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Today in History: May 31, the Johnstown Flood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 31, the 151st day of 2023. There are 214 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town. On this date: In 1790, President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright act. In 1859, the Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation, chiming for the first time. In 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent Black district of Greenwood over reports a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; hundreds are believed to have died. In 1949, former State Department official and accused spy Alger Hiss went on trial in New York, charged with perjury (the jury deadlocked, but Hiss was convicted in a second trial).In 1962, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel a few minutes before mid...

Connecticut visits Minnesota following Hayes’ 22-point game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

Connecticut Sun (4-1, 4-1 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (0-4, 0-3 Western Conference)Minneapolis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Connecticut takes on the Minnesota Lynx after Tiffany Hayes scored 22 points in the Sun’s 81-78 win against the Indiana Fever.Minnesota finished 7-11 at home last season while going 14-22 overall. The Lynx averaged 13.1 points off of turnovers, 11.6 second chance points and 26.8 bench points last season.Connecticut finished 25-11 overall with a 12-6 record on the road last season. The Sun averaged 85.8 points per game last season, 15.7 from the free throw line and 19.2 from deep.INJURIES: Lynx: Natalie Achonwa: out (personal).Sun: None listed.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

UN court issuing appeal ruling in long-running trial of 2 Serbs accused of crimes in Balkan wars

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

FILE - Jovica Stanisic, facing camera, appears in court for his retrial at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, on June 13, 2017. The appeals decision on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. (Michael Kooren/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - Jovica Stanisic, facing camera, appears in court for his retrial at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, on June 13, 2017. The appeals decision on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals...

La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprueba un proyecto de ley que limitaría el reconocimiento de las tierras ancestrales indígenas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

(CNN) — La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprobó un proyecto de ley que limitaría el reconocimiento de las tierras ancestrales indígenas, con 283 votos a favor, 155 en contra y una abstención.La ministra de Pueblos Indígenas, Sônia Guajajara, calificó la votación de “grave atentado contra los pueblos indígenas y el medio ambiente”.“El PL490 ha sido aprobado por la Cámara: un grave ataque a los pueblos indígenas y al medio ambiente. Seguimos luchando por la vida. Aún en el Senado, dialogaremos para evitar que se negocie nuestra vida a cambio de lucro y destrucción. ¡No nos rendiremos!”, tuiteó Guajajara a última hora de este martes.Las invasiones y la explotación ilegal de tierras indígenas en Brasil se triplicaron bajo el Gobierno de BolsonaroEl proyecto de ley, conocido como PL 490/2007, despoja a los ministerios de Medio Ambiente y de Pueblos Indígenas de algunas competencias, debilitando su supervisión de las protecciones medioambientales y la demarca...

Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent US forces working with Australia’s SAS

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent US forces working with Australia’s SAS.Source

Netherlands fears Chinese cyberattacks amid chips battle

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

The Netherlands is concerned about Chinese cyberattacks, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said, weeks after The Hague introduced export restrictions on advanced microchips technology to China.“Domestic interference, but also […] cyberattacks stemming from Chinese soil, is something about which we are increasingly worried,” Hoekstra told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.Hoekstra’s concerns echo reports from the Dutch intelligence services, which label countries with “cyberattack programs” including China as posing a “massive threat.”The Netherlands is home to ASML, a keystone for global chips production and the only company outside the U.S. and Japan that is able to produce the printers needed to manufacture advanced semiconductors. The firm has faced intellectual property theft incidents linked to China in the past. In February it said a China-based former employee stole data about its machinery, and in 2019 it revealed it had been the victim of ...

Brad Treliving leading candidate to be next Maple Leafs GM

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

Brad Treliving is the leading candidate to be the next general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports.“Until I’m given any reason to believe otherwise, I’m leaning more and more towards him. But it’s not set 100 per cent, not confirmed,” Friedman said in an interview on NHL Network on Tuesday.The former Calgary Flames GM would replace Kyle Dubas, who was let go by the Leafs on May 19 after five years at the helm. Toronto was ousted in five games in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Florida Panthers – following losses in the first round of the post-season in Dubas’ first four years in charge.The Flames and Treliving mutually agreed to part ways in April after the team missed the playoffs.Treliving was hired as Flames’ GM in April 2014.The Leafs have had plenty of off-ice drama since being eliminated. Four days before Dubas was fired, he said during a press conference he wasn’t sure he wanted to return to the Leafs as GM...

Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon kills 5 Palestinian fighters, wounds 10

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli airstrike targeting positions of a Syria-backed Palestinian group in eastern Lebanon early Wednesday killed five Palestinian militants and wounded 10 others, an official with the group said.Anwar Raja of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said the Israeli strike hit positions in the Lebanese eastern town of Qusaya near the border with Syria. He said two of the wounded are in critical condition.The PFLP-GC has positions along the Lebanon-Syria border as well as military presence in both countries. The group had carried out attacks against Israel in the past. The Associated Press

In The News for May 31 : How did Canada’s economy fare in March?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 31 …What we are watching in Canada …Statistics Canada is set to release today its latest reading on how the economy fared in March, as well as for the first quarter of the year.The federal agency’s preliminary estimate suggested real gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of 2.5 per cent during the first three months of 2023.However, after posting slight growth in February, Statistics Canada’s initial estimate released last month suggested the economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in March. The GDP report comes ahead of the Bank of Canada’s interest rate decision next week. The central bank, which is focused on returning inflation to its two per cent target, paused its aggressive rate hiking cycle earlier this year.However, governor Tiff Macklem has signalled that the Bank of Canada i...

Germany arrests 7 alleged members of network that helped finance Islamic State

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:49:18 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Seven people were arrested in raids across Germany on Wednesday against alleged members of a network that helped finance the Islamic State extremist group’s activities in Syria, prosecutors said.The suspects — four women and three men, with German, Turkish, Moroccan and Kosovo citizenship — were arrested in five German states, while investigators searched 19 properties in Germany and one in the Netherlands, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The suspects are accused of supporting a foreign terrorist organization and, in some cases, of violating export laws.Prosecutors allege that the suspects were “financial intermediaries” in a network in which two supporters of IS in Syria had sought donations for the group via Telegram since 2020. They allegedly collected and helped transfer donations.The money was used to strengthen IS and in particular to improve supplies to members of the group held at two camps in northern Syria, prosecutors said. In some cases, they...