Feds will ration water from the Colorado River amid historic drought

The US government on Monday declared the first water shortage in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country by volume, after the water level fell to a record low amid a decades-long drought.

The water cuts will go into effect for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico in January, the Bureau of Reclamation said on Monday. Arizona will be hardest hit, with roughly 18% of the state’s annual allotment cut.

The Colorado River provides water and electricity to more than 40 million people in the west, while also providing approximately 2.5 million acres of farmland. Among the cities it supplies to is Phoenix, which was the fastest growing city in the United States for the past decade according to the Arizona Republic and is now the fifth largest city in the country.

Earlier this summer, reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin fell to their lowest level on record after 22 consecutive years of drought. In just five years, Lake Mead and Lake Powell have lost 50% of their capacity.

Officials believe Lake Mead’s water level is just below 1,066 feet on Jan. 1, which is about nine feet below the trigger level of 1,075 feet.

At a press conference following the announcement, officials said “additional action is likely to be required in the near future” as the situation worsens. More than 98% of the western US is currently in drought, 64% in extreme drought conditions.

“We are seeing the effects of climate change in the Colorado River Basin through prolonged drought, temperature extremes, widespread forest fires, and in some places floods and landslides, and now it is time to take action to respond,” said Tanya Trujillo. Deputy Secretary for Water and Science in the Ministry of the Interior.

Lake Mead was created through the construction of the Hoover Dam and extends over more than 750 miles of coastline.

Tencent Music, Roblox & Extra

WeChat mascots are displayed at the Tencent office in the TIT Creativity Industry Zone in Guangzhou, China on May 9, 2017.

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Check out the companies that are making the headlines in after-hours trading.

Tencent Music – Tencent Music stocks rose about 1% in expanded trading after the company beat earnings but narrowly missed revenue expectations for the second quarter. The company reported sales of $ 8.01 billion, compared with $ 8.13 billion expected by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. The company made 66 cents per share with no items, while analysts were expecting 62 cents per share.

Roblox – The online video game platform stocks fell about 2% after the company missed revenue expectations in the second quarter. Roblox reported sales of $ 665 million compared to the $ 683 million surveyed by Refinitiv.

Porch Group – Porch Group’s shares rose more than 3% during expanded trading following the company’s second quarter results. The software name lost 17 cents per share on sales of $ 51.3 million. According to estimates by StreetAccount, analysts expected a loss of 18 cents on sales of 47 million US dollars.

Marlo Hampton reveals her eye puffiness after a hair transplant

“Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Marlo Hampton got really candid with her followers on Sunday when she went live on Instagram to show off the swelling in her eyes after a hair transplant.

Marlo said she decided to share the moment with her supporters because she wanted to openly address the process. She said, “I was lying here today thinking, ‘You know what’s going on live, and just let the Hamptons see it. You just can’t see the glamor and the glitz and glamor.

When discussing her reason for the transplant and her decision to share her experience, she said, “I feel that there are many black women in the black community that are ashamed of this, and I feel that many of us have pigtails hold back. ”and glue and just don’t care about our hair. I’ve had problems with my edges for years. From micro-pigtails, pigtails … I’ve always wanted to do that and I would just never do it because when I went google I thought: “I don’t shave the back of my head, I won’t have it cut”. “

She added that since she was able to lay down on the table and do liposuction, she felt like she could do her edges too.

Marlo went on to state that she has recorded the majority of her hair transplant experiences and she plans to share them with her audience on YouTube.

She stated that the swelling of her eyes was an effect expected due to holes in her scalp and the fluid.

We wish Marlo Hampton a speedy recovery.

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Peloton begins repairing touchscreens on its recalled treadmills

A Peloton Interactive Inc. Tread exercise machine for sale in the company’s showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, the United States, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021.

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Peloton said it will begin repairing its Tread machines, which were recalled earlier this year after reports of injuries.

Loosened screws caused the screen to fall off some of the treadmills available in the UK and Canada. Approximately 1,000 were sold in the United States, but the company was preparing for a major launch in its home area that has since been postponed.

Starting this month, Peloton said in an updated statement on its website that users can now schedule appointments to get the fix that ensures the touchscreen console stays connected to the device at all times.

