HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A local group is so concerned about temperatures in parts of Houston, it deployed 100 volunteers Saturday to figure out which areas are in most need of cooling down. It’s the Houston Harris Heat Action Team’s second heat mapping project. The previous one, carried out in 2020, identified Alief as Houston’s hottest community. The group responded by planting trees along a median on Bissonnet earlier this year in hopes of providing the area more shade. “When you have a concentration of concrete, black asphalt, and buildings, those areas heat up,” Jennifer Irving with the Houston Advanced Research…
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Down Main Street from Union Station and the National World War I Museum stands the imposing Kansas City Fed, one of 12 regional offices of the Federal Reserve (Fed), the US central bank. The Kansas City Fed has become synonymous with holding one of the most important economic policy symposiums each year. In late August, policymakers, central bankers and economists will gather in the picturesque town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for ‘Reassessing the effectiveness and transmission of monetary policy’. This reassessment has become necessary due to the poor performance of the Fed’s current economic models used for forecasting inflation. Back…
Arshad Nadeem was awarded his gold medal on Friday after winning the men’s javelin throw with a monstrous 92.97m throw which shattered the Olympic record a day earlier. The 27-year-old stepped up to the podium to massive applause from the crowd, holding the coveted medal up to the camera. With one hand on his chest, Nadeem sang the national anthem as he watched Pakistan’s flag being raised after 40 years at an Olympic stadium. In a post earlier today on X, Nadeem dedicated his gold medal as a gift to the nation on Independence Day. “First of all, I thank Allah Almighty…
WASHINGTON: Defending champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week’s Cincinnati Open on the heels of his triumph in the singles event at the Paris Olympics, organisers said on Thursday. The announcement of the Serbian’s decision to skip the US Open tune-up event comes four days after he beat Carlos Alcaraz in Paris to become only the fifth player to win all four singles Grand Slams and the Olympic title during their careers. “We certainly understand that it is a quick turnaround from his Olympic triumph to come to Cincinnati,” Tournament Director Bob Moran said in a news release. “His title run…
PARIS: China moved a gold medal away from sweeping the competition in diving and table tennis at the Paris Olympics with victories on Friday as Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar raised the roof with a world record-breaking performance. On another action-packed day, five-time world champion Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands retained his track cycling sprint title while there was Hungarian joy in the Seine. At the Aquatics Centre, Chen Yiwen’s consistent execution saw her triumph in the women’s 3-metre springboard, extending China’s winning streak in the 2024 Games diving events to seven. Chen was the only diver on Friday that scored…
PARIS: Substitute Sergio Camello struck twice in extra time to settle a remarkable Olympic men’s football final on Friday as Spain beat France 5-3 to take gold after Thierry Henry’s hosts had earlier staged a dramatic comeback. It had looked as though Spain were going to run away with victory at the Parc des Princes in Paris when they recovered from conceding an early goal to lead 3-1 by half-time. Enzo Millot put France in front, but a Fermin Lopez brace and an Alex Baena free-kick turned the final completely on its head. However, France staged a memorable comeback with Maghnes Akliouche…
LAHORE: Former Pakistan shot put international Zafar Ibn Yacoob has praised Arshad Nadeem for winning the gold medal at the ongoing Paris Olympics, while cautioning stakeholders not to squander the javelin thrower’s extraordinary talent. Yacoob believed that Arshad had the potential to serve Pakistan for the next 15 years and had the capability to throw over 110 metres. In an exclusive interview with Dawn, Yacoob, who set the national shot-put record in 1976 — surpassing the previous record held by Dr Tufail Bajwa, the father of Arshad Nadeem’s coach, Ali Sher Bajwa — remarked: “What Arshad accomplished at the Olympics is truly extraordinary.…
KARACHI: Arshad Nadeem walked out of shadows and straight into the history books on Friday, after his 92.97m gold medal throw and Olympic record became the cause célèbre for a nation thirsting for good news. There were tears in his eyes as the Pakistani national anthem boomed across the Stade de France after he was crowned an Olympic champion javelin thrower. “It was unbelievable,” coach Salman Butt told from Paris the day after his protégé made history. “I knew he had a big throw [in him], but that was really surprising,” he chuckled, betraying a sense of pride that his apprentice had…
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defied a major gender controversy to win gold at the Paris Olympics on Friday in front of a pulsating Roland Garros crowd that roared her to victory. Khelif claimed a unanimous points decision win over China’s Yang Liu in the women’s 66kg final and was paraded around the arena on a team member’s shoulders. Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who together with Khelif was disqualified from last year’s world championships after failing gender eligibility testing, fights in the women’s 57kg final on Saturday. “I’m very happy. For eight years this has been my dream and I’m now the Olympic champion and…
