Los Angeles homeless build ramshackle house on side of busy freeway as Democrat mayor asks city's rich and famous to help with crisis by offering affordable long-term housing ... Staggering footage shows a homeless city along an LA freeway where residents have built front doors, electricity and even hammocks. Soaring numbers of rough sleepers have led to dozens ... 04/17/2024 - 2:23 am | View Link
Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy weekend morning by the arrival of an ambulance. Paramedics rushed through the park toward a tent, one of dozens ... 04/13/2024 - 5:13 pm | View Link
Mayor Johnson, CPD outline strategy to address and prevent robberies in Chicago So far this year, Chicago police report nearly 2200 robberies — that’s just slightly up from where the city was last year and in 2022. But it’s nearly a 30% increase in robberies when ... 04/12/2024 - 12:56 am | View Link
Mayor Johnson, CPD outline strategy to address and prevent robberies in Chicago CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson along with city leaders and police outlined Friday its strategies on slowing and preventing robberies throughout the city. While the city has seen some success ... 04/12/2024 - 12:56 am | View Link
Jackson mayor's Chief of Staff indicted on charges of stalking, electronic tracking Jackson Mayor Scott Conger's Chief of Staff Ronald Alexander "Alex" Reed has been arrested on Wednesday on charges of electronic tracking of a car and stalking, according to the Tennessee Bureau ... 04/5/2024 - 7:19 am | View Link
On April 24, the Supreme Court will hear arguments weighing whether Idaho politicians have the power to block doctors from giving emergency medical care to patients experiencing pregnancy complications—a case that will open the door for other states to prohibit emergency reproductive care and worsen medical infrastructure for people across the board.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
A suggestion for the masses: Now would be a good time to check in on your favorite Taylor Swift fan. After months of feverish anticipation, the superstar delivered her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, on Friday—and Swifities everywhere are losing their minds.
From a neuroscience perspective, the response makes sense.
Get ready to see cicadas everywhere.
More than a trillion of the critters are expected to surface in parts of the United States this year in a rare co-emergence event the likes of which hasn’t been seen in over two centuries.
Known for their deafening mating calls, which can be as loud as lawnmowers, cicadas emerge after more than a decade underground, offering a tasty meal to birds—and even the occasional human.
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That’s right, cicadas, like many insects, have been hailed as an eco-friendly and high-protein alternative to poultry and cattle.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.