Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency said in its first-ever risk assessment for the bloc Monday. The agency said Europe is prone to more frequent and more punishing weather extremes — including increasing wildfires, drought, more unusual rainfall patterns and flooding — and it needs to […]
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is expected to revise down its assessment on consumption and factory output this month, three people familiar with its thinking said, nodding to recent weak signs in the economy that underscore the fragile state of its recovery. While this could fuel worries about […]
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other top U.S. officials in Washington on Monday as the White House ramps up pressure on Israel to protect civilians in Gaza during its war with Hamas. Gantz, a political rival to Israeli Prime Minister […]
St. Johns County Flood Vulnerability Assessment Update St. Johns County Flood Vulnerability Assessment Update The St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) recently reviewed findings from the Countywide Flood Vulnerability Assessment, which included a survey, designed for public input, distributed to county residents in September. The county was awarded a $500,000 grant through the […]
A judge ruled Monday that the court does not have the power to mandate Jackson County to resolve all pending appeals in a property assessment lawsuit filed by the cities of Independence and Blue Springs. The lawsuit involved the two cities, which are within Jackson County, arguing that the county drastically increased the property value […]
Some residents in Washington County are losing their homeowners insurance. Officials say it’s all because of a lack of data from the fire department. As of Thursday, the Finleyville Volunteer Fire Department is now the primary fire department in Union Township, Washington County, instead of the Elrama Volunteer Fire Department. Thursday night, the board held […]
Estonia’s foreign minister emphasized on Feb. 14 that NATO has a timeframe of approximately three to four years to enhance its defensive capabilities as Russian leader Vladimir Putin ramps up his nation’s military activities, AP reports. During a visit to Poland’s capital, Margus Tsahkna said at a news conference that Estonia, along with Lithuania and […]
Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin was so soft that even Putin thought it was a letdown. “To be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions,” he said told interviewer Pavel Zarubin, according to a Reuters translation. “I was not just prepared for this, I […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden sidestepped any criminal charges as the investigation into his handling of classified documents concluded, but the political blowback from the special counsel’s report Thursday could prove even more devastating, reinforcing impressions that he is too old and impaired to hold the highest office. Special counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of a […]
In a previous post, Drs. Martinez and Manley noted that future economic progress in the local region – the Wichita Falls metro area (MSA) – would increasingly come to depends on promoting quaternary activities (i.e., investments in human capital) as an economic development strategy. Specifically, the authors argued that what was needed was an internally […]
Ukrainian football legend, Andriy Shevchenko, spoke out about Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in a documentary film Ukraine–Russia: The Match of Life, released on the Ukrainian Toronto Television YouTube channel on Jan. 28. The documentary recounts the story of the Ukraine-Russia match in Moscow in 1999, where Shevchenko scored one of the most famous goals of […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi […]