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The Niles Village Council received two grants from the Cook County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management at the May 28 Village Council meeting.The village secured two Urban Safety Initiative Cook County Homeland Security grants to cover the $84,000 cost of equipping a recently procured mobile command unit with state-of-the-art equipment and the $19,000 cost of purchasing two drones for the fire department.”Following the active threat incident in Highland Park, it became apparent that Niles, population approximately 30,000, could experience a similar threat throughout the year,” the village’s drone application, completed by Deputy Fire Chief Robert Greiner, said.According to…

A large fire broke out at a building under construction in Redwood City on Monday, forcing evacuations. More than five hours after the fire started, firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the building where it began, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. No injuries have been reported from the fire, but air quality advisories have been issued and winds are expected to blow smoke across the peninsula as far as San Jose. Aerial photos show the remains of a building under construction in Redwood City that was destroyed by fire. Aerial footage taken by NBC Bay…

Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a lifelong Democrat who is in the fourth week of his federal bribery trial, filed paperwork Monday to run for reelection as an independent in November.Concerns that Menendez, 70, is trying to make a comeback raise the possibility that the Democratic vote will be split in the November election, opening up an opening to Republican candidates at a time when Democrats are struggling to hold on to their slim Senate majority.Menendez was abandoned by most of the state’s leading Democrats, who called for him to step down soon after he was indicted on corruption…

RED OAK, Iowa – On National Egg Day, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Director of the Senate Committee on Small Business, today announced Farmer’s Hen House of Washington County as Small Business of the Week. Senator Ernst will be honoring small businesses in all 99 counties in Iowa during this legislative session. “The Farmer’s Hen House is wonderful “My job is to help Iowa farmers supply organic, free-range eggs to consumers across the country.” Senator Ernst said: “The business started modestly with three local farm partnerships and has since expanded to 90 partner farms and is actively involved in the…

Voting took place in Kerala’s Vadakara constituency on April 26. Kerala’s 271 million voters were eligible to vote in this year’s Lok Sabha elections, which are being held alongside legislative elections in four states – Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim.This year’s Indian Lok Sabha election was the world’s largest, with a total of 968 million voters eligible to cast their ballots.Background to the Lok Sabha elections:India’s upcoming Lok Sabha elections, always a tense contest, pits the BJP-led NDA against a near-unified opposition called the Indian Union, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a third term in power.The election…

Mexico City – Mexico has elected its first female president, a U.S.-educated meteorologist and former mayor whose landslide victory Sunday reflected the continuing dominance of the country’s ruling party and major strides for women in the country’s political ranks.It is no coincidence that Mexico has a female leader ahead of the United States and most other countries in the world. Mexico has long required political parties to ensure that women make up at least 50 percent of all candidates in federal, state and municipal elections. This has transformed politics: More than half of parliamentarians and almost a third of state…

Sixteen players from the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team partnered with the University of Colorado Boulder to learn ways to improve their performance in the sport. Para-athletes took part in a multi-day study at the University of Colorado Boulder Recreation Center ice rink to test the effect of hockey stick length on performance, including metabolic effort, maximum speed and agility. “There’s a zillion studies on every sport you can think of, but I think it gives sled hockey a lot of legitimacy that there’s serious research being done on the various issues that players face,” team member Declan Farmer said.…

President Biden plans to issue an order on Tuesday that would cut off access to the U.S. asylum system if illegal border crossings exceed a daily threshold, according to four administration officials and a person familiar with the plans.Migrants who exceed the limit will be returned to their home countries or Mexico and will not be eligible for asylum review, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the White House’s pending order.The measure has been under consideration by the administration since the defeat this year of a bipartisan border bill that…

Whenever I complained about the division in American politics, my son Henry would often encourage me to do something. Henry was a poll worker during the 2020 election at age 17. It was his first official job, and he loved the experience so much he even wrote about it in his college essays.After Henry tragically died in an accident on August 29, 2022, I followed his lead and signed up to work on that year’s midterm elections. I fully immersed myself in the work and learned through my son’s example how we can all work in a bipartisan way to…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would allow the U.S. to turn away migrants who enter the country without lawful authorization if there are high numbers crossing the border.The lawmaker, who was briefed by White House officials over the weekend, spoke to USA Today on condition of anonymity about the plans.The closure would be automatically triggered if more than 2,500 migrants enter through any legal port of entry.Biden plans to use Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to carry out the measure. Former President Donald Trump relied on the same…