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……

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Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics

Jung, H. et al. Tantala Kerr nonlinear integrated photonics. Optica 8, 811–817 (2021). Article  ADS  Google Scholar  Desiatov, B., Shams-Ansari, A., Zhang, M., Wang, C. & Lončar, M. Ultra-low-loss integrated visible photonics using thin-film lithium niobate. Optica 6, 380–384 (2019). Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar  Wang, C. et al. Ultrahigh-efficiency wavelength conversion in nanophotonic periodically…

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Storch consortium completes Sheffield Wednesday takeover

Sheffield Wednesday have announced that US consortium Arise Capital Partners has bought the club, officially bringing to an end Dejphon Chansiri’s ownership. The group is led by David Storch, 73, an American executive whose background is in the aviation services sector. The EFL confirmed the news on Saturday, and said it would not impose a…

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Democrat Neguse presses Burgum on reflecting pool, $13M 'no-bid' contract

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) on Wednesday pressed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on how his department awarded the contract for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation project to Atlantic Industrial Coatings. During Burgum’s appearance before the House Natural Resource Committee on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request, Neguse asked the Interior secretary if he was “familiar”……

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