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The Salvation Army has opened disaster relief centers in Nebraska and Iowa to assist individuals and families affected by Friday’s tornadoes. The Omaha Salvation Army relies on partnerships with local businesses to support disaster relief efforts. The Salvation Army Disaster Relief Center is a temporary “free pop-up store” where donations of supplies are collected during disaster relief efforts. Sunday will be the first time the Salvation Army of Omaha will open a DRC since the 2019 floods. The Disaster Relief Center, based at Bright Idea, will be open for those in need on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.…

Sports media’s misogyny was alive and well this month. U.S. star basketball players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have been selected from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Sweet 16 to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft in just a few weeks. This was discovered through a reporter’s investigation. They themselves have publicly apologized for reporting on women. First, Los Angeles Times reporter Ben Bolch drew criticism for describing Reese’s Louisiana State University (LSU) team as “dirty debutantes” in a since-edited NCAA Championship matchup preview. LSU coach Kim Mulkey slammed the article and those who didn’t criticize it. “If…

The Hartford Yard Goats overcame a 4-1 deficit to score five runs in the seventh inning and take the lead in an Eastern League game Sunday in Hartford, Conn., for the third straight game. They fought back to defeat the Portland Sea Dogs 12-5. . Starlin Thompson had 3 hits for 4 at bats, a home run, a double, and 3 RBIs for the Yard Goats, passing Portland for first place in the Northeast Division. Nick York had two hits and two runs for the Sea Dogs, who took a 4-1 lead in the third inning on York’s two-run double…

Gunmen kidnap senior judge in northwest Pakistan Expanding PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – Militants ambushed and kidnapped a senior judge in northwestern Pakistan, police officials said Sunday. Police official Faheem Khan said about 15 men on motorbikes blocked the car of judge Shakirullah Marwat, who was traveling towards Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The attackers set the car on fire and fled with the man. Khan said the driver was not injured. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday night’s assault, but a video distributed by counter-terrorism officials on Sunday showed a judge saying the militant…

The school said in a statement that “physical altercations occurred” on the UCLA campus on Sunday when demonstrators broke through a security fence set up to separate people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza from counter-demonstrators. ” was announced to have occurred.The clashes came a day after anti-war demonstrations and days of encampments swept through university campuses across the country, resulting in arrests at at least four universities.”UCLA has a long history of being a place for peaceful protest, and we are saddened by the violence that has erupted,” Mary Osako, the school’s vice president for strategic communications, said in a…

Former President Donald Trump met privately with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Miami on Sunday to discuss how the governor could contribute to his 2024 presidential campaign, according to a person familiar with the meeting. .The Washington Post, which first reported the meeting, said DeSantis ultimately agreed to support the former president. The rally came as a surprise because relations between Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis had cooled since the governor lost his presidential bid.After Mr. DeSantis withdrew from the 2024 race in January, Mr. Trump and his aides said they wanted to use the governor’s fundraising efforts to support…

SULFUR, Okla. (AP) – A tornado killed at least four people in Oklahoma on Sunday, after a devastating outbreak of severe weather destroyed a building in the center of a rural town and injured dozens. Thousands lost power. About 30,000 people remained without power after the tornado struck late Saturday night. Destruction was widespread in Sulphur, a town of about 5,000 people, with many downtown buildings reduced to rubble and roofs cut off from homes in a 15-block radius.”The destruction is unbelievable,” Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said during a visit to a hard-hit town. “It seems like every business downtown…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Gunmen ambushed and kidnapped a senior judge in a restive region of northwestern Pakistan, police officials said Sunday. Police official Faheem Khan said about 15 men on motorbikes blocked the car of judge Shakirullah Marwat, who was traveling towards Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The attackers set the car on fire and fled with the man. Khan said the driver was not injured. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday night’s assault, but a video distributed by counter-terrorism officials on Sunday showed a judge saying the militant Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) would…

There would have been no reason to doubt Islamabad’s claims had similar claims not been made not only by members of persecuted communities in Pakistan but also by several other rights groups. The US Department of State’s 2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices is released, with comments from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs [FO] On the same. The report gives Islamabad an embarrassingly poor report card on human rights abuses, but states that “there have been no significant changes in Pakistan’s human rights situation during the year,” and says Washington is committed to curbing this dastardly practice. In particular,…

View from the driver’s seat of the 2024 Lincoln NautilusScotty Reese Sliding into the driver’s seat of the Lexus RZ Prototype, which uses a yoke instead of a traditional steering wheel, you immediately get the feeling that someone has taken off your blindfold. Then you realize you’ve been driving with limited visibility of the road. Yokes, or flat-topped, flat-bottomed steering wheels, are starting to make their way into more prototypes and even production cars, but they’re not yet ready for prime time. The yoke, popular among engineers to facilitate electronic steer-by-wire systems coming soon to nearby cars, doesn’t require as…