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Walters: Newsom, Legislature deciding budget without good numbers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are flying blind as they attempt to fashion a new state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.They know the state faces a multi-billion-dollar deficit that the budget will attempt to close — at least on paper — but they really don’t know how big it could be because they don’t really know how much revenue the state’s tax system will generate.Not only have revenues stagnated over the last year, thanks to gyrations in the stock market and the larger economy, but the unprecedented six-month delay in the deadline for filing federal and state income tax returns creates even more uncertainty about how much money politicians have to spend.Newsom picked a number — a guess, really — and declared in May that the state has a $31.5 billion deficit to close. The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, then declared that revenues would fall short of Newsom’s assumption and raised the projected deficit by several billion do...

El papa Francisco recibirá el alta hospitalaria este viernes, según el Vaticano

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

(CNN) — El papa Francisco recibirá el alta hospitalaria este viernes por la mañana, según informó este jueves el Vaticano en un comunicado.La recuperación avanzaba con normalidad y sin complicaciones, informó este miércoles el director de la Oficina de Prensa del Vaticano, Matteo Bruni.“El santo padre ha descansado bien durante la noche. El personal médico informa que el curso clínico se está desarrollando con regularidad, sin complicaciones, y por lo tanto están planeando su alta para los próximos días”, dijo Bruni en un comunicado.“Durante la mañana, el santo padre se dedicó a trabajar”, dijo también Bruni.El papa Francisco reza el Ángelus desde el hospital donde está internadoEl papa Francisco reza el Ángelus desde un hospital 2:12Técnicamente llamada laparotomía, la intervención a la que sometió al papa Francisco requiere anestesia general y está destinada a reparar una hernia. Según fuentes médicas, es probable que la intervención esté relacionada ...

Jude Bellingham given Zidane’s No. 5 after completing move to Real Madrid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Holding up the same No. 5 shirt once donned by Zinedine Zidane, Jude Bellingham completed his move to Real Madrid on Thursday after signing a six-year deal with Europe’s most successful club.Bellingham posed with his new shirt before Madrid’s packed trophy case after he passed his medical exam and signed the contract alongside club president Florentino Pérez.“I have said in many interviews how much I admire Zinedene Zidane,” Bellingham said about his new No. 5 after having worn 22 with his former clubs. “I am not trying to be the same as him, I am just trying to be Jude, but it is definitely a bit of a homage to how great he was.”Despite reportedly being a transfer target for several top European clubs, including Manchester City and Manchester United, Bellingham opted to move to the Spanish club that has won the European Cup a record 14 times.Pérez called Bellingham one of the “best players in the world” and underscored that while he had other clubs after h...

Two-time Academy Award-winning British actress Glenda Jackson dies at 87

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Two-time Academy Award-winning British actress Glenda Jackson dies at 87.Source

Médicos en Sri Lanka eliminaron el cálculo renal más grande del mundo, del tamaño de una toronja

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

(CNN) — El cálculo renal más grande del mundo fue extraído de un paciente en Sri Lanka, y es del tamaño de una toronja, tan largo como un plátano y tan pesado como cuatro hámsters.Con 13,4 centímetros de largo y un peso de 801 gramos, el cálculo renal rompió dos récords mundiales cuando los médicos del ejército de Sri Lanka lo extrajeron el 1 de junio.Anteriormente, los récords eran de 13 centímetros de largo, establecidos en India en 2004, y de 620 gramos de peso, establecido en Pakistán en 2008, según Guinness World Records.Así fue como un suplemento de vitamina D, que es cada vez más popular, llevó a un hombre al hospitalEl cálculo renal más grande del mundo en exhibición en Sri Lanka. (Crédito: Ejército de Sri Lanka)Guinness World Records confirmó que ambos récords fueron superados por la piedra extraída del paciente de Sri Lanka, en una operación efectuada en el Colombo Army Hospital.Los cálculos renales consisten en piezas sólidas de material que se cristalizan en el riñ...

