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The winning numbers have been announced for the Monday, Jan. 6 Powerball drawing.
Here are the latest Powerball results from the drawing on Monday, Jan. 6.

The estimated jackpot is $220 million with a $98.4 million cash option after a recent winner reset the prize pool late last month.
If no winner claims the top prize, the jackpot will continue to roll until the next drawing at 10:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8 with an even larger prize.
The winning numbers for Monday’s drawing were 17-34–46–66–67 with a Powerball of 14 and the Power Play was 2X.
Lottery players have a 1 in 292,201,338 chance of winning a Powerball jackpot by matching all five balls plus the Powerball, according to officials. Prizes then range from $1 million to $4, which can be multiplied by the Power Play option.
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China is experiencing a rise in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases, causing hospital overcrowding and heightening public fears of a potential epidemic. The surge coincides with the winter season, a time when respiratory illnesses commonly increase due to colder temperatures and more indoor gatherings that promote virus transmission.

For those of you who have been on Planet Earth for more than three years, this may give you whiplash. Indeed, similar to the current surge in HMPV cases in China, the coronavirus saw seasonal spikes, particularly during colder months.

Just as hospitals are now overwhelmed due to HMPV, healthcare systems faced immense pressure during COVID-19 outbreaks. The combination of indoor gatherings and lower temperatures created conditions that accelerated viral transmission, highlighting a broader pattern where respiratory illnesses, including coronaviruses, tend to peak during colder seasons, straining public health resources and raising concerns about widespread outbreaks.

According to official global reports, an estimated 6.9 million deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 since the pandemic began in late 2019, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, studies indicate that the actual toll may be significantly higher, with some estimates suggesting over 20 million excess deaths during the pandemic period, taking into account underreporting and indirect fatalities linked to strained healthcare systems.

Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by rapid actions, a highly effective vaccination campaign, and a mix of strict lockdowns and evolving public health policies. It made life, in a word, harsh.

Israel implemented one of the world’s earliest and strictest lockdowns. The first national lockdown began in March 2020, following a rapid increase in cases. Non-essential businesses were closed, schools shifted to online learning, and citizens were restricted to staying within 100 meters of their homes except for essential activities such as purchasing food or receiving medical care. Borders were closed, and mandatory quarantines were imposed on returning citizens.

This initial lockdown was largely successful in flattening the curve of infections, but it came at a significant economic cost, with businesses shuttered and unemployment rates soaring.

The second national lockdown occurred in September 2020, just as Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, and Yom Kippur were approaching. This lockdown was triggered by a sharp surge in COVID-19 cases after a rapid summer reopening, with mass gatherings contributing to the rise in infections. Restrictions during this period mirrored those of the first lockdown but were even stricter in some areas.

The third national lockdown was implemented in late December 2020 after yet another wave of infections, this time driven by the more contagious Alpha variant. The surge coincided with delays in the early stages of the vaccination campaign, prompting the government to reintroduce strict measures. By February 2021, Israel’s high vaccination rates allowed for a gradual easing of restrictions, which many credited with preventing the healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed. Nevertheless, that left the country in a health and economic crisis for nearly a full year, and the impact of that is still felt today.

A reason to worry?

So now, with the new spike in HMPV infections in China, everyone’s a little on edge. While Beijing has downplayed the situation as a routine seasonal trend, new monitoring measures have been implemented, including a pilot program to track pneumonia cases of unknown origin.

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HMPV, first identified in 2001, is a respiratory virus that spreads through droplets and contact with surfaces, causing symptoms such as cough, fever, and fatigue. Although usually mild, it can lead to serious complications in vulnerable populations like children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. Unlike COVID-19 but much like the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, HMPV has no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment, with care focusing on symptom management.

So, do we have another coronavirus on our hands? It is hard to say, but despite growing attention, officials stress that HMPV is not a novel virus-like COVID-19. It has been circulating globally for years, with populations developing partial immunity. But if there is going to be a global medical crisis once more, Israel’s leaders – who are busy enough as is with another life-threatening crisis – must learn from their past choices, both positive and negative. Prevent panic, maintain safety, and avert collapse.

