Environmental groups sue Shell over air quality at massive new Pennsylvania petrochemical plant

New Delhi: India recorded 801 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a sharp decline from the previous count, the union health ministry data showed on Monday. The number of active cases have also declined to 14,493. In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported to more than 44.9 million cases and 5,31, 778 covid related deaths.

The $14-billion deal that will see Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker, set up a manufacturing presence in Canada for the first time in history, took a year of negotiations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders will likely resume talks on Tuesday at the White House over the debt limit, the president said Sunday, as the nation continues to edge closer to its legal borrowing authority with no agreement in sight.The meeting was initially supposed to be Friday, but was abruptly postponed so staff-level talks could continue before Biden and the four congressional leaders huddled for a second time. Administration and congressional officials said Sunday that a meeting has not been finalized, although Tuesday was the likeliest option as Biden returns to Washington on Monday and is scheduled to leave for the Group of 7 summit in Japan on Wednesday.Biden did not detail much progress in the talks, but said he remained hopeful that an agreement could be reached with Republicans to avoid what would be an unprecedented debt default, which could trigger a financial catastrophe."I remain optimistic because I’m a congenital optimist," Biden told reporters while out for a bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A 46-year-old man is dead after he was shot multiple times on a West Philadelphia street.16th Philadelphia Police District officers responded to the 4800 block of Wallace Street Saturday night, around 10:15, on the report of a person with a weapon, according to authorities.When they arrived, they discovered the victim on the street. He was shot in the back and abdomen several times.Police rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died.Officials say no arrests have been made, but a weapon was found.

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A partially destroyed house is seen in Teknaf on May 14, 2023, during the Cyclone Mochas landfall. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images) Powerful Cyclone Mocha made landfall Sunday afternoon, local time, near Sittwe, Myanmar, ripping the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people, with officials expecting extensive damage and losses as the storm continues to spin inland.More than 100,000 people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sought shelter in monasteries, schools and religious sites ahead of Cyclone Mocha, which had maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane, in the hours leading up to landfall Sunday, according to the U.S.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The city of Buffalo will pause Sunday to mark the passing of one year since a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others in a racist attack that targeted Black people at a city supermarket.A moment of silence followed by the chiming of church bells at 2:28 p.m. will honor victims of the massacre at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022."The racially motivated mass shooting shook our community to its core.

New Delhi: Use of technology and digital health tools can help in achieving the universal health coverage, said the union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, while addressing the G7 health ministerial meeting on health innovation in Nagasaki, Japan on Sunday.  The meeting was held to discuss the priorities, implementation and utilization of health innovations like digital health towards ensuring universal health coverage. Health Ministers of the G7 countries and invited “Outreach 4" countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand participated in the meeting.  Mandaviya said, “Use of technology & digital health tools are an enabler and equalizer which can facilitate strengthened health service delivery.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of volunteers all across Philadelphia took part in a massive clean-up to help launch the unofficial start of the park season in Philly.Kathryn Ott Lovell is the Commissioner for Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and she says this truly is a grassroots effort."We are so grateful to our thousands of park friends, regular residents who just come out of their homes and, not just today, but every day of the year and just love their parks," Lovell said.Morgan Doyle is a Brewerytown resident, but came Saturday to do her part, not just with the cleanup, but also with impacting climate change, in a positive manner. "Coming and planting trees, removing invasive species, cleaning up trash – those things make me feel a little less stressed about the doom and gloom of climate change."Philadelphia has one of the most robust park systems in the nation and Lovell says we’re very fortunate."Philadelphia parks make up about 11 percent of our city’s total land mass, so that’s really incredible for a city our size," Lovell explained.

CAMDEN, N.J. - The seemingly never-ending violence in Philadelphia has local moms calling for change. On this Mother’s Day weekend, some women with a group called Moms Demand Action say they don’t want gifts or breakfast n bed. They want people to demand change in Washington D.C.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting that killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire.The tenuous cease-fire appeared to take effect just after 10 p.m., with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt.

debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID-19 era of government spending to cope with the pandemic and rebuild is giving way to a new focus on tailored investments and stemming deficits. President Joe Biden has said recouping unspent coronavirus money is “on the table" in budget talks with Congress. While the White House has threatened to veto Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill with its “devastating cuts" to federal programs, the administration has signaled a willingness to consider other budget caps.

Stock image of terraced housing in England. via Getty Creative Images A British housing association apologized after discovering a tenant’s body in his home possibly six years after he died. "Everyone at Bolton at Home has been deeply shocked by this, and we realize it will concern and upset people to learn his body remained undiscovered for such a long time," Noel Sharpe, chief executive of Bolton At Home, said in a statement. "It's completely unacceptable to us that something like this has happened, and we've taken action to reduce the risk of it happening again," Sharpe added.

"The North Olmsted Police Department will not tolerate this type of activity in our city," Chief of Police Bob Wagner said in a Friday statement. "We will continue to investigate and prosecute those individuals that come to our city and violate our l Authorities in Ohio have arrested 10 men in a human trafficking sting. The men, who range in age from 30 to 55, were arrested Thursday on sex charges in North Olmsted by the members of the Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force.On the same day, a Lorain County man who was previously convicted of 31 human trafficking offenses was sentenced to life in prison.The arrests were part of a one-day operation held in conjunction with the North Olmsted Police Department, Westshore Enforcement Bureau and the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to identify those providing and purchasing commercial sex.OHIO BODYCAM FOOTAGE CAPTURES SUSPECTS HIDING IN DRYER, UNDER BLANKETS DURING DRUG BUSTOne of the men taken into custody, 35-year-old Errol Jackson, of Lorain, is a registered Tier III sex offender, the Ohio attorney general's office said.

Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (C), who set up the Good News International Church in 2003 and is accused of inciting cult followers to starve to death "to meet Jesus", talks to his relatives as he appeared in the dock, at the Shanzu la NAIROBI, Kenya - The death toll linked to a doomsday cult in Kenya hit 201 Saturday after police exhumed 22 more bodies, most of them bearing signs of starvation, according to the coast regional commissioner.The bodies are believed to be those of followers of a pastor based in coastal Kenya, Paul Mackenzie. He's alleged to have ordered congregants to starve to death in order to meet Jesus.More than 600 people are still missing.Mackenzie, who was arrested last month, remains in custody.

Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina, speaks about investments in affordable, accessible high-speed internet at the Carole Hoefener Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Photographer: Grant Baldwin/Bloomberg via Getty RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - In front of an exuberant crowd, North Carolina’s Democratic governor vetoed legislation Saturday that would have banned nearly all abortions in his state after 12 weeks of pregnancy.About 1,000 abortion-rights activists and voters watched on a plaza in the capital of Raleigh as Gov.

CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. - Emergency crews were called to battle a blaze that left several homes heavily damaged, and a firefighter injured in South Jersey this weekend.Flames grew to a 3-alarm fire at a condominium complex on Gregorys Way in Voorhees Saturday morning.Officials say all residents were able to self-evacuate their homes without any injuries as the fire spread to eight units in total.Footage from the scene showed severe damage to several condos with at least one roof appearing to collapse.MORE HEADLINES:One firefighter sustained a minor injury at the scene.

Linda Yaccarino (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images) Elon Musk on Friday officially named former NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter.Yaccarino, who is known as the "velvet hammer" in the ad world according to the Wall Street Journal, stepped down as global chair of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal on Friday morning. She will succeed Musk in six weeks.

PHILADELPHIA - Today is the day to give an innocent animal a second chance at a happy, healthy life!If adopting a new pet has been on your mind lately, the Pennsylvania SPCA has just made that decision even easier.Adoption fees have been waived all-day Saturday as part of the nationwide "Empty the Shelters" event to find forever homes for animals in need.In Pennsylvania, available animals are adoptable for no fee at these PSPCA locations:

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. - It's been 10 days since a 20-year-old man was seen in Chester County, and now police say they are searching for the missing endangered person.A missing endangered person advisory was issued for Jonathan Peter, 20, after he was last spotted near New Hampshire Lane in West Bradford Township on May 3 around 10:15 p.m.On Saturday, Pennsylvania State Police posted an alert that they were conducting a search of the area with the Pennsylvania Wilderness Search and Rescue.They are asking the public to use caution due to more vehicle and pedestrian traffic.Peters is described as being 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair.

Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. (Courtesy of Ocean Casino Resort) (Courtesy of Ocean Casino Resort)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - What's an ocean without a beach?One Atlantic City casino that takes its name from the sea doesn't want to find out, and so it's spending up to $700,000 of its own money to rebuild a badly eroded beach in front of it.The Ocean Casino Resort began the work Wednesday, and plans to have a new 110-foot-wide beach open for Memorial Day weekend.

