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Israel announces strikes on Gaza after truce expires, clear sign that war has resumed in full force

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday shortly after a weeklong truce expired, the military said, as the war resumed in full force.Airstrikes hit southern Gaza, including the community of Abassan east of the town of Khan Younis, the Interior Ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Another strike hit a home northwest of Gaza City.Live footage from the Gaza Strip showed black smoke billowing from the territory.The Israeli military’s announcement of the strikes came only 30 minutes after the cease-fire expired at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday.Earlier Friday, Israel accused Hamas of having violated the terms of the cease-fire, including by firing rockets toward Israel from Gaza.The halt in fighting began Nov. 24. It initially lasted for four days, and then was extended for several days with the help of Qatar and fellow mediator Egypt.During the week-long truce, Hamas and other militants in Gaza released more than 100 hostag...

1-year-old airlifted after falling from 2nd-floor apartment building in SW Miami-Dade

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Rescue crews airlifted a toddler to the hospital after a frightening fall in Southwest Miami-Dade.The 1 year-old fell from the second floor of an apartment building near Southwest 202nd Street and 120th Avenue, Thursday afternoon.The child was airlifted to the trauma center at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, As of Thursday night, the victim’s condition is unknown.

7Sports’ Donovan Campbell wins ‘best dressed’ honors at 2nd Rockstar Awards in Fort Lauderdale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Some of South Florida’s biggest stars, including a member of the 7News team, received high honors.The Second Annual South Florida Rockstar Awards took place in Fort Lauderdale, Wednesday night.7Sports reporter Donovan Campbell served as co-host and took home the award for Best Dressed Sports Media Personality. It’s easy to see why, as the reporter opted for a rocker look for the occasion.“How many times are you gonna see Donovan Campbell dressed with a blond wig?” he said. “Got on my denim jacket, full rocker style. You know how I do it.”Lifestyle Media Group awarded several other individuals and businesses for their contributions to the South Florida community.

Pilote, l’appli pour suivre les réformes qui a fait flop

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Insuffler les méthodes du privé dans la gestion de l’Etat : c’était l’objectif de Pilote, une application de pilotage des réformes voulues par Emmanuel Macron.L’idée de l’outil est de réduire chaque réforme prioritaire du gouvernement à deux ou trois indicateurs, et de suivre leur avancée sur un tableau de bord. Avec des indicateurs disponibles par département ou au niveau national, et pouvant être analysés depuis l’Elysée jusqu’aux préfectures, en passant par les ministères.Pilote a été conçue à partir de 2020 et sa mise en œuvre initiale a été confiée à Capgemini. Mais sa première version n’était pas complètement au point. Selon plusieurs témoignages, l’application accumulait les bugs et les défauts, tant et si bien qu’une nouvelle version vient de sortir, intégralement réalisée par l’administration, a appris POLITICO auprès de plusieurs utilisateurs.La direction interministérielle de la transformation publique (DITP) justifie le recours à un cabinet de conseil par le besoin ...

‘Silent Night’ a violent winner from John Woo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

The revenge thriller “Silent Night” marks the return of the great Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo (“Bullet in the Head,” “Hard Boiled,” “Face/Off”) to the U.S. in 20 years. Set in downtown Los Angeles, the dialogue-free film wastes no time in blasting off. We see Joel Kinnaman’s Brian Godluck, an electrical repairman, running down an alley chasing after gang members, whose four-wheeled shootout with another vehicle has taken the life of his young son with a stray bullet.Brian wears a blood-stained reindeer sweater with a bulging nose at his stomach. His face is a mirror of grief and vengeance. Instead of white doves, “Silent Night” gives us a single red balloon as a symbol of the soul that has been prematurely snatched at Christmastime. Brian catches up with the perpetrator (Harold Torres) and smashes his windshield only to be shot in the throat and deprived of his voice.The silence at the heart of “Silent Night” is only verbal. We hear everything else, especially the physical vi...

