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| Work Foes and Fans of Congestion Pricing Sound Off at Final Public Hearings  Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, speaking remotely, reiterated his opposition to congestion pricing, which he said was “not, frankly, about congestion or the environment, it is a means to solve the deficit at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.” The $15 toll would be “backbreaking” for New Jersey commuters, he added, and would displace pollution from Manhattan to parts of New Jersey. |
| Work How genetic genealogy helped crack the ‘Sorority Rapist' case  “We would have to get matches of those relatives and then start looking at social media, law enforcement websites, anything to try to start tracking families from there,” said Det. Bryeans. |
| Work Biden medically cleared without dementia screening: When does memory loss merit cognitive testing?  “Depending on the suspected cause, a clinician may pursue (additional) blood tests, such as (for Alzheimer’s dementia), or an advanced neuroimaging study called a PET scan,” Okun explains. |
| Work 5 killed after single-engine plane crashes near Tennessee highway  BREAKING: A single-engine airplane has crashed off the eastbound lanes of I-40 just past the Charlotte Pk exit. Several persons on board are deceased. Work continues to determine from where the plane originated. pic.twitter.com/6tyBa3UCpB |
| Work Why are teens ‘mewing' and what is the trend all about?  \"I have a relationship-first approach in the classroom, but there are rules, expectations and procedures,\" he tells TODAY.com. \"If a kid is mewing and trying to be funny, (I\'ll say), \'You can mew on your own time ... (please) answer the question.\" |
| Work Alabama lawmakers aim to approve immunity laws for IVF providers  The Senate sponsor of the bill, Melson, said last week that he was uncomfortable exempting products — which he said could include the nutrient-rich solutions used in IVF to help embryos develop. He noted there were accusations that a faulty batch of a storage solution caused embryos to be lost. |
| Work Air Force employee charged with disclosing classified information on foreign dating website  Slater worked in a classified space at U.S. Strategic Command — headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base just outside of Omaha, Nebraska — and had a “top secret” security clearance from around August 2021 and April 2022, the Justice Department said. |
| Work Dad accused of drugging girls at his 12-year-old daughter's sleepover  If you allow sleepovers, Ziegler says kids should understand the difference between \"bad\" and \"good\" touch — a conversation that ideally takes place during preschool years — and that you\'re available to pick them up during the night, if they want to come home. |
| Work Ammunition supplier says he provided no live rounds in fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin  “In fairness, you probably had five seconds to look at this bag, is that right?” said Bowles, the defense attorney. “You have a belief, but you don’t know for certain, what was in that bag.” |
| Work A Rare Opportunity to Own a New Home in Arlington, Virginia - Washingtonian  Click here to view the photo gallery of this new construction home and view the designer appointed features curated by our talented design professionals. Contact the Toll Brothers online sales team at 855-298-0316 to schedule an appointment today. |
| Work Women’s basketball: CU Buffs hope Pac-12 tournament can be fresh start  “It’s something that we’ve been talking about: go out and play as hard as you can for 40 minutes,” Nolan said. “We’re just gonna keep watching film; we’re gonna be nitpicky. A lot of this stuff is us, not necessarily the other team, which is good, I guess, because it’s stuff that we know we can fix.” |
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| Work Rockies spring training recap: Kris Bryant, Elehuris Montero homer against Giants  Prospect watch: Third baseman Aaron Schunk knocked in three runs and went 1-for-2 with a double. He’s hitting .500 (6-for-12) so far this spring. … First baseman Michael Toglia recorded two runs. |
| Work I-25 closed in both directions for crash south of Colorado Springs  At least one person was taken to a local hospital and an extended closure is expected, said Trooper Gabriel Moltrer. The number of vehicles involved in the crash was not immediately available. |
| Work Justus Annunen, Nathan MacKinnon help Avalanche blast Blackhawks again  Annunen has now stopped all 61 shots against the Blackhawks in the past five days and 89 of 91 in his past three outings. His play has allowed Avs coach Jared Bednar to give starter Alexandar Georgiev more regular rest, and it might remove an item (veteran backup goaltender) from general manager Chris MacFarland’s shopping list between now the NHL trade deadline Friday afternoon. |
| Work San Diego judge sentences Ecuadorian woman 'near top of food chain' of prolific cocaine cell  Floyd Garrett was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2019, killing of Ernie Buchanan, a guard at the Alpha Project tent shelter on Imperial Avenue. Co-defendant Johnny Lee Hill was sentenced last year to 81 years to life in prison |
| Work Team USA Women's Track and Field names LaTanya Sheffield as head coach  As for expectations at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Sheffield knows the pressure the title comes with and is confident Team USA will deliver this summer. \"We are looking to dominate, whatever it looks like. Dominate,\" said Sheffield. |
| Work Toddler was shot as she rode in car's back seat. Santa Ana man now under arrest  Salvador Hernandez is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, he was a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News, where he covered criminal justice issues, the growing militia movement and breaking news. He also covered crime as a reporter at the Orange County Register. He is a Los Angeles native. |
| Work Teachers union drops support for LAUSD candidate, citing offensive social media activity  Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He recently retired “Deadline L.A.,” a past honoree for best public-affairs radio program, which he produced and co-hosted on KPFK-FM (90.7) for 15 years. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters. |