NEW DELHI: India has reported about 1,223 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours taking the number of active caseload to 16,498, the union health ministry said on Saturday. While the daily positivity rate has reached 0.86 %, the weekly positivity rate remains at 1.30%. In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported more than 44.9 million cases and 5,31,767 Covid-related deaths.

NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya highlighted the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global health infrastructure, emphasizing the need for enhanced robustness, inclusivity, and responsiveness while maintaining the central role of the World Health Organization (WHO). The minister was addressing the G7 Health Ministerial meeting on Global Health Architecture in Nagasaki, Japan on Saturday.

WestJet pilots might soon go on strike are looming over travellers who have tickets booked with the Calgary-based airline.The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing WestJet pilots, who are seeking better job protections, benefits and wages that will bring them in line with their North American counterparts, is set to declare on Saturday whether a work stoppage will start 72 hours later on May 16.Pilots representing both WestJet and its discount brand Swoop voted in favour of a strike mandate in April. Earlier this week, pilots took part in an informational picket to raise awareness of their demands.John Gradek, a lecturer with McGill University’s aviation management program who’s not involved in the negotiations, says it’s a toss-up whether there will be a strike or not, with the odds seemingly changing on an hour-to-hour basis.He says there’s a “fairly large gap” between WestJet and its pilots, who are seeking a wage boost to offset what they say are some of the lowest rates of pay for pilots in North America.Though the union claims these working conditions have meant WestJet is bleeding staff to the tune of 30 pilots a month, Gradek also says meeting the demands will be “a significant cost” to the airline.WestJet, for its part, pushed back against the union’s claims in a statement released May 8.The airline asserted that its mainline pilots are among the best paid in Canada and wages shouldn’t be compared to U.S.

Toronto Maple Leafs are out of the Stanley Cup playoffs.Nick Cousins scored at 15:32 of overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky made 50 saves as the Florida Panthers downed Toronto 3-2 on Friday to win the teams’ second-round playoff series 4-1.Cousins buried his second goal of the playoffs off the rush shortside on Leafs rookie Joseph Woll in the extra period to send his team to the Eastern Conference final for the first time since 1996.Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe, with a goal and an assist each, provided the rest of the offence for the Panthers.Florida _ the team with the fewest points to qualify for the post-season _ took all three games in Toronto and improved to 6-1 on the road this spring after also upsetting the record-setting Boston Bruins.

DREXEL HILL, Pa. - A Delaware County community in outrage over anti-Semitic signs, posted on Upper Darby stop signs, sidewalks and yards. Police are looking for whoever is responsible for planting the hate-filled messages."There was a little brochure pamphlet thing.

dozens of active wildfires burning hundreds of thousands of square kilometres across Alberta.Hot weather in the forecast has prompted some residents of Grande Prairie to prepare to leave as a wildfire burns outside the city.“If a person looks out, the kids and I are playing in the yard here and everything just seems normal, but we are fully aware that there is still a wildfire,” said Brandon Wilson, who lives just two kilometres outside of the area currently under evacuation order.The most up-to-date evacuation information can be found on the Alberta Emergency Alerts website.Wilson said when evacuations first started last week, there were long lines at gas stations in the city.He said he has put together essentials, especially for his kids, in case the family needs to leave the area on short notice.“We have a couple options and if we had to move quickly, we could,” he said, adding his family could stay in a camping trailer if needed.It’s a case of hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, he said.“I think there’s a lot of potential for this fire to get carried away still.”The upcoming hot weather, with highs in the high 20s and low 30s, is expected to fan the flames over the next few days, said Trevor Grant, the fire chief of County of Grande Prairie Fire Services.“There are still lots of smolders and areas that are unseen within the fire perimeter that may rekindle or flare up with the hot, dry conditions that could extend and cause us some more issues.”Grant said he didn’t want to speculate on what could happen over the weekend.“It all depends on what we can accomplish through the next few days and what the weather does,” he said.Bob Marshall, the reeve of the County of Grande Prairie, said the fire has moved

NEW YORK - In a heartwarming display of heroism, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) rescued a horse that had fallen into water in the Bronx Friday afternoon.According to a video posted by NYPD, a 911 call came in about a "horse in the water" near Orchard Beach, and officials responded and assessed the situation. "Today, your @NYPD45Pct cops & various specialty units responded to the Bronx to safely rescue Bear, a local horse that got stuck in muddy water right near Orchard Beach," NYPD said in a Twitter post on May 12. Using rescue equipment, the team of officers managed to secure the horse and hoist the animal out of the water. The horse appeared to be uninjured. In the video, the horse can be seen standing and eating grass, following the removal from the water.

