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Civil Disobedience Is Proof Democracy Can Work Peacefully

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

Loose tire launches car into midair spin on 118 Freeway in Chatsworth: video

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

Dash-cam footage from a Tesla captured the moment a vehicle on a Southern California freeway ran over a tire that had just come off a nearby pickup truck, launching the car into a midair spin.  The incident occurred on Mar. 23 on the 118 Freeway in Chatsworth and was caught on Anoop Khatra’s dashboard camera.  Video shows traffic moving along the roadway when a dark colored vehicle approaches a pickup truck that had just transitioned into the middle lane. Moments later, the truck’s front driver’s side tire pops off right in front of the dark colored car.  The driver of the dark colored vehicle runs over the tire and shoots into a midair spin before crashing back on the freeway hood first and rolling back to right side up. As if that weren't scary enough, video also shows the tire coming back into frame and slamming into the wreckage of the vehicle as it skids to a stop.  Dash-cam footage from a Tesla captured the moment a vehicle on the 118 Freeway in Chatsworth ran o...

This week: Walgreens earnings, inflation and consumer data

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week:WALGREENS Walgreen Boots Alliance posts its second-quarter earnings Tuesday before the bell.The Illinois-based health care retailer and pharmacy is forecast by Wall Street to post a smaller profit compared with the year-ago period. Analysts project that Walgreens earned $1.10 in the second quarter, down from the $1.59 it earned a year ago. Walgreens shares are down 13% this year after tumbling 28% in 2022.HOW CONFIDENT?The Conference Board issues its monthly consumer confidence report on Tuesday.Analysts are predicting that the board’s consumer confidence index dipped this month to 101.3 from 102.9 in February. A reading of 90 or better reflects a healthy economy. Inflation and rising interest rates have shaken consumers’ confidence in the past year, but a strong labor market has helped to prop up Americans’ optimism.Consumer confidence index, by month:Oct.: 102.2Nov.: 101.4Dec.: 1...

SNP decision day: What you need to know as Scotland’s ruling party picks its new leader

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

It’s a huge day in Scottish politics as the long-dominant and pro-independence Scottish National Party decides who will succeed Nicola Sturgeon as its leader — and the country’s next first minister. Here’s what you need to know as the bitter contest comes to a close.Why the contest is happeningSturgeon — who has led the party and the country’s devolved government since 2014 — stunned Scottish politics last month when she announced she was stepping down. Citing the personal toll of the job and a desire to “free” her party to pick its own Scottish independence strategy, the 52-year-old leader said it had been a “privilege beyond measure” to serve as first minister.The move leaves the SNP — already openly split on a host of issues ranging from how to achieve its ultimate prize of independence to a law making it easier to legally change gender — facing its first leadership contest for almost two decades.Who’s running?Humza Yousaf: Yousaf announced his candidacy o...

Opposition to Netanyahu’s legal plan mounts after protests

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary was facing mounting opposition on Monday, with the country’s ceremonial president urging for an immediate halt to the legal changes. Universities countrywide shut their doors in protest and trade unions were expected to call for a general strike.The growing resistance to the plan came hours after tens of thousands of people burst into the streets around the country in a spontaneous show of anger at Netanyahu’s decision to fire his defense minister after he called for a pause to the overhaul. They lit bonfires on Tel Aviv’s main highway, closing the throughway and many others throughout the country for hours.The overhaul, driven by Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, and his allies in Israel’s most right-wing government ever, has plunged Israel into one of its worst domestic crises. It has sparked a sustained and intensifying protest movement that has spread to ne...

FDIC: First Citizens Bank to acquire Silicon Valley Bank

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has agreed on the sale of troubled Silicon Valley Bank to North Carolina-based First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. The sale involves the sale of all deposits and loans of SVB to First-Citizens, the FDIC said in a statement late Sunday. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rattled the banking industry and led the FDIC and other regulators to act to protect depositors to prevent wider financial turmoil. The bank, based in Santa Clara, California, failed on March 10 after depositors rushed to withdraw money amid fears about the bank’s health. It was the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. The Associated Press

In Macron’s France, streets and fields seethe with protest

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A big day has come for French high school student Elisa Fares. At age 17, she is taking part in her first protest.In a country that taught the world about people power with its revolution of 1789 — and a country again seething with anger against its leaders — graduating from bystander to demonstrator is a generations-old rite of passage. Fares looks both excited and nervous as she prepares to march down Paris streets where people for centuries have similarly defied authority and declared: “Non!” Two friends, neither older than 18 but already protest veterans whose parents took them to demonstrations when they were little, are showing Fares the ropes. They’ve readied eyedrops and gas masks in case police fire tear gas — as they have done repeatedly in recent weeks.“The French are known for fighting and we’ll fight,” says one of the friends, Coline Marionneau, also 17. “My mother goes to a lot of demonstrations … She says if you have things to say, you s...

Tokyo demands China free Japan national detained in Beijing

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo has demanded that China release a Japanese national who was detained in Beijing earlier this month, Japan’s top government spokesperson said Monday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a news conference that Japan’s embassy in China was informed by the Chinese authority that a Japanese man in his 50s was taken into custody in Beijing earlier in March over allegedly violating domestic law. Matsuno said the Japanese government has since demanded the early release of the Japanese national. Japan also requested that Chinese authorities allow the man access to Japanese consulate officials. He said Japan’s government is providing as much support for the man as possible, including communicating with relevant parties.A Japanese pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma Inc. acknowledged that the man detained in Beijing is an employee of the firm, but declined to disclose further details, including his name, position and whether he is based in China. The ...

U.S Invests $139 Million To Strengthen Bilateral Relations With Ghana

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

Polish ammunition firm to boost output several fold as part of EU supply to Ukraine

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:01:14 GMT

Polish ammunition maker Dezamet, a unit of state arms producer Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), will substantially boost capacity to supply EU-funded ammunition to Ukraine, Poland's prime minister said on Saturday (25 March).The announcement by Mateusz Morawiecki comes ahead of a planned visit by EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, to Dezamet on Monday.Seventeen EU member states and Norway this week agreed to jointly procure ammunition to help Ukraine and to replenish their own stockpiles, the European Defence Agency said.Dezamet, which produces ammunition for artillery, mortars and grenade launchers, is one of PGZ group's more than 50 armaments enterprises."This plant can count on new orders and funds, we will be launching new production lines at this company and the others to produce ammunition," Morawiecki told Radio RMF when asked about Breton's visit to the factory."We want to multiply the output severalfold as quickly as possible," he said.Morawiecki said that ...