| Work Mass shooting shook this small California town. Reward is offered to nab trio of gunmen  Brittny Mejia is a Metro reporter who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2014. She writes narrative pieces with a strong emphasis on the Latino community and others that make up the diversity of L.A. and California. Mejia was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021 in local reporting for her investigation with colleague Jack Dolan that exposed failures in Los Angeles County’s safety-net healthcare system. |
| Work Tony’s Booth From ‘Sopranos’ Finale Sells for $82,600  The winning bidder will get the booth, the table, the divider and the family plaque that reserves the seats for the Soprano family. (Not included: the jukebox, which was added by the film crew.) The buyer is responsible for pickup. |
| Work Is New York City Back? Not for Everyone.  And in many parts of New York, especially among the working class, it does not feel like the city is back on its feet. The poverty rate has soared to 23 percent, up from 18 percent in 2021. Demand for food stamps and cash assistance has surged. The housing crunch is the worst it has been in more than 50 years, with a rental vacancy rate of only 1.4 percent. Even life expectancy remained below prepandemic levels, according to the Health Department. |
| Work Why Bicycle Deaths in New York City Are at a 23-Year High  The rise in electric bike deaths does not appear to be the result of an increase in e-bike ridership, at least not entirely, according to the Department of Transportation. And although the most visible e-bike users in New York may be delivery workers and Citi Bike riders, the majority of people who died on e-bikes last year were neither. Only one delivery worker died from an e-bike crash, according to the department, and four people died using electric Citi Bikes, according to Lyft, which owns the bike share program. |
| Work Supreme Court Ruling Settles Ballot Questions, but Hardens Political Divisions  On Monday, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that individual states could not bar candidates for the presidency under the insurrection provision. Four justices would have left it at that. A five-justice majority, in an unsigned opinion, went on to say that Congress must act to give that section force. |
| Work Rikers Island Not Likely to Close by 2027 Deadline, N.Y.C. Official Says  When Mr. Adams ran for office, he said he supported closing Rikers, but he also aligned himself with the union representing correction officers, which was critical of the effort. As mayor, Mr. Adams’s position has evolved. He has sown doubt about the wisdom of the plan, and noted that the capacity of the replacement jails was too small to accommodate the current Rikers population. |
| Work Tammy Murphy Wins Crucial Support in Her Bid for U.S. Senate  But she has been battered by claims of nepotism and has struggled to gain support among rank-and-file Democrats as she makes her case that she should be their nominee to run for a coveted seat now held by Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat who has been charged with taking bribes. Mr. Menendez has not ruled out running for re-election, but he has been abandoned by most Democratic leaders and has almost no path to victory. |
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| Work MicroStrategy to Offer $600 Million in Convertible Notes to Buy More Bitcoin  It also “expects to grant to the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, within a 13-day period beginning on, and including, the date on which the notes are first issued, up to an additional $90 million aggregate principal amount of the notes,” the company said. |
| Work Best AI Stock: Nvidia vs. SoundHound AI  Parkev Tatevosian is an affiliate of The Motley Fool and may be compensated for promoting its services. If you choose to subscribe through his link, he will earn some extra money that supports his channel. His opinions remain his own and are unaffected by The Motley Fool. |
| Work The upcoming inflation report could spark the stock market's next big sell-off, Fundstrat says  \"And while it is just a short-term rise that could reverse in March/April, given the sizable rise in stocks since October 2023, we wonder if this is potentially the fundamental catalyst for a sell-off,\" Lee said. |
| Work Police seek vehicle after masked men kill four at California party  King City sits in southern Salinas Valley farm country, on the inland side of coastal mountains. The US army’s Fort Hunter Liggett training center sprawls nearby. The city is also known as a gateway to Pinnacles national park. |
| Work On the brink: California's luxe clifftop mansions in peril after record rain  "We have these atmospheric rivers coming off the oceans, drops the rain here on these hills and then the hills start eroding as well," Kathleen Treseder, a climate change professor at the University of California at Irvine, told Reuters. |
| Work Super Tuesday: Trump all but certain of Republican nomination as 16 states vote  Robinson, a rare Black Republican in elected office, has attracted widespread criticism for harsh rightwing rhetoric. At a rally last week, Trump called him “Martin Luther King on steroids”. |
| Work Cancer warning after big rise in people smoking pipes, shisha and cigars in UK  “It’s vital that smoking cessation services are adequately funded and available across the UK so that the around 772,800 people who use non-cigarette tobacco products, and the millions who use cigarettes, are given the support they need to quit.” |
| Work Less than 3% of artists named in GCSE art exams are Black or south Asian, study finds  The report also proposed exam boards and policymakers establish standards for inclusion and diversity in GCSE assessment materials and improve access to teacher resources that support a diverse curriculum. |
