The Netherlands will be the first country in Europe to elect its new MEPs, when the polls open on 6 June 2024. The vote takes place across all 27 member states between Thursday and Sunday, June 9, with the first official projections not published until 11pm on Sunday night. The Dutch will elect 31 out of 720 members of parliament, two more than in the current parliament, which has 705 seats. But, with an expected surge in populist and far
(The Center Square) - A Washington agricultural advocacy group is pushing back against a proposal by the California Air Quality Control Board requiring railroads to purchase zero-emission trains, a move one organization has called “entirely workable.” Last year, CARB voted in favor of a new rule requiring zero-emission train purchases would also force railroads to prematurely retire 25,000 diesel-powered trains, as the rule prohibits trains 23-years or older from operating in the...
Tech companies are quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens, giving rise to a hidden trade in everything from chat logs to long forgotten personal photos from faded social media apps
At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world's top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market. Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, according to analytics tracker Similarweb. But the generative AI revolution may give it a new lease of life. CEO Ted Leonard, who runs the 40-strong company out of Edwards, Colorado, told Reuters he is in...
The ill-fated impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was finally supposed to take center stage for House Republicans this week after Speaker Mike Johnson pulled it last week. The House impeachment managers presented the articles to the Senate Tuesday afternoon, in what’s supposed to be a solemn and grave proceeding—impeachment is as serious as it gets in Congress. Mayorkas’ impeachment is supposed to demonstrate the House GOP’s resolve on immigration and border...
Reporters Without Borders advocate is held, searched and questioned for six hours.
(Image: No Egg) Increasingly you see a kamado barbecue at Action or Lidl, inspired by the Big Green Egg. But nothing beats the original green. You can now get a discount of up to 900 euros. Green Egg has been facilitating the finest culinary creations for 50 years and is celebrating that with an equally […]
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in April 2024 with the Dutch Port of Rotterdam, outlining plans to establish a route for transporting green fuel produced in the zone to European markets. The MoU entails collaboration on the creation of a green bunkering corridor, connecting Singapore to Rotterdam via the Suez Canal. This initiative marks the first-ever corridor for green bunkering spanning across Asia, Africa, and Europe, highlighting a...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A San Benito Consolidated Independent School District teacher was involved in a vehicle accident while on their way to a competition. According to a release from San Benito CISD, a Career and Technology Education teacher was hit while driving a school district vehicle. The teacher was accompanying the San Benito []
Tabitha Chawinga wasn't always a prolific scorer. The Paris Saint-Germain star played goalkeeper in rural Malawi as a young girl. A collision with a defender changed all that. Her mouth was bloodied. “After that I stopped playing the goal, because I was afraid as well (of) my mom,” Chawinga says. Her mother frowned on her playing soccer and would slap Chawinga to get her to stop, she says. It's one of the many obstacles she's faced during her rise to stardom. As a teenager, she was considered so...
It’s no secret that aerospace company Boeing (NYSE:BA) has had troubles with its aircraft lately. However, it’s made a noteworthy advance in terms of how it fuels s