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Maryland-based immigrant rights group scrambles to save political, financial support

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

These should be heady times for CASA, the immigrants’ rights group based in Langley Park.The organization just finalized its new strategic plan, and canvassers from CASA’s political unit were on the ground in Virginia for the past few weeks, contributing to the Democrats’ significant victories in legislative races. CASA helped muscle through groundbreaking rent control legislation in Montgomery County earlier this year, and the state Senate committee chair who tucked a piece of health care legislation in her desk drawer last spring that was a priority for the group has just left the legislature.But instead of celebrating these developments, CASA, the biggest and most consequential immigrants’ rights group in the Mid-Atlantic, finds itself on its heels this week, and facing suggestions that it could lose a substantial amount of its political support — not to mention public and private funding.The crisis emerged after the group’s leaders released a statement and social media posts ove...

Sports on TV for Sunday, November 12

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, November 12AUTO RACING1:30 p.m.NBC — FIM MotoGP: The Grand Prix Of Malaysia, Sepang Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia (Taped)2 p.m.FS1 — NHRA: Qualifying, In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, Pomona, Calif. (Taped)3 p.m.FS1 — NHRA: The In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals, In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, Pomona, Calif.COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12:30 p.m.ESPN2 — Asheville Championship: TBD, Third-Place Game, Asheville, N.C.2 p.m.ACCN — Lehigh at North Carolina3 p.m.ESPN2 — Asheville Championship: TBD, Championship, Asheville, N.C.7 p.m.BTN — Army at Indiana10 p.m.PAC-12N — Nevada at WashingtonCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)1 p.m.ABC — Maryland at South Carolina3 p.m.ABC — UConn at NC State4 p.m.ACCN — DePaul at LouisvillePAC-12N — Villanova at Oregon St.5 p.m.BTN — Auburn at RutgersESPN — Indiana at Stanford6 p.m.ACCN — Davidson at North CarolinaPAC-12N — Oklahoma St. at Colorado8 p.m.ACCN — Team USA at Duke (Taped)COLLEGE SOCCER (ME...

Texas police officer killed in a shooting that left another officer wounded

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

One Texas police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a home in Austin that also left the suspected gunman dead, according to a post on the City Council message board by the mayor’s chief of staff.“One of our SWAT Officers is dead. Another Officer was shot” shortly after 4 a.m., according to the post by Colleen Pate for Mayor Kirk Watson.“The suspect was shot and was deceased at the scene,” the post said, but provided no further information.Austin police declined comment until a news conference later Saturday.“I’m praying for the family of our fallen officer,” Watson said in a separate statement, and “for our officer who was shot and in surgery and his family.”

Mexico’s ruling party names gubernatorial candidates, but questions remain about unity

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party on Saturday named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City.But after ruling out the most popular candidate for the capital, questions remain about whether the party can avoid desertions. For the moment, former capital police chief Omar García Harfuch — who won polls on the city race but was knocked out by a gender quota requiring a female candidate — told local media he had no plans to leave the party.“We will always respect the gender quotas and the decision of our party,” García Harfuch wrote in his social media accounts.The Morena party, founded by charismatic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is made up of disparate elements united only by López Obrador’s outsized personality, but he cannot be reelected and leaves office in ten months.Morena already announced its nominee for the presidential race: former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is seen as an unquestioningly faithful follower of the pres...

A military jet crashes in eastern Myanmar. Ethnic resistance groups claim they shot it down

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar military jet fighter crashed Saturday in a combat zone in the eastern state of Kayah, a military officer and a member of an anti-military resistance organization said. The resistance group said the plane had been shot down, but its claim could not immediately be confirmed.A spokesperson for the ethnic armed group, the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force, said it had shot down the plane during heavy fighting near Loikaw, the capital of Kayah state, which is also known as Karenni.However, an officer in Myanmar’s military, while confirming that one of its aircraft crashed somewhere in Kayah, said he did not know whether it was shot down or crashed due to technical failure.The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information, said a search for the crashed aircraft and two pilots was underway.Loosely organized resistance groups have sprung up around Myanmar since the army seized power in February 2021 from the...

