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നാഷണൽ സെക്യൂരിറ്റി ഗാർഡിന്റെ (NSG) കെ9 യൂണിറ്റിലെ സ്ഫോടകവസ്തുക്കൾ കണ്ടെത്തുന്ന നായ ഡോണിക്ക് 2026 ലെ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യദിനത്തിൽ ചീഫ് ഓഫ് ആർമി സ്റ്റാഫ് കമൻഡേഷൻ കാർഡ് നൽകി ആദരിച്ചു

വീട്ടിൽനിന്ന് പോകുന്നതിനുമുമ്പ് കാശിയിലേക്ക് പോകുകയാണെന്നും ഇനി അവിടെ ജീവിക്കുമെന്നും സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്ന കുറിപ്പ് കുട്ടി എഴുതിവച്ചിരുന്നു.

Pada Mei 2026, beredar luas di media sosial video seekor kuskus yang bergerak ke dahan tertinggi saat pohon terakhirnya dirobohkan. Ia terus memanjat mencari perlindungan, sementara eskavator terus merobohkan pohon-pohon di sekelilingnya. Awal Agustus 2026, video berikutnya memperlihatkan, di antara pohon-pohon yang tumbang, seekor kuskus berwarna emas dengan totol-totol putih bertahan di sisa-sisa dahan roboh. […] The post Mengenal Kuskus Papua yang Kehilangan Rumahnya appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

This suggested opinion piece is in response to Jim Cameron’s column regarding a proposed EV tax. The state of the air is not good. The “State of the Air” is the name of a report issued annually by the American Lung Association. And the most recent edition tells us that seven of Connecticut’s eight counties […]

One of Mayor Justin Bibb’s signature big ideas — closing and redeveloping Burke Lakefront Airport — appears to be stuck on the ground after key decision makers recently signaled the idea won’t fly. Cleveland’s next move is unclear.  City Hall isn’t admitting defeat. Nor has it yet said publicly whether it will continue its push […] The post Moreno hands Bibb a defeat on Burke Lakefront Airport. Will City Hall keep fighting to close it? appeared first on Signal Cleveland.

Sportsbooks continue to offer a full suite of prop bets, one year after Gov. Mike DeWine said Ohio should ban them all. In a year of prosecutions and league investigations, only MLB has budged. The post DeWine called for a prop betting ban a year ago. Little has changed in Ohio appeared first on Signal Cleveland.

(The Center Square) – The typical American has to save for at least a decade to afford a home in their state, despite the federal government spending nearly half a trillion dollars on housing programs since 2015, a new report reveals. Open The Books analyzed state-by-state median household income, the federal government's House Price Index, and spending by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on 18 housing programs over the past decade. Open The Books is an organization that tracks government spending. It found that the median home price outpaced median household wages in all 50 states from 2015 to 2024. In all but two states, there was a double-digit difference between the growth rate of income versus home prices, which Open The Books calls the “affordability gap.” Notably, the report, "Extreme Makeover: American Dream Edition?," found broad geographic and political diversity among states with the most severe affordability gaps. The report was released Monday night. Idaho has the highest affordability gap, its score of 83.3 reflecting the median home price growing by 151% as median incomes rose only 68% from 2015 to 2024. Florida follows behind with a 77.2 affordability gap, trailed by Utah, Tennessee, Arizona, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island and Washington. The 10 states with the lowest affordability gaps are equally diverse. Louisiana has the lowest affordability gap, 6.6, with home prices rising 40% and income rising 33.4% over the decade studied. West Virginia has the second lowest affordability gap, followed by North Dakota, Mississippi, Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Iowa, California and Hawaii. Besides comparing home price and wage growth, Open The Books also calculated what fraction of a household income is needed for the typical state resident to afford a 20% down payment on a typically-priced home. In every state but Alaska, the cost of a 20% down payment on a typical home exceeds 100% of the typical household’s pre-tax annual income. That means it will take the median U.S. earner who saves 10% of their pre-tax annual income at least nine and a half years to achieve home ownership in any state. In some states, the wait time is more than two decades. A Maine resident making the state median income and saving 10% pre-tax each year has to wait 25 years before they can afford a 20% down payment on a home. The median home cost in Maine is over $962,000, and the median salary is less than $77,000, meaning a down payment costs 251% of the typical resident’s pre-tax median income. New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, Montana, Idaho, Vermont, Washington, Oregon, California and Tennessee all have down payment costs between 246% and 185% of pre-tax median income levels. By contrast, Alaska has the most attainable down payments, followed by West Virginia, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Illinois, North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Ohio, and Minnesota. Even in those states, however, the price of a down payment on a home ranges from 95.8% to 132% of pre-tax annual income. Christopher Neefus, vice president of communications at Open The Books, said the findings speak to a “generational tension” between younger generations and the Boomer generation, where home ownership was considered a key part of “the American dream.” “A down payment on a home is so far off in the distance for some folks, it makes sense to reconsider what the American dream looks like,” Neefus told The Center Square. “And in the meantime, the government is throwing a ton of cash at the situation, and as we've seen time and again, this top-down spending is not really moving the needle the way that it needs to for folks.” Between 2015 and 2024, HUD spent more than $460 billion on 18 housing affordability programs. Yet when Open The Books broke down that spending for each state on a per-capita basis, researchers found that those taxpayer dollars reduced the affordability gap over that decade by a statistically insignificant 2.75%. “It speaks to the inefficiency of some of these programs. When you spend from the top down, it's very difficult for dollars to end up where they're needed the most,” Neefus said. “And then you have a problem similar to what we've seen in higher education, which is to have all of this government investment to help people afford higher education, but ultimately it doesn't control cost.” Real reform, Neefus argued, needs to happen at the state level. “When dollars are spent on a more local level, where people understand the terrain and the needs of the community, that’s always going to be better than a giant lump sum from the federal government,” he said. “These are big-picture factors that go beyond any narrow fix. But what’s been proven over the decades is [that] more local decisions tend to lead to better outcomes. Letting laboratories of democracy compete and identify solutions is likely better than a single decisionmaking body at the federal level.”

