South Florida got the nation’s first climate tech hub last year and now it’s getting money to make it run — $19.2 million that the Biden administration announced on Tuesday. Fittingly, much of the initial federal funding will go toward training and research that will be key to building a coastline more resilient to the […]
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Kremlin says report that Ukraine is reinforcing Belarus border is a worry
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that a Belarusian military report that Ukraine had been moving more troops, weapons and military equipment into its northern Zhytomyr region, which borders Belarus, was a cause for concern. The Belarusian Defence Ministry alleged that Ukraine was building up its forces on Saturday. A spokesman for Ukraine’s […]
Social media platforms are denying mass sexual violence against women; Reinforcing rape culture
I used to explain the tenth example of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, “Comparing Israel to Nazis or Israeli policy to that of Nazis,” to non-experts in Jew-hatred in the following way, “That would be like accusing a rape victim of being a rapist.” Aside from the historical Soviet roots of […]
Ukraine reinforcing Avdiivka as Russia continues its offensive
Ukraine is reinforcing its troops fighting in Donetsk Oblast’s Avdiivka, and some units of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade were withdrawn from the city for rotation for the first time in almost two years, the brigade’s spokesman Ivan Siekach said on Feb. 13. Avdiivka, lying only kilometers away from Russian-occupied Donetsk, has suffered intensified Russian […]
Easing US Core Inflation Seen Reinforcing Fed Optimism
(Bloomberg) — Underlying US price pressures probably continued to recede as 2023 drew to a close, backing up optimism at the Federal Reserve about the path for inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg The consumer price index excluding food and fuel, a measure favored by economists as a better indicator of underlying inflation, is seen increasing […]