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President Joe Biden flashed annoyance at his Secret Service detail as they redirected him at the White House after an event on Monday. The president and First Lady Jill Biden participated in a tree planting ceremony for White House groundskeeper Dale Haney to mark his 50 years of service. After the event Biden began walking away in one direction before a Secret Service agent pointed him toward the opposite direction. “Which way we going?” Biden asked. “This way,” the agent replied. “How about going the other way?” Biden responded. “This way sir,” another agent added. How about if I want...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a Democratic congressional delegation at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow Tuesday, said women around the world are more exposed to climate change’s negative impact. “It’s a threat multiplier that amplifies and accelerates existing inequities,” she said during “gender day” at the summit, according to the New York Times. “Eighty percent of people displaced by climate change globally are women.” The United Nations, which organized the summit, said women are more vulnerable to climate change due to social, economic and cultural factors. “Seventy percent of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty...

Here are some actual maintenance complaints/problems, generally known as squawks, submitted over the years by Pilots to maintenance engineers. After attending to the squawks, maintenance crews are required to log the details of the action taken to solve the pilots' squawks. Problem - Left inside main tyre almost needs replacement. Solution - Almost replaced left inside main tyre. Problem - Test flight OK, except autoland very rough. Solution - Autoland not installed on this aircraft. Problem - No. 2 propeller seeping prop fluid. Solution - No. 2 propeller seepage normal. Nos. 1, 3 and 4 propellers lack normal seepage. Problem...

Chief financial officers from multinational companies meet with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday to air gripes about the tax code under which they pay the steepest rate in the industrialized world. Companies want the rate slashed, arguing that it handicaps them competitively against their foreign-based peers. "The current tax code with its punitive corporate rates and complex maze of deductions and credits highly distorts economic decision-making," said Dean Garfield, president of the Information Technology Industry Council, whose members Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp will attend the meeting.

Argentina yesterday officially complained to Britain about a Foreign Office warning to British tourists about the dangers of visiting Argentina at the time of the Summit of the Americas.

For every Californian who dreams of importing a kangaroo or ticketing a double-parked ice cream truck, the Legislature might change state law to make you happy. Want to bet? Lawmakers have that covered, too. Cities and counties could allow Texas hold 'em poker without limits - all chips could be bet at once - under one pending proposal. From the oddball to the narrowly crafted, some of the nearly 3,000 bills proposed this year are likely to draw chuckles, raise eyebrows or spark a simple "You've got to be kidding, right?" * AB 972 would ban pregnant women from boxing...