Tall and elegant, she was an engaging, charismatic speaker. “She spoke to you, rather than at you,” the journalist and novelist Anna Quindlen said in an interview on Monday, “a kind of authenticity with a touch of Texas.” During her 12-year-term, Ms. Richards orchestrated Planned Parenthood’s evolution into a potent political organization and the country’s largest provider of reproductive and women’s sexual health care. She grew its base of supporters and volunteers from 2.5 to 11 million. From the time President Trump was first elected in 2016, until early 2018, Planned Parenthood added 700,000 new donors, a record for so short a period. Yet it was during her tenure that the organization became increasingly embattled, as her home state led the charge to defund Planned Parenthood, barring clinics from offering state-funded programs that included contraception, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and H.I.V. prevention. Texas finally stripped the organization of its...

Article content The temperature in Ottawa will plunge to -21 C Monday night, bringing with it a risk of frostbite, but not cold enough to trigger an extreme cold weather warning from the city. The mass of Arctic air blanketing much of eastern North America arrived as expected Sunday, though the temperature in Ottawa remained a few degrees above what was predicted, said Peter Kimball, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada. Article content “We accurately predicted the cold weather would hit Sunday, with the coldest day hitting Monday into Tuesday and ending Wednesday, and that’s pretty much what we’re getting,” Kimball said Monday. “The difference is maybe the overnight lows were a couple of degrees warmer than we thought they would be.” But spare a thought for those frozen souls just to the north of us. “We saw a report of -47 C in northern Quebec this morning and...

A juzgar por el esfuerzo de promoción, por la presencia institucional y por su implicación en la vida pública, y con el permiso del Mobile World Congress, el calendario congresual de Barcelona tiene en este arranque de año un nombre propio: la feria Integrated Systems Europe (ISE). Con la previsión de aumentar un 20% los 73.891 asistentes que reunió el año pasado, el ISE, dedicado a la industria audiovisual y que celebrará a principios de febrero su cuarta edición en Barcelona, reivindica su peso para encontrar su lugar en la ciudad. Esta actitud contrasta radicalmente con el congreso que se estrena este año en Barcelona y que ha empezado este lunes, aunque por las siglas son fáciles de confundir. El International Casinos Exhibition (ICE), uno de los congresos más importantes dedicados al sector del juego y las apuestas, no se queda corto en número de asistentes: se prevé que participen...

La Subsecretaría de Movilidad (Subsemov) del Gobierno del Estado de Colima reafirma su compromiso con la formación integral de la ciudadanía, mediante la firma del convenio con Cruz Roja Mexicana, que establece la capacitación obligatoria para el curso de refrendo 2025, fortaleciendo la seguridad vial y promoviendo habilidades para el desarrollo personal y profesional. El acuerdo fue signado por el encargado del despacho de la Subsecretaría de Movilidad, Armando González Manzo, y el delegado estatal de la Cruz Roja en Colima, Héctor Manuel Galindo Vázquez, acto que consolida una alianza estratégica para impactar positivamente en personas conductoras del transporte público. El curso de refrendo 2025 incluirá temas relevantes como finanzas personales, cultura turística e inglés, brindando herramientas útiles para una mejor atención; además de promover una movilidad segura, esta capacitación tiene el objetivo de fomentar una cultura de prevención y responsabilidad entre las y los conductores, fortaleciendo la calidad de...

Gail Collins: Well, Bret, here we are. Neither of us is crazy about staggering into another four-year Trump term, but I’ll bet you can come up with a more optimistic spin than I can. Go to it. Bret Stephens: Well, here’s one hope: Donald Trump’s return to power will serve as a wake-up call for a lot of liberals, including liberal journalists, who lost touch with the concerns and values of regular Americans — people who didn’t enjoy having their common sense insulted by being told that there wasn’t a crisis at the border, or that their inflation concerns were overblown, or that President Biden’s memory was fine, or that racial identity should be the dominant consideration in choosing a Supreme Court justice or a vice president. Maybe it will inspire Democrats to do better as an opposition party. Any chance? Gail: Hey, I see some excellent subjects for debate...

