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Meta is set to take on Twitter with a rival app called Threads

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter in a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. It is billed as a “text-based conversation app” that is linked to Instagram, according to the listing, which teased a Twitter-like microblogging experience. “Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” it said. Instagram users will be able to keep their user names and follow the same accounts on the new app, according to screenshots displayed on the App Store listing. Meta declined to comment on the app, and Twitter sends a crude automated reply to most media queries.Threads could be the latest headache for Musk, who acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion and has been making changes to the platform that have...

France’s Macron is weakened by crisis over teen killed by police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Even in normal times Emmanuel Macron needed the help of allies in governing France. To get some things done the French president worked with the traditional right. The center-left helped him accomplish others. The challenge was bigger than any faced by a French leader in more than two decades: He had to convince politicians across the country’s national assembly to support even minor domestic projects. Now, governing his already-polarized country has gotten close to impossible for Macron because a suburban police officer stopped a yellow Mercedes and fired a fatal shot into the 17-year-old driver’s chest, setting off six days of tumult across the country.Macron’s far-right rivals, meanwhile, are emboldened. A controversial extreme-right figure started an online fundraising campaign for the family of the police officer who shot the teen, praising him as someone who “did his job and is paying a high price for it.’’ The campaign quickly raised more than 1...

Fourth of July forecast: Hot and muggy, storms possible

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

Happy Fourth! Tuesday will be hot and muggy with a chance of isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Air quality: Unhealthy, most of this is locally produced bad air with the likely suspect being fireworks. High near 90, low 80s lakeside. Interactive Radar: Track showers and storm here Tuesday night will have scattered clouds, warm, hazy and humid. S 5-10 mph. Low 72Wednesday will have a sunny start, hot and humid with building clouds. A chance of strong to severe afternoon storms. S 10-15 mph. High near 90Full forecast details and more at the WGN Weather Center blog Extended outlook has more clouds on Thursday with a chance of morning showers and highs in the mid to upper 70s. Back to sunshine to finish out the week for Friday and Saturday with highs near 80. Late Saturday showers/t'storms look likely and a chance of showers on Sunday with mostly cloudy skies. 

Hot July 4th with only an isolated storm chance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Happy 4th of July from the First Warning Weather Team! We'll have partly sunny skies for Independence Day with the weather generally cooperating for your outdoor festivities.That being said, it will still be a hot day with highs just below 100º, but feels-like-temperatures reaching 100-105º during the late afternoon and early evening.The location of high pressure to our west means we can't completely rule out a spotty storm or shower this afternoon and early evening, but rain coverage looks to reach 10% at most. Stay weather aware in case a storm pops near you, but generally we're rain free!The slim chance of rain fades at sunset for fireworks.4th of July evening forecastOur "best" chance of rain for the next week comes Wednesday and Thursday, but rain chances only rise to 20%.Friday and beyond sees a return of triple digit heat, more sunshine and an end to our limited rain chances.We are tracking another heatwave brewing late this week into next week. High temperat...

98.3 TRY Social Dilemma: Should You Check Your Work Email When You Go On Vacation?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Today's 98.3 TRY Social Dilemma came from Maggie, but it's one I can relate to because I'm heading out on vacation in a few weeks. This is the email: Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Hi Jaime. I'm currently having an argument with my husband and I'm hoping you can help us solve this by using it as a social dilemma. We are going on vacation the last week in July. We head to the beach every year. My husband gets furious with me because I check my work email everyday that I'm away on vacation. I don't really do much work, I just like to stay in touch with what's going on back at the office. It makes it easier for me when I return from vacation. My husband gets really mad at me because he wants vacation to be vacation, completely unplugging from work. I don't think it's a big deal to check my email everyday. I take maybe 20 minutes a day to check and perhaps respond to a couple of them. He says...

Ask Amy: Parent wants grandparents to back off

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

Dear Amy: I’m a parent to a fantastic adult son who is caring, intelligent, hardworking, and financially comfortable. Due to the nature of his job, he is able to work a fraction of the hours his peers work.He enjoys his work, and is very good at it.He has much more free time than the average working adult and uses it to his advantage.I’m glad he figured this all out on his own and isn’t being crushed by student loans. I am extremely proud of him.The problem is my parents. Every opportunity they get, they bring up how he needs to get a degree, or go into a specific in-demand field he’s not interested in. The return on investment hardly seems worth it to my son. He has told them as much on several occasions.My sister and I have also told them on numerous occasions that he is happy, healthy, and financially independent, and that we are proud of him.They don’t seem to get it. They are “worried about him” and are critical of his lack of education. He has a substantial amount of money sav...

EU weighs concession to Russian bank over Black Sea grain deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

The European Union is considering a proposal for Russian Agricultural Bank to set up a subsidiary to reconnect to the global financial network as a sop to Moscow, the Financial Times said on Monday (3 July).With the bank, also known as Rosselkhozbank, under sanctions, the move aims to safeguard the Black Sea grain deal that lets Ukraine export food to global markets, the newspaper said.The step comes after Russia said last week it saw no reason to extend the grain deal beyond July 17, as the West had acted in an "outrageous" way over the agreement, though it assured poor countries that Russian grain exports would continue.Moscow's plan, proposed through UN-brokered talks, would let the bank unit handle payments related to grain exports, the paper said, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.The new unit would be allowed to use the SWIFT global financial messaging system, which was closed to the largest Russian banks after the invasion of Ukraine last year, it added.As two of th...

Single-family house sells in Fremont for $3.4 million

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

161 Cavalo Court – Google Street ViewThe spacious, recently built property located in the 100 block of Cavalo Court in Fremont was sold on May 26, 2023. The $3,371,000 purchase price works out to $971 per square foot. The house, built in 2020, has an interior space of 3,470 square feet. The property features five bedrooms, five bathrooms, and a garage as well as two parking spaces. The unit sits on a 5,938-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently been purchased close by include:In September 2022, a 1,502-square-foot home on Via San Gabriel in Fremont sold for $2,118,000, a price per square foot of $1,410. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 2,082-square-foot home on the 41900 block of Via San Carlos in Fremont sold in September 2022, for $2,500,000, a price per square foot of $1,201. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Camino Santa Barbara, Fremont, in October 2022, a 1,750-square-foot home was sold for $2,148,000, a price per square foot of $1,227. The home...

Bridge: July 4, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

“I heard you’re writing about choosing from more than one finesse,” Unlucky Louie said to me.I nodded.“Well, it doesn’t matter when I’m declarer,” Louie growled. “None of my finesses work, so which one I try first is moot.”Louie was declarer at today’s four spades in a penny game, and West led the queen of clubs and then the jack. Louie ruffed the third club, took the ace of trumps, led a heart to the ace — dummy’s only entry — and returned a trump to finesse with his jack.DOWN THREE“Of course, West had the queen,” Louie said. “I ruffed his heart return and drew trumps, spending all my trumps. I next took the A-K of diamonds. When the queen didn’t fall, I went down three.”Declarer has options. Maybe his best chance is to let the ten of diamonds ride at Trick Six. If that finesse wins, he is a favorite however he continues. If West has the queen of diamonds, South ruffs the hea...

Word Game: July 4, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:29 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — CODDLING (CODDLING: KOD-ling: Treating indulgently; babying.)Average mark 20 wordsTime limit 30 minutesCan you find 26 or more words in CODDLING? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — LEGITIMIZE liege lime limit lite elite emit gilt gimlet glee glitz item itemize teem tile time meet melt mete mile mite zitiTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at [email protected].