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The total number of injured was unclear, as further reports emerged of people shot at while driving on the freeway. |
On Monday the Los Angeles Police Department will celebrate 100 years of female officers at the department, according to an LAPD statement. Chief Charlie Beck, Sheriff Lee Baca, several Los Angeles City Council members, and actors who portray women in uniform, including Southland's Regina King, will be on hand Monday mo... |
... Alice Stebbins Wells was hired as the first female police officer in the United States with full police powers ... Today, the women of LAPD serve in every capacity of law enforcement. Their history mirrors that of the Department. During the event [Monday], a reflection of their victorious triumphs, challenging stru... |
“If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster,” Pompeo said, referring to sanctions imposed by the United Nations over the regime’s nuclear and missile program. |
I n a statement following Pompeo’s trip to Pyongyang to work out details of denuclearization, KCNA, the country’s state-run news agency, called the talks “regrettable” and accused the US of using a “gangster-like mindset” in making its demands. |
Jong Un, although the pact they signed for disarming didn’t include details or a timeline on how it would be accomplished. |
And US intelligence agencies said Pyongyang continues to develop its nuclear arsenal and is hiding inter-continental ballistic missiles while the negotiations are ongoing. |
Pompeo briefed the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers about his talks in Pyongyang on Sunday and toughened his stand on Kim’s regime. |
He said Kim made a commitment during the summit with Trump and should abide by the agreement they signed. |
actions that it wants to improve relations between the two countries. |
Bird enthusiasts already know that male hummingbirds do impressive dives to excite potential lady-friends during mating season. But scientists have found that these dives may be more about sound than sight — it turns out that the rapid downward motion causes the male birds' feathers to vibrate, which makes a sound the ... |
DRESDEN - The Columbus Bomb Squad has been called in to detonate a small explosive devise outside of Dresden. |
According to Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz, the explosive device will be detonated around 5:15 p.m. |
There is no danger to the public, Lutz said, who offered no further information. |
April 22, 2019, 4 p.m. |
The US consulate in Benghazi that came under attack by militants on September 11 was mainly a secret CIA operation, shedding new light on the deadly assault. |
President Barack Obama's administration has faced a storm of pre-election questions about why there was not more security at the US consulate where four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed on September 11. |
The Wall Street Journal said the consulate was being used as a CIA operation, adding that of the 30 American officials evacuated from Benghazi following the assault, just seven worked for the State Department. |
It also identified the two security contractors killed in the attack – former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty – as working for the Central Intelligence Agency and not the State Department. |
In a break from tradition, it said CIA Director David Petraeus did not attend the ceremony when the coffins arrived back on American soil in order to conceal the CIA operation in eastern Libya. |
It said the nearly two dozen CIA operatives secretly worked out of a separate building known as the "annex," where officials at the consulate had retreated following the initial attack before coming under fire again. |
The operation, which hit the ground shortly after the start of the February 2011 revolt that overthrew Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was aimed at counterterrorism and securing heavy weapons held by the embattled regime. |
The Journal suggested that the security lapse may have been due to miscommunication between the CIA and the State Department, with the latter assuming the annex security team was a sufficient backup for its own guards. |
"They were the cavalry," it quoted a senior US official as saying. |
The day after the attack, the CIA sent Libyan security officials to the annex to destroy classified documents and sensitive equipment while leaving the charred and ransacked consulate – which by design had contained no classified materials – unattended, The Journal said. |
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat today ordered an inquiry into alleged inflated and forged bills submitted by state government officials during the relief works of 2013 floods. |
The scam surfaced during the hearing carried out by State Information Commissioner Anil Sharma where a RTI petitioner submitted documents showing massive irregularities. The documents indicated that officials relished choicest of cuisine even as people were suffering. |
