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A Philadelphia high school denied a student her diploma after she did “The Griddy” at graduation. The student said the principal told her she could not get a diploma because she made the audience laugh. Her family confronted school administrators after the ceremony but were led away by police. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app An 18-year-old student was “publicly humiliated” when her high school principal refused to give her a diploma at graduation because she did a “lil shimmy” across the…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Enbridge Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge (NYSE:) to shutter portions of an oil pipeline that runs through tribal land in Wisconsin within three years and to pay the tribe nearly $5.2 million for trespassing plus a portion of its profits until the shutdown is completed. U.S. District Judge William Conley issued the order on Friday in Madison. The judge’s action came just over a month after the Bad River Band told him…

onurdongel/E+ via Getty Images For the week ending June 16, the Industrial Select Sector (XLI) gained +2.98%. XLI was among the 10, out of the 11 S&P 500 sectors, which closed the week in green. YTD, XLI has risen +7.37%. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY) rose +2.22% (YTD +14.91%), helped by the Federal Reserve keeping its policy rate unchanged, which broke a streak of 10 straight rate hikes. The SP500 index has now been on a five-week winning streak. The top five gainers in the industrial sector (stocks with a market cap of over $2B) all gained…

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception — an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.The justice’s argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion, galvanized the reproductive rights movement. House Democrats, joined by eight Republicans, promptly passed legislation that would have created a national right to contraception. Republicans blocked a companion bill in the…

Ex-Nev. AG Adam Laxalt dismissed Trump’s chances of flipping Nevada in the 2024 presidential race. Laxalt, a former Trump campaign chair in the state, is now backing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ WH candidacy. Trump lost Nevada in both 2016 and 2020, but Republicans think the state is winnable in 2024. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Even before former President Donald Trump jumped into the 2024 GOP presidential primary, his team had long eyed different roadmaps for a potential general election rematch against…

The world’s biggest tech companies are in talks with leading media outlets to strike landmark deals over the use of news content to train artificial intelligence technology.OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Adobe have met news executives in recent months to discuss copyright issues around their AI products such as text chatbots and image generators, according to several people familiar with the talks.These people said that publishers including News Corp, Axel Springer, The New York Times and The Guardian have each been in discussions with at least one of the tech companies. Those involved in the discussions, which remain in the early…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Elizabeth Tower, more commonly known as Big Ben, is seen as teachers attend a march during strike action in a dispute over pay, in London, Britain March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Teachers in England will strike on July 5 and July 7, the National Education Union (NEU) said on Saturday, staging further industrial action over a pay and funding dispute with the government. The new dates announced by Britain’s largest education union come on top of at least six days of walk-outs by teachers in England from February to May. Teachers…

Source: AdobeStock/24K-ProductionBlackRock has recently filed an application for a spot Bitcoin ETF with the Securities and Exchange Commission.While some might think that the investment giant is applying for an ETF or a trust with properties similar to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), there are certain distinctions between the two products. For one, BlackRock’s iShares product, which is technically a trust, allows redemptions similar to an ETF. In contrast, the GBTC lacks this function, according to Noelle Acheson, editor of Crypto is Macro Now. “The market hears ‘trust’ and thinks it will be like GBTC with no redemptions, but that’s not the case here,” he added. The key difference…

In 2018, Luvleen Sidhu, founder of BankMobile, sat on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and told Cheddar, a news site geared towards millennials, that she wanted millions, including college students, to open accounts at her online financial services company. “[It’s] not because the numbers matter,” Sidhu said of the company’s aim. “It’s because we have a social mission here and we’re hoping to help these students.”  The 2018 appearance was one of many times when Sidhu, who was 28 years old when she founded the company, according to Forbes, described BankMobile in lofty terms. In a 2014 press…

A new proposal would have a county in northern California secede and become its own state, with the local activist behind the effort calling for residents to have their way of life restored and respected.El Dorado County, which is located just east of the state capitol of Sacramento and nestled between California and Nevada, is about 200 square miles larger than Rhode Island and has just over 191,000 residents as of the 2020 Census. County resident Sharon Durst is spearheading the secession campaign with the support of former county supervisor Ray Nutting, the Sacramento Bee reported this week.Durst published a more-than-7,000-word…