Policy

School shootings feel random in their location yet predictable in their occurrence. Killers target elementary, high school and college students in urban, suburban and rural communities. The children killed are Hispanic, white, Black, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, transgender and cisgender. This year school shootings have occurred more than weekly on average with 27 in 2022 (so far). Many go virtually unmentioned on the national stage, however, until the “unthinkable” happens, and 19 nine- to 11-year-old children…

OTTAWA—The rapid acceleration in prices has increased the likelihood the Bank of Canada may need to double its policy interest rate, from its current 1.5% level to 3% or higher, to drive inflation toward its 2% target, a senior central bank official said Thursday. “The bottom line is that the risk is now greater that inflation expectations could de-anchor and high inflation could become entrenched,” Bank of Canada deputy governor Paul Beaudry said in a speech to a business audience in Gatineau, Quebec. “This…

Seeking to further increase private participation, the government will soon unveil a new space policy that could see the rise of India's own "SpaceX-like ventures", Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood has said.In an interview to PTI, the government's top science advisor said consultations have taken place and the final version of the space policy would soon be referred to the Empowered Technology Group for further examination."Space policy is in the works. We have not been using it much, but the new technology of…

In my medical practice, where I treat people with high-risk pregnancies, I recently treated a young woman with pulmonary hypertension. Unfortunately, this diagnosis was made late into her second trimester, well after most states allow pregnancy termination. We had to have the difficult conversation that, despite all modern medical advances, as many as one in three women with this condition will die during pregnancy. Based on that information, who should decide what level of pregnancy risk is acceptable for her? Should…

The Supreme Court protected the Biden administration’s use of the social cost of carbon on Thursday.Photo: Al Drago (Getty Images)In the wake of some incredibly demoralizing news that’s come out of the Supreme Court recently, it looks like they may have done some good: the Court will allow the Biden administration to use monetary estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for future policymaking.The decision, issued Thursday, is the rejection of an emergency application from Louisiana and other Republican-ledstates that…

Editor’s Note (5/25/22): This article is being republished in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that killed at least 19 children and two teachers. It was the deadliest such attack since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, and occurred less than two weeks after a deadly shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 10 Black people in an act of domestic terrorism. After the massacre this week in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that state’s attorney general told Fox News gun control…

Some editorials simply hurt to write. This is one. At least 19 elementary school children and two teachers are dead, many more are injured, and a grandmother is fighting for her life in Uvalde, Tex., all because a young man, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, decided to fire in a school. By now, you know these facts: This killing spree was the largest school shooting since Sandy Hook. Law enforcement couldn’t immediately subdue the killer. In Texas, it’s alarmingly easy to buy and openly carry a gun. In the immediate…

As it occasionally does, the company formerly known as Facebook has produced a new revision of its Terms of Service and updated its privacy policy. The old Facebook Data Policy is now Meta’s Privacy Policy, rewritten “to make it easier to understand and to reflect the latest products we offer.” With this revision, Meta “is not collecting, using or sharing your data in new ways based on this policy update and we still do not sell your information,” according to the company. Instead, this update tweaks the language and…

Social media platform Meta, formerly Facebook, has started sending out notification to users about privacy policy update which it will roll out from July 26, the company said on Thursday. Meta in its post said that it has rewritten and re-designed its privacy Policy to make it easier to understand and clearer about how it uses users' information."Notifications that people will start to receive today on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger will direct them to information about what to expect from the relevant privacy policy…

After Twitter, Facebook’s parent Meta Platforms has “re-written and redesigned" its privacy policy, earlier known as data policy, to make it simple and easy to comprehend for lay users. Meta said the privacy policy now has shorter sentences, simple language, and “more detailed explanations" on how the social media network is using and sharing information with third parties. The redesign does not change any of the social network’s existing data collection and sharing practices, Meta…