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President Joe Biden held a meeting with the top four leaders of Congress at the White House on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters, as leaders of the two branches of government try to compromise on the issue. “It was one of the most intense talks I have ever encountered,” he told the group. Ukraine is providing funding and working to avoid a partial shutdown. Schumer said “the five of us'' — himself, the president, Vice President Kamala Harris, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — “wanted how important this is to…
NBA scoring has skyrocketed to another stratosphere in recent years. The new reality the league has entered has not gone unnoticed.The NBA's competition committee has “formally begun a review” of whether the offense was given too much of an advantage in today's game. Depending on the committee's findings, the NBA could consider rule changes “to achieve better balance.”NBA executive vice president Joe Dumars recently spoke to ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Kevin Pelton about the upcoming changes. “This is a topic we are monitoring,” Dumars said. “We are now working diligently to make sure this issue is moving in the right…
Cindy Adams opinion by Cindy Adams issued February 27, 2024, 8:30 PM ET Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. AFP (via Getty Images) Listen, the teacher is speaking. So why is Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers always in the headlines? “I'm a middle-class kid. My grandparents in Eastern Europe fled communism, totalitarianism. My mother's father, a doctor, spoke seven languages and later opened a dress shop in Nyack. Mom, Teacher. Father, engineer. I became interested in civics. I joined because I recognized that America deserves education, safety, freedom, home, family, vacations, schools, and labor…
LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly 200 years after a former slave broke barriers in Lancaster, efforts are underway to honor his life. Until recently, not much was known about Scipio Smith. That changed through the work of Michael Johnson, a local historian and marketing director for the Fairfield County Cultural Heritage Association. As a historian, he spends a lot of time reading books and examining old documents. About six years ago, an entry caught his eye. It was about Smith. Injured construction worker at Rumpke recycling facility is in critical condition “It's like a one-line entry about Scipio. It was…
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Computers and water don't usually mix, but a new data center in southeast Fort Wayne requires both. Fort Wayne City Council on Tuesday approved spending more than $8 million to construct sewer lines and extend water mains to support Google's new data center, known as “Project Zodiac.” “One of them is for water and one is for sewer,” said Michael Keister, engineering manager for the City of Fort Wayne Public Works. “They come to us and tell us their water needs, and we size the water and sewer pipes based on that capacity.” City officials…
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NEW YORK (AP) — It's been more than 20 years since Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay made his debut. brazenly shot One of hip-hop's most elusive cases reached a long-awaited moment Tuesday when two men close to him were found guilty of murder in his recording studio.An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury convicted Carl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington of murdering the pioneering DJ in 2002 in what prosecutors saw as revenge for a drug deal gone wrong.The musician, born Jason Mizell, helped hip-hop break into the pop music mainstream in the 1980s with hits like “It's Tricky” and a new…
As e-commerce merchants explore ways to drive conversions and efficiency with artificial intelligence (AI), eBay turns to technology to drive sales of high-value auto parts and expand social commerce reach . The marketplace shared its fourth quarter and full-year 2023 results. report On Tuesday (February 27), the company announced that the global rollout of eBay Motors' predictive maintenance AI-powered capabilities this quarter is helping it become more relevant to automotive customers. “We’re finding ways to get more out of it. [our] Leverage valuable data to improve your utility. For example, last quarter we introduced predictive maintenance that provides AI-powered auto…
The IT industry loves stacks. First there was the LAMP stack, then the Hadoop stack became popular. Over the past five years, something called the Modern Data Stack has taken root in our collective data psyche, and now there are whispers of something called the Compsable Data Stack. But is the stack concept still useful for big data and analytics? IT stacks were born out of a desire to minimize the integration effort involved in assembling production systems, typically from open source components. You can download and hook elements of the original LAMP stack, including the operating system (Linux), web…
Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits Nutt, who appeared here with Gov. Maura Healey in early February, told revenue lawmakers that MassDOT and the MBTA have the funding they need. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald) Lawmakers on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means seemed surprised to hear from the state's top transportation official that the state doesn't need more funding than it plans to receive from the governor's $58.1 billion 2025 spending plan. According to the Healey administration, the proposed budget includes $3 billion for “all means of movement of people and goods in Massachusetts (train, bus, subway, bicycle, automobile, commuter rail, ferry,…