Peloton said the repair was validated by an independent third party and approved by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

In May, Peloton voluntarily recalled its $ 2,495 Tread and the more expensive Tread + machines, which are listed for $ 4,295. The CPSC warned not to use the Tread + if small children or pets were around after a child was pulled under the machine’s belt and killed.

Peloton has since released a software update for its Tread + machine that adds a locking feature and requires entering a code to start the tape.

The company didn’t say when the machines would go on sale in the U.S.

Peloton stocks lost less than 1% in afternoon trading. The share has fallen by around 27% since the beginning of the year.

Pfizer is submitting approval knowledge to the FDA

Walgreens health professional Luis S. Solano prepares a dose of Pfizer BioNTec’s vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on February 22, 2021 at the Victor Walchirk Apartments in Evanston, Illinois.

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Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday that they had provided the Food and Drug Administration with early-stage clinical trial data as part of their U.S. application for approval of a Covid vaccine booster for all 16 and older – not just people with weak immune systems have submitted.

In a phase 1 study, a booster dose of the vaccine produced “significantly higher neutralizing antibodies” against the original coronavirus strain and the beta and delta variants, the companies said in a press release. Study participants received a third dose of the two-dose vaccine around eight to nine months after the second vaccination, they said.

“The data we’ve seen so far suggest that a third dose of our vaccine elicits antibody levels well in excess of those on the primary two-dose schedule,” said Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO. “We are excited to provide this data to the FDA as we continue to work together to address the evolving challenges of this pandemic.”

The companies said the results of the late-stage trial evaluating the third dose are expected shortly and will also be presented to the FDA and other regulatory agencies worldwide.

The drug makers’ announcement comes after federal health officials on Friday approved the administration of Covid booster shots of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to Americans with weakened immune systems, which include cancer and HIV patients, as well as people with organ transplants.

New data from the US suggests that immunocompromised individuals do not generate adequate immune responses after receiving two doses of a Covid vaccine.

The latest data from Pfizer investigates the booster’s safety and immune response in people with otherwise healthy immune systems.

Federal health officials are not currently recommending booster doses for the general public, but Dr. White House chief media officer Anthony Fauci has said everyone is “likely” to need a booster at some point.

Covid vaccine makers, including Pfizer and Moderna, have repeatedly argued that everyone will need a booster dose at some point and possibly additional doses each year, just like they did with seasonal flu.

Pfizer cited data from Israel, where state officials last month said the two-dose vaccine was only 39% effective against the disease, attributing the drop in performance to the highly contagious Delta variant. When Pfizer submitted its original application to the FDA in December, it said its vaccinations were about 95% effective at preventing Covid infections.

The vaccine is still considered highly effective against serious illness, hospital admissions and deaths, according to Israeli health officials.

Biden will give a speech on the Afghanistan collapse Monday afternoon, White Home says

U.S. President Joe Biden discusses his ‘Build Back Better’ agenda and administration efforts to “lower prescription drug prices,” in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 12, 2021.

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is slated to address the nation from the White House Monday afternoon after the Taliban seized the presidential palace in the war-weary Afghan capital of Kabul over the weekend, a dramatic development that marks the apparent end to a 20-year American era in the country.

Biden’s remarks, his first since the Taliban ousted the American-backed Afghan national government, come amid mounting criticism of his administration’s handling of the situation and calls for him to break his silence and address the nation.

Despite being vastly outnumbered by the Afghan military, which has long been assisted by U.S. and NATO coalition forces, the Taliban carried out a succession of shocking battlefield gains in recent weeks.

In April, Biden ordered the Pentagon to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, a decision he said was made in lockstep with NATO coalition forces.

Last week, Biden told reporters last week at the White House that he did not regret his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, effectively ending America’s longest war.

“Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years, we trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 Afghan forces,” Biden said on August 10.

“Afghan leaders have to come together,” the president added.

Taliban fighters sit over a vehicle on a street in Laghman province on August 15, 2021.

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As the Taliban inched closer to the capital, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and Western nations rushed to evacuate embassies amid a deteriorating security situation.

