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On Tuesday, major tech companies including Microsoft and Salesforce announced they would put more money into a range of climate solutions designed to directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.The multimillion-dollar investment is the latest effort by tech leaders to boost the small but growing field of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as they strive to meet ambitious climate goals while consuming vast amounts of energy.”We need carbon removal as insurance,” said Jamila Yamani, carbon removal lead at Salesforce. NewsweekSalesforce said Tuesday it will invest $25 million in CDR investment firm Frontier to ensure its carbon removal technology is ready when…
LAHORE: Several veteran players from Pakistan’s T20 World Cup-beaten team, including captain Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi, are likely to be rested for the home Test series against Bangladesh in August.Sources said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in touch with Test captain Shan Masood, who captains Yorkshire in England, and new red-ball head coach Australian Jason Gillespie to finalise plans for the Bangladesh series.Pakistan were eliminated in Group A after losing to newcomers USA and arch rivals India.”One of the ideas being considered is to rest veteran players like Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan and instead trial…
Richmond city leaders voted unanimously late Tuesday in favor of a ballot measure that would ask voters whether Chevron should pay an additional tax for operating the refinery. The City Council voted 7-0 to pass a new tax on oil refining operations aimed at Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil companies, which will be on the November ballot. Richmond’s mayor and vice mayor said the new tax will bring in millions of dollars a year for the city. Chevron, one of the world’s largest oil companies, could end up paying big taxes to do business in the East Bay…
The Jets added talent, depth to their roster and, perhaps most importantly, the return of quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who missed all but four games of the 2023 NFL season after rupturing his Achilles in Week 1. Now, as the Jets prepare for the 2024 season and minicamp continues with overtime activities, CBS Sports reporter Tyler Sullivan took a closer look at the four teams in the AFC East and left us with some words to warm the hearts of Jets Nation. “I’m bullish on the 2024 New York Jets,” he wrote, with the Green and White looking to return to…
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Monday that an investigation is underway into the crash of a Southwest Airlines plane that crashed 400 feet above the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii’s Big Island this spring.The horrific incident happened on Southwest Airlines Flight 2786 on the morning of April 11, according to tracking data obtained by USA TODAY.A memo distributed by Southwest to pilots and obtained by Bloomberg, which first reported the news on Friday, said the plane briefly descended at an “excessive speed of more than 4,000 feet per minute” before the pilots climbed to avoid crashing into the water.The report said…
FARGO — Ask most dog owners and they’ll probably admit that these five words have been spoken in their home.”This dog is very spoiled.”Or is that just my house?Growing up, I was never the type to own a dog, but that all changed when I married a dog-loving man and had a few more dogs.Since I work from home most days, I’m the one who spends the majority of my day with these two animals. McKenna is a 12-year-old golden retriever-Labrador mix who loves to eat and rivals me in terms of spilling, and Winnipeg is a 4-year-old rescue dog…
For the scion of a crime family linked to human trafficking and enslavement, money laundering and global cyberscams, Wei Qingtao was brazenly public. His Douyin account, the Chinese-language version of TikTok, flaunted the excesses of his life in a remote corner of Myanmar by the border with China: Bentleys and Lamborghinis, rare cigars and private jets.When the 27-year-old partied at the multistory, glass-walled nightclub he owned in a region called Kokang, he’d throw crisp Chinese yuan bills into the crowd as international techno DJs, chauffeured in along dirt roads, performed their sets.In November, the good times rolled to a stop.…
Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: SP leader Sharad Pawar has expressed confidence that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will make a comeback in the crucial Maharashtra Assembly elections due later this year. Capitalising on the MVA’s victory in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections, SP leader Sharad Pawar has said that the SP will return to power in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections. The MVA, comprising splinter factions of the NCP and Shiv Sena (UBT), seems to have won the trust of the Maharashtra voters after a tumultuous political phase in the last five years, which was evident in the Lok Sabha…
MANILA — The Philippines said Wednesday that the Chinese coast guard boarded a Philippine navy vessel, damaged equipment and seized equipment in an incident earlier this week that left a sailor seriously injured in a collision, sharply escalating tensions amid an escalating dispute over the South China Sea.Philippine officials said a Chinese vessel rammed a Philippine ship on Monday to prevent it from resupplying the Sierra Madre warship, which is stranded on a half-submerged reef known as Second Thomas Shoal, a central point of conflict between the two countries.The Chinese coast guard used knives and machetes to cut holes in…
CNN — President Vladimir Putin said Russia and North Korea had elevated ties to a “new level” and the two countries pledged to help each other if either country was attacked in a “groundbreaking” new partnership announced during a rare visit by the Russian president to the isolated North. Thousands of North Koreans chanted “Welcome Putin” and lined the city’s wide boulevards, waving Russian and North Korean flags and bouquets of flowers, as Putin began his first visit to North Korea in 24 years with a meticulous choreography that demonstrated his influence in the authoritarian regime. The two countries then…