By Hanna Ziady and Joseph Ataman, CNN The French government is planning to raise the official retirement age by two years as part of a long-delayed reform to the country’s pension system that prompted labor unions to call for nationwide strikes next week. New legislation will require French citizens to work until 64, from 62
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has projected a $22.5 billion budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. That’s a sharp turnaround from the $98 billion surplus Newsom had to work with last year. Newsom announced the deficit Tuesday as he lays out his spending priorities for the
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will have a $22.5 billion budget deficit. Newsom announced the deficit on Tuesday. It was a sharp turnaround from last year’s budget when the state had around a $100 billion surplus. Newsom wants to make up the shortfall by
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Cocaine is spreading at an alarming rate through Europe, much of it through the world ports of Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. And Tuesday’s announcement of record seizures is also obscuring a bigger truth — that South American cartels are throwing ever more
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Cocaine is spreading at an alarming rate through Europe, much of it through the world ports of Antwerp in Belgium and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. And Tuesday’s announcement of record seizures is also obscuring a bigger truth — that South American cartels are throwing ever more
Continue ReadingBy Matt Foster, CNN A superstar NFL player is investing in the other football — for the second time. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is joining the ownership group of NWSL’s Kansas City Current, the team announced Tuesday. Mahomes’ wife, Brittany, co-founded the team alongside Chris and Angie Long in December 2020. Mahomes said
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right internet personality who streamed live video while he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to two months of imprisonment for joining the mob’s attack on the building. Anthime Gionet, known as “Baked Alaska” to his social media followers, declined to address the court before
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school district is being sued by students who say they were barred from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school events while white peers got to wear shirts with Confederate flags. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against school administrators in Effingham County says unfair application of the
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Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was surprised when informed that government records were found by his attorneys at his former office space in Washington. He was asked about the issue after the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee requested that the U.S. intelligence
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN Among the items from Joe Biden‘s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar with
Continue ReadingCNN By Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN Among the items from Joe Biden‘s time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are 10 classified documents including US intelligence memos and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom, according to a source familiar
Continue ReadingBy Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield Click here for updates on this story HOPKINS, Minnesota (WCCO) — It’s the kind of update we love to share. A dream — a really expensive dream — is coming true. In December, we told you about the push for a more accessible playground at Glen Lake Elementary in Hopkins. The kids
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The US intercepted a shipment of more than 2,000 Iranian assault rifles destined for Yemen, according to a statement from the US military. The interception took place in international waters in the Gulf of Oman on Monday, US Central Command said. A team from the USS Chinook, a patrol coastal vessel,
Continue ReadingLA VERGNE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials in a Tennessee city have fired five officers and suspended three others following a sex scandal at the police department. Jason Cole, the mayor of La Vergne, near Nashville, began looking into the department in December after getting an anonymous complaint, according to an investigative report that WSMV-TV obtained
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made his first public appearance of the year on Tuesday, stressing the importance of central bank independence and his commitment to bringing down inflation. The painful rate hikes the Fed is implementing to tackle high prices don’t make officials particularly popular, Powell said
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un trío de pasaportes asiáticos ofrece a sus titulares una mayor libertad de viajes internacionales que los de cualquier otro país, según un nuevo informe trimestral publicado por la firma de asesoría de residencia y ciudadanía global Henley & Partners, con sede en Londres. Los ciudadanos japoneses disfrutan de acceso
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Labor organizers hope this will be the year that Starbucks’ U.S. workers finally negotiate a union contract. But with bargaining at a standstill and thousands of employees still unconvinced of the union’s value, that outcome is uncertain. A little more than a year after a Starbucks in Buffalo, New
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — TikTok’s CEO has met with European Union officials about strict new digital regulations in the 27-nation bloc as the Chinese-owned social media app faces growing scrutiny from Western authorities over data privacy, cybersecurity and misinformation. In meetings Tuesday in Brussels, Shou Zi Chew and four officials
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El Twitter de Elon Musk restauró las cuentas de dos destacados negacionistas de las elecciones de 2020 que habían sido expulsados de la plataforma luego del ataque del 6 de enero de 2021 en el Capitolio de EE.UU. La cuenta del organizador de “Stop the Steal” (detengan el robo), Ali Alexander,
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