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☆ Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | Jay Root | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Violent confrontations at a pro-Palestinian rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on Saturday reflected what some local officials and protest organizers called an unexpectedly aggressive Police Department response, with officers flooding the neighborhood and using force against protesters. At the rally, which drew hundreds of demonstrators, at least two officers wearing the white shirts of commanders were filmed punching three protesters who were prone in the middle of a crosswalk. One officer had pinned a man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the ribs, a 50-second video clip shows. Another officer punched the left side of a man’s face as he held his head to the asphalt. The police arrested around 40 people who were “unlawfully blocking roadways,” Kaz Daughtry, the department’s deputy commissioner of operations, said on social media on Sunday.

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☆ At Westminster, the Dogs Are in Charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The tennis balls had been stashed away safely by the time 2,500 dogs and their obedient human entourages overtook the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens this weekend for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. The human-to-dog ratio at the tennis center might be 2 to 1, but the power balance favors the dogs. In a tent reserved for grooming, a Lhasa apso was carefully flat-ironed while several miniature poodles were sculpted into sudsy topiaries. This is the second year of the show’s being held in the Flushing section of Queens, with Arthur Ashe Stadium offering deluxe accommodations for the show’s main events.

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☆ The Battle for The Streets of New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

New York City streets and sidewalks have always been crowded, but it’s never been like this. But lately, New York City streets are teetering between lively and unlivable. Karsten Moran for The New York Times“I think this could be the catalyst for a streets renaissance in New York,” Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City’s former transportation commissioner, said in a recent interview. New York City’s population reached 8.8 million in 2020, and the New York region is now home to nearly 19 million people. Use this form to tell us what you think about the state of New York City’s streets.

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☆ ‘Ghostly’ city: How Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking a toll on its own Belgorod region
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Anna Chernova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

In recent weeks, the Belgorod region has been subject to almost daily shelling and drone attacks. Russian authorities blame Ukraine and report having repelled the attacks, while also admitting destruction and casualties caused by them. The Belgorod region has borne the brunt of the war compared to more distant Russian regions, which have been relatively untouched. The governor of Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on March 23 that 24 people had been killed and 152 injured in the span of less than two weeks. Following a major air attack on Ukraine by Russia overnight into December 29, Kyiv retaliated a day later by targeting the Belgorod region.

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☆ Chinese Grand Prix could deliver drama to F1 and slow Verstappen’s victory march
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Max Verstappen of the Netherlands and Oracle Red Bull Racing reacts during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of China at Shanghai International Circuit on April 18, 2024 in Shanghai, China. Edmund So | Getty ImagesThe Chinese Grand Prix could deliver some much-needed drama to Formula 1, and Red Bull's Max Verstappen can't be penciled in as the almost-certain winner on Sunday. It's also the season's first GP with a sprint race, which means Friday's practice session was the only one of the weekend. This is the first F1 race in China in five years, scratched from the calendar by the COVID-19 pandemic. Horner accepted the concern but noted the Shanghai circuit is a known quantity, hosting races since 2004.

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☆ Camels evolved from a cold-weather ancestor. We could learn from their remarkable transformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Gentoo penguins are big climate change winners in the Antarctic,” Heather Lynch told me. Conversely, the more flexible gentoo penguins keep moving farther and farther south, chasing new prey, and even abandoning nests to increase the odds of long-term survival. Julian Quinones/CNNThe gentoo population has exploded by as much as 30,000% in just a few years. Bill Weir/CNNHere lieth the lesson of the camel and the gentoo: Heat will move us, one way or another. I just know River won’t be satisfied without a magic plot twist that somehow saves all creatures great and small.

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☆ Talk of recession is dying down in corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Ever since the Federal Rserve began raising interest rates in early 2022, corporations and investors have braced for how a recession might play out. The word recession came up on the fourth-quarter earnings calls of 47 companies in the S & P 500, according to market data platform FactSet. Almost half of the more than two dozen finance chiefs surveyed by CNBC said they expect the Federal Reserve to control inflation without a recession, a scenario known as a soft landing. Looking ahead to 2024, CFO Emma Giamartino said the Dallas-based company's full-year guidance is "contingent" on the Fed cutting short-term interest rates and the economy skirting a recession. "All indications are now that we're going to have more of a soft landing than a recession."

