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Nevada man’s license plate revoked for defaming Californians

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

RENO, Nev. — A Nevada man is challenging the revocation of his license plate, which the state says defames Californians.Adam Steelmon, of Fallon, said he has had the plate GOBK2CA for more than 20 years. In May, it was recalled by the Department of Motor Vehicles because of a complaint, Reno TV station KOLO reported.A section of the Nevada Administrative Code bars license plates from bearing defamatory references to a person or group.“In this case, the defamed group is Californians,” DMV spokesperson Eli Rohl told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He said that the department “regularly” turns down requests for license plates with anti-California messages, and that it would not be fair to allow Steelmon to keep his.Steelmon is appealing the recall and will have a hearing on July 12, KOLO said.A Hawaii man’s fight to keep a plate interpreted as a vulgar attack on the Black Lives Matter movement made it to a federal appeals court, which last month denied his challenge.Nevada regulati...

Man stabbed while walking his dog in San Rafael, suspect in custody

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

(KRON) -- A community member was stabbed while out walking his dog on Friday, and the San Rafael Police Department has made an arrest in connection to the incident. Family contracts COVID while on board Ruby Princess cruise, medical records show A 42-year-old man named Alexander Amaya-Rodriguez was arrested in connection with the stabbing. He was booked into Marin County Jail on felony charges of attempted murder and felony assault with a deadly weapon. His bail amount is set at $500,000. At 8:40 p.m. on Friday, SRPD received a 911 call reporting a victim had been stabbed at an apartment complex on Kerner Boulevard. Officers arrived on scene with paramedics with the San Rafael Fire Department within minutes and found a man who had been stabbed three times, police said. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now KRON4 Breaking News ...

Mira en cuánto está el premio mayor del Mega Millions que se sortea el martes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

El premio mayor del Mega Millions ahora se estima en alrededor de $480 millones, lo que lo convierte en el decimocuarto premio más grande en la historia del juego de lotería, luego de que ningún boleto vendido coincidiera con los seis números en el sorteo del viernes.El sorteo del premio será el martes, que será el sorteo número 24 desde que se ganó el premio mayor por última vez el 18 de abril en Nueva York.Hubo seis ganadores del premio mayor en menos de cuatro meses a principios de año, según Mega Millions.El primer premio del año fue de $1,348 mil millones ganados el 13 de enero en Maine; este fue el segundo premio más grande en la historia de Mega Millions. En el próximo sorteo del 17 de enero, alguien ganó $20 millones en Nueva York. El Powerball sortea este lunes $650 millones, el noveno premio más grande en la historia del juego Revela su secreto: cómo ganar la lotería de $1,000 semanales por el resto de tu vida Source

5 strategies for wasting less food in the kitchen. (Start with that shopping list)

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

Nobody likes to waste food, especially when grocery prices are high and landfills keep growing. It feels like an imperative to make use of every ingredient we buy (or maybe grow).But about 40% of food in the U.S. is wasted, according to estimates from the non-profit Feed America and other sources. That figure includes excess from industry, grocery stores, restaurants and our very own kitchens.There are lots of ways to reduce the amount of wasted food at home, and many are downright easy. Any step in the right direction is progress, and the results are satisfying on many levels.Five strategies:PLANA good place to start is making a meal plan and purchasing just the foods you have specific plans for. Make a shopping list and avoid impulse buys that might languish in your fridge.When you are cooking, start thinking already about Intentional Leftovers, one of my favorite cooking mantras. Planning to use those extra cooked chicken breasts in a Mexican Tortilla Soup recipe, or those extra ...

J-Rod Show gets All-Star stage at home despite challenging second season in majors

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Less than a block from T-Mobile Park, the image of Julio Rodríguez plasters the side of a warehouse. The mural is an ode to the Emerald City’s young baseball star — one the Seattle Mariners plan to have in center field for the next decade.At only 22, he’s already the face of the franchise, the one whose No. 44 jersey floods the stands nightly, both home and road. He’s carrying the expectations as the next generational player watching over that sacred position of center field in Seattle.This All-Star week in Seattle was supposed to be Rodríguez’s party. The “J-Rod Show” at home for the world to see on the All-Star stage.And it still might be, even with a season that to date hasn’t matched those expectations, for Rodríguez or the team.Already committed to competing in the Home Run Derby, Rodríguez was an injury replacement on the American League roster after injuries to outfielders Yordan Alvarez and Mike Trout created an opportunity for Rodríguez to be added.But his se...

