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'AlertCalifornia' live cams to provide more insight into natural disasters

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- UC San Diego is launching a new public safety program that utilizes over 1000 camera sensors across the Golden State. UCSD said ALERTCalifornia, which was rolled out Wednesday, will provide tools to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters like wildfires, landslides, floods and more. Officials explained that this program manages "pan-tilt-zoom wildfire monitoring cameras" and sensor arrays that will collect data and real-time information to help advise public safety. A rare sight to see: ‘Scrippshenge’ sunset awes San Diego Scientists will analyze the data to gain a better understanding of the long-term impacts natural disasters have on air quality, water quality, soil quality and human health in California, UCSD said. “The program will spawn invaluable research and mitigation plans that will increase the state’s resiliency towards the new extreme fire risk,” said Neal Driscoll, director of ALERTCalifornia and geoscientist at UCSD's Scripps Instituti...

Man dies after being placed in a chokehold by a subway rider

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man with apparent mental illness in the New York subway was setting off powerful reactions Thursday, with some calling the chokehold a homicide and others defending the passenger’s action as a defense against disorder. New York has become one of the nation’s safest cities but the emotional responses recalled the metropolis of decades ago, when residents felt besieged by crime and fatal vigilantism made national headlines. Manhattan prosecutors promised a “rigorous” investigation into whether to bring criminal charges in the death of the Black man, who was tackled by fellow passengers and put in a fatal chokehold by a white man who was been described as a Marine veteran.Jordan Neely, 30, died Monday after an early-afternoon confrontation aboard a train beneath Manhattan. He had been in apparent mental distress and shouting at fellow passengers when another rider wrapped his arm around his neck and pinned him on the floor. Two other p...

‘A massive tragedy’: Driver charged as community mourns girl killed in Burlington hit-and-run

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

A small memorial is growing outside a Burlington school where an eight-year-old girl was struck and killed in a hit and run.Emergency crews were called to the scene at Central Public School on Wednesday evening. Halton police say the girl was struck in the driveway as she entered the school for a theatre event.“What took place last night is a massive tragedy,” said a visibly emotional Halton police Const. Ryan Anderson in an update on Thursday morning. “It’s just horrible.”The White SUV that struck the girl did not stop and the driver fled the area. Anderson confirmed the 21-year-old driver who was arrested a short time after the incident has been charged with failure to remain.Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of the collision.“The community is impacted by this, our officers and first responders as well,” said Anderson. “It’s not hard to empathize with the family and put themselves in their position....

Biden issues order setting path for sanctions in Sudan

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday setting the path to sanction individuals involved in the recent violence in Sudan that’s left hundreds dead and thrown the African nation into chaos.Biden said in a statement that his order will “hold individuals responsible for threatening the peace, security, and stability of Sudan; undermining Sudan’s democratic transition; using violence against civilians; or committing serious human rights abuses.”The Democratic president said the violence taking place in Sudan is “a tragedy — and it is a betrayal of the Sudanese people’s clear demand for civilian government and a transition to democracy.” “I join the peace-loving people of Sudan and leaders around the world in calling for a durable ceasefire between the belligerent parties,” Biden said. Sudan’s fighting broke out April 15 between two commanders who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition...

Goddaughter of King Charles shares insider’s experience of the new monarch

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

The UK and the Commonwealth are preparing to welcome a new king, Charles III, who its citizens have watched since his birth. The trials and tribulations of his life have played out in the public eye, but still, there’s a side only the family knows.India Hicks has been connected to Charles for her entire life. As a descendant of the Mountbatten family, her grandfather Lord Mountbatten was the uncle of the Prince Phillip, last Viceroy in India, and was involved in the upbringing of King Charles.Earl Louis Mountbatten, great uncle of Prince Charles, who was especially close and confided in him. Here they are in conversation about their common passion for polo. THE CANADIAN PRESS King Charles was also her godfather. The 55-year-old is now an entrepreneur, author and designer. Hicks sat down with Lisa LaFlamme to reflect on what he was truly like behind the spotlight.“He’s always been there. The day I was christened, he was there holding me, through to confirmation...

