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Indian economy, hit by COVID-19, shrinks by 7.3% in 2020-21 China's manufacturing holds steady, rebound leveling off Asia Today: Vietnam to test all 9 M residents in largest city China easing birth limits further to cope with aging society Sri Lanka police investigate fire on ship off Colombo Global stocks mixed after Wall St ends May with gain Thailand reports…

Indian economy, hit by COVID-19, shrinks by 7.3% in 2020-21 China's manufacturing holds steady, rebound leveling off Asia Today: Vietnam to test all 9 M residents in largest city China easing birth limits further to cope with aging society Sri Lanka police investigate fire on ship off Colombo Global stocks mixed after Wall St ends May with gain Thailand reports…

United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, Texas, has been assigned a patent developed by Susan Dunham, San Antonio, Texas, for “systems and methods for analyzing and visualizing traffic accident risk.” The full-text of the patent can be found at https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? Written by Ajita Mishra; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.

Prices, prices, prices. 06 photo. It comes as concerns about serious inflation damaging the global economy have reached fever pitch, particularly since recent Labor Department data showed that American inflation rose 4.2% over the 12 months ended April– the highest since the global financial crisis of 2007-09. In the euro area, inflation seems certain during…

—Several hundred people in New Zealand were evacuated from their homes Monday with some recounting dramatic helicopter rescues as heavy rain caused widespread flooding in the Canterbury region. Authorities declared a state of emergency after some places received as much as 40 centimeters of rain over the weekend and into Monday. Paul Adams told news…

The U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have thinned by hand, machines and prescribed burns about 1.8 million acres of forest and brushland since last season, officials from the agencies told The Associated Press. The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres in the U.S. All but 4% of it lies in the West, including Alaska, with some of it…

Melissa Vatterott, food and farm policy director at the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, has issued a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture notice entitled “Request for Comments: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”. The Missouri Coalition for the Environment appreciates the opportunity to comment…

Land Core, Los Angeles, California, has issued a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture notice entitled “Request for Comments: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”. Land Core works closely with the USDA, legislators, producers, soil scientists, NGOs and financial institutions across the country to develop federal policy…

Amy Wong, policy director at Friends of Family Farmers, Walterville, Oregon, has issued a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture notice entitled “Request for Comments: Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad”. I am submitting this comment on behalf of Friends of Family Farmers, a nonprofit organization promoting and…

May 30— A photo of brick-laden rubble taken on a late-spring morning 10 years ago sits on Steve Joel's bookshelf. It's one of the only visible reminders the superintendent keeps around in his third-floor office at Lincoln Public Schools headquarters of May 30, 2011, when a fire razed the district's office building. It's sleek new headquarters opened in 2013,…

The House Ways and Means Committee issued the following testimony by Khalil Shahyd, senior policy advisor on equity, environment and just communities at the Natural Resources Defense Council, as part of a hybrid hearing entitled “Leveraging the Tax Code for Infrastructure Investment”:. I am a Senior Policy Advisor on Equity, Environment and Just Communities…

May 29— Pulaski and Laurel homeowners who had damage during the flooding of late February through early March received some good news Friday when it was announced that both counties were on the list of those now able to seek individual aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Both Pulaski and Laurel already were eligible for public assistance from…

South Carolina State College students Henry Smith and Samuel Hammond, along with 19- year-old Wilkinson High School student Delano Middleton, were killed. Delano Middleton was the uncle of Zachary's father, Alonzo Middleton, a longtime Orangeburg businessman who recently retired after 36 years in the insurance business. “It's about the personhood of Delano…

May 29— Alonzo D. Middleton knows the value of hard work, taking what he learned from his humble farming roots in Orangeburg to become a successful businessman who served the local community he grew up in for more than 30 years. His start with Allstate began as early as 1985, with Middleton first serving out of an insurance booth in the old Sears Roebuck& Company…

Ann B. Burns, president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, has issued a public comment on the Internal Revenue Service notice entitled “Public Recommendations Invited on Items to be Included on the 2021-2022 Priority Guidance Plan”. The comment was written on May 26, 2021, and posted on May 27, 2021:. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel…

In 2005, FERC also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Corps expanding upon this agreement “to further streamline respective regulatory processes” consistent with the executive order./ 85. In the context of this executive order, the Administration cited as a best practice for “pre-application/application improvements” FERC's certificate…

The Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority— or Pennie— is the state's health insurance marketplace. It helps accessibility and affordability of individual health coverage for individuals and families by connecting them with coverage providers, Scott Yeager, Pennie's outreach manager, said. Due to COVID-19, Pennie has extended its enrollment…

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Springfield, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent developed by two co-inventors for a “system and method for ingestible drug delivery.” The co-inventors are Michal Knas, Monson, Massachusetts, and Jiby John, Suffield, Connecticut. Written by Ajita Mishra; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Springfield, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for “systems and methods for chat sessions involving multiple chatbots.” The co-inventors are Michal Knas, Monson, Massachusetts, Jiby John, Suffield, Connecticut, Payton A. Shubrick, Springfield, Massachusett, and Damon Ryan Depaolo,…