Taking cognisance of the allegations, the Chief Minister today asked Chief Secretary to look into the matter and take action against the erring officials, sources in the Chief Minister's office said. |
PTI had first reported the story highlighting alleged financial swindling by officials engaged in the relief work. Through the RTI replies, several glaring examples of forged and inflated bills had come to the light which showed officials billed the exchequer Rs 194 for half a litre milk, enjoyed stay in hotels which w... |
The officials allegedly distributed relief funds twice to same persons, purchased 1,800 rain coats from same shop for three consecutive days, submitted fuel bills indicating that diesel was purchased for scooter and motorcycles which were camouflaged as four wheelers. |
In a 12-page order, passed after hearing complainant Bhupendra Kumar of National Action Forum for Social Justice, Sharma has taken note of bills provided by various districts in response to RTI queries seeking to know details of funds spent on relief work in the aftermath of the tragedy that claimed 3,000 lives, with m... |
REUTERS: Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons is pushing into China with plans to open 1,500 outlets in the world's second largest economy over the next 10 years, the company said on Wednesday. |
Restaurant Brands , which owns Tim Hortons as well as Burger King chains, said its Chinese restaurants will be opened under a master franchise joint venture with private equity firm Cartesian Capital Group. |
"China's population and vibrant economy represent an excellent growth opportunity for Tim Hortons in the coming years," President Alex Macedo said in a statement. |
China is a fast-growing market for coffee chains such as Starbucks Corp , with local startups like Luckin Coffee also vying for share of the market amid a burgeoning cafe culture. |
Starbucks already has more than 3,000 stores in China, and said in May that it aims to triple China revenue and double cafe numbers to 6,000 by 2022. |
Hortons, which has more than 4,700 outlets across the world, has seen sales fall over the past two years, with its brand reputation also taking a hit. |
The chain was recently criticized for its reaction to minimum wage increases in Ontario, while a group of franchisees alleged that Restaurant Brands was not keeping to the terms of a 2014 deal to buy the chain. |
In response, Restaurant Brands said in April it plans to spend CUS$700 million to revamp the coffee chain. |
Hortons' partner in its China venture - Cartesian Capital - is already involved in Burger King's China operations. |
The New York Times appeared to reinforce a claim President Trump recently made about ObamaCare being on the brink of collapse. |
In a tweet last week, the president said the Affordable Care Act will "explode" and cause all sides to "get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for the people." |
The Times reported that if the health insurer Anthem leaves the ObamaCare marketplace, it would leave a large swath of Appalachia and parts of the western states without a single ACA insurance option. |
A map on the Times' website shows potential "coverage gaps" in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and Georgia, as well as pieces of Missouri and Colorado. |
According to the same map, a majority of the counties from Memphis to Savannah are only covered by one marketplace insurer. |
Trump nodded to the paper's findings on Saturday, tweeting that "The failing @nytimes finally gets it - "In places where no insurance company offers plans, there will be no way for ObamaCare customers to use subsidies to buy health plans." In other words, Ocare is dead. Good things will happen, however, either with Rep... |
The failing @nytimes finally gets it - "In places where no insurance company offers plans, there will be no way for ObamaCare customers to.. |
...use subsidies to buy health plans." In other words, Ocare is dead. Good things will happen, however, either with Republicans or Dems. |
If Anthem or another insurance company that is the only option in certain areas leaves those counties or states without an ObamaCare marketplace option, it would also mean those residents would not be eligible for federal subsidies to lower their costs. |
Parts of Tennessee are already potentially without an insurer next year, the Times points out, because Humana is planning on leaving the marketplace. |
TTY director-general Na Marady, a well-known Cambodian tycoon, has been accused of owing money to farmers from whom he bought potatoes on credit more than a year ago in Memot district’s Koki and Kompoan communes in Kampong Cham province. |
The villagers complained on Friday that Na Marady still owes more than 30 million riels – about $7,500 – on a 100 million-riel ($25,000) debt incurred in early 2011. |
“I don’t know why [Na Marady] owes by not paying like this,” said Ros Kheang, a villager who says he is owed an additional 7 million riels. |
