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Rolling Hills Estates residents anxious for answers after devastating landslide

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

Residents in Rolling Hills Estates are anxious to get answers after a devastating landslide destroyed 12 homes earlier this month. Another five homes have been red-tagged and it's unclear if insurance will cover any of the damage. A town hall meeting, sponsored by L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn and Sheriff Robert Luna, was held Monday night in Ranchos Palos Verdes. A city official was also on hand to discuss the latest on the landslide. Hahn said the county tax assessor is working to make sure the now homeless Rolling Hills Estates residents do not have to pay a huge tax bill come November. As for continuing to pay their mortgages, that’s unclear.  “We don’t have an answer on the mortgage question, but we are connecting them to resources directly to help them navigate that question,” Rolling Hills Assistant City Manager Alexa Davis said. Crime, including the couple caught allegedly burglarizing the vacant Peartree Lane homes, was also a topic at the town...

Israeli protesters block highways in ‘day of disruption’ against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli protesters blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv’s stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul. The latest “day of disruption” came as longtime allies of the prime minister pushed a contentious piece of legislation through a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote expected next week. Additional protests are planned throughout the day.Demonstrators, many of them military reservists, created human chains and blocked one of the entrances to the Kirya, Israel’s military headquarters in central Tel Aviv. Outside the Tel Aviv stock exchange, demonstrators ignited smoke bombs, drummed and chanted, and held up signs reading “save our startup nation” and “dictatorship will kill the economy.” Netanyahu heads the most ultranationalist and religiously conservative government in Israel’s 75-year history. He proposed a series of ...

Ohtani ties score with 35th homer, Angels beat Yankees 4-3 in 10 innings

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani tied the score in the seventh inning with his major league-leading 35th home run and pinch-hitter Michael Stefanic had a game-ending single in the 10th to give the Los Angeles Angels a 4-3 win over the New York Yankees on Monday night.Los Angeles trailed 3-1 when Ohtani hit a two-run drive off Michael King, then made a demonstrative flip of his bat. Ohtani has homered in three straight games for the third time and surpassed his home run total last year. He has 19 homers in his last 31 games.Ohtani had three hits and increased his average to .306. He struck out in the ninth against Nick Ramirez (0-2), winced and grabbed at his back.With Chad Wallace on second as the automatic runner in the 10th, Stefanic hit a changeup from Ramirez into left field to give the Angels their fourth walk-off win. The Yankees have lost seven of nine games, including three of four since the All-Star break, and dropped into sole possession of last place in the AL East. N...

Reportan hallazgo de al menos 27 cuerpos en varias fosas clandestinas en Tamaulipas

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Colectivo Amor por los Desaparecidos en Tamaulipas, informó este lunes el hallazgo de al menos 27 cuerpos en diversas fosas clandestinas en Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México.Edith González, integrante de la agrupación Amor por los Desaparecidos en Tamaulipas, dijo que hasta el momento se han encontrado 27 cuerpos en aproximadamente 20 fosas. Estos hallazgos se realizaron en los últimos cuatro días, agregó Gonzáles.La agrupación Amor por los Desaparecidos en Tamaulipas no dijo cómo lograron dar con el paradero de estas fosas clandestinas en Reynosa, Tamaulipas.Tenemos que desmantelar a carteles que operan en Tamaulipas, dice el embajador de EE.UU. en MéxicoCNN ha intentado contactar a Amor por los Desaparecidos en Tamaulipas para preguntarles cómo encontraron la ubicación de las fosas sin obtener respuesta por ahora.Hasta el momento ni las autoridades estatales del estado de Tamaulipas ni la fiscalía han emitido un informe sobre el hallazgo realizado por la agrupac...

The green transition is more urgent than ever. Here is a real solution.

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

Last year, 16,565 people died in Europe as a direct result of the climate crisis and this is now the fastest-warming continent in the world, the World Meteorological Foundation reported recently. Furthermore, earlier this year, our planet broke the record for its hottest day ever — three times. The facts are inescapable: to preserve our society, our prosperity and our future, we have no choice but to transform our economies and make them sustainable. The risks we run otherwise are unacceptable.Many companies and financial institutions are ready to seize the green transition’s countless economic opportunities and to protect themselves from the disruption of environmental collapse. Speeding up the transition is not only good for business, it is also reasonable and prudent: as the European Central Bank underlines, “a failure to adequately manage environmental risks is no longer compatible with sound risk management”. However, companies and financial institutions are not scientific...

