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The message at an Arab-China business forum hosted by Saudi Arabia this week was not particularly subtle, as hundreds of Chinese officials and executives gathered beneath giant chandeliers, smiling for selfies and snacking on organic dates.If you want a trusted partner in the world one of the best partners in the world it's the People's Republic of China, Mohammed Abunayyan, the chairman of a Saudi renewable energy company, declared from the stage, to resounding applause.

This week, we chat with Melanie Piana, the mayor of Ferndale, Mich, about her city's Woodward Avenue road diet, its bike plans, and how parking is part of too many urban issues.If you want to read rather than hear, check out the full unedited transcript here.Or you can read the edited transcript below the audio player:
Jeff Wood: Well let's talk about the Woodward in the room.

Hundreds of blazes have overwhelmed local resources and renewed calls for a national firefighting service in Canada, where wildfire emergency response management is handled by provinces and territories.Richard Cannings, a member of Parliament with the left-leaning New Democratic Party, called an emergency debate in Parliament this week to discuss the state of the wildfires.

The country superstar Morgan Wallen continues to dominate the Billboard album chart.His latest release, One Thing at a Time, holds No. 1 for a 12th straight week, surpassing a milestone by Whitney Houston and marking the longest chart-topping run for a country album since Billy Ray Cyrus three decades ago.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday after securing five more years in office.Ali Unal/AP ISTANBUL, Turkey Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decades of dominance over the country's politics will continue after a win in Sunday's election.

Despite the continuing rise in opioid overdose deaths, one of the most effective treatments for opioid addiction is still drastically underprescribed in the United States, especially for Black patients, according to a large new study.From 2016 through 2019, scarcely more than 20 percent of patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder filled prescriptions for buprenorphine, the medication considered the gold standard in opioid addiction treatment, despite repeated visits to health care providers, according to the study, which was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Silvio Berlusconi may have polarized Italy during his decades in the media and political spotlight, but the initial reaction to his death at 86 on Monday was marked by unity and praise, even if sometimes grudging.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose government included Mr. Berlusconi's party as a coalition partner, described him as one of the most influential men in Italian history.

On Sunday, Turkish voters face a stark choice between two front-runners offering drastically different visions for the country in an election that has grave implications not just for the future of Turkish democracy, but some of the most pressing global issues today.As the Turkish republic marks its centenary this year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has clung to power for an unprecedented 21 years, faces the challenge of convincing voters to cast his name at the ballot box yet again despite growing public anger over a cost of living crisis and the devastation of twin earthquakes in February that killed at least 50,000 peopleand displaced another 3 million.

Every week we wrap up the must-reads from our coverage of the Ukraine war, from news and features to analysis, visual guides and opinion.The US and Ukraine both dismissed Moscow's accusations of involvement in a drone mission that saw one of the machines explode above the Kremlin Senate on Wednesday.

The last time Luh served in the military, he was a Soviet conscript, sailing the Arctic Ocean with the USSR's northern fleet over four decades ago.When Russia seized the Crimean peninsula and Russian-backed proxies moved into his home region of Luhansk nearly a decade ago, he cheered on the Ukrainian army but thought his fighting days were behind him.

Prosecutors in Minnesota have decided to drop sex charges against R. Kelly, noting that the disgraced R&B singer has already been sentenced to decades behind bars on two separate federal convictions."The overwhelming impact of proceeding to trial in this case on the survivor victim, the community, and the Hennepin County legal system would be enormous while a conviction would not add any additional time in prison," the Hennepin County Attorney's office stated this week.

The CTA is set to begin planning for another set of new "L" cars, after the agency received $200 million in federal funding.The grant from the Federal Transit Administration, announced Friday, will allow the CTA to buy up to 300 new electric train cars to replace aging cars built four decades ago.

HOUSTON When Carl Lewis left the University of Houston over 40 years ago, he was a 19-year-old world-record-holding long jumper and one of the best sprinters on earth.Lewis would go on to become a colossal sports figure, his famous face gracing the top of the Olympic medal stand nine times, and appearing on the cover of Gentleman's Quarterly Magazine plus a few Hollywood movies and television shows.

New York chefs and restaurants left last night's James Beard Awards without winning any national recognitions.The annual awards, one of the highest honors in the American restaurant industry, to the point that they are called the "Oscars of the food world," passed over New York in every national category, the first time the state has been shut out of the awards since the honors were first presented over three decades ago.

Looking at the vastness of Utah Beach, its sand blowing in strong wind and bright sunshine, made Robert Gibson's memory of D-Day even more vivid.It was tough, the 99-year-old veteran said of the moment when he landed there on June 6, 1944 alongside more than 150,000 other Allied troops.Gibson was among dozens of World War II veterans, mostly Americans and British, who traveled to Normandy this week to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, commemorating the decisive assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.

Victor Wembanyama is set to follow in the footsteps of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and the San Antonio Spurs are ready to welcome the French phenom.It sure seems like an ideal pairing.The Spurs hit the lottery jackpot on Tuesday, landing the No. 1 pick and the right to draft one of the most highly touted prospects in NBA history.

The French government is to pay reparations to thousands more Algerians and their families held in internment camps in France after the north African country's war of independence.Acting on a report by an independent commission, the government agreed to increase the number of Harkis and their relatives eligible to claim compensation for being forced to live in deplorable and squalid living conditions several decades ago.

Architect Tom Knezic knows multiplexes.The Solares Architecture co-founder has designed at least a dozen of them and even built some himself.With Toronto set to permit their wider adoption across city neighbourhoods, he's anticipating they'll become easier to build, with fewer development hurdles to deal with.

The latest and greatest Spider-Man movie for the whole family - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - has received deservedly ecstatic reviews.It's just hit theaters and is the long-awaited sequel to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and the second part of a trilogy that will conclude in 2024 with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, AND it's awesome.But, the reason why the new animated film is so perfect for kids to share with their parents is 100 percent by design.

In 2011, author, lawyer, and Chinese American Amy Chua hit the bestseller list with a manifesto for overbearing parents titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she made the case for stringent, results-focused Chinese parenting.Chua walked right up to the line of calling American parents sentimental wimps (even putting a toe over it in some interviews) and a lot of people took it personally.

About 10 percent of offers to New York City's most elite public high schools went to Black and Latino students this year, education officials announced on Thursday, in a school system where they make up more than two-thirds of the student population overall.The numbers which have remained stubbornly low for years placed a fresh spotlight on racial and ethnic disparities in the nation's largest school system.

The travails of many can be lucrative for a few.Take the old Stewart Hotel in Manhattan, which is being used as temporary housing for some of the tens of thousands of migrants who have come north to New York in search of sanctuary.The city is paying a $200 nightly rate for 611 rooms in the nearly century-old hotel.

When Mayor Eric Adams began to talk frequently about God a few months back how God elevated him to lead New York City, how Mr. Adams implemented policy with a godlike approach, how the separation of church and state was misguided his timing was no accident.He was, he says, responding to the same divine voice he heard decades ago, the one that he says prophesied that he would become mayor on Jan. 1, 2022.

For years, New York law permitted developers to built atop Native American burial sites without taking steps to preserve the ancient remains, making the state one of only four with no meaningful protection for graves on private lands.But that is set to change thanks to a provision included in the state budget deal Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last week.

In the last few years of his life, the architect Rafael Vinoly kept a private studio in TriBeCa near his main residence, where he would work on building designs while also indulging his passion for music.He rented the one-bedroom loft, at 137 West Broadway, from his son Roman Vinoly, a director of his firm.

A year-long news partnership with Pride in London has been announced by The Independent, including the relaunch of The Pride List a celebration of extraordinary LGBT+ changemakers.The Independent will also showcase its coverage of LGBT+ reports and features in a new Pride homepage hub, making coverage available to more than 70 million readers globally.

