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NYS trooper Thomas Mascia turns himself in to cops over charges he falsely reported Long Island shooting
The New York state trooper who claimed he was shot during a Long Island traffic stop turned himself in to police Monday morning.
Thomas Mascia, 27, whose claim that he was shot and wounded by a driver on the Southern State Parkway last October prompted a criminal probe, turned himself in at state police barracks in East Farmingdale, Newsday reported.
He faces charges including tampering with evidence, falsifying documents and official misconduct.
His father, former NYPD officer Thomas Mascia Sr., and his mother, Dorothy Mascia, have also been charged with criminal possession of a firearm. They also turned themselves in to authorities on Monday.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/us-news/nys-trooper-thomas-mascia-who-claimed-he-was-shot-during-a-long-island-traffic-stop-turned-himself-into-police/
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1 taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after an explosion in a West Virginia city
January 27, 2025
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — One person was taken to a hospital after an explosion in a West Virginia neighborhood and nearby homes were evacuated, officials said.
The explosion happened Sunday in the Chestnut Hills community of Clarksburg and one person had injuries that were considered life-threatening, officials said in a social media post.
Due to a gas leak, all residents in a five-block radius were required to evacuate, Clarksburg police said, warning that people should avoid the area “at all costs.”
https://apnews.com/article/explosion-evacuation-clarksburg-west-virginia-56f0c26bd581232875800dfbb2d45f64
Trump to attend Republican policy retreat in Miami
Trump could see another Cabinet member confirmed today.
President Donald Trump is expected to attend the House Republican retreat at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami today.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-republican-conference-live-updates-rcna189163
Trump to order end to DEI in military, reinstate troops who refused COVID vaccines, Hegseth says
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will soon sign executive orders removing diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and reinstating thousands of troops who were kicked out for refusing COVID vaccines during the pandemic, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday.
"There are more executive orders coming," Hegseth told reporters, as he arrived at the Pentagon for his first full day of work.
Hegseth has promised to bring major changes to the Pentagon and he has made eliminating DEI from the military a top priority.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-order-end-dei-military-reinstate-troops-who-refused-covid-vaccines-hegseth-2025-01-27/
Federal money for the Colorado River faces an uncertain fate under Trump
The list of projects awaiting funding is long.
Colorado alone accounts for 16 different projects, all of which are awaiting at least half a million dollars. Money was also allocated to ten projects in Utah, five in Wyoming, two in New Mexico, six on tribal land and three that span state lines.
Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources would receive up to $37.2 million for five different projects. A spokeswoman for that agency told KUNC that its experts “seem confident” that the projects will still be funded, and the agency understands the federal pause on Inflation Reduction Act funding to be more focused on energy-related programs.
The single largest grant in the funding pool is for the Shoshone Water Rights Preservation Project in Colorado. The Colorado River District is in the midst of a yearslong push to buy water currently used by a hydroelectric plant and make sure it keeps flowing to Western Colorado . The plan would quell long-held anxieties that a fast-growing city in the Denver area could buy the water instead. The agency has been slowly pooling money from local governments towards its $99 million goal, but this federal grant of up to $40 million represents the biggest chunk of money it would put toward the purchase.
Alex Funk, a water policy expert at the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, said the government typically has a lengthy review process for grants like these, and the Biden Administration reviewed and announced them extraordinarily quickly.
“We're certainly anticipating a thoughtful review of some of these awards,” Funk said . “But we're hoping that that momentum continues.”
Some of Funk’s work receives funding from theWalton Family Foundationwhich also supports KUNC’s Colorado River coverage.
While Trump’s team has given relatively few indications about how it will deal with Colorado River matters, Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum spoke about them briefly during a Senate confirmation hearing. Funk called those comments “largely encouraging,” especially when it comes to the tense negotiations about water sharing between states that use the Colorado River.
“[Burgum] certainly signaled that he wanted his agency to be supportive of ongoing dialog and collaboration to keep that process on track,” Funk said.
Shortly after Trump won the 2024 election, top water negotiators said they did not expect the new president to shake up their talks, and said federal water policymakers have typically been technocrats, shielded from partisan turnover in Washington, D.C.
In December, a number of water policy experts expressed concern about the future of federal funding after the Biden administration supplied Colorado River users with a “once-in-a-generation windfall.”
https://www.kuer.org/politics-government/2025-01-27/federal-money-for-the-colorado-river-faces-an-uncertain-fate-under-trump
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Trump Doesn’t Understand California Water, Fish or Wildfires
The state has to spend untold dollars and lawyer-hours to keep the president’s misinformation from warping its reality.
If President Donald Trump’s claims about California water management are to be believed, then there is a basically a giant faucet in the north of the state that could unleash a welcome deluge on the south, refilling reservoirs and fire hydrants and soaking the arid land. But Governor Gavin Newsom refuses to turn on the faucet because he wants to save what’s left of a species of fish that is essentially garbage.
Not a single word of the preceding sentence is true, even in a metaphorical sense. The fact that California — which has more than enough on its plate already — now has to spend untold dollars and lawyer-hours to keep Trump’s nonsensical words from warping the state’s reality is a taste of what’s to come in a presidency that approaches everything, including the climate crisis, from a position of grievance and misinformation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-27/la-wildfires-trump-doesn-t-understand-california-water-fish-or-blazes
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some breeds can take up to a year to lay and only 2 or 3 a week
do research it's well found
just buy the eggers that get to it quickly
have yerself a rooster and the egging will continue
==Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical
Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern
California==
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-people-over-fish-stopping-radical-environmentalism-to-provide-water-to-southern-california/
80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ
27 JANUARY 2025
On 27 January 2025, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.
The main commemoration will begin at 4.00 pm in a special tent that will be built over the gate to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. One of the symbols of the commemoration will be a freight car that will stand directly in front of the gate.
All Auschwitz Survivors are invited to the commemoration. State delegations and delegations from institutions will also participate in the anniversary event.
The TV signal produced by the Polish Television will be available to all, providing an opportunity for joint commemoration and global reflection on the significance of the events of the past. All institutions and organisations around the world are encouraged to join the commemoration by organising a space in their locations where the broadcast from the Memorial can be watched together.
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/home-page-80/