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Sept. 11 remembrance events in the DC area

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

American Flag on Flagpole by Evening Sunset Sky, USA(Getty Images/iStockphoto/mirza kadic) American Flag on Flagpole by Evening Sunset Sky, USA(Getty Images/iStockphoto/mirza kadic) Monday marks 22 years since terrorist attacks took thousands of lives in New York City, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Here are a few events in the D.C. area that will be commemorating the 9/11 day of service, remembrance and reflection.Washington, D.C.9/11 Meal Pack A Day of Service | 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.Walter E. Washington Convention Center801 Mount Vernon Place NW,Washington, D.C. 20001This year’s event will take place with a goal to pack at least 310,000 meals for families in the D.C. community. It’s go...

Cinco conclusiones del viaje de Joe Biden al G20 y Vietnam

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

(CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden se acerca al final de un viaje relámpago a India y Vietnam para una serie de reuniones de alto perfil destinadas a contrarrestar la influencia de China en el mundo en desarrollo.En el G20 en Nueva Delhi y nuevamente en Hanoi, Biden aprovechó su paso por Asia para defender que Estados Unidos es un socio más confiable que Beijing, aunque enfatizó que no quería una nueva Guerra Fría con los chinos.“No quiero contener a China, solo quiero asegurarme de que tengamos una relación con China que esté en alza y que todos sepan de qué se trata”, dijo Biden. “Tenemos la oportunidad de fortalecer alianzas en todo el mundo para mantener la estabilidad. De eso se trata este viaje, de que la India coopere mucho más con Estados Unidos, esté más cerca de Estados Unidos y Vietnam esté más cerca de Estados Unidos. No se trata de contener a China. Se trata de tener una base estable, una base estable en el Indo-Pacífico”.Al hablar este domingo con el secretario gene...

Giants complete 3-game sweep of Rockies behind rookie pitcher’s 1st MLB win

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Keaton Winn had a career-high nine strikeouts in six innings to get his first major league win, and the San Francisco Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 6-3 victory Sunday.Thairo Estrada, Mitch Haniger and Joc Peterson homered for the Giants. Estrada’s homer was his second in two games, while Haniger’s drive was his second in three days after missing 64 games with a broken right forearm.The Giants edged back into the playoff race with three straight wins following a six-game losing streak that matched their season worst. San Francisco pulled within 1 1/2 games of Arizona for the final NL wild card.With four of their final 19 games coming against Colorado next week at Coors Field, the Giants have to like their chances. San Francisco has won eight of nine against the Rockies this season and is 16-1 versus Colorado dating to Aug. 21, 2022.“Obviously, a crucial stretch coming down last 20 games or so,” Haniger said. “We all know this ...

Today in History: September 11, the United States comes under attack

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

Today in History Today is Monday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2023. There are 111 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania. On this date: In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. In 1936, Boulder Dam — later renamed the Hoover Dam — began operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. In 1941, groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In an anti-Semitic speech, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt...

Explosion at Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois injures employees

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — An explosion at an Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois injured several employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air Sunday evening.The explosion occurred shortly after 7 p.m. at the east plant in the ADM processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. Several employees were injured and transported to a hospital, the agricultural company said in a statement on its website Sunday.The company contacted the Decatur Fire Department but said it did not know the cause of the explosion. ADM said in an email to The Associated Press early Monday that it had no additional information at the time.A large plume of dark smoke can be seen shooting high into the air above the facility in a video posted by WCIA-TV.Decatur is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Springfield and about 180 miles (289 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, where ADM is headquartered.The Associated Press

Thailand’s new prime minister tells Parliament his government will urgently tackle economic woes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin vowed to act quickly to relieve the country’s economic problems in his inaugural speech to Parliament on Monday, following four months of political uncertainty while parliamentarians were unable to agree on a government.Srettha entered politics after a career as a major real estate develope r, and his government is facing high expectations and pressing demands to address a range of economic, political, social and environmental problems in its four-year term.Thailand’s economy has slumped after the COVID-19 pandemic all but crippled its lucrative tourism industry. Public debt rose to more than 60% of GDP in 2023, while household debt spiked to over 90% of the GDP this year, he said.Thailand’s post-pandemic economy is like “a sick person,” with a sluggish recovery that puts the nation “at risk of entering a recession,” Srettha said.He vowed to quickly take measures to relieve debt problems, mitigate rising energy cost...

