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Biden says his goal for Xi meeting is to get US-China communications back to normal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden said on the eve of his much-anticipated meeting with China’s Xi Jinping that his goal for the talks is simply to try to get U.S.-Chinese communications back on stable ground after a tumultuous year.Biden said Tuesday shortly before departing for San Francisco to meet Xi and attend this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum that the nations must get “on a normal course corresponding” once again even as they have sharp differences on no shortage of issues.“Being able to pick up the phone and talk to one another if there’s a crisis. Being able to make sure our militaries still have contact with one another,” Biden told reporters at the White House. “We’re not trying to decouple from China, but what we’re trying to do is change the relationship for the better.”The long complicated U.S.-Chinese relationship has come under heavy strain over the last year, with Beijing bristling over new U.S. export controls on advan...

Broncos beat Bills in New York for first time in 16 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — They say good things happen in threes. Just ask the Denver Broncos who are now riding a season-saving three-game winning streak.With a record of 4-5, there is now a path back to relevance. This is the first three-game winning streak since the beginning of the 2021 season under head coach Vic Fangio. Flash forward three seasons, and now under the visor of head coach Sean Payton, there is still room for improvement.“We are by no means at our sweet spot,” said Payton as the Broncos corralled the Bills 24-22 Monday night, breaking their 16-year losing streak in Buffalo, New York. “There’s so many things we’ve got to clean up offensively.” Broncos coach Sean Payton is the NFL’s admittedly absent-minded perfectionist, sentimentalist Led by an efficient and time-consuming offense, quarterback Russell Wilson’s two touchdown passes (18) now eclipse his 2022 season total (160). And on the defensive side, it’s been a complete turnaround since allowing 70 points in Miami. In t...

Father of group home abuse victim sues staffing company involved with hiring caregivers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

Edward Taylor, the father of abuse victim Edward Ware, has called for a news conference to shed light on a tragic incident that claimed his son’s life and although three people have been charged in this incident, Taylor said it isn’t enough. The event started on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at 1370 NE 138th Street, North Miami, where Taylor’s attorney announced that he is going to sue the caregivers and the company that hired them. Ware, an autistic adult reliant on Care Assist Home Care Inc. for support at the Family Tree Concept group home, tragically lost his life on December 21, 2021. Surveillance footage captured the horrifying moment when three caregivers physically restrained Ware, leading to his suffocation and death.Taylor entrusted Care Assist Home Care Inc. with his son’s well-being, expecting safe living conditions and proper care for his medical and behavioral needs. Instead, the unimaginable occurred. Driven by the need for justice and to bring attenti...

Lawmaker calls for national ban on children’s toy due to health risks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

(CNN) — Government officials, public health professionals and concerned parents are calling on Congress to ban water beads, a children’s toy that they say poses significant health risks.In a news conference Monday, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey announced that he will be introducing a bill at the House of Representatives this week aimed at instating a national ban on beads marketed to kids.“They are specifically marketed to kids. In a single small package you can have 25, 50, or even 75 thousand of these beads and it just takes one to cause harm to a child,” said Pallone. “They are not labeled as dangerous to small children, there’s no warning, and they’re not hard to get.”However, Pallone said that product warnings are not enough. “We have to ban them because there’s absolutely no way to ensure through any kind of education that they’re going to be safe or that that kids won’t handle them after they’ve fallen on the floor,” he added.Water beads are tiny balls made...

Manslaughter arrest in death of hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

SHEFFIELD, England (AP) — Police in England arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game.Johnson, 29, was playing for the Nottingham Panthers against the Sheffield Steelers in a Champions Cup game Oct. 28 when the blade cut his neck.South Yorkshire Police did not name the suspect or provide his age. He was in police custody.The player who cut Johnson’s neck was Matt Petgrave, 31, who plays for Sheffield.“Our investigation launched immediately following this tragedy and we have been carrying out extensive inquiries ever since to piece together the events which led to the loss of Adam in these unprecedented circumstances,” Detective Chief Superintendent Becs Horsfall said.Fans had a moment of silence for Johnson at the Steelers next game and gave Petgrave a standing ovation.Johnson was a Minnesota native who appeared in a total of 13 NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins ...

