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Report: Ukrainian forces across key river, raising hopes

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military forces have successfully established positions on the eastern side of the Dnieper River, according to a new analysis, giving rise to speculation Sunday that the advances could be an early sign of Kyiv’s long-awaited spring counteroffensive.The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, reported late Saturday that geolocated footage from pro-Kremlin military bloggers indicated that Ukrainian troops had established a foothold near the town of Oleshky, along with “stable supply lines” to their positions. Analysts widely believe that if Ukraine goes ahead with a spring counteroffensive, a major goal would be to break through the land corridor between Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula, which would necessitate crossing the Dnieper River in the country’s south.Responding to Ukrainian media reports proclaiming that the establishment of such positions indicated the counteroffensive had begun, Natalia Humeniuk, the...

Encuesta de NBC News: casi el 70% de los votantes republicanos apoyan a Trump

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

Dos tercios de los votantes de las primarias republicanas dicen que respaldan al expresidente Donald Trump y descartan las preocupaciones sobre su elegibilidad, a pesar de su reciente arresto criminal y las otras investigaciones legales sobre su conducta pasada, según una nueva encuesta nacional de NBC News.Eso, junto con su ventaja de dos dígitos sobre su posible rival republicano más cercano, el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, convierte a Trump en el claro favorito en la carrera inicial por la nominación presidencial republicana.El entusiasmo continuo del Partido Republicano por Trump contrasta con el descontento de una nación ansiosa por cómo se perfila la carrera de 2024. La mayoría sustancial de todos los estadounidenses no quiere que Trump o el presidente Joe Biden se postulen para presidente en 2024, lo que prepara una revancha de elecciones generales potencialmente divisiva y poco inspiradora entre los dos hombres, y se espera que Biden lance su candidatura a la reelecc...

Students seek to soothe mental health center halls, clients

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Some senior art students from St. John’s Catholic Prep stared intently at a mural of swooping green and purple mountains in the halls of the Mental Health Association of Frederick County.Paint brushes in hand, they expanded the landscape as they traced over old ridge lines with new ones. Some chatted with one another; some concentrated silently.Each student’s calculated stroke brought the larger scene into focus: a mountainous region with coolly colored expanses basked in warm orange-yellow sunlight.The hallways and mural lines all lead to a sun in the middle corridor, eclipsed by a majestically posed bird, standing on a tree branch with its beak held high.The bird was the idea and creation of St. John’s senior Juliana Workman, who stood a few feet away, painting a mountain.Workman said the bird embodies someone with confidence who has grown out of their mental struggles.“The fact that it’s against the sun and being highlighted by the sun, it’s absorbing all th...

New apprenticeship program lends skills training for youths

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

BEDFORD, Va. (AP) — Josh Weeks, owner of Wicked Diesel, a diesel and automotive repair facility at 1051 Orange St., recently became the first Bedford County business owner to register with the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Youth Registered Apprenticeship Program.He currently has two apprentices in the program, ages 17 to 21.Weeks works closely with automotive technology instructors at Bedford County Public Schools’ Susie G. Gibson Science and Technology Center to provide job-shadowing opportunities, internships and part-time paid employment opportunities at his shop, which opened in 2014.A 2005 graduate of the center’s automotive technology program himself, he currently employs four other graduates from the same program. He is excited to further his involvement with local students through the apprenticeship program.“We’re able to grow our business and our intention is to keep these employees forever for them to make a career out of it,” he said. “So when we go into it ...

Dying patients protest looming telehealth crackdown

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Teri Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey’s law that allows medically assisted suicide — but she was bedbound, too sick to travel. So last Nov. 17, surrounded by three of her children, Sheridan drank a lethal dose of drugs prescribed by a doctor she had never met in person, only online. She died within minutes. Soon, others who seek Sheridan’s final option may find it out of reach, the unintended result of a federal move to roll back online prescribing of potentially addictive drugs allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “How much should one person suffer?” said Sheridan’s daughter, Georgene White, 68. “She wanted to just go to sleep and not wake up.”Online prescribing rules for controlled drugs were relaxed three years ago under emergency waivers to ensure critical medications remained available during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has pro...

Lukaku puts on show in Inter win with 2 goals and an assist

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

ROME (AP) — Inter Milan has been waiting all season for this version of Romelu Lukaku.The big Belgium striker scored twice and set up the third goal in a 3-0 win at Empoli on Sunday to end Inter’s five-match winless run in Serie A.The goals were Lukaku’s first from open play in the Italian league since the opening round of the season in August.The return to form couldn’t have come at a better time for Lukaku, with the second leg of the Italian Cup semifinals coming up against Juventus on Wednesday, followed by the Champions League semifinals against city rival AC Milan next month.“I’m getting my confidence back,” Lukaku said.It’s been a big 24 hours for Lukaku, who had his one-match suspension for the Cup match overturned by the Italian soccer federation on Saturday in what it called a statement against racism.Lukaku had picked up a second yellow card in the opening leg for provoking Juventus fans by holding his finger to his lips as if to silence the crowd after converting a ...

Child wanders into store, police ask to find parent/guardian

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (KDVR) -- Police in Wheat Ridge are asking for the public's help locating the parent or guardian of a child that wandered into a 7-Eleven at 50th Avenue and Kipling Street Sunday morning.He entered the store around 4:30 a.m. wearing only boxer shorts and a tank top, police said. Police said he looked to be about 3 years old.Police said he looked to be in good health but couldn't provide anyone with much information about his identity or where he lives.He gave officers the names "Malcom" and "Martin." Anyone with information was asked to immediately call 911.

Denver weather: Sunny Sunday before a rainy week

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There will be mostly sunny skies and mild temperatures to end the weekend and before an unsettled weather pattern moves in this week. Weather today: Mild sunshineTemperatures will be closer to seasonal averages this afternoon as we top off in the upper 50s. Skies will have more sunshine with clouds moving in by the evening. Looking ahead: Rainy Tuesday and WednesdayMonday starts off dry and seasonal but the next system starts to move in by the evening. A few showers are possible while most of the activity moves in Tuesday. Tuesday and Wednesday look to be rainy days. This moisture is great for our drought conditions, however, we will have to watch for flooding.The system should clear by Wednesday evening but another chance for rain is back on Friday.

Trump defends his efforts to combat abortion

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his efforts to limit abortion in a video address to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.In his remarks, Trump cited his appointment of three justices (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett) to the U.S. Supreme Court. All three voted in the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationally.Those justices delivered a landmark victory for protecting innocent life. Nobody thought it was going to happen,” the former president said.Trump also said he had fulfilled his promises when it came to Iowans and also to conservative values.“Together we achieved more for our values than any other administration in the history of our country, and it is not even close,“ he said, saying he took “historic action to protect the unborn.“ He also touted his support for “religious liberty“ and Israel.On Thursday, Trump had been criticized by the Susan B. An...

G7 calls for extension of Black Sea grain deal

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:35 GMT

The Group of Seven on Sunday called for the “extension, full implementation and expansion” of a grain deal that has been essential to export Ukrainian produce through the Black Sea. G7 agriculture ministers “recognized the importance” of the deal, following a two-day meeting in Miyazaki, Japan. “We strongly support the extension, full implementation and expansion” of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, they said in a communiqué.Under the pact, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, some 28 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain have been exported since last July, including to poor countries facing the brunt of the global food crisis.But Russia is threatening to walk away from the agreement unless its demands are met, portending a return to the full-scale maritime blockade that halted Ukraine’s grain exports in the months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February last year. The Kremlin has warned that ship registrations would only contin...