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Bernard Friel/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesNational park tourism is booming. But an idyllic adventure into the great outdoors can be derailed by overlooking an important aspect of trip planning: advance permits and reservations.Some of the most frequently visited parks require people to book ahead for access to popular attractions such as heavily trafficked hikes, roads and campgrounds. Some require advance tickets for full park entry.This means travelers can’t necessarily bank on showing up spontaneously to a national park and getting the experience they desire. Fail to secure this paperwork, which is typically free but can carry a processing…

SAN DIEGO — In the vast migrant camp that sprung up this week on a patch of U.S. soil between Tijuana and San Diego, a striking system of order has emerged, even as anxiety and uncertainty swell.The Africans in the camp — from Ghana, Somalia, Kenya, Guinea, Nigeria — have one leader, a tall Somali man, who communicates with aid groups about how many blankets, diapers and sanitary pads they need that day. The Colombians have their own leader, as do the Afghans, the Turkish and the Haitians.Stuck in the same holding pattern as thousands of other migrants in cities…

A new report on evictions in British Columbia, billed as the first of its kind, has painted yet another bleak picture of the province’s rental market. Vancouver’s First United Church surveyed 443 people who had recently been evicted for everything from cause to “Landlord use,” a legal provision for cases where the landlord claims they or a close family member intends to move in.Among the most sobering findings were how many evictees were left homeless. 2:05 Surrey tenants facing 40% rent increase or eviction Among all respondents, 27 per cent said they hadn’t found a new home. Among people of…

As the war enters its 444th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Conflict Moscow acknowledged that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine’s ruined eastern city of Bakhmut, in a retreat that the head of Russia’s Wagner private army called a “rout”. The Ukrainian military said in a daily update that Russia was focusing its efforts near Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka in eastern Ukraine. “The enemy carried out 36 attacks in these directions in the last 24 hours,” it said. Russian-installed officials in the…

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STOCKHOLM: European Union ministers on Friday (May 12) backed reducing the bloc’s economic dependence on China but will now have to figure out how to make that a reality, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. Borrell said foreign ministers gave broad backing to a plan to adjust policy on China to place greater emphasis on its role as a political rival, while continuing also to see Beijing both as a partner on global issues and an economic competitor. “Colleagues welcomed the paper that we presented. They agree on the basic lines of this re-calibration of our strategy on China,” Borrell…

Love is the most precious thing in this world-it doesn’t know boundaries in the animal kingdom. When it comes to the more advanced human race, it gets sophisticated in such a way that many put a lot of resources in pursuit of love. Indeed, we often try to find love and affection in our lifetime and form our own families with the people we meet. Sometimes it takes more than mere conduct or actions to communicate to the other party our intentions and plans in the long run, but we continue to show what we intend to do or have…

What I’m reading: summer snobs edition I’ve made a decision that I feel very good about: the theme of my summer fiction reading this year is going to be snobbery.This dovetails with my interest in the ways that status and hierarchies limit political change and fuel backlashes. But snob fiction is the fun, lighthearted cousin: books that focus on the odd habits and eccentric preoccupations of people at the top of a particular status hierarchy, and the wild flailing that results when an outsider tries to gain entry — or an insider tries to escape.I’m enjoying “Pineapple Street,” by Jenny…

Washington — In the same Washington, D.C., courthouse where the Justice Department has been convening grand juries to investigate former President Donald Trump’s actions around the 2020 presidential election and his handling of classified documents, federal prosecutors managing a separate case were successful Friday in their request to delay a Trump deposition that had been scheduled for later this month in a four-year-old civil lawsuit filed by former FBI officials. Former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and a one-time attorney at the Bureau, Lisa Page, sued the Justice Department after they were both fired during the federal probe into Russian interference…

Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South.The company, Blue Bird in Fort Valley, Ga., may lack the cachet of Amazon or the ubiquity of Starbucks, two other corporations that have attracted union attention. But the 697-to-435 vote by Blue Bird’s workers to join the United Steelworkers was the first significant organizing election at a factory receiving major federal funding…