NORAD's Santa tracker was Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kidsROCHESTER — Christmas is coming. And you know what that means? Complaints about Rochester post office’s chronic mail service delays are on the rise as its undermanned staff copes with a seasonal surge of Christmas packages, parcels and cards. On Thursday, Minnesota’s two U.S. senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, added their voices to the chorus of complaints, expressing concern in a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that mail delivery and staffing issues in the Rochester area “continue to be sources of stress and frustration.” ADVERTISEMENT “We are very concerned by reports of Minnesotans going four or more days without mail delivery, including when their informed delivery tracking and local post office promise imminent deliveries,” Klobuchar and Smith state in their Dec. 12, 2024, letter. The letter notes that Minnesota customers rely on the Postal Service to receive paychecks, Social Security benefits, and life-saving medications. “Even delays of one day can be difficult and harmful,” they wrote. “With the Minnesota-North Dakota District currently reporting on-time deliveries at 85.76%, this leaves a significant gap for individuals who rely on the Postal Service for essential services.” Todd Holm, Rochester’s postmaster, and Angela Bye, district manager of USPS Minnesota-North Dakota District, were unavailable for comment. The letter comes two days after DeJoy testified before Congress on the agency’s performance and modernization efforts. The hearing descended into a yelling match when Rep. Rich McCormick, a Georgia Republican, lambasted DeJoy for his poor performance heading the agency, according to the Daily Mail Online. “You are responsible for the fall of the Postal Service,” McCormick told DeJoy. “No, Congress is responsible for the fall of the Postal Service,” the postmaster replied. “I am trying to fix the Postal Service.” ADVERTISEMENT Under DeJoy, the agency has sought to add more than 100,000 workers to its ranks. During the hearing, the committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, noted that the USPS lost nearly $10 billion in 2024. The estimated loss for USPS next year will be $6.5 billion. When DeJoy gave himself an “A” for his performance, McCormick exploded, “You do not get an A grade. You were graded by the United States people and they don’t use your service anymore.” In the midst of his harangue, DeJoy held up his hands to cover his ears to mock the lawmaker. The USPS Office of the Inspector General, in an audit released in June, revealed widespread issues with USPS management in Minnesota, citing nearly 100,000 pieces of delayed mail in the facilities inspectors visited on one day alone. The report also highlighted a shortage of 551 employees across the MN-ND district. Last year, the Rochester Post Bulletin reported a 17% decrease in postal carriers on Rochester streets from previous years even as its coverage area has expanded as the city added more streets and people. The mismatch between dwindling manpower and growing demand for its services prompted one Rochester mail carrier to predict postal service was set up to “fail gloriously this holiday season.” ADVERTISEMENT This Christmas season looks to be no different. A veteran Rochester mail carrier told the Post Bulletin Thursday that little headway is being made on the hiring front. At best, it is treading water as the new people hired on a monthly basis barely keep pace with those retiring. “They’re putting next to no effort in hiring,” the carrier said. “It’s kind of basically just one step above word of mouth. No radio ads, not TV ads, no nothing.” He said the problem is not unique to Rochester as staff in other districts are putting in 60-hour work weeks. The workload hurts retention efforts, because few people want to work a 60-hour job. The carrier said the inadequate manpower is counterproductive financially, because unionized mail carriers are getting paid double time and almost $100 an hour when a new hire could be paid $21 an hour for straight pay. He added that mail carriers are instructed by management to give priority to packages over Christmas cards and other holiday missives, “which are just sitting idle.” “Our frustration — and no one in the post office will admit this on the record — but it’s Amazon that gets priority over the mail,” he said. “The packages have to be delivered. The mail can sit. They won’t officially say that, but that’s what we get yelled at for if we bring packages back.” ADVERTISEMENT In their letter to DeJoy, Klobuchar and Smith ask for responses to a series of questions: Were he or his staff aware that some Rochester neighborhoods were going four or more days without deliveries? What is the U.S. Postal Service doing to address the mail delays affecting the Rochester area? What are the current staffing levels for urban and rural carriers, career and non-career, for Minnesota and Rochester? How many seasonal employees did the district aim to hire and how many were successfully onboarded, for Minnesota and Rochester? “We appreciate the hard work that postal workers do to deliver mail, especially through the peak season and winter weather conditions,” the letter states. “However, staffing shortages continue to affect service across Minnesota, including Rochester, and this puts a heavy burden on postal workers to make up for the staffing shortages.”NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic mayor expressing an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue violent criminals in the city while Trump promises a mass deportation strategy. The mayor's meeting with Tom Homan, who will oversee the southern and northern borders and be responsible for deportation efforts in the Trump administration, came as Adams has welcomed parts of the president-elect's hardline immigration platform. Adams told reporters at a brief news conference that he and Homan agreed on pursuing people who commit violent crimes in the city but did not disclose additional details or future plans. “We’re