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Is Westminster ready for the return of Donald Trump?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music With opinion polls showing Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in key battleground states a year out from the next U.S. election, podcast host Jack Blanchard asks whether Westminster is even remotely ready for the prospect of a second Trump presidency.Britain’s forme...

Geert Wilders stuns with far-right election victory in the Netherlands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music Far-right leader Geert Wilders came out on top in the Dutch election this week, sending shock waves through Brussels and beyond.In this episode of EU Confidential, host Suzanne Lynch is joined by Eline Schaart and Nicholas Vinocur to break down the results of the vote, and what...

Main Taiwan opposition party announces vice presidential candidate as hopes for alliance fracture

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party announced its vice presidential candidate Friday as hopes for a cross-party alliance to challenge the ruling Democratic Progressive Party have fractured and relations with China remain tense. Hou Yu-ih said former legislator and Cabinet member Chao Shao-kang would be his running mate in the January polls. Chao had led a breakaway faction of Nationalist politicians who established the New Party in the 1990s, but has since returned the Nationalist camp as the DPP has held on to power in both the presidential office and the legislature. The announcement comes days after the DPP announced that its presidential candidate, serving vice president William Lai, had recruited former de-facto ambassador to the U.S. Bi-khim Hsiao as his running mate. The Lai-Hsiao ticket is favored to win in the January polls, taking over from incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen, who is limited to two terms. The parties are largely divided by their a...

The founding editor of The Washington Monthly magazine, Charles Peters, has died at 96

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Charles Peters, founding editor of The Washington Monthly and its editor-in-chief for three decades, died Thursday at age 96.In confirming his death in his Washington home, the journal reported that Peters had been in declining health for several years, mainly from congestive heart failure.Peters, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, brought an influential neoliberal voice to the politics of his day, challenging the left as well as the right in political circles cleaved along those ideological lines. He served as the magazine’s editor from 1969 to 2000. The author and journalist James Fallows, who began his career at the magazine, told readers of Peters’ death on the journal’s website.“He matters in the ideals he has set for his country,” Fallows wrote. “That it should be patriotic but not jingoistic, that it can respect the military without being pro-war, that it can celebrate ambition and entrepreneurship without forgetting those left behind, ...

For 90th consecutive Thanksgiving, St. Paul family plays football together for ‘a good time’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

There are no true sides and most definitely no scorekeeping, but there is a lot of love and laughter every Thanksgiving morning when members of the Battis-Bohen family gather for their annual touch-football game in St. Paul.Thursday marked the 90th year the assorted family members have come together to toss around a football and catch up with one another.Mike Battis, 77, has been partaking in the tradition every year since he was 8 and his family played in an alley off Bohland Avenue in the Highland Park neighborhood. At the time there were only about 15 people playing, he said. “Lots of uncles. My dad told me not to let anyone get past the garbage cans. He told me I had to guard there so I said, ‘OK, Dad.'”Soon, the team grew and they had to move to the street in front of the house. Battis’ father had seven brothers and one sister. That one sister, Carmela, married the kid across the street, Thomas Bohen, and that’s what meshed the two families, who st...

Westbound I-70 closed west of Golden after multi-vehicle crash with semitrailers leaking fuel

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

A crash involving at least six cars and two semitrailers shut down westbound Interstate 70 between Morrison and Genesee on Thursday night for what law enforcement officials said will likely be an extended, multi-hour closure.The Colorado Department of Transportation advises drivers to detour via U.S. 6 through Clear Creek Canyon or Colorado 74 through Evergreen.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Two-car crash leaves one dead on Loveland Pass in Summit County Crashes and Disasters | 2 semitrucks on fire on Colfax Avenue, power line down Crashes and Disasters | 3 injured after car crashes into Aurora building Sunday afternoon Crashes and Disasters | Semitruck fuel spill shuts down eastbound I-76 to northbound I-25 Crashes and Disasters | Pedestrian killed, 3 others injured in late night crash on Interstate 70 The I-70 crash was triggered when the driver of a car lost control and a tanker truck carryin...

2 dead in multi-vehicle crash in West Covina

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

Two people were killed Thanksgiving evening following a multi-vehicle crash involving two vehicles and a motorcycle.The crash happened near the intersection of Amar Road and Westport Street in West Covina some time after 5 p.m.One of the vehicles believed involved in a fatal crash in West Covina on Nov. 23, 2023. (KTLA)Video posted to the Citizen app showed the disabled motorcycle on its side with a large plume of smoke coming from it.The investigation is in its early stages, but police believe two vehicles and a motorcycle were involved in the crash, according to a West Covina Police Department official.Smoke billows from a motorcycle lying at the scene of a fatal crash in West Covina on Nov. 23, 2023 as seen in a video posted to the Citizen App. Two people who were riding the motorcycle were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.Elizabeth Chapman contributed to this report.

Instant analysis of 49ers’ 31-13 Thanksgiving night win over Seattle Seahawks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

SEATTLE — No, the 49ers would not blow a 21-point halftime lead on Thanksgiving night to add to their historical woes here against the host Seahawks.Instead, a 31-13 victory sent the 49ers (8-3) back to the Bay on a three-game win streak, which they’ll put on the line Dec. 3 in an NFC Championship Game rematch at the Philadelphia Eagles.Afterward, in a scene reminiscent of NBC’s postgame nine years earlier when the Seahawks ate turkey at Levi’s Stadium, seven different 49ers huddled up for the on-field interview: Brock Purdy, Nick Bosa, Fred Warner, Charvarius Ward, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle, the latter of whom ran to the locker room with turkey on a silver platter.Things were much more tense about an hour earlier on that field.Purdy threw his first career pick-six to spark the Seahawks’ second-half comeback bid, and after a goal-line stand forced Seattle to settle for a field goal, the 49ers’ lead was down to 24-13.Purdy’s eventual response:...

49ers Studs and Duds: It wasn’t always pretty, but the Niners stars provide another blowout win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

SEATTLE — Don’t let the final score fool you — the 49ers’ 31-13 win over the Seahawks wasn’t that easy.There were moments when the Niners looked to have let the Seahawks back into the contest.But the same door the Niners left open in the third quarter, they shut with an emphatic fourth.A few weeks after falling into second place in the division, San Francisco is now in the driver’s seat in the NFC West — up two games on the Seahawks with a tiebreaker (for now, these teams will play again on Dec. 10).And in a game where the Niners’ defense didn’t allow a touchdown and the offense came up with a big touchdown late, there are more studs than duds: STUDSChristian McCaffreyHis eight-yard touchdown run was truly spectacular. He made at least six defenders miss en route to a 21-3 Niners lead.McCaffrey ended the first half with 104 yards of total offense and two touchdowns — a strong, four-quarter day at the office for most backs.Deebo SamuelThree catches...

Oakland business ransacked in break-in

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:52:24 GMT

(KRON) -- An Oakland business is out of about $400 and a camera after a break-in on Wednesday. Umami Mart, in the Temescal neighborhood, said the burglars also damaged items and left a mess. Umami Mart, which sells various household goods, posted photos on its Instagram of the aftermath, which included a smashed window. ‘Violated again’: Oakland restaurant AlaMar reports break-in The business' Instagram post claimed that crime is worse now than it has been at any point in its 10-year stay in Oakland. It also said that some neighboring establishments have had to close due to the crime."Everyone says it’s a rite of passage for a business in Oakland to be broken into and that’s just bulls***," Umami Mart said. "We’ve been in this game, in this fine city for over a decade and right now it’s the worse it’s been since we got here."The Oakland Police Department is investigating the burglary. OPD said officers were called to the scene just after 6 a.m. and found the window broken. The su...