According to Ros Kheang, Na Marady had promised to buy villagers’ potatoes at a higher price than a Vietnamese company that was also interested. |
Farmer Heng Hak says Na Marady owes him nearly 2 million riels. |
Na Marady could not be reached yesterday, but Heng Sarath, TTY’s deputy director-general, confirmed Na Marady owed the villagers. |
He said he was unable to pay after an accountant absconded with a large amount of TTY’s funds. |
“We will not dupe them. Before long, we will pay it all,” he said. |
…the real reason why a European of bourgeois upbringing, even when he calls himself a Communist, cannot without a hard effort think of a working man as his equal. It is summed up in…The lower classes smell. |
What D.H. Lawrence fought for, we should all fight for. Nothing is more wanting today, a time when strength is equated with “manly” might and militarism, than individuals who fiercely protect the inner flame of their genius, who by their example can imply to the rest of us that we should all be so unmanly as to have ea... |
That we can ignore dark reality is due to the pretense, essential to bourgeois reality, we are or can beabove nature, a pretense abetted by much of popular spiritual practice, and the basis for class structuring of society, for flight to the suburbs away from the crime and crumbling of cities, for liberal obeisance to ... |
This thought comes to me as we read now about billionaires buying land and building bunkers in New Zealand to provide a place to escape to when the climate is deep-sixed and the hordes of the 99%, now with nothing to lose and vengeance in mind – or just ravenous for food and water – come looking for them. Many if not m... |
Living in the degraded rustbelt reality of inner city Utica, referred to by some locals as “the armpit” of New York State, has taught me this distinction the hard way. I’m still tempted to think I’d have an easier time of it being a better human being, not “sweating the small stuff,” having occasional spiritual peace, ... |
Recently it came to me I may have imbibed the bourgeois promise of entitlement in relation to a pig farm that 50 years ago was located nearby my family’s home. I was thinking one day about the horrific condition of pigs raised on factory farms when the memory of the actual pig farm I once knew came to mind, as I was ap... |
This rather obvious insight constituted a major revision of my personal history. It challenged a forgotten orthodoxy and threw new light on the place of my upbringing, a suburban housing tract outside and uphill from the village of Whitesboro where I lived from age 2 to 14. The isolation of this particular real estate ... |
Throughout my childhood the Pig Farm functioned symbolically to such an extent that its real and essential function in the American food chain was obscured to us. We bought our pork chops packaged in cellophane at the clean and bright supermarket. Our hotdogs were Oscar Meyer’s. The pig farm, detached from its perfectl... |
It was impossible to imagine the family who ran the farm as anything but defective in some significant way, for who would live on a pig farm, any more than in a pig sty? Here you see what I am getting at; without any doubt, we were better than the Pig Farm and its stinky reality, that, on hot muggy days in August would... |
But, who were we? What was our context, our place in the community, in the political reality, in history, in the food chain? Sunset Manor, for so it was called, consisting of 200 or so identical 3-bedroom ranch-style houses symmetrically laid out along two side-by-side- horseshoe-shaped streets, gave us no answer. We l... |
I’ve come to see the suburban dream as a streamlined way for children to be introduced to bourgeois upward mobility, to condoning of insatiable greed, to discardability and replaceability, removal of every aspect of rootedness, of individuality, of distinct places, buildings, beauty and ugliness, fragrance and stink, e... |
We suburban nomads would become inhabitants of neoliberal faux-reality, preferring its false promise over the suspected threat of the real, without ever divining the truth about ourselves. Our social conversation that skirts the truth (i.e, of the awful emptiness), our political discussion always contained within the l... |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Witnesses say an Israeli airstrike has hit a high-rise in downtown Gaza City where a number of local and foreign news organizations have offices. |
Thick black smoke rose from the building Monday as ambulances rushed to the scene. Paramedics say one person was killed and several wounded. |
It’s the second strike on the building in two days. The Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, is located on the top floor. |
Israeli aircraft have struck several crowded areas in the Gaza Strip, driving up the Palestinian death toll to 94 and devastating several homes belonging to one clan as Israel broadened its targets in the 6-day-old offensive. |
