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NEW YORK - The city is under an "Air Quality Alert'' until midnight, but current conditions at Yankee Stadium seem satisfactory enough Thursday to play a doubleheader.As a makeup for Wednesday's postponement of the New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox game, the two teams are scheduled for a single-admission doubleheader starting at 4:05 p.m.

In 2016, when Shawn Loht bought his house near New Orleans, he easily found homeowner insurance with a $2,000-a-year premium.It was just lickety-split, he said.But after Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm, barreled through Louisiana in 2021, his premium jumped to $6,109.Then his provider failed, leaving him facing a premium of nearly $13,000 a year from the state's insurer of last resort.

The NBA Draft is less than a month away, and the NBA Finals tip off Thursday night.Naturally, I'm pondering Deni Avdija and his NBA future.Which to be honest, is not something I view with much optimism.He has his strengths and weaknesses.He'll need to either improve his skills or figure out how to adapt to them.

In the latest front in New York City's fight against the proliferation of trash and rats, city officials plan to require restaurants and bodegas to set out trash in containers instead of bags.The rule, which will be formally proposed on Thursday, could apply to 40,000 food-related businesses roughly 20 percent of businesses in the city covering everything from Dunkin' Donuts to Tavern on the Green, the city's sanitation commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said in an interview.

After atmospheric river storms pummeled large swaths of California, triggering massive flooding and prompting widespread evacuation orders from the Central Coast to the southern Sierra, forecasters warned Saturday "we're not through this just yet."Flash flood warnings remain in effect for parts of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Tulare and Sonoma counties, according to the National Weather Service.

Is a superbloom on the horizon?It all depends on the weather.Californians endured a record-breaking rainy season earlier this year and the conditions certainly seem ripe for wildflowers to bloom in the next several weeks from the state's water-soaked soil.But experts say it's no guarantee of a superbloom.

Southern California mountains could see up to 2 feet of snow in the higher elevations starting Thursday as a persistent winter storm marches through the region, according to weather forecasts.A winter storm warning is in effect until 6 p.m. for the San Bernardino Mountains above 7,000 feet of elevation, according to the National Weather Service.

As the nation's public health emergency expires on May 11, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop reporting its color-coded Covid-19 Community Levels as a way to track the spread of the infection.Instead, the CDC will keep tabs on Covid-19 largely by tracking hospitalizations and monitoring wastewater in some areas, according to a source familiar with the agency's plans.

Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens A Utah parent has filed a request to ban God's most popular blog, the Bible, from schools, citing and ridiculing a law passed last year that removed dozens of books from schools and libraries last year.Get this PORN out of our schools!they wrote in their request for the removal of the book.

Despite picking up five of six possible points over the course of their past three games - all on the road - the New York Rangers have not been at the top of their game for a while now.They've been lucky to escape with points in the past few games.The results were more telling immediately prior, where they had gone just 2-5-1 in their previous eight contests.

Haiti beat Chile to qualify for first FIFA World Cup tournament, which will be hosted by New Zealand and Australia.Haiti's national football team has beaten Chile 2-1 to secure the country's first-ever appearance at a FIFA Women's World Cup.Melchie Dumornay scored twice during Wednesday's match to ensure 55th-ranked Haiti will now play in Group D of the 2023 Women's World Cup alongside England, China and Denmark.

California's remarkably wet winter has helped ease drought conditions considerably, with large swaths of the state - including the coast of Humboldt County, much of the snow-capped Sierra Nevada and the Santa Monica Mountains north of Malibu - no longer considered to be in drought, according to federal officials.

The report compiles data from organisations including the French insurance federation and national weather service Meteo France to summarise the main climatic events of the year and their economic consequences.The French Federation of Insurance (France Assureurs) told Le Parisien that the cost of environmental disasters has been on the rise in recent years.

The report compiles data from organisations including the French insurance federation and national weather service Meteo France to summarise the main climatic events of the year and their economic consequences.The French Federation of Insurance (France Assureurs) told Le Parisien that the cost of environmental disasters has been on the rise in recent years.

By E. Eduardo Castillo | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Tuesday with troops in the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of some of the most intense combat since Russia invaded the country, praising their courage, resilience and strength as artillery boomed in the background.

Ukrainian soldiers have been fighting advancing Russian forces near the city in the eastern Donbas region.Russian soldiers pummeling Bakhmut with artillery are slowly edging closer to the eastern Ukrainian city, which has remained in Ukrainian hands during the eight-month war despite Moscow's goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering Russia.

Macron says he would wait for the end of several peace negotiation efforts before considering such a step.Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has urged visiting French President Emmanuel Macron to pursue international sanctions against Rwanda for its alleged military support to M23 rebels.

Germany's Leopard 2 battle tank could give Ukraine an advantageImage: picture-alliance/dpa/K.M. Wegmann I admit it: I've changed my mind.For a long time, I could understand why the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was reluctant to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine.And I can still understand the concern that supplying certain weapons could drag Germany, or the whole of NATO, into the war.

BEIRUT - After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and international players are trying to gauge whether Ankara's threats of a ground invasion are serious.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly warned of a new land incursion to drive Kurdish groups away from the Turkish-Syrian border, following a deadly Nov. 13 bombing in Istanbul.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy says honest peace' can take place only with the complete demolition of Russian aggression'.Russia is seeking a short truce  a proposal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vehemently dismissed as it would allow Moscow's forces to regain strength after suffering a series of battlefield defeats.

