FILE – Visitors pay their respects, Thursday, July 7, 2022, at altars for the seven people killed in the July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill. On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 The man accused of opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted by a grand jury on 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated assault, accounting for the seven deaths and dozens wounded....

Paramedics across Canada are struggling to respond to emergency calls and provide care due to staff shortages and overcrowded hospitals, with people calling 911 in many parts of Canada facing long delays, sometimes hours long, for ambulances – and further delays once they reach the hospitals. Pierre Poirier, head of Ottawa’s paramedic service, said “level zero” incidents — times when no medics are available to respond to calls — have increased at an alarming rate in recent months....

They can also do so now, even if their need for a passport is slightly less urgent, such as for those planning to leave the country within the next few weeks, rather than a few days. Until now, applicants in the queue could only request a transfer by visiting one of 35 specialized passport websites across Canada or by contacting the call centre. The new policy will apply to anyone who completed their application by post more than 20 working days ago, which allows enough time for it to be entered into the system and has proof of travel within 20 working days of requesting it....

Photovoltaikanlagen produzieren Strom oft dann, wenn er nicht verbraucht werden kann, sodass eine Einspeisung wirtschaftlich nicht attraktiv ist. Die Holzwelt Murau startet nun ein Pilotprojekt, bei dem überschüssige Solarenergie gespeichert wird. 30.07.2022 12.12 Ab heute, 12.12 Uhr online Zu viel Strom im Sommer, aber zu wenig im Winter: So lässt sich die Leistungsfähigkeit von Photovoltaikanlagen insbesondere im Raum Murau beschreiben – und hier setzt die Pilotanlage der Geschäftsstelle der Holzwelt Murau an....

Posté hier à 21h20. Léa Carrier La Presse “Chaque personne qui permet à ces personnes de reprendre leur place privilégiée sur la place publique est responsable de la peur atmosphérique et du message qu’elle véhicule : tu peux tout faire, ça va”, a écrit l’auteur-compositeur-interprète. Au pire, “vous ferez votre premier rôle au cinéma et vous prendrez ensuite deux ans pour vous concentrer sur votre sobriété”, poursuit-elle, faisant référence à Maripier Morin qui interprète Arlette dans le film du même nom réalisé par Mariloup Wolfe....

Castillo was traded to the Mariners for four Minor League prospects, including three who were ranked in the top five of Seattle’s organization at the time of the deal. “We liked the top-end players, also with some depth to the deal. I’d say we had 10-15 teams that were in at some level,” Krall said following a 6-2 Reds loss to the Orioles. “We tried to get the best players we could get back....

Mit „Summer Break“ startet Ubisoft heute in die dritte Staffel von Riders Republic, die ab sofort für Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Stadia und Windows PC erhältlich ist. Die neue Staffel bietet Ihnen Zugang zu kostenlosen neuen Inhalten sowie wöchentlichen Programmhighlights. Ebenfalls enthalten ist ein spezielles Wiederaufforstungs-Event, die Veröffentlichung von zwei neuen Spielen für den Showdown-Modus im In-Game-Store und ein Event zur Feier der Veröffentlichung von BMX. Diese Saison beginnt mit dem Rebirth Event, einem besonderen Event, das heute beginnt und bis zum 10....

While heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have raised months of doubt about future American-Russian space cooperation, the announcement by Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, came as a surprise. The two former Cold War adversaries signed a crew exchange agreement less than two weeks ago allowing U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to share flights on each other’s spacecraft to and from International Space Station (ISS) in the future....

While the nation’s largest grocery and drugstore chain sees “some softness” with its Joe Fresh apparel brand going forward, what it calls “general merchandise” or non-apparel sales have been “significantly down” in the most recent quarter. , said Galen Weston. “It definitely had an impact on our overall (comparable) sales results,” he told analysts during a conference call to discuss the grocery and drugstore chain’s second-quarter results. Several major US-based retailers have warned in recent months of unsold inventory as shoppers cut back spending amid rising costs....

