A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued PresidentDonald TrumpsEnvironmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing a legally awarded grant.Climate United Fund, a coalition of three nonprofit groups, demanded access to a Citibank account it received through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a program created in 2022 by the bipartisanInflation Reduction Actand more commonly known as the green bank. The freeze threatens its ability to issue loans and even pay employees, he group said.The combined actions of Citibank and EPA effectively nullify a congressionally mandated and funded program, Climate United wrote in a Monday court filing.Last April, then-Vice PresidentKamala Harrisannounced that EPA had selected eight groups, including Maryland-based Climate United, to receive $20 billion to financetens of thousands of projectsto fight climate change and promote environmental justice. The money was formally awarded in August.While favored by congressional Democrats, the green bank drew immediate criticism from Republicans, who routinely denounced it as an unaccountable slush fund. Former EPA Administrator Michael Regansharply disputed that claim.The bank was quickly targeted by EPA AdministratorLee Zeldin, who was confirmed to the role in late January. In avideo posted on X, Zeldin said the EPA would revoke contracts for the still-emerging program. Zeldin cited a conservative journalists undercover video made late last year that showed a former EPA employee saying the agency was throwing gold bars off the Titanic presumably a reference to spending before the start of Trumps second term.Zeldin has repeatedly used the term gold bars to accuse the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds recipients of misconduct, waste and possible fraud.According to the lawsuit filed in federal court, Citibank cut off access to Climate Uniteds bank account on February 18 an action the bank did not explain for weeks.The cutoff took place as Zeldin made multiple public appearances accusing Climate United and other groups of misconduct, eventually announcing that the funds were frozen, according to the lawsuit. Climate United said the EPA has refused to meet with the group.Several Democratic lawmakers slammed Zeldins attacks on the green bank.The Trump administrations malicious and unfounded attacks on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund have resulted in a sham investigation and unsubstantiated funding freeze, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said in a statement. The three Democrats pushed for creation of the green bank.Citibank said it was reviewing the lawsuit.As weve said previously, Citi has been working with the federal government in its efforts to address government officials concerns regarding this federal grant program, the bank said in a statement Monday. Our role as financial agent does not involve any discretion over which organizations receive grant funds. Citi will of course comply with any judicial decision.The EPA declined to comment, citing pending litigation.In its court filing, Climate United pointed to the resignation of a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Washington office after refusing demands from top Trump administration officials to freeze the groups assets.Zeldin raised questions in a letter to the agencys watchdog about the EPAs use of Citibank to hold the money, a structure that allowed the eight entities to be used as pass throughs for eventual grant recipients. The process undermined transparency, Zeldin alleged.He also questioned the qualifications of some of the entities overseeing the grants and said some were affiliated with the Biden administration or Democratic politics, includingStacey Abrams, a former Democratic nominee for Georgia governor. Trump singled out Abrams over her ties to the green bank in hisaddress to Congresslast week.In a letter to EPA officials on March 4, Climate United disputed Zeldins allegations. The groups lengthy application material is publicly available and the EPA used a rigorous selection process, Climate United said, adding that its spending is transparent.In addition to Climate United, the new fund hasawarded money to other nonprofits,including the Coalition for Green Capital, Power Forward Communities, Opportunity Finance Network, Inclusiv and the Justice Climate Fund. Those organizations have partnered with a range of groups, including Rewiring America, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Preservation Corporation.The EPAs former inspector general had urged more oversight of the green-bank program.The rapid implementation of the program, combined with the relatively narrow window of availability for such a significant amount of funding, may lead the EPA to expend the funds without fully establishing the internal controls that mitigate the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse, then-inspector general Sean ODonnell told Congress in 2023.TrumpfiredODonnell in January, along with more than a dozen other inspectors general.Acting Inspector General Nicole Murley has said she is looking into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content. For all of APs environmental coverage, visithttps://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environmentMichael Phillis and Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The countrys preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry offunding freezesandstaffing cutsby President Donald Trumps administration.The Federal Emergency Management Agencyannounced that National Fire Academy courses were canceled amid a process of evaluating agency programs and spending to ensure alignment with Administration priorities, according to a notice sent to instructors, students and fire departments. Instructors were told to cancel all future travel until further notice.Firefighters, EMS providers and other first responders from across the country travel to the NFAs Maryland campus for the federally funded institutions free training programs.The NFA is a powerhouse for the fire service, said Marc Bashoor, a former Maryland fire chief and West Virginia emergency services director with 44 years of fire safety experience. Its not a nice to have. It is the one avenue we have to bring people from all over the country to learn from and with each other. If we want to continue to have one of the premier fire services in the world, we need to have the National Fire Academy.The academy, which also houses the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, opened in 1973 to combat a growing number of fatal fires nationwide. At the time, the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control envisioned it to be the West Point of the Fire Service,according to a reportform the organization.Bashoor said the NFA was set to welcome a new set of fire safety officers for training next week.People had made their plane and travel reservations. And all of a sudden, they get an email that Sorry, its been canceled,' he said. Its really upsetting.For firefighters, including thoseon the frontlinesof deadly fires thatravaged California this year, having an essential training institution shut down under the presumption that theres waste, fraud and abuse has been demoralizing, Bashoor said. He said losing NFA training could make the coordinated response that prevented additional deaths and destruction in California more difficult.FEMA and the National Fire Academy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.While surveying disaster zones in California in January,Trump saidhe was considering getting rid of FEMA altogether, previewing sweeping changes to the nations central organization of responding to disasters.Firings at the U.S. Forest Serviceon the heels of the deadly California blazes also sparked outcry among discharged workers and officials who said it would mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight wildfires.Christine Fernando, Associated Press

