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Walmart sets daily time for ‘less stimulating’ shopping in all U.S. stores

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

Walmart announced that all its U.S. stores will be presenting “a less stimulating environment” for two hours every morning.Related ArticlesRetail | Here’s where San Jose may lose thousands of homes because of ‘builder’s remedy’ Retail | Amazon Fresh expands delivery, free pickup to all customers Retail | Man who panicked California mall shoppers with false gunman report sentenced to 7 months in jail Retail | Walmart.com is renting huge Bay Area tech campus Retail | New weight loss drug: FDA approves Zepbound, a version of diabetes drug Mounjaro for obesity Starting Friday, Nov. 10, from 8 to 10 a.m. everyday the stores will make changes including turning off music, making lights dimmer and setting TV walls to a still image.Walmart said it learned during a pilot test on Saturdays in the summer that these efforts are beneficial to customers and employees who process sens...

SF firefighters rescue man trapped under collapsed dock near Pier 90

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

(BCN) -- San Francisco firefighters rescued a man trapped under a collapsed dock near Pier 90 early Friday morning, according to fire officials. Video posted by the San Francisco Fire Department on social media showed a rescuer had to swim toward the man, who could be seen clinging to a beam. $350K of stolen goods recovered in Oakland, Sacramento County fencing operation The collapsed dock was near the area of Amador Street, fire officials said. The man was evaluated by paramedics after the rescue, according to the fire department.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Palisades Tahoe employee dies in snowmobile crash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

(FOX40.COM) -- An employee of Palisades Tahoe was pronounced dead on Thursday morning due to a snowmobile crash, according to California Highway Patrol Truckee. The 25-year-old man was last seen by a fellow employee at 5 a.m. and was discovered at 6:30 a.m. near the crash site. Strong storm system likely to hit Northern California next week He was transported to Tahoe Forest Hospital, but it is unknown at this time if the man was pronounced dead while in transport or while undergoing treatment.

Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts open soon. Here's the expected dates

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

(FOX40.COM) — The ski season is ready to begin in the Lake Tahoe area, with one high-elevation resort set to open on November 10 and others prepping their openings in the days and weeks to follow. Sierra Nevada ski resorts saw their ski season extended by several months in 2023 after some historic rain and snowfall in January and March. How many atmospheric rivers hit California this 2022-23 winter? Though these storms caused hazardous conditions across the state, the snowpack allowed some resorts to stay open through late summer with the help of snowmaking machines. Since the start of the new water year on Oct. 1, Northern California has had several storms that, coupled with snowmaking operations, helped lead to the recently announced opening dates. In mid-November, weather forecasters expect above-normal precipitation throughout California, with a 40-60% chance of heavy precipitation in the Sierra Nevada. Strong storm system likely to hit Northern California next week Below ...

Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Demands “Urgent” Meeting With Blinken Amid Gaza War Lobbying Effort

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

On November 7, NSO Group, the Israeli spyware company infamous for its Pegasus phone-tapping technology, sent an urgent email and letter by UPS to request a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and officials at the U.S. State Department. “I am writing on behalf of NSO Group to urgently request an opportunity to engage with Secretary Blinken and the officials at the State Department regarding the importance of cyber intelligence technology in the wake of the grave security threats posed by the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel and their aftermath,” wrote Timothy Dickinson, partner at the Los Angeles-based law firm Paul Hastings, headquartered in Los Angeles, on behalf of NSO. In the last two years NSO’s reputation has taken a beating amid revelations about its spyware’s role in human rights abuses. As controversy was erupting over its role in authoritarian governments’ spying, NSO Group was blacklisted by the U.S. Department of Commerce in Novemb...

New Yorkers Voted to Put Environmental Rights in Their Constitution — but the Attorney General Is Fighting Back

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

COHOES, N.Y. — In a small city in upstate New York, just a few miles from Albany, the Norlite hazardous waste incinerator sputters and groans. The sound punctures the eerie silence of a deserted public housing complex next door, separated from the plant by only a fence and some railroad tracks. No children play on the jungle gym here anymore, and no families bustle in and out of front doors. Last year, after mounting concern from the community over Norlite’s air emissions, the Cohoes Housing Authority began relocating all residents of the 70-unit Saratoga Sites complex. The city now plans to raze the homes. For more than 30 years, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, has attempted to force Norlite to comply with state environmental laws, issuing the plant hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties. But even dozens of violations dating back to the 1990s have failed to stop Norlite from polluting. Last year, when New York Attorney General Letitia...

