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Pelicans rule out Nance for play-in game vs. Thunder

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pelicans reserve forward Larry Nance Jr. has been scratched from the lineup for the Western Conference play-in game Wednesday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder.Nance hurt his ankle during New Orleans’ regular-season finale, a loss Sunday at Minnesota that relegated the Pelicans to the conference’s ninth seed. The Nos. 9 and 10 seeds must go 2-0 in play-in games to advance to the first round of the NBA playoffs as an eighth seed.Nance has started just once this season but has been among the Pelicans’ most prominent frontcourt reserves during the 65 games in which he’s played, averaging 6.8 points and 5.4 rebounds in 21.2 minutes per game.His absence raises the likelihood that New Orleans will give more playing time to fourth-year pro Jaxson Hayes and Spanish veteran Willy Hernangomez.Hayes has appeared in 47 games, averaging five points and 2.8 rebounds in 13 minutes per game. Hernangomez has played in 28 games, posting averages of 6.9...

ANÁLISIS | El comercio y los créditos de carbono —y no Ucrania— ocupan la agenda de la cumbre entre Lula y Xi

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

(CNN) — La llegada este miércoles del presidente de Brasil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a China marca el regreso de Brasil al escenario diplomático entre el sur global, pero también revela una distancia cada vez mayor de las cuestiones geopolíticas que preocupan a Occidente.Mientras que la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia domina muchas de las conversaciones diplomáticas en Europa y en Washington, el programa oficial de Lula no la menciona, a pesar de las promesas anteriores de que se discutirían estrategias de paz con el líder chino Xi Jinping.“Por lo que escuché, eliminar a Ucrania de la lista de cosas que se van a discutir fue una demanda del gobierno de China”, dice Igor Patrick, investigador del Instituto Kissinger sobre China en el Centro Wilson.“Todavía hay cierto interés por parte de Brasil por plantear el tema y discutir ideas al respecto, y esperan publicar una declaración conjunta en la que mencionen el conflicto en Ucrania, llamen a una solución pacífica y medien...

Friendship Heights to get a boost from both sides of DC-Montgomery County border

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

Montgomery County, Maryland, council members voted unanimously to mirror D.C. efforts to give more attention to Friendship Heights.The Montgomery County council has approved a plan to create a Friendship Heights Urban District to support businesses, and make the area more appealing to residents and visitors.Friendship Heights straddles the line between Montgomery County and the District, and there are efforts on both sides to make what Montgomery County Council member Andrew Friedson calls “a good place … a lot better”.D.C. Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin introduced legislation to create a business improvement district for the D.C. side of the area last month.Traditional retailers, such as Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus, are gone. The Mazza Gallerie was sold at auction.Manuel Ochoa, a Montgomery County resident, recently told county lawmakers he supports the formation of an urban district.“Since I moved to Friendship Heights, I have watched the loss of retaile...

Pareja hispana de Maryland muere durante paso de tornado en Tennessee

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

Los recientes tornados en el centro del país dejaron varios muertos, decenas de heridos y devastación en algunos vecindarios. Una salvadoreña y su esposo cubano de la región perdieron la vida cuando este fenómeno arrancó de raíz la vivienda en la que la pareja estaba vacacionando en Tennessee.​El miércoles su hijo, Jonathan Ávila, aseguró que aprendieron una lección dolorosa sobre las advertencias meteorológicas.Las víctimas eran María y William Avila, de 57 y 64 años. La pareja vivió por años en Maryland antes de jubilarse en Florida. Ellos estaban con otros dos amigos y sabían de la advertencia de tornados en la zona el 1 de abril, pero según su hijo, no imaginaron que estaban en peligro.  ​”En Tennesse pusieron advertencias. Ellos pudieron haber seguido el paso”, dijo Jonathan Ávila. “El problema es que nosotros no actuamos y observamos bien la situación. En verdad que esto me da a entender que uno tiene que estar preparado. Tiene que uno ver, informarse, porque a vec...

Denver broke two record high temps this week

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver hit 85 degrees on Tuesday and Wednesday this week breaking the previous record high temperatures on both days. Taking a look back on all of the temperature records that have been broken in Denver so far in 2023, this week's were the only record highs. The rest of the records have been low temperatures. A record low was reached in January at minus 10 degrees and two record lows happened this February that were both below zero. April has brought several extremes already with a record low of 11 degrees measured on April 5 and then six days later the record high of 85 degrees happened. The 85 degrees that happened on April 11th is the earliest in the year that Denver has ever hit 85 degrees. There are no record-breaking temperatures in the forecast for at least the next week.