Historic Cairo cemetery faces destruction from new highways as Egypt’s government reshapes the city

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

CAIRO (AP) — The cane chairs and umbrella still stand in the courtyard of Hussein Omar’s family mausoleum, where his grandmother came every morning for 19 years after her daughter — his mother — died. Near her grave, she would sit and pray under the date palm and among the flowering plants, a few hours of peace in Cairo ’s historic City of the Dead.Now the mausoleum, built in 1924 in a neo-Islamic style and housing the graves of a number of prominent Egyptians from a century ago, is threatened with demolition.Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and mausoleums as they carry out plans to build a network of multilane highways through the City of the Dead, a vast cemetery that has been in use for more than a millennium. Stunned preservationists say the construction is destroying a unique part of Egypt’s heritage where major Islamic figures, prominent Egyptian politicians, artists and scholars and the loved ones of many Egyptians are buried.“It’s always felt like a very sacr...

EU slams Mahmoud Abbas ‘false and grossly misleading’ remarks on Jews and anti-Semitism

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

In his speech, Mahmoud Abbas (above) declared: "Adolf Hitler fought the Jews due to their “dealing with usury and money”.In a speech, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas declared: ‘’Adolf Hitler fought the Jews due to their dealing with usury and money,” writes Yossi Lempkowicz.In a statement, the  European Union said it ‘’remains committed to combating antisemitism and racism in all its forms and will continue to strongly oppose any attempt to condone, justify or trivialise the Holocaust.’’"The speech delivered by President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to Fatah’s 11th Revolutionary Council in late August contained false and grossly misleading remarks about Jews and anti-Semitism,’’ the European Union said on Thursday (7 September) in a statement.In his speech, Abbas declared: "Adolf Hitler fought the Jews due to their “dealing with usury and money".He made this claim in a 24 Aug. 24 speech, per a recent translation from the Middle East Media Research Insti...

Smash-and-grab thieves hit Macy's in Northridge Mall

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

A group of smash-and-grab thieves robbed a Macy’s department store at the Northridge Mall Sunday morning. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the mall, located at 9301 Tampa Avenue in Northridge, just after 11 a.m. after receiving reports of the robbery.  Cellphone footage of the smash-and-grab incident shows several men dressed in dark clothing, including hoodies and medical masks, loading up bags of what appears to be cologne and other items from the store’s display cases.  Smash-and-grab suspects seen fleeing at the Northridge Mall after stealing bag loads of items from Macy's on Sept. 10, 2023. (RMG News)The suspects are then seen running off, getting away with some $20,000 worth of perfume, an independent news agency reported.  Police say the suspects were last seen driving off in a black Infinity with no plates.  This smash-and-grab robbery comes on the heels of a string of similar crimes. On Sept. 2, one would-be smash-and-gra...

Severe asthma — breaking the cycle of inadequate care

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:57:45 GMT

Asthma has long lagged behind other inflammatory conditions in terms of political attention and progress on patient outcomes. This may be partly because many people think of asthma as a generally mild condition, when in fact its severe form is a serious condition that can have a major impact on people’s quality of life. Action on severe asthma would not only relieve a significant burden for patients, health systems and society, it would also help advance other urgent policy priorities, including tackling the links between health and climate change, strengthening health system sustainability and reducing health inequalities.Severe asthma: a distinct and serious conditionSevere asthma is defined as asthma that remains uncontrolled despite people receiving optimal inhaled therapy.1 Periodic inflammation of the airways results in potentially life-threatening exacerbations (attacks) which, over time, may gradually impair people’s lung function.1 Having frequent, unpredictable exacerbatio...