Mortgage Interest Rates Today, May 11, 2024 | Rates Down Nearly 30 Basis Points From Last Week These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates have trended down in recent days. But where they go next depends on how inflation trends. 05/10/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Photo of the Week: Vietnam and All Veterans Reunion Photographer Tim Shortt tries every year to photograph the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and the veterans reunion. 05/10/2024 - 10:10 pm | View Link
What's Cooking: Community meals this week MR Falcons is offering a pork chop buffet on May 17 - get your tickets by May 15, there must be a minimum of 50 sold in order to have the dinner. 05/10/2024 - 10:04 pm | View Link
New ‘Doctor Who’ Premieres, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Stars Make Red Carpet Debut and More of This Week’s Best Events Executive producer Gary Goetzman, writer/director Dee Rees and stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Raff Law, Branden Cook and Josiah Cross reunited on Saturday for an FYC ... 05/10/2024 - 6:58 pm | View Link
Civil War General Sherman's sword among relics headed to Ohio auction next week A sword once wielded by legendary Union Gen. William T. Sherman is among numerous historic relics headed for the auction block next week in Ohio's capital. 05/10/2024 - 12:31 pm | View Link
WEEK Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com Week most generally refers to any period of seven consecutive days. The word week also commonly refers to the seven-day period that begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday (though in some places this may be different, with the week considered to begin on Monday, for example). 05/9/2024 - 5:22 pm | View Website
WEEK | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary Meaning of week in English. week. noun [ C ] us / wiːk / uk / wiːk / Add to word list. A1. a period of seven days, especially either from Monday to Sunday or from Sunday to Saturday: last/this/next week. We go to the movies about once a week. Will you be going to next week's class? It usually takes about four weeks to get the forms processed. 05/9/2024 - 9:22 am | View Website
Week Definition & Meaning The meaning of WEEK is any of a series of 7-day cycles used in various calendars; especially : a 7-day cycle beginning on Sunday and ending on Saturday. How to use week in a sentence. 05/9/2024 - 8:54 am | View Website
Week A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. 05/9/2024 - 1:59 am | View Website
Huey P. Newton would have been skeptical of The Big Cigar, a miniseries that dramatizes his flight from the U. S. to Cuba in 1974—and the show is the first to admit it. “The story I’m about to tell you is true,” says the Black Panther Party co-founder (played by Moonlight and The Knick star André Holland) in a voiceover that prefaces the electrifying, six-part series, which premieres May 17 on Apple TV+.
You have probably already seen the work of Bùi Tường Phong. A Vietnamese computer scientist working in the United States in 1973, Bùi developed the Phong shading and reflection algorithms, which have been ubiquitous in computer-generated movies and 3D video games for the last 50 years. Bùi’s algorithms excelled at depicting plastics, and are one reason that the film Toy Story (1995), the first entirely computer-animated feature film, was about toys.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month offers a chance to reflect on outstanding contributions by individuals like Bùi Tường Phong.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that’s at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers on Thursday.
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It comes as the the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Judiciary Committee are each expected to hold a hearing to recommend that the full House refer Garland to the Justice Department for the contempt charges over the department’s refusal to hand over the audio.
Garland advised Biden in a letter on Thursday that the audio falls within the scope of executive privilege.
VENTURA, Calif. — A judge decided Wednesday that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright judge declared after a two-day preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
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Alnaji, 51, is accused of striking Paul Kessler with a megaphone in November during a confrontation at an event that started as a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles.
Kessler, 69, fell backward and struck his head on the pavement.
Donald Trump reportedly acknowledged South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent controversies at a private fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday night. Noem, a Republican, received widespread backlash when an excerpt of her now-released book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward made headlines due to a passage whereby she admitted to shooting and killing her 14-month old dog, Cricket, years ago.
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“I’m really curious… about the dog,” Trump reportedly said according to three sources who were at the fundraiser, per NBC News.
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s wealthiest person, is less than thrilled about a recent painting of her being exhibited at one of Australia’s largest art museums. But her reported attempts to get the unflattering portrait taken down is backfiring: the piece, part of a collection of portraits by an acclaimed indigenous artist, has been defended by the museum, the arts industry, and—perhaps worst for her—social media users, who have given it more attention than ever.
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The portrait features Rinehart, who is 70 years old, with a misshapen head, downturned lips, and a double chin.