Whitford: Work requirements for food stamps … work

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

Because I fear that America is sinking into the mire of national debt and government dependency, I testified in favor of work requirements for the food stamp program at a Senate hearing on the Farm Bill in April.Few offered similar arguments, and most gave impassioned speeches about the need to grow welfare programs. To the latter, I’d like to extend an invitation to Missouri, which instituted work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) on food stamps in 2016.The outcomes of Missouri’s work requirement efforts saw 85% of ABAWDs move from welfare to work, and statewide food insecurity dropped from 14.2% to 12%. I was encouraged to learn that the “Limit, Save, Grow” debt ceiling bill debated in Congress in the spring included a provision to raise the welfare work requirement age for ABAWDs from 50 to 56 years of age while limiting the ability of states to waive those requirements.Unfortunately, the bill failed.More Americans returning to work equals less gover...

South Korea searches for missing people as death toll from downpours reaches 41

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rescuers searched Tuesday for about 10 people still missing in landslides and floods caused by more than a week of torrential rains in South Korea, as the country’s military dispatched more than 10,000 troops to support rescue works.The downpours pounding South Korea since July 9 have left 41 people dead, nine missing and 35 others injured. The rainfall has also forced about 12,780 people to evacuate and left about 28,600 households without power.During a Cabinet Council meeting Tuesday, President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered officials to mobilize all available resources to rescue any possible additional survivors, assist victims and conduct recovery works.Yoon said the government plans to designate major rain-stricken areas as special disaster zones to help speed up the recovery.The Defense Ministry separately said it was sending equipment and 11,000 soldiers on Tuesday to support government efforts to find the missing people and restore damages.Much of the sever...

High anxiety over Ukraine war sets in at EU-LatAm summit that was supposed to be a love-in

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

BRUSSELS (AP) — High anxiety set in on the closing day of a summit between European Union and Latin American leaders that was supposed to be a love-in but turned into a diplomatic fracas over the war in Ukraine. Ambassadors worked through much of the night and into Tuesday morning to find even the blandest text to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, with talks hung up over the reservations of some Central and South American nations like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. “It would be a shame that we are not able to to say that there is Russian aggression in Ukraine. It’s a fact. And I’m not here to rewrite history,” an exasperated Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said. The long-anticipated summit, eight years after the previous one, descended into a standoff over who would blink first over an issue that a vast majority of the 60 nations attending had already agreed on in several votes at the United Nations and other international institutions.While the 27-nation EU wanted...

Israeli protesters block highways in ‘day of disruption’ against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli protesters blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv’s stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul. The latest “day of disruption” came as longtime allies of the prime minister pushed a contentious piece of legislation through a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote expected next week. Additional protests are planned throughout the day.Demonstrators, many of them military reservists, created human chains and blocked one of the entrances to the Kirya, Israel’s military headquarters in central Tel Aviv. Outside the Tel Aviv stock exchange, demonstrators ignited smoke bombs, drummed and chanted, and held up signs reading “save our startup nation” and “dictatorship will kill the economy.” Others demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Histadrut, Israel’s largest labor union, demanding the organization ca...

Capelin feed Newfoundland’s puffins and whales, and some worry they’re in trouble

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:17:34 GMT

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Marine scientists and conservationists are calling on officials to pause Newfoundland and Labrador’s commercial capelin fishery.The tiny shimmering fish are an important staple in the diets of the whales and puffins that dazzle tourists and residents each summer off the province’s coastlines. Leaving the struggling capelin stock alone to rebuild would only serve the province’s hallmark ocean ecosystem, said marine behavioural ecologist Bill Montevecchi, who is a professor at Memorial University in St. John’s.“From an ecosystem point of view, it’s going to feed the seabirds, it’s going to feed the seals, it’s going to feed the whales,” he said in a recent interview. “To me, leaving capelin in the ocean is really an investment.”Capelin are small forage fish from the smelt family; they look like brighter sardines, roughly the length of an adult hand. They arrive in Newfoundland and Labrador’...