Truss, who just took office Tuesday, also said she would approve more oil drilling in the North Sea and lift a ban on fracking in a bid to increase Britain’s domestic energy supply. British Prime Minister Liz Truss said her government would cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that had left the U.K. Officials attributed the decelerating growth to pandemic-era policies including unemployment relief and rent and eviction moratoriums.īritain announced new measures to tackle its energy crisis. By contrast, the region’s homeless population exploded in size in previous years, growing by 25% between 20. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found that the region’s homeless population grew by 4.1% from 66,436 in 2020 to 69,144 in 2022. County’s homeless population slowed during the pandemic. By Thursday afternoon, the fire had wafted a giant pyrocumulus cloud over the Sierra, jumped the Middle Fork of the American River and was burning its way toward the hamlet of Volcanoville in El Dorado County. The fire in the foothills east of Sacramento was racing up canyons, sending smoke billowing east toward Lake Tahoe and western Nevada.
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