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Humboldt County authorities have released the latest statistics on recovery from the December earthquake and aftershocks that struck the Northern California coast.Approximately 91 structures have been red-tagged as unsafe to occupy and more than 300 structures have been yellow-tagged, indicating they require safety repairs, the county said in a statement Tuesday.The county assisted about 117 households with temporary shelter and that program is no longer accepting new applications, but residents with red-tagged homes or certain yellow-tagged homes may be eligible for shelter voucher extensions.4.2 MAGNITUDE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE, AFTERSHOCK SHAKE MALIBU BEACH AREA The magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck offshore on Dec.…

A fired Memphis police officer involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took photos of the 29-year-old after he was pepper-sprayed, kicked and hit, and texted at least one image to at least five people, new records show. That revelation was contained in documents released Tuesday as part of a Memphis Police Department request to decertify the five officers charged in the brutal Jan. 7 assault of Nichols. Decertification means the officers can no longer serve as police anywhere in the state.Demetrius Haley, one of the five officers terminated on Jan. 20, sent the photo, according to the documents.He was also…

Christopher Waller, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for governor of the Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Wednesday talked tough on inflation, warning that the fight is not over and could result in higher interest rates than markets are anticipating.Speaking to an agribusiness conference in Arkansas, Waller said the January jobs report, showing nonfarm payroll growth of 517,000, indicated that the employment market is “robust” and could fuel consumer spending that would maintain upward pressure on…

Hall of Famer Michael Irvin will not be seen on the NFL Network airwaves for the remainder of Super Bowl week after a woman filed a complaint against him.A woman said she had an inappropriate encounter with the former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver on Sunday in Glendale, Arizona, near the site of the Super Bowl. The woman’s identity was not released due to privacy concerns.Irvin told the Dallas Morning News the interaction with the woman was brief, public and largely non-physical. Irvin acknowledged that he shook the woman’s hand before they went their separate ways.”Michael Irvin will not be a…

A 31-year-old man was shot and killed by an apparent stranger during a fight on a Bronx street, police said. Marquis Lane was blasted in the chest at the corner of Park Avenue and East 167th Street in Morrisania minutes before 9 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.  The victim and an unidentified person were fighting when the shooter approached Lane and opened fire at him, authorities said. NYPD investigate the scene of a fatal shooting in the Bronx on February 7, 2023. G.N.Miller/NYPost The victim was identified as 31-year-old Marquis Lane. G.N.Miller/NYPost Advertisement Lane was pronounced dead at Lincoln Medical Center.…

Staff at a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn “covered up” a knife attack on a convicted carjacker, an attorney for the inmate claimed in recent court filings. Jose Lavandier, 26, was set upon by two other inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in July 2022 after he tried to adjust fans that had been placed in his unit when the air conditioning at the jail went out, his lawyer wrote in a sentencing submission. One of the attackers pulled a knife and stabbed Lavandier in the chest, wrists, arms and neck, attorney Jeffrey Pittell wrote in the court filing.  “It…

CNN  —  Google’s much-hyped new AI chatbot tool Bard, which has yet to be released to the public, is already being called out for an inaccurate response it produced in a demo this week. In the demo, which was posted by Google on Twitter, a user asks Bard: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” Bard responds with a series of bullet points, including one that reads: “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.” According to NASA, however, the first image showing…

South American nations to compete against joint bid by Spain, Portugal and Ukraine to host tournament in its 100th year.The South American nations of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay have submitted a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which will take place 100 years after the first tournament was held in Montevideo, Uruguay. Officials from the four countries came together on Tuesday with Alejandro Dominguez, president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), to announce their effort to bring the tournament back to “where football was born”. “The 2030 World Cup is not just another World Cup,…

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have helped researchers examine compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies for the first time. In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society last month, the Stockholm University scientists studied the first phase of star formation in distant galaxies. The galaxy clusters they examined were so massive that they bent light rays passing through their center, producing a magnifying glass effect. That means the images of the background galaxies were magnified. That and the resolution of the observatory helped to detect stellar clumps: compact galaxy structures. Looking at the galaxy…

“My name is Vant Hayes and I’m the only Black one left out here.” Hayes, who says he’s 88 years old or “somewhere around there,” represents the end of an era in the village of Breton, 110 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.His grandparents William and Mollie Hayes and their children moved to the area from Oklahoma in the early 1900s as part of the Great Migration of Black settlers from the United States, lured by the promise of free land and a better life.An increase in discrimination in the southern U.S. in the early 1900s led to an exodus of African…