(The Center Square) - Billions of dollars of government spending over a decade have done nothing to stop homeownership from slipping out of reach for millions of Americans. That's especially true for California. And that's according to a report released Monday night, “Extreme Makeover: American Dream Edition?” The study by Open the Books, an organization that tracks government spending at the local, state and federal levels, examined public data from 2015 to 2024 to determine whether spending by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development helped bridge the gap between Americans’ wages and increasing home prices. The conclusion? It did not. In fact, despite receiving $81.4 billion from HUD during 2015-2024, California remains one of the least affordable states to live in the U.S., according to Open the Books. Besides California, Open the Books tracked states across the nation, including Colorado, where home prices doubled during those years. Meanwhile, Nevada faces an affordability gap, but household incomes have grown in Arizona. Christopher Neefus of Open the Books said Californians are looking at the better part of two decades of savings to get themselves into the average home. Home prices grew at a rate 27% faster than the median income, Neefus, vice president of communications at Open the Books, told The Center Square during a phone interview. He added that although California's gap is among the lowest in the U.S., the figure is misleading because in 2015, the state was already seeing home prices exceeding the reach of the median income. Home prices during 2015-2024 grew by more than 82% in the Golden State, Neefus said. “Another factor to consider in California is that home prices started a lot higher and finished a lot higher than most of the country,” Neefus said. The report also details California's multi-layered financing rules, expensive construction costs and strict single-family zoning that leaves thousands of affordable units unbuilt. Construction costs average up to $570,000 per unit for affordable housing. Across the border in Nevada, the Silver State had one of the top 10 affordability gaps in the country. This is driven by pandemic-era relocation trends. Neefus said price hikes "could be partly attributed to COVID flight." “What we do see in Nevada’s case is that where taxpayers and potential homebuyers are heading, economic opportunity follows," he told The Center Square. "The state is among the top 10 when it comes to income growth over that decade, suggesting new opportunity may start to help close the affordability gap.” “You’re looking at 150% of median pre-tax income that you would need to put down on an average home in the state,” said Neefus. “If you were to set aside 10% of your pre-tax income every year, which not everyone can afford to do, you’re still looking at 15 years of working to save." As in California, local policies have made the economy difficult in parts of Nevada, Neefu said. “Another piece of the puzzle in Nevada is it is home to a major tourist destination in Las Vegas,” said Neefus. He added that Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, has made it difficult to get approval for short-term rentals, which homeowners rely on to defray costs. Neefus said the county's bureaucracy is siding with hotel chains over homeowners. The neighboring state of Arizona experienced an influx of Americans headed out of major cities during the COVID-19 era and had a high affordability gap. However, Neefus said the Grand Canyon state was also No. 2 in the nation for growth in median household income. “That suggests the sort of economic dynamism that can be reparative in the future,” said Neefus. Elsewhere, Colorado is a state that is closer to the middle of the pack, but one that still highlights the broader national reach of the U.S. housing crisis. For example, while Colorado’s 49-point affordability gap was modest compared to Idaho or Florida, home prices in the Centennial State still doubled over the 10-year period that Open the Books examined. “In Colorado, if you keep setting aside 10% of that median income before taxes, it is a 17-year wait to put a strong down payment on an average home there,” said Neefus. “This is a politically moderate state for the most part, so this could be one of the bellwether states to watch over the next several years.” To solve affordability problems, Open the Books said, officials at various levels should address local zoning restrictions, regulations on permits and inflationary federal spending.

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Katie Martin Kelley deja Warner Bros. para presidir la comunicación del cine en Netflix, en sustitución de Emily Feingold, tras ocho años en el cargo.

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