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Word Game: Dec. 6, 2023

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — FIREPOT (FIREPOT: FIRE-pot: An eastern Asian vessel for cooking foods at the table.)Average mark 23 wordsTime limit 35 minutesCan you find 30 or more words in FIREPOT? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — PURPORTS port post pour pout prop purport purr roust rout rust opus ours oust tour sort soup sour sport spot spout sprout spur spurt stop stoup strop stupor supportTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at kzsaxe@g...

Single-family home sells in Oakland for $1.7 million

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

5800 Colton Boulevard – Google Street ViewA house located in the 5800 block of Colton Boulevard in Oakland has new owners. The 1,668-square-foot property, built in 1939, was sold on Oct. 18, 2023, for $1,650,000, or $989 per square foot. This single-story home presents a roomy floor plan, featuring four bedrooms and two bathrooms. On the exterior, the home features composition shingles on the roof. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. In addition, the home comes with a one-car garage.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:On Colton Boulevard, Oakland, in March 2023, a 2,373-square-foot home was sold for $1,975,000, a price per square foot of $832. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In July 2023, a 2,060-square-foot home on Cabot Drive in Oakland sold for $1,300,000, a price per square foot of $631. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 2,228-square-foot home on the 5700 block of Cabot Drive in Oakland sold in November 2022, ...

Ask Amy: After this man’s behavior at my wedding, I want my best friend to dump him

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

Dear Amy: I hate my best friend’s boyfriend.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: Now I realize what stay-at-home spouses are complaining about Advice | Ask Amy: Now we’re feeling weird about our daughter’s favorite toy Advice | Ask Amy: I’ll never forgive my sister-in-law for her question to my little girl Advice | Ask Amy: How can I avoid the vortex of the other grandmother? Advice | Ask Amy: He has resurrected this wedding drama and is using it against me I met my “Shari” in high school. We have been inseparable ever since. Back then, she was outgoing, radiated confidence, was down to earth, and nothing ever bothered her.Since she began her relationship with “Stephan,” she is a completely different person.She is unsure of herself, has no confidence, and she now has frequent anxiety attacks. I attribute all of this to Stephan. She complains about him a lot.When I first met him, I wa...

Jon Stewart for Celebrity President. This Is Not a Joke!

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on June 17, 2019.Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty ImagesShould liberals — i.e., America’s jambalaya of FDR-heads, radicals in name only, organizers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and even normcore Democrats — try to get Jon Stewart to run for president?An affirmative response comes from Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and former director of Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media. Stewart rose to stardom as host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, and after stepping down in 2015, he returned to TV in 2021 in “The Problem With Jon Stewart” (which Apple TV recently canceled). Cohen makes the case here, in a column, and here, in an interview with Salon.Whether or not Stewart will run for president, Cohen convincingly explains why he should. His arguments about this apply beyond the specifics of Stewart and suggest that what Democrats truly need is more funny c...

Few wet flakes possible but no accumulation for DC region Wednesday

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

There’s been talk about snow for the D.C. region Tuesday night into Wednesday, but it never came to be.Instead, there will be a few rain showers early Wednesday morning with a mixture of a few wet snowflakes. 7News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Veronica Johnson said that the mix will come to an end around sunrise.“We are going to see skies clear we’re going to turn partly sunny” later on in the day “with temperatures pushing into the mid-40s,” she said.Those living in the immediate D.C. region will still have to bundle up as wind chills will be in the 30s throughout most of the day. It’ll be worse in the evening as temperatures could reach the low 30s.7News First Alert Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff said that “areas of frost are possible.”Temperatures will improve over the next few days, starting with mostly cloudy conditions reaching the upper 40s on Thursday. Friday will have partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the mi...

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.“Negotiations, as are often the case, are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual states in some areas,” German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said, “but there is a will to make progress.”Proponents who are calling for a ground-shifting phase-out of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal have hope for the first time in years, but also see where it could be torpedoed. Key issues of financial help for poor nations to decarbonize and how to adapt to warming need much more work, officials said. That is in contrast to the first day when the conference — called COP28 — put into effect a climate compensation fund — called loss-and-damage — and started seeing its coffers grow to more than ...

Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) A woman mourns her child and her husband killed in an Israeli army bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)(AP/Fatima Shbair) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city, further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and halting the distribution of vital aid across most of the territory.The assault on the south threatens f...

Guerra entre Israel y Hamas en vivo: combates en Gaza, situación de los civiles y más

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

Para ver las entradas más recientes haz clic aquíTanques militares israelíes avanzan cerca de la frontera con Gaza el 5 de diciembre, en medio de continuas batallas entre Israel y el grupo militante Hamas. Crédito: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Serie de tiroteos en Texas dejan seis muertos; acusan al sospechoso de asesinato capital

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

Un hombre fue arrestado y acusado de asesinato capital luego de presuntamente perpetrar una serie de tiroteos el martes en San Antonio y en Austin, Texas, que dejaron al menos seis muertos.En los incidentes aislados, que se registraron en cinco zonas distintas, también resultaron heridos de bala dos oficiales de la policía y un ciclista. Robin Henderson, jefa interina del Departamento de Policía de Austin, confirmó que el sospechoso fue acusado de homicidio capital y fue detenido tras un intercambio de disparos con un oficial y de una persecución sobre las 7 p.m. La policía logró detenerlo después de que chocó su auto. La identidad del sospechoso y de las víctimas no han sido divulgadas. Tampoco está claro el motivo de los tiroteos. Masacre en Maine: tiroteos dejan al menos 18 muertos y hasta 13 heridos Serie de tiroteos nocturnos en Tennessee deja un muerto y 10 heridos, según la policía CRONOLOGÍA DE LOS TIROTEOSLa policía de ...

Stock market today: World shares advance as weak US jobs data back hopes for an end to rate hikes

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:01:24 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — World shares advanced on Wednesday after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 16,542.15 and the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.2% to 7,397.84. In London, the FTSE 100 was up 0.4% at 7,521.99. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.1%. In Asian trading, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.8% to 16,573.00, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.1% lower, to 2,968.93. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 2% to 33,445.90 after a top central bank official reiterated the Bank of Japan’s determination to maintain its easy credit policy until it achieves a stable level of inflation. In Seoul, the Kospi was up less than 0.1%, at 2,495.38. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 1.7% to 7,178.40. India’s Sensex gained 0.5% and the SET in Bangkok advanced 0.3%. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged 0.1% lower for its first back-to...