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Source: Reuters
The mayor of the Texas border city of El Paso declared a state of emergency on Saturday, citing the hundreds of migrants sleeping on the streets in cold temperatures and the thousands being apprehended every day.
Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, said the emergency declaration would give city authorities the resources and ability to shelter migrants who have crossed the Mexican border.
"We wanted to make sure people are treated with dignity. We want to make sure everyone is safe," Leeser told reporters.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/el-paso-mayor-declares-state-emergency-over-influx-migrants-mexico-border-2022-12-18/
Oregon research forest will be North America's largest
Source: Associated Press
Oregon is on its way to creating North America’s largest research forest, following this week’s decision by top state officials to separate the Elliott State Forest in southwest Oregon from its obligation to fund schools and designate the land as a place for scientific discovery.
The Elliott provides habitat to dwindling wildlife populations, including salmon, the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet. Oregon political leaders have been struggling for decades to find a way for the forest to comply with wildlife protection requirements while continuing to meet a legal obligation to generate revenue for public schools.
Sallinger said there will still be some logging in the forest in the future, but the goal of the logging operations will be to collect research data. There will also be a 34,000-acre preserve that will be the largest stretch of protected forest in the coast range, as well as stronger stream protections. Research in the forest will likely focus on ecologically responsible forestry, managing forests for climate change and improving forest management for threatened and endangered species.
“I think the Elliott will be a hell of a lot better from an ecological perspective than anything we’ve seen before,” he said. “The coast range has just been hammered over the years, so preserving what’s left and improving it is really important.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/oregon-forests-climate-and-environment-05afc10d8c86a312f828f43baecbb7b0
Univ. of Calif., striking academic workers reach tentative agreement
Source: UPI
The University of California says it has reached a tentative labor agreement with 48,000 student researchers and other workers, potentially ending the biggest academic strike in U.S. history.
The school announced Friday it has struck a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers to end the 32-day work stoppage. Under its terms, 17,000 UC graduate student researchers would get minimum salary scales for the first time.
The agreement also entitles the student workers multiyear pay increases, paid dependent access to UC health care and enhanced paid family leave, school officials said.
Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/12/17/University-California-striking-academic-workers-reach-tentative-agreement/6371671280943/
Kyiv mayor says metro service, water supply back after Russian strikes
Source: Reuters
The mayor of Ukraine's capital said early Saturday the city's metro system was back in service and that all residents had been reconnected to water supply a day after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure.
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the Kremlin's Feb. 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko also said heating had been restored to half the city and electricity had been returned to two-thirds.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kyiv-mayor-says-metro-service-water-supply-back-after-russian-strikes-2022-12-17/
Trump Family Legal Woes Are Now an International Problem
Source: Newsweek
The Trump family's legal problems are going international as a result of a new lawsuit filed by environmentalists in Ireland.
Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), a non-profit group seeking to ensure proper implementation of environmental law in the country, sued TIGL Ireland Enterprise Limited—the company behind former President Donald Trump's Irish hotel and golf course—over a coastal fence that environmental activists claim will cause irreversible damage to protected grounds.
Although Trump resigned as the director of the Irish company after saying he "couldn't care less" about the resort in Doonbeg, County Clare, his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, remain as directors of TIGL. The Trump family and the former president's company are already at the center of a number of ongoing lawsuits in the United States.
High Court proceedings were initiated on Wednesday after FIE claimed that the construction of the fence in front of the dunes at Doughmore Strand would cause "profound and irreversible environmental damage."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-family-legal-woes-ireland-golf-course-1767801
Highland Park suspected shooter's father is charged with felony reckless conduct
Source: CNN
The father of the man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more at the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade was arrested Friday and facing felony reckless conduct charges, prosecutors announced.
Robert Crimo, Jr., is charged with seven counts of felony reckless conduct, Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said.
Prosecutors allege Crimo Jr. was “criminally reckless” when he signed his son’s application for an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification card nearly three years before the massacre, which is required to purchase a gun in Illinois.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/us/highland-park-shooting-suspect-father-charges/index.html
Co-Founder Of Multi-Billion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme "OneCoin" Pleads Guilty
Source: Department of Justice
OneCoin Was a Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Marketed and Sold to Millions of Victims Around the World, Resulting in Billions of Dollars in Losses.
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KARL SEBASTIAN GREENWOOD, who co-founded OneCoin with RUJA IGNATOVA, a/k/a “the Cryptoqueen,” pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with his participation in the massive OneCoin fraud scheme. OneCoin, which began operations in 2014 and was based in Sofia, Bulgaria, marketed and sold a fraudulent cryptocurrency by the same name through a global multi-level-marketing (“MLM”) network. As a result of misrepresentations that GREENWOOD, IGNATOVA, and others made about OneCoin, victims invested over four billion dollars worldwide in the fraudulent cryptocurrency. Today, District Judge Edgardo Ramos accepted GREENWOOD’s guilty plea. IGNATOVA, who was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten Most Wanted List in June 2022, remains at large.
Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/co-founder-multi-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme-onecoin-pleads-guilty
School choice supporters vow to continue fight in Kentucky after Supreme Court ruling
Source: The Center Square
Supporters of school choice measures say they’re not giving up bringing the education policy to Kentucky, even though the state’s Supreme Court struck down a law Thursday that would have allowed education opportunity accounts in the state.
While supporters vow to continue their push, Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed the bill last year, said in a statement the court’s ruling should settle the issue.
“We can’t send public dollars directly or indirectly to private or charter schools, nor should anyone try,” he said. “The answer is to work together to improve our public school system. Let’s provide funding, let’s provide that raise so that we can get enough teachers in the classroom and let’s invest in technology and social and emotional learning the way we need to.”
Read more: https://www.thecentersquare.com/kentucky/school-choice-supporters-vow-to-continue-fight-in-kentucky-after-supreme-court-ruling/article_457e4262-7d6c-11ed-93d8-eb95516b477b.html
U.S. labor board region sides with USC athletes seeking 'employee' designation
Source: Reuters
The Los Angeles regional head of the U.S. agency that enforces U.S. labor laws has sided with scholarship basketball and football players at the University of Southern California (USC) seeking recognition as employees and the right to unionize.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) director of the agency's Region 31 office issued a finding of merit in an unfair labor practice charge brought by the student athletes against USC, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Pac-12 athletic conference.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-labor-board-region-sides-with-usc-athletes-seeking-employee-designation-2022-12-16/
HSBC sets precedent by withdrawing support for oil and gas
Source: FinTech
HSBC has become the latest bank to announce it will no longer finance new oil and gas fields, raising the prospect that the banking sector could accelerate the transition towards renewable energy.
Europe’s largest bank follows in the footsteps of UK high-street bank Lloyds, which announced a similar withdrawal of funding back in October. HSBC is understood to be the largest bank to date to draw a line under oil and gas financing.
Read more: https://fintechmagazine.com/articles/hsbc-sets-precedent-by-withdrawing-support-for-oil-and-gas
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