Author: Admin

SAN DIEGO — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that Mexico must stop the flow of billions of gallons of sewage and toxic chemicals from Tijuana that has polluted the Pacific Ocean off neighboring Southern California, closing beaches and sickening Navy SEALs who train in the water. Lee Zeldin made the demand during an Earth Day trip to the California-Mexico border, where he toured a plant in San Diego County that treats the sewage as a secondary facility and flew along the frontier to see the Tijuana River. He also was scheduled to meet with SEALs.Zeldin said…

Read More

PHOENIX — The Trump administration’s plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling even among legal residents, immigrants’ rights advocates say.For some, it’s a return to a climate from the recent past in which police departments and other law enforcement agencies’ insistence on documentation drove immigrants underground and increased public safety concerns.“It happens already to an extent. … I think this would make it even worse because how would you know somebody is undocumented?” said Jose Patiño, vice president of education and external…

Read More

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance, capturing the vastness of the war’s still-reverberating traumas.The war was more than a decade in and some eight years from its conclusion when a 25-year-old Martin Scorsese made this six-minute short. In it, a man simply shaves himself before a sink and a mirror. After…

Read More

Stock futures jumped after President Trump said Tuesday that he has no plans to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and signaled a willingness to ease trade tensions with China. As of 9 a.m. EST, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 765 points, or 2%, pointing to a strong open for the markets. S&P 500 futures rose 135 points, or 2.5%, while Nasdaq Composite futures increased 3.1%. “The ratcheting down of the rhetoric from the White House allowed yesterday’s improved demand for U.S. assets to continue at the outset of trading in Asia last night,” said John Canavan, lead U.S. stock…

Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a bill Monday impacting health insurance plans for state employees.It would have expanded benefits for all state employees without a premium increase. Among those changes, all co-pays would have gone toward their out-of-pocket costs.In his veto letter, Armstrong argues that the current health insurance plan is better than the proposed bill and is a very useful tool for recruitment and retention.“This new plan … includes mandatory added benefits that will result in increased costs passed on to our public employees as an out-of-pocket expense. Public employees didn’t ask for this,” Armstrong wrote.Lawmakers…

Read More

RJ Young FOX Sports National College Football Analyst The United Football League’s initial rosters for its 2024 season were announced Monday.Following the merger of the USFL and XFL, each of the eight UFL teams selected players from its respective conference’s player pool in a dispersal draft. The full list can be viewed here.WEEK 9: UFL Power Rankings: Stallions remain up top despite loss, Brahmas surge | No. 1 CFB Show Heading into training camp next month, some teams already have come away with players who have made their mark on spring football over the last two years and enjoyed memorable…

Read More

LONDON :People in emerging economies are more willing to trust AI than those in advanced economies and are more optimistic and excited about its benefits, a major survey by the University of Melbourne and professional services firm KPMG has found.The global study showed two-thirds of those surveyed were now using artificial intelligence regularly and even more – 83 per cent – believed it would result in a wide range of benefits.But 58 per cent of respondents viewed the technology as untrustworthy, an increase in the level found in a previous study before the release of ChatGPT, a groundbreaking generative AI…

Read More

BEIJING — BEIJING (AP) — China announced Wednesday the members of a three-person crew that will be launched to its space station as part of its growing exploration of space. The Shenzhou 20 mission’s astronauts are Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie, Lin Xiqiang, deputy director general of China Manned Space Agency. They will replace three astronauts currently on the Chinese space station. Like those before them, they will stay there for roughly six months. The three will launch for space Thursday evening in China, from Jiuquan, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China.The three-person crew…

Read More