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New York State Legislature's Bill Drafting Office suffers an apparent cyber attackby Anthony Izaguirre Associated PressApril 17, 2024, 12:13 PM ET• 2 minute readALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Legislature's bill drafting office suffered an apparent cyberattack early Wednesday morning, officials said.The scope of the attack was not immediately clear, but officials said the bill-writing system has been down since early Wednesday. The office is responsible for printing bills for lawmakers at the state capitol in Albany.The apparent cyberattack occurred as the Legislature was working to finalize the state budget, but Gov. Kathy Hochul said the incident is not…
The World Bank has issued $420 million in disaster bonds to provide new disaster risk protection for the Mexican government. The cat bond will fund insurance coverage against certain storms and earthquakes along Mexico's Atlantic coast and will be issued by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) under its Capital at Risk Bond Program. is. The cat bond replaces the previous cat bond for these perils and is increased by $60 million, according to the announcement. The bond attracted 27 institutional investors from around the world to provide four years of financing for Mexican catastrophe insurance. Payments are…
downward angle icon An icon in the shape of a downward facing corner. A higher percentage of Americans struggle to afford food than in other G7 countries. Dominic Reuter/Business Insider New data from Gallup reveals that the United States lags behind many G7 countries on key indicators.By 2023, 26% of Americans will have trouble affording food, and confidence in the military is declining.Public trust in U.S. institutions, including the government and the judiciary, is declining. The United States may be losing its strong position among the world's most developed countries.For the first time in nearly two decades of polling, the…
FILE – President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on March 7, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. Just hours after President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. military would set up a temporary port off the coast of Gaza, European Union officials said Friday, March 8, 2024, that much-needed aid would be shipped by sea to war-torn Gaza. I visited Cyprus to inspect preparations for shipping. The Mediterranean Coast supports such efforts. (Shaun Hsu/Pool photo via AP, file) The government may soon shut down your car. President Joe Biden's new…
After benefiting from a prolonged period of rapid growth, Italy's film industry is facing a forced slowdown. The country's right-wing government plans to amend several key regulations, the most important of which is that tax incentives for film and television are currently stalled. production. At a packed protest event held earlier this month at Rome's Cinema Adriano multiplex, industry figures from all walks of life, including producers, screenwriters, actors, and big-name directors such as Paolo Sorrentino and Marco Verrocchio, They strongly objected to having to wait endlessly for the government's requests. Approving new guidelines to allow production companies to claim…
representative imageislamabad: Pakistan's High Court on Wednesday ruled that the government must restore social media platform X within a week after more than two months of disruption caused by orders from the interior ministry, lawyers said.The platform, formerly known as Twitter, has remained largely active since February 17, when jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party called for protests over government officials' admission of vote manipulation in the February election. It continues to be inaccessible.Pakistan's communications authority later acknowledged in court documents that it had been ordered by the interior ministry to shut down the site.”The Sindh High Court has…
montreal, April 17, 2024 /CNW/ – Aero Montreal praises Canadian government's efforts to strengthen Canada's Strengthen security by updating the National Defense Strategy. We welcome efforts to support research and development, the space sector, and access to sustainable aviation fuels. but, of quebec The Aerospace Cluster emphasizes the importance of implementing the National Aerospace Strategy to strengthen the country's industrial capacity and competitiveness and calls on the government to continue its efforts.Aero Montreal (CNW Group/Aero Montreal)highlights of of quebec Aerospace departmentDefense policy updates: our strong and free north ($549.4 million For four years from 2025 to 2026, $267.8 million In…
NCM said it had been tracking the occurrence of heavy rain but had not targeted clouds during that period and attributed the storm to natural rainfall. According to a report in the scientific journal Nature, rainfall has increased in the Gulf states in recent years, with precipitation expected to increase by 30% in the coming years. The National Center of Meteorology (NCM), the government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, said the country implemented weather modification techniques ahead of the big storm, which resulted in worsening flooding in places such as Dubai. He denied…
The Canadian government's budget plans for this year include helping people bag Taylor Swift concert tickets. (File) American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift will attend the 66th Grammy Awards Ceremony to be held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024. Swift was officially named a member of the Three Comma Club on April 2, 2024. Forbes confirmed rumors that her wealth is estimated to be over $1 billion. (Photo by Robyn BECK/AFP) (AFP) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} On Tuesday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled her budget, and one of its new policies centers on concert ticket availability to allow…
A petticoat is a garment worn under a skirt. Helps smooth out wrinkles in skirts. At a time when full skirts were in fashion, multiple layers of petticoats helped make them stand out. Petticoats have long been a symbol of modesty and proper female behavior. It has also been used as an insult against women who are seen as deviating from proper feminine behavior. For example, Mary Wollstonecraft, an early champion of women's rights, was called a “hyena in petticoats.””Petticoat government” was a derisive term for women involved in politics. It was also an implicit criticism of men who had…