Russia has been pounding Ukraine's civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones, leaving large swaths of the population without power as winter temperatures dropped.Now the US has decided to supply Ukraine with one of its signature forms of air defense, a Patriot missile system.The missiles are unlikely to end the attacks, but both Ukraine and Russia made clear they viewed the decision as important - as a symbol of Western engagement in the conflict, at the least.

Russia has been pounding Ukraine's civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones, leaving large swaths of the population without power as winter temperatures dropped.Now the US has decided to supply Ukraine with one of its signature forms of air defense, a Patriot missile system.The missiles are unlikely to end the attacks, but both Ukraine and Russia made clear they viewed the decision as important - as a symbol of Western engagement in the conflict, at the least.

Russia has been pounding Ukraine's civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones, leaving large swaths of the population without power as winter temperatures dropped.Now the US has decided to supply Ukraine with one of its signature forms of air defense, a Patriot missile system.The missiles are unlikely to end the attacks, but both Ukraine and Russia made clear they viewed the decision as important - as a symbol of Western engagement in the conflict, at the least.

Politics Massachusetts voters narrowly approved an additional tax on high earners.Explore the town-by-town data here.Massachusetts voters narrowly approved Question 1 on Tuesday's ballot, paving the way for the state to enact the "millionaire's tax" at the heart of a heated campaign.Now, the state's constitution will be amended to add 4 percentage points to the state's income tax for annual earnings over $1 million.

All power has been restored after multiple power outages left large swaths of Toronto in the dark, Toronto Hydro says.At the peak of the outages, the utility says about 40,000 customers had been affected.Toronto Hydro first tweeted about the outages around 5:40 p.m.The utility said the outages stemmed from "a loss of supply" from Hydro One.

In the year ahead more newsrooms, both large and niche, will report on antitrust, a beat that may not sound sexy but is essential to understanding our economy - and essential to the future of journalism.Expect more reporters with a background in business, tech, and law to explain how the impact of consolidated power in transforming the news industry at the national, state, and local level.

The phrase developer dirty bomb entered the chat surrounding the San Francisco Housing Element debate at Thursday's Planning Commission meeting, as affordable housing activists argue the soon-to-be-final draft of the plan gives short shrift to racial equity.As of press time for this post, the San Francisco Planning Commission is still in session discussing the final draft of the San Francisco Housing Element, a state mandate requiring that each county submit a plan to build enough housing to keep up with their population growth.

In another sign of the changing political landscape of Chicago's suburbs, longtime state Rep. Deb Conroy is set to become the first woman to chair the DuPage County Board - and the first Democrat to hold that position in at least three-quarters of a century.According to unofficial vote totals, Conroy is leading Republican Greg Hart with most of the votes counted in a tight race to lead the state's second largest county.

Lawsuits claiming that online services aid terrorist organizations just by hosting their content or having users who espouse the organizations' views potentially could censor a vast amount of protected expression online, EFF and a coalition of other civil society groups argued in filed this week.In Twitter v. Taamneh , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that online services can be civilly liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) based on claims that the platform had generalized awareness that members of a terrorist organization used its service.

Available on the npm CLI as of v8.16.0, query is a new sub-command that exposes a powerful new way to inspect and understand the dependencies of your Node.js project.With it comes a powerful new query syntax, based on a familiar paradigm: CSS.That's right, you can now use special CSS selectors with to better understand your project's dependency tree.

Mike and Dan reflect on the Islanders' resilient and timely four game winning streak - with a cathartic cherry on top.They look back at wins over the Maple Leafs and Oilers, and how Ilya Sorokin staked his spot at the top of the goaltending heap while large swaths of the hockey world were watching.They then turn to a win over Columbus that could have gone off the rails after some curious officiating, and how Brock Nelson once again was the hero.

IoT devices can be openings for attackers, causing major disruptions to businesses.Follow these three steps to secure your IoT devices.One of the common refrains I hear from IT managers is that their IT assets are of little value.Manufacturers, for example, don't believe their control systems are of any value to hackers, as they don't hold critical information and are easily reset to factory defaults if hacked.

KYIV, Ukraine  Russian soldiers pummeling a city in eastern Ukraine with artillery are slowly edging closer in their attempt to seize Bakhmut, which has remained in Ukrainian hands during the eight-month war despite Moscow's goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering Russia.While much of the fighting in the last month has unfolded in southern Ukraine's Kherson region, the battle heating up around Bakhmut demonstrates Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire for visible gains following weeks of clear setbacks in Ukraine.

Russian soldiers are slowly edging closer in their attempt to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.roops are pummelling the city with artillery in an attempt to prise it from Ukrainian hands in order to complete Moscow's goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering Russia.While much of the fighting in the last month has unfolded in southern Ukraine's Kherson region, the battle heating up around Bakhmut demonstrates Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire for visible gains following weeks of clear setbacks in Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers fire a mortar in the front line near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)BAKHMUT, Ukraine - Russian soldiers pummeling a city in eastern Ukraine with artillery are slowly edging closer in their attempt to seize Bakhmut, which has remained in Ukrainian hands during the eight-month war despite Moscow's goal of capturing the entire Donbas region bordering Russia.

Members of the Yellow Band guerrilla group named after Ukraine's yellow-and-blue national flag have spread leaflets threatening those who cast ballots and urged residents to send photos and video of people who vote to track them down later."It's complicated because of security issues, but everything will be done to make the balloting safe for the voters and election officials," Saldo said in a video address.Moscow-appointed governor of the southern Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, vowed that Ukrainian attempts to derail the referendum by shelling the city won't succeed.