Spain’s acting prime minister signs new deals that secure him parliamentary support to be reelected

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist party on Friday wrapped up deals with a bunch of small parties to ensure acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has enough parliamentary support to be reelected, possibly next week.The accords follow weeks of intense negotiations and highlighted the Socialists’ ability to reach agreements with parties across the country despite having finished second place in July 23 elections with only 121 parliamentary seats in the 350-seat Parliament. Sánchez and the Socialists on Friday signed agreements with the Basque Nationalist Party and a Canary Island coalition that mean that Sánchez should be able to count on the support of 179 legislators, three more than the 176 majority required in Parliament to be chosen as the next prime minister. Sánchez has been in office since 2018.The president of the parliament is expected to set a date for an investiture debate and vote within the next few days.Probably the biggest and potentially most damaging deal was ...

The Great Grift: COVID-19 aid thieves bought fancy cars, a Pokemon card – even a private island

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited patch of paradise about a mile off the coast of this little Gulf Coast town.Pelicans divebomb nearby into the cool waters of Florida’s Withlacoochee Bay and the open view westward holds the promise of dazzling sunsets.It may have seemed like an ideal getaway for Florida businessman Patrick Parker Walsh. Instead, he’s serving five and half years in federal prison for stealing nearly $8 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds that he used, in part, to buy Sweetheart Island.While Walsh’s private island ranks among the more unusual purchases by pandemic fraudsters, his crime was not unique. He is one of thousands of thieves who perpetrated the greatest grift in U.S. history. They potentially plundered more than $280 billion in federal COVID-19 aid; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent.The loss represents close to 10% of the $4.3 ...

La familia de Luis Díaz está aliviada y agradecida por la liberación de su padre, le dice un primo a CNN

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

(CNN) — El primo de la estrella del Liverpool, Luis Díaz, dijo a CNN el viernes que su familia está aliviada y “realmente agradecida por todo el apoyo de toda la nación”, luego de la liberación del padre de Díaz por parte del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) el jueves.Díaz padre fue secuestrado por guerrilleros del ELN el 28 de octubre en su ciudad natal de Barrancas, al noreste de Colombia, y fue entregado a una comisión mixta de personal de la ONU y sacerdotes católicos el jueves en la cercana ciudad de Valledupar. Unas horas más tarde fue recibido por sus familiares y amigos en su casa de Barrancas.El primo de Luis Díaz, José Brito Díaz, habló con CNN por teléfono desde Barrancas y dijo que era un momento de celebración para toda la familia y el pueblo en general.“Por supuesto, estamos muy agradecidos por todo el apoyo de toda la nación y de toda la gente de Barrancas. Damos gracias a Dios por venir a rescatarnos: en el momento más necesario, Dios respondió”, dijo Brit...

Cofundador de Apple regresa a EEUU tras sufrir derrame cerebral en México

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:04:03 GMT

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – El cofundador de Apple, Steve Wozniak asegura que sufrió una apoplejía leve mientras asistía a un encuentro de empresarios en Ciudad de México.Wozniak envió un mensaje de texto a ABC News la noche del jueves en el que explicó que sintió mareos la mañana del miércoles y poco después sufrió de vértigo, antes de dirigirse a un hospital en donde se le practicó una resonancia magnética que reveló un “episodio cerebrovascular leve pero real”.Wozniak, de 73 años, tenía previsto intervenir el miércoles en un encuentro del World Business Forum (WOBI) que se realizó en la Ciudad de México entre el 7 y 8 de noviembre, al que acudieron cientos de líderes empresariales. Entre los oradores anunciados estaban Carly Fiorina, exconsejera delegada de Hewlett-Packard, y Muhammad Yunus, pionero de las microfinanzas galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz. Hospitalizan en México a Steve Wozniak, cofundador de Apple Por qué se sobrecali...