White House: Biden to sign $1.9 trillion virus relief bill Thursday afternoon, a day earlier than first planned
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Biden to sign $1.9 trillion virus relief bill Thursday afternoon, a day earlier than first planned.
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Biden to sign $1.9 trillion virus relief bill Thursday afternoon, a day earlier than first planned.
India will spend $200 million over the next five to seven years to promote the use of hydrogen, Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, the top bureaucrat at India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, said at a virtual industry event on Thursday. India has asked its state-run oil and gas companies to set up seven hydrogen pilot plants by the end of this financial year, India's oil secretary Tarun Kapoor also said at the Hydrogen Economy - New Delhi Dialogue event. Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the online conference the government planned to scale up use of hydrogen blended with compressed natural gas (H-CNG) as a transportation fuel.
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Northern Ireland will open outdoor dining from the end of April and hotels from late May, the British region's government said, in an acceleration of its lockdown exit plans that will see it reopen its economy far faster than neighbouring Ireland. All retail, outdoor restaurant and bar services and gyms will open on April 30, the Northern Ireland Executive said after earlier indicating they would open later in May. "We are now entering brighter and better times," Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster told the regional assembly in a speech to announce the new plans.
The leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany will hold three-way talks on Friday about Ukraine's standoff with Russia over the conflict in the eastern Donbass region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video released to media on Thursday. Zelenskiy will travel to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron and they will speak to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a video conference, he said. The "Normandy" format talks involve the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia and have not taken place since December 2019.
A driver ran through a barrier gate before jumping a drawbridge in Daytona Beach, Florida, as it opened at around 8 am on April 12, police said.The driver also “ran through the second traffic arm as it was in the down position,” police said. Both barriers had been replaced by April 15, police said.Investigators on the case said they believe they have identified the suspect. An arrest had not been made as of Thursday, according to police.This footage shows the car barreling through the first barrier and whizzing over the Main Street Bridge as it opened. Credit: Daytona Beach Police Department via Storyful
The Duke of Edinburgh's funeral will be run with military precision.
Pete Davidson is gearing up to portray punk rock pioneer Joey Ramone in the upcoming biopic “I Slept With Joey Ramone” for Netflix and STXfilms. The announcement comes on the 20th anniversary of Ramone’s death. The biopic will chronicle the life and times of the legendary musician — born Jeffrey Ross Hyman in 1951 — […]
Academy Award-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward” paints an intimate portrait of the children in Yemen suffering from starvation and malnourishment as a result of war-induced famine. The United Nations World Food Programme estimates about 400,000 could die this year without urgent intervention, which is what director Skye Fitzerald hopes to catalyze with the film. Overcoming a […]
Sarah and Emily Kunstler have spent their lives immersed in the civil rights movement, first as the daughters of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” attorney William Kunstler, and then forging their own careers crafting documentaries on criminal justice. But when filmmaker and lawyer Sarah Kunstler heard a speech by ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson at […]
It’s finally (almost) here! After an unusually long season, voting for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards opens April 15, closing on April 20. The winners will then be announced at a unique ceremony held across the globe on April 25. All the speculation about how the length of the season and pandemic viewing may have […]
Editor Barry Alexander Brown had completed his film “The War at Home” and had returned to Atlanta to research a project when he was first introduced to Spike Lee through a mutual friend. At the time, Lee was at New York University working on a cable TV project. The year was 1981, and later, Brown […]
Lame humor and incoherent plotting are among the shortcomings of “The Rookies,” an initially engaging but increasingly tedious Chinese action-comedy-thriller that not even kick-ass movie queen Milla Jovovich can breathe much life into. Undemanding genre fans might go for this Budapest-set hodge-podge about rookie secret agents tackling a deranged billionaire, but there’s not much here […]
Canada's opposition Conservative Party on Thursday dropped its resistance to carbon pricing and adopted it as part of its own climate plan, reversing a long-held position that could put it at odds with some of its staunchest supporters. Climate change has proved a thorny issue for Erin O'Toole's Conservatives. The plan comes despite most Conservative delegates voting against recognizing climate change as a real threat at a policy convention just last month.
The head of U.S. forces in Europe said on Thursday that there was a low to medium risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine in the next few weeks. Asked by a lawmaker about the chances of an invasion in that timeframe, General Tod Wolters said: "Low to medium". Wolters said the chances of an invasion beyond the next few weeks would depend on a number of factors but, based on the current trajectory and disposition of Russian forces, that likelihood would start to wane.
In a Washington, D.C., suburb, Black and Latino barbers are busting myths about the coronavirus vaccine while clipping hair. Across the country, a university researcher in Phoenix teamed up with a company behind comic books fighting Islamic extremism to produce dance-inducing animated stories in Spanish that aim to smash conspiracy theories hindering Latinos from getting inoculated. A new wave of public health advocacy that is multilingual, culturally sensitive, entertaining and personal is rapidly replacing mundane public service announcements on TV, radio and online in the battle to stamp out vaccine disinformation circulating in communities of color and get more people vaccinated.
The 48th annual Annie Awards, celebrating the best in animation, are taking place on Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. PST. The ceremony — often a predictor for which film will win the best animated feature category at the Oscars — honors winners in 36 different animation-related categories, including independent feature, production design, effects animation, […]
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Police used pepper spray, flash grenades, and nonlethal rounds against crowds outside Brooklyn Center Police headquarters in Minnesota on the evening of April 14, the fourth day of protests following the police killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.According to local media, police declared an unlawful assembly at 9 pm, began issuing dispersal orders, and then moved to break up the crowd, which was reported to be smaller than previous nights, after a 10 pm curfew came into effect.Shortly before 9 pm, Minnesota State Patrol wrote on social media that people in the crowd were “throwing objects” and “shooting fireworks” at police, as well as “trying to climb and dismantle the fence around the building, and shining laser pointers at police.” At the turn of 9 pm, MSP warned demonstrators to either leave or be arrested for violating the curfew. “Multiple dispersal orders have been given,” they tweeted.Reporters on the scene, including Brendan Gutenschwager and New York Times reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, said police fired multiple rounds of nonlethal munitions into the crowd after declaring an unlawful assembly. Bogel-Burroughs also said the heavy use of pepper spray induced coughing not only among demonstrators, but also among “police officers downwind from the ones spraying it.”The footage here shows tense scenes as the crowd faced police outside the fenced-in Brooklyn Center Police Department building. Police officers are seen directing pepper spray and firing projectiles toward the protesters, many of whom used umbrellas as shields.About 24 people were arrested, most of them for “curfew violations to probable cause riot,” MSP spokesman Col Matt Langer said in a press conference later that night. No burglaries or looting were reported, he said.Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer who fatally shot Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, was arrested by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on Wednesday morning and was charged by Washington County Attorney Peter Orput with second-degree manslaughter. Credit: Status Coup/Jon Farina via Storyful
The United States announced a salvo of sanctions Thursday against Russia in retaliation for what Washington says are "destabilizing international actions," including attacks on American interests.
British royals William and Harry will not walk side by side in the procession at this weekend's funeral of Queen Elizabeth II's late husband Prince Philip, Buckingham Palace revealed Thursday.