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Battery life has long been a key limiting factor in drone use. Although there are commercial models that can stay aloft for 45 minutes or longer on a single charge, being able to keep drones in the air for longer would be helpful for many purposes. Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark have been working on that issue for several years by developing drones that can recharge directly from power lines. This time around, the scientists attached a gripper system to a Tarot 650 Sport...
A shake-up is happening among the Republican spending cardinals on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Republicans chose Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a prominent negotiator, as the new head of the committee, which is tasked with crafting the 12 annual government funding bills, after retiring Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) said she would step down from the
“We all have to work through this together,” Heitkamp said. “We understand too, every employer including 518, the city or county has people out there looking for daycare."
Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking "Unprecedented" Climate Emergency How best to grab power when there's no convenient emergency to use as excuse? Invent one! That's right: if you had 'climate emergency' on your 'list of disasters to prompt mail-in balloting' bingo card, you may soon be able to cross that square off. That's because the Biden administration is reportedly renewing discussions "about potentially declaring a national climate emergency," according to Bloomberg. ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in grave peril as renegade House Republicans are threatening to call a motion to remove him from power, exactly as they did for his predecessor Kevin McCarthy.The craziest part of this whole affair, analyst David Chalian told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday, is that the far-right House rebels are throwing away the power of the entire GOP House majority in its current state — coming at a moment when they were just rebuked by the summary dismissal of their...
The people of Ayama in Gbarain kingdom of Bayelsa State have expressed gratitude to the management of Niger Delta Development Commission for considering their community in the award and completion of solar-powered street light projects. They expressed delight that their community had been lit-up with solar-powered streetlights by the NDDC, thereby making it to be Read More
HUNLOCK TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Things are looking up this weekend for a local family who suffered a devastating setback. A community is rallying behind the family who lost their home to fire. That fire happened last weekend, but now in just a matter of days since then, their community is helping raise money []
Under a new House bill reauthorizing and expanding Section 702 of FISA, anyone from a landlord to a laundromat could be required to help the government spy. Public domain image via flickr. On Friday, the House of Representatives agreed to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the controversial law that has allowed intelligence agencies to spy on Americans’ emails, text messages, and phone calls without a warrant.But as Caitlin Vogus, deputy...
The Biden administration’s Middle East envoy, Brett McGurk, asked the foreign ministers of Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to convince Tehran to lower the current tensions with Israel, according to a report by Axios. Sources told the news outlet that Iran’s foreign ministry spoke with the senior officials of Saudi Arabia,
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Many Los Angeles residents struggle to stay in their homes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city instituted a moratorium on evictions. Since those restrictions ended in April 2023, evictions have skyrocketed well past pre-pandemic levels. According to the L.A. city controller’s data, landlords filed 5,652 evictions in December alone. The city’s answer is to send tenants to the courts and provide them with bare-bones legal representation. Yet few people have actually gotten access to an...