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Jon Stewart for Celebrity President. This Is Not a Joke!

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on June 17, 2019.Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty ImagesShould liberals — i.e., America’s jambalaya of FDR-heads, radicals in name only, organizers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and even normcore Democrats — try to get Jon Stewart to run for president?An affirmative response comes from Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and former director of Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media. Stewart rose to stardom as host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, and after stepping down in 2015, he returned to TV in 2021 in “The Problem With Jon Stewart” (which Apple TV recently canceled). Cohen makes the case here, in a column, and here, in an interview with Salon.Whether or not Stewart will run for president, Cohen convincingly explains why he should. His arguments about this apply beyond the specifics of Stewart and suggest that what Democrats truly need is more funny c...

Few wet flakes possible but no accumulation for DC region Wednesday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

There’s been talk about snow for the D.C. region Tuesday night into Wednesday, but it never came to be.Instead, there will be a few rain showers early Wednesday morning with a mixture of a few wet snowflakes. 7News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Veronica Johnson said that the mix will come to an end around sunrise.“We are going to see skies clear we’re going to turn partly sunny” later on in the day “with temperatures pushing into the mid-40s,” she said.Those living in the immediate D.C. region will still have to bundle up as wind chills will be in the 30s throughout most of the day. It’ll be worse in the evening as temperatures could reach the low 30s.7News First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff said that “areas of frost are possible.”Temperatures will improve over the next few days, starting with mostly cloudy conditions reaching the upper 40s on Thursday. Friday will have partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the mi...

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.“Negotiations, as are often the case, are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual states in some areas,” German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said, “but there is a will to make progress.”Proponents who are calling for a ground-shifting phase-out of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal have hope for the first time in years, but also see where it could be torpedoed. Key issues of financial help for poor nations to decarbonize and how to adapt to warming need much more work, officials said. That is in contrast to the first day when the conference — called COP28 — put into effect a climate compensation fund — called loss-and-damage — and started seeing its coffers grow to more than ...

Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city, further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and halting the distribution of vital aid across most of the territory.The assault on the south threatens f...

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y más

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

Para ver las entradas más recientes haz clic aquíTanques militares israelíes avanzan cerca de la frontera con Gaza el 5 de diciembre, en medio de continuas batallas entre Israel y el grupo militante Hamas. Crédito: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Serie de tiroteos en Texas dejan seis muertos; acusan al sospechoso de asesinato capital

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

Un hombre fue arrestado y acusado de asesinato capital luego de presuntamente perpetrar una serie de tiroteos el martes en San Antonio y en Austin, Texas, que dejaron al menos seis muertos.En los incidentes aislados, que se registraron en cinco zonas distintas, también resultaron heridos de bala dos oficiales de la policía y un ciclista. Robin Henderson, jefa interina del Departamento de Policía de Austin, confirmó que el sospechoso fue acusado de homicidio capital y fue detenido tras un intercambio de disparos con un oficial y de una persecución sobre las 7 p.m. La policía logró detenerlo después de que chocó su auto. La identidad del sospechoso y de las víctimas no han sido divulgadas. Tampoco está claro el motivo de los tiroteos. Masacre en Maine: tiroteos dejan al menos 18 muertos y hasta 13 heridos Serie de tiroteos nocturnos en Tennessee deja un muerto y 10 heridos, según la policía CRONOLOGÍA DE LOS TIROTEOSLa policía de ...

Stock market today: World shares advance as weak US jobs data back hopes for an end to rate hikes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — World shares advanced on Wednesday after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 16,542.15 and the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.2% to 7,397.84. In London, the FTSE 100 was up 0.4% at 7,521.99. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.1%. In Asian trading, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.8% to 16,573.00, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.1% lower, to 2,968.93. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 2% to 33,445.90 after a top central bank official reiterated the Bank of Japan’s determination to maintain its easy credit policy until it achieves a stable level of inflation. In Seoul, the Kospi was up less than 0.1%, at 2,495.38. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 1.7% to 7,178.40. India’s Sensex gained 0.5% and the SET in Bangkok advanced 0.3%. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged 0.1% lower for its first back-to...

A survivor is pulled out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after being trapped. Dozens remain missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday.The 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, according to a statement by Zambia’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. He told rescuers he had been struggling for five days to find a way out of one of the collapsed tunnels at the open-pit copper mine near the city of Chingola, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital, Lusaka, the statement said.A body was also recovered a few hours after the miner’s rescue but was yet to be identified, it added.The man was taken to the hospital, rescuers said. They gave no details on his medical condition but said he was able to talk to officials from his hospital bed.The body was the first to be retrieved following the disaster last week. More than 30 miners may still be trapped under the rubble and debris in three separate tun...

Chinese comedians living abroad are winning fans. But some topics are off limits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist.Even his name is politically sensitive, the Melbourne-based amateur comedian tells audiences, setting up a joke about a group chat on the Chinese messaging service WeChat being shut down as soon as he joined it. The 33-year-old civil engineer gets nervous laughs whenever he breaks a de facto rule of Chinese comedy: Don’t say anything that makes China look bad. To most comedians, that means no jokes about censorship, no mentioning the president’s name, and no discussion of China’s extraordinarily strict COVID lockdowns or social topics like domestic violence.“It is a pity, if the environment were open, there would be somebody world-class coming up,” Xi said.Mandarin-language standup comedy is growing, and not just in China. The medium has taken off in the last decade, and China’s expatriate population has...

Nepal arrests 10 on suspicion of recruiting locals for Russian army

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:43:09 GMT

Police in Nepal have arrested 10 people for allegedly scamming unemployed young men into joining the Russian army.The suspects charged people up to $9,000 for “tourist visas” and sent them to Russia through third countries, mainly the United Arab Emirates, Kathmandu District Police chief Bhupendra Khatri told Reuters. They were then recruited to the Russian army, the official said, adding that it amounted to human trafficking.Nepalese authorities had earlier asked Russia not to recruit its citizens to fight in Ukraine, as at least six Nepalis have already been killed, Kathmandu Post reported this week.On Monday, Ukrainian military reporter Andriy Tsaplienko published a video of five Russian prisoners of war captured by the Ukrainian army, taken in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. In the video, all of them identify themselves and say they are all serving in the Russian 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment. While three are from Dagestan and other parts of Russia, one prisoner says he is fro...