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Trio of female artists have their say about creating art in San Jose

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

Gensler, the architecture and design firm, hosted a panel for Women’s History Month on Thursday at its downtown San Jose office with three female artists who shared their perspectives about the city’s creative landscape.“I remember walking around downtown and there was nothing there, art-wise,” said artist Alyssa Wigant, who grew up in San Jose and has a day job as a product designer for a tech company. She has a vibrant rendition of the city’s dynamic brandmark in a mural on North Third Street and Santa Clara; she also created a mural at PayPal Park and has art reflecting her Filipina heritage on display at SAP Center.“That’s always been a dream of mine. I wanted to create a mural in my hometown.”Thursday’s panel was part of the Spark Collective, an initiative that started during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide locked-down designers a way to connect virtually with their peers. Joining Wigant were artists Elba Raquel and Erin Sa...

Jordan Poole is hitting his stride, joins Splash Brothers in the NBA record books

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Jordan Poole’s 30-foot 3-pointer in the second quarter of the Warriors’ win on Friday night against the San Antonio Spurs made history.With it, he, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson became the second trio of teammates to each make at least 200 3-pointers in a season. James Harden, Eric Gordon and Ryan Anderson are the only other trio in NBA history to do it during the 2016-17 Houston Rockets season.“It’s pretty special,” Poole said. “Especially being the second team in history to do it. Up there with really big company and we still have a couple games to go. Shoutout to those guys for raising the level of competition, not only in the game but in practice and being around these guys for the four years that I’ve been. I’ve learned a lot and it’s really special to be part of.”The Warriors have hit plenty of 3-point records over the last decade with the Splash Brothers duo at the forefront. Steph Curry holds t...

Bay Area’s empty-storefronts plague: Blight goes far beyond downtowns

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

Welcome to Mountain View: Look at some blight.Enter this Bay Area city, home to Google and dining hotspot Castro Street, via El Camino Real from the south and the first thing you see is a shuttered muffler shop with boarded up and papered over windows, sharing a crumbling parking lot with a defunct used-car dealership.Mountain View — median family income $158,000 — is far from alone. Around the Bay Area, vacant eyesores gape.Welcome to San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Fremont, Oakland and many other Bay Area cities: They’ve got blight, too.Struggling downtowns in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco receive plenty of public attention, but cities around the region are facing a confluence of troubles outside their cores that are replacing formerly vibrant shopping districts with decaying, empty storefronts. That restaurants and brick-and-mortar retailers — already teetering from the rise of online shopping — have been devastated b...

Chaplains made part of Ukraine’s military as war drags on

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — To the haunting chants of a church choir in Kyiv’s 11th century Saint Sophia Cathedral, the first group of chaplains to join the Ukrainian military’s command structure graduated in a ceremony Saturday.Although chaplains have ministered to Ukraine’s armed forces for years, they worked as embedded civilians rather than as officers. Now, they will sign contracts to serve in those armed forces, undergo a six-week training program and get inducted.The first group of military chaplains to fall under this new system began training Feb. 20. In their new assignments, they won’t use weapons but are expected to know general military concepts and tactical medicine, Ukrainian authorities said.“We had intense psychological training, military training,” Gennadiy Rohmanenko, who was among the graduates who received the rank of junior lieutenant, said. “It means that we can put together church duty and military duty. The motto of chaplains is ‘Being there,’ God...

After Nashville, Congress confronts limits of new gun law

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine months ago, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bipartisan gun law, the most significant legislative response to gun violence in decades.“Lives will be saved,” he said at the White House.The law has already prevented some potentially dangerous people from owning guns. Yet since that signing last summer, the tally of mass shootings in the United States has only grown. Five dead at a nightclub in Colorado. Eleven killed at a dance hall in California. And just this past week, three 9-year-olds and three adults were shot and killed at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.A day after that school shooting, Biden’s tone was markedly less optimistic than it was the signing ceremony.“What in God’s name are we doing?” he asked in a speech Tuesday, calling for a ban on so-called assault weapons like those that were used to kill at The Covenant School in Nashville. “There’s a moral price to pay for inaction.”Biden and others had hailed last year’s bipartis...