The State Department confirmed Sunday evening that all U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy in Kabul had been safely transported to Kabul’s international airport.

“All Embassy personnel are located on the premises of Hamid Karzai International Airport whose perimeter is secured by the U.S. military,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

The latest revelation follows Biden’s order to deploy approximately 5,000 U.S. troops to Kabul to evacuate embassy staff. Meanwhile, the State Department instructed U.S. Embassy personnel on the ground to destroy sensitive information material ahead of their departure.

Thousands of Afghans swarmed the tarmac at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, desperate to escape a country now completely overrun by the Taliban.

Afghan people sit as they wait to leave the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.

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Two U.S. defense officials confirmed to NBC News that the Taliban seized Bagram Air Base on Sunday, a development that comes less than two months after the U.S. military handed over the once-stalwart airbase to the Afghan National Security and Defense Force.

The Taliban began emptying out Parwan prison there which has an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 prisoners, including hardened Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

In 2012, at its peak, Bagram saw more than 100,000 U.S. troops pass through. It was the largest U.S. military installation in Afghanistan.

This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is suing NASA in federal courtroom over the HLS contract

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos walks with Blue Origin President and CEO Bob Smith after Bezos flew the company’s maiden flight to the edge of space in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas on July 20, 2021.

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Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin filed a lawsuit against NASA in federal court, continuing to protest that the agency had wrongly placed a lucrative contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year.

“This bid protest challenges the unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals by NASA,” wrote Blue Origin attorneys in their court file.

The protest, filed in the US Federal Court on Monday, is sealed and marks the next step in the company’s attempt to overturn NASA’s decision.

Blue Origin’s lawsuit comes a few weeks after the US government’s accountability office dismissed the company’s protest and upheld NASA’s decision.

The GAO ruling supported the space agency’s surprise announcement in April that NASA had awarded SpaceX a lunar lander contract valued at approximately $ 2.9 billion. SpaceX was likely to compete with Blue Origin and Dynetics for two contracts before NASA awarded a single contract due to a lower allocation to the program from Congress.

Blue Origin has not let up in its battle for a contract under NASA’s Human Landing System program, one of the final key elements in the agency’s plan to return US astronauts to the lunar surface. Prior to the April contract award, NASA had awarded nearly $ 1 billion in concept development contracts – SpaceX received $ 135 million, Dynetics received $ 253 million, and Blue Origin received $ 579 million.

The company’s judicial filing comes Monday as Blue Origin stepped up a public relations offensive against NASA using SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon. In a series of comparative infographics, Blue Origin highlighted the “unprecedented number of technologies, developments and operations never before undertaken for Starship’s landing on the moon”.

Blue Origin released an infographic last week that added that Starship is “a launcher that has never flown into orbit and is still in development”.

In response to Blue Origin’s infographic, Musk commented on Bezos’ company and its criticism.

“The sad thing is that even if Santa suddenly makes his hardware available for free, the first thing you want to do is cancel it,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

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Angela Bassett Has Obtained Some Recommendation You are Going to Need to Hear

And, perhaps most importantly, they know how to balance you out when need be. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Ahhh!'” she admitted, demonstrating how they’ve learned to handle each other’s stress-fueled moments.

Hollywood veterans with a combined 70-plus years of experience, some 170 credits and an Emmy and a Golden Globe lining their shelves, she has some thoughts on what it takes to have that sort of career longevity she and Vance share as well. “A lot of talent,” Bassett posited, “a little luck, a lot of hard work. And an availability for trying new things.”

Which is part of the motivation for Bassett Vance Productions, their production company that Bassett hopes will help bring a diversity of stories to the screen. “This whole idea of representation, you know, it’s not a sprint, as they say. It’s a marathon. And we’re in it for the long haul,” she explained. “And we want to see those changes in front of as well as behind the camera. And there are people who are working diligently at that.” 

Because, as she put it, “I know it’s a better story when there’s a diversity of perspectives. That’s what gets me excited.”

Chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as Afghans flee the Taliban

Thousands of Afghans gathered on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport in the hours after the Taliban captured the capital.

