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WATCH LIVE | 2023 International Women of Courage award ceremony at the White House

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

WASHINGTON D.C. — First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken host the 17th annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award Ceremony. The ceremony takes place at the White House for the first time in the award's history. Girl Scout cookie shortage sparks resale market The following is an excerpt from the U.S. Department of State's website:Now in its 17th year, the Secretary of State’s IWOC Award recognizes women from around the world who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equity and equality, and the empowerment of women and girls, in all their diversity, and more, often at great personal risk and sacrifice.In a typical year, the IWOC awardees are invited to Washington D.C. to receive their awards from the Secretary of State and the First Lady in a ceremony held on or in proximity to International Women’s Day (March 8th). The recipients then travel across the United States to par...

City airport commission to discuss Feb. runway incident, AUS construction updates, other agenda items

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The City of Austin’s Airport Advisory Commission (AAC) will meet Wednesday at 3 p.m. to discuss several agenda items, including airport construction updates, as well as AUS staffing changes.The AAC said it would also provide an update on the possible runway incursion and overflight at AUS in February.The National Transportation Safety Board initially tweeted about the incident Feb. 4 and said it involved a Southwest Airlines plane and a FedEx cargo plane.This rendering from the National Transportation Safety Board shows the flight paths of a Southwest plane in red and a FedEx cargo plane in purple when they came close to colliding Feb. 4, 2023. (NTSB Photo) Timeline shared of near-miss between 2 planes at Austin’s airport An action item on Wednesday’s agenda was to authorize the execution of a construction contract for the Airport Expansion and Development Program Building Demolition project.The AAC said the project’s contract with STR Constructors, LLC, ...

RESULTS: This is the best KXAN viewer photo of February 2023, as voted by you

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Here at KXAN, we get hundreds of photos sent to us each month by viewers just like you.We want to showcase some of the best pictures we receive, so we narrowed them down to our 10 favorites for the month. Unsurprisingly, February's picks are dominated by the ice storm. We received thousands — no really, thousands — of photos during and after the storm.The winning photo moves on to represent February in the best viewer photos of the year competition once 2023 is said and done. Here are the results:#10. Damage from Above (1.9% of votes)Northwest Austin, Feb. 1. Courtesy Scott Ramsay Images.Tree damage in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. (Courtesy Scott Ramsay Images)#9: Hutto Storm Clouds (2.0% of votes)Hutto, Feb. 22. Courtesy Sergio Martinez.Storm clouds seen from Adam Orgain Park in Hutto on Feb. 22, 2023. (Courtesy Sergio Martinez)#8: Northwest Sunset (3.1% of votes)Northwest Austin, Feb. 4. Courtesy Frankie Hinds.Sunset seen through tree branches in northwest Aus...

Report: Women in Central Texas paid 40% less than men, 1 in 3 women below poverty line

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A report released by the Women’s Fund at Austin Community Foundation (ACF) on Wednesday provides a snapshot of the status of women in Central Texas, and makes a startling claim: per dollar, women here make 40% less than men, nearly double the national pay gap of 20%.The report is titled "Women’s Issues are Community Issues" and was created with data from The University of Texas at Austin's RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service CONNECT Fellows program. The study also used publicly available datasets.Other key takeaways from the study include:Women's labor force participation has not returned to pre-COVID numbersIncreased barriers around reproductive health make it harder for women to decide their health and family sizeWomen outpace men in educational attainmentTravis County has the highest number of childcare deserts Can the U.S. close a gender pay gap widened by the pandemic? Meagan Anderson Longley, vice president of community impact at ACF, said that ...

St. Paul to move to one-sided parking ban as Twin Cities expected to see more snow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

St. Paul will move to a one-sided parking ban starting at 8 a.m. Friday.Mayor Melvin Carter and other city officials will announce the ban at 2 p.m. today. The announcement will be streamed on city’s Facebook page.The move comes six weeks after Minneapolis instituted a one-sided parking ban.The decision is in advance of another 3 to 5 inches of snow expected over the next couple days. With the coming snow, the Twin Cities could earn a spot among the 10 snowiest winters on record.Less than an inch of snow is expected Wednesday. More is expected overnight, with the heaviest snow falling in the afternoon and evening Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.The southern metro is expected to see the highest snow totals. The weather service said there is a 40 to 70 percent chance of southern Minnesota, including parts of the south metro, seeing 6 inches or more of snow.Another chance for snow comes Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures are expected to remain in the 30s a...

Amsterdam Police arrest alleged drug dealer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Police investigations into suspected drug dealing in the area of Sloane Avenue resulted in an arrest on Tuesday. According to the Amsterdam Police Department, Megan L. Basini, 35, sold a police source a controlled substance. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! An arrest warrant was issued and Basini was taken into custody for the charges of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. She was processed at the Amsterdam Police Headquarters and arraigned at the Montgomery County Court. Basini was released on her own recognizance.

Heavy metal band Quiet Riot to perform in Cohoes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

COHOES, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Quiet Riot is making a stop at Cohoes Music Hall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their "Metal Health" album. The band will be performing on October 13 at 7:30 p.m. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Quiet Riot was the first heavy metal band to top the pop chart at Billboard magazine in 1983. The band is best known for the songs "Cum on Feel the Noize," "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)," and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now."Tickets are currently on sale. You can buy tickets on the Cohoes Music Hall website.

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back—if you want it. Get all of the latest news, weather, sports, and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work—only to find himself locked out, along with 200 others. He might have figured, as others before him have in the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the company, that he was out of a job.Instead, after nine days of no answer from Twitter as to whether or not he was still employed, Thorleifsson decided to tweet at Musk to see if he could catch the billionaire's attention and get an answer to his Schrödinger’s job situation. “Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday. Twitter’s pared-down staff struggles with misinformation Eventually, he got his answer af...

‘World War II hasn’t stopped’: St. Louis residents want relief for radiation sickness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

Kim Visintine said her son had his first chemotherapy treatment at three weeks old. A year later, Visintine and her husband had $100,000 in medical debt. Six years later, their son died.But it wasn’t until she found hometown friends on Facebook that Visintine connected her son’s cancer – a rare form of brain tumor called a glioblastoma multiforme — to Coldwater Creek, which runs through north St. Louis County. Visintine and other current and former residents started to realize just how many of their loved ones were sick and how many cases of rare cancers could be connected back to the area.The likely culprit, they came to believe, was radioactive waste left over from the Manhattan Project. “We are the victims of friendly fire from World War II,” Visintine told a Missouri House committee Tuesday evening. Visitine and other current and former St. Louis area residents packed a Missouri Capitol committee room to implore lawmakers to pass legislation that would f...

Missouri House gives initial approval for stricter sex trafficking laws

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:39:08 GMT

Missouri’s laws surrounding the trafficking of minors might be changing after a bill received initial approval by legislators Tuesday.House members debated a bill proposed by Rep. Jeff Coleman, R-Grain Valley, that would modify the offense of “enticing a child.”The current statute defines a victim as a child less than 15 years old, but this legislation would increase that age to less than 17.Currently, penalty distinctions for patronizing prostitution are under the age of 14 and older than 14. This bill would increase the age to 15, and make the under the age of 15 distinction a Class B felony rather than a Class D felony.According to World Population Review, Missouri ranks 5th in human trafficking with 4.3 cases per 100,000 people.Rep. Barbara Phifer, D-St. Louis, questioned why 17-year-olds are not included in this legislation. According to Coleman, they cannot be included because of Missouri’s current age of consent.Under current Missouri law, the age of consent is 17 y...