Author: KnowledgeHippo

Have fun kidsIf you’re taking your kids to see the eclipse, they’ll need distractions. What’s better than an indoor water park like the one at Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio? Near the centerline of the eclipse path, it’s in a good location, and its viewing party will offer free wolf ears for the kids and mooncakes for everyone. A family suite that includes unlimited park access averages nearly $330 a night. You can also find kid-friendly activities if you’re willing to travel back in time. Kinmundy Log Cabin Village in Kinmundy, Ill., will open its grounds to visitors April…

The International Monetary Fund has agreed to more than double a bailout package for Egypt, which is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, exacerbated by war in the neighboring Gaza Strip and Ukraine.The fund now plans to provide Egypt with $8 billion, up from the initial $3 billion announced in October 2022.The head of the IMF’s mission in Egypt, Ivanna Vladkova Hollar, noted at a news conference that Egypt’s already struggling economy has been further hit by the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has curtailed the country’s vital tourism trade.At the same time, revenues from the Suez Canal…

Die-hard Duke basketball fans, hundreds of whom camp out in a tent village to get seats for Saturday’s rivalry game against the University of North Carolina, have been the target of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts this year.The student section of Blue Devils fans, dubbed the “Cameron Crazies” for the energy and antics they bring to this cramped arena at Duke, crush opponents with the help of “cheer sheets” that include biographical information and biting comments about opposing players. Earlier cheers from games against UNC called one of its athletes “the ugliest player in the NCAA” and said of another,…

In America’s exhausted journalism space, a few websites have popped up in recent weeks with names that suggest a focus on news closer to home: DC Weekly, New York News Daily, Chicago Chronicle and a younger sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. .In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, designed to mimic real news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by weaving them into a strange mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in the United States, the fake news…

Religious content has long been a mainstay on social media, where Christian influencers can garner millions of views. And much of the online reaction to Hallow’s TikTok ads has been positive. Yet, Alex JonesHallow’s CEO, said he knew some people were surprised when they came across the company’s social media ads.”We are not positing any sophisticated or specific targeting,” wrote Mr. Jones, who is not to be confused with the conspiracy theorist of the same name who ran the Infowars website. “Each platform has its own algorithm for determining its stream. We know there are some comments from people who…

Leelee Ray and her husband, Austin, had been trying to have a child for six years, through insemination procedures, two eggs, four embryo transfers, a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy and eight miscarriages.With four frozen embryos remaining in storage at a fertility clinic, the Rays, who live in Huntsville, Ala., decided to change course. In February, they turned to an agency in Colorado, where surrogacy laws are more lenient than in Alabama, to find a woman to carry their baby.It all came to a screeching halt days later when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered “ectopic…

On a Tuesday night last December, singer-pianist Michael Feinstein was at the Café Carlyle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in a sparkling silver blazer, making his way through the audience to the small stage, where the members of his four-piece band were taking their places. The audience burst into applause. A few people stood and extended a hand to greet him. As George and Ira Gershwin’s “Our Love Is Here to Stay” began, some sang along, others swayed a little. Written in 1937, the American songbook is full of nostalgia, wit and romance. The same could be said for Café…

Josette Molan, who died aged 100 in France on February 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War II when she was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Nazi women’s forced labor camps. He survived, after seeing and enduring repeated episodes of brutality. Later, after returning to France, she spoke to students about her experiences over the years.In the 1980s, however, worried that her story was not reaching them, she concluded that it was not enough to tell young people about her life in the camp. He would have to show them. So she began…

Eight high school students in Philadelphia were shot and wounded as they waited for a public bus after school Wednesday, the latest in a string of shootings that have sparked outrage in the city, police said.The students, who attend Northeast High School, were shot about 3 p.m. as they waited at a bus stop near a Dunkin’ Donuts a little more than half a mile from the school, said Kevin J. Bethel, the Philadelphia police commissioner. Press conference.As a bus pulled up to the stop and the students prepared to board, three people got out of a car parked nearby…

Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Wednesday that he believed the central bank would start cutting borrowing costs in 2024, but that policymakers needed to gain “greater confidence” that inflation was contained before making a movement.”We think our policy rate is probably at its peak for this tightening cycle,” Mr. Powell said during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. “If the economy develops broadly as expected, it will probably be appropriate to start imposing policy restraint at some point this year.”Mr. Powell’s comments on economic policy were largely in line with market expectations. Policymakers have…