Residents of Larkspur start petition to stop construction of proposed truck stop

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

LARKSPUR, Colo. (KDVR) -- Nearly 1,100 residents in the area of Larkspur have signed a petition to "Stop the Truck Stop" currently proposed to be built off Upper Lake Gulch Road off Interstate 25. "I think people of Larkspur want progress but this isn’t progression, this is regression and it will destroy what makes Larkspur, Larkspur," Shawn Carroll, who moved there 13 months ago, said.Carroll said along with others he was originally under the impression that the area being developed would be a little travel oasis, he said that's how it was originally presented. He said they weren't expecting a 60-spot truck stop. "They are going to take away what makes this area attractive to so many," Carroll said. Sam Doyle, who has lived in Larkspur since 1981, said the big worry is the town's water, waste, and environmental impacts. And, of course, he said the traffic it would bring, especially with large semis, is of major concern.   Denver no longer nation’s to...

Two houses left in his yard

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

A neighbor needed a favor: let him park two buildings on trailers on his property for a short time. The good-hearted neighbor said OK, and when the good deed turned terrible, the call went out to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Lloyd Brown works full-time as a firefighter and full-time running a wildlife rehabilitation center.Lloyd Brown: “We are the only facility south of Orlando that can take care of eagles.”Lloyd enjoys the wildlife, but what he is going through is for the birds.Lloyd Brown: “Those are full-sized houses, yeah, on trailers.”When a neighbor sold his land, he asked Lloyd to temporarily park these two houses on his property. That was back in August 2021.Lloyd Brown: “Originally, they were only supposed to be there a couple of months and I see no potential of them moving.”Lloyd has a long list of texts asking Manuel Dorta Duque to move his houses.He didn’t.But when Miami-Dade County noticed the houses, the fines started at ...

Bulgaria: No light at the end of the tunnel

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

Dimitar Bechev is a lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and the author of “Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe.”A couple weeks ago, Bulgarians voted in yet another election — their fifth since April 2021.However, as the dust settles and political parties weigh what their next moves may be, one thing is certain: Putting together a governing coalition will be a daunting task.While former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) came first — as it did last October — the second largest party, We Continue the Change (PP), has ruled out any cooperation with GERB, which it casts as the personification of state capture and corruption bedeviling the European Union member country.Borissov will thus have to look elsewhere for support, but it is far from certain whether a coalition will materialize, and Bulgaria may well be in for yet another election as early as July.And this never...

Poland’s Morawiecki plays Europe’s anti-Macron in Washington

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

There’s an Emmanuel Macron-shaped shadow hovering over this week’s U.S. visit by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.In contrast to the French president — who in an interview with POLITICO tried to put some distance between the U.S. and Europe in any future confrontation with China over Taiwan and called for strengthening the Continent’s “strategic autonomy” — the Polish leader is underlining the critical importance of the alliance between America and Europe, not least because his country is one of Kyiv’s strongest allies in the war with Russia.“Instead of building strategic autonomy from the United States, I propose a strategic partnership with the United States,” he said before flying to Washington.In the U.S. capital, Morawiecki continued with his under-the-table kicks at the French president. “I see no alternative, and we are absolutely on the same wavelength here, to building an even closer alliance with the Americans. ...

China must act against rising global hunger, new WFP boss McCain says

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:42:23 GMT

BRUSSELS — China and other powerful countries need to step up to help steer the world away from a potentially “catastrophic” hunger crisis this year, the new head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme said.Cindy McCain, an American diplomat and the widow of the late U.S. Senator John McCain, also told POLITICO that the EU and U.S. should see world hunger as a national security issue due to its impact on migration. She furthermore accused Russia of using hunger as a “weapon of war” by hindering exports of Ukrainian grain.McCain, formerly the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. food agencies, took the helm of the WFP on April 5 and begins her five-year term at a time of increasing world hunger. The number of people facing food insecurity around the world rose to a record 345 million at the end of last year, up from 282 million in 2021, according to the WFP’s figures, as Russia’s war in Ukraine deepened a food crisis driven by climate change, COVID-19 and other conflicts.This year ...