When President Joe Biden entered the Oval Office last year, he expressed a commitment to work across the aisle with Republicans to craft legislation — something he has carried out throughout his 36-year career in the Senate. From last year’s bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package to the recent $52 billion chip funding bill, the administration has had some major successes in garnering support from Democrats and Republicans and breaking some of the bipartisan logjam that has become a very common form has blocked legislation in recent years....

Late Tuesday afternoon, officers from Toronto police’s 22 Division were called to a small private off-leash area on Summerland Terrace, near Dundas and Bloor streets, after receiving reports of someone “spreading chemicals on the grass.” Members of Toronto Police Service’s Explosive Disposal Unit were also in attendance and collected samples of the substance for testing. Toronto Animal Services was notified about the situation, which police are calling a “suspicious incident....

The FTSE 100 company made adjusted profits of $11.5bn (£9.5bn) in the second quarter of the year, beating its previous high – set between January and March – by 26%. Profits were more than double compared to the same period in 2021. The choppy trading for Shell, BP and other oil and gas majors has come at odds with households and much of the rest of the economy, which has had to contend with higher energy prices that have pushed inflation to 40-year highs....

Harley Finkelstein laid out Wednesday how his Ottawa software company is facing a reckoning after he predicted the amount of shopping being done by people online, rather than at retailers, would be permanently five or 10 years ahead of pre-pandemic predictions. and were hired to meet those expectations. “We couldn’t know for sure at the time, but we knew that if the prediction came true, we would have to rapidly scale the company to meet that future,” he said, on a call with analysts....

With Truss promising £30bn in direct tax cuts, Sunak has repeatedly highlighted the dangers of unfunded promises and insisted he has already taken steps to cushion the blow of a sharp rise in domestic energy bills expected in October. But as he continues to trail the foreign secretary in the Tory MP polls, and with ballots due within days, he announced a new leaflet, worth £160 to every household – despite previously condemning the policy....

Publié à 11h00 Karim Benessaieh La Presse On aime L’élément principal de l’Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball est une grosse boule rouge vitrée, qui s’encastre dans son socle, dans lequel un lecteur optique suit ses mouvements. Dès qu’on fait tourner la boule dans une direction avec le doigt, le curseur à l’écran suit. Cette « boule roulante » — ou « boule de commande », selon les traductions — fait en sorte qu’on ne déplace pas le poignet, le coude ou l’épaule....

Comment Text messages for former President Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a critical period before the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, according to four people briefed on the matter and internal email. This previously unreported discovery of missing files on senior national security officials adds to the volume of potential evidence that has disappeared about the time surrounding the attack on the Capitol....

This image, called Webb’s first deep field, captures a scene full of the oldest galaxies scientists have ever seen. Now, this pioneering image is celebrated through fashion. Since the grand unveiling of JWST’s first science-quality photos, astrophysicists have gained valuable insight into what some of the universe’s earliest stars and galaxies looked like. Instantly becoming a new favorite image for many around the world, the First Deep Field color infrared photograph freezes a moment in the early universe — specifically, the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723....

In a statement, the Fed said it was “particularly alert to inflationary risks.” “Recent spending and production indicators have softened. However, job gains have been strong in recent months and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated, reflecting pandemic-related supply and demand imbalances, higher food and energy prices, and broader price pressures,” the Fed said. The central bank added that Russia’s war against Ukraine is “causing enormous human and economic hardship” as well as “additional upward pressure on inflation” and weighing on global economic activity....

Research into black holes known as “active galactic nuclei” or AGNs, he says, definitively shows the need to revise the widely used “unified AGN model” that characterizes supermassive black holes as all having the same properties. The study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provides answers to a vexing space mystery and will allow researchers to create more accurate models of the evolution of the universe and how black holes grow....

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday that there should be no doubt that Russia is seeking to dismantle Ukraine “and to completely dismantle it from the world map”. Speaking to the UN Security Council, the ambassador said the US has seen signs that Russia is preparing to try to annex all of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia....