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A senior firefighter who helped with plans for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral said he is immensely proud to be recognised in the King's Birthday Honours list.Area Commander Matt Acton of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has been awarded the King's Fire Service Medal.SFRS said Mr Acton was integral in delivering the service's role in Operation Unicorn, the formal plans put into effect following the Queen's death in Scotland.

Advocates had feared the Supreme Court would dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act and Native sovereignty at large.The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on November 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C., on a day that the Court heard a case challenging the legality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.Samuel Corum / Getty Images In a somewhat surprising ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), delivering a win to Native American communities by upholding a decades-old law aimed at keeping Native American children from being taken away from their families and tribes.

Thousands of Afghan refugees in the UK face homelessness this summer, the government was warned last week at a secret crisis meeting in Downing Street.Council officials told No 10 and Home Office civil servants that about 8,000 Afghan refugees, allowed into the country in 2021 under the slogan Operation Warm Welcome, are due to be evicted from hotels as early as August because of a government deadline, yet have nowhere to go.

That's just one component of the push.Cabinet departments are also under orders to speed implementation of key social and economic policies passed under last year's huge climate, health care and tax law.And the White House plans to deploy top officials across the U.S. to highlight construction improvements and new manufacturing projects in red and blue states alike, punctuated by a two-week blitz at the end of June that the administration has dubbed its "Investing in America" tour.

A coalition of French environmental charities on Thursday accused the French state of negligence in regulating the use of pesticides, in a landmark legal case.Issued on: 01/06/2023 - 18:38 2 min Activists hold banners during a demonstration called by "Scientifiques en Rebellion" and "Extinction Rebellion" to reduce pesticides by 60 percent by 2023 and 90 percent by 2050 at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, March 4, 2023.

1. ZIO Kafka is a high-performance, asynchronous, non-blocking library for integrating Apache Kafka with the ZIO ecosystem.
2. ZIO Kafka supports all Kafka APIs including the new AdminClient API, allowing users to develop robust, fault-tolerant applications with minimal effort.

Despite a positive trend in bus and rail ridership recovery, now at 70% of pre-pandemic levels, the remaining 30% deficit presents a formidable obstacle for transit agencies striving to return to previous numbers and higher.According to S&P Global Ratings, reaching 80-85% of pre-COVID-19 ridership levels may not be achievable until 2026.

After the recent extraordinary show of force defending changes to LLPAs by federal regulators and their friends, the forest through the trees risk remains in focus to me.One of the great concerns I have, as both a former regulator and the former head of a major industry trade association, is the downside risk of keeping the GSEs in conservatorship any longer.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has instructed senior civil servants at Stormont to provide information on revenue raising measures such as domestic water charges, drug prescription charges, and tuition fees.Mr Heaton-Harris confirmed he had written to permanent secretaries in the region on measures that could otherwise improve the sustainability of public finances in Northern Ireland.

New Yorkers in need of medical treatment often choose their hospitals based on a variety of factors: reputation, their practitioners' affiliation or maybe location.But there is one variable that seldom enters the mix: how much hospitals charge for the same service.The lack of transparency has bedeviled patients across the country, sometimes arising in well-publicized stories about overinflated bills for relatively straightforward hospital visits an issue that is particularly troubling for people without insurance.

1. Kosovo's Prime Minister has offered to consider early elections in the country's north if the recent violence ends.
2. The offer was made in response to the increasing pressure from the international community to end the violence and restore peace in Kosovo.
3. As a result of the ongoing political

The world needs to phase out fossil fuels if it wants to curb global warming, the United Nations climate chief said in an interview with The Associated Press.But he said the idea might not make it on to the agenda of make-or-break international climate negotiations this fall, run in and by an oil haven.

A total of 150 questions have been put to Boris Johnson by the UK inquiry into the nation's pandemic response, which is being chaired by Heather Hallett.These queries, intended to elicit exact details of how the government tried to tackle the Covid-19 epidemic, reveal for the first time just how broad the inquiry will be.

IAB Europe, representing a diverse membership of thousands of digital marketing and advertising companies, media publishers, and independent third-party measurement firms, has released a policy paper outlining its position on the draft proposal for a European Media Freedom Act.The paper aims to provide valuable insights to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and national officials working on their negotiating positions.

Let's admit it.We live in a world where the increasing effects of climate change and the scorching summer heat is unbearable in many areas.As the temperatures continue to rise, it can be challenging to keep your home cool during the summer without relying on an air conditioner.In addition, the summer heat can lead to heat strokes and exhaustion, making it crucial to implement these methods to keep your home cool without using an AC.

The Covid inquiry has sent Boris Johnson a list of 150 questions and requests for his witness statement, documents released by the Cabinet Office have shown.The UK Covid-19 Inquiry wants to see WhatsApp messages and notebooks kept by the former prime minister to build a picture of how decisions were taken in government up to and during lockdowns.

Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.Drew Angerer/Getty Images In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New York cleared the way for a bankruptcy deal for opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma.The deal will shield members of the Sackler family, who own the company, from future lawsuits.

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The mother of a 10-year-old boy who was killed by an American XL Bully dog is calling for a change to the law to protect the public from out-of-control pets.Emma Whitfield, 32, lost her son, Jack Lis, after he was attacked in Pentwyn, near Cardiff, South Wales, in November 2021, and since then a further 15 people in Britain have died of injuries sustained from maulings by aggressive and untrained dogs.

1. Scala 3.3.0 is now available and includes improved support for Java, new data types, and improved compiler performance.
2. Scala 3.3.0 provides a more consistent programming experience by introducing new features such as union and intersection types, opaque type aliases, and a new version

For the past couple of weeks, I've had people ask me, or say very confusing things, about Tagless Final.This is a subject that the Scala community seems to be absolutely fascinated with, for reasons that aren't quite clear.And, weirdly, the conclusions it seems to have reached seem only vaguely related to what I understand a tagless final encoding to be.

Fully-automated or semi-automated software systems will begin deliver more reliable Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) reports than human Data Scientists by 2019 says Gartner.As Artificial Intelligence-powered BI technology heads towards full self-service, a general concern in the Data Science community is whether human Data Scientists will become obsolete due to the presence of super-intelligent Analytics and BI tools.