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Border Protection dealing with huge influx of flowers at LAX

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists are working overtime to ensure that imported flowers arrive on time for Mother’s Day, but they must be free of pests and diseases first. According to industry statistics, around 80% of cut flowers sold in the United States are imported from across the world. CBP says that the weeks that lead up to Mother’s Day are some of the busiest of the year, when millions of cut flower shipments arrive from Ecuador, Colombia, the Netherlands, Thailand and Australia. “It is critically important not only to consumers, but to the vitality of the U.S. economy that cut flower imports are carefully inspected by CBP agriculture specialists,” said Carlos Martel, the CBP Director of Field Operations in Los Angeles. “Some of these flowers may carry hitchhiking pests and diseases that could cause millions of dollars in damage to the U.S. agriculture sector.” U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at L...

Larry Magid: Google unveils new devices while focusing on AI

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

As I entered Shoreline Amphitheater on Wednesday, I thought I was attending Google IO – the company’s annual developers conference. But after listening to CEO Sundar Pichai and several other Google executives speak about new products and services, the event felt like it should be renamed Google AI.Related ArticlesBusiness | Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing Business | The caller said he’d kidnapped my wife. Here’s what I did wrong then. Business | Magid: Teens can now use Meta Horizon Worlds Business | Magid: I asked ChatGPT to help me write an AI safety guide Indeed, the first 75 minutes of the two-hour event was focused on how artificial intelligence and specifically generative AI (GAI), is not only the main ingredient of Google Bard, the company’s new conversational, AI chat service, but soon integrated into all its services including search, photos, maps and Google docs....

Lakers coach responds to comments by Warriors’ Kerr on flops, gamesmanship

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO – One day after Warriors coach Steve Kerr bemoaned what he felt were glaringly obvious flops by Los Angeles Lakers players trying to draw charges, his counterpart, Darvin Ham, claimed the high road, saying he didn’t want to get into a back-and-forth regarding any contentious calls by NBA officials.Kerr said Tuesday there “was definitely some gamesmanship” by the Lakers during Monday’s Game 4, particularly late in the fourth quarter when Draymond Green was called for a foul as he attempted to set a screen on guard Lonnie Walker IV, who tumbled to the floor upon contact.Kerr said Tuesday that it was “a blatant flop. (Walker) just takes a dive and the ref bought it.”Asked about Kerr’s comment prior to Game 5 on Wednesday at Chase Center, Ham stayed above the fray.“I just control what I can control. That’s coaching my team,” Ham said. “I don’t go down the rabbit hole, pointing fingers, blaming the official. I never did when I was an assistant coach and I don’t ...

Dutch suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance will be sent from Peru to US to face fraud charges

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Peru’s government issued an executive order Wednesday allowing the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.The Peruvian Embassy in Washington told The Associated Press the order allows for the temporary extradition of Dutchman Joran van der Sloot to be prosecuted for alleged extortion and wire fraud, charges stemming from the Holloway case. Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed against Van der Sloot in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.Prosecutors in the U.S. allege Van der Sloot accepted $25,000 in cash from Holloway’s family in exchange for a promise to lead them to her body in early 2010, just before he went to Peru. Holloway was from Mountain Brook, Alabama.Van der Sloot is serving 28 years in prison in Peru for being convicted of murdering 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores after meeting...

Viuda del fiscal paraguayo Marcelo Pecci reclama verdad sobre los hechos

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

(CNN Español) — La periodista paraguaya Claudia Aguilera, viuda del fiscal de la Unidad Especializada de Lucha contra el Narcotráfico Marcelo Pecci, asesinado en Colombia hace un año, aseguró este miércoles que le toca exigir la verdad sobre los hechos y condenas duras para los atacantes.“Pido también una verdadera lucha contra el narcotráfico y contra el crimen organizado. Sin embargo, no quedo conforme, pues Marcelo Pecci merece mayor justicia. Mi familia quedó amputada porque mi esposo, el papá de mi hijo, hacía bien su trabajo. No deseo que esto sea un desaliento, sino un verdadero compromiso”.Condenan en Colombia a dos hermanos por su participación en el crimen Marcelo Pecci, fiscal de ParaguayAguilera hizo sus primeras declaraciones en persona desde el atentado que acabó con la vida de su esposo en un acto en el que fue presentado el avión que hizo el vuelo inaugural de la extinta Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas (LAP), y que fue restaurado gracias a un proyecto que impuls...

