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The city council has confirmed Reno’s first female police chief in the city’s history.Kathryn Nance is a 26-year veteran of the Stockton Police Department in California.City Manager Doug Thornley nominated Nance to replace retiring Reno Police Chief Jason Soto. The city council unanimously ratified and confirmed her appointment on Wednesday. She’s expected to be sworn in next month.”Today is a monumental day for the Biggest Little City,” Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve said.MOST POPULOUS COUNTY IN OR SWEARS IN ITS 1ST FEMALE SHERIFF”With over 26 years of law enforcement experience, Chief Nance will be an invaluable member of our public safety…

Hungary’s government will bring legal action against the European Union’s executive arm if it cannot reach an agreement on EU funding for university study-abroad programmes, a government minister said on Thursday.More than €12 billion of EU funds for Hungary were frozen last month, including €5.8 billion in post-COVID recovery funding and €6.3 billion under the rule of law mechanism.The latter envelope represents a 55% cut in EU funds the country was scheduled to receive for three operational programmes under the cohesion policy and will impact the Erasmus student exchange programme at many Hungarian universities.Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Prime…

Dozens of House Democrats this week renewed their push for reparations and a national apology for slavery by reintroducing legislation that would set up a commission to consider these steps as way to address the “cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery” in the U.S.Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and 52 House Democrats proposed the legislation this week in an effort to keep the issue alive. Her legislation, which was considered by the House Judiciary Committee in the last Congress when Democrats were in charge, is unlikely to taken up in the 118th Congress led by Republicans.Still, Jackson Lee said she…

Changes are coming for the Patriots after another post-Tom Brady letdown. Longtime head coach Bill Belichick met with Patriots owner Robert Kraft this week after the team was eliminated from the playoffs in Week 18 following a loss to the Bills. According to a report from NBC Sports Boston, Belichick, 70, came out of the meeting safe, but perhaps other members of the coaching staff did not — particularly on offense. “Don’t expect a dog-and-pony show announcing firings or who’s coming in for an interview. Belichick isn’t going to put anyone’s head on a spike for the pleasure of the…

Former NFL star Peyton Hillis received a positive health update on Wednesday from his girlfriend, Angela Cole.Cole provided the update in an Instagram post along with a slideshow of photos that showed the two dancing together. Cole said the former NFL running back was “on the road to recovery.” “A hero,” she wrote. “So proud of this man and so incredibly grateful for family and this incredible hospital. Peyton is off the ventilator and is on the road to recovery. Please continue to pray for he’s still got a ways ahead of him, but thank you for all of your…

HONG KONG: Scores of mainland Chinese travellers are rushing to Hong Kong to receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which are not available on the mainland, as the country grapples with a torrent of infections that have overwhelmed its health system. A private hospital in the special Chinese administrative region of Hong Kong welcomed the first batch of mainland customers on Thursday (Jan 12), just five days after China reopened its borders for the first time in three years, allowing quarantine-free travel. Yoyo Liang, a 36-year-old Beijing resident, was one of the first customers at the Virtus Medical Centre where she paid…

Walmart will eliminate single-use paper and plastic carryout bags at the register from stores in New York, Connecticut and Colorado this month. The company previously stopped giving out single-use plastic bags in New York and Connecticut and in some areas in Colorado. Walmart offers reusable shopping bags starting at 74 cents for customers without their own bags. Walmart’s policies will mean the company is ahead of lawmakers in these states in the growing push to eliminate bags that are typically used once and then discarded. Walmart (WMT) and other chains in recent years have eliminated carryout bags in some or…

A buzz of excitement shot through Hollywood after Bob Iger returned to Walt Disney in late November, with hopes that the veteran chief executive would help his company — and the ailing entertainment industry as a whole — find its way again. But behind the fanfare, signs of tarnish had appeared on the Iger halo since he stepped down in 2020, blemishes the activist Nelson Peltz is now making the centrepiece to one of the US’s biggest proxy battles in years.Exhibit A in Peltz’s case is Iger’s $71bn acquisition of 20th Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch in 2019, which the…

I’ve been practicing yoga in some form or another for about 15 years — a fact I didn’t even realize until sitting down to write this article. And that really sums up my approach to yoga: I always enjoy doing it and will always come back to it, but I almost never do it with any sense of regularity or intentionality. Yoga is something I do on the weekends to stretch. I also do it during the week, mostly to work on mobility after my indoor cycling and strength training sessions. I do it because I find comfort and feel…

Mexico City police said Wednesday an extortion and drug-dealing gang was behind the Dec. 15 shooting attack on one of Mexico’s best-known journalists.Police Chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said 11 people had been detained in connection with the attack on a vehicle driven by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva.The little-known gang dealt in murder, extorting money from businessmen and street-level drug dealing on the city’s rough east side.Officials did not explain why such a small-time gang tried to kill one of Mexico’s most prominent journalists.MEXICO DRUG GANG KILLS 20, INCLUDING A MAYOR AND HIS FATHER, IN CITY HALL MASSACREGómez Leyva escaped shaken…