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☆ Fixing Central Park’s Bumpy Sidewalks
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects behind the landmark, proposed in their 1858 planning document to plant a plush line of trees to separate the sidewalk and the road, “for the purpose of concealing the houses on the opposite side of the street, from the park, and to insure an umbrageous horizon line.”Hexagonal asphalt tiles were placed and granite blocks were laid out in intricate herringbone and basket-weave patterns, forming the distinctive path that is now traversed by 42 million visitors every year.

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☆ This simple solution could bring some chill to scorching summer heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But there might be a simple, potentially inexpensive way to put a chill on urban heat: retroreflectors. Tall buildings, dark roofs, asphalt and concrete absorb the sun’s rays and reflect its energy back into the environment as heat – the so-called urban heat island effect. Urban designers have started to implement simple solutions to counteract the urban heat phenomenon, including painting roads white, planting more trees and building green roofs. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesBou-Zeid said retroreflective material could be developed as sheets or coatings to install on city surfaces. Instead, “a multi-technology cooling portfolio with cooling techniques tailored to localized conditions is required to combat the exacerbating urban heat stress globally.”

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☆ A tech entrepreneur shared the 'stoke, stage, stack' habit-creation framework that helps him keep habits up 365 days a year
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ron Gutman, a tech entrepreneur, shared his 'stoke, stage, stack' framework to make habits last. Gutman runs 365 days a year, even when it's snowing because he's always prepared for the environment. One tech entrepreneur shared his "stoke, stage, stack" framework that turns goals into long-lasting habits. "I run every morning, no fail, 365 days a year," Gutman said adding that he runs on the beach or in the park. If I didn't have the proper running shoes, I would very quickly hurt myself.

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☆ Cybertruck reviews are in, and the complaints are just as unique as Tesla's truck itself
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reviews for the Tesla Cybertruck are positive — so far. AdvertisementOfficial reviews for Tesla's Cybertruck are rolling in, and so far, the hulking stainless steel truck is largely living up to the hype. The complaints, much like the truck itself, are rather unique compared to a typical pickup-truck review. "You'll need thick skin if you own one, especially if you post photos of it online where the trolls are especially toxic," Elliot wrote. AdvertisementHave you driven the Tesla Cybertruck yet?

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☆ Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Laura Paddison | Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Mexico City CNN —Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Historic lowsDensely populated Mexico City stretches out across a high-altitude lake bed, around 7,300 feet above sea level. The Cutzamala water system, a network of reservoirs, pumping stations, canals and tunnels, supplies about 25% of the water used by the Valley of Mexico, which includes Mexico City. She and her family often have to pay more than $100 for a tank of water from one of the city’s water trucks. “I don’t think anyone is prepared.”CNN’s Laura Paddison and Jack Guy reported from London, and Fidel Gutiérrez reported from Mexico City.

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(AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally had just ended when fan Trey Filter heard what he initially thought was fireworks. The shooting happened as Filter was walking to his car with his wife, Casey Filter, and their 15- and 12-year-old children. “Right out of a video game,” is how Trey Filter recalled the long-barreled weapon. “We we barely let the dogs out when we got home.”For Casey Filter, what sticks out is how fast everything changed. Trey Filter laughed at the idea.

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☆ GM’s self-driving car division is under investigation by DOJ and SEC after pedestrian dragging incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In meetings with regulators after the October 2 incident, Cruise officials attempted to show a full video of the impact, shot from the car. Cruise commissioned the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to investigate the incident and Cruise’s response to it. Immediately after the incident, Cruise employees were not, themselves, aware that the woman had been dragged, according to the report. Actually, the pedestrian was struck by a human-driven Nissan car first and that impact propelled her into the path of the Cruise car. The report attributed its failures in communication to a “myopic focus” in clearing Cruise of fault in the initial impact.

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☆ Best travel destinations to visit in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-01 | by ( Cnn Travel Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

cdwheatley/iStockphoto/Getty Images Angola: Beyond the capital city of Luanda, pictured, Angola has some jaw-droppingly spectacular scenery and cultural treats. David ChiaFF/Alamy Stock Photo Mérida, Mexico: Yucatán state's capital city showcases a blend of Mayan and colonial heritage. Pavel Tochinsky/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images Morocco: This North African country is home to nine UNESCO sites, including the historic city of Meknes, pictured. Panama City is also the only world capital with a tropical rainforest within its city limits. And a historic city forever entwined with the famed Camino de Santiago.