Las mujeres deberían realizarse mamografías desde los 40 años, en lugar de los 50, para detectar cáncer de mama, dice recomendación

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

(CNN) — Todas las mujeres con un riesgo promedio de sufrir cáncer de seno deberían empezar a realizarse mamografías desde los 40 años para reducir el riesgo de morir por esta enfermedad, plantea un nuevo borrador de recomendación del Grupo de Trabajo de Servicios Preventivos de Estados Unidos.La propuesta es una actualización de la recomendación emitida en 2016, en la que el grupo de trabajo indicó que las mamografías bienales, que son radiografías de los senos, comiencen a los 50 años y que la decisión de que las mujeres se realicen mamografías a los 40 años “debe ser individual.”Algunos grupos, como la Asociación Estadounidense Contra el Cáncer, ya recomiendan que las mujeres empiecen a hacerse mamografías a partir de los 40 años.“Nuestra nueva recomendación es que las mujeres empiecen a someterse a pruebas de detección del cáncer de mama mediante mamografía a los 40 años y que lo hagan cada dos años hasta los 74”, declaró la vicepresidenta del USPSTF, la D...

Estados Unidos implementará un nuevo programa de seguimiento a familias migrantes, ahora que expira el Título 42: ¿de qué se trata?

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

(CNN) — El Gobierno de Biden implementará un nuevo programa de seguimiento para las familias migrantes puestas en libertad en Estados Unidos, con el objetivo de rastrearlas mientras enfrentan un proceso de deportación rápida, según múltiples fuentes familiarizadas con los planes. De acuerdo a estas personas, el proyecto incluye una medida que requeriría que permanezcan bajo confinamiento domiciliario.Biden tomará medidas sin precedentes en la frontera, pero aún preocupa el fin del Título 42La llamada Administración de Deportación Acelerada Familiar (FERM, por sus siglas en inglés) ubicará a ciertas cabezas de familia en condiciones alternas a la detención, como un monitor GPS en el tobillo, y les impondrá un toque de queda en cuatro ciudades, confirmó el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) en un comunicado.Los Angeles Times fue el primer medio en reportar sobre el programa.Las familias igual tendrán la oportunidad de solicitar asilo baj...

Brazil to launch national investigation into soccer match-fixing

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil will launch a national investigation into soccer match-fixing and the probe could have “international repercussions,” Justice Minister Flavio Dino said Wednesday. Dino’s announcement follows a request from the Brazilian country’s soccer confederation amid a sprawling state investigation that led local clubs and Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids to suspend several footballers from its activities.The probe of the state of Goias initially targeted matches from last season in Brazil’s top flight, but has expanded into second-division matches. Prosecutors said some of the athletes were paid between 50,000 and 100,000 Brazilian reals ($10,000 to $20,000) to get booked or give penalties to their rivals.Brazil’s justice minister said on Twitter that the country’s federal police will open a probe “due to the evidence of match-fixing in sports events, with inter-state and international repercussions.”After Dino’s announcement, ML...

Orioles edge Tampa Bay 2-1, take 2 of 3 in series with MLB-best Rays

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Dean Kremer pitched six scoreless innings and the Baltimore Orioles edged the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Wednesday night.The Orioles took two of three in a series between the top two teams in the American League. They trail Tampa Bay by 4 1/2 games in the AL East.Kremer (4-1) allowed four hits and the Orioles broke through for two runs in the sixth. After allowing a walk and a double, Yonny Chirinos (1-1) committed a pitch clock violation with the count 3-1 on Ryan Mountcastle. That walk loaded the bases with nobody out.Adam Frazier grounded into a forceout to score the game’s first run, and Austin Hays followed with an RBI single.Baltimore closer Félix Bautista threw 29 pitches in Tuesday night’s win, but the Orioles were able to finish this game without him. Austin Voth got four outs before allowing Wander Franco’s RBI single in the eighth. Danny Coulombe then struck out pinch-hitter Randy Arozarena and Harold Ramírez.Yennier Cano pitched a perfect ni...

Severe weather threat ends in Denver area for Wednesday

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:05:48 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Severe weather hit the Denver area Wednesday afternoon and evening on a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day, spawning tornadoes and dropping hail across the front range and Eastern Plains. Watch: Tornado touches down near Brush during live newscast Photos: Severe weather, hail across Colorado List: Largest hail reports from Wednesday The Pinpoint Weather team and FOX31 had crews across the area and provided live updates in this blog, and with live non-stop coverage on TV. Below is the archive of live coverage from the day.Archived live updates