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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The top baby names in California for 2024 is here, and Liam and Mia rule. See the other names
Just wait several years, parents of California. Your child's kindergarten class will be filled with Liams and Mias, which were the most popular names for babies born in the state last year. The Social Security Administration has released the 100 most frequent names for babies born last year in the state. Last year, 2,716 babies were named Liam in California, making it the most popular name for males. As for the most popular female name, there were 1,986 babies born last year named Mia. These names are right in line with national trends, too, with Liam ranking No. 1 and Mia ranking No. 5 for most popular male and female names, respectively. In fact, Liam has continued to be a favorite amongst parents, as it was the second-most popular name for boys in the 2010s, according to the SSA. The names are categorized as names given to male and female babies, and it's based on Social Security Card application data. According to SSA, the data is restricted to cases where the year of birth, sex and state of birth are on record and the name is at least two characters long, and that different spellings of similar names (such as Kaitin versus Kaitlyn) are considered as separate entries. Also, some names are given to both boys and girls, which means the same name could be given a ranking in both categories. So, what are some of the most popular baby names in California? Liam Noah Mateo Santiago Sebastian Julian Oliver Ezra Lucas Ethan Mia Olivia Camila Emma Sophia Isabella Amelia Sofia Luna Gianna Some names grew in popularity from 2023 to 2024, the SSA found. For boys, those names were: Truce Colsen Bryer Halo Azaiah As for girls, those names were: Ailany Aylani Marjorie Scottie Analeia Paris Barraza is a trending reporter covering California news at The Desert Sun. Reach her at pbarraza@ This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: The most popular baby names in California in 2024 have been revealed
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Your Stories Q&A: What documents do I need to bring to DMV to get REAL ID?
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — You ask, we answer! Viewer Question: What documents do I need to bring to the DMV to get a REAL ID? The NYS DMV has a great breakdown on its website. If you click on the 'find out what documents you need' button, it will customize the documents you need specific to your situation. This video, posted by the NYS DMV, is also very helpful. Documents you'll need to bring to the DMV Proof of Social Security Status: A few documents apply, including a Social Security Card, W-2, SSA-1099. Two Proofs of New York State Residence: Several documents will work, including your driver's license, utility bill, bank statement, canceled check, W-2, or postmarked mail. Proof of Name and Lawful Status: A Birth certificate or U.S. Passport will suffice. You need to make sure all your documents show the same name. If that's not the case, the DMV lists the following guidance: You will need to bring original or certified copies of documents showing how your name changed (Example: marriage certificate, divorce decree, and/or court-issued documents). If your name has changed multiple times, you must bring multiple documents that link all names. If you have a middle name, your Proof of Birth and Lawful Status document must include it for the name to appear on your permit or license. If you have a suffix, it may appear on any document, but it must appear on at least one. Remember, if you have an Enhanced ID, you do not need to go to the DMV for a REAL ID. An Enhanced license meets REAL ID requirements. Submit a form. Your Stories Q&A: What documents do I need to bring to DMV to get REAL ID? Your Stories Q&A: Is my Social Security number shown when a store scans my REAL ID license? 'Why do you have to live in a war zone if you're not part of the war?': Syracuse landlord frustrated by bullets on his block Your Stories Q&A: When will the new Chick-fil-A open in DeWitt? Your Stories Q&A: When will the rough ramp near Destiny USA get repaired? Do you need a REAL ID by May 7? What to know Your Stories Q&A: Is Byrne Dairy still replacing former TK Tavern in Camillus? Your Stories Q&A: An update on the future of Beck's Hotel in Mexico Your Stories Q&A: When will new comfort food restaurant open in Bridgeport? Your Stories Q&A: $100 million golf course community planned at former Syracuse country club Your Stories Q&A: Utica bakery known for its half-moon cookies opening spot in Manlius After nearly two weeks, hot water returns to Nob Hill Apartments building Your Stories Q&A: A burning question about a flame in Oneida Nob Hill Apartments tenants continue to live without hot water after two weeks Your Stories Q&A: Opening date announced for Salina Starbucks Your Stories Q&A: Something new on the menu for the former Ponderosa in Salina Your Stories Q&A: When will construction finish on the old Hilltop Restaurant and bowling alley in Skaneateles Your Stories Q&A: Dispute over repairing potholes leads to DeWitt, Salina road being closed Your Stories Q&A: Why did the Traveling Gnome Diner in Bridgeport close? Your Stories Q&A: When will trash be cleared from area interstates? Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