Live updates: Nuggets championship parade day in Denver

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The City of Denver will be filled with Nuggets fans Thursday for a celebration of the team's first-ever NBA championship. A parade will run through downtown, leading to a rally at Civic Center Park.Events kick off with a 9 a.m. pre-rally. The parade begins at 10 a.m., running from Union Station to Civic Center Park. The rally will begin around noon, depending on the length of the parade, and is expected to last about an hour.Watch Live: Starting at 9 a.m.• Live stream will be in this story• On TV: watch FOX31 & Channel 2 (Channel Finder)There will be live coverage all morning long from Civic Center Park on FOX31 Morning News and Daybreak on 2.Live Updates

Loki, a 5-year-old Rottweiler, honored with “Dogtorate” from University of Maryland Baltimore

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The University of Maryland Baltimore shed light on the importance of service and therapy dogs in a special ceremony Tuesday.Among the honorees was one particular canine who has left a significant and lasting impact on the program.The University of Maryland Baltimore conferred “dogrees” to therapy and service dogs who have gone above and beyond their call of duty. This included one special K9, a five-year-old Rottweiler named Loki, who is now officially a “Dogtor.”Loki, trained as a service therapy dog, received her honorary ‘Dogtorate’ of Medicine from the University of Maryland Baltimore on Tuesday. Her handler, Dr. Caroline Benzel, was at her side throughout the ceremony.“The week that I got her was the same week that I was accepted to medical school. So I started putting her through service-dog level training but I knew I was going to try to make her a therapy dog for the hospital,” Benzel said.Whil...

Washington Post report shows Trump could have avoided federal indictment in Miami

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

A recent report by The Washington Post has uncovered that former President Donald Trump had the opportunity to negotiate a settlement with the Justice Department that could have prevented his federal indictment. However, Trump rejected the idea and disregarded the advice of his attorney Christopher Kise, who had proposed the settlement in the fall of 2022. The report details how Kise, one of Trump’s attorneys at the time, intended to quietly approach the Justice Department to negotiate a deal that would have precluded charges against the former president. Regrettably for Trump, he disregarded this proposal after consulting with other attorneys who dissuaded him from pursuing a settlement.On Tuesday, Donald Trump became the first former president in history to be arrested on federal charges and faced a federal judge. The indictment against him includes a staggering 37 counts, accusing the former president of mishandling highly sensitive documents. Trump is alleged to have taken...

Countries push back against US’s anti-China tech policy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

LONDON — Officials from the European Union, Malaysia and Singapore are skeptical about the United States’ efforts to cut China out of the global high-tech trading system, expressing reluctance to join Washington as it works to throttle the rapid expansion of the world’s second-largest economy into a global technology power.Speaking at POLITICO’s Global Tech Day on Thursday, David Koh, chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency, said his country had grown rich because of its open economy and would continue to build ties with China. Lucilla Sioli, a senior official within the European Commission’s DG CONNECT, added that Brussels would continue to work with Beijing, even as some European countries became increasingly wary of potential economic dependencies on China.“For Malaysia, China is an important trading partner,” added Fahmi Fadzil, Malaysia’s communications and digital minister, who was also speaking at the event in London. “Ma...

Russia plans elections in occupied Ukraine, even as counteroffensive builds

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:59 GMT

KYIV — As Ukraine’s counteroffensive ramps up, Russia announced plans to conduct local elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine, where active fighting is taking place.Elections in “the new subjects of the Russian Federation will be held on a single voting day on September 10, 2023,” the Russian Central Election Commission said in a statement Thursday.Russia calls territories it occupies in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson “the new subjects of the Russian Federation.” In last year’s sham referenda in the regions, according to Russia, the majority of Ukrainians voted in favor of joining Russia.  The U.N. and a majority of countries around the world condemned the referenda as illegitimate and undemocratic as they were conducted during the armed conflict and under occupation. Since then, the Kherson region has been liberated by the Ukrainian army.  The U.N. and a majority of countries around the world condemned the refere...