Author: Carlos Hansen

The fragile lagoon city of Venice has launched a pilot program to charge day-trippers a 5-euro or $5.35 entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents. Visitors who are not sleeping in Venice will have to show a QR code attesting that they have paid the tax. Visitors arriving at Venice’s main train station Thursday were greeted with large signs listing the 29 dates through July of the plan’s test phase. They are also new entrances separating tourists from residents, students and workers. Stewards were on hand to politely guide anyone unaware of the new requirements through the process of downloading the QR code to pay the fee.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) joined Jesse Watters Wednesday to discuss the massive foreign aid package that recently passed both chambers, and the difficulties Republicans have faced getting immigration-related reforms passed with a Democratic Senate and President Biden in office. “Listen, we’re dealing with the smallest majority in U.S. history. We have a one-vote margin,” Johnson said on “Jesse Watters…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who leads the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, initiated a probe into the very high prices of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. On Wednesday, Sanders wrote a letter to Novo Nordisk’s CEO, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, informing him about…

At least two current Pennsylvania state lawmakers are losing their positions after primary voters chose their opponents, including Democratic state Rep. Kevin Boyle of Philadelphia.

President Biden and former President Trump are deadlocked in a new national survey. The Quinnipiac University poll found the two tied among registered voters at 46 percent. It also found that even when other candidates for the presidency — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein — were included as options in the…

A single hurricane barreling into New England forests can undo decades of carbon storage, a new study has found. As climate change heats oceans and fuels hurricanes, worsening storms with higher-speed winds are reaching ever deeper into the region’s woodlands, according to findings published on Wednesday in Global Change Biology. Now, just one big storm can knock down…

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President Biden showcased his strategy of connecting with union workers on Wednesday by presenting himself as more similar to them and less like former President Trump. Biden has addressed crowds of union workers two times in the last week, using each opportunity to criticize Trump and to appeal to the crucial…

California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislators are introducing a new law on Wednesday designed to assist people from Arizona in getting abortions after the Arizona Supreme Court permitted a nearly complete ban on abortions to proceed. The proposed law would permit doctors in Arizona to temporarily offer abortion services to Arizona residents who visit California. Newsom stated that legislators would act quickly to approve the law. Newsom has supported the availability of abortion services beyond California, a stance that has made him popular with the main supporters of the Democratic Party. He has also become a leading advocate for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign.

In the newly endorsed strategy by ESA’s Space Safety Programme Board, OHB SE of Bremen, Germany, will furnish the satellite bus and take charge of systems integration and launch.