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  1. "The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)" is a #popular #song #setToAMelody that appeared in the 1952 #film #MoulinRouge. It became a No. 1 #hit in the #UKSinglesChart when recorded by #Mantovani. The music for the film was #written by #GeorgesAuric; the original #French #lyrics were by Jacques Larue, with the #English words by #WilliamEngvick. The Auric-Engvick song was published in 1953.
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  2. Mark Drake: Keith Ellison let fraud run rampant while fighting American energy companies

    Share This StoryMinnesota's burgeoning fraud scandal is one of the bleakest moments in our state's history. Because of inexcusable negligence on behalf of state government officials, fraudsters, mostly of Somali descent, exploited our health care system, programs for the #homeless and hungry, and early childhood education programs in a series of schemes even the left-leaning ....
    May. 15,2026
    #Minnesota #Homeless #English

    https://alphanews.org/mark-drake-keith-ellison-let-fraud-run-rampant-while-fighting-american-energy-companies

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  3. Portland mayor's Moda Center plan faces public pushback in new poll

    Most Portland residents would rather see their clean energy fund money go to police, firefighters, and #homeless services than help finance a $600 million arena renovation.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Oregon #Homeless #English

    https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/05/how-portland-voters-feel-about-spending-75m-in-climate-money-to-renovate-moda-center.html

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  4. Oregon City sophomore wins statewide mayors contest with Roblox video

    In a video created on the Roblox platform, Zirui Zhu focused on addressing #homelessness, identifying housing affordability as a key factor.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Oregon #Homeless #English

    https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2026/05/oregon-city-sophomore-wins-statewide-mayors-contest-with-roblox-video.html

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  5. Watch live: Turner testifies before Senate on HUD budget request

    Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner will testify before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel on President Trump's fiscal 2027 budget request. The Trump administration is seeking $73.5 billion for HUD in 2027, focusing primarily on tackling #homelessness and affordability concerns, according to the White House. It also comes as lawmakers have been pressed...
    May. 15,2026
    #Homeless #English

    https://thehill.com/video-clips/5877670-watch-live-hud-scott-turner-housing-trump-senate-budget-hearing

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  6. An LA tech maven trying to tackle #homelessness issues deserves voters' attention in mayor's race

    Adam Miller, a Democrat, is running in the business-person-turned-candidate lane, which has had mixed election success in Los Angeles.
    May. 15,2026
    #Sacramento #California #SacramentoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/05/adam-miller-la-mayor-race

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  7. California Blocks Trump Administration from Withholding #Homelessness Funds

    by Marisa Kendall/CalMatters. California scored a legal victory on April 20 that, for now, undermines the Trump administration's efforts to drastically cut funding for #homeless housing. . Changes that would have diverted huge chunks of federal funds away from permanent housing and funneled them instead into temporary shelters and sober living programs will remain suspended after the Trump administration dropped its appeal of an earlier court loss...
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/california-blocks-trump-administration-from-withholding-homelessness-funds

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  8. California Blocks Trump Administration from Withholding #Homelessness Funds

    by Marisa Kendall/CalMatters. California scored a legal victory on April 20 that, for now, undermines the Trump administration's efforts to drastically cut funding for #homeless housing. . Changes that would have diverted huge chunks of federal funds away from permanent housing and funneled them instead into temporary shelters and sober living programs will remain suspended after the Trump administration dropped its appeal of an earlier court loss...
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/california-blocks-trump-administration-from-withholding-homelessness-funds

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  9. No Displacement Without Real Replacement

    by Jordan Wasilewski. When I served on the SRO Task Force as a tenant representative for two years, I was charged with the duty of meeting SRO tenants where they are at and making their lives better. However, I have come to realize over the last few years that the City needs to move on from housing formerly #homeless people in ramshackle SROs, and many would agree with me. However, in mid-April,..
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/no-displacement-without-real-replacement

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  10. No Displacement Without Real Replacement

    by Jordan Wasilewski. When I served on the SRO Task Force as a tenant representative for two years, I was charged with the duty of meeting SRO tenants where they are at and making their lives better. However, I have come to realize over the last few years that the City needs to move on from housing formerly #homeless people in ramshackle SROs, and many would agree with me. However, in mid-April,..
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/no-displacement-without-real-replacement

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  11. An Emergency Voucher Keeps This Mother Housed. Without It, She Might Face #Homelessness Again. Q and A with Jessica Boykins

    interview by Christian Jiminez. Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) are federal rental assistance vouchers authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help individuals and families who are #homeless, at-risk of #homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence. Administered by the department of Housing and urban Development (HUD)through local housing authorities, these vouchers provide long-term, tenant-based rental subsidies for private market housing. The program was intended to run through 2030...
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/an-emergency-voucher-keeps-this-mother-housed-without-it-she-might-face-homelessness-again-q-and-a-with-jessica-boykins

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  12. An Emergency Voucher Keeps This Mother Housed. Without It, She Might Face #Homelessness Again. Q and A with Jessica Boykins

    interview by Christian Jiminez. Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) are federal rental assistance vouchers authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help individuals and families who are #homeless, at-risk of #homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence. Administered by the department of Housing and urban Development (HUD)through local housing authorities, these vouchers provide long-term, tenant-based rental subsidies for private market housing. The program was intended to run through 2030...
    May. 15,2026
    #SanFrancisco #California #SanFranciscoCalifornia #Homeless #English

    https://www.streetsheet.org/an-emergency-voucher-keeps-this-mother-housed-without-it-she-might-face-homelessness-again-q-and-a-with-jessica-boykins