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The dilapidated Interfaith Medical Center in Crown Heights is getting a big boost, as members of New York's congressional delegation announced an influx of $3 million in federal funding to the battered hospital.

For decades, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has been a champion of free-market economic doctrine.As finance minister 20 years ago, Mr. Netanyahu was praised by Milton Friedman, the godfather of neoliberal economics, as he cut welfare payments, curbed government spending, sped up privatization and promoted the country's feted tech industry.

The revelation should anger all who care about England's rivers and beaches.Two decades ago, ministers were warned about private equity firms buying up water companies.In a briefing prepared for Britain's competition regulator prior to the takeover of Southern Water, researchers raised the alarm that private equity-owned water companies would become impossible to regulate.

We all could use a little dinner inspiration - even Ali Slagle, who This month's installment: More than anyone else, cookbook author and recipe developer Hetty Lui McKinnon has provided home cooks with joyous, comforting, at-times surprising ways to cook vegetables.We hit the jackpot with her latest book, Tenderheart, one of Eater's best books of spring-it weaves stories of her dad's days working at a wholesale produce market through recipes for her 22 favorite fruits and vegetables.

Boston sports fans might have felt like they jumped in a time machine Thursday afternoon.Former Boston Red Sox Kevin Millar, who was on the 2004 World Series team that overcame a 3-0 deficit in the American League Championship Series against the rival New York Yankees, had a message for the Boston Celtics ahead of their Eastern Conference finals contest.

No-hitters, All-Stars, Cy Young Awards, World Series MVPs-the Florida/Miami Marlins have had them all on the mound throughout their 31-year history.On this day 30 years ago, Ryan Bowen etched his name in Marlins lore by completing a franchise first.Against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on May 15, 1993, Bowen tossed the first complete-game shutout in franchise history.

During his time in South Florida, Dontrelle Willis brought energy, enthusiasm and stellar pitching.A two-time All-Star for the Florida Marlins, Willis still holds single-season and career records for the franchise today.He picked up his first Major League Baseball win on this day 20 years ago.Willis got the start at Qualcomm Stadium as the Marlins took on the San Diego Padres in the rubber game of a three-game series on May 14, 2003.

Jack McKeon is a baseball lifer.The former catcher began playing professionally way back in 1949 and he remains in the game to this day as a special advisor with the Washington Nationals.In between, McKeon managed five Major League Baseball teams and had a winning record with four of them.His only postseason appearance came as the skipper of the Florida Marlins.

Edgar Renteria is probably still the proud owner of the most famous walk-off hit in Florida/Miami Marlins history.Renteria's single in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series gave the franchise its first world championship.The first walk-off hit in club history, however, came courtesy of another Renteria.On this day 30 years ago, Rick Renteria delivered the dagger in the 12th inning as the Florida Marlins topped the Colorado Rockies, 7-6.

A sign hangs at a Taco Bell on May 23, 2014, in Mount Lebanon, Pa.Declaring a mission to liberate "Taco Tuesday" for all, Taco Bell asked U.S. regulators Tuesday, May 16, 2023, to force Wyoming-based Taco John's to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.Gene J. Puskar/AP It's a battle between taco chain restaurants.

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Who owns the phrase "Taco Tuesday"?According to the government's patent office, the answer in 49 states is Taco John's, a fast-food chain based in Wyoming.But if Taco Bell had its way, the answer would be everyone.A decades-long, taco-promotion turf war reached new heights on Tuesday when Taco Bell launched a campaign to cancel federal trademarks for "Taco Tuesday," held through much of the country by Taco John's since 1989.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to host the China-Central Asia Summit this week which will feature leaders from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.The two-day conference will be held in Xi'An, northwestern China, and will start on Thursday, a day before G7 leaders meet in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

One in four teachers and one in eight nurses will be higher-rate taxpayers by 2027 as a result of the government's record freeze on income tax allowances and thresholds, according to a leading thinktank.The Institute for Fiscal Studies said better-paid public sector workers will be among the almost 8 million people one in five of all taxpayers who will pay income tax at 40% or above as result of the Treasury's attempt to reduce the UK's budget deficit.

