Country superstar Jelly Roll wants to share his message of redemption with others looking for a second chance, but says there’s a roadblock in his way. The 40-year-old told the Tennessee Board of Parole that his criminal record, under his birth name, Jason DeFord, is complicating his ability to travel internationally and perform. On Tuesday, … Read more
More than 150 House Democrats signed a letter sent to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 3, calling for the department to undo the freeze on millions of dollars allocated for family planning services. The letter, shared exclusively with TIME, comes after HHS confirmed this week … Read more
Any changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment should be optional rather than mandatory, a group of 115 state legislators from 28 states said in a letter on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It comes after BEAD recently lost its top director, who departed with a scathing letter alleging an impending shift in … Read more
More than 400 Hollywood creatives, including director Guillermo del Toro and actors Cynthia Erivo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are urging the U.S. government to uphold existing copyright protections against artificial intelligence. “We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” they wrote in a letter to … Read more
Canadian freestyle skier Philippe Marquis has always felt most at home in the mountains, his playground a postcard of snow-capped beauty. But the two-time Olympian has watched the place he loves most change over his time in the sport, all because of a warming climate. Less than a decade ago, he would train into the … Read more
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