California insurers must give discounts for wildfire mitigation. Have homeowners benefited? The California FAIR Plan — the state-created insurer of last resort — started offering mitigation discounts in August. Its price reductions are more robust than several other large coverage providers. 04/18/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
California requires new homes to have solar panels. Should wildfire victims get a break? HUNDREDS OF HOMES in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the Caldor Fire. In the three years since that ... 04/17/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
California spent $3.7 billion reducing wildfire fuel. Bill would make insurers factor that into coverage A warming climate has dramatically raised the risk of devastating wildfires, and with it the cost of providing coverage. But now a Peninsula lawmaker says those insurance companies should credit the ... 04/17/2024 - 10:13 am | View Link
Hurricane-force winds and dry conditions combine to fuel critical fire threat in Central US Intense winds across the Central United States this weekend are fueling critical fire danger, leaving roads closed and thousands without power in some areas. Low relative humidity is combining ... 04/7/2024 - 4:23 pm | View Link
Southern California storm: Cool winds are blowing. Rain, thunderstorms and snow are expected to follow Warm spring temperatures gave way to cooler weather Thursday as a cold storm moved into Southern California, bringing cloudy skies along with chances of showers and thunderstorms, as well as snow ... 04/4/2024 - 5:43 am | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
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.
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.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.