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Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary munition.The organization said it verified three other instances of Israel’s military dropping white phosphorus on Lebanese border areas in the past month, but Amnesty said it did not document any harm to civilians in those cases. Human rights advocates say the use of white phosphorus is illegal under international law when the white-hot chemical substance is fired into populated areas. It can set buildings on fire and burn human flesh down to the bone. Survivors are at risk of infections and organ or respiratory failure, even if their burns are small. After an Oct. 16 Israeli strike in the town of Duhaira, houses and cars caught fire and nine civilians were rushed to the hospital with breathing problems from the fumes, Amnesty said. The gro...

Ontario childcare centres concerned about keeping doors open as costs balloon

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

Ontario childcare centres are raising concerns about the ballooning costs of operating in what’s being described as an underfunded system.Amy O’Neil, who is the executive director of Treetop Children’s Centre in Midtown tells CityNews she has reached a tipping point and if more funding doesn’t come in soon, she and many other childcare centres will be forced to close.“This is a crisis … it’s absolutely critical that all levels of government listen to the child care sector. This money is not enough,” said O’Neil.Unable to keep up with inflation, she said their accountant has given them two to three years before they’ll be forced to shut down.“We cannot continue our operations at the funding level that we’re currently operating at, and centres will close.”With a major shortage of child care spaces, they are closures the province cannot afford.As of now, Ontario childcare centres that have opted in to the $10/day daycare...

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL to feature 15-hole matches, overtime and lots of technology

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing modern technology to the royal and ancient game with TGL, a team-based golf league played over 15 holes that combines an oversized simulator with actual shots to a tech-infused green that can change contours depending on the shot.Fourteen months after it was announced, and two months before TGL launches at newly constructed SoFi Center in Florida, the league on Tuesday provided details on just what it is and how it works.Five of the six four-man teams have been announced for New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta.The prime-time matches on ESPN platforms (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN+) will be between two teams, each activating three players for the match.The opening nine holes will be called “triples” — alternate shot for the three players, with one point awarded for winning a hole, no carryovers if there is a tie. The final six holes will be singles, with each team member playing two holes.Any match ending in a tie goes to overtim...

Chick-fil-A looking at Austin-area expansion, company says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Chick-fil-A is looking to expand in the Austin area, the company said Tuesday.In a statement to KXAN, Chick-fil-A said it is early in the process of "actively pursuing a new location in the Northwest Austin area." RELATED: Robotic servers spotted at Austin Chick-fil-A Project records from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation show the chicken company is planning a restaurant at the intersection of RM 620 and Anderson Mill Road. The planning records, which are subject to change, show the restaurant is expected to open in 2025. "We are excited by the prospect of joining this neighborhood, where each locally owned and operated restaurant creates 80 – 120 jobs," the Chick-fil-A statement read in part. According to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation records, the $1.2 million project will include a drive-thru.Chick-fil-A has more than a dozen restaurants in the Austin area.

Report: Austin losing homebuyers to other cities for 1st time on record

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) --- Homebuyers are looking to leave Austin as housing costs stay high, according to a report by real estate brokerage Redfin."More homebuyers looked to leave Austin, TX than move in during the third quarter, the first time on record there hasn’t been a net inflow into the Texas capital," the report claimed.The report said data is based on the searches of about two million Redfin users who viewed for-sale homes online across more than 100 metro areas from July 2023 to September 2023. Over the last year, more than double the amount of Austin-based Redfin.com users looked for homes outside the metro area, according to the report."Those high home prices have resulted in people needing to leave the Austin metro area for more affordable places, because now locals or even people who moved in during the pandemic, are realizing that it's too expensive to live there," Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather said.Why is this happening?Fairweather said fewer homebuyers are intere...