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Brevard has been on a building boom lately, a trend likely to continue in the coming year.
Development is expected to be robust in 2025, particularly in the residential sector, including single-family homes, apartment complexes and hotels.
Commercial and industrial projects also are proceeding throughout Brevard County, as are projects at the Space Coast’s colleges.
Port Canaveral CEO John Murray said he saw record amounts of lumber and plywood coming through the port’s cargo terminals in November and December — an indication that the housing industry is about to rebound in the second quarter of 2025.
“This is how things work in the global markets,” Murray said.
So what’s ahead for construction and development along the Space Coast in 2025? Here is a sample from throughout the county:
A number of residential projects are underway in Palm Bay, as Brevard County’s most populous city adds to its current population of just over 140,000.
Palm Bay Deputy City Manager Joan Junkala-Brown said that there are 9,264 housing units within the city that have been approved and are under construction. Another 21,133 units are going through the review process.
Junkala-Brown said one of the big projects that has been approved is Cypress Bay West, near Babcock Street and Mara Loma Boulevard in southeast Palm Bay. It’s a three-phase project that is targeted to include 1,219 single-family homes and 124 townhome units. The single-family homes are being is being developed by D.R. Horton.
Another is the Palm Vista Everlands project, which has a mix of 854 single-family homes and 624 multifamily villas and townhomes, including some in age-restricted communities. The site is not far from St. Johns Heritage Parkway, north of Malabar Road, in northwest Palm Bay. There will be three subdivisions in which Lennar Homes is the developer.
Junkala-Brown said two high-tech companies are in the midst of large expansion projects in Palm Bay.
L3Harris Technologies has two major projects currently under construction at its Palm Bay campus.
L3Harris’ Project SAMT — an acronym for secure advanced manufacturing technology — currently is constructing a 105,000-square-foot facility. The project is projected to create about 100 jobs over three years, with private capital investment of $110 million, $80 million in manufacturing equipment, plus $11 million in business personal property.
L3Harris’ Project LEO — an acronym for low-earth orbit — is under construction as well, with a 93,000-square-foot facility. The company projects 101 new jobs over three years, with private capital investment of $70 million in building construction, plus $13.1 million in manufacturing equipment.
The projects received approval from the Palm Bay City Council for city property tax breaks over a 10-year period. The combined property tax breaks are worth an estimated $1.14 million a year during each of the first five years, with reduced tax breaks later on, Junkala-Brown said.
Another company to receive city property tax breaks was Rogue Valley Microdevices, an Oregon-based semiconductor company that is developing a facilty at 2301 Commerce Drive in Palm Bay, with a grand opening tentatively scheduled for mid-2025.
Rogue Valley is occupying and renovating an existing 50,000-square-foot facility, investing about $25 million in private capital for equipment and facility improvements. Rogue Valley projects an addition of at least 75 jobs over a three-year period.
Junkala-Brown said the Palm Bay City Council approved tax breaks for Rogue Valley over a seven-year period, with the incentive of nearly $570,000 a year during each of the first four years, with reduced tax breaks later on.
Titusville City Council member Sarah Stoeckel said one of the big residential projects underway in the city is The Shores at Tranquility, located north of the NASA Causeway, along the Indian River Lagoon shoreline.
This project is being built in phases, with Phase 1 consisting of 99 single-family homes, Phase 2 consisting of 104 single-family homes and Phase 3 consisting of 75 single-family homes. Additional phases are planned for the future, along with a marina and a town center on the site.
Stoeckel said residential developments like this one also help generate interest in national retail and restaurant companies locating in Titusville. An example is the planned Panera Bread restaurant, in a smaller “urban store” format, along State Road 50/Cheney Highway.
But Stoeckel cautions that Titusville must strike a balance between new residential development and commercial development, while also focusing on infrastructure improvements, and preserving wetlands and green space areas.
“Everything has to align perfectly, and everything has to have balance,” Stoeckel said.
Stoeckel said the City Council and Titusville’s Community Redevelopment Agency are working to devise plans to spur more development downtown, including shops, restaurants and service businesses.
Stoeckel — who has been a City Council member since 2016 — said city officials also must work to resolve the split among Titusville residents, some of whom want more development and others who want to keep the city’s “small-town feel.”
Separately, a developer is continuing his effort to transform the site of Titusville Mall (formerly known as Searstown Mall) along U.S. 1 into a multiuse complex. The developer is hoping to include a hotel, an apartment complex, an assisted-living faculty, retail space, restaurants, a medical complex and other offices on the site.
Melbourne Mayor Paul Alfrey said he expects construction of the Compass Landing by Margaritaville resort project to be moving forward in 2025, after experiencing some economic roadblocks that delayed construction.
“This has been a long road, but, as the financial climate has improved for the developer, construction can begin again,” Alfrey said. “It has been a bumpy road for Margaritaville.”
Compass Landing by Margaritaville is planned for 4.6-acre riverfront site just south of Cherry Street on U.S. 1. Plans for the tropical-themed Melbourne Margaritaville include a seven-story hotel facing the Indian River Lagoon; a two-story restaurant building with 400 seats; a 221-slip marina; a 14,000-square-foot lawn with stage for concerts and events; a four-level parking garage; and a public boardwalk.
Melbourne-based Certified General Contractors was selected as the general contractor for the project.
“We’re super-excited about it,” Certified General Contractors Vice President Corey Runte said. “Everything is moving forward,” with construction expected to begin in March or April on the two-year project. Pre-construction work already is underway.
Runte’s company also is working on a 240-unt apartment community in Melbourne at the former site of a Sears department store, near the intersection NASA Boulevard and Babcock Street.
Runte said construction is underway on the $58 million project, called Midtown Melbourne, with completion scheduled for early-2027.
The former Sears itself will be repurposed and renovated into a self-storage facility. The remainder of the site will be redeveloped into the luxury apartment community, with eight buildings, four stories tall.
Among the amenities at Midtown Melbourne will be a clubhouse, resident garages, a pool, a dog park and green space.
More than $7 million in site upgrades will be invested toward stormwater, infrastructure and other upgrades.
The developer is Inlet Property Co. and the management firm will be Madison Communities, with Certified General Contractors as the civil engineer.
Construction is continuing at a strong pace in West Viera, one of the faster-growing areas of the county.
Here are details on some of the residential projects from Eva Rey, senior vice president of community management and communications for The Viera Co.:
Aripeka: This is a 260-units, gated “eco-community,” which Rey notes has “wooden gates, natural landscape, and lakes framed by majestic live oaks and mature sable palms.”
“These features speak to a focused and deliberate effort made to work with the existing land, rather than clearing it and replanting.” Rey said. “Our development team drew lot lines that preserved natural areas, realigned roads, created landscape islands and preserved native habitats.”
Future amenities will include a clubhouse, a playground, an outdoor pavilion and trails.
Crossmolina: Enhanced designs for a total of 314 single-family homes, of which 154 are attached duplex villas, are in this Viera Builders neighborhood. Amenities include a central pool, shade canopies, a playground and benches.
Farallon Fields: This is Viera Builders’ latest community, with new lot sizes in a gated section of the neighborhood being releasing for sale soon. The area has a broad variety of home designs, with a total of 576 units. Amenities at Farallon Fields include a community pool and pavilion, a playground with a tot lot and open recreation spaces.
In addition to the Margaritaville complex in Melbourne, there are a number of other hotel projects in the pipeline along the Space Coast. That includes eight hotels with a total of 948 rooms projected to open in 2025, according to Space Coast Office of Tourism Executive Director Peter Cranis.
Here is a rundown, with their potential opening month — although construction timelines often are pushed back:
Construction is proceeding at Eastern Florida State College‘s Melbourne campus on a new Center for Innovative Technology Education for the training of high-tech workers.
The $20 million facility is scheduled to open next August, with programs that can lead to bachelor degrees, associate degrees and college certificates.
EFSC President Jim Richey said the complex would “set a high standard in Central Florida to meet the surging workforce demands for local business and industry. As such, it will be a critical component in creating jobs and helping ensure the continued economic growth of the Space Coast.”
The 31,500-square-foot building will feature labs that can be configured to provide students with access to software used by high-tech employers, simulation labs and collaboration areas where students can work together to solve problems in real time.
The center will support students in various programs, including engineering technology, robotics, mechatronics, 3D printing, computerized drafting, computer information systems and cybersecurity.
Florida Institute of Technology is building six-story, 557-bed student housing complex on the northeast corner of South Babcock Street and University Boulevard, west of Albemarle Street.
The 212,000-square-foot complex will have apartment-style accommodations with three or four bedroom and two baths, plus full kitchens and living room.
There also will be a classroom area, multiple study and lounge areas, a multipurpose room, e-bicycle parking, and two outdoor courtyard areas that incorporate outdoor dining and recreation.
Dave Berman is business editor at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Berman at dberman@floridatoday.com, on X at @bydaveberman and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dave.berman.54

