New Houma police chief selected by parish president, awaiting vote of approval

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2024 US House election results: Follow live counts in races for House of Representatives
To have control of the U.S. House of Representatives, a party needs to control at least 218 seats.
Yahoo Finance
Stock market 'exuberance' looms ahead with Trump win
Strategists believe the massive stock market surge after Trump's victory is the start of a larger rally to follow.
AFP
End in sight for 40-year renovation of giant Brussels courthouse
The monumental Palace of Justice, a Brussels landmark covered in scaffolding for 40 years, has become more of a symbol of Belgian maladministration than the rule of law.The first scaffolds are to be taken down by the end of this year, and Michel promised that a metal cage wrapping the building will be gone by 2030, calling the delay "totally unacceptable".
USA TODAY
Southern California wildfire moving 'dangerously fast' as flames destroy homes
Homes were burned and thousands evacuated after a fast-moving wildfire sprang up in Ventura County, California.
AFP
Private jet carbon emissions soar 46%: study
The carbon footprint from private jet travel grew 46 percent between 2019 and 2023 and will keep rising unless the ultra-luxury industry is regulated, according to new research published Thursday.Researchers assessed flight tracker data from roughly 18.7 million individual charters flown between 2019 and 2023 representing the vast majority of global private aviation.
Associated Press
Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars
Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds. About a quarter million of the super wealthy — worth a total of $31 trillion — last year emitted 17.2 million tons (15.6 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide flying in private jets, according to Thursday's study in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment. Private jet emissions jumped 46% from 2019 to 2023, according to the European research team that calculated those figures by examining more than 18.6 million flights of about 26,000 airplanes over five years.
Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: Nasdaq surges as Nvidia, Amazon lead tech rally ahead of Fed decision
Investors are drilling down into the impact of Trump's expected policies as they wait for a Fed interest-rate decision.
AFP
Zelensky says 'suicidal' to offer Putin concessions on Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said it would be "suicidal" for Europe to offer the Kremlin concessions to halt its invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow demanded the West enter direct talks on ending the war.Hours before the strikes, Russia demanded that Kyiv's allies enter into negotiations with Moscow if they want to halt the brutish attacks on Ukrainians.
CBS News
Should you sell your gold investment as the economy improves? Experts weigh in
Investors may want to consider selling gold to pursue faster growth opportunities or keeping it as a safety net.
Reuters
Chinese rover helps find evidence of ancient Martian shoreline
With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today. Scientists said on Thursday that data obtained by Zhurong, which landed in the northern lowlands of Mars in 2021, and by orbiting spacecraft indicated the presence of geological features indicative of an ancient coastline. The rover analyzed rock on the Martian surface in a location called Utopia Planitia, a large plain in the planet's northern hemisphere.
Associated Press
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding a child and two women embracing as they die. “We were able to disprove or challenge some of the previous narratives built upon how these individuals were kind of found in relation to each other,” said Alissa Mittnik of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
AFP
Chinese rover finds signs of ancient ocean on Mars
A Chinese rover has found new evidence to support the theory that Mars was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ancient coastline where water may once have lapped, a study said Thursday.In 2021, China's Zhurong rover landed on a plain in the Martian northern hemisphere's Utopia region, where previous indications of ancient water had been spotted.
Time
Why the U.S. Can't Bridge the Divide at the Kitchen Table
Kara Alaimo examines why anger over the Dobbs decision wasn’t enough to stop Trump’s re-election.
USA TODAY
Old image of ballots in truck misrepresented as proof of 2024 voter fraud | Fact check
The image shared to social media predates the 2024 election and shows ballots being taken to a post office in 2020 in Connecticut.
CNN
Reconstruction reveals face of a 17th century ‘vampire’ in Poland
Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, intended to stop her from rising from the dead.
AFP
Ex-banker and Scholz ally: Germany's new finance minister
Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's closest advisers, most recently as a state secretary.But in spite of the huge pay cut, he stayed -- and three years later, when Scholz became chancellor, switched to being an economic adviser in the chancellery.
Yahoo Finance
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO: Media consolidation may pick up under Trump administration
Warner Bros. Discover CEO David Zaslav said Trump's second term could provide an opportunity for more consolidation in the media industry.
CNN
2 Jewish DePaul students attacked while showing support for Israel, Chicago university says
Two Jewish students at DePaul University in Chicago who were “visibly showing their support for Israel” were targeted Wednesday by masked attackers, according to a statement from the university’s president.
CNN
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly announces cancer diagnosis
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly has esophagus cancer, the longtime Virginia congressman announced in a statement Thursday.
AFP
Germany's Scholz pressed to call vote after coalition collapse
Germany's embattled Olaf Scholz faced heavy pressure Thursday to quickly call elections after his unruly coalition collapsed just as Donald Trump celebrated his return to the White House."The early end of the coalition leaves Germany somewhat rudderless in what could be an exceptionally turbulent time right after Donald Trump won the US election," Berenberg bank analyst Holger Schmieding said in a research note.

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