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  13. LGBTQ+ day center in Southeast Portland faces possible closure from county cuts to #homeless services

    The Marie Equi Center has become a beacon to queer and trans people who are #homeless in Portland, but they're set to lose funding in a county budget proposal.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Homeless #English

    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/multnomah-county-budget-cuts-homeless-day-center-marie-equi-queer-trans/283-e6a2e6ee-3402-4bb5-b43d-62305402758a

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  14. Cornhole tournament set to benefit local shelter

    REEDSVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) -- You can be a hometown hero and help a local #homeless shelter Friday night. The Reedsville Volunteer Fire Co. is hosting a Stars and Stripes Cornhole Tournament to benefit Shelter Service in Lewistown. Warmups start at 6 p.m. and bags fly at 7 p.m. "We try to guide them toward the [. ]
    May. 15,2026
    #Homeless #English

    https://www.abc27.com/community/hometown-hero/cornhole-tournament-set-to-benefit-local-shelter

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  15. Legislature passes housing bill amid feds' threat to strategy to prevent #homelessness

    $4 million in funding for supportive housing is a small step toward addressing what's likely to become a much larger need..
    May. 15,2026
    #Homeless #English

    https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/05/legislature-passes-housing-bill-feds-renew-threat-to-longstanding-strategy-to-prevent-homelessness

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  16. OPB's First Look: #Homelessness policy in Pendleton

    In Pendleton, the issue of #homelessness has permeated the city council race, and leading candidates have vastly different approaches to solving it. Here's your First Look at Thursday's news.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Homeless #English

    https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/14/pendleton-homeless-city-council-first-look

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  17. #Homelessness becomes focal point in Pendleton City Council race

    How to address the Eastern Oregon city's growing #homeless crisis has supercharged next week's city council race in a place that sometimes has struggled to attract candidates at all.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Homeless #English

    https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/14/homelessness-becomes-focal-point-in-pendleton-city-council-race

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  18. 'OPB Politics Now': East of the Cascades, affordability and housing are on the ballot

    #Homelessness in Pendleton and growth and development in Bend factor into next week's election.
    May. 15,2026
    #Portland #PDX #Homeless #English

    https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/14/central-eastern-oregon-election-opb-politics-now

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  19. May 15 Wikipedia featured article

    Contested area during Operation Brevity
    Operation Brevity was an offensive conducted in May 1941, during the Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, against Axis front-line forces in the Sollum–Capuzzo–Bardia area of the border between Egypt and Libya (map pictured). British Middle East Command general Archibald Wavell defined Operation Brevity's main goals as the acquisition of territory from which to launch a further planned offensive toward Tobruk. On 15 May, Brigadier William Gott attacked in three columns with a mixed infantry and armoured force. The Halfaya Pass was taken against stiff Italian opposition, and Fort Capuzzo deeper inside Libya was captured, but German counter-attacks under Colonel Maximilian von Herff regained the fort during the afternoon. Gott conducted a staged withdrawal to the Halfaya Pass on 16 May, and Operation Brevity ended. The Halfaya Pass was recaptured 11 days later during Operation Skorpion, a German counter-attack.

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  20. 📕 Word of the Day: tortuous

    tortuous • \TOR-chuh-wus\ • adjective

    Tortuous describes something that has many literal or figurative twists and turns.

    // The tortuous mountain path rewards climbers with a stunning view of the town below.

    // Getting approval for a project of this magnitude is a tortuous process.

    📝 Examples:
    “Christopher Nolan’s latest epic is an adaptation of the ancient Greek epic poem, The Odyssey. ... Homer’s poem is centered on Greek hero King Odysseus ... and his tortuous, 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.” — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2026

    📜 Did you know?
    Be careful not to confuse tortuous with torturous. These two words are relatives—both ultimately come from the Latin verb torquēre, which means “to twist,” “to wind,” or “to wrench”—but tortuous means “winding” or “crooked,” whereas torturous means “painfully unpleasant.” (Its oldest meaning is “causing torture.”) Something tortuous, such as a twisting mountain road, might also be torturous (if, for example, you have to ride up that road on a bicycle), but that doesn’t make these words synonyms. The twists and turns that mark a tortuous thing can be literal (“a tortuous path” or “a tortuous river”) or figurative (“a tortuous argument” or “a tortuous explanation”), but you should veer away from using the term if no implication of winding or crookedness is present.

    #English #Vocabulary #wordoftheday #MW #WOTD

  21. Ubiquitous (adjective)

    Definition: Present, appearing, or found everywhere.

    Used in a sentence: "Smartphones have become so ubiquitous that daily life without them now feels unusual to many people."

    From Latin ubique (“everywhere”), ubiquitous describes something so widespread that it becomes nearly impossible to avoid.
    The word carries a sense of constant presence, familiar to the point of blending into the background.

    When something becomes ubiquitous, it often stops being consciously noticed.
    The word highlights how repetition and saturation can transform even remarkable things into ordinary parts of everyday life.

    #English #WordOfTheDay

  22. Overclock (verb)

    Definition: To run a computer processor or component at a speed higher than its official specification.

    Used in a sentence: "I finally managed to overclock the system for better performance."

    A modern technical term formed from over- (“beyond”) and clock (referring to a processor’s clock speed), overclock reflects the push to exceed intended limits in pursuit of greater performance.

    To overclock is to trade safety margins for speed.

    The word carries an underlying tension between optimization and strain, where the desire for more power risks overheating, instability, or collapse if pushed too far.

    #English #WordOfTheDay