not going to be a safe haven for those who commit repeated violent crimes against innocent migrants, immigrants and longstanding New Yorkers. That was my conversation today with the border czar, to figure out how to go after those individuals who are repeatedly committing crimes in our city,” Adams told reporters. In the weeks since Trump's election win, Adams has mused about potentially scaling back the city’s so-called sanctuary policies and coordinating with the incoming Trump administration on immigration. He has also said migrants accused of crimes shouldn't have due process rights under the Constitution, though he later walked back those comments. The mayor further stunned Democrats in the city when he sidestepped questions in two televised interviews last week on whether he would consider changing parties to become a Republican, telling journalists that he was part of the “American party.” Adams later clarified that he would remain a Democrat. For Adams, a centrist Democrat known for quarreling with the city's progressive left, the recent comments on immigration follow frustration with the Biden Administration over its immigration policies and a surge of international migrants in the city. He has maintained that his positions have not changed and argues he is trying to protect New Yorkers, pointing to the law-and-order platform he has staked out throughout his political career and during his successful campaign for mayor. At his news conference Thursday, Adams reiterated his commitment to New York’s generous social safety net. “We’re going to tell those who are here, who are law-abiding, to continue to utilize the services that are open to the city, the services that they have a right to utilize, educating their children, health care, public protection,” he said. “But we will not be the safe haven for those who commit violent acts.” While the education of all children present in the U.S. is already guaranteed by a Supreme Court ruling, New York also offers social services like healthcare and emergency shelter to low-income residents, including those in the country illegally. City and state grants also provide significant access to lawyers, which is not guaranteed in the immigration court as they are in the criminal court. Still, Adams’ recent rhetoric has been seen by some critics as an attempt to cozy up to Trump, who could potentially offer a presidential pardon in his federal corruption case. Adams has been charged with accepting luxury travel perks and illegal campaign contributions from a Turkish official and other foreign nationals looking to buy his influence. He has pleaded not guilty. Homan, who was Trump’s former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, also met this week with Republicans in Illinois, where he called on Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, to start negotiations over how Trump's mass deportation plans, according to local media. Separately, New York City officials this week announced continued efforts to shrink a huge emergency shelter system for migrants because of a steady decline in new arrivals. Among the planned shelter closures is a massive tent complex built on a federally owned former airport in Brooklyn, which advocates have warned could be a prime target for Trump's mass deportation plan. Elsewhere, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. Izaguirre reported from Albany, N.Y.
OAKLAND — Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference Friday to pressure Oakland officials to scale back a policy that only allows the cops to chase someone if there’s reasonable suspicion they have committed a violent crime. Calling the city’s policy an “extreme outlier,” Newsom first announced plans to extend a “surge” in California Highway Patrol support to combat retail theft, vehicle theft and sideshows in the East Bay. Then he said the popular program would only continue if the city meets him halfway. “We’re at that point in time that we need to see some commiserate support and changes as it relates to policing here in Oakland in order to consider extending that state-subsidized partnership,” Newsom said Friday, flanked by CHP officers, a local bishop and the city’s Chamber of Commerce CEO. He later added, “You can be drunk, you can run a red light, you can be close to side-swiping a school bus during the morning hours, right in front of a police officer, and the pursuit policy in Oakland says we cannot engage that suspect.” Newsom’s announcement comes just weeks after Oakland voters moved overwhelmingly to recall both the city’s mayor and the county’s district attorney, largely due to concerns over increases in property crimes. In a statewide landslide, voters also supported Proposition 36, a law opposed by Newsom, which opens up more avenues to charging shoplifters with a felony and imprisoning repeat offenders. “(Voters) want change. They’re demanding change,” Newsom said, referencing both recall elections. The CHP partnership program, implemented in 2023, simply adds officers to assist in specific “proactive” enforcement of property and nuisance crimes, like organized retail theft and sideshows. The governor’s office touted 1,400 arrests through the partnership this year, and says it resulted in $13 million in stolen goods being returned. The program has been seen as a band aid for cities with understaffed police departments, and exists in San Bernardino, Bakersfield and the Bay Area. CHP plans to extend its efforts in Vallejo as well, officials announced Friday. Newsom has attempted to convince Oakland leaders to do away with the pursuit policy before, including in an open letter to the city penned last July. The city’s police commission declined to recommend policy changes in September, citing the dangers of high-speed chases, but also concerns that most chases happen in the non-white, lower income parts of the city and that fewer chases would help build trust in those communities. Ironically, the policy doesn’t apply to CHP officers operating in Oakland, who say they’ve been met with surprise when they’ve chased suspects and forced them to stop.