MORNING GLORY: 'REAL ID' is coming for you
It is my second trip to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in four days. I admit from the start it is my fault that I had to make two trips. When I traveled two weeks ago, the friendly TSA agents reminded me —repeatedly— that come May 7, I would need to bring my passport as my valid Virginia driver's license was non-compliant with the REAL ID Act. I was vaguely aware that the push for new "REAL" IDs was back, the requirement to obtain one having been suspended during Covid, but unaware that the deadline loomed. So last Thursday I trekked to my local DMV office, bringing along my current, valid, Virginia driver's license, my current, valid passport, my Social Security Card and my birth certificate. Surely, I supposed, that would be enough as I'd been assured I could fly with just the passport by the helpful Team TSA. REAL ID REJECTION BY AMERICANS MAY COME DOWN TO ONE SURPRISING FACTOR I definitely needed the new license because, while a "REAL ID is an optional, upgraded version of your driver's license or ID card that has a star in the right corner," I had no star and no desire to carry my passport everywhere. Not surprisingly, a lot of people want to get their"REAL ID" for as the VA DMV helpfully alerts you: "Beginning May 7, 2025, the federal government will require you to present a REAL ID compliant driver's license or ID card, or another federally approved form of ID, in order to board a domestic flight or enter a secure federal facility or military base (some military bases may already require REAL ID or a federally approved form of ID*)." The DMV opens at 8 AM, so I rolled up last Thursday at 7:30 AM. The line was already more than a dozen people long. An hour later more than 50 good folks were standing in the rope line waiting for one of the three DMV employees assigned to the REAL ID processing. The average processing time was 15 minutes —at the head of the line. You may want to pack a lunch if you get there at official opening time. It had not occurred to DMV to perhaps add some staff for REAL ID deadline days, or reassign others from the standard busy work. No. Just three DMVers on Thursday and three again on Monday. I'd flunked REAL ID eligibility last week because none of my current documents list my home address. I use a P.O. Box for a variety of reasons on my driver's license and had —wrongfully it turns out— thought that as a passport could get me on the plane, my passport plus my driver's license, birth certificate and Social Security card should serve to secure my star, right? Wrong. I needed a utility bill or a mortgage statement or a voter registration card with my home address on it. When I smiled my mild protest that, as a valid passport is sufficient to board a plane, why would it not be sufficient to obtain my "REAL ID" I got the DMV look back. It's the same look at every DMV everywhere. She had heard it all before, but it says on the VIrginia DMV website that I needed documents with my home address. Hadn't I read the DMV website? Ms. DMV sent me home in search of "secondary documents" with my physical address on it. "Your house deed will work" she helpfully offered. I dutifully trooped off to my Registrar of Voters and got a voter card with my home address on it. I added a print out of a utility bill and a print out of my mortgage and returned three days later. And held my breath. The young'n in front of me was getting shot down and was not happy. He'd taken off work. He'd just moved here. He worked remotely and didn't have a boss who could write him a letter with his home address on it. He hadn't opened a bank account. There were unhappy Virginia drivers at windows two and three as well, perplexed that their state government was making it difficult for them to get a new version of their perfectly legal driver's license. Expressing dismay at a DMV counter is a rookie mistake. Never, ever express unhappiness or dissatisfaction of any sort with anyone at any DMV. Ever. It will become a mark in your permanent record, and while nothing else moves quickly among the nation's DMVs, word of troublemakers challenge light speed in their travels. My advice is based on experience with four state DMVs and the District of Columbia DMV (the latter is where crying citizens can be seen on an almost on-demand basis.) So having obtained the paperwork and a promise that the new license would be sent —to my P.O. Box, of course— I decided to search out the original reason for "Real ID." CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Turns out that "The REAL ID Act" was passed in 2005, following recommendations from the 9/11 Commission to set federal standards for state-issued identification. 2005! Now, it's been 20 years since the law passed and almost 24 since 9/11, so the next question is "Why the urgency now?" As far as I can tell from the Transportation Security Agency website, the May 7 deadline is now because it is – there had to be a deadline sometime. It's the same reason that octogenarians are routinely pulled aside for special screening because the buzzer sounds at the TSA station. Doesn't matter if you have "TSA-pre" or "Clear" or have zero luggage and not even a sweater. The buzzer is the virtual guillotine, and there are Madame Defarges everywhere to enforce the buzzer. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Here's the good news. If you entered the country without permission but obtained "Temporary Protected Status" under one of the Biden-era machinations, you too can get a "REAL ID: "Yes, a TPS beneficiary or individual with a pending TPS application can obtain a REAL ID compliant license or identification card: "The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately. USCIS may grant TPS to eligible nationals of certain designated countries (or parts of countries), who are already in the United States. Eligible individuals without nationality who last habitually resided in the designated country may also be granted TPS." Such folks are eligible for REAL ID. Good to know that. But better to know the passport that will get you on to the plane come Wednesday will not get you a REAL ID. Forewarned is forearmed. Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor, and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel's news roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcast, and this column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM HUGH HEWITT
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
EOA, LIHEAP to accept appointments for cooling program
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP), operated by the Economic Opportunity Authority (EOA) for Savannah-Chatham County will take appointments for cooling assistance. Residents in low-income areas may apply for the program beginning Sunday, May 4. To make an appointment, potential applicants must call (912) 721-7910 starting at 7 pm, or go to the the EOA website by clicking here at 8 pm. Residents are advised that there a limited number of appointments. To qualify, a family's annual income must be in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2025 LIHEAP Eligibility Guidelines. Documents needed by applicants who qualify are as follows: Current Electric Bill Social Security Card for each member of the household. Picture ID (i.e., Driver's License, State Photo ID, even if the ID is expired etc.) Proof of Income for the last 30 days for each adult member of the household. Proof of income can include but is not limited to 2025 Social Security Award Letter, paycheck stubs, a letter granting public assistance, unemployment benefits for all applicable members of the household. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Massive data leak: Ukrainian IDs, other documents exposed by years of cyber negligence
Shoddy cyber security at Ukrainian vehicle inspections has exposed hundreds of thousands of personal documents for the past four years. Largely scans of passports, taxpayer identification numbers, driver's licenses and vehicle registrations, the documents span a broad stretch of Ukrainian geography and demography. Mostly, they identify people who were buying or selling used cars internationally. Up until April 1, the documents were available, unprotected and unencrypted, on a server of one of the largest cloud storage providers in the world that, though tough to get to for regular users, is easy enough to find for bad actors. 'If it hasn't already been accessed, it's just a matter of time before it is and can be abused to ruin a lot of people,' says cybersecurity and access management specialist Jake Dixon, who spotted the documents. 'And I know that there are teams of people in Russian intelligence and Russian cyber commands that are looking for stuff like this.' The earliest documents date to the start of 2021. Dixon found them and informed Ukrainian authorities back in April 2022, but said it went nowhere. Only now, three years later, once contacted by the Kyiv Independent, authorities appear to have started securing them. The documents in question currently number 992,978. They all seem to come from vehicle inspection sites, which check and certify used foreign cars sold into Ukraine. Ukrainians buy upwards of 300,000 such vehicles per year, per Interior Ministry data. Documents gathered for those vehicle inspections form the core of the database. Many of the documents are relatively harmless, like photos of cars and receipts for transactions, or certifications themselves. But the database includes core identifying documents like passports and taxpayer cards (similar to a U.S. Social Security Card) for likely tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, as well as foreign entities who sold cars into Ukraine. Unprotected, it was a ripe target for identity theft. There is no way of knowing the extent to which it has been accessed or what data has been taken from it. As of publication, the most recent batch was uploaded on March 11. The earliest documents date back to the beginning of 2021. On April 1, 2025, what seems to be all of them were taken private. The data leak comes as Ukraine has been — in theory — on high alert about cyber security for over three years. Formerly public data for many Ukrainian services have gone dark since Russia's full-scale invasion. This is in large part out of concerns that Russian intelligence or hackers will use information from sources like property registries to locate, blackmail and extort Ukrainians. At the same time, personal data of thousands of Ukrainians have been endangered through what appears to be sloppy security at vehicle inspections centers. The centers are private businesses certified by the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories that provide inspections of the condition of a car — a government requirement when a car is brought into Ukraine from abroad. The cloud storage provider in question is regarded as a highly secure system for data management. However, that is not the case when the data collected is not protected by basic security like a password. For obvious security reasons, the Kyiv Independent is not including links to the cloud server containing the documents in question. However, it's relatively easy for individuals with fairly cheap specialty software to navigate it and find the documents. Dixon himself located the bucket using software that scans for sensitive data left vulnerable, software that he says certainly exists in Russia and elsewhere. Scanning for unsecured personal documents has been 'a risk since people started moving to the cloud. It's something that threat actors actively watch,' says Dixon. 