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From the Village Sun | With Kamala Harris set to officially accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago tonight, local politicians in New York City are taking notice. Tonight, two convention delegates from Downtown Manhattan, City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and State Assemblywoman Grace Lee, are being talked about all over Fox News, in a photo that was featured in a lead story on a conservative website: “The DNC is buzzing about a big name coming out on the final night, but it's not Harris.” Rivera and Lee liven up Fox. (Fox) The tongue-in-cheek piece slams Harris for reporting that a…
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – 14News investigative reporter Caroline Clapp investigated people's concerns about elevated radon levels detected in the basement of the old Vanderburgh County Courthouse.Our 14 News team received several calls Thursday from people who said they worked in the Old Courthouse Catacombs and said they have health issues from their time working in the courthouse basement.(Previous article: Old Court Catacombs to be relocated to new location due to radon levels in building)Breanna Alvey worked in the Old Courthouse Catacombs when she was 15 in 2014. She said she worked there four days a week, about seven hours each…
Among the speedboats, luxury yachts and wooden fishing boats parked in a Hong Kong marina, one vessel is more unusual: an unassuming, 3-meter (10-foot) unmanned catamaran that deftly glides through the water, gobbling up floating trash like Pac-Man.Discarded plastic bottles, juice boxes and cartons are carried along a conveyor belt through a gap at the front of the ship, where cameras capture the collected trash before it is dumped into a collection basket in the center of the ship.According to the US non-profit Oceana, an estimated 33 billion pounds (15 billion kilograms) of plastic waste enters the ocean every year…
PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) – Petal Elementary School is looking forward to some new upgrades after being named a 2024 Healthy Schools Award recipient by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Mississippi.The Foundation presented Petal Elementary School with a check for $50,000 to further their health and wellness program efforts.School officials said they look forward to making sure students are healthy both physically and mentally.”We're looking at ways to increase students' ability to develop physical wellness through gym classes and outside playground activities,” said Petal Elementary Principal Win Mims. “Another is developing social wellness through our counselor program and incorporating…
It's the usual week for a large amount of end-of-month data in Japan. We expect the overall data to suggest a recovery, and therefore believe the Bank of Japan will continue on its path of policy normalization. However, concerns that excessive market volatility could harm growth and inflation mean the Bank of Japan will likely normalize policy at a slightly slower pace than previously expected. We have withdrawn our forecast for an October rate hike by the Bank of Japan, but a December rate hike remains a possibility. Tokyo's consumer price inflation is expected to ease to 1.9% year-on-year in…
August 15th of each year is a national holiday in South Korea that commemorates the day the Korean peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule. On this day, there is a long-standing tradition that the South Korean president outlines his vision for Korean unification. Korea has been divided into North and South Korea since 1945.But South Korea's current president, Yoon Seok-youl, proposed a new approach this year. Rather than “peaceful unification” with North Korea, as many of his predecessors have emphasized, Yoon's vision puts “freedom” at the center of Korea's pursuit of unification.In his speech, Yoon listed what he considered…
Data Scribe Cedric Mullins and the Baltimore Orioles will be looking for a win when they take on Yordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros on Friday at 7:05 PM ET. The Astros are -118 moneyline favorites going into this matchup against the Orioles (-101). Houston is favored on the run line (-1.5, +132 odds). The over/under for this game is set at 9 runs.Find out all the information you need from a betting perspective on the Astros vs. Orioles matchup, including the run line, money line and totals, plus expert picks.Eric Karros picks top 5 World Series favorites for 2024…
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) – Cloudy with some wind and rain Thursday. Clearing tonight and much cooler with lows in the lower to mid 60s will make for a refreshing start to Friday. Sunny and dry with an easterly wind in the afternoon. Highs will warm into the mid to upper 80s, just below the average high of 92 degrees.Dry conditions will continue through the weekend and into early next week, with temperatures set to warm. Highs will warm from the seasonably low 90s into the unseasonably warm mid to upper 90s, with seasonally low temperatures in the lower 70s. Rain…
Japan's headline inflation rate was unchanged from the previous month at 2.8%. But so-called “core-core” inflation, which excludes fresh food and energy prices tracked by the Bank of Japan, fell to 1.9% in July from 2.2%. This was the lowest level of “core-core” inflation since September 2022. Asia-Pacific markets were mostly lower on Friday as investors waited for remarks from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a meeting of global central bank governors in Jackson Hole. Chairman Powell has previously outlined broad policy ideas at Jackson Hole, offering hints about the direction of U.S. policy. In Asia, Japanese data…