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[ad_1] Among Republican lawmakers's  list of demands in their debt-ceiling negotiations with the Biden Administration is a push to add more work requirements for the food-stamp, Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. One big problem, experts say, is that there's little evidence that such rules actually help people get back to work.  The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the formal name for the food-stamp program, already has work requirements for many recipients, which Republican lawmakers want to expand to cover more low-income and older Americans. But the existing rules haven't had much of an impact on getting people back to work, and adding more regulations risks bumping struggling families from the program's rolls, experts say. Work requirements "don't accomplish what they are supposed to accomplish, which is increasing employment and income," Shawn Fremstad, dir...

[ad_1] Biden agrees to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, citing ammunition shortage. AFP/File In a move that has drawn both praise and criticism, the United States has agreed to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of an $800 million security package.  These munitions, banned by over 100 countries, will play a significant role in Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces. The decision has ignited intense debate surrounding the use of these weapons due to their potential risk to civilians and long-term consequences. Defending the move, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan highlighted the importance of Ukraine's need for additional artillery ammunition to counter the advancing Russian troops. "There is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions," Sullivan stated.  The US government has obtained written assurances from Ukraine that the cluster munitions will be used responsibly and no...

[ad_1] Of the small number of women who have represented the United States on the international level, even fewer make up the USWNT's one-cap club.  Brad Smith/USSF/Getty Images The cross from Aly Wagner came in and the ball bounced once, twice and, just before it took a third hop, Caroline Putz tucked it into the near post. The goal was her first for the U.S. women's national team , scored just minutes into her international debut in a 4-1 win over Italy. After that goal, nothing. No second goal. No additional minutes. Not even another call-up. Her career with the USWNT was over before she knew it. Of the millions of soccer players around the world, few ever represent their country, and even fewer score. Putz, whose last name is now Leith, did both in the span of four minutes. With her one and only cap, she is also part of an even smaller group of soccer players: the one-cap club. As of three weeks before the 2023 Women's World Cup begins, 251 women have suited up fo...

[ad_1] Two facts loom over United Nations climate talks that begin Nov. 30 in Dubai: the planet is careening toward climate disaster , and governments are acting too slowly to avert the crisis. Diplomats from nearly 200 countries, and many heads of state and government, will gather to try to draft a plan to accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels because burning them is dangerously heating Earth. The two-week conference is convened annually by the United Nations. At last year’s summit in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, nations agreed to establish a fund to help poor, vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters made worse by the greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere by industrialized nations. But they made little progress in terms of cutting those emissions. A proposal to phase out fossil fuels was stymied by countries that produce and use gas, oil and coal. And Egypt, the host country, made deals on the sidelines of the summit to sell natural gas to Europe. Thi...

[ad_1] LONDON: Italy 's benchmark bond yield hit its lowest level in 15 months on Thursday as the bond market rally continued despite central bank officials' best attempts to rein in the exuberance. The Italian 10-year yield , which moves inversely to the price, fell 4 basis points (bps) to 3.566% on Thursday, the lowest since late August 2022. Meanwhile, Germany's 10-year bond yield, the benchmark for the euro zone as a whole, was last down 3 bps at 1.947%, its lowest in nine months. Yields have tumbled in November and December as inflation in the US and Europe has fallen sharply and central bankers have said interest rate hikes are almost certainly over. "It just seems like no one's been willing to stand in the way of this (rally) and you do wonder is that partly because it's year-end and no one really wants to get cut out," said Lyn Graham-Taylor, rates strategist at Rabobank. "It's always difficult at this time of year reading too mu...

[ad_1] UK researchers are developing peas that don't taste like peas as an environmentally friendly alternative to soya. [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/science-environment/peas-that-dont-taste-like-peas-could-help-the-planet/?feed_id=304632&_unique_id=665a1f94bd6be

[ad_1] Graham Smith said, King Charles and the government should be responding to Prince Andrew scandal and answering questions Anti-monarchy group asks King Charles to break silence on Prince Andrew scandal Anti-monarchy group Republic has urged King Charles to break silence after fresh allegations surfaced against his brother Prince Andrew. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Republic CEO Graham Smith shared BBC report titled: “Prince Andrew faces allegations from unsealed US court documents about Jeffrey Epstein.” Also Read: Omid Scobie responds to Meghan Markle's major critic over latest claims The report claims Prince Andrew is no longer a working royal and as such Buckingham Palace does not comment on his behalf. Reacting to it, Smith claimed, “He’s still part of the family and Charles helped pay off his accuser to the tune of £12m.” He further said, “As Republic has said earlier today, Charles and the government should be responding to the Andrew scandal and answerin...

[ad_1]  Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal addresses an event. — APP/File   BEIJING: Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal pointed that China’s growth will steer the global economy back on track. The minister made the remarks while commenting on the global inflation, which has become one of the leading concerns of the year for many. “If you look at Europe, the United States, or everywhere, the inflation rate is rising. Central banks resort to increasing the policy rates, but that slows down the economy,” the minister told China Economic Net during his recent visit to China. He also noted that Pakistan was currently facing an economic crisis for a number of reasons, and the government is trying to stabilise and revive the economy. However, China’s opening up offers a great opportunity for the whole world, because “China has so much consumer demand in its market,” he noted. The minister cited China’s Belt ...

