Social Security Fairness Act set to get Biden's signature Legislation granting full Social Security benefits to nearly 3 million retirees will soon get become law, advocates say. 01/5/2025 - 5:06 am | View Link
7 School Security Storylines That Topped 2024 — and Will Evolve in 2025 School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by . Subscribe here. Inhale. Exhale. If you’re reading this, that means you’ve made it through 2024. (Congrats!) ... 01/4/2025 - 12:30 am | View Link
‘A dream come true’: Former Emerson College security officer now a student Working at Emerson College as a security officer was the closest Rossiny Julien thought he’d ever get to a four-year, selective institution. But after being inspired by conversations with Emerson ... 01/2/2025 - 9:30 pm | View Link
School Safety | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ... CISA, along with other organizations throughout government, law enforcement, and communities nationwide, supports K-12 schools and districts in their efforts to enhance school safety and security. CISA’s School Safety Task Force is the agency’s dedicated program established to strengthen schools’ safety and security across the country. 01/3/2025 - 1:16 am | View Website
School Security Assessment Tool (SSAT) Throughout the next sections, the SSAT will ask you to think about the various components that make up your school’s physical security system: equipment and technology; site and building design features; school security personnel; policies and procedures related to school security; and training, exercises, and drills. 01/2/2025 - 9:27 pm | View Website
CISA K-12 School Security Guide The guide is designed and organized for local education agencies to employ in conjunction with the K-12 School Security Assessment Tool (SSAT), a web-based tool that provides further guidance on school physical security planning and imple-mentation. 01/2/2025 - 4:19 pm | View Website
2024 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security The 2024 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security was held on September 25 and 26. This virtual event brought together K-12 school leaders and practitioners to discuss and share actionable recommendations that enhance safe and supportive learning environments. 12/27/2024 - 2:07 am | View Website
K-12 School Security Guide (3rd Edition) and School Security ... The K-12 School Security Guide (3rd ed., 2022) provides a comprehensive doctrine and systems-based methodology to support schools in conducting vulnerability assessments and planning to implement layered physical security elements across K–12 districts and campuses. The primary focus of the guide is on protection and mitigation measures and ... 12/22/2024 - 2:13 am | View Website
YNW Melly must make a decision about whether to keep his current legal team for his upcoming murder retrial, and he doesn’t have a lot of time to do it, a Broward judge said Tuesday.
The rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, was in court Tuesday for the second of a two-day “all pending motions” hearing, a proceeding in which lawyers are supposed to take care of any unfinished business stopping a trial from going forward.
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On a brisk Saturday afternoon, A. crouched in a boxer’s stance, knees bent, one hip forward, raised her new Ruger Security-380 pistol aloft with both hands, and pulled the trigger. Spent gold casings clinked to the ground as a paper plate across the range filled with bullet holes.
Two years ago, with insurance costs skyrocketing, Florida legislators called a special session, vowing to provide relief.
Their plan was shady from the moment they announced it.
The Republican lawmakers who control the state had spent years ignoring warnings from industry experts who had begged them to spend serious time on this complicated issue, opting instead to wage culture wars with everyone from Disney to drag queens.
By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U. S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan.
By JOHN ROGERS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said.
A recent study published in The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected academic journals, predicted that by 2050, more than 43 million adolescents and 213 million adults in the United States will be overweight or living with obesity. These projections, driven by factors ranging from lifestyle to economic instability and education, serve as a wake-up call: It’s time to prioritize our health and make meaningful changes — individually and collectively.
Obesity is more than a number on a scale.