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STORY: :: Arizonans try to stay cool as ‘heat dome’ spreadsTemperatures in the Southwest will reach well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit:: June 7, 2024:: Phoenix, Arizona”It’s dry heat and it feels like you’re in an oven. You set the oven to 120 degrees, open it up and stick your head in. That’s Arizona. It’s dry, there’s minimal humidity and there’s no escape.””At first you feel a bit tired, you start to sweat, and then eventually you feel a bit sick. It’s different for everyone. But usually you start to feel sick, and if you don’t address it, you end up…
newsopinioneditorialInviting women into politics requires a new political imagination Women are not just voters and beneficiaries: Increasing women’s representation in politics requires rethinking women as leaders and decision-makers. Since the 1991 general election, when the gap in voter turnout between men and women began to close, women’s influence in politics has grown larger and deeper. Last September, the passage of the Women’s Quota Bill in Parliament raised hopes of a more gender-equal parliament. The near-unanimous support for the bill, which promises 33 percent quota for women in the lower house and state assemblies, seemed to signal politicians finally embracing an…
Claremont — On Friday afternoon, Chris Ording took to the stage with Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” playing in the background.Ording just smiled. “I guess I coached women’s water polo for too long,” he told the crowd at the 2024 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame luncheon. “Actually, that’s not fair. That was my song of choice.”For Ording, who will return to the team as an assistant coach for women’s water polo for the third consecutive Olympic Games in Paris, mentioning the U.S. may mean a little more this summer. But he received a bigger honor on Friday: Ording,…
Last weekend it was reported that Penny Mordaunt’s supporters are claiming that Downing Street is “locking her up” during the election campaign because Rishi Sunak’s team sees her as a threat.Now the Speaker, who had a spectacular televised debate with politicians from six opposition parties, is completely out of the running – and should not be put back in.Her opening words in the 90-minute showdown were shocking: she declared that the Prime Minister was “completely wrong” to cut short the Normandy landings ceremony early. She pulled no punches.She said the Prime Minister had been wrong not once, or twice, but…
Officials in Montgomery, Alabama, said Hispanic-owned businesses are being “hounded” by criminals this week after a shooting at a grocery store left three people dead and was linked to a string of targeted crimes.”To the Latino and Hispanic community … we hear you, we hear you, and we cannot stand for this to happen,” Mayor Steven Reed said at a press conference Wednesday. “We cannot stand for people to be hunted because they think they’re an easy target or prey. It’s easy to be the hunter. It’s not easy to be the hunted, and right now they are the hunted.”Local…
A 6-year-old girl died this week after suffering head injuries when she was struck by the shaft of a badminton racket during a family vacation in Maine, police said.The girl, identified as Lucy Morgan of Stockholm, New Jersey, died Wednesday at Maine Medical Center in Portland after the accident, which happened midday June 1 in Limerick, about 30 miles west of Portland, according to Maine State Police.Police and her father said the siblings had been playing badminton in the front garden of their lakeside cottage in Limerick when she was attacked.Lucy Morgan.Green Pond Bible Chapel (via Facebook)Her father, Jesse Morgan,…
Mainland China has long been the place to find great bargains for Hong Kongers, and just across the border in Shenzhen offers affordable weekend dining, shopping and fun. Interestingly, more and more Hong Kongers are heading north for an unlikely destination: the dentist’s chair.While unthinkable just a decade or two ago, today more and more Hong Kong residents are being attracted to Shenzhen by significantly lower prices, shorter waiting times and improved quality of cross-border dental care.This is a natural progression: with limited employer-sponsored dental insurance in Hong Kong, the cost of going to the dentist for regular check-ups can…
Mainland China has long been the place to find great bargains for Hong Kongers, and just across the border in Shenzhen offers affordable weekend dining, shopping and fun. Interestingly, more and more Hong Kongers are heading north for an unlikely destination: the dentist’s chair.While unthinkable just a decade or two ago, today more and more Hong Kong residents are being attracted to Shenzhen by significantly lower prices, shorter waiting times and improved quality of cross-border dental care.This is a natural progression: with limited employer-sponsored dental insurance in Hong Kong, the cost of going to the dentist for regular check-ups can…
Kirsten Joyce and Justin Walker 18 minutes ago LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — To create content for a venue of the size and scope of the Sphere, its production team had to create custom technology never before seen outside a lab, make it portable enough to be transported from exotic location to exotic location, and ultimately collect immersive imagery that would be used to transport viewers from one place to another while seated inside the world’s largest spherical building. I had an idea… Figuratively painting on a canvas as large as the Sphere’s 160,000 square foot screen in Las Vegas requires…
Image caption, Saurabh Netravalkar shared his joy with teammate Harmeet Singh after the USA beat Pakistan in the Super Over at the ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup.Charging forward with a leather ball in hand, ready to make cricket history, was a software engineer out of work.Seconds later, Saurabh Netravalkar’s arms were raised toward the sky under the sultry Texas sun.The tall left-arm pace bowler led the 18th-ranked underdog team to an extra-time victory (known as a super over in the sport’s shortened version) against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup on Thursday, giving Team USA a historic win.When the…