Man City routs Liverpool 4-1 without injured Haaland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — No Erling Haaland, no problem for Manchester City.Even without the Premier League’s leading scorer, Pep Guardiola’s team came from behind to rout Liverpool 4-1 on Saturday and stay in pursuit of first-place Arsenal.Haaland, who has scored 42 goals in all competitions this season, was ruled out of the game at Etihad Stadium after failing to recover from a groin injury.But even after falling behind to a 20th-minute strike from Mohamed Salah, City powered back with goals from Julian Alvarez, Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Jack Grealish to keep the pressure on Arsenal and deliver another blow to Liverpool’s Champions League qualification hopes.The game represented one of the biggest remaining tests in City’s league campaign. Defeat would have given Arsenal the chance to extend its lead at the top to 11 points.And that looked like a real possibility when Liverpool scored against the run of play early on, with Diogo Jota bursting past City...

Muere Rubén Cherres, pieza clave dentro de investigaciones por narcotráfico y tráfico de cargos públicos en Ecuador

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

(CNN Español) — Rubén Cherres Faggioni fue encontrado muerto en la localidad de Punta Blanca, provincia de Santa Elena, informó la Policía de Ecuador este viernes. Cherres se encontraba prófugo de la justicia desde principios de año.En el lugar, una casa ubicada a dos horas de Guayaquil, fueron hallados otros tres cuerpos. La Policía informó que inició las investigaciones sobre estas cuatro muertes que, dice, ocurrieron en un evento violento.El ministro del Interior, Juan Zapata, indicó que la Policía desplegó acciones técnicas y operativas para dar con los responsables y las causas del hecho.Rubén Cherres era buscado por la Policía para que respondiera en una investigación que emprendió la Fiscalía en enero denominada “Caso Encuentro”, sobre la existencia de una presunta estructura criminal para el nombramiento de cargos y contratos públicos a cambio de dinero en empresas estatales. Además, la Fiscalía pidió en febrero que se reabriera una investigación por supuestos vínculos...

Dentro del largo y sinuoso camino hacia la histórica acusación contra Trump

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

(CNN) — El jurado investigador de Nueva York que escuchó el caso contra Donald Trump estuvo a punto de interrumpirse durante varias semanas. Los abogados del expresidente creían este miércoles por la tarde que tenían al menos un pequeño respiro de una posible acusación. Trump elogió la demora percibida.El fiscal de distrito de Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, tenía otros planes.Este jueves por la tarde, Bragg le pidió al jurado investigador que emitiera una acusación histórica contra Trump, la primera vez que se acusa a un presidente actual o anterior de Estados Unidos. El movimiento sorpresa fue el giro final en una investigación que tomó un camino largo y tortuoso hasta los cargos históricos que se devolvieron esta semana.Se había anticipado una acusación a principios de la semana pasada, incluso por parte del propio Trump, quien promovió la teoría de que sería “arrestado”, mientras las agencias policiales se preparaban para la logística de procesar a un expresidente. Per...

Maryland man accused of killing woman in 2014 to be extradited from El Salvador

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

A Maryland man hiding out in El Salvador was charged with murder Thursday for shooting and killing a woman in D.C. nearly a decade ago, according to authorities.D.C. police said that Marvin Wilfredo Lopez-Cabrera, 43, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was charged with first degree murder while armed in connection to the 2014 killing of 27-year-old Evelyn Yamalith Arroyo.More Local News More DC NewsLopez-Cabrera was extradited on an arrest warrant by the U.S. Marshals Service from El Salvador to D.C. on Thursday.On the evening of Dec. 24, 2014, officers arrived on the scene of the 3900 block of 14th Street NW where they discovered Arroyo suffering from gunshot wounds. She was transported to a hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries and died.Source

Lost in translation: Washington and Brussels face pushback on effort to patch trade rift

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:51 GMT

The United States and European Union are racing to settle their dispute over tax credits for electric vehicles, but their attempted fix is creating new problems for each of them back home.Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic complain leaders are circumventing the standard approval process for free trade agreements in their attempt to heal the rift. The potential deal between the Biden administration and the EU would qualify European automakers for some of the taxpayer subsidies embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act, the $369 billion climate and tax legislation that the U.S. Congress passed last year.Those negotiations will set a precedent, the lawmakers worry, that could cut Congress and the EU’s member countries out of decisions that carry major political and economic consequences. In the U.S., lawmakers said this week they are weighing action to reclaim their authority.“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again so there is no confusion: Congress will not, under any circumstan...