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Virginia local governments will now have to plan for water supply regionally

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

A map of the new regional water supply planning areas. (Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) A map of the new regional water supply planning areas. (Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) Virginia’s State Water Control Board amended regulations last week that will require local governments in the same river basin to work together in crafting plans for water supply and use.Previously, the state allowed local governments to choose whether they wanted to submit such plans independently or work with other localities in a regional approach. Plans must include existing water sources, water use and environmental conditions, any actions being taken to manage water supply and drought response plans, among other information.“These ...

The UK apologizes to families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in a stadium crush 34 years ago

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

LONDON (AP) — The British government apologized Wednesday to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in a stadium crush 34 years ago for its delay in responding to a 2017 report meant to ensure the official cover-up in that case isn’t repeated in other tragedies.Six years after the report highlighted the “burning injustice” families faced in the wake of the tragedy, the government said it is introducing a charter, among other measures, aimed at preventing cover-ups of missteps by police or other public authorities.However, it refused to back calls from campaigners to legally require public bodies, including police, to tell the truth and proactively cooperate with official investigations and inquiries into disasters. The Hillsborough disaster unfolded on April 15, 1989, when more than 2,000 Liverpool fans were allowed to flood into a standing-room section behind a goal at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield with the 54,000-capacity stadium already nearly full for a match ...

Live updates | Humanitarian conditions in Gaza worsen as Israel widens its offensive

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened the territory’s dire humanitarian conditions, with the fighting preventing distribution of food, water and medicine outside a sliver of southern Gaza and new military evacuation orders squeezing people into ever-smaller areas of the south.The United Nations said 1.87 million people — more than 80% of Gaza’s population — have been driven from their homes since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, triggered by the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel. The U.N. also says that all telecom services have been shut down due to cuts in the main fiber routes. On Wednesday, the United Nations chief urged the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to avert “a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza.Around 1,200 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said the death toll in the ...

Trump asegura que no será un dictador si gana las elecciones, “excepto el primer día”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

El expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump declinó descartar un posible abuso de poder si regresa a la Casa Blanca, cuando el presentador de Fox News Channel Sean Hannity le pidió el martes que respondiera a las crecientes críticas de los demócratas a sus mensajes.El favorito de las primarias republicanas ha hablado sobre perseguir a sus rivales —a los que se refiere como “alimañas”— y prometido tomar represalias si gana un segundo mandato por unos procesos judiciales en su contra que, afima, tienen motivaciones políticas. Trump mantiene su dominio de las primarias republicanas, y el presidente, Joe Biden, ha ido incrementando sus propias advertencias, al afirmar que Trump está “decidido a destruir la democracia estadounidense”.“¿Promete usted hoy a Estados Unidos que bajo ninguna circunstancia utilizaría nunca su poder como represalia contra nadie?”, preguntó Hannity a Trump en la entrevista grabada en Davenport, Iowa. Poderosa red política Koch apoya candidatura ...

Decades after Europe, turning blades send first commercial offshore wind power onto US grid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Despite some recent financial setbacks, U.S. offshore windpower has hit a milestone. An 800-foot tall turbine is now sending electricity onto the grid from a commercial-scale offshore wind farm on pace to be the country’s first.The moment is years in the making and at the same time a modest advance in what experts say needs to be a major buildout of this type of clean electricity to address climate change.Danish wind energy developer Ørsted and the utility Eversource announced Wednesday the first electricity from what will be a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Montauk Point, New York. It will be New York’s first offshore wind farm.Ørsted and Eversource met Wednesday with New York officials to celebrate this “first power” milestone, in East Hampton, New York, where the wind farm connects to the onshore electric grid. They say the achievement builds a foundation for other large U.S. offshore wind farms that wil...

Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted to the right. Can the parties make a deal?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a decade ago that Capitol Hill was consumed by an urgency to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, fueled in no small part by Republicans who felt a political imperative to make inroads with minority voters by embracing more generous policies.But nothing ever became law and in the time since, Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right, with the debate now focused on measures meant to keep migrants out as Republicans sense they have the political upper hand.Long gone are the chatter and horse-trading between parties over how to secure a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, or a modernized work permit system to encourage more legal migration. Instead, the fights of late have centered on how much to tighten asylum laws and restrain a president’s traditional powers to protect certain groups of migrants. Now, Democrats and Republicans are again struggling to strike an immigration deal — and the consequenc...

Weld County deputies searching for suspect after shelter-in-place

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Deputies in Weld County were asking residents to stay in their homes while they searched for a suspect with "violent tendencies."The Weld County Sheriff's Office tweeted about the incident at 8:46 a.m. Wednesday saying they were looking for a "violent" suspect.They provided an update at 10:52 a.m., saying that the scene was safe. Deputies were in the area of Yosemite Drive and Badlands Court in the Hill N Park subdivision in Greeley. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox According to WSCO, deputies are still looking for the suspect, identified as Todd Anderson.Anderson is described as:White male44 years oldLong brown hair and blue eyes6 feet, 2 inches tallWeighs 170 lbs.Last seen wearing a black jacket and black pantsThe Weld County Sheriff's Office tweeted out two photos of Anderson. The sheriff's office established new charges against Anderson based on deputies' contact with him on Wednesday. Anderson is wanted for suspicion of posse...

Colorado had the highest remote work rate nationwide last year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- According to U.S. Census Bureau data, a higher percentage of Colorado employees worked from home in 2022 than in any other state nationwide. In 2022, an estimated 21.2% of Coloradans worked remotely, just over a fifth of the working population, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Denver homes are 120% more expensive than 10 years ago While not a state, Washington, D.C. did have a higher rate of remote work, with 33.8% of residents in the nation's capital doing so.Among the states, Washington had the next-highest rate at 20.5%:Colorado - 21.2%Washington - 20.5%Arizona (tie) - 19.2%Maryland (tie) - 19.2%Oregon - 19%Colorado's rate was down from 2021 when 23.7% of state residents worked from home.However, unsurprisingly, the number is much higher than before the pandemic, when only 9.1% of Coloradans worked from home, according to the data.Still, even in 2019, Colorado had the highest remote work population nationwide.Boulder popular for remot...

Colorado awarded initial funding for Front Range Passenger Rail Project

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation are including the Front Range Passenger Rail in a project authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and have awarded $500,000 for initial development.The Front Range Passenger Rail Project would create a passenger railroad system from Fort Collins to Pueblo, according to Rep. Joe Neguse, connecting 13 of Colorado's most populous counties and spanning roughly 200 miles to create a "transportation 'spine' along the Front Range of Colorado." Timing, totals, impact of Friday’s snowstorm in Denver metro Long-term goals are to connect the state with its neighbors to the north and south -- Wyoming and New Mexico.Gov. Jared Polis applauded the inclusion of the Front Range project in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's Corridor ID Program."Coloradans want Front Range Rail and I've heard firsthand from people in Pueblo, Fort Collins, and from across our state that they want more options to ge...

ISIS propaganda seducing ‘new generation of teenagers,’ French domestic intel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:24 GMT

A new generation of French teenagers is being wooed by the Islamic State terrorist group — infamous for its on-camera immolations of captives in Iraq — and seems ominously susceptible to the group’s propaganda, according to the head of France’s DGSI internal security directorate, Nicolas Lerner.France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations — has suffered multiple terrorist attacks in the past few months, most recently last weekend near the Eiffel Tower in Paris when a German man was killed and two others were injured. A French prosecutor said the perpetrator had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.“The three attack plots foiled by the DGSI in 2023 involved individuals who were all under the age of 20,” Lerner said in a Thursday interview with Le Monde, in which he claimed they were members of this group. Lerner used the terms Islamic State and ISIS interchangeably.“The youngest was 13 years old. Two others were 14 years old. In s...