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判決を受け、Terri SewellとShomari FiguresはAlabamaのBlack congressional districtsにおいて議席を失うリスクに瀕しています。supreme courtが事実上Voting Rights Actを形骸化させたことで、現在、議席を失う危機にさらされているAlabamaの2つのBlack congressional districtsを代表する議員たちは、この判決がUSを「後退」させるものだと述べました。水曜日のLouisiana v Callaisにおける6-3の判決は、Voting Rights Actの主要な規定を弱体化させ、南部全域で共和党がmajority-minority congressional districtsを排除する道を開くものであり、Terri SewellとShomari Figuresがその標的となっています。Continue reading...

独占記事：ケンブリッジ大学の研究により、社会環境的なストレッサーが、妊娠中の身体の健康な機能能力に影響を与える可能性があることが分かりました。 人種差別や困窮によるストレスが、黒人女性の出産時の死亡率が高い理由である可能性が研究で示されました。研究チームが、妊娠結果の悪化に関連する3つの生理学的経路（酸化ストレス、炎症、子宮胎盤血管抵抗）を調査した44の既存研究をレビューしたところ、黒人女性においてこれら3つの指標が高い値であることが判明しました。続きを読む...

Though solar was initially blamed for loss of power, renewables have helped to insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle EastOne year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale and duration. In mere seconds, a cascading sequence of events burst through the grid and created Europe’s first “system black” event in recent memory.Traffic signals failed, mobile networks stopped working entirely, petrol stations could not pump fuel and supermarkets couldn’t process payments. Madrid’s metro came to a halt and people had to be pulled out of carriages. “People were stunned because this had never happened in Spain,” Carlos Condori, a 19-year-old construction sector worker, told AFP at the time. “There’s no [phone] coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents, nothing: I can’t even go to work.” Continue reading...

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdownLabor unions, democratic organizations and community groups are organizing an economic blackout this year to commemorate May Day, International Workers Day, inspired by the economic blackout in Minnesota during the massive ICE operation in the state.May Day Strong events are being planned across the US, with organizers calling for “no school, no work, no shopping”, in protest of government policies they say put billionaires’ needs above those of workers. Continue reading...

• Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs on April 25, 2026, at GTC US, delivering 20 petaflops FP4 performance for training models up to 10 trillion parameters. • New chips feature 4.5TB HBM4 memory and NVLink 6 interconnect, reducing training costs by 40% for hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure. • Announcement bolsters Nvidia's 92% AI accelerator market dominance amid US export controls on China sales.

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sledges and lanterns in the deadly weather to rescue the party of 27 and their teacher after two boys, fumbling though fog and frozen to the bone, had reached a farmhouse and told its startled inhabitants there were many more of them strewn over the Schauinsland mountain.The Daily Sketch from 20 and 29 April 1936 Continue reading...