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. - A special election is underway in Delaware County and whichever party wins will determine who controls the Pennsylvania House.On a quiet Delaware County street, the high-stakes race for Pa.’s 163rd District state house seat plays out. On one lawn, a sign for Republican Katie Ford.

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - The Dad Vail Regatta is back, but in a different venue, breaking with tradition and taking place in New Jersey, rather than in Fairmount Park, on the Schuylkill River.The biggest regatta in the nation is taking things to South Jersey for the first time ever in its history. It’s a change, for sure, but one that James Hannah, with the regatta organizing committee, says was necessary, for now."In terms of change, that is substantial.

BOISE, Idaho - Lori Vallow, the so-called "Doomsday mom," has been found guilty of killing her two children and conspiring to kill her husband's previous wife.Vallow is guilty on all six counts:Prosecutors say Vallow, her husband Chad Daybell, and her late brother Alex Cox, hatched a plan to kill Vallow’s two kids, 7-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Chad’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell.Investigators say Vallow and Daybell used their religious beliefs to justify these three killings. They allegedly claimed JJ and Tylee became zombies and that a dark spirit possessed Tammy who died suddenly in October 2019.Authorities discovered JJ and Tylee’s bodies in June 2020, located in Daybell’s backyard.

An aerial view shows people enjoying warm weather at the Long Branch Beach on May 16, 2020. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) LONG BRANCH, NJ - A New Jersey town is cracking down on so-called ‘pop-up parties’ and says it will continue to take legal action against alleged organizers and promoters.City officials say they recently learned of an event that was scheduled to take place Friday evening and had been advertised on social media.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. - An 8-week-old kitten is on the mend after the tiny animal got its head stuck in the frame of a truck in California. The driver of the truck was on the road on Monday and heard "meowing sounds" at a stop sign, according to the San Diego Humane Society. Upon further inspection, the driver discovered the female kitten with its head stuck in a hole in the frame of the truck.RELATED: Watch: Police respond to calls for help, turns out to be 'very upset goat'The truck driver contacted the San Diego Humane Society, whose staff members sedated the kitten and worked to safely extract the animal. "After sedating the kitten, they patiently used Q-tips to dislodge her head and free her from the tight spot," the humane society said in a post on Facebook about the ordeal. The kitten was then taken to the humane society’s Escondido campus "for additional care, including pain medication, fluids, antibiotics and a good meal."The kitten is pictured in screengrabs from a video shared by the San Diego Humane Society of the rescue.

As a teenager, Demi Lovato would sit on her tour bus in tears, questioning why she felt so miserable despite adoring fans gathering outside her windows expressing their love for her. As she navigated the arduous path from child star to adulthood, her struggles escalated until the game-changing day she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

FILE-Image of a sunset in Alaska. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - It will be a "sunshine tsunami" for one northern Alaskan town for the next 83 days.Friday marks the first day with 24-hour daylight in the annual period known to locals as Midnight Sun.The sun rose Thursday at 2:12 a.m AKDT in Utqiagvik.

NEWARK, Del. - A suspect accused of carjacking a woman outside a Delaware gym in the middle of the day has been arrested as the search for a second continues, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Officials say the carjacking took place on May 7 just before 3 p.m.

The Richland Township Police Department is searching for suspects seen in the images above, who are wanted in connection with the theft of multiple rifles from a home.  RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Investigators in Bucks County are searching for suspects who stole weapons from a home, police say. According to authorities, the incident occurred on March 18 in Richland Township. The Richland Township Police Department says the group of suspects broke into two homes on Union Road. In both burglaries, the suspects were captured on surveillance videos between the hours of 4 a.m.

Title 42 expired, migrants along the border were still wading into the Rio Grande to take their chances getting into the country, defying officials shouting for them to turn back. Others hunched over cellphones trying to access an appointment app, a centerpiece of the new measures, while others with appointments walked across a bridge hoping for a new life. And lawsuits sought to stop some of the measures.

PHILADELPHIA - A man has died after he was hit by a car while crossing the street in North Philadelphia, police say. According to officials, the incident occurred on Thursday night around 9:30 p.m.

in Louisiana are investigating a "suspicious death" after a body was found in a walk-in freezer at an Arby's restaurant in New Iberia, police said.The New Iberia Police Department said the female victim was an employee at the restaurant on E. Admiral Doyle Drive, according to KADN.

It is no secret that there are countless historical sites dotted around Scotland that were once—and in many cases still are—believed to hold magical properties.