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casino games poker By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is “so proud” that a women’s health research initiative he launched last year at his wife’s urging has already invested nearly $1 billion because a healthy female population improves U.S. prosperity. “That’s a fact,” he said in closing remarks at the first White House Conference on Women’s Health Research. “We haven’t gotten that through to the other team yet,” Biden said, referencing President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration. Trump’s three conservative nominees to the Supreme Court from his first term as president voted to overturn a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion . Democrats campaigned on reproductive rights and women’s health issues in this year’s elections. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump’s transition team, said the president-elect will keep his promise to improve health in the U.S. “President Trump campaigned on making America healthy again for ALL Americans including men, women, and children, and he will deliver on that promise,” Leavitt said in an email. Women make up half of the U.S. population, about 168 million people, but medical research into their unique health circumstances has largely been underfunded and understudied, officials have said. Jill Biden has said she brought the idea for the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research to the president after Maria Shriver, herself a women’s health advocate and member of the influential Kennedy political family, brought it to her. The first lady told the researchers, advocates, and business and philanthropic leaders attending the conference that she will keep pressing the issue after she leaves her role. “My work doesn’t stop in January when Joe and I leave this house,” she said. “I will keep building alliances, like the ones that brought us here today, and I will keep pushing for funding for innovative research.” The first lady said the U.S. economy loses about $1.8 billion in working time every year because of how menopause affects women. And she is interested in learning more about extreme morning sickness during pregnancy. “I heard this a couple weeks ago and I was particularly interested because my own granddaughter was going through the same thing, ’cause we’re going to be great-grandparents,” Jill Biden said. 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Since its launch, the women’s health research initiative has attracted nearly $1 billion in federal funding, including from the Defense Department and National Institutes of Health. “In one year, everybody in this room kicked butt,” Shriver said at the conference. “Not until the Bidens did anyone ever think to make women’s health and research a priority for the federal government, so let that sink in.” President Biden closed the conference with a nod to the influence of his wife, who, after her remarks, sat in the front row beside their daughter Ashley Biden, who runs a women’s shelter in Philadelphia. ‘You stepped up kid,” Biden told the first lady. Then he told the audience, “In case you wonder, when she speaks, I listen.”Home | Hyderabad | Telangana Government Deals Major Blow To Engineering Colleges Telangana government deals major blow to engineering colleges Government directs JNTU-Hyderabad not to give no objection certificate for deemed to university status, autonomous status, seats enhancement and courses merger, until further orders By Yuvraj Akula Published Date - 28 December 2024, 10:34 PM Hyderabad: In a major blow to private engineering colleges, the Telangana Congress government directed the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)- Hyderabad not to issue no objection certificate (NoC) to colleges seeking merger of courses, starting new courses or additional seats, autonomous and deemed to be university status, until further orders. The government also asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to withhold all autonomous status and deemed to be universities status conferred upon colleges in the State. According to senior official, six private engineering colleges sought NoC from the JNTU-Hyderabad for the deemed university status. However, the university has not extended approval. The move comes as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) recently invited applications from the technical institutions for setting up new institutions and extension for approval for existing institutions and seats. The colleges require a NoC from the university to seek for new courses and seats, merger of courses, and additional intake besides autonomous and deemed to be university status from the regulatory bodies. For the last few years, the private engineering colleges have converted a large number of seats in core engineering programmes- Mechanical, Civil and Electrical – into CSE and allied programmes. The issue had become alarming that JNTU-Hyderabad wrote to AICTE seeking cancellation of 20,000 additional seats in CSE and allied programmes granted during the academic year 2024-25. The government move was aimed at maintaining status-quo and improving the quality of engineering education in the State, the senior official added. Follow Us : Tags AICTE Engineering Colleges JNTU-H No Objection Certificate Related News Editorial: Reforming the examination system Opinion: New PhD eligibility rule faces challenges UGC rolls out guidelines for introduction of skill-based courses and micro-credentials in higher educational institutions IIP Hyderabad organises first convocation ceremonyTOMS River, N.J. (AP) — A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” even as it remains unclear who owns them. “We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re flying over airports or military bases,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday as concerns about the drones spread across Capitol Hill. People in the New York region are also concerned that the drones may be sharing airspace with commercial airlines, he said, demanding more transparency from the Biden administration. The White House said Thursday that a review of the reported sightings shows that many of them are actually manned aircraft being flown lawfully. White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said there were no reported sightings in any restricted airspace. He said the U.S. Coast Guard has not uncovered any foreign involvement from coastal vessels. “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus,” Kirby said, echoing statements from the Pentagon and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. The drones appear to avoid detection by traditional methods such as helicopter and radio, according to a state lawmaker briefed Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. The FBI has been investigating and has asked residents to share any videos, photos or other information about the drones. On Wednesday, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said they are not U.S. military drones. The number of sightings has increased in recent days, though officials say many of the objects seen may have been planes rather than drones. It’s also possible that a single drone has been reported more than once. The worry stems partly from the flying objects initially being spotted near the Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military research and manufacturing facility, and over President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster. In a post on the social media platform X, Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia described the drones as up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter and sometimes traveling with their lights switched off. Drones are legal in New Jersey for recreational and commercial use but are subject to local and Federal Aviation Administration regulations and flight restrictions. Operators must be FAA certified. Most, but not all, of the drones spotted in New Jersey were larger than those typically used by hobbyists. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said he was frustrated by the lack of transparency, saying it could help spread fear or misinformation. “We should know what’s going on over our skies,” he said Thursday. Fantasia, a Morris County Republican, was among several lawmakers who met with state police and Homeland Security officials to discuss the sightings from the New York City area across New Jersey and westward into parts of Pennsylvania, including over Philadelphia. It is unknown at this time whether the sightings are related. Two Republican Jersey Shore-area congressmen, U.S. Reps. Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew, say the military should shoot down the drones. Smith said a U.S. Coast Guard commanding officer briefed him on an incident over the weekend in which a dozen drones followed a motorized Coast Guard lifeboat “in close pursuit” near Barnegat Light and Island Beach State Park in Ocean County. Coast Guard Lt. Luke Pinneo on Wednesday told The Associated Press “that multiple low-altitude aircraft were observed in the vicinity of one of our vessels near Island Beach State Park.” Associated Press reporters Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and reporter Darlene Superville and videojournalists Serkan Gurbuz and Nathan Ellgren in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.

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Hyderabad, Dec 28 (PTI) The newly formed Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) has reclaimed 200 acres of land, including eight parks, 12 lakes, and four government land parcels, the agency's Commissioner A V Ranganath said on Saturday. HYDRAA has successfully created awareness among citizens about the Full Tank Level (FTL) and 'buffer zones' of water bodies (areas where no construction should take place), he told reporters here. A HYDRAA police station will soon be established, he said. The agency will begin demarcating FTL in the new year and has identified 1,025 water bodies. Ranganath said steps would be taken in 2025 to carry out "geofencing" of parks and government lands using technology. Geofencing is a technology that allows the movements of a person, vehicle, etc., to be recorded or limited using satellite signals. HYDRAA condemned attempts by some to create a misconception that it is solely meant for demolishing unauthorised constructions, he said. The agency will also participate in rejuvenating lakes and is considering launching an FM channel to provide weather forecasts, the official said. HYDRAA will not act against residential houses built in the past, even if they are unauthorised, but illegal commercial constructions will continue to be treated as such, he added. The Telangana government established HYDRAA in 2024 to protect government assets, such as lakes, from encroachments and other illegal activities. However, the agency has faced intense criticism in recent months from the opposition, which alleges that it is demolishing poor people's houses and harming the real estate sector in the city. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)