Grisham announced the mandate during a Tuesday evening video live stream. The mandate applies to everyone in the state ages two or above, regardless of vaccination status. It goes into effect on Friday, August 20 and will remain in place until Monday, September 20 at the earliest. In addition to the mandate, Grisham announced mandatory vaccinations for all personnel working in care settings and schools. While the state will grant religious or medical exemptions, exempted workers will still need to provide a weekly negative COVID test before being allowed to work....

Beyond the fact that every supposed “safeguard” in the New Mexico law and others like it is unenforceable and circumventable, legislators in the state have allowed medical professionals with less training to facilitate patients’ suicide. Doctors themselves are not always accurate in their prognostications, and patients could throw away good months, years or even decades over a best-guess mistake. Patients like Jeannette Hall, who would have killed herself with assisted suicide but is, thankfully, still alive decades later....

MORE: Durant calls fan a d—head | Durant, Westbrook not sad over Jackson trade Sleeved jerseys in the NBA have been multiplying like rabbits these past few years, the result of a focused retail and licensing program by the NBA and adidas that has been met with mixed reviews from both players and fans. When the Golden State Warriors took the court in sleeved jerseys on February 22, 2013, they became the first NBA team to do so in nearly six decades....

Over the past several months, WWL-TV had conducted an investigation looking into irregularities in S&WB gas permits. WWL-TV said it reviewed “hundreds of jobs that involved serious legal and safety concerns.” The station said some of these jobs passed inspection, despite not complying with international safety codes. Through the investigation, Hammer discovered that S&WB official Jay Arnold, who oversees all plumbing permits and inspections in New Orleans, was not certified by the International Code Council, nor was he registered with the Louisiana State Unified Construction Code Council....

So Lovato took off his apron and put on a jersey. MORE: Week 16 picks | Top 10 NFL moments of 2015 “I’ve been training for this and waiting for a moment like this for a long time now,” Lovato said, via Packers.com. “I’m ready. I’m ready to go show everyone that I can do this.” Green Bay’s regular long snapper, Brett Goode, tore his ACL, so the team held tryouts for a replacement....

Because chronic wounds on the skin are prone to bacterial infections, they often don’t heal very quickly. Although antibiotics are prescribed for wound infections, some bacteria become resistant to antibiotic therapy. For this reason, the Purdue team created an alternative treatment option. “We created a revolutionary type of treatment to kill the bacteria on the surface of the wound or diabetic ulcer and accelerate the healing process,” Rahim Rahimi, PhD, one of the device’s creators and an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, stated in a press release....

In late 1992, the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) sent the justice Department a 21-page “criminal referral” on the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, the Arkansas thrift run by James McDougal, the Clintons’ partner in Whitewater. The document recommended an investigation by justice. It named Bill and Hillary Clinton as possible beneficiaries of alleged financial misdeeds by McDougal, but not as targets of the criminal investigation. After Clinton took office, career officials at the justice Department decided not to act on the referral....

The Dream Keeper Fellowship is set to launch in October and pay 10 individuals $300 each month to not be involved in shootings, Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek in an interview Tuesday. Davis explained that the program is not “transactional,” but will rather focus on making investments in communities most impacted by violence. “It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think....

In the booklet, Lumeng and her colleagues redefine the rules of healthy eating for kids. Faced with a childhood-obesity epidemic (about one in six U.S. kids is fat), experts are realizing that old adages, like “Clean your plate,” have become obsolete. “Many of my patients come from the clean-your-plate club,” says obesity expert Robert Kushner, professor of medicine at Northwestern University. The new guidelines suggest that parents provide kids with regular mealtimes and a good variety of foods—then chill out....

The study, released on Tuesday, shows concussion trends in different sports, including cheerleading, one of the sports with the highest rate of concussions. The risk of concussions in cheerleading may not be very apparent, but the study shows how they could be comparable to sports like football, hockey, or soccer. According to the study, 63.7 percent of concussions occurred during competitions in high school sports. The data in the study showed that boys’ football had the highest rate at 10....

The new standards include increasing fuel efficiency by 8 percent in 2024 and 2025, then 10 percent in 2026, according to a statement from the NHTSA, which is part of the federal Transportation Department. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the increased standards will save Americans money, make the U.S. less vulnerable to global changes in oil prices and reduce emissions and pollution, the statement said. The move reverses a Trump-era rollback of mileage standards that was criticized by former President Barack Obama and others for its potential effects on climate change, according to The Hill....

Like the coronavirus, anti-Semitism can mutate over time. Like the coronavirus, it ignores borders, it infects both young and old and it can strike in Islamic, Christian and other societies alike. In Shiite Iran and Sunni Pakistan, where anti-Semitism is rampant, Muslim preachers, bloggers and ordinary citizens rushed to blame the Jews for the outbreak of COVID-19 infections. Similar accusations have also been heard in the United States. Since the Orthodox Jewish community in New Rochelle, New York was among the first to be infected, many people, both online and offline, blamed Jews for the outbreak....

Whether you’re toasting the new year at an event or from the comfort of your own home, social media feeds will be awash with celebratory New Year-themed posts, including on Instagram. If you’re feeling a bit of writer’s block (or anticipate you may be too merrily intoxicated to string words together on the day), below are some ideas for New Year’s Eve captions to share on social media networks to ring in 2022....

Target New Year’s Eve hours 2019 Target will be open from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m on New Year’s Eve, December 31. Target will be open as usual—from 8 a.m. until 12 a.m—on New Year’s Day, January 1. While these will generally be the hours for most Target locations, check with your local store in case its holiday hours differ. Walmart New Year’s Eve hours 2019 Walmart will be open during normal hours on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day....

The new decade of the Gregorian calendar begins on January 1, 2020. Many people around the world hold New Year’s Day as a new beginning, a time to cast out the old and ring in the new. But what are some of the ways different countries celebrate the arrival of the new year? To help answer this question, Newsweek compiled some photos from New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day commemorations around the world....

Demand for N95 respirators, manufactured by 3M, has spiked in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 outbreak, an infectious disease that has now spread to more than 189,000 people in the U.S. But the masks, which filter airborne particles, have also been subject to scams and price gouging. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said Monday that one “bad actor” was caught flogging N95 masks that were inflated in price and past their use-by date, as WABC reported....

At 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday afternoon, the New York City Department of Health confirmed that 1,096 people have died due to the virus, with 41,771 confirmed cases and 8,549 hospitalizations. The city’s death toll was reported at 914 on Monday night and 776 on Sunday. New York City’s grim new milestone comes roughly two days after the state’s death toll climbed above 1,000 on Sunday. Newsweek reached out to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office for comment....

As of July 4, more than 320 incidents had been reported to the authorities. Last year, the city saw a grand total of 269 hate crimes. The biggest rise in hate crimes were among Asians, with 104 incidents reported so far this year—a 395 percent spike from 2020. The NYPD recorded just four hate crimes targeting the Asian community last year. In late May, cameras captured an unprovoked attack on a 55-year-old Asian woman in New York’s Chinatown in broad daylight....

The legislation would allow for those of voting age who have been legal permanent residents in the city for at least 30 days to vote for local positions such as mayor, city council members and borough presidents. New York’s City Council is expected to ratify the bill on Thursday. If it passes, it would give about 800,000 more people the right to vote in city elections, though they would still not be able to vote in state or federal elections....

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a partnership allowing leaders to combine resources in an effort to obtain personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical supplies. In addition to New York, the collaboration involves New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. “By working together we can do a lot more than if each of us works on our own,” said Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, echoing Cuomo’s earlier comments that referenced difficulties with regard to acquiring PPE....