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☆ Phillips 66's refining operations come under activist radar
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REFINERIES:WOOD RIVER, Roxana, Illinois, refining capacity: 356,000 barrels per day (bpd)Largest Phillips 66 refinery by operating capacity. LOS ANGELES: Carson and Wilmington, California, capacity: 139,000 bpdTwo sites linked by pipeline, producing California Air Resources Board-grade gasoline and fuel-grade petroleum coke. *SAN FRANCISCO: Santa Maria, Wilmington, California and Rodeo, Rodeo, California, capacity: 120,200 bpdPhillips 66's San Francisco operations consisted of two sites: Santa Maria refinery in Wilmington, California and Rodeo refinery in Rodeo, California. INTERNATIONAL REFINERIES:HUMBER, North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, total throughput: 245,000 bpdProduces transportation fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil and petroleum coke. MiRO, Karlsruhe, Germany, total throughput: 61,000 bpdProduces transportation fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil, bitumen, and petroleum coke.

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☆ I imagined spending my 2-week van trip in scenic campgrounds. The reality was sleeping in parking lots at Cracker Barrel and Walmart.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sleeping outside Walmart and Cracker Barrel was free, convenient, and a true taste of van life. AdvertisementA Cracker Barrel parking lot full of RVs. Sure enough, in the review section of Google, plenty of people mentioned sleeping successfully in the parking lot at the Flagstaff Cracker Barrel. AdvertisementThe Cracker Barrel sign through the author's windshield. Knowing that so many other people were spending the night in the same parking lot was comforting.

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ATLANTA (AP) — It's a fight over land in one of rural Georgia's poorest areas, but it could have implications for property law across the state and nation. A hearing officer will take up to three days of testimony, making a recommendation to the five elected members of the Georgia Public Service Commission, who will ultimately decide. Railroads have long had the power of eminent domain, but Georgia law says such land seizures must be for “public use." “This is not a taking of necessity from private property owners to serve truly public interests and the public as a whole. The case matters because private entities need to condemn private land not only to build railroads, but also to build other facilities such as pipelines and electric transmission lines.

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☆ ‘Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties’ Review: Wide-Screen Wonderland
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Tom Nolan | Foster Hirsch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

What was the greatest decade in the history of American movies? Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopAs exhilarating as that span was, the movie industry itself was experiencing a number of crises. As Mr. Hirsch observes in “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” the government forced studios to sell their theaters on antitrust grounds, while increasing numbers of moviegoers stayed home to watch their new televisions. Creative types had provocative stories to tell, rousing the wrath of censors—even as congressional committees investigated the presence of Communists in the business. Mr. Hirsch, a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of many books, has written an entertaining survey of this productive and problematic period.

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☆ China slows Venezuela crude buys as U.S. sanctions lifting triggers 'disarray'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Muyu Xu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Crude oil drips from a valve at an oil well operated by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA in Morichal July 28, 2011. Independent refiners, known as teapots, account for a fifth of China's oil purchases, and more than half of its asphalt production. PetroChina, PDVSA and the Venezuelan oil ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Before the U.S. imposed sanctions in 2019, subsidiary PetroChina Fuel Oil Co was the key seller of Venezuelan oil to independent refiners. Independent refiners like Venezuelan heavy crude for its high yield of road-paving material asphalt at about 60%, versus around 45% for Iranian oil.

