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Despite research showing that a majority of Americans support legalized abortion, the Supreme Court is expected to overturn or limit Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Credit: Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash Regardless of race, ethnicity and even political party preference, two separate UCLA-led surveys reveal that majorities of people in each group support access to legal abortion in the United States.…

StellarFi and NFCC announce their partnership. Source: StellarStellarFi announced Wednesday that it's partnering with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC). The NFCC is a nonprofit organization that specializes in counseling consumers about all aspects of credit. The new partnership gives StellarFi users access to the NFCC's certified credit counselors to help them learn more about credit and improve their financial literacy."We are passionate about helping people overcome financial impediments through…

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday announced that the Nigeria Air Limited has received an Air Transport License (ATL) from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Nigeria Air is the nation’s proposed national carrier which was unveiled at the Farnborough Air Show in England on July 18, 2018. The project was suspended two months after it was announced after critics raised concerns over its relevance and sustainability. The proposed airline was expected to gulp $8.8…

Pusha-T is extending some knowledge to his fellow DMV artists. The Virginia spitter—who recently declared his latest LP It’s Almost Dry as the rap album of the year—took to Instagram to share a message apparently in response to a top-10 DMV artists list, per HotNewHipHop.  “Appreciate the love but let me speak on something: if you are from anywhere in va, Maryland, or DC:you need to be familiar with, collaborating, connecting, networking, and sharing fan bases with each other so you can compete on a National/Internation…

Russia’s attack on Ukraine is redrawing the world’s energy map, ushering in a new era in which the flow of fossil fuels is influenced by geopolitical rivalries as much as supply and demand.Over the past half-century, oil and natural gas have moved with relative freedom to the markets where they commanded the highest prices around the world. That ended abruptly when Russian tanks rumbled across the Ukraine border on Feb. 24, triggering a barrage of trade sanctions by the U.S. and Europe targeting Russia that have plunged…

The European Union has approved a sixth sanctions package against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, including a phased-in oil embargo, diplomats said on Thursday, with the measures set to take force on Friday.However, the package won’t include individual sanctions against Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a leading advocate of the invasion of Ukraine and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hungary, which earlier this week won a broad exemption from the oil embargo sanctions, opposed his inclusion on the…

Food stalls in Singapore serving the national dish face the prospect of bankruptcy as Malaysia bans chicken export amid a worsening global food crisis. Singapore's national dish, chicken rice, is about to become a lot more scarce. ()…

Image: wk1003mike -- ShutterstockCTARS, the makers of a cloud-based client management system used by the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as well as disability services, out of home care, and children's services, has revealed it was breached on May 15 and found the data posted to the dark web a week later. "Although we cannot confirm the details of all the data in the time available, to be extra careful we are treating any information held in our database as being compromised," the company has…

Do you remember Disney’s National Treasure? It was the 2004 historical adventure film starred Nicolas Cage, Diane Krueger, and Justin Bartha as treasure hunters who search for history’s lost valuables. It spawned a sequel three years later, and a third film was expected. But since then the production has seen so many delays, making the threequel feel like an impossibility. Well, if you’re still wondering about its status and whether Cage will star in it, producer Jerry Bruckheimer has offered an update.A few years ago,…

Inflation in the eurozone reached an annual 8.1% in May, underlining the growing cost to households of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and of the sanctions European governments have imposed in response.The data from the European Union’s statistics agency marked a sharp acceleration from the 7.4% rate of inflation recorded in both April and March. Consumer prices rose at the fastest pace since records began at the start of 1997. Germany’s statistics agency said inflation in the eurozone’s largest member hadn’t been this high…