Fox opposes fellow journalists trying to uncover documents

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organizations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal.”The Associated Press, The New York Times and National Public Radio asked a Delaware judge earlier this week to reveal mostly private text messages and conversations between Fox employees shortly after the 2020 presidential election that were uncovered during the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit.Fox lawyer Katharine L. Mowery, in a letter sent late Wednesday to Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, said much of the material its competitors sought wasn’t relevant to the issues of the lawsuit. She said the media has no right to access such records.Many of the already-uncovered conversations have proven newsworthy, showing that Fox hosts and executives didn’t believe the false allegations about Dominion’s voting equipment but still con...

Trump calls accuser a ‘nut job’ in recording played for jury

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors heard former President Donald Trump blast a woman who accused him of rape as a “nut job” and “mentally sick” in a video recording that was shown Thursday during the trial of her federal lawsuit.A transcript of Trump’s remarks about accuser E. Jean Carroll emerged in court filings before the trial. But the deposition played in the courtroom allowed jurors to hear Trump speak about the case in his own voice. Other sections of the recording were shown in court Wednesday.Thursday’s portions also included Trump standing by his repeated prior comment that Carroll was “not my type” and his defense — as “locker room talk” — of his notorious boasts on a 2005 “Access Hollywood” hot-mic recording about grabbing women’s genitals.Carroll, a 79-year-old writer, alleges that Trump raped her in an upscale New York department store dressing room on an unspecified date in spring 1996.According to Carroll, they ran into each other, got into lighthearted banter ...

New York, California probing workplace discrimination at NFL

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The attorneys general of New York and California announced Thursday that they are investigating allegations of workplace discrimination at the NFL, citing lawsuits filed by employees that describe sex, racial and age bias, sexual harassment, and a hostile work environment.Attorneys General Letitia James, of New York, and Rob Bonta, of California, said they have issued subpoenas to NFL executives as part of an examination into the workplace culture at the the league’s corporate offices in both states. The officials, both Democrats, said they are exercising their legal authority to seek information from the NFL regarding allegations of gender pay disparities, harassment, and gender and racial discrimination.The investigation focuses on the league’s corporate offices, not specific teams or players.“No person should ever have to endure harassment, discrimination, or objectification in the workplace,” James said in a statement. Bonta said he and James have “se...

S&P/TSX composite down in late-morning trading even as Shopify shares rise

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index edged lower in late-morning trading as losses led by the financial and industrial sectors outweighed strength in shares of Shopify Inc. after the e-commerce company announced it was cutting staff and selling its logistics business.The S&P/TSX composite index was down 2.41 points at 20,352.27.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 306.70 points at 33,107.54. The S&P 500 index was down 25.53 points at 4,065.22, while the Nasdaq composite was down 41.05 points at 11,984.28.The Canadian dollar traded for 73.63 cents US compared with 73.44 cents US on Wednesday.The June crude contract was down 23 cents at US$68.37 per barrel and the June natural gas contract was down seven cents at US$2.10 per mmBTU.The June gold contract was up US$24.50 at US$2,061.50 an ounce and the July copper contract was up less than a penny at US$3.85 a pound.This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2023.Companies in this story: ...

‘Excruciating delays’ at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board: Ombudsman

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:13:30 GMT

Ontario’s ombudsman says a backlog of cases at the Landlord and Tenant Board has grown to 38,000 and it is taking an average of seven or eight months – sometimes up to two years – for a hearing to be scheduled.The findings are part of a large report Thursday from the ombudsman, who has issued 61 recommendations aimed at improving the functioning of the board and what he calls the excruciating delays.Ombudsman Paul Dube says that when the pandemic hit, the backlog was already at 20,000 applications, and the subsequent move to virtual hearings and a moratorium on evictions impeded the board’s efforts to chip away at the backlog.He says the backlog means tens of thousands of Ontarians are being denied timely access to justice, with some tenants stuck in unsafe living conditions and some small landlords coping with tenant abuse and facing financial ruin.The ombudsman says part of the problem is a shortage of adjudicators compounded by a cumbersome appointment and...