'I would be surprised if it hasn't been discovered by someone else in the frame of time since I discovered it. And they're still uploading files to this container.' The way the data in question is arranged makes it more complicated to use en masse, or search through for names of specific people listed. It is, however, easy to go through and find individual identifying information for random individuals. 'I think there was a drive for digitization and this (system) just got pushed because someone needed access to this data quickly, and then some connection got opened, some configuration got changed. It's just been sitting there ever since, collecting,' Dixon described the exposed batch of documents. Dixon warned Ukrainian cyber authority the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine, or CERT-UA, of the exposure back in 2022, per emails reviewed by the Kyiv Independent. After responding to Dixon asking for more information, CERT-UA went quiet for, apparently, three years. Anton Kobyliansky, a representative for the State Special Communications Service which oversees CERT-UA, told the Kyiv Independent that the responsibility for both was 'cyber incidents,' which did not include this leaked data. Kobyliansky said this data was likely the responsibility of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and declined to comment. The Ministry of Digital Transformation is the agency that launched Diia, a mobile application that digitizes government services and documents. Announced in 2019, Diia launched in early 2020 with passports and driver's licenses the first documents to be digitized. Viktoriia Savchenko, a representative for the Ministry of Digital Transformation, similarly denied her agency's responsibility for the data involved. The documents come from a number of privately-owned Ukrainian vehicle inspection centers, almost all relating to government-mandated certificates for the import of used vehicles. A number of phone numbers for service centers listed including Center Auto and AutoTechnoServis were dead. A staffer for Euro-Center, one of the inspection centers that appear most frequently in the leak, did not return a request for comment when reached. The contact number for another servicer, VK-Auto, hung up on the Kyiv Independent, when asked about the data leak. The government authority licensing the vehicle inspections stations is the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories, previously called the Ministry of Infrastructure. When reached, Ruslan Kyrychenko, head of the Technical Regulation Department of the Road Transport and Safety Department within the ministry, said: 'We note that the vehicle inspection centers do not report to the Ministry of Development.' Currently, Ukrainian government data is heavily centralized. A hack that came to light in December took the bulk of Ukraine's federal government registries offline for weeks, stalling services ranging from incorporation to vehicle sales to marriage registration. Responsibility for that government data is, however, thoroughly dispersed. The Kyiv Independent contacted the relevant authorities on March 26 — including the above, representatives for Ukraine's State Security Service and the Ministry of Justice. All denied ownership of the data. Yet, after repeated follow-up, the data on the server began to go private on April 1, 2025 — just shy of three years after Dixon, an Irish national living in Estonia, first reported the problem to Ukrainian authorities. As of publication, none of the officials contacted would acknowledge involvement in taking the data offline, but someone was clearly responding to inquiries. 'Sloppy,' says fellow cybersecurity specialist and sometimes hacker on behalf of Ukraine Karla Wagner, upon reviewing the open data. 'There's a high probability that someone set this up in a hurry, perhaps even deployed a demo, with data replication turned on by default, and they didn't take the time to secure it.' It is not complicated to make one of these databases private, or guard it with a password. 'These days, whenever you go into that configuration, it comes up with a big warning saying, 'do not leave this as public' because of how many times this has occurred for people,' says Dixon. 'It shouldn't be open like this, especially in a time of war.' Hi, this is Kollen, the author of this article. Thanks for reading. Ukrainians' responses to Russia's invasion showcase a society that is deeply resilient and inventive, despite pullbacks in aid. If you like reading stories highlighting those features from on the ground, please consider supporting our work by of the Kyiv Independent. 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