Sacked Suella Braverman says Rishi Sunak has ‘betrayed the nation’ over immigration

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

LONDON — Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman accused Rishi Sunak of betraying his “promise to the nation” on immigration, in an excoriating letter sent just a day after she was sacked by the U.K. prime minister.In her first intervention since being ousted by Sunak, Braverman — popular on the right of the Conservatives and seen as a future leadership contender — said the prime minister had “manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver” on a host of pledges.She accused him of “wishful thinking” over his flagship pledge to cut the numbers of people crossing the English Channel in small boats, and painted the prime minister as having “put off tough decisions in order to minimize political risk to yourself.”Those policies include Sunak’s key pledge to “Stop the Boats.” Braverman’s punchy intervention comes on the eve of a major Supreme Court judgment on whether the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to ...

Olympics is gonna suck for Parisians, French minister admits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

France’s Transport Minister Clément Beaune on Tuesday acknowledged road traffic would be “difficult” in Paris during the Olympics next summer.“On competition days, driving around in Paris will be difficult,” Beaune admitted while speaking to representatives from the restaurant and hospitality industries, who rely on road traffic for deliveries, according to French newswire Agence France-Presse.Beaune said he would present traffic plans for the Olympics “by the end of November, very early in December at the latest,” but warned these would be “hardcore.”“There will obviously be exemptions, specific rules for professionals,” the minister said, adding there would be an “information campaign” to make sure “we have a little less unnecessary travel […] during the Games.”Paris is bracing to welcome around 16 million tourists during the 2024 summer Olympics, sparking concerns over the authorities&...

Footprints in the snow lead rescuers to Rocky Mountains hiker wearing a cotton hoodie with no way to warm themselves

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

(CNN) — A hiker who was unprepared for conditions at over 13,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies was rescued when searchers followed footprints in freshly fallen snow to find them “alive but very hypothermic,” rescuers said.“When inclement weather moved in the hiker found themself unprepared; out of water, with no food, wearing only a cotton hoodie and no way to warm themselves,” Chaffee County Search and Rescue North said in a news release.“With darkness approaching and hypothermia setting in the individual decided, rather than take the same way down the best plan was to bail down an avalanche chute to try to get to a road.”An avalanche chute is a natural path down a slope created by frequent avalanches.About 25 search and rescue team members deployed to search for the hiker as a severe snowstorm blew in, according to the news release.Around 12:42 a.m. Thursday, a team member spotted footprints in 6 to 8 inches of freshly fallen snow, and began to foll...

Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

(CNN) — A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson last month, South Yorkshire Police said in a statement on Tuesday.Johnson died after sustaining a cut to the neck while playing for the Nottingham Panthers against the Sheffield Steelers in England on October 28.A Sheffield coroner’s report found that the 29-year-old “sustained an incised wound to the neck caused by the skate of another player” and later died in hospital as a result of the injury.“Our investigation launched immediately following this tragedy and we have been carrying out extensive enquiries ever since to piece together the events which led to the loss of Adam in these unprecedented circumstances,” detective chief superintendent Becs Horsfall said in a police statement.“We have been speaking to highly specialised experts in their field to assist in our enquiries and continue to work closely with the health and safety department a...

Biden says a deal to free hostages held by Hamas is ‘going to happen’ as officials say they are nearing an agreement

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:55:25 GMT

(CNN) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he believes a deal can be reached to release hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, voicing optimism as officials tell CNN prolonged talks to free hostages are nearing an agreement.“I’ve been talking with the people involved every single day. I believe it’s going to happen. But I don’t want to get into detail,” Biden told reporters at the White House.A senior US official familiar with the talks told CNN on Tuesday that Israel and Hamas are moving closer to a deal to secure the release of hostages taken during the Hamas attacks on Israel in exchange for a sustained, days-long pause in fighting.The official stressed that while the parties have inched closer to striking a deal, the talks remained volatile and could still break down: “It’s closer but it’s not done.” One European diplomat on Monday expressed optimism that some hostages could be released in the coming days or weeks.The broad parameters that are currentl...