New Kids on the Block to perform in Austin during 2024 tour

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- New Kids on the Block will join Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff for a performance in Austin as part of the group's 2024 tour.New Kids on the Block's Magic Summer Tour 2024 will make a stop at the Germania Insurance Amphitheater on July 12, 2024, per a social media post from the venue. Formed in 1984, New Kids on the Block is known for songs like "Please Don't Go Girl," "I'll Be Loving You Forever" and "Hangin' Tough."Doors open at 6 p.m. before the show is slated to begin at 7 p.m. Tickets for the concert -- including general admission pit tickets, general admission lawn tickets along with lower and upper bowl reserved seating -- are slated to go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Those can be purchased online.

Erwin Chemerinsky: Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks.I have heard antisemitic things from time to time through my life. I remember as a child being called a “dirty Jew,” and my friends and I being called “Christ killers” as we walked to Hebrew school. I recall a college girlfriend’s parents telling her that she should not go out with me because “Jews are different.” I had an incident in a class I was teaching about the ethics of negotiations, where a student matter-of-factly said, “the other side will try to Jew you down,” without the slightest sense of how that was a slur.But none of this prepared me for the last few weeks. On Friday, someone in my school posted on Instagram a picture of me with the caption, “Erwin Chemerinsky has taken an indefinite sabbatical from Berkeley Law to join the I.D.F.” Two weeks ago, at a town hall, a student told me that what wou...

Margaret Tarkington: Crooked lawyers were crucial to Trump’s Jan. 6 plot. We clearly need to reform the profession

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

Over the last two weeks, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, three lawyers central to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in the Georgia racketeering case against the former president and 18 co-defendants. All admitted significantly lesser crimes than charged and escaped prison time.Prosecutors may be more interested in Trump himself, but the lenient plea deals fail to comport with the culpability of these and other lawyers in Trump’s plot against the election. Eight attorneys were indicted in the Georgia case, and the federal indictment of Trump in the Jan. 6 plot includes five attorneys as unindicted co-conspirators, unnamed but identifiable as Powell, Chesebro, Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark.Lawyers weren’t just involved in Trump’s plot; they devised and enabled it. Lawyers developed the strategies, manufactured a faux constitutional crisis and manipulated legal requirements in the effort t...

Glens Falls Bagels closed until further notice

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Glens Falls Bagels is closed as of Tuesday, and will remain so until further notice. The Saratoga Avenue bagel shop announced the closure on Facebook on Tuesday morning. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! "We will be closed until further notice. Relaunch date and grand opening to come. I will post any and all updated. Thank you all, South Glens Falls," wrote owner Kerry Smith.Glens Falls Bagels opened in South Glens Falls over the summer, at the plaza at 131 Saratoga Ave. The shop first opened on South Street in Glens Falls, at the current home of the recently-opened Golden Monkey Cocktail Lounge. Everything happening in Lake George in November Since opening in South Glens Falls, Glens Falls Bagels has hosted two community dinners for South Glens Falls Central School District, and has had bagels served at SUNY Adirondack. Smith previously owned and operated a restaurant and inn on Glen Lake.

Everything happening in Lake George in November

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:14 GMT

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Okay - everyone take a breath. The ghosts and ghouls of Halloween are off the streets. Now, it's time for a quieter month around the Lake George area, as the community gets ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Quiet doesn't mean silent, though. Adirondack Brewery is hosting a chance to get rid of your post-Halloween Jack-o-lantern. The Adirondack Stampede Rodeo is bucking its way to town, and there are ways to get involved with your community for the Thanksgiving season. Here's everything happening around Lake George in November.Monthlong and recurring eventsOpen Mic ThursdaysEvery Thursday, 7-9 p.m.Open mic night at The Trap In Fort AnnThe Trap, 5 Buttermilk Falls Road, Fort Ann2-drink minimumAdirondack Thunder hockeyHome games on Friday, Nov. 10; Sunday, Nov. 12; Wednesday, Nov. 22; Friday, Nov. 24; Saturday, Nov. 25; Wednesday, Nov. 29Adirondack Thunder hockey season g...