Investigation continues after man shot in Hollywood neighborhood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

The search for a shooter continues Monday after a victim remains in critical condition after being shot in Hollywood. Hollywood Police officers responded to the area of Fillmore Street, near North 26th Avenue, Sunday afternoon, after they received a 911 call about a possible shooting in the area at around 3:00 p.m.The home is believed to be a vacation property. “We see police patrolling during the day, during the night so we feel pretty safe. This house doesn’t really bring good news for the neighborhood,” said Christophe Barbier, who lives nearby. Responding officers arrived at a home to find the victim suffering from gunshot wounds.Barbier said he sees a lot of activity in the house with people constantly coming and going. It has not been confirmed if the home is linked to the shooting or if it just happen to occur in front of the property.Detectives said an altercation between two people led to the gunfire. They are investigating the incident as a possible attem...

Shiniest exoplanet ever found has reflective metal clouds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

(CNN) — An ultrahot exoplanet that zips around its host star every 19 hours is the shiniest exoplanet ever discovered.The scorching world, dubbed planet LTT9779b, has reflective metallic clouds made of silicates and metals like titanium.The exoplanet is the largest “mirror” in the universe that astronomers have spotted to date. The planet is located 262 light-years from Earth.Initially spotted by NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission in 2020 and ground-based observations from the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the exoplanet was selected for follow-up observations by the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission.Cheops, or the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, collected measurements that revealed LTT9779b reflects 80% of the light from its host star, outpacing the high shine of Venus in our own solar system. After the moon, Venus is the brightest object in our night sky, and its thick clouds reflect about 75% of the sun’s light. Meanwhile, Earth reflects only about 30% of sunlig...

Twitter’s future is in doubt as Threads tops 100 million users

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw.Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than a week after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday, marking a staggering feat for any social network and one that puts it on pace to rapidly pass Twitter’s audience size.Meanwhile, multiple internet traffic analysts reported noticeable declines in Twitter usage in just the past few days. The results underscore the risk Meta poses to Twitter’s business and raise questions about how, or if, Twitter can stem its losses.Twitter traffic had already been trending downward for months, according to data from the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare and the web analytics firm Similarweb. But the pace of decline appears to have accelerated in recent days, both companies sai...

Madonna shares health update: ‘I’m on the road to recovery’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

(CNN) — Madonna is rescheduling the North American leg of her world tour following her recent hospitalization.The Grammy winner announced the news in an Instagram post on Monday.“Thank you for your positive energy, prayers and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love,” she wrote, ‘I’m on the road to recovery and incredibly grateful for all the blessings in my life.”She went on to write, “My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children. My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn’t want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone.”“My focus now is my health and getting stronger and I assure you, I’ll be back with you as soon as I can,” she added.Madonna stated that she will kick off the tour internationally in October.CNN has reached out to her representatives for further comment.Last month, Mad...

EU, US attempt to escape data-flows limbo with new transatlantic deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:09 GMT

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Monday approved a new deal allowing companies to freely transfer data between the EU and the United States, potentially ending three years of legal limbo for tech giants like Facebook and Google.The European Commission formally recognized the U.S. as a country with sufficient protection for Europeans’ personal data, adopting a so-called adequacy decision under its landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.The deal, known as EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, clears the way for lucrative transatlantic data exchanges after the EU’s top court in 2020 struck down the governments’ previous data agreement, known as Privacy Shield, over concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies had too much leeway to snoop on Europeans’ personal data.The stakes for success are high: According to the White House, transatlantic data flows underpin $7.1 trillion in economic activities, and thousands of companies do business on both continents.“Today we tak...