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Templates, either provided or customized for your workflow, can help you generate eye-catching content in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote and other Mac programs. Here's how to create your own personal ones.In apps like Pages and Keynote, you can create and save your own custom templates.Templates usually take the form of a generated document you create that contains some information you need each time you have to make a new version of that document. The headings or basic formatting might not change much, just the specific details you need from document to document.A number of Apple and third-party programs come with a gallery of templates already Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, and Apple's iWork suite of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, and even the Reminders app, to name a few. Although Office comes close sometimes, Apple's suite has some of the best-designed templates, available from the moment you select File, New Document. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

HBOs adaptation ofThe Last of Usis returning soon with a second season, which will partially adapt Naughty Dogs The Last of Us Part 2.That, of course, means that the upcoming set of episodes will cover some pretty gruesome and traumatic events, as the 2020 masterpieces fans will tell you- and the newest trailer for the show offers glimpses of many of those scenes.Well leave those unspoiled for those whore heading into uncharted territory with Season 2, but theres plenty of note to talk about nonetheless. In addition to showing the likes of Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), Tommy (Gabriel Luna), Isaac (Jeffrey Wright(, and others, it also showcases a significantly larger number of Infected.New factions and locations that fans of the game will find familiar are also shown, while one shot also seems to suggest that spores, which were absent in Season 1, will be making their introduction in Season 2. Check out the trailer below.The Last of Us Season 2will premiere on April 13. The season will consist of seven episodes.

Silent Hillmade a successful comeback last year with Bloober Teams excellent remake ofSilent Hill 2, and the series next major step forward will soon also be receiving more details. Konami has announced a new Silent Hill Transmission livestream for this Thursday, March 13, at 3 PM PDT, where the company says it will uncoverSilent Hill f.Little is known aboutSilent Hill f,the next mainline instalment in Konamis beloved psychological horror series. Announced in 2022, it is being co-developed by Konami and NeoBards Entertainment, and will be the first game in the series to not be set in the titular town of Silent Hill, instead taking place in a rural Japanese town in the 1960s.Silent Hill ftells a story written by Ryukishi07, and features character and creature design by Japanese artist Kera. When the game will launch, what platforms it will be available for, or what we can expect from its core gameplay remains to be seen, but presumably well find out soon.Whether other newSilent Hilltitles will also be announced, or if we can expect new details on the upcomingSilent Hill: Townfall, remains to be seen. Stay tuned for more updates.

