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GRANT funding applications for the second round of Women in Construction Industry Innovation Program are now open. Construction continues to be one of the most male-dominated industries in Australia, with twelve percent representation of women across the sector and only two percent in trade roles. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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CONGRATULATIONS to the 2024 City of Coffs Harbour Australia Day Awards nominees. Below is a summary of the nominations in each category. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au Citizen of the Year: 1. Graham Tupper: As...

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THE CHROME Bumper Show and Shine made its debut at C.ex Woolgoolga on Sunday 21 January, bringing to life the dream of founder Darren Bromell, President of the Mid North Coast Hot Rod Club. The steamingly humid day brought 120 hot rod vehicles to Woolgoolga, with visitor attendance well into the hundreds. Advertise with News...

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By cutting funding from UNRWA, the U.S. moves Israel closer to its goal.

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As Israel becomes more of a liability than an asset to U.S. interests, Washington digs its heels in the Middle East.

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Probing our sense of mystery and wonder.

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It’s all a conspiracy! They are Soros funded, deep state,pizza parlor pedophiles! As it happens they might want to keep their mouths shut: Taylor Swift could heavily influence the way that Americans vote in the presidential election – with a fifth of voters saying they’re ‘likely’ to back a candidate she endorses. The popstar’s stratospheric influence on popular culture may sway the race to the White House, especially as new Gen Z voters join the electorate this year.  In a poll conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, 18 percent of voters say they’re ‘more likely’ or ‘significantly more likely’ to vote for a candidate endorsed by Taylor Swift. Her sway was more visible with voters under the age of 35.  This election will see 8 million new voters in the US electorate – and a total of 41 million Gen Z voters, many of whom are influenced by celebrities and social media. […] Trump has weighed in on the romance of Taylor and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and made his own predictions of the tryst. ‘I wish the best for both of them.

This is what happens when you have a demagogue who has the ability to convince half the country that up is down and black is white. They get rewarded over and over again for fucking everything up. And he wants to do it again. I mentioned yesterday that Trump’s big economic agenda item is: more Chinese tariffs, big ones. He has no reason other than that they are very bad people and they are laughing at us. So, more tariffs. That’s all he knows.

So, right after the ICJ enjoined Israel to stop genociding Palestinians, ten nations decided to suspend payments to UNRWA, the agency which feeds Palestinians in Gaza. The excuse is that Israel has accused eight of the 15,000 employees of being complicit in the October 7th attacks.

Yeah.

Issue 53 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our November and December 2023 online issues. It includes contributions from award-winning science journalist Adam Piore, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter, bestselling author Lucy Cooke, science journalist Dan Falk, and more. This issue also features new illustrations by John Hendrix.

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What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

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Weary Australian’s embarking on their first week back in the office have begun to wonder what culture war Opposition leader Peter Dutton is fighting this week, as they are bombarded with his face on tv, radio and in print. ”It’s... Read More ›

Trump says America is failing and the economy is crashing. He couldn’t be more wrong: The European economy, hobbled by unfamiliar weakness in Germany, is barely growing. China is struggling to recapture its sizzle. And Japan continues to disappoint. But in the United States, it’s a different story. Here, despite lingering consumer angst over inflation, the surprisingly strong economy is outperforming all of its major trading partners. Since 2020, the United States has powered through a once-in-a-century pandemic, the highest inflation in 40 years and fallout from two foreign wars. Now, after posting faster annual growth last year than in 2022, the U.S. economy is quashing fears of a recession while offering lessons for future crisis-fighting. “The U.S. has really come out of this into a place of strength and is moving forward like covid never happened,” said Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist who now runs an eponymous consulting firm.

So he can say “I alone can fix it.” The Republicans have a problem. They had hoped to rope in Independents and GOP moderates by insisting that the economy is so bad that America simply must elect a Republican to fix it. it’s worked in the past at times but the reality is that Democrats tend to fix the economy after Republicans break it and in this case it’s not looking like it’s going to be a winning electoral issue for them;. So they’re banking on the border, one of their perennial scaremongering tactics to get them over the line this time. Trump is saying it out loud: This bill is actually a very Republican friendly bill without any concessions to the Democrats which will make it a no-go among many of them. And we know they want the issue for the election. But as Greg Sargent points out, there is more to it than that: I think it’s no accident that Trump and MAGA are trying to sink this deal even as Trump and Miller are loudly advertising plans for an extraordinarily cruel and draconian second-term crackdown.

Citing crime scene DNA that belonged to someone else, Wesley Bell asked a Missouri court to consider evidence of Williams’s innocence.

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