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The companies then sought creditor protection in Ontario in order to negotiate a global settlement with their creditors. All of the legal proceedings against them were put on hold during the talks. That order has now been extended until Jan. 31, 2025.
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Motorcycle rider pinched between two trucks in gruesome freeway collisionOur community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers have formally asked a judge to throw out his hush money criminal conviction, arguing that continuing the case would present unconstitutional "disruptions to the institution of the presidency". In a filing made public on Tuesday, Trump's lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M Merchan that dismissal is warranted because of the extraordinary circumstances of his impending return to the White House. "Wrongly continuing proceedings in this failed lawfare case disrupts President Trump’s transition efforts," the lawyers continued, before citing the "overwhelming national mandate granted to him by the American people on November 5 2024". Trump's lawyers also cited President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of his son , Hunter Biden, who had been convicted of tax and gun charges. " President Biden asserted that his son was 'selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted', and ''treated differently'," Trump's legal team wrote. The Manhattan district attorney, they claimed, had engaged in the type of political theatre "that President Biden condemned". Prosecutors will have until December 9 to respond. They have said they will fight any efforts to dismiss the case but have indicated openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump’s second term ends in 2029. Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile , select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. In their filing on Monday, Trump’s lawyers dismissed the idea of holding off sentencing until Trump is out of office as a “ridiculous suggestion”. Following Trump’s election victory last month, Judge Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed his sentencing , previously scheduled for late November, to allow the defence and prosecution to weigh in on the future of the case. He also delayed a decision on Trump’s prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds. Trump has been fighting for months to reverse the conviction . It involved efforts to conceal a 130,000 dollar payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose affair allegations threatened to disrupt his 2016 campaign. He has denied any wrongdoing. Trump takes office on January 20. Judge Merchan has not set a timetable for a decision. The defence filing was signed by Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial. They have since been selected by the president-elect to fill senior roles at the Justice Department. A dismissal would erase Trump’s historic conviction, sparing him the cloud of a criminal record and possible prison sentence . Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office. Judge Merchan could also decide to uphold the verdict and proceed to sentencing or delay the case until Trump leaves office. And he can also wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump’s parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court or choose some other option. Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to Ms Daniels , just before the 2016 presidential election, to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier. He says they did not and denies any wrongdoing. Prosecutors cast the payout as part of a Trump-driven effort to keep voters from hearing salacious stories about him. Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Ms Daniels. Trump later reimbursed him, and Trump’s company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses – concealing what they really were , prosecutors alleged. Trump has pledged to appeal against the verdict if the case is not dismissed. He and his lawyers said the payments to Mr Cohen were properly categorised as legal expenses for legal work. Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond. Sign up to our daily newsletter .
After Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy made posts on the social platform X this week endorsing an expansion of the visa program for hiring foreign-born highly skilled workers, the two tech billionaires faced backlash from supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over how that program would operate within the new administration’s immigration agenda. The two argued that tech companies, including Musk’s, rely on foreign workers for operations, setting off a debate among Trump’s supporters on Musk’s social media platform X. While the president-elect had restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first term and has criticized them in past statements, his 2024 campaign suggested an openness to granting some H-1B visas to foreign-born workers who graduate from a U.S.-based university. Ramaswamy, who is a first-generation U.S. citizen after his parents immigrated from India, chimed in to defend Musk and U.S. companies that look overseas for labor, criticizing American culture for its veneration of “mediocrity over excellence” by citing popular American sitcoms as evidence. Ramaswamy said a culture that celebrates “Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers.” Many Trump supporters, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), immediately criticized Musk and Ramaswamy for their statements, suggesting that an expansion of the H-1B program would undermine the president-elect’s new administration’s push to prioritize American workers. Former U.N. Ambassador and presidential candidate Nikki Haley also criticized the remarks, calling on Trump to focus on American workers over those who are foreign-born. Several Democrats, however, defended Musk and Ramaswamy’s comments on the H-1B program. “Attracting legal, talented immigrants to the United States benefits everyone, and the system must be streamlined and reformed,” Thanedar wrote.SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in TMC the metals company Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadlines - TMCSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise decision to impose martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years — and then just as swiftly reverse course — sparked whiplash in the country’s foreign-traded assets and caught global markets off guard, at one point sending U.S. Treasury yields lower as traders sought a haven from potential instability. In an emergency address delivered live to the nation, Yoon stunned voters, lawmakers and investors alike by declaring martial law on Tuesday after accusing the opposition of trying to paralyze his administration. The decision, Yoon said, was made to protect freedom and constitutional order, but the market’s early verdict was swift: South Korean-related ETFs, its currency and most actively traded stocks all sharply weakened, while U.S. government bonds and even bitcoin were also briefly caught up in a risk-off flight to quality.Why The T-6 Texan II Is Becoming A Leading Military Training Aircraft