| Work Single parents on benefits being 'punished' by Tory policy pushing them to work 30-hour week  Ruth Talbot, the founder of Single Parent Rights, said the policy discriminated against single parents. "Our social security system should be built on genuine support for individuals and their circumstances rather than punishing parents who are struggling," she added. |
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| Work Ukraine claims to have sunk Russian warship in occupied Crimea  +1 russian ship was upgraded to a submarine.Tonight, the special unit of the @DI_Ukraine \"Group 13\" attacked the patrol ship of the russian Black Sea Fleet, \"Sergei Kotov,\" worth $65 million.As a result of the attack by Magura V5 naval drones, the russian ship of project… pic.twitter.com/smZ1H1Ekp6 |
| Work European defence sector needs access to 'significant' funding, says Dutch minister - Europe live  The European Defence Industrial Strategy marks an important step in bolstering our European defence. We have to unlock the potential of the European defence industry. Therefore, I reiterate my call for a full-fledged Commissioner on Defence, to make Europe stronger and safer. pic.twitter.com/FhzGV6KPB3 |
| Work Text message from Queensland premier sparks war of words after photo is snapped of MP's phone  "Given the premier's office would have had to consider it, sign documents and decide it was not required to be released, how does the premier explain denying its existence?" he asked. |
| Work Talk of nuclear power plant sites 'conjecture', says Liberal MP amid internal division on Dutton's policy  Asked if taxpayers will have to support nuclear, Dutton did not respond but cited the Canadian province of Ontario and the United States as examples where businesses and households pay less for power with nuclear in the mix. |
| Work Victoria to limit WorkCover compensation for stress after deal struck with opposition  “This premium freeze for employers will help many of them at a time when land taxes and payroll taxes and other fees and charges … continue to skyrocket,” the opposition leader, John Pesutto, told reporters. |
| Work Monash University criticised over $127,000 farewell party for vice-chancellor while students 'sit on the floor'  The federal shadow education minister, Sarah Henderson, said Monash University "should be investing in educating students, not throwing lavish parties for the top end of town at taxpayer cost". |
| Work Fatal Lake Macquarie fire believed to be NSW's first recorded lithium-ion battery deaths  FRNSW cautions the public to dispose of damaged or compromised batteries as soon as possible at an approved recycling centre, to store batteries away from combustible material, and to not "mix and match" components. |
| Work Tuesday briefing: Why Haiti is stuck in a state of anarchy  As Amir-Homayoun Javadi, a reader in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Kent, explains: “When performed regularly, aerobic activity can trigger structural changes, such as increased brain volume, particularly of the hippocampus, which benefit many aspects of cognition. This gives the brain more potential to be creative.” |
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| Work Girl at YOI Wetherby was twice stripped by male officers, watchdog says  In the UK, the youth suicide charity Papyrus can be contacted on 0800 068 4141 or email [email protected], and in the UK and Ireland Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 988 or chat for support. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org |
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| Work Opinion | Trump Is Running on Dystopian Fantasies  Second, and more important, I’m always struck by the extent to which today’s right-wing politics is driven by a grim, dystopian image of America, especially American cities, that just isn’t grounded in reality. |
| Work U.N. Team Finds Grounds to Support Reports of Sexual Violence in Hamas Attack  In their report, the U.N. experts cited indications of sexual violence that had not previously been widely reported, including the rape of a woman outside a bomb shelter at the entrance of Kibbutz Re’im. That incident was corroborated by witness testimony and digital material, the report said. |
| Work Mary Bartlett Bunge, 92, Dies; Pioneer in Spinal Injury Treatment  Early in her career, she and her husband, whom she met as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, used new electron microscopes to describe the way that myelin developed around nerve fibers, and how, after because of injury or illness, it receded, in a process called demyelination. |
| Work An Antibiotic After Sex Greatly Reduced Syphilis and Chlamydia Cases  Rates of chlamydia remained flat nationwide in 2022, compared with the number in 2021, but at nearly 1.7 million cases, infections were common. (Gonorrhea cases decreased in 2022, but experts cautioned that the trend might have been the result of a decrease in testing.) |
| Work This Ancient Factory Helped Purple Reign  Aaron Schmitt, an expert on Phoenician culture who teaches archaeology at the Heidelberg University in Germany and who was not involved with the project, hailed the study for shedding new light on the neglected ruins. “To find a site that really specialized in this economic branch is highly significant and special,” he said. |
| Work What to Know About Ibogaine  No. In the United States, ibogaine is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance like heroin and other drugs that are deemed as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Americans who want access to ibogaine therapy must travel to countries where it is either legal or unregulated, among them Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. |
| Work Odysseus Moon Lander Heads Into a Cold Lunar Slumber  The spacecraft, nicknamed Odie, is to begin winding down operations at noon Eastern time on Thursday, the company said. “Flight controllers intend to downlink additional data and command Odie into a configuration that he may phone home if and when he wakes up when the sun rises again.” |
| Work Former Twitter Executives Sue Elon Musk for $128 Million  The executives previously sued Mr. Musk for legal fees they incurred while responding to investigations into the company. In October, a Delaware judge ordered Mr. Musk to pay them $1.1 million to cover those expenses. |