PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a ‘significant risk of disease outbreak’ and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations’ migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.
WICHITA, KS – A confrontation at a local massage parlor turned fatal when a 71-year-old employee exchanged gunfire with an alleged robber on Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred at Beijing Massage, located at 2723 Boulevard Plaza, an area near Lincoln and George Washington Blvd.
Wichita police reported that upon their arrival at the scene around 3:30 p.m., they discovered 44-year-old Robexy Figueroa from Wyoming inside the business, deceased from multiple gunshot wounds. The initial investigation suggests that Figueroa was attempting to rob the establishment when he was confronted by the employee.
The elderly employee, whose name has not been released, was also shot multiple times during the altercation. He was rushed to a local hospital where he underwent surgery. Authorities have stated that he is expected to survive his injuries.
Police say a group of armed men burned a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday, in the latest in a series of such attacks.
No one was hurt in the overnight attack in North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police official Rehmat Ullah said. Two other girls’ schools in the region were bombed earlier this month.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police said they suspect the involvement of a man who recently had a dispute with the owner of the school and are seeking to arrest him.
WASHINGTON — A fund to compensate Americans sickened by exposure to atomic bomb tests, uranium mining and radioactive waste expires in just under 15 days, and activists and lawmakers are scrambling to keep the fund active and open to additional victims.
A bill to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, often shortened to RECA, sailed through the U.S. Senate in early March on a bipartisan 69-30 vote, but the House has yet to take it up for a vote.
Critics cite high costs, but bipartisan lawmakers and activists rallying in favor of the bill say the victims have already paid the price through medical bills and lost loved ones, and that it’s ultimately the government’s wrong to make right.
The U.S. Senate-passed legislation, championed by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, aims to extend the program by six years and expand eligibility to several new locations, including his state of Missouri where, over decades, residents witnessed numerous rare similar cancers among neighbors in and around St. Louis.
Illinois lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that, if approved by the governor, will enable the state to issue digital driver’s licenses and identification cards.
The bill, which lawmakers passed unanimously and now heads to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, would allow Illinoisans to carry identification cards on their smartphones. Illinois’ secretary of state would be responsible for the program, one part of the office’s effort to modernize the state’s technologies.
“It’s secure, it’s efficient, it’s convenient and it’s the wave of the future,” Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told WGEM in February.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Kam Buckner told WGEM he was inspired by Louisiana’s digital driver’s license app. In 2018, Louisiana became the first state in the country to create a digital driver’s license app. Several other states — including Arkansas, Colorado, Texas and Virginia — have since followed suit.
Summary: The Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) has advanced China’s naval aviation with the J-35, a fifth-generation fighter that enhances the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) capabilities.
-The J-35, resembling America’s F-35 but lacking VTOL capabilities, requires a catapult for takeoff.
-While tested on older carriers like the Liaoning, the J-35 is set to fully integrate with the new Type 003 Fujian, which features advanced electromagnetic catapults.
-Initially using Russian RD-93 engines, China is now developing the indigenous WS-13E engine.
In what appears to be more of a gesture than a substantive act, the GOP-majority House passed a bill that would effectively end the government’s plans to create a centralized banking digital currency (CBDC). The bill passed 216-192, with only 3 Democrats voting for it while 18 Democrats and 4 Republicans did not register votes.
Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) introduced the legislation, saying of its passage in a press release, “For more than two years, we have worked to educate, grow support, and pass this important legislation, which prevents unelected bureaucrats from issuing a financial surveillance tool to fundamentally undermine our American values. My legislation ensures that the United States’ digital currency policy remains in the hands of the American people so that any development of digital money reflects our values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness.”
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) on May 23, 2024. The legislation was approved by 216-192 votes to prevent the Federal Reserve from directly offering CBDC to individuals and using it to implement monetary policy.
The bill, which had the backing of all Republican representatives and three Democrats—Mary Peltola of Alaska, Marie Perez of Washington, and Jared Golden of Maine—marks a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate over digital currency and financial privacy in the United States.
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