Apple recently announced a new generation of the MacBook Air, which is powered by the M4 chip. Although it has the same design as the previous generation, it now comes in a new sky blue color. To match the new color, Apple has made a new wallpaper for the M4 MacBook Air and you can download it to your device right here.Sky blue M4 MacBook Air wallpaperThe M4 MacBook Air wallpaper looks essentially the same as the wallpaper introduced with the M2 MacBook Air in 2022, when Apple redesigned its thinnest laptop with a thin-bezel display. You can read the word Air when looking at the wallpaper from a distance.Theres a wallpaper variation for each color of the MacBook Air, including silver, starlight, midnight, space gray, and now sky blue.This wallpaper comes with the new M4 MacBook Air and will be available to all Mac users with macOS 15.4, expected to be released next month. But if you dont want to wait or want to use the new wallpaper on another device, we now have the original file for you to download here.You can download the sky blue M4 MacBook Air wallpaper in its full resolution below. Be sure to click the (i) button and save the full resolution wallpaper and then set it via the Photos app or Settings app if youre using an iPhone or iPad.More wallpapersGadgets I recommendAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Mar 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / VulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting Advantive VeraCore and Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild.The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -CVE-2024-57968 - An unrestricted file upload vulnerability in Advantive VeraCore that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to upload files to unintended folders via upload.apsxCVE-2025-25181 - An SQL injection vulnerability in Advantive VeraCore that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commandsCVE-2024-13159 - An absolute path traversal vulnerability in Ivanti EPM that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive informationCVE-2024-13160 - An absolute path traversal vulnerability in Ivanti EPM that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive informationCVE-2024-13161 - An absolute path traversal vulnerability in Ivanti EPM that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive informationThe exploitation of VeraCore vulnerabilities has been attributed to likely a Vietnamese threat actor named XE Group, which has been observed dropping reverse shells and web shells to maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems.On the other hand, there are currently no public reports about how the three Ivanti EPM flaws are being weaponized in real-world attacks. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit was released by Horizon3.ai last month. The cybersecurity company described them as "credential coercion" bugs that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to compromise the servers.In light of active exploitation, it's essential that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies apply the necessary patches by March 31, 2025.The development comes as threat intelligence firm GreyNose warned of mass exploitation of CVE-2024-4577, a critical vulnerability impacting PHP-CGI, with spikes in attack activity targeting Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Spain, and India."More than 43% of IPs targeting CVE-2024-4577 in the past 30 days are from Germany and China," GreyNoise said, adding it "detected a coordinated spike in exploitation attempts against networks in multiple countries, suggesting additional automated scanning for vulnerable targets" in February.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Its been a rough few years for the restaurant business, and there doesnt seem to be an end in sight.Eat This is reporting that Del Taco the No. 1fast-food chain in America, per USA Today's annual Best Fast-Food Chains listhasabruptly shut down 18 locations, all in one state.The reason for the abrupt closures of these locations is the company that owns them,Newport Ventures, lost their financial backing and had to file bankruptcy.Eat This also reveals that Newport Ventures bought 18 Del Taco restaurants in 2023 for $14.1 million. The operator borrowed $11.8 million from National Bank Holdings, with $3 million of that slated to go toward remodels.With that much money on the line, Del Taco and National Bank Holdings were quick to pull the trigger after Newport Ventures had an outstanding unpaid $125,000 fee for 10 restaurants that were set to be built.When that happened, Del Taco pulled the plug on the franchise agreement, which forced Newport Ventures into bankruptcy.The franchises received an email letting them know all locations were closing down.It is with our deepest regret that we must inform you that the company's continued financial challenges have forced us to make the difficult decision to close the stores immediately.But that might not be the full reason that Del Taco shut down these locations.RestaurantBusiness Online states thatDel Taco accused Newport Ventures of significant mistakes made before the locations were shuttered.Del Taco CRO Allen Soongsaid that due to their cavalier approach to health safety, I am left with no choice but to cease operations immediately.It appears to be a result of the unpaid fee, and some health and safety issues that led to the ultimate demise of these 18 Del Taco locations.The franchisee states that these shutdowns are temporary and that they will be back, but its unclear if thats true in light of Del Tacos statement.Get our free mobile appOnce-Beloved Fast Food Items That No Longer ExistThese defunct fast food items have gone down in history. Wouldnt you love to eat them again?Filed Under: Chain Restaurants, Fast Food, FoodCategories: Original Features

Looking forthe most recentMini Crossword answer?Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.There's a thesaurus joke in today'sNYT Mini Crossword. But if you like word puzzles, you probably like jokes about books full of words, so you've got that going for you. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visitCNET's NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini CrosswordLet's get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for March 11, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNETMini across clues and answers1A clue: Format for many e-signed documentsAnswer: PDF4A clue: AspirationsAnswer: GOALS6A clue: "This thesaurus is awful. Not only is it awful, it's also ___!" (joke)Answer: AWFUL7A clue: Southpaw, by another nameAnswer: LEFTY8A clue: Deli bread varietyAnswer: RYEMini down clues and answers1D clue: Word after flower or fireAnswer: POWER2D clue: Looney Tunes character with the catchphrase "You're dethpicable!"Answer: DAFFY3D clue: What you might blow in, when you're blowin' in the wind?Answer: FLUTE4D clue: Actress GadotAnswer: GAL5D clue: Adjective for a foxAnswer: SLYHow to play more Mini CrosswordsThe New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day's Mini Crossword for free, but you'll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.