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On Sunday night, the Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services ordered residents in unincorporated Wilton, which has a population of more than 6,200, to evacuate immediately.“Flooding is imminent,” the order said. “Out of an abundance of caution, residents must leave now before roads become impassable. Rising water may spill over onto the nearest roadways and cut off access to leave the area.”The office also warned of strong winds in the Wilton community, southeast of the city of Sacramento. Santa Cruz County officials issued an evacuation warning for certain areas, noting that heavy rains and runoff were expected starting Sunday evening…

Ethereum developers plan to release a public test network for the Shanghai upgrade, which will include code allowing withdrawals of ether staked in the Beacon Chain since December 2020, by the end of February.In a call on January 5, Ethereum developers chose March 2023 as the tentative target for the Shanghai hard fork. And in a bid to make sure they meet this date, developers plan to release a public test network for the Shanghai upgrade by the end of February.During the call, the devs noted that the upgrade will focus exclusively on ETH withdrawals. They also scratched plans to incorporate a…

JOHOR BAHRU: Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi on Monday (Jan 9) called on Johoreans to get their second COVID-19 booster shot, even though the number of cases there remains “under control”. This comes after the state’s health director said that only 1.9 per cent of Johoreans have taken a second COVID-19 booster shot.   “Although the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Johor is still under control, I call on all Johoreans to take the second booster shot,” Mr Onn Hafiz wrote in a Facebook post. “According to the Johor State Health Director Dr Aman Rabu, the rate of…

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Australian Open director Craig Tiley has pushed back against “ridiculous” suggestions to change the scheduling of the first grand slam of the tennis calendar.Every year there are calls to move the dates of the tournament due to the gruelling conditions of the January heat in Australia and to give players more of an off-season.The debate was resparked over the weekend with calls to move the Australian Open to either February or October, proposing it would make the calendar shorter and more tolerable for players.However, Tennis Australia CEO Mr Tiley slammed the idea of changing to cooler months and championed the…

CNN  —  Senior citizens and other Medicare enrollees can now get a break on the cost of their insulin. They won’t pay more than $35 a month for each insulin prescription that’s covered by their Medicare Part D plan. And they won’t be subject to a deductible for insulin. It’s one of several drug-related provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that are kicking in this year. The law, which Congress passed last summer, aims to make it easier for Americans, particularly the elderly, to afford their medications. The other measures taking effect in 2023 include allowing seniors to get more…

Mexico City CNN  —  President Joe Biden rode high into the new year: His political party had far exceeded expectations in the midterm elections following a string of legislative victories, inflation appeared to finally be moderating, and the first days of 2023 exposed what the president himself called “embarrassing” drama and infighting within the ranks of the Republican Party. But Biden’s first work trip abroad this year – a two-night visit to Mexico City following a brief stop at the border town of El Paso, Texas, on Sunday afternoon – is forcing the president to confront a political problem with…

CNN  —  As President Joe Biden’s top advisers circulated at White House holiday parties and held quiet briefings for key allies last month, a formulation of the same question came up again and again: How can I help with the campaign? It was a consistent, if informal, query from donors, operatives, activists and celebrities alike, one Biden adviser recalled. It was also a clear shift that only served to bolster the view inside the West Wing that, after a year defined by intra-party questions about just about everything Biden did, the party has coalesced around one final White House run.…

European stocks and US futures rose on Monday, as investors bet that cooling inflation on either side of the Atlantic will allow central banks to slow the pace at which they raise interest rates early this year. The regional Stoxx Europe 600 climbed 0.4 per cent, adding to last week’s 4.2 per cent gain, while London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.1 per cent.Germany’s Dax gained 0.3 per cent after production in the country’s manufacturing, energy and construction sectors increased 0.2 per cent between October and November, according to figures by Destatis, the German statistics office.Contracts tracking Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500…

UK fund manager Terry Smith was paid more than £36mn last year as his investment boutique Fundsmith posted a bumper profit.The fund company, which Smith established in 2010, reported record annual profit after tax of £58.2mn in the 12 months to the end of March 2022, beating the previous year’s record of £57.7mn. According to the company’s accounts, Smith was handed £36.4mn of the company’s profits as the highest paid employee. That far outstripped the pay of other UK fund group bosses. Peter Harrison, chief executive of Schroders, was paid £8.48mn last year, for example, while Sir Nigel Wilson, chief…