The promise that living in an affluent society with a healthy economy holds out is that successive generations will enjoy ever-greater opportunities.But in the UK that intergenerational covenant is under threat, thanks to a housing market that means falling numbers of people will own their own home, and an ageing society in which today's young people will shoulder the burden of higher taxes to meet the health and care costs of their parents' generation.

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images / Realtor.comWhen future Basketball Hall of Famer LeBron James debuted in the NBA in 2003, he was an 18-year-old with the weight of enormous expectations on his shoulders.One example?Before even joining the league, he signed a $90 million shoe deal with Nike-a contract that was worth more than his rookie agreement with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Realtor.com Here's how that came to be.Decades ago, after a barn fire on the property, then-owner Norman Gaffney had the idea to hire architect Peter Bohlin to build a house on the site and incorporate the barn's remains.The standout residence was commissioned in 1977 and is known as the Norman Gaffney House.

Google tech campus at 175, 225, 255, and 285 West Tasman Drive in north San Jose.Google office buildings at the campus are shown with the search giant's logo.SAN JOSE Google has moved into another big San Jose campus, greatly widening its foothold in the Bay Area's largest city in a shift that shows how the search giant seeks ways to expand even as it reassesses its priorities.

Nestled in the Oakland Hills and soaring 170 feet high into the heavens, the granite temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints serves as the single most important site for religious rituals for the Bay Area's estimated 100,000 Mormons.But the East Bay city's dominance as the center of the LDS community will soon change.

Facing public pressure, federal regulators have decided to let patients receive prescriptions for controlled substances via telehealth for at least another six months.d3sign/Getty Images When COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency more than three years ago, it signaled the beginning of huge change for the health care industry.

With the mantra, "A new day for data", the theme of Salesforce's Tableau Conference in Las Vegas this week, Salesforce gives Tableau data analysis and visualization platform the power of generative AI, and launches Tableau Pulse to make data less daunting.Tableau, the two-decade-old data platform that Salesforce acquired for $15.7 billion in 2019, will get enhancements that allow for data automation, predictive analysis based on user preferences, thanks to the addition of large language model generative artificial intelligence.

China should be a reporter's dream: more than one billion people, a rich history, and extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity.And yet China-reporting these days resists the profile.Rarely do journalists based there get enough material to write up convincingly full-bodied portraits.There are obvious obstacles to reporting that humanizes, such as the constant surveillance and the threat of state retaliation taken against foreign and Chinese reporters.

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The Reign of Emperor Michael Anthony Chua & Empress Cameron Stiehl-Munro is off to a fantastic start after Investiture 2023- An Enchanted Evening at DNA Lounge.The Monarchs kept the audience fully entertained with fantasy numbers inspired by Disney movies and musicals, complete with elaborate costumes and magical surprises.

Over the past year, imprisonment of journalists and violence against media professionals have spiked.In every corner of the world, journalists are intimidated and locked up at distressing rates and far too many are killed just for doing their jobs.On this World Press Freedom Day, there is much to be concerned about given the threats that journalists are facing daily.

Americans have become increasingly lonely and isolated, and this lack of social connection is having profound effects on our mental and physical health, the surgeon general warned in an advisory on Tuesday.Advisories from America's top doctor are typically reserved for public health challenges that require immediate attention.

In late April, America's favorite couple - Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson - celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary, a massive milestone for any marriage but especially so for marriage in Hollywood.To make the occasion, on Sunday, April 30, Wilson shared a photo of her and her husband on social media and marked their special day with a cake.

The politically craven assaults on diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses in Florida and Texas are embarrassing.Unless you're an opportunist looking for a leg up in a possible run for governor.Then, the attacks are inspiring.Case in point: Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is now demanding information on what the state's public universities are spending on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including staffing, the names and aims of the programs.

In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge.She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about.