Courtney Cox

Fremont, CA Is The Happiest City In The USA, For The 2nd Year In A Row, In A Wallethub Ranking Of 182 Cities Based On 30 Factors Like Emotional & Physical Well-Being, Income, And Environment. San Jose, CA; Madison, WI; Overland Park, KS; And San Francisco, CA Rounded Out The Top 5. California Dominated The List, While Detroit Ranked Last.

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Nadia Kahf Has Become The First Hajiba Wearing Judge In New Jersey After Her New Jersey Superior Court Appointment. But Carolyn Walker-Dialo Is The First Hijab-Wearing Judge In The US After Her Appointment As A Civil Court Judge In NY In 2015. Many Muslims Serve As Judges In The US, But These Women Are The Only Ones Known To Wear Hijab.

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Researchers, Including NASA Scientists, Using Satellite Imagery And AI To Map ~10 Billion Trees, Carried Out The First Comprehensive Estimate Of Tree Carbon Density In The Drylands Of Africa. The Study Estimates ~0.84 Billion Metric Tons Of Carbon—A Data That Is Essential For, E.g., Understanding Global Carbon Cycle And Climate Change Projection.

Adiah And Adrial Nadarajah, According To The Guinness World Records, Are The World’s Most Premature Twins. The Canadian Siblings Were Born At 21.3 Wks– 126 Days Early, Overtaking The Previous Record Of 125 Days Early Birth Set In 2018 By Identical Twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt In Iowa, US. A Full-Term Pregnancy Is Usually 9 Months (39 Wks).

Spain, Like Demark First Did In 2014, Has Passed A Law That Would Enable People Over 16 To Legally Identify As Another Gender Without Medical Evaluation, And Confirm It 3 Months Later. The Law Changes The Usual Process That Required A Medical Diagnosis Of Gender Dysphoria And To Be On Hormonal Treatment For 2 Yrs Before A Gender Change.

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María Branyas Morera, Following The Death Of 118-Year-Old Lucile Randon Of France, Is Now Said To Be The Oldest Living Woman And The Oldest Living Person By The Guinness World Records. Ms. Morera, Who Is 115 Years And 321 Days Old, As Of 1/19/2023, Was Born In California, USA, On 3/4/1907. But She Returned To Spain 8 Years After Her Birth.

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EctoLife Is The First Artificial Womb (AW) Concept Facility, Which, In Theory, Could Grow About 30,000 Babies Per Year. Parents Can Engineer Their Embryos Before They Are Implanted In The AW. The Facility Is Said To Be A Solution For Countries With Depleting Populations, For Infertile Couples, Or For Women That Have Lost Their Wombs.

A Woman, For The First Time, Has Been Sworn In As Peru’s First Female President. The Woman, Ms. Dina Boluarte, A 60-Year-Old Former Lawyer, Was The Vice-President To The Ousted President, Pedro Castillo, Who Was Impeached, On 12/07/22, By Peru’s Congress. Ms. Boluarte, Who Is The Youngest Of 14 Children, Was Born In The Southern Town Of Chalhuanca.

A Houston Resident, Tanya Herbert, Has Broken The Guinness World Records For Having The World’s Largest Feet On A Living Female. She Broke The Record, Currently Held By Julie Felton From The UK, With Her Right Foot Measuring 13.03 in And Her Left 12.79 in. Herbert, Who Is 6 ft. 9 in Tall, Typically Wears A US Women’s Size 18 Or A US Men’s Size 16-17.

Anna May Wong, Dubbed Hollywood’s First Asian American Movie Star, Is The First Asian American Featured On US Quarters. Wong, Who Died In 1961, Had A Career Spanning 60 Films, And Earned A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame In 1960. Wong Is Featured On The 5th Coin, Released In 2022, Which Celebrates Female Trailblazers In American History.

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Rishi Sunak, A 42-Year-Old Former Finance Minister, Will Become Britain’s First Prime Minister Of Color And The Country’s Youngest Prime Minister In Modern Times After His Last Remaining Rival, Penny Mordaunt, Pulled Out Of The Race, And The Conservative MPs Overwhelmingly Backed Him To Succeed The Outgoing Liz Truss.

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Liz Truss Will Be Britain’s Shortest-Serving Prime Minister (PM) After Serving For Likely Under 60 Days. The Record Was Previously Held By George Canning Who Served For 119 Days In 1827 Until His Death From Tuberculosis. Robert Walpole Was Britain’s Longest-Serving PM. He Served For 20 Yrs & 315 Days, From April 3, 1721, To Feb. 11, 1942.

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Fatima Payman Is Trailblazing And Making History By Being The First Hajiba Wearing Senator, And Also The First Afghanistan-Australian To Be Elected Into the Australian Parliament. And At Just 27 Years Old, She Is The Youngest Person In The Current Australian Parliament. Impressive Lady!

Saudi Arabia Plans To Build The World’s Biggest Structure—2 Mirrored Buildings That Are ~488 m High And Running Parallel For 120 Km Across Coastal And Desert Terrain. The Buildings, Est. At A Trillion Dollars And Part Of The Smart City Project Called Neom, Will House ~5 Mil People. And Be Connect By Walkways And Underground Trains.

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The First Mission To Return Samples From Another Planet Will Land On Earth In 2033. The Plan Is To Send A Lander Carrying 2 Sample Recovery Helicopters. The Perseverance Rover Will Then Transport The Samples To The Lander. But If The Rover Can’t Transport The Samples, Then The 2 Helicopters Will Be Tasked With Retrieving The Samples.

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Dr. June Huh, A South Korean And High School Dropout Turned College Professor, Was Awarded The Fields Medal, The Highest Honor In Mathematics For His Work In The Field Of Geometric Combinatorics. The Award Could Be Referred To As The “Nobel Prize In Mathematics. Huh, Age 39, Is The 9Th Field Medal Recipient From The Princeton Faculty.

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Aminata Touré Has Again Made History After Being Sworn In As The First Minister Of African (Mali) Origin In Germany. Ms. Touré, Age 29, Was Appointed As Minister For Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration And Equality In Schleswig-Holstein, Which Is One Of The 16 States Of Germany, With The Capital City As Kiel.

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Mellody Hobson Will Be The First Black Woman To Be A Part Owner Of An NFL Team, When The Ownership Group, In Which She Is A Member, Takes Over The Denver Broncos In A $4.65 B Deal. Hobson, Age 53, A Co-CEO Of The $17.8 B Ariel Investments, Married To Star Wars Creator, George Lucas, Sits On Many Boards Like Starbucks And Estée Lauder.

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Zahid Quraishi Is The First Muslim American Federal Judge, In US History, After He Was Confirmed By The US Senate To The U.S. District Court For The District Of New Jersey. He Was Also The First Asian-American To Serve On The Federal Bench In New Jersey After His Appointment, In 2019, As A U.S. Magistrate Judge For The Same District.

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NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), For The First Time In History, Has Appointed A Woman As Its Head. Dr. Laurie Leshin, Who Is Also The Vice President Of Caltech, Is A Distinguished Geochemist And Space Scientist. Dr. Leshin, An Advocate For Gender Equality In STEM, Wants To Make JPL An All-Inclusive Environment For Great Minds.

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