The Brooklyn Public Library has launched Books Unbanned, a website that allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to apply for a free library card that will let them download ebooks from its collection. One local library (a very big one) is taking steps to make sure that all teenagers across the US have access to books that may have been removed from their school or local libraries.

"If nothing changes, we will start to see gaps over the coming days on lettuce, some salad leaves, cauliflowers, broccoli and citrus fruit - all of which are imported from the continent at this time of year," Sainsbury's said.

"Our first exclusive TNF broadcast delivered the most watched night of primetime in the US in the history of Prime Video." "By every measure, 'Thursday Night Football' on Prime Video was a resounding success," Jay Marine, Prime Video VP and global head of sports, said in an email seen by CNET.

Barnwell's parents are suing the River Bluff High School teacher, the principal, Lexington School District 1, and the South Carolina Education Department in federal court, saying they violated the girl's civil rights and her First Amendment rights to both free speech or not to speak at all.

The war in Ukraine has stirred strong emotions in Japan, which has a post-war pacifist constitution that has been reinterpreted in recent years to allow Japan to exercise collective self-defense or aid allies under attack.

Although the library website still says that free cards for teens everywhere will be available "for a limited time," the CNN report notes that, due to the success of the program, the library plans to extend it indefinitely.

TOKYO, March algebra 2 (Reuters) - Keiichi Kurogi was one of dozens of men in Japan who offered to join an "international legion" to fight Russian invaders after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for volunteers.

As streaming's popularity has grown with consumers, so too has competition for their subscription dollars. In the past two years, a stream of media giants and tech heavyweights have launched their own rivals to Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, with new services including Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, HBO Max and Peacock. The deal has apparently given Amazon an edge in the so-called streaming wars.

A survey conducted earlier this year on behalf of the ALA found that the vast majority of voters oppose efforts to remove books from school and public libraries. The unprecedented increase in attempts to remove books from school libraries has often been led by individuals and groups who object to books dealing with racism, gender identity or sexual orientation. The most common objections in book challenges are for sexual content, profanity and content "unsuited to any age group," per the American Library Association.

"There are many people here, like reading tutors near me, who want to do something but can't move around right now," he said, adding that it was his first-ever major donation and the maximum amount he could transfer at one time from his bank.

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Barnwell was then sent to the principal's office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal promised to look at the video of the encounter and kidsontheyard sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.

Amazon Prime's broadcast of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video last week reportedly scored the internet retailer a record number of Prime subscriptions for a 3-hour period, beating its records for Prime Day, Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

Amazon has been streaming NFL games for four years, but the games were also available to watch on Fox or the NFL Network. Last week's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers attracted a record prime-time audience to Prime Video, according to Marine's email. In 2021, Amazon locked up the national rights to the NFL's Thursday Night Football games, the biggest sports deal with a streaming service so far.

As of Tuesday, 70 Japanese men - including 50 former members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and two veterans of the French Foreign Legion - had applied to be volunteers, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said, quoting a Tokyo company handling the volunteers.

Hundreds gathered for a protest against the Russian invasion last week in Tokyo, while the Ukrainian embassy said it collected $17 million in donations from some 60,000 people in Japan after it put out an online request for help.

Early this year, The New York Times reported that "parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades." The PEN America study found that a total of 1,648 individual book titles were removed from school libraries in 32 states during the last school year.