The chaotic scenes on Monday at Hamid Karzai International Airport, recorded by news crews and cell phones, convey a terror and desperate escape from the country now overrun by Taliban fighters in the run-up to the full withdrawal of US forces.

A video shared on Twitter appears to show large crowds, including children, moving towards passenger planes on the tarmac.

“Nobody can really walk,” Kamal Alam, a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council and senior advisor to the Massoud Foundation, told CNBC in a telephone interview. Alam was stuck in Afghanistan and his flight out of the country was canceled. “If you don’t have a visa or passport, which the majority of Afghans don’t, don’t go.”

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, allegedly to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Sunday evening when the Taliban entered the presidential palace and declared the war “over”. Ghani said he fled to prevent “a flood of bloodshed”.

“The Taliban won the judgment of their swords and weapons and are now responsible for the honor, property and self-preservation of their compatriots,” said Ghani.

The rapid departure of high-ranking Afghan officials – along with substantial amounts of cash – in recent days has initially sparked the onslaught and tide of anger against the Afghan government, Alam said. He was at Hamid Karzai International Airport a few days ago.

“All VIPs were allowed to fly out first, all their cash was transported first … whether on commercial airlines or private jets from [an] unnamed golf country, “he said without specifying the country due to the sensitivity of the subject.

“So people saw that, there was a lot of resentment and anger from airport security, and that’s where the rot really started. That’s when people started saying that this government and this president are not worth defending, let’s get out of here. “

Another video posted on social media shows people struggling to get on a plane.

Panic spreads as an expanded force of around 6,000 U.S. soldiers return to the country to evacuate Western diplomats. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the forces were tasked with the “very closely focused mission” of evacuating embassy personnel in Kabul. Late on Sunday, the US embassy was practically relocated to the airport.

“We can confirm that the safe evacuation of all embassy staff is now complete,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on Monday. “All embassy staff are on the premises of Hamid Karzai International Airport, the vicinity of which is secured by the US military.”

Before Sunday, Kabul was the last major city spared from being taken over by the militants.

A Taliban spokesman said the fighters wanted to negotiate a “peaceful surrender” of the city.

Since President Joe Biden’s decision in April to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan before September 11, the Taliban have made breathtaking strides on the battlefield, now controlling the entire nation of 38 million people.

The rapid disintegration of the Afghan security forces and government in the country has shocked the world, leading many to wonder how it came to collapse so quickly after two decades of American nation-building and training efforts.

Afghans (L) crowd at the airport as US soldiers stand guard in Kabul on August 16, 2021.

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Soulja Boy exchanges phrases with a person who referred to as him concerning the alleged buy of counterfeit jewellery

An ex-girlfriend has filed a lawsuit against Soulja Boy after alleging she mistreated him and suffered a miscarriage he caused.

Soulja Boy is known for doing lots of things: being the first to have an iPhone, the first rapper to sell a tweet, and so much more. However, yesterday he was called as the first rapper to allegedly buy counterfeit jewelry in a store in the middle of the mall. In Las Vegas, Soulja was secretly picked up by a man who goes by the name of World Tour Woo on Instagram. In the viral clip, Woo exclaimed Soulja and had the Innanet in a frenzy.

Soulja wasted no time and was quick to respond to the allegations by saying it wasn’t true and showing “evidence” that the jewelry was indeed genuine. While he was at the booth, he showed the papers claiming to show the jewelry as authentic. On his Instagram story, he shared a video that said, “Go to the same jewelry store in the mall and try to buy the Cartier ni ** a. It was $ 35,000 and the Rolex was $ 30,000. ”He went on to say that they sell real jewelry in the mall and that the man was chasing after them.

After sharing Soulja’s response, some roommates felt it was not their business to know this information, including Tank. He stepped into the shadow room and commented, “That’s this man’s business.” Soulja wasn’t finished yet. In the end, he went live with the man to exchange a few words. Things quickly escalated when Woo told Soulja to meet him in Compton. Soulja wasn’t here for that and quickly approached Woo about the fact that he was not part of “his squad”.

Woo didn’t give in after the live. In the end, he shared another video at the jewelry store and spoke to an alleged employee who confirmed that some of the jewelry they sold was real and some were not.

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