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A security guard at the Honduran consulate near Atlanta was shot dead on Monday by a man who refused to hand over his weapon before entering the building and instead fired on the security guard, the Honduran foreign minister said.
The man, who was not identified by police, killed the guard and wounded another person before he was taken into custody, said city of Doraville spokesperson Emily Heenan. Doraville police were called to the scene of the shooting at the suburban office park, about 16 miles north of downtown Atlanta at around 2:30 p.m., according to Heenan.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson strongly condemned the attack in a statement Monday evening.
“Attacks and threats against diplomatic facilities are unacceptable,” the spokesperson said. “We are in contact with Honduran consulate officials and consistent with our obligations under the Vienna Conventions, the Department is committed to the security and safety of diplomatic facilities and the diplomats who work in them.”
The Honduran consulate in Georgia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Heenan told USA TODAY more information on the suspected shooter and victims would be available soon. Doraville police are holding the suspect and the wounded person was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina told a press conference in Tegucigalpa the suspect was a Honduran national. The private security guard was of Mexican origin.
“The individual refused to hand over his weapon and unfortunately pulled out his weapon, mortally wounding the security guard with five shots,” Reina said.
The security guard managed to close the door, preventing the armed man from entering and possibly sparing more victims, the foreign minister said.
A Honduran witness waiting to enter the consulate noted the fleeing suspect’s license plate number and reported it to police, Reina said.
Contributing: Reuters