Article content QUEBEC CITY — Kati Tabin had a goal and an assist for her first two points of the season as the Montreal Victoire held off the Ottawa Charge 2-1 Sunday in a Professional Women’s Hockey Game before a sold-out crowd at the Videotron Centre. Tabin’s goal came on a third-period power play and stood as the winner. She also assisted on Catherine Dubois’ power-play goal that opened the scoring in the second period. Article content The Ottawa Charge’s Zoe Boyd falls forward after she is checked by the Montreal Victoire’s Mikyla Grant-Mentis during the second period in Quebec City, Sunday, January 19, 2025. Photo by Jacques Boissinot /The Canadian Press Ann-Renee Desbiens made 27 saves as the Victoire improved to 23 points (six regulation wins, two overtime wins, an overtime loss and two regulation losses), three move than defending champion Minnesota. Shiann Darkangelo scored her fourth goal of...

El máximo directivo mundial del grupo asegurador AXA está inquieto. Bajo una sonrisa permanente y unas formas exquisitas, las palabras de Thomas Buberl (Haan, Alemania, 51 años) traslucen desazón. La creciente polarización política, la evidencia de la emergencia climática —con daños devastadores de Valencia a Los Ángeles—, la progresiva insostenibilidad de las cuentas públicas… le producen desasosiego. Con todo, el ejecutivo analiza todas estas problemáticas como una oportunidad para que la compañía que dirige busque nuevas vías de negocio y ayude a solucionar algunos de los grandes problemas de la actualidad. Buberl accedió al cargo de consejero delegado en 2016, convirtiéndose en el primer no francés en dirigir uno de los conglomerados galos más emblemáticos. En estos nueve años, el directivo alemán ha acometido una transformación radical de la compañía, pasando de tener un 80% del negocio dependiente de los seguros de vida y ahorro a que este apartado represente...

Jalisco.- Con el objetivo de restituir el derecho fundamental de niños y adolescentes a desarrollarse en un entorno familiar adecuado, y seguro el Sistema para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) Guadalajara, invita a la población a inscribirse a sus talleres de Familia de Acogida y Familia Adoptiva. El taller Familia de Acogida se llevará a cabo el día 08 de febrero, mientras que el de Familia Adoptiva será el día 09 de febrero; ambos de 10:00 a 16:00 horas. La sede para ambos talleres será en el Centro de la Amistad Internacional ubicado en Calle Gral. Eulogio Parra numero 2539, Lomas de Guevara, en las cercanías de Casa Jalisco Estos programas, pertenecientes a la Delegación Institucional de la Procuraduría de Protección de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes de DIF Guadalajara, buscan brindar atención y un entorno seguro a menores de edad mientras que se determina su situación legal. Las...

TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of the app. The abrupt shift came after just hours after major app stores removed the popular social media site and it stopped operating for U.S. users as a federal law took effect on Sunday. The company said in a post on X that in “agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service.” Mr. Trump said in a Sunday morning post on Truth Social that he would “issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.” The ban stems from a 2024 law that requires app stores and cloud computing providers to stop distributing or...

Article content Ottawa firefighters managed to free a salt truck operator whose foot was caught in the salt conveyor belt early Sunday on Albion Road near Lester Road in the Findlay Creek area. Firefighters arrived on scene at about 6:35 a.m. and shut off the vehicle before beginning measures to stabilize the truck. Firefighters applied a tourniquet to the operator’s left leg, above their foot. Article content The man was described as being in his 50s. They then used specialized equipment to safely extricate the foot. The operator’s foot was freed by 6:51 p.m., and firefighters applied a splint for comfort before using a scoop to safely bring the operator down from the truck. Ottawa Paramedics said the man was transported to the trauma centre . Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our homepage and sign up for our newsletters so we can keep you...