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Judge temporarily halts Kennedy Center closure and orders removal of Trump’s name from building

Judge temporarily halts Kennedy Center closure and orders removal of Trump’s name from building

Published by Sam Flores

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from closing the Kennedy Center for repairs and ordered the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the building and its website. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Friday that Trump’s handpicked board did not have the authority to rename the facility on its own. “The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” the judge wrote in his 94-page decision, issued on Kennedy’s birthday. “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” Trump blasted the ruling in a lengthy post on Truth Social and suggested that for now he was washing his hands of the institution he named himself chair of last year. “I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish …

Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Building

Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Building

Published by Sam Flores

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Russian drone launched against Ukraine hits apartment building in Romania

Russian drone launched against Ukraine hits apartment building in Romania

Published by Sam Flores

 A Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people, Romanian authorities said Friday. In response to the crash, NATO member Romania asked the alliance for a faster transfer of anti-drone capabilities, the Foreign Ministry said, calling the drone’s flight a serious violation of international law. Ukrainian forces shot down 217 drones overnight on Friday, according to the country’s air force. In total, Russia attacked with 232 drones and one ballistic missile. Hits were recorded in 14 areas, the air force said. To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again © France 24 The drone was tracked by radar in Romanian airspace and crashed onto the roof of a building in Galati, Romania’s Defence Ministry said in a statement. The impact was followed …

Three people killed, five injured in gas explosion at Dallas apartment building

Three people killed, five injured in gas explosion at Dallas apartment building

Published by Sam Flores

Three people were killed and at least five others were hospitalized when a gas explosion destroyed a Dallas apartment complex Thursday afternoon, city officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The blaze erupted just before 1 p.m. in the Oak Cliff neighborhood, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue and the Dallas Police Department. Dallas Fire-Rescue said that the incident was deemed a two-alarm fire when crews responded to a call about a gas leak but that it escalated into a five-alarm fire. “Our first responders, while they were en route to that gas leak, a subsequent explosion occurred,” Deputy Chief Mark D. Berry said at an evening news conference. Three bodies were found in the debris of the complex. They were identified as two females and one child, said Jason Evans, a Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesperson, in an evening update. Five others were hospitalized, he said. Three were transported to hospitals, one of whom is in critical but stable condition. The other two have been released or will …

Revel and Voltera are building a big EV charging network for robotaxis

Revel and Voltera are building a big EV charging network for robotaxis

Published by skeptic

Image: Voltera EV charging companies Voltera and Revel are joining forces to build what they say will be one of the biggest fast-charging platforms in the US, focused on fleets, ride-hail drivers, and robotaxis. Once the deal closes, the combined company will operate under the Voltera name and be led by current Revel CEO Frank Reig. The combined business is expected to include more than 1,000 charging stalls, either already operational or under development, across 11 major US metro areas. The companies say the focus will be on dense urban markets where commercial EV fleets, robotaxis, and ride-hail operators need reliable, fast charging. Advertisement – scroll for more content A ‘natural next step’ Revel is already well known for operating large public fast-charging hubs in New York City, while Voltera has focused on real estate development and EV charging infrastructure for fleets. The merger combines Revel’s operating experience with Voltera’s development pipeline and customer relationships. The companies say the goal is to build charging sites specifically designed for commercial operations. Incoming Voltera CEO Frank Reig …

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Published by Jenni Sidey

As partnerships go, Robert De Niro has been pretty lucky. For starters, there’s his legendary 50-year run with Martin Scorsese, a collaboration that began in the ‘70s with classics like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver and has continued on all the way to 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Then there are co-stars like Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel—both Scorsese company men who’ve shared the screen with him several times—and of course, Al Pacino, arguably De Niro’s only true peer, who burned through the screen with De Niro in Michael Mann’s Heat and Scorsese’s The Irishman. But sometimes lost in all that testosterone is one of De Niro’s longest-running collaborations—his 37-year partnership with the powerhouse producer Jane Rosenthal, who he founded Tribeca Productions with in 1989. With Rosenthal, De Niro entered a fruitful, often financially lucrative next chapter in his career in the ‘90s, starring in films like Wag the Dog, Analyze This, and the Meet the Parents movies. (Focker-in-Law, the hotly-anticipated fourth installment of the Meet the Parents franchise, co-starring Ben Stiller and Ariana …

Building on the pope’s great AI encyclical: What comes next

Building on the pope’s great AI encyclical: What comes next

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” is an extraordinary document. Its integration of artificial intelligence within the church’s prior commitments to human dignity, its prophetic call for collective structural responses to systematic problems, and its use of Catholic social teaching to draw attention to labor are essential and timely contributions to one of the most consequential debates of our time. I am so grateful for it and have been writing about it with something close to (for the Seinfeld fans out there) unbridled enthusiasm. But this is Purple Catholicism. Which means forthright engagement across political and ideological differences. And, in this context, it includes naming what remains to be done. But before naming some unfinished business, it is worth recalling how central integration of a fully Catholic moral vision across ideologies is to the church’s social tradition. In #51 of “Caritas in Veritate,” Pope Benedict XVI taught us that “the overall moral tenor of society” cannot be compartmentalized. When a society loses respect for human life at its most vulnerable (through things …