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Malaysian Palm Oil Slides As Global Edible Oils Diminish  Finimize
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More than 500 pet shop animals were killed in a fire that erupted at a shopping center in Northwest Dallas on Friday morning, officials said. Three individuals who were inside the building during the fire escaped safely without injuries.
Dallas Animal Services removed 579 dead animals from an exotic pet shop inside Plaza Latina Bazaar, a shopping center in Northwest Dallas, following the extinguishing of a fire on Friday morning, Dallas Fire-Rescue Public Information Office Jason Evans confirmed. Most of the animals were small birds, but Dallas Animal Services also removed chickens, hamsters, two dogs and two cats, Evans added. The animals in the shop died from smoke inhalation.
Evans said Dallas Fire-Rescue is unaware of the pet shop’s name and Plaza Latina Bazaar did not immediately respond for comment about the fire when contacted by USA TODAY on Saturday.
The three people who were inside the building at the time of the fire escaped safely after being alerted by the building’s fire alarm and sprinkler system activation, Evans said.
In a Facebook post shared on Friday, Plaza Latina Bazaar shared that the shopping center will remain closed until further notice.
“It is a regrettable situation that we had this morning,” Plaza Latina Bazaar shared on Friday. “We ask for your prayers for all the families who work here, hoping to be back firmly, to give them the attention that (your) family deserve.”
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Dallas Fire-Rescue was dispatched to a 911 call for a structure fire at Plaza Latina Bazaar at 9:12 a.m. local time on Friday, Evans said. Firefighters were met with heavy smoke and fire conditions, so a second-alarm response was requested. In total, 40 to 45 firefighters extinguished the fire over a two-hour period, Evans said.
The fire left behind “severe” structural damage, Evans said, including a partial roof collapse.
According to the Plaza Latina Bazaar online directory, the shopping center boasts more than 50 businesses, ranging from restaurants and candy shops to a tattoo parlor and insurance agency.
Chayin Martínez, a content creator based in Dallas, appeared in two videos shared by the shopping center on Friday. In the first, Martínez appeared to be driving to the shopping center to access the fire damage for the first time.
“(There) are many families that depend on this place and obviously I am part of that family,” he said. Martínez can be heard taking a deep sigh before the video ends.
The fire remains under investigation.
Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Follow her on X and Instagram @gretalcross. Story idea? Email her at gcross@gannett.com.

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Maryland lawmakers to address education spending amid looming $2.7 billion deficit  Fox Baltimore
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