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Watch the 6th Annual Culture Shock Event wherever you stream beginning at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT on Tuesday, April 30. Monday, April 29, 2024 9:31PM NEW YORK — One out of five children in the U.S. is a victim of bullying, and nine out of 10 LGBTQ+ students face harassment in schools, according to STOMP Out Bullying, the leading national nonprofit for bullying prevention. To spark a conversation about the need to change the culture of cruelty to one of kindness, STOMP Out Bullying is hosting its 6th Annual Culture Shock Event, a livestream Culture Week Panel discussion facilitated by celebrity influencers from the media, sports, entertainment and social media worlds. The discussion will stream live on this website beginning at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT on Tuesday, April 30. This impactful event will also be livestreamed to schools across the country and beyond. This year’s edition will be moderated by actress Francia Raisa. Panelists will include actor Darren Barnet, actress and rapper Bre-Z, actor Mark Indelicato and actress Willow Shields The panel is a part of National Culture Week, which provides

Monday, April 29, 2024 9:30PM A man is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing another man in a Northeast Fresno home on Sunday morning. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — The man who was shot and killed at a home in northeast Fresno has been identified as 30-year-old Roberto Roman. Police have taken 31-year-old Christian Lavin into custody for the crime. EDITOR’S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated. It happened at about 1 am Sunday at a home on Pryor Drive and Richelle Avenue Authorities say that Roman and Lavin were friends. They say the two were drinking and wrestling before it escalated, leading to gunshots. Roman was found in the backyard with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. When police arrived, Lavin’s wife told police that he did the shooting. Police found Lavin drunk on a couch before taking him into custody. Anyone with more information is asked to contact the Fresno Police Department. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

Celebrities stepped onto the carpet at the Eighth Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards By Amy Becker Monday, April 29, 2024 9:16PM Doja Cat, Kris Jenner, Jennifer Garner and more walk the Eighth Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards red carpet. LOS ANGELES — The Eighth Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards, hosted by The Daily Front Row, honored some of the hottest names in the fashion industry over the weekend at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The event strives to celebrate creatives in the intersection between fashion and Hollywood. Never one to shy away from a bold red carpet look, rapper Doja Cat took to the carpet in a fur coat paired with a glass of red wine. She presented her stylist, Brett Alan Nelson, with the Music Stylist of the Year award. Kris Jenner (“The Kardashians”), Jennifer Garner, Law Roach and more also presented, honoring iconic stylists and fashion moguls throughout the night. Honorees included Adir Abergel (Hair Stylist of the Year), Amelia Gray (Model of the Year), Anastasia Soare (Beauty Innovator of the Year), Bob Mackie (Lifetime Achievement Award), Elsa Hosk (Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year)

It is not yet clear how many people were shot. By Julia Reinstein Monday, April 29, 2024 9:10PM The number of people shot and the nature of their injuries was not immediately known. “Numerous” law enforcement officers were shot in an incident in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon, police said. At 5 p.m., hours after the first response, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced that the scene was clear and one suspect was dead. It all began in the early afternoon Monday with a U.S. Marshals Task Force investigation in a neighborhood in eastern Charlotte. Police said the Marshals were trying to serve a warrant when shots were fired at them. Police have not specified the number of officers shot or confirmed how serious their injuries are, but they did say that “multiple” people were injured and rushed to local hospitals. SWAT teams were called in and police locked down the neighborhood for several hours with at least one suspect barricaded inside a home. When officers were able to get inside the home, they said they found at least one suspect dead inside the home. Officers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Authorities have arrested a man accused of committing a hate crime during an event in Fresno’s Tower District. 49-year-old Francisco Samaniego was booked into the Fresno County Jail on several charges, including robbery, vandalism, and battery. Video captured some of the final moments of the altercation between 49-year-old Francisco Samaniego and three women at the annual community music festival in the Tower District on Saturday afternoon. The women say they had to physically fight the man off of them after police say he attacked them over their Pro-Palestinian views. “He immediately starts with his aggression, he comes up close to me into my personal space,” recalled Zahra, one of the women. She says after Samaniego would not stop yelling threats and racist comments at her, friends got involved, including one who did not want to be shown on camera. “He throws not just the water but the full cup at my face. And then grabs my hair and dragged me across the lawn,” said the friend. She says Samaniego then got her in a choke hold and continued dragging her. Fresno

A recent CBS News poll shows President Biden and former President Donald Trump are nearly tied in three swing states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto looks at the latest data in the 2024 presidential election.

