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Massachusetts Enacts Law Targeting PFAS in Firefighter Protective Gear
On August 15, 2024, Massachusetts Governor, Maura Healy, signed legislation that will regulate and ultimately end the sale of protective gear for firefighters that contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, became one of the first states to ban the use of PFAS in firefighters’ turnout gear. They join a growing list…
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Red Hot Water: Former Chili Pepper Guitarist Sued in Wrongful Death Action
Josh Klinghoffer, a former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and current touring member of Pearl Jam, has been sued for negligence and wrongful death. The lawsuit alleges Klinghoffer fatally struck a man while he was walking in a crosswalk with the right of way on March 18, 2024….By: Tyson & Mendes LLP
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Middle East Crisis: Israel Agrees to Staggered Pauses in Fighting to Allow for Polio Vaccination, U.N. Says
Israel has emphasized the move is not the first step to a cease-fire, but that there would be limited pauses in specific areas to allow for the vaccinations.
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Israel’s Hostage Rescue Highlights Challenge of Hamas Tunnels in Gaza
Gaza’s vast and complex subterranean network shelters many of Hamas’s remaining leaders, and is a key obstacle to eradicating the group.
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Battling Mpox in the Outbreak’s Epicenter
The New York Times visited a remote hospital in Congo where children and adults suffer with mpox, recently declared a global health emergency.
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Lucy Letby Inquiry Won’t Weigh Key Question: Is the ‘Killer Nurse’ Innocent?
More than 20 experts have called on the U.K. government to delay a public inquiry into the case of Lucy Letby, who was convicted of murdering babies, because of growing concerns about the evidence.
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F-16 Fighter Jet, Recently Supplied to Ukraine, Crashes
A Western official said the advanced fighter crashed while defending against a Russian aerial assault. It was not clear how it was destroyed, but the loss is a blow to Ukraine, given the planes’ prominence.
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For a Great Museum Road Trip, Get In an Empire State of Mind
Who needs Brooklyn? From Ithaca to Buffalo, the art is overflowing in upstate New York.
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Venice Film Festival 2024: Separated, Maria, Kill the Jockey, One to One: John & Yoko
The early films of innovative documentarian Errol Morris — “Gates of Heaven,” about pet cemeteries, “The Thin Red Line,” a staggering true-crime store — waxed profound on matters of mortality and morality while maintaining a wry sense of humor. His more recent works have been ambiguous—his 2018 “American Dharma,” a portrait of political ogre Steve…
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Experience the Star Trek Movies in 70mm at Out of this World L.A. Event
If you want to know how difficult it is getting 70mm film prints screened at movie houses these days, just talk to Jerry Blackburn. Blackburn is the senior manager and director of public programming for the Beverly Hills-based Fine Arts Theatre. Built in 1937, the repertory theater is one of the handful of historic movie…
