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from Inlander
On the legendary Beatle's tour-opening Spokane Arena concert
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Electric airplanes are coming back to Moses Lake. Everett-based electric aircraft engine maker MagniX announced on Thursday that it is partnering with aircraft testing and certification company AeroTEC to modify, certify and test a De Haviland Dash 7 aircraft as part of NASA’s Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
Six years ago, the mayor of Spokane and other leaders stood in the House of Charity and talked about creating a city where every human being who needs a place to sleep can find one, at any hour of any day. The House of Charity, the shelter operated by Catholic Charities on the east end of downtown, was the center of that effort. On Wednesday, another mayor – with a different set of priorities – all but popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate the fact that the shelter would be leaving downtown, to be replaced by an expanded shelter somewhere else.
For the third year in a row, the number of Snake River spring chinook is set to increase, confounding environmental activists and politicians who loudly claim the fish are “nearing extinction.” The numbers are not hard to find. Fish counts are available every day. There is literally no dispute about the data. Why, then, are we so frequently bombarded with nonsense about Snake River salmon and the dams? It is a good example of how environmental fads take hold, leading politicians who claim to support “science” to become blinded by political echo chambers, ignore real-world data, and make wildly inaccurate claims.
When Rep. Abigail Spanberger first introduced a bill banning stock trading by members of Congress and their families, the Virginia Democrat managed to get only eight co-sponsors. So far this session, 62 – or about one of every seven House members – have signed on. It’s a similar story in the Senate. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., a once lonely voice on the issue, had just one co-sponsor for his proposed stock trading ban in the past two congressional sessions. Now, he has nine.
President Joe Biden discussed efforts to address the unprecedented flow of migration along the U.S. southern border in a Friday afternoon call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who tweeted that the conversation was “cordial” and that they “spoke of issues of interest to the bilateral relationship.”
Donald Trump’s lawyers, seeking to reverse their client’s $10,000-per-day contempt fine, provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them. The judge, though, was unmoved and refused to lift sanctions he imposed on Trump on Monday. Judge Arthur Engoron criticized the lack of detail in Trump’s affidavit, which amounted to two paragraphs, saying he should have explained methods he uses to store records and efforts he made to locate the subpoenaed files.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit to the city by the U.N. chief, a deadly attack that shattered weeks of relative calm in the capital. Ukraine’s forces, meanwhile, fought to hold off Russian attempts to advance in the south and east, Zelenskyy reported. And U.N.-backed efforts to arrange safe passage for residents trapped in the ruins of Mariupol continued. Numerous previous attempts to evacuate civilians have fallen through.
A 22-year-old former U.S. Marine was killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, his relatives told news outlets in what’s the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine. Willy Joseph Cancel was killed Monday while working for a military contracting company that sent him to Ukraine.
Thousands of firefighters continued to slow the advance of destructive wildfires in the Southwestern U.S., but officials warned they were bracing for the return Friday of the same dangerous conditions that quickly spread the wind-fueled blazes a week ago. At least 166 homes have been destroyed in one rural county in northeast New Mexico since the biggest fire currently burning in the U.S. started racing through small towns east and northeast of Santa Fe on April 22, the local sheriff said.
Pope Francis gave a new mandate to his sex abuse advisory commission Friday, telling its members to work with bishops around the world to establish special welcome centers for victims and to audit the church’s progress on fighting abuse from its new perch within the Vatican. Francis warned that without more transparency and accountability from the church, the faithful would continue to lose trust in the Catholic hierarchy after decades of revelations about priests who raped and molested children and bishops and religious superiors who covered up those crimes.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Yesterday featured a flurry of activity on climate and energy policy on Capitol Hill, with at least four hearings and news conferences scheduled around the same time. The jam-packed day kicked off with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland testifying before the House Appropriations Committee about the Biden administration's request to raise the Interior Department's budget by roughly $4 billion over current spending. Some of the increase would go toward the agency's efforts to tackle climate change. At the same time, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to discuss the White House's desire to boost her department's budget by more than $3 billion, with a hefty increase for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Granholm later testified before the House Appropriations panel on the same topic.
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