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Jon Healey | Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Those who obtained federally backed student loans from private banks can have some or all of their remaining debt forgiven by the Biden administration, but they need to act fast: The deadline for qualifying is Tuesday. The relief is available for students enrolled in income-driven repayment plans or the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. It’s also available for some parents who borrowed through the Federal Family Education Loan program. This is not a new initiative, however — instead, it’s the last chance to participate in one of the administration’s first and most successful efforts to reduce the mountain of student debt. The Education Department launched the Income Driven Repayment One-Time Adjustment initiative in 2022 to address complaints about loan servicing companies losing track of payments, not giving borrowers proper credit for their work in public-service jobs, and steering struggling borrowers into costly forbearance or deferment programs instead of payment plans based on their income. After completing its review of payment records last year, the department granted all or partial forgiveness automatically to the borrowers who qualified —

Adventurous travelers seeking beauty and budget thrills should look no further than Guatemala: a friendly country that remains largely unexplored by many Americans. A question I fielded several times before my late February trip: Why Guatemala? My partner and I have made a habit of planning at least one international trip each year. Actually, I’ll shoulder most of the blame — nothing scratches my travel itch like a new passport stamp. But because we’re early-career professionals, with limited stockpiles of paid time off and inevitable bills, a month-long vacation to Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe is out of the question (for now). Last summer, I found myself in a rabbit hole of research: Panama, Aruba, Curaçao. Slowly, the pieces fell together for Guatemala. Compared to my other potential destinations, Denver International Airport offers inexpensive connecting flights to Guatemala City that take a minimum of around six hours of travel time. I started to hear about this friend or that roommate who had visited — or even temporarily moved to — the Central American country over the past few years and couldn’t get enough of it.

Considering his past few weeks have been spent in court defending himself from felony charges and not campaigning for a second term, a recent poll showing former President Donald Trump way ahead in the race for the White House must have come as a very welcome surprise to the 45th President’s campaign staff. A CNN poll of more than 900 registered voters released Sunday shows that, if the November election were held today, the former president would beat incumbent President Joe Biden by six points. That number grows to a nine-point spread when third-party candidates are included in the survey. “In the coming rematch, opinions about the first term of each man vying for a second four years in the White House now appear to work in Trump’s favor, with most Americans saying that, looking back, Trump’s term as president was a success, while a broad majority says Biden’s has so far been a failure,” CNN Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta wrote with the poll’s release. A majority of voters looking back on Trump’s time in office, 55%, say the 44th President’s first term was a

By Jim Robbins | KFF Health News (TNS) A team of Montana researchers is playing a key role in the development of a more effective vaccine against tuberculosis, an infectious disease that has killed more people than any other. The BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccine, created in 1921, remains the sole TB vaccine. While it is 40% to 80% effective in young children, its efficacy is very low in adolescents and adults, leading to a worldwide push to create a more powerful vaccine. One effort is underway at the University of Montana Center for Translational Medicine. The center specializes in improving and creating vaccines by adding what are called novel adjuvants. An adjuvant is a substance included in the vaccine, such as fat molecules or aluminum salts, that enhances the immune response, and novel adjuvants are those that have not yet been used in humans. Scientists are finding that adjuvants make for stronger, more precise, and more durable immunity than antigens, which create antibodies, would alone. Eliciting specific responses from the immune system and deepening and broadening the response with adjuvants is known as precision vaccination. “It’s not

Aaron Bolton, MTPR | KFF Health News (TNS) KALISPELL, Mont. — On a cold February morning at the Flathead Warming Center, Tashya Evans waited for help with her Medicaid application as others at the shelter got ready for the day in this northwestern Montana city. Evans said she lost Medicaid coverage in September because she hadn’t received paperwork after moving from Great Falls, Montana. She has had to forgo the blood pressure medication she can no longer pay for since losing coverage. She has also had to put off needed dental work. “The teeth broke off. My gums hurt. There’s some times where I’m not feeling good, I don’t want to eat,” she said. Evans is one of about 130,000 Montanans who have lost Medicaid coverage as the state reevaluates everyone’s eligibility following a pause in disenrollments during the COVID-19 pandemic. About two-thirds of those who were kicked off state Medicaid rolls lost coverage for technical reasons, such as incorrectly filling out paperwork. That’s one of the highest procedural disenrollment rates in the nation, according to a KFF analysis. Even unsheltered people like Evans are losing their coverage, despite state

Matt Vasilogambros | Stateline.org (TNS) In April, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day. All of the state laws came in the past four years, pushed by conservative lawmakers and activists who claim that Democratic voters disproportionately benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in grants primarily funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, during the 2020 presidential election. Courts and federal regulators have rejected those claims, but the debate over the role of outside money reveals a broader worry among election experts, who say there are significant shortcomings in local government funding of election offices. That includes not just Election Day duties and vote counting, but also the year-round administrative work of maintaining voter rolls and taking care of and updating voting equipment. Local municipal budgets are tight, and they vary depending on the tax base. It can be hard to justify a new ballot-counting machine when there are potholes to fix or schools to fund. The ongoing

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