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☆ Las Vegas GP hit with lawsuit after practice cancelled
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Formula One F1 - Las Vegas Grand Prix - Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S - November 18, 2023 General view of the Sphere during qualifying REUTERS/Mike Blake Acquire Licensing RightsLAS VEGAS, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The troubled Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix has been hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of the 35,000 people who bought tickets for Thursday’s practice session which was cancelled when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari was damaged by a loose drain cover. The highly-anticipated first action on the neon-lit circuit, which includes a section along the famed Las Vegas Strip, lasted a little over eight minutes before coming to a halt. Las Vegas Grand Prix officials attempted damage control, offering $200 merchandise vouchers to single-day ticket holders. The lawsuit named Formula One owners and race promoters Liberty Media Corporation, DBA Formula One Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix and TAB Contractors Inc as defendants. Reporting by Steve Keating in Las Vegas, Editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ The key to fighting the urban doom loop might be a downtown beach
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Urban rivers, lakes, and parks can also be the key to making cities more resilient to climate change. The 1,200 tons of sand near Greenwich Village along the Hudson river would have to do. But there's no public pool nearby, and no sanctioned river swim spots in the city. The sandy bluff on Gansevoort peninsula is part of the much larger Hudson River park and looks out over Little Island, a whimsical, highly instagrammable transformation of Pier 55. Seattle has torn down an elevated freeway downtown to make way for a waterfront park.

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☆ Motor racing's Las Vegas Grand Prix hit with lawsuit after practice cancelled
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Mercedes' British driver George Russell races during the first practice session for the Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix on November 16, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The troubled Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix has been hit with a class action lawsuit after the race's first practice session was canceled when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari was badly damaged by a loose drain cover. The highly-anticipated first action on the neon-lit circuit, which includes a section along the famed Las Vegas Strip, lasted a little over eight minutes on Thursday before coming to a halt. Las Vegas Grand Prix officials attempted damage control, offering $200 merchandise vouchers to single-day ticket holders. The lawsuit named Formula owners and race promoters Liberty Media Corporation, DBA Formula One Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix and TAB Contractors as defendants.

Persons: Mercedes, George Russell, Carlos Sainz's Ferrari, Steve Dimopoulos, Renee Wilm, Stefano Domenicali Organizations: Las Vegas, Vegas Grand Prix, Firm, JK, Consulting, Formula, Las, Liberty Media Corporation, Heineken, TAB Contractors, Reuters Locations: British, Las Vegas , Nevada, Dimopoulos, Nevada

[1/5] Formula One F1 - Las Vegas Grand Prix - Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S - November 16, 2023 Stewards use a crane to remove the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr. after the cancellation of the first practice session due to a drain cover that came off the asphalt and hit the car. The survival cell, engine, battery and control electronics were all damaged beyond repair during an incident that Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur called "unacceptable." "I think it's tough for a team to arrive in Vegas and to have this kind of incident," he said as mechanics rebuilt Sainz's car. read moreAlpine driver Esteban Ocon's chassis also needed to be replaced due to damage but he too returned for second practice. The sessions along the transformed Strip marked F1's return to Las Vegas for the first time in nearly 40 years.

Persons: Carlos Sainz Jr, Sainz, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Carlos Sainz, Frederic Vasseur, Esteban Ocon's, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin, Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Valtteri, Alfa Romeo, Red, Max Verstappen, Verstappen, I've, Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, I'm, Vasseur, McLaren, Zak Brown, Toto Wolff, Wolff, Leclerc, Haas, Nico Hulkenberg, Kevin Magnussen, Rory Carroll, Alan Baldwin, Miral Fahmy, Toby Davis Organizations: Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip, VEGAS, Ferrari, FIA, Aston, Alfa, Briton, Liberty, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, Vegas, Qatar, Las Vegas, Monaco, Baku, Los Angeles, London

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - San Francisco police began arresting protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war on Thursday after demonstrations blocked the Bay Bridge, a key commuter route into the city which is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Authorities also deployed tow trucks to remove protesters' vehicles blocking the bridge. Local emergency services warned of the blockage during morning rush hour on the bridge which links Oakland and other East Bay cities to San Francisco. Traffic traveling on the bridge toward San Francisco began to move as of about 10:45 a.m. local time (1845 GMT) after a backup. “It is a good idea because they are against a war but I think they should be more safe and protest in the city, not the bridge,” Felix said.

Persons: Claudia Felix, Felix, ” Felix, Max A, Peter Henderson, Omar Younis, Sandra Stojanovic, Mary Milliken, Chizu Nomiyama, Josie Kao Organizations: FRANCISCO, San Francisco, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, California, Patrol, Authorities, Palestinian Youth Movement, Palestine Solidarity, Thomson Locations: Israel, U.S, Oakland, San Francisco, Bay, Stockton

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