Hamas fighters also have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel in the current round of fighting, including 75 on Monday, one that hit an empty school. |
Last Updated: November 30, 2018. |
FRIDAY, Nov. 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- When unborn babies kick in the womb, they may be developing awareness of their bodies, British researchers say. |
"Spontaneous movement and consequent feedback from the environment during the early developmental period are known to be necessary for proper brain mapping in animals such as rats. Here we showed that this may be true in humans, too," said study author Lorenzo Fabrizi of University College London. |
His team measured the brain waves of 19 newborns during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The babies were an average of 2 days old, and some were premature. The researchers found a link between movement and brain activity. |
For example, movement of a newborn's right hand causes immediate activity in the left part of the brain that processes touch for the right hand. The size of these "fast brain waves" is largest in premature babies, who would normally still be in the womb, the researchers said. |
The fast brain waves associated with movement end by the time a baby is a few weeks old, the researchers added. |
These findings suggest that fetal movement in the third trimester of pregnancy helps to develop areas of the brain that process sensory input. This is how a baby develops a sense of its own body, according to the study authors. |
The research could improve care for premature infants, Fabrizi and his colleagues said in a university news release. |
"We think the findings have implications for providing the optimal hospital environment for infants born early, so that they receive appropriate sensory input," said study co-author Kimberley Whitehead. She's in the university's department of neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology. |
For example, it's already routine for infants to be "nested" in their bassinets. This allows them to "feel" a surface when they kick their limbs, as if they were still inside the womb, Whitehead noted. |
"As the movements we observed occur during sleep, our results support other studies which indicate that sleep should be protected in newborns, for example by minimizing the disturbance associated with necessary medical procedures," Whitehead said. |
The findings were published Nov. 30 in the journal Scientific Reports. |
The American Pregnancy Association has more on fetal movement. |
Louisiana may conjure up images of Mardi Gras parades, wild parties on Bourbon Street and chasing crocodiles on swamp tours, but the coastal state offers much more to visitors and locals alike. Southern Louisiana boasts picturesque, sandy beaches along the Gulf of Mexico that are ideal for swimming and water sports fro... |
Often referred to by Louisianans as the "Cajun Riviera," Holly Beach is a popular holiday destination in southwestern Louisiana, just 15 miles from Sabine Natural Wildlife Refuge. Vacation trailers and cottages are available for rent along the coast, and the neighboring town of Cameron, located eight miles east of Holl... |
The area surrounding the beach at Grande Isle State Park serves as a popular campground for backpackers, hikers and families arriving in RVs. The beach includes an information center and a five-story wooden lookout tower that offers scenic views of the coast and state park. The small town of Grande Isle, located three ... |
Cypremort Point State Park, located between Grand Isle and Cameron, includes a beach on the shoreline of Vermilion Bay. Swimming is possible only during the day and early evening, and visitors are charged a nominal entrance fee. The beach not only is popular for swimming and boating but also for kiting, fishing and wat... |
Port Fourchon, an important seaport in southeastern Louisiana, offers visitors sandy beaches and abundant fishing opportunities. The area long has served as a key element of Louisiana's fisheries sector, and the area around the public beach features a variety of seafood restaurants, including the Port Fourchon Marina R... |
Winston, Rupert. "Beaches in Southern Louisiana." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/beaches-southern-louisiana-57636.html. 20 October 2017. |
"We have verified that a couple of minibuses left and some known prisoners were inside," CPDH president Marcos Carmona told AFP, adding that as many as 100 may have been released. |
Many of the freed prisoners waved flags, sang the country's national anthem and shouted "Viva NIcaragua". |
Relatives had spent the night outside the prison after rumors circulated that prisoners were to be released. |
Ortega and the opposition were to begin talks Wednesday on easing tensions that began last April with deadly protests over the government's now-ditched pension reform. |
Previous peace talks broke down last June after the president rejected opposition demands to step down and bring forward presidential elections. |
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