Saving Brazil’s golden monkey, one green corridor at a time

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this week in Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for the region’s most emblematic and endangered species, the golden lion tamarin.The 300 tree seedlings they planted this week — only inches tall at present — will eventually connect two patches of forest together. It is the latest in a series of incremental forest growth initiatives driven by environmentalists, providing an ever-larger habitat for the monkey.Until recently, the bare and dry land they were replanting belonged to a ranch owner who had torn down its trees for cattle pasture.Rampant deforestation over centuries has decimated this part of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the only place in the world where the small, copper-colored monkey whose face is framed by a silken mane can be found. With fewer than 5,000 individuals, it is considered an endangered species.“One of the biggest problems is t...

Hezbollah says it is introducing new weapons in ongoing battles with Israeli troops

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his fighters have introduced new weapons, including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that they will keep using the tense frontier to pressure Israel.Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also blasted the United States over the Israel-Hamas war, saying it is the only country that can stop Israel’s wide offensive on the Gaza Strip but doesn’t do so. He said attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, that Washington says have reached more than 40 rockets and suicide drone attacks, will continue until the war in Gaza comes to an end.Nasrallah’s comments came as the situation along Lebanon’s southern border continues to escalate. Hezbollah on Friday attacked northern Israel with three suicide drones after an Israeli strike in central Syria killed seven Hezbollah fighters.Nasrallah did not claim responsibility for a suicide drone attack that hit the Israeli Red Sea t...

Hold and secure lifted at Toronto library after bomb threat

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

The Toronto Reference Library at Bloor and Yonge Streets has lifted the hold and secure that was put in place due to a bomb threat.At approximately 8:44am the library received a bomb threat, and police say the threat came through online.The library has hired additional security for the day as employees were still let into the library to open later while under the hold and secure. Police responded to clear the building and advise.BOMB THREAT: (UPDATE)Bloor St & Yonge St8:44am– the library is currently in hold and secure– police are o/s– the building is currently being cleared #GO2612159^se— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) November 11, 2023

You may be surprised by the state with the most roundabouts

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — There are some 13,000 roundabouts in the U.S. (depending on what you consider a roundabout) — that works out to one roundabout per 25,531 people, give or take. Can you imagine 25,531 people all waiting to traverse through a roundabout?Thankfully, you’re likely never going to encounter such a situation. But depending on where you live, you may drive through more roundabouts in a day than someone in another state does in a year. If you aren’t familiar with what a roundabout is, let’s start there. What is a roundabout?Roundabouts, sometimes called traffic circles or rotaries, are circular intersections meant to “safely and efficiently” move traffic, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration explains. Traffic enters through usually-curved approaches, yields to traffic from the left, then proceeds into the counterclockwise flow around an island. DOT data shows roundabouts can reduce crashes that cause injury or death by roughly 80% ...

Did you know bread bag tag colors mean something?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:31:10 GMT

(NEXSTAR) — Your bread is speaking in code — or at least the colored tag or twist tie keeping its plastic bag is. While this isn't exactly a science, it turns out that colors of the tags or twists serve a very specific purpose: to indicate the age of the bread.And while this isn't an exact science (and many stores/bakeries may have their own color systems), what follows is the generally accepted color code to indicate what day of the week a particular loaf was baked on. Will Ferrell’s ‘Elf’ returning to theaters for 20th anniversary Here is the most common color coding system:Monday — BlueTuesday — GreenThursday — RedFriday — WhiteSaturday — YellowIn case you're wondering where Wednesday and Sunday are in the list, well, those days are generally skipped for baking, according to fact-checking outlet Snopes. While origins of the color coding seem to be unknown, Snopes verified through research that many bakeries and stores do in fact use it. In conversation with Southern Living, Har...