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Trixie Mattel: Drag bans are the real threat, not drag shows

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

By Trudy Ring for CNNTENNESSEE (Advocate Channel) — RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Trixie Mattel speaks out against drag bans in a new YouTube video.In the video, released Monday, Mattel (out of drag, Brian Michael Firkus), gets into drag and denounces the restrictions recently adopted in Tennessee and proposed elsewhere.“None of this should be about whether or not drag is something everyone should like,” Mattel says. “It shouldn’t be about whether or not drag is something everyone even accepts. It should be about whether or not something is really about protecting anyone. Not just children. Anyone.”“Right now in Tennessee, I can get a gun and carry it around in public, but I can’t put on a fu—ing wig,” the queen continues. “On my second offense of doing drag in Tennessee, I could become a felon. A felon! As a white, rich drag queen, that scares me. How do you think that people of color and trans women, and trans women and people of color who do drag feel? They migh...

Pope to remain hospitalized for days with respiratory infection

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

By NICOLE WINFIELDVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in a Rome hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.The 86-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, doesn’t have COVID-19, spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement late Wednesday.The hospitalization was the first since Francis spent 10 days at the Gemelli hospital in July 2021 to have 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed.It immediately raised questions about Francis’ overall health, and his ability to celebrate the busy Holy Week events that are due to begin this weekend with Palm Sunday.Pope FrancisPope says South Sudan’s future depends on treatment of womenPope Francis ‘saddened’ by Monterey Park mass shooting‘Being homosexual isn’t a crime,’ says Pope FrancisPope Francis grateful for ‘noble’ Benedict and his prayersPope warns Vatican staff an ‘elegant demon’ l...

Alameda County commission formed to look at reparations for Black people

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the formation of a commission that will create an action plan to address inequities caused by slavery and discrimination against Black residents. The commission will be appointed by the board and have up to 15 members from a variety of backgrounds. Members may include someone who was displaced by gentrification and a person who was incarcerated. Board president Nate Miley said the board is not proposing putting checks in the pockets of African Americans, though that could happen. Other forms of reparations may occur, too. Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion "Today, we as Black people live under the shadow of slavery," Supervisor Keith Carson said. "It wasn't 150 years ago, it wasn't 250 years ago, it continues to persist today." Black people comprise the largest number of homeless individuals in the country, Carson said, and thousands of Black people were experimented on. Earlier in his commen...

Franklin Covey: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Franklin Covey Co. (FC) on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $1.7 million.The Salt Lake City-based company said it had profit of 12 cents per share.The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 13 cents per share.The corporate training and consultanting company posted revenue of $61.8 million in the period, also falling short of Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $62.4 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on FC at https://www.zacks.com/ap/FCSource

How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday 3/29/2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

Stocks rallied as Wall Street shook off more of the fear that dominated it earlier this month. The S&P 500 rose 1.4% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq composite also rose. They followed similar gains in other markets around the world. A measure of nervousness among stock investors on Wall Street is back near its lowest levels since early this month, before Silicon Valley Bank became the second-largest U.S. bank failure in history. The S&P 500 is on track to close a tumultuous month with a modest gain.On Wednesday:The S&P 500 rose 56.54 points, or 1.4%, to 4,027.81.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 323.35 points, or 1%, to 32,717.60.The Nasdaq composite rose 210.16 points, or 1.8% to 11,926.24.The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 18.97 points, or 1.1%, to 1,771.60.For the week:The S&P 500 is up 56.82 points, or less than 1.4%.The Dow is up 480.07 points, or 1.5%.The Nasdaq is up 102.28 points, or 0.9%.The Russell 2000 is up 36....

Reeds: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Reeds Inc. (REED) on Wednesday reported a loss of $5.9 million in its fourth quarter.The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said it had a loss of $2.49 per share.The beverage and candy company posted revenue of $15 million in the period.For the year, the company reported a loss of $19.2 million, or $9.52 per share. Revenue was reported as $53 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on REED at https://www.zacks.com/ap/REEDSource

MLB opening day offers clocks, shift bans, Ohtani and Judge

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

A major shift in how Major League Baseball is played. About time, too.Aaron Judge aiming at his own home run record, Shohei Ohtani trending with every pitch and swing, Dusty Baker trying to win another World Series ring.All-Stars in different spots, a new scheduling concept featuring each team facing all 29 opponents.If it sounds like these plot lines are from a movie — “Everything Everywhere All at Once” comes to mind — it’s true.Opening day is Thursday and the full slate includes games at Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium. And good news for fans — there’s no snow in the forecast at any of them.TICK-TOCKManny Machado drew the first pitch clock violation in spring training and it was nuisance. A game between the Braves and Red Sox ended on a clock call and it was a novelty.Chances are, if Max Scherzer or Nolan Arenado or some other intense star gets timed out in a key spot, it could go nuclear.But MLB realized it had to do something to c...

Accelerate Diagnostics: Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. (AXDX) on Wednesday reported a loss of $14.8 million in its fourth quarter.The Tucson, Arizona-based company said it had a loss of 14 cents per share.The maker of systems that diagnose drug-resistant infections posted revenue of $3 million in the period.For the year, the company reported that its loss narrowed to $62.5 million, or 76 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $12.8 million.In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, the company’s shares hit 50 cents. A year ago, they were trading at $1.48._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on AXDX at https://www.zacks.com/ap/AXDXSource

Armed woman facing abduction charges forces continuation of Va. Route 1 blockade

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

Part of Richmond Highway in Fairfax County, Virginia, being shut down while police are trying to help a woman who has barricaded herself in a car early Wednesday morning. (WTOP/Luke Lukert)Crisis negotiators with Fairfax County, Virginia, police have tried to get an armed woman barricaded in her SUV along Route 1 to come out for more than a day. The incident has blocked traffic along a busy highway through Fairfax County.Now, a warrant is shedding light on what may have led to the mental health crisis police said the woman is experiencing.The unnamed woman, who is armed with a handgun, fears going to jail on the charges she faces for abducting the woman she was dating, sources told WTOP.Laurel Police reported the woman missing on Friday, March 24, and then notified the public she was located in Fairfax County unharmed on Tuesday. That’s when Fairfax County police said they found the missing woman, and she told them the name of the woman who had abducted her, and told officers ...

Court hears appeal of ruling favoring Musk in SolarCity deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:34:23 GMT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision in favor of CEO Elon Musk in a lawsuit challenging the electric car maker’s $2.4 billion acquisition of a solar panel company founded by two of his cousins.The plaintiffs argued Wednesday that a Chancery Court judge erred in finding that Tesla’s deal to acquire SolarCity in 2016 was “entirely fair,” even though the judge found that the process by which Tesla’s board of directors negotiated and recommended the deal to shareholders was “far from perfect.”“Elon was more involved in the process than a conflicted fiduciary should be. And conflicts among other Tesla Board members were not completely neutralized,” former Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights wrote last year. “With that said, the Tesla board meaningfully vetted the acquisition, and Elon did not stand in its way. Equally if not more important, the preponderance of the evidence reveals that Tesla ...