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Good Morning, News: President-Elect Trump Sentencing Nothingburgers, Oregon Firefighters Head to ...
by Suzette Smith If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. Good Morning, Portland: A deluge of cold rain…
Biden administration extends temporary status for more than 200,000 from El Salvador for 18 months
The Department of Homeland Security says more than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States can remain in the country another 18 months, marking one of the Biden administration's final acts on immigration policy.
What We’re Up Against: The Challenge of Fighting for Women’s Rights in 2025
As we enter 2025 at what seems to be a heyday of impunity for human rights abuses worldwide, autocratic leaders worldwide are taking note. In countries rich and poor, these leaders are flexing their muscles by curtailing our rights—to speak our minds, control…
Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Recruiting Workers for Less Pay Than Fast-Food Servers
A job listing for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show offers $12 per hour — part of a long pattern of host-city residents getting the short shrift. The post Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Recruiting Workers for Less Pay Than Fast-Food Servers appeared first on The …
Columbia County Federal With Charm-Filled Interior, Barn Asks $1.9 Million
In Columbia County, an extensive landscape of 67 acres ranges from secluded woods to rolling lawns and includes a 19th century brick main house filled with lovingly cared for period details and enough outbuildings to hold guests and a multitude of hobbies. W…
Sanitization Robots Market to Hit Valuation of US$ 6,937.14 Billion By 2033 | Semi-Autonomous Rob...
High-traffic medical settings, hotels, and corporate campuses increasingly deploy specialized disinfecting bots. Continuous AI-driven enhancements boost efficiency while durable hardware coatings ensure reliability. Growing multi-robot management and advanced…
Oil Disaster Averted After Sabotaged Tanker Is Salvaged
An oil tanker attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, raising fears of an environmental catastrophe, has been successfully salvaged, security firm Ambrey confirmed on Friday. The Sounion, laden with one million barrels of crude oil, posed a signific…Trump ramps up threats to gain control of Greenland and Panama Canal (Liberal fear mongering alert)
President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his desire for the US to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, calling both critical to American national security. Asked if he would rule out using military or economic force in order to take over the autonomous …VDH weighs in on the LA fires: “It's something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb
“It was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy, you put it all together and it's something like a DEI Green New Deal hydro…Justices meet to fill out 2024-25 docket
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. When the justices meet for their next regularly scheduled conference today, they will discuss…Show HN: Freeact – A Lightweight Library for Code-Action Based Agents
Hello! We just released freeact (https://github.com/gradion-ai/freeact), a lightweight agent library that empowers language models to act as autonomous agents through executable code actions.By enabling agents to express their actions directly in code rather …
Storytelling with data: Strategies to captivate your audience
Learn how to captivate your audience through storytelling with data – turn numbers into compelling narratives to boost engagement and trust. The post Storytelling with data: Strategies to captivate your audience appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Mana…
