills for abortion, adding momentum to a growing push by conservative states and anti-abortion groups to target medication abortion, the method now used in a majority of pregnancy terminations in the United States. (Chen & Belluck, The New York Times)
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