Antoni: Fed budget hikes take food off our tables

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Inflation has left millions of Americans with no good choices, even when it comes to necessities like what to eat. Despite chicken prices being at a record high, families are buying more than ever. Why? Because the alternatives are even worse: Staples like beef and pork have sadly become unaffordable for millions whose budgets have been ravaged by inflation.That’s why Americans on average are expected to consumer more than 100 pounds of chicken this year for the first time ever. Ironically, as inflation causes people’s spending habits to change, that can minimize official inflation numbers published by the government while also causing additional pain for lower-income earners.I recently testified on this topic before both a House and Senate subcommittee, explaining how inflation is a hidden tax that disproportionately falls on lower- and middle-income folks.As the price of relatively expensive options like beef rises, people can afford less of that and shoppers increasingly choose c...

Editorial: Military once again cash cow for overcharging contractors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Is the $600 taxpayer-funded toilet seat making a comeback?Not if Senator Elizabeth Warren has anything to say about it.She and fellow Democrat Rep. John Garamendi of California have ramped up campaigns to stem what they call widespread “price gouging” in contracts for military spare parts.The two members of their chamber’s Armed Services Committee made their case in a pair of letters obtained by CQ Roll Call.Warren has sounded alarms over price-gouging before, blaming greedy corporations for inflation to deflect from Washington’s runaway spending.But sometimes she’s right.Warren and Garamendi claim defense contractors are exploiting loopholes so the companies can regularly refuse to provide the Defense Department legally required data to document that their parts’ prices are fair and reasonable on contracts awarded without competition.We’ve been here before, of course.Back in 1985, Sen. William S. Cohen (R-Maine) charged that the Navy had been paying mo...

Bernstein biopic ‘Maestro’ more flat than sharp

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

As impressive as “Maestro” – Bradley Cooper’s biographical film about Lawrence-born Leonard Bernstein – is, it makes a common mistake of taking someone famous for artistic achievements and dwelling instead upon their not nearly as interesting personal life.Cooper’s film in which he plays the legendary Bernstein also leaves out, inexplicably, what could have been a fabulous sequence: the evening Bernstein and his actor-socialite wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) threw a soiree for members of the Black Panther Party, an event immortalized by Thomas Wolfe in his scathingly hilarious 1970 “New York” magazine article “Radical Chic.” The essay was devastating. Cooper should have found a way to get it in.Cooper’s film, produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg no less and co-written by Cooper and Oscar winner Josh Singer (“Spotlight”), makes no bones about Leonard “Lenny” Bernstein being gay. On the morning of the day he was called upon to make ...

Add ‘Candy Cane Lane’ to your Christmas faves list

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

While I don’t think Reginald Hudlin’s “Candy Cane Lane” is the next “It’s a Wonderful Life,” it is an amiable, inventive, fun-filled Christmas-themed effort featuring the great Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross. These two very big talents play Chris and Carol Carver, a married-with-children couple, who live on El Segundo’s Candy Cane Lane and engage in a competitive best Christmas display contest.Chris and Carol desperately want their older daughter Joy (Genneya Walton) to attend Chris’s alma mater USC. She wants to attend Notre Dame to get a bit farther away. Chris and Carol are not sure what to make of son and music buff Nick (Thaddeus J. Mixson) or his interest in the tuba.As his name suggests, Chris Carver has as usual completed several hand-carved decorations for his family’s front yard. He scoffs at Bruce (Ken Marino), his neighbor across the street who is partial to tacky, giant blow-up Christmas figures. In search of more decorations, Chr...

DeMaria: Project could unlock Everett’s potential

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:18:25 GMT

Everett is a community with tremendous potential.  Like many of my fellow residents, I have always known this about my beloved hometown.There is a beautiful view from my office in City Hall. There are amazing sunsets that highlight the skyline. This view also highlights the obvious distinctions between Everett’s skyline that is still dotted with 20th century industrial tank farms in stark comparison to the gleaming glass buildings that have risen from development opportunities available in other communities.I have been transparent for more than ten years in my advocacy to generate interest in new projects that will transform defunct, contaminated, blighted industrial eyesores that have served for too long as reminders about the historic limits on what others thought was possible in Everett.There is the potential to locate a professional soccer stadium along the Everett waterfront on the site of a power plant that is in the process of being fully decommissioned in 2024. It is a poten...