When you purchase a phone from a cell provider, it’ll most likely come locked — that means you won’t be able to use or get any signal on the phone with a different carrier.After all, it’s in their best interest to keep you as a customer. But if you’re looking to switch providers or just…
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Covid-19 live updates: Republican governors threaten to sue over Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandates
Fights about wearing masks in schools intensified Friday, as the United States reported a record number of infections among children in recent weeks after schools reopened.In Florida, an appeals court sided with Gov.Ron DeSantis to reinstate a school mask ban, while the Education Department said it is investigating whether the state was violating the rights…
Empires and ‘Effeminate Men.’ After Britain and America, It’s China’s Turn to Worry about Masculinity
If you followed the disastrous denouement of America’s two-decade occupation of Afghanistan, have you wondered why the world’s only superpower has an affliction for distant wars? What is it that compels it to drag its military halfway across the world? What is the origin of its interventionist instincts? The speeches of Theodore Roosevelt might be…
Depleted by drought, Lakes Powell and Mead were doomed from the beginning
For the first time, the U.S.Bureau of Reclamation issued a water shortage for Lake Mead starting in 2022.Located between southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona, Lake Mead provides water and generates electricity for the more than 20 million people in the lower Colorado River Basin.This shortage isn’t a surprise.Water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell…
Wait times at Disneyland and Universal Studios are way down – Los Angeles Times
A longtime theme park fan, Hastin Zylstra has spent plenty of time waiting in long lines for rides at the Disneyland Resort. So, he was prepared for the worst when he recently got in the queue for California Adventure Park’s newest attraction, Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure.But to his surprise, the wait was only 20…
To Win The War For Talent, Amazon Will Pay ‘Full College Tuition For Frontline Workers’ – Forbes
Amazon will pay full college tuition for frontline workers , according to a company blog post.The giant online retailer said, “More than 750,000 operations employees in the U.S.are eligible for fully funded college tuition, including cost of classes, books and fees.” The program may cost about “$1.2 billion by 2025.” Separately, the company’s Career Choice…
Central banks must ‘roll up their sleeves’ and urgently speed up their work on their own digital currencies before crypto upends the current financial system, the BIS says
A representation of bitcoin and fiat currency SOPA images Benoit Coeure, head of the BIS Innovation Hub, urged central banks to speed up their work on digital cash.In a speech in Ljubljana, he said digital currencies should ensure price and financial stability.He said they must up the pace because “stablecoins and crypto assets are already…
Brexit LIVE: Frost in blunt ultimatum to tear up hated EU deal as frantic Sefcovic panics
Brexit: Bryson issues warning against protocol implementation A spokesman for Poland’s conservative nationalist governing party, Law and Justice insisted the country has no plans to leave the EU.But he warned it would ‘have to search for drastic solutions’ to its dispute – before then pointing to Britain’s departure from the bloc.Ryszard Terlecki said his party…
The ‘war’ over Biden’s vaccine push is mostly a contest for the approval of a vocal minority – The Washington Post
One of the worst predictions in American political history was made by Joe Biden in 2012, when he was serving as President Barack Obama’s vice president.After the presidential election that year, he argued, “you’re going to see the fever break” — the fever being the strident and often performative Republican opposition to Obama and his…
State Department accused of trying to take credit for rescue of 4 Americans from Afghanistan
Good morning and welcome to Fox News First.Here’s what you need to know as you start your day … State Department trying to steal credit for rescue of 4 Americans from Afghanistan, organizer says: ‘Total lie’ The organizer of a private mission to rescue an American mom, Mariam, and her three children from Afghanistan says…