Some automakers appear to be moving away from installing AM radios in new vehicles, particularly electric models. A release from the South Dakota Attorney General said AG Marty Jackley supports the proposed legislation and South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds has signed on as a supporter. “Do we eliminate safety belts from vehicles?” Holst asked. Residents in their broadcast areas are listening to AM radio every day in their vehicles, Holst and Deis said. Deis and Holst said farm equipment could be next if AM radio is removed from future vehicles.

They're blaming the epic wait times on lingering pandemic -related staffing shortages and a pause of online processing this year. Then the State Department upped the wait time for a regular passport to as much as 13 weeks. Her quest for three passports stretched from January to June, days before travel. Finally, she showed up in person at the federal building in downtown Houston, 30 minutes before the passport office opened. She ended up showing up at the passport office in Dallas with her daughter-in-law at 6:30 a.m. and being sorted into groups and lined up against walls.

Nevertheless, to ensure permanent debt sustainability, the Government had to win the trust of its bilateral creditors and obtain their agreement. To do this, it was essential to implement “Domestic Debt Optimization,” Mr. Semasinghe stressed. The Government must undertake a programme of domestic debt optimisation to maintain debt sustainability within affordable and manageable levels, Mr Gunawardena argued. As such, it was absolutely false when the government said that these persons were voluntarily participating in the government’s DDO programme, Mr Sumanthiran said. Resolution on debt sustainability Parliament yesterday took up the resolution on Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) presented by the government.

She said: “US Ambassador Madeleine Albright (1993-97), who was our representative at the Security Council, told me that she created this group called the G7. Out of the 193 Member States of the United Nations, only 34 women serve as elected Heads of State or Government. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the world’s largest yearly meeting of world leaders. The 15-member UN Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In 2022, the Security Council held its first-ever formal meeting focusing on reprisals against women participating in peace and security processes.

FILE - Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30, 2023. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraines military was largely reliant on Soviet-era weaponry. All rights reserved)KYIV – After a relative lull, Russia launched a drone attack early Sunday on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, officials said. It was the first such attack of the war in 12 days. All of the Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones were detected and shot down, according to Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv city administration.

The 35-page docu-ment covered five areas: Sri Lanka’s Public Debt Sustainability (background); How to Restore Debt Sus-tainability; Why Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) is essential. Who should (will) share the burden of DDO and Envisaged Terms of Sri Lanka’s Domestic Debt Optimisation; and Sri Lanka’s Public Debt Sus-tainability (Background). Dr Weerasinghe made clear that the DDO applied mainly to Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds. In oth-er words, the issue related largely to those who have subscribed to Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds. He empha-sised that domestic debt optimisation must be conducted simultaneously with foreign debt optimisation to mitigate this risk.

‘Sophisticated vehicle racket’ at Presidential Secretariat View(s):It has been revealed that a Presidential Secretariat official is using a vehicle from the Secretariat’s vehicle pool after renting out his personal vehicle to another official at the same office. Thus the official is not only using a vehicle from the Presidential Secretariat and obtaining a fuel allowance, but he is also earning an additional income by renting out his own vehicle. At the President’s office, a senior official described the renting out of personal vehicles to the Secretariat as a “sophisticated racket” run by some officials. However, such interest was not shown by the Sri Lankan government and wildlife authorities when Sri Lankan Elephant Kaavan was left alone at the Islamabad Zoo in Pakistan. Captain Wickremasuriya said the Sri Lanka Navy’s multifunctional hall mentioned in the news item had not been declared open so far.

It wasn't immediately clear how many people had gathered in the streets of downtown Pickens, a small city in South Carolina's conservative Upstate of around 3,400 residents. Law enforcement officials told some media outlets that around 15,000 people had gathered by 11 a.m., two hours before Trump's remarks. The heavily Republican area is a popular one for GOP hopefuls as they aim to attract support for South Carolina's first-in-the-South presidential primary. Contrasted with his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, which drew thousands to rallies in states across the country, Trump's 2024 effort has been markedly different. In a broad GOP field that has continued to grow, Trump's campaign has pointed to polls showing him with a considerable lead over his rivals, despite a campaign schedule that is far less robust than many of his rivals.

Universal Analytics, a platform beloved (or at least tolerated) by marketers, died today (July 1) after 11 years. Google Analytics was born in November 2005 after Urchin was acquired by Google and became a free service. Seven years later, the search engine welcomed Universal Analytics into the world – a service that would go on to revolutionise the digital marketing industry. Rest in peace, Universal Analytics. Universal Analytics: 2012-2023.

NEW YORK – Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones may be one of the movies' most iconic characters, but he's always needed a good foil. Allen's place in the latest and last “Indiana Jones,” the just-released “Dial of Destiny," has long been a mystery. And while her role isn't large — tragedy has driven Marion and Indiana apart — it's extremely poignant in how she figures into Harrison Ford's swan song as Indiana Jones. AP: “Indiana Jones” could be a boys world but you were such a spirited force of nature.

Gail Rodgers is keeping her local pool open amid a lifeguard shortage After a 50-year hiatus, she started working as a lifeguard on May 27 Rodgers: “I went through the certification, and lo and behold, I passed”(NewsNation) — Amid a nationwide lifeguard shortage, one Ohio grandmother has stepped up to make sure her community pool remains open. Gail Rodgers, of Sycamore Township, became a lifeguard to keep the private pool open at the Montogmery Towne Condominiums community, where she lives, according to Good Morning America. However, she became certified after learning that the pool would have to close on specific days due to a lack of staff. Neither she nor the residents wanted to see the pool close, so she came out of retirement. This is the second time the 66-year-old has worked as a lifeguard in her lifetime, though it’s been 50 years so she needed to brush up on her skills.

IDAHO FALLS — The National Weather Service in Pocatello is forecasting “the warmest weather of 2023 so far” to kick off the month of July. Daytime highs are expected to be in the 80s to mid 90s through Sunday. Normal highs for early July are in the mid 70s to mid 80s, so afternoon highs this weekend will be 5 to 8 degrees above normal, according to a weather briefing from the NWS. Meteorologists are also anticipating isolated thunderstorms and wind gusts between 20 and 30 mph. “Thunderstorms are expected each day … particularly in the mountains outside of the Snake Plain … with driest conditions expected on Sunday,” the NWS reports.

Source: phys.orgResearchers at the Interactive Technologies Institute have conducted a study on hate speech targeting marginalized communities in YouTube comments. Cláudia Silva joined a research team led by Paula Carvalho (INESC-ID/IST), that aimed to analyze the prevalence and linguistic strategies underlying online comprehensively hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in Portugal. The research was developed within the scope of the project HATE COVID-19.PT.

To celebrate that queerness, we’ve got a list of the best LGBT+ games on PC to come out in recent years. The best LGBT+ games are:Super Lesbian Animal RPGTrue to its name, Super Lesbian Animal RPG is a traditional turn-based RPG game that’s utterly suffused with queerness. I Was a Teenage ExocolonistI Was a Teenage Exocolonist exists in multitudes – it is a life game, RPG, deckbuilder, and dating sim all rolled up into one. In a sense, platforming becomes an interwoven allegory for the trans experience: searching to find a safe space to occupy in an effort to survive a passively hostile environment. This Pride Month and beyond, explore the complexities of queerness across the full spectrum of sexuality and gender with our picks.

Source: phys.orgStudents at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (UW) and researchers from the QOT Center for Quantum Optical Technologies have developed an innovative method that allows the fractional Fourier Transform of optical pulses to be performed using quantum memory. This achievement is unique on the global scale, as the team was the first to present an experimental implementation of the said transformation in this type of system.