There were other deadly crashes in Texas as a frigid storm created icy conditions from Texas to southern New Jersey. In Austin, five people were sent to the hospital from a 26 car pileup, USA Today reports, and three people were killed in two crashes in Dallas late Wednesday and Thursday, one of them involving 18 vehicles. The storm also knocked out power to along the 1,500 mile stretch of storm, and 66,000 customers in Texas, 41,000 in Kentucky, and 31,000 in West Virginia were still without power late Thursday, USA Today says.

Detractors, including many health and human rights advocates, argue that stings are only as good as their ability to actually improve lives and that they often do the opposite. “The appeal of the rescue is that it’s a happy ending,” says Janie Chuang, who teaches courses on trafficking at American University’s Washington College of Law. “But it’s not.

Even the spacecraft exact arrival time on Wednesday has yet to be announced. The China Academy of Space Technology Ye Peijian noted that Tianwen 1 has three objectives: orbiting the planet, landing and releasing the rover. If successful, he said in a statement “it will become the world first Mars expedition accomplishing all three goals with one probe.” The coronavirus pandemic has complicated each step of each spacecraft’s 300 million mile (480 million kilometre) journey to Mars.

Seemingly every black player in the league has had a similar story happen to themselves or a loved one, Mitchell wrote in a Players’ Tribune piece earlier this month. Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson noted that he was taught as a child to be wary when encountering police. And center Rudy Gobert recognized the position his status as an NBA player sometimes afforded..

You can’t play both sides anymore Governor. Pick Country First or Trump First. 12 Politico interview reflected some of the sharpest criticisms yet of Trump post election behavior from a prominent Republican and an even more stinging rebuke than her words to a gathering of the Republican National Committee the day after the riot at the Capitol..

After Vice President Kamala Harris received her second dose of the COVID 19 vaccine in a televised event at the National Institutes of Health in January, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D Ohio) phone lit up with calls from constituents who were “newly curious” about getting vaccinated themselves, she told The New York Times. As Beatty explained, watching a Black woman receive the vaccine “gave people hope and gave people education.” Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to die from the coronavirus, the Times notes, but they are far less likely to be inoculated, in large part because of a lack of access, but also, some experts have pointed out, because of longstanding wariness about government driven health programs.