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save The human eye alights on one thing at a time, a tendency that guides how artists have traditionally arranged their compositions. But in the mid-20th century, with a nudge from earlier works such as Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” series , abstractionists began to make paintings in which no gesture or area was more important than another. Four local artists apply such allover strategies to pictures that conjure the teeming, uncentered qualities of the natural world. Or at least that’s one way to see the work of Delna Dastur, Maggie Gourlay, Susan Stacks and Shanye Huang. Vestiges of human presence are not entirely missing from these artists’ work, as Dastur’s “Cross Pollination” demonstrates. The show at the Fred Schnider Gallery of Art includes some drawings but mostly collage-paintings whose bustling vitality evokes the metropolis where the artist grew up, now known as Mumbai. (In her statement, she calls it Bombay...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Leading bourse National Stock Exchange ( NSE ) on Tuesday raised the price band of four Adani Group firms, including Adani Power and Adani Transmission . The changes, which will be effective from Wednesday, will ensure that the price of the scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond a limit set for the day, according to a circular. NSE has enhanced the circuit limit of Adani Power to a maximum of 20 per cent from the current limit of 5 per cent. In addition, the exchange has increased the circuit limit of Adani Wilmar, Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission to 10 per cent from the present 5 per cent level. The exchange has decided to revise the circuit limit of a total of 172 companies. In January, bourses BSE and NSE lowered the circuit limit of Adani Transmission, Adani Green Energy and Adani Total Gas. Generally, exchanges set the circuit limits to curb large movements in the price of shares in a very short time. The decision was taken after the heavy...

[ad_1] However, compared to the 6.1 percent growth recorded in the January-March period of 2022-23, the GDP growth for the first quarter of 2023-24 was higher at 7.8 percent. [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/business/indias-gdp-growth-stands-at-7-8-for-first-quarter-of-2023-24-lesser-than-rbis-estimate-of-8/?feed_id=304581&_unique_id=665992e3898be

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment A distraught little girl cutting off her hair after the death of her sister. A slap delivered at an abusive boarding school. A Native American song ringing out impromptu at the U.S. Supreme Court. Such vivid moments pull us into Mary Kathryn Nagle’s “On the Far End,” the inspiring true story of Muscogee leader Jean Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri (1937-1997) was an activist who won victories for Native Americans in areas including health care and heritage preservation. She was also the mother-in-law of playwright Nagle, who channels Chaudhuri and other characters in this Round House Theatre world premiere. Mosaic’s powerful ‘Unseen’ explores cost of looking away from suffering Directed by Margot Bordelon, and part of Round House’s second National Capital New Play Festival , the 90-minute solo piece unfurls in methodical but graceful fashion on Paige Hathaway’s set, whose sturdy desk and natural elements — a tree, grasses — echo both the protagonist’s ind...

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Scientists are harnessing a new way to turn cancer cells into potent, anti-cancer agents, according to a study. According to the study, investigators have developed a new cell therapy approach to eliminate established tumours and induce long-term immunity, training the immune system so that it can prevent cancer from recurring. In the latest work from Brigham and Women's Hospital, the team of researchers tested their dual-action, cancer-killing vaccine in an advanced mouse model of the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, with promising results, said the study. Findings are published in the journal Science Translational Medicine . "Our team has pursued a simple idea: to take cancer cells and transform them into cancer killers and vaccines," said corresponding author Khalid Shah , director of the Centre for Stem Cell and Translational Immunotherapy (CSTI) and the vice chair of research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Brigham and faculty at Har...

[ad_1] Clean energy has become synonymous with wind and solar, and with good reason. Thanks to improved technology and declining costs, wind turbines and solar panels are producing a rapidly growing share of the world’s electricity. But there are many other sources of clean power that could provide abundant, emissions-free energy and help replace fossil fuels. This week, my colleague Brad Plumer took an in-depth look at one of those tantalizing technologies: geothermal power . Traditional sources of geothermal power are well established. For more than a century, people have been using steam produced by underground heat to power generators. Iceland and New Zealand generate about 20 percent of their electricity from geothermal. But those countries are the exception. In most parts of the world, steam doesn’t conveniently come out of the ground right where it’s needed. (Geothermal power produces less than one half of one percent of America’s electricity.) That could soon change. A new...

[ad_1] An undated image of prize bonds. — Online/File The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), after the approval of the federal government, extended the date to redeem withdrawn prize bonds of Rs7,500, 15,000, 25,000, and 40,000. The announcement was made by the central bank in a statement issued in this regard. "The federal government has given another opportunity to the public to get the withdrawn prize bonds of Rs7,500, 15,000, 25,000 and 40,000 redeemed or encashed by June 30, 2023,” the statement read. Earlier, the government had a fixed deadline of June 30, 2022, for the redemption or encashment of these prize bonds. However, the central bank said that considering that some of the prize bond holders could not get their bonds redeemed a final opportunity has been given for the encashment of prize bonds till June 30, 2023. The investors of aforesaid prize bonds can encashment or exchange their bonds in one of these possible ways: Encashment at Face Value Conversion to P...

[ad_1] Simple household ingredients are all we need for the task. Try a mixture made from lemon juice, salt, and dishwashing liquid. Are you tired of seeing your beautiful brass utensils lose their shine and gather dust, relegated to the back of your cabinets? Well, don’t worry, because we’ve got you covered. With just a few simple household ingredients and a little bit of effort, you can restore your brass utensils to their former glory and make them look as good as new. Here are a few tried and tested methods to clean brass utensils at home: Lemon and Salt Scrub: To clean tarnished and dirty brass utensils, try a mixture made from lemon juice, salt, and regular dishwashing liquid. Start by cutting a lemon in half and then dipping it into the mixture prepared. Rub the lemon all over the brass vessel and let it rest for 10 minutes. Now, wash it with warm water. Vinegar and Baking Soda